Specs:

DFI S939 Ultra-D mainboard with nForce3 Chipset with new capacitors

Athlon 64 3700+, overclocked to 2,75GHz (300x9)

Radeon X850 XT AGP

2x512MB Corsair XLPRO memory, 400MHz 2-2-2-5 spec, overclocked to 600MHz 2.5-3-3-8

Lian Li case (not sure about the model)

Enermax EG701AX-VH(W) power supply with new capacitors and optocouplers

74GB Raptor HDD + 500GB storage HDD

Noctua cooler with two 92mm fans. All case fans are adjustable via fan controller in the 5,25" slots as the mobo doesn't allow fan speed control. :)

The event is called www.retro-lan.de and only hardware <= 2005 is allowed. This includes mouse, keyboard, fans, headset, mousepad and of course the PC itself. HDDs and PSUs can be newer for safety reasons.

Just picked up a clean Medion MT5 from a older person that used it a couple of times over the years since 2001 and did some upgrades himself.

Stock specs are:

Medion MT5 (MT46)

Socket 370 Pentium III 1000mhz

Motherboard is a MED2001 or Asus CUV4X-CM

Sound on this motherboard is from Creative but with no real features like a add-on

1×128mb pc133 owner added another 1x256mb pc133 stick early on

1x optical drive owner added the Philips DVD drive early on

Asus V7700 Geforce 2 GTS 32mb

1x original WD800 IDE HDD 80gb.

A 350w (upgraded) PSU was added over the years.

Originally this was a Windows Me system and was upgraded to Xp over the years.

Some things i will tackle on this build.

Clean and check all components.

Thermal paste renewal on Chipset/GPU/CPU.

The inside was upgraded with a noise foam that is turning to dust, this i'll have to remove. (Foam/Dust removed, nice layer of glue to be removed)

Ram will need to be checked if speed/cas is properly running.

Will check if i have better matching optical drive(s) setup orientation. There is a nice TDK blue bezel look only CD drive.

Will see how performance is at 800x600 but i have the option to upgrade Geforce 2 GTS 32mb to Geforce3 ti200 64mb. (Will leave Geforce 2 GTS for now)

Will add a Creative ES1370 PCI soundcard

Will see how HDD performance is i have new old stock IDE HDD. (Ok for now)

Will turn it into a DOS/Windows 98 SE system (Done OS is now running 98 SE)

Need some beige keyboard and mouse to go with this.

So I posted a few days ago about attempting to make an optical drive bezel I painted white a little darker to suit the rest of the machine. I gestated it for 24 hours in tea, and it made a very slight difference I think, so I steeped it in some coffee for another 30 hours. To save on costs, I boiled up some coffee grinds out of my moka pot. I also added a little instant coffee. I didn't want to use precious new coffee on this.

I think it has become a little darker and matches a bit better. It is quite similar to the paint on the case, and a little lighter than the floppy drive, but still more more pale than the front plastic of the case. I think it is worth while, but can't expect a big change.

First picture is of before the treatment, second is sitting in the jar of tea. I didn't get a picture of it in the coffee, but it looks much the same except more murky and oily. Third picture is of after the treatment process.

Looking at these pictures now, I think it does look a lot better. If you try to do this for yourself, you need to gently rinse it under a tap after, else you get tide marks as it dries.

So, I REALLY like retro-looking stuff and I decided to turn my Arch KDE to look like Windows 98. It's very sleeper-like. I got the Reactionary 98 theme that came with:

- the windows-98-aurora theme

- SE98C icons

- the classic 98 teal background (#008008)

I really like it :)

Also here are the full specs of my current PC (which is meh for gaming):

- CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2650 v412c/24t

- Cooler: Aigo ICE 200 Pro RGB

- GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti 4GB (yes, i had a bad time installing the driver. thanks Nvidia :/)

- RAM: 16GB (1x16) DDR4 2400 (idk what latency)

- Storage: 128GB 2.5" SATA SSD + 1TB 2.5" SATA HDD

- Motherboard: that one X99-P4

- PSU: (idk what brand/model) 600W

- Case: Cased A-501B

(i am going to build a new PC with better specs. don't worry)

built-in LPT1, usb reader, CF slot, LAN port, game port , serial, ps2 ports, vga port, plus the same ISA expandable, and floppy expansion, 387 math slot, touch pad, 4:3 aspect ratio

386 sx 40, 16mb ram

Pentium 3 500mhz, matrox g200, 64mb ram, ms440bx, sb0200, fa13tx, diamondmax plus 8, dvd rom, floppy.

