chinny22 wrote on 2021-05-27, 11:54:always network all your retro rigs!
1) Its a nice little challenge to get Dos/Win3x to talk to XP or beyond if your really brav […]
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always network all your retro rigs!
1) Its a nice little challenge to get Dos/Win3x to talk to XP or beyond if your really brave.
2) file transfers just make life so easy, even with modern convinces like gotek or CF cards network once up and running wins.
3) its cool and impresses girls
4) opens up lan gaming, even if you don't have any friends (which you will thanks to point 3)
If you own a V1, V2, V5 that's at least 3 retro rigs your going to have in the future, I'd be planning ahead 😀
Hehehehe!!! Great points!
1. I got my last 486 to talk to Windows 7 with that 10mbit ISA card and with a networked drive on my Windows 7 box.
2. I completely agree! If the machines are on, it is definitely easier and quicker to drag and drop files over the LAN.
3. My girlfriend missed out on a lot of this stuff and she has been watching me build these retro boxes. She said that she wants to try some of the old games out and play some MP games.
4. I'm looking forward to this. My one friend from back in the day still visits when he comes home from being on the road. He is looking forward to MP games of Blood and Warcraft II.
My V1, V2, and V5 are in the same box, hehehe!!! I need to buy a couple of V1's for the P1 boxes, and I have a V3 for when I recreate my old Gateway (though instead of a P3 450, I am using a 550 and 128mb of RAM rather than the 64mb I had - those are in my current P3, but I ordered a P3 600 and 512mb of RAM for the P2B box.) The P2B box is designed to play every game from 1980-2000 (and some up to about 2002 with low system requirements,) using the Win 3.x SVGA patch, an AWE card, a Live! card, glide files for the proper Voodoo card in each game directory, and Moslo Deluxe. I may also buy Moslo 4biz for the CF card that will be set up for Windows 95 OSR2 - I want to emulate Pentium 60-233 and some P2 systems for Windows 95 games. The DOS/WFW card will use Moslo Deluxe, and the Windows 98 card will be without any slowdown utilities. I'll attach a serial modem and various external drives (LS120, Zip, etc.) and a retro color laser printer to complete the system's functionality. It is my most exotic system. There is a seller on ebay who sells case badges and stickers for just about everything (including recreated Best Buy Y2K warning labels about shutting computers off before midnight between December 31 1999 and January 1, 2000, hehehe!!!) The case stickers look like they are the same size as SD card labels, so I'll buy from him to put OS labels on the cards.