• GildorInglorion@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Love that. Commenting to remember. Got 2 of these, except the one is still in a case older than most of my children all of whom are now adults.

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      I’ve still got one with a shitty cyrix cpu, a 100 MB HDD and 256 MB RAM.

      It runs dos, can play mp3s and has a Supaplex save where I beat all the levels except for two.

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        Nice, does it have a sound card, if so what kind?

        Also I would definitely recommend getting an IDE to CF or an IDE to SD adapter and backing up the hard drive to an SD/CF card so you don’t lose that data.

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          I’m pretty sure it’s an old Soundblaster.

          …and one thing I neglected to mention is that I no longer have an old enough monitor to go with it, so it’s been a while since I made sure it’s still runnning. Might be gone by now =/

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            Oh I see, yeah if it hasn’t been turned on in a while it might be gone, typically it’s stiction from not moving for a while that kills the drives.

            Also pretty sure most VGA monitors will work, I use my 486 (also my Pentium 2) on a modern VGA monitor (actually a small LCD TV with a VGA input).

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              I haven’t had a monitor with a vga port for a long time now (ever since I decided the old crt one I had connected to this old monster was just too bulky). I’m keeping the PC though. It’s my first one (Theseus approved). Haven’t looked to see if any sort of convertor to vga input is remotely viable and it’s not really a priority.

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      The case is an old extra-tall full tower that doubles as a mouse table. It even sits under an L desk. I just prefer that height when leaning back in my chair.

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      Omg, after seeing your comment I realize that my 3 computers are older than my children.