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Post #13 by mboconnell
Source Forum68kMLA
Category68k
Post DateSat, 5 Apr 2008 - 19:42
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/a-happy-old-pc.12672/
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Hahaha!

I don't have a PC 5.25 floppy any more. I have an IOMEGA ditto tape drive (80MB!). Its a 'standard' 3.5' drive, but it has an extra 'bump' so it wont fit in one of the floppy bays and allow me to have a floppy drive. Its a mini-AT case, so there are only (2) 5.25 bays.

its got 64MB of ram and a SoundBlaster AWE32 (i think).

I really wanted to keep the ISA soundblaster card because it is universally compatible with almost all my old DOS games. Plus, PCI slots are at a premium, sound doesnt need PCI.

I am running a straight install of WIN98 SE, with the unofficial SP1.

I don't want to run W2k because it will slow it up a bit, Win98 is relatively peppy.

What I really want now is an ISA rom card. I found a Mac emulator program online and I want to get the card and add LC, LCII and LCIII roms to it so I can emulate 68000, 68020, and 68030 processors with it. Sometimes its good to have both platforms at once because I have photoshop for Mac, and not for pc ($$$!)

I dont want to get TOO crazy because it only has a 200W power supply, and I'd hate to blow one of those, especially since I would need to find an AT replacement (getting harder and harder)

Right now, its down and out until I can figure out how to update that BIOS, the 60G hard disk doesn't do a whole lot of good if the mobo can only see 8G of it.

mp.ls