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New PC! From the 90s!

I finally picked up a 9x gaming PC. It's a 500MHz P3 with 128MB RAM, a 20GB HDD and a built in ATI Rage Pro. Overall it's not too bad, plays just about everything, it's a prebuilt Compaq machine and although I am quite impressed with how they managed to fit so much stuff into such a small case, it's quite limited when it comes to upgrades. I was pretty bloody excited when it came and immediately installed Windows 98 SE. For some reason it just refused to boot though and after spending a couple of hours trying to sort it out I gave up and just threw ME on there because really, all I wanted to do was see if all my old games worked, and they did!!!

ME's impressed me quite a bit actualy, it has mass usb storage drivers out of the box and had drivers for all of my hardware. The GPU drivers had to be updated of course but apart from that it was ready to go from the first start up.

In the future I'll probably build my own custom machine, this system's more of a mid to late 90s 9x machine than a DOS machine as well so I'd love to pick up some older hardware, the Amstrad Mega PC would be great to own for example. It's a DOS PC AND a Megadrive for crying out loud! And it has a dual sync monitor, it's on my wishlist.

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