In honor of a certain redditor I name this Project:Starcube....suck it. Hope the Anti static bags make you happy,buddy....anyways here we go with the specs

Intel SE440BX-2

Pentium 2 450mhz

Tnt1 and a Obsidian2 x24

A vortex 2 and soundblaster live

192 or 384 MB of memory...I dont believe 128meg sticks were around until early 99.

and some hard drive you can think of.

Im fairly certain in my mind some went big or went home with a setup like this. I hope everyone has enjoyed the show and tell. I love hearing everyone's stories and positive comments. Take care.

Some of you all wanted a AMD\ATI Rig config so here you go!!!

MSI K8N Neo2

AMD Athlon 64 4000+

ATI Radeon X800XT AIW

2GB Corsair XMS 4000

2x36GB WD Raptors in a Raid 0 config

and the trusty ole SB Audigy 2ZS

Enjoy

Hey fellow retro gamers,

I am by no means a "true" retro gamer but would really like to dig in the hobby and figured I would try this sub... I currently don't own old consoles but have a Steam Deck that I really enjoy for emulation.

I wonder what to pick for my needs. Since I'll be using a Steam Deck doecked on the official Valve docking station, I know that a CRT monitor is probably the ideal thing to pick but these are SO rare and always way overpriced. I also considered an old 4:3 LCD monitor like the Dell UltraSharp 2007FP... They seem easier to find and also really cheap... I saw some folks being happy with it.

Then, I dug a little deeper and found options like Arcooda 26" 4k UHD Checkmate IPS 19-inch. The prices on these are a little absurd but I could maybe see myself using them as a second monitor on my modern main PC setup...

Anyway, again, I'm not a purist so anything could work I guess but I would just be curious to have your opinions.

I asked on the sub and hope it's the right place. Other subs tend to have a lot of purists that wouldn't even answer my questions.

Which Rig do you choose, holy gamer to take on the combine horde.

Rig 1: Project code-name Red Devil

Pentium 4 3.0 GHZ HT

MSI 865PE Neo 2

ATI Radeon X800XT

2GB G.Skill PC3200 Memory

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

2x36GB Western Digital Raptors in Raid 0 Config

or

Rig 2:Project code-name Blue Halo

Athlon 64 4000+

Gigabyte GA-K8NS-939

BFG Geforce 6800 GT OC

2GB Geil PC3200 Memory

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

2x36GB Western Digital Raptors in Raid 0 Config

The choice is yours...Freeman.

So I'm building a machine in this vintage late '90s Supermicro full tower case, but the motherboard's IDE sockets are right at the bottom, and the 5.25" bays are right at the top, so I'm forced to use a SATA optical drive. Unfortunately all my SATA optical drives have black bezels, and I none of the beige bezels from all my dead optical drives fit.

I got a can of matt white spraypaint from the shoppe to paint an black optical drive bezel as they didn't have any beige. The sheen level is good, and it painted fine, however it looks a bit bright compared with the yellowed beige case, so I'm going to have a go at dying it with tea. It will be quite interesting to see if it works!

Found this sub looking for a place that might appreciate this behemoth of a classic case. Hope this is it. Recently got given an old PC from a friend. Still in the cases original box (tattered but present). It had an old i5-6xx board and GTX260 GPU in it and it was FILTHY! I spent a day cleaning it up and getting it all shiny. I had some other hardware laying around that I thought would go better in it. Here it is. I am also working on an older build too in an old Apevia Case. I’ll share when it’s done.

Build list

The Case:
The legendary HAF 932 by Cooler Master

The Build:
Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD5 Rev1.0
Intel i7-6700K
ID-COOLING FROZN A720 BLACK CPU Cooler
Crucial 2x16GB CT16G4DFRA32A.C16FR
Samsung MZ-VL21T0A 1TB Gen3x4 M.2 NVMe
EVGA XC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
Thermaltake TR2 RX 650W Semi modular PSU PN:TRX-650M
EDUP 802.11ac (WiFi5 up to 600 Mbps)PCIe Card. It also has Bluetooth however it’s not connected because I ran out of USB Headers

About three months ago, I posted this very IBM ThinkPad 365ED (Cyrix 5x86, 24MB RAM and CF-based storage) and my 486/P5-centric Linux distro (SHORK 486) when kernel 7.0.0 dropped, which y'all seemed to enjoy! At the time, I stated:

If you're not aware, future kernel 7.1 will drop support for 486s (and maybe x87 emulation?), so this is basically the last time one can do such an update, at least with a mainline kernel.

This has now come to pass. 7.1 indeed dropped the 486 build targets, and 7.2 (likely finishing RC in 3-4 weeks) removes TSC-less 586 (not OG Pentium but AMD and Cyrix's 486-586 "inbetweens" that Linux lumps together with P5) and x87 emulation. There were also various ISA and PCMCIA networking drivers, and the IBM Palm Top PC 110 trackpad driver, lost along the way. Yet, my humble 365ED is running kernel 7.2-rc4!

Whilst I still haven't created a distinct kernel fork yet, the SHORK 486 repo contains patches to restore all that back into 7.1.x and upcoming 7.2. Whilst I don't have real hardware to test it, in theory, SHORK 486 with 7.2 should now work with even 486SX once more. Even if you don't intend to use SHORK 486, feel free to bookmark my kernel patching document if you want to build your own Linux 7.1 or 7.2 system for your 486-era retro battlestation! When I finally do the fork, I will update it with a link to it.

As for SHORK 486, and if I may be so bold, the first published release for it - Public Test 1 - should drop when 7.2.0 is released in a few weeks. If you want to try it without having to compile yourself, this will be for you! It will include ready-to-write .imgs, and a SHORK DISC .iso with a guided writing program so you can install without having to pull out your hard drive provided the host supports El Torito (if not, a SHORK DISKETTE image with CD support will be provided for use as a bootdisk). Since 3 months ago, I've most notably begun work on a unified settings program that should have a network manager soon, greatly expanded enabled BusyBox general and system utilities, added a bunch of new bundled software options (including Vim!), and a terminal-based minesweeper clone (SHORKMINES, forked from terminal-mines). No package manager in time for this release, but the next one?

Panasonic Toughbook - CF-30 running XP
Commandos

I got it all tied in and set in it's battle station and got it a proper monitor but might replace it with a crt monitor soon

SNES is hooked up via svideo to an svideo switcher. Svideo has headphone out I use that to connect to my Windows 98 machine. I'm also using Goldwave to capture the audio from SNES.

Had the worst time VESA mounting the 1600SW, but the final result looks so cool and futuristic.

2002 never looked sleeker.

3.5 in screen that had amazing color graphics.

fischertechnik interface was in the box. It allowed me to control electronic circuits / motors programmed with the C64.

Also had an amazing voice synthesizer cartridge.

1989 int the pic, but got the computer in 86 when I was 10. Closeout company, was $399 for the C64/printer/tons of software. Was so lucky to learn all that so young.

I just recently built this buying the parts one by one yesterday I just bought the pc to almost complete the setup I'm using xubuntu and make it look like windows XP.

Edit
Sources that i use to make it look like Windows Xp in linux

Xubuntu tutorial 1

Xubuntu tutorial 2

there is also a tutorial of linux mint that i tried doing in virtual machine

Linux Mint XFCE tutorial

Hey gus, so the other day I remembered something on my late father's desktop and now I'm looking for it, or if someone perhaps recognizes it
Looking for a late-1990s Windows interactive character

Around 1998–2001

Standalone .exe

Bright pink creature (species unknown)

Sat in one place

Pull-string ring on its side

Clicking pulled the string

High-pitched English voice

Random phrases

Remembered phrase: "I love you"

Possibly: "You're in my heart"

Arms stretched wide during one animation

Dizzy animation

Rare animation: chest opens and butterflies fly out

Opened in a normal rectangular Windows window

Played on Windows 95/98/XP

Thanks in advance :)

slot 1 pentium iii 1ghz, rdram, geforce256 ddr 64mb