Building a Retro PC

[Vipersan]

So ..having been bitten by the bug and aquired the retro-virus ..
I thought I'd build a retro PC and install the various stable mutations of windows over the years..
Not as emulated OS ..or virtual PC ...but actually build them on hard drives so they can be installed on pull out caddy Trays ...
I chose a Jetway 695AS motherboard as this at least has usb connections ..for those OS that can use them ..
I Installed an NVIDIA GeForce 5600
a 3com 3c905c-tx-m network card
an Avansys fast scsi card
The motherboard is running 2gb of ram and a Pentium III 800EB CPU
..it has one legacy ISA (unused) and the other slots are all pci ..
The Jetway has an onboard audio chipset ..though as yet I am having trouble finding the drivers I need ..so where it can windows substitutes generic ones.
I also attached an SDT-9000 DAT tape drive on one of the scsi ports ..but not able to use this yet.
So far ..
I have successfully built windows operating systems as follows..
MSDOS 6.2
Windows 3.0
Windows 95
Windows 98SE
Windows 2000
and Windows XPpro
All are built on IDE drives ...
not a SATA in sight ..
lol
..and have christened the Tower ..
Chameleon ...which seemed appropriate as it can be ...well ..anything I choose up to XP speeds..
Now to dig out some of my old DOS games etc ..
Leasure Suit Larry ...
lol
Remember Him ?
:eyebrows:
rgds
VS

[struth]

sounds fun Evan. :)

[RMutt]

I wonder if you are perhaps the one to finally answer amandamax's question in Creative Collections Evan?

[Macca]

Leisure Suit Larry is an adult-themed video game series created by Al Lowe. It was published by Sierra from 1987 to 2009, then by Codemasters from 2009. The games follow Larry Laffer, a balding, double entendre-speaking, leisure suit-wearing man in his 40s. The game play revolves around him attempting, usually unsuccessfully, to seduce attractive women

Never heard of it but it sounds awesome

[martian sunrise]

Leisure Suit Larry - that is something I haven't hear about in a very long time. Chapeau!

[Vipersan]

Leisure Suit Larry - that is something I haven't hear about in a very long time. Chapeau!
There is a recorded playing of Leisure (leasure) suit larry reloaded on youtube ..
Is very adult ..and very funny ..and I swear this is Stephen Merchant playing it ..
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW6qFgLh85c
It is multi part ..so just let it run on to the next 'bit'

[Vipersan]

Another use for an IDE PC that can operate as Bare Bones ..
ie No operating system installed is that I can now reproduce from scratch using a compressed version of the proprietory Linux Based OS ..
replacement IDE hard drives for the Philips WAC/S 700
https://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/cpindex.pl?ctn=WAC700/05&dct=QAC&faqview=1&refdisplay=AUDIO_DA_015&refnr=0014135&scy=GB&slg=ENG
A creature ahead of it's time I think both in looks and audio playback quality..
Also known as the early 'streamium' system.
Philips obviously no longer support this unit ..but hard drives do fail ..
I know this from personal experience.
The unit is a nightmare to strip down ..and replacement of the hard drive is not for the squeamish ..
But ..The WAC700 still sounds superb ..and is worth bringing back from the dead ...or endless booting error displayed on the Mono LCD screen.
I guess the main problem is getting hold of 80 or 120 gb IDE drives these days..as they are no longer made ..
Thus used or second hand drives have to be re purposed to the task..
rgds
VS

[Lunicycle]

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards - Those were days! Another of my favorites was Space Quest. From the same developers but with a more family friendly theme. If you want to know how to distract the robot - Drop bin, put trash in bin, use lighter 😀