JensBV9 wrote on 2024-10-05, 14:17:So, I've been having this AST Advantage! 7302 sitting around for about half a year or so seeing very little usage. […]
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So, I've been having this AST Advantage! 7302 sitting around for about half a year or so seeing very little usage.
It's all original/stock as delivered in 1995 or so. 120 mhz cpu, 16 mb edo ram, 1.2 gb Seagate hdd along with a 3.5" 1.44mb drive and an 8x cd-rom from Hitachi. It's running its original Windows 95 installation.
I'm actually more of a late 80s / early 90s kid and was wondering if running DOS 6.22 (or some other flavor) would be a good idea? I'm mainly looking to play old SSI, Sierra and Lucasarts games and don't really have much use for what Windows 95/98 offers. Unless there are convincing reasons to use that?
As far as I can tell from browsing the Internet and checking the hardware through Windows 95 it seems to be equipped with and S3 Trio graphics cards and a Yamaha soundcard (OL3?).
I have an old working 5.25" TEAC drive that I could fit in the empty 5.25" bay in the front.
How would you go about utilizing this computer?
Firstly apologies for resurrecting this post, however I just happened to come across this in my occasionally every few years googling once eBay never returns any searches for the 7320.
It's an S3 Trio 64V+ and it has Yamaha OPL3 Audio. I've been looking for one of these for years, It was my first PC in 1995, and is the reason I am a software engineer now. It shipped with a couple of games I probably still have as well as MS Works, Encarta and some sort of Biology CD as well when I bought mine... Out of interest are you in the UK?
Ive been looking on eBay UK for years for one and they seem uncommon, I sort of assumed they were a PC World exclusive model and they didn't sell many. There's similar spec and cased machines in the US and the Europe that come up for sale as well as the UK, but they always have a round or oval power button not the square on this has. The only others I am aware of with the same case are the Bravo models which were the lower range slower machines in PC Worlds AST range.
If you happen to want the original speakers mine shipped with (they have a bracket that goes over the top of the monitor for them to clip too and they match the monitor design) I may actually have some in my parents loft and would be happy to send you them if you are in the UK (and assuming they haven't thrown them away in the literal years they've been in their house).. Ive been hanging onto them in the hopes of finding one but it seems unlikely now.
