The best thing is, 20 year old Pentium M(i8xx chipset) business laptops are so cheap!

When I was 3-14 years old, I used to own an Intel Celeron Desktop PC with 60gb of HDD and 256mb of RAM. Considering the country I used to live in, we used to buy Pirated Videogame and Software Discs.
And on one of those discs, were a Wallpaper folder absolutely FILLED to the brim with Videogame Wallpapers from the 2000-2004. Even had few Comic related ones as well.
HQ Wallpapers of Starfox Adventures, King of Fighter 99, Black and White, Outcast, Beyond Good and Evil, Devil May Cry 2 etc. etc. So many of em! I believe it was maybe 1gb of nothing but Wallpapers.

But unfortunately I have lost it. And searching for Early 2000's Videogame Wallpapers on Google doesnt give me jackshit.

If anyone knows where I can find them, or has em themselves, please let me know <3

Hey there,

I am looking for a modern power supply from Amazon that I could use on an Athlon II era motherboard running Windows 98. I need something that has molex connectors by default.

Any ideas for what I could get? Budget is like $50 max, looking for something 200 to 400 watts.

Came up in a conversation oneday and I managed to grab it!! Missing a few parts but will get it going again!

Rough specs

P3 800EB Asus CUSL2-C 2x256MB CL2 PC-133 Nvidia MX400

I put together a blog post on my restoration of this standard-setting and iconic computer.

retroviator.com/ibm-pc/

I have a Zeos 486dx2 66MHz that I have been trying to get up and running. I had to replace a lot of the parts, including getting a new hard drive/disk. I got help awhile back here in this sub about what to do for a new hard drive, in which I got an IDE to SD card adapter.

Problem: I formatted the SD card into FAT16 partitions of 2 gig each. Bios was able to auto detect my hard disk as 1690mb. I am able to boot to the A Drive and start MSDOS installation. MSDOS says it needs to format the unallocated space for the installation. I only have the option to proceed, in which I do. After it gets to 100%, it gives me an error message saying that "The Format of drive C is incompatible with MSDOS 6.22" OR I get the message "An error was detected while formatting your primary hard disk partition. I get the same error message with Win95. I have tried formatting to different hard drive sizes that are preset in Bios (and making sure Bios is set correctly), but I either get the same message, or that my hard disk is too small. ONCE I got past these messages to 3% installation of MSDOS, then got "An error occurred while reading or writing to drive C."

I have spent countless hours trying to screw around with drive sizes, reformatting and partitioning different SD cards to FAT ... I am at a loss. I think I am doing everything correctly to format my SD cards...but at this point I am second guessing myself. The only other thing I could possibly think is that my original cable is bad (I had a bad cable for my 3.5 Floppy drive in which I replaced and it ended up working with a new cable.)

Any insight is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Pentium III tualitin 1.14ghz 1.5gb ram Aliexpress Via Apollo motherboard Nvidia FX 5600 AGP 120gb ide HDD Soundblaster live 5.1 for win98 Soundblaster awe64 for DOS IBM infinity speakers Space saver model m (unicomp flavor) Microsoft mouse(gateway flavor)

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a windows xp laptop or desktop to play classic games like SimCity 2000, 3000, 4, and The Sims 1 - 2. I have a preference for a laptop because of its portability, but I’m not against a compact desktop setup either. From what I gather, laptops from the era when these games were popular were more work-oriented, but I'm hoping there might be some good recommendations for models that can handle these games well. Ideally, I’d like the system to run Windows XP, as it seems to be the best fit for these games in terms of compatibility and performance. Does anyone have experience with specific models that run these games smoothly without too many hoops to jump through? I'm looking for something that’s relatively hassle-free and straightforward to set up. I'm also open to any tips on what to look for in terms of specs, like CPU speed, RAM, and graphics capabilities that would best suit these older titles.

I got around to replacing the belt on my Tandy 1100FD.

https://youtu.be/iIRT7VXHqNg

I want to build or get a new battery.

I am also wondering that the internal (possably hardddrive) port can be used for.

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I have I pi pico W that I was thinking I could interface it some how and either terminal to it or leverage it for some intresting features.

What do you think?

When inwas urbexing in an old steel mill and blast furnance i encountered this bunch of retro pc’s!

Aren’t they beauties?

l've been having this weird problem with my Compaq Evo where anything that tries to play sound often times has the tendency to crash the PC and restart out of nowhere, and when disabling automatic restart in XP it blue screens, usually with the error code of 0x000000D1 or 0x00000050. (Usually either IRQL or acpi.sys issues) Windows XP's latest SP3 updates claim to have fixed the issue, but for 98SE it seems like l'm screwed without a BIOS update, but I'm unsure as I can't find any concrete evidence, and trying to attempt said update requires a setup password that I don't know. Any idea as to what I could do here?

Sort of a Frankenstein build; only component that's newer than 2010 is the case. Takes me back to the infinite sadness vista brought me 😭

This was an attic find that belonged to my late Grandpa. Some horrible (but not terminal) barrel battery damage and a still working Seagate 850mb hdd!

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It has 384 mb of ram 30 GB HDD 900 MHz Intel Celeron NVIDIA GeForce 440 mx AGP Soundblaster live PCI ethernet card

This PC20-III was so badly beaten up we scanned and created a brand new motherboard to revive it. I paired it with a 1402 Monochrome monitor and a slightly earlier than standard C= keyboard for it, and loaded up some Infocom adventures to enjoy.

So I just got a HP Pavilion a6200n PC amd athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 5000+ from a thrift store and I am wanting to make it into a sleeper and I wanted to know all the things I can put in. And if possible make me a list of the parts I need.

I'm reading an old Amiga magazine from 1989, and Protext seemed to be trending that year. And on the whole, word processors seemed to be very important to most users in the Letters pages.

During the 80's I personally only used MacWrite on Macintosh.

But which word processor was ultimately the best for each home computer? I'm thinking from Apple II and up. I'm wondering about Macintosh, Atari ST, Amiga, and all the other 8- and 16-bitters.

As an example, I know that many consider the rom version of Protext by Arnor the best word processor for Amstrad CPC. Link in comments.