I have been having so much fun doing Retro stuff. Vogons is the place to be for this area. I bought a Compaq Presario 4505. Then did lots of upgrades * Ram to

I have been having so much fun doing Retro stuff. Vogons is the place to be for this area. I bought a Compaq Presario 4505. Then did lots of upgrades * Ram to 64MB * CPU is a 233MMX * 512KB COAST * Voodoo 3 3000 PCI * IDE -> SATA with a 32GB SSD * Audician 32 Plus Wavetable cards are especially fun. Serdashop sells a bunch of interesting ones. X2GS, Yucatan FX, E-Wave, McFly and X2S are popular ones. Check out this[0] video. The music can be so dramatically different depending on what hardware you have. It is fun switching between cards. Games from this era just had so much passion put into them and you can feel it while playing. I am playing System Shock 1 right now and you can see all the different experiments that went into the game (some good and some bad). ---- Another cool device to check is the WeeCee [1]. If you want to play games on real hardware but don't feel like collecting (and troubleshooting) old hardware. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiQQ7vvW_T4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiQQ7vvW_T4 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USHvvSbYmJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USHvvSbYmJA