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by zare_st
1012 days ago
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I have a couple of vintage computers. One is my original first computer. While there is a cheap expansion that would allow me to hook up any VGA screen on it, the part of the experience is the screen. I've been hooked on to retro computing a while, and I flatted out somewhat. It all depends on what you want to do. If you want to play games or run software I suggest you take a good deep look at the emulators. I had a task to do with my XT and that was pulling the data out from it. I did some original programming for that purpose. I spent days loading software from the internet to it in minutes which was kind of miraculous. I programmed some graphics demos on it. I upgraded it with an XT-CF, etc. In the end there is no need to keep that machine up and running on a desk somewhere. The best purpose would be aesthetic, because it is really beautiful as a package, but even if it were in mint condition, I wouldn't risk running it for a couple hours daily for an useless purpose. Although it would be nice to have an 80s style terminal displaying current whether, RSS feeds, etc, it's just a bad way to run your historic machine out of working hours. |
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There are a ton of titles from this era that just don't work on current Windows, even with dgVoodoo. I just want to be able to comfortably get rid of this Win98 SE / WinXP dual boot box I have lying around...