Additionally, if you live in an area with an active freecycle community,
quality machines can be yours for free.
Granted I am in a major city, but I find even p4 units given away. the
goal is keeping items out of the landfill, so those using the service would
rather pass them on than throw th
Well, speaking only for myself of course, I make sure a board has the
slots I require before even getting underway.
Or, as is often the case since I have my machines built for me, make sure
the person doing the work confirms there are enough.
Just my take,
Kare
On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, Don Flowers
> I like having the option to use FDNPKG direct from ibiblio, and connecting
> to FreeDOS via Dillodos, but I also like sound for my mplayer and mpxplay
> and few vintage arcade games. Thoughts?
Add a PCI network card with an old chipset, same for sound.
For network, Realtek 8139 is classic, alth
On 09/11/2015 14:07, Don Flowers wrote:
> Yeah, I should have mentioned that my PC has an onboard Intel
> 82567LM-3 for which there seems to be no DOS option for connectivity
I am sure you already did extensive research, but just in case you
missed it - have you tried this one?
http://www.inte
old machines are cheap:
I find them all the time at garage sales.
I pay an average of $5 for a tower of any age.
Sometimes people just give them to me to get rid of them.
More often, they just throw them away.
Newegg sells reconditioned machines, usually with Windows 7
for 75 - 200$ and there are
Yeah, I should have mentioned that my PC has an onboard Intel 82567LM-3 for
which there seems to be no DOS option for connectivity and the sound is HD
and unrecognisableed by either MPXPlay or Mplayer, I have at least one game
that will throw sound out the onboard speaker (Empong).
As for buying a
On 09/11/2015 13:22, Don Flowers wrote:