Retro request

[Captain Beer]

My brother and me recently inherited an old PC from my grandfather. It's a box I built for him years ago.
The plan is to load it with classic games. Everything from Police Quest to GTA1 and Duke Nukem 3D.
The specs:
One of those AMD 486 Overdrive CPUs, 133 MHz
32MB RAM
S3 2MB PCI
Genius Sound Card
+/- 135 MB HDD
Windows 3.1

Does anyone have an old hard drive that we can buy? IIRC these boards will handle up to 8.4GB. Want to load Win 98 etc.

 

[guest2013-1]

Stick with Windows 3.1

 

[Randux]

Why bother?

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Why bother?

Why not? Sound like a fun little project. Think it may be difficult sourcing a working drive that old, but I'm sure plenty of folks still have some stashed away somewhere. I still had a 2gig hard drive at my parents house until last year when it was thrown out.

Good luck, feel like playing some SQ2 right now!

 

[killadoob]

Sell it on ebay

 

[KleinBoontjie]

I won't bother with the PC. I got all the classic games on my PC, and can play all of them. Just use emulators like Dosbox or Scumvvm, etc.

 

[Captain Beer]

Thanks guys. I have the emulators, but I prefer the real thing. I found an old 4 gig drive which I will use.

 

[Nokkie]

+1

 

[vinodh]

I think I have one of those drives at work. I'll only be able to confirm in a months time, when my leave ends. If I pop in to work for some weird reason before then, i'll have a look. Also, you can get the drive at no charge.