Building my childhood dream PC
fabiensanglard.net
Building my childhood dream PC
1–10 of 90 posts
Re: Building my childhood dream PC
#2I can't say a PS/1 would have been my first choice for a 486 platform; I'd imagine there are faster motherboards out there and a desktop (i.e. ASUS w/ SiS chipsets). That said, I had a 486/66, so... (some Dell).
And it looks like the PS/1 is missing VLB, but of course the video card is integrated in this model so that makes sense.
I would have probably went with a Cirrus Logic VLB video card and a Sound Blaster AWE64.
But that's my childhood machine, not the author's :-)
Re: Building my childhood dream PC
#3Great article. The mention of Cyrix brought back a rush of nostalgia - one of the earlier PCs I built used a Cyrix 686 166mhz processor.
From the article:
> 8BitDo makes a fantastic modern keyboard inspired by the M looks and feel.
Hard disagree. I found most of their keyboard replicas to be rather cheap feeling. However, their controllers such as the Arcade Stick and Pro 2 are excellent.
I think the closest approximation you can get to an old school model M keyboard with buckler springs is probably from Unicomp. If you don't care about that kind of authenticity I would just stick with something like a Keychron mechanical keyboard and call it a day.
Re: Building my childhood dream PC
#4Love the image of the monitor showing Battle Chess! As a side note to all like-minded people that love old DOS games, check out the library of DOS games on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
Re: Building my childhood dream PC
#5Love the image of the monitor showing Battle Chess! As a side note to all like-minded people that love old DOS games, check out the library of DOS games on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
The best version of Battle Chess was on the Amiga, though. :)
Re: Building my childhood dream PC
#6You never forget your first teenage dream PC. For me, it would be a 8800 GTX SLI build with a QX6850. And now I've revealed how old I am :^)
Re: Building my childhood dream PC
#7More than once I’ve had a TI-99/4a and fully loaded peripheral expansion box and an Atari 800XL on my eBay watch list. I’ve come so close to pulling the trigger but I know it would give me a weekend of fun and that would be about it. Back to eBay it would go for the next impulsive dinosaur.
Re: Building my childhood dream PC
#8I can't say a PS/1 would have been my first choice for a 486 platform; I'd imagine there are faster motherboards out there and a desktop (i.e. ASUS w/ SiS chipsets). That said, I had a 486/66, so... (some Dell). And it looks like the PS/1 is missing VLB, but of course the video card is integrated in this model so that makes sense. I would have probably went with a Cirrus Logic VLB video card and a Sound Blaster AWE64…
I was always afraid of a lot of the IBM and Compaq computers because of all of the incompatibility notes or issues I'd read about in README.TXT (usually minor workarounds), and then to a greater extent in getting Linux running on them.
Re: Building my childhood dream PC
#9Reminds me a lot of the IBM 486 we had in school, it was the first Windows PC I had ever seen, most everything else was either an Apple II or an IBM running PC DOS.
It had a CD-ROM, speakers and sound and color and everything. I think it was $10,000, or that's what the computer teacher said.
Re: Building my childhood dream PC
#10I can't say a PS/1 would have been my first choice for a 486 platform; I'd imagine there are faster motherboards out there and a desktop (i.e. ASUS w/ SiS chipsets). That said, I had a 486/66, so... (some Dell). And it looks like the PS/1 is missing VLB, but of course the video card is integrated in this model so that makes sense. I would have probably went with a Cirrus Logic VLB video card and a Sound Blaster AWE64…
> I would have probably went with a Cirrus Logic VLB video card
This is exactly what the IBM PS/1 2168 have (see the unboxing section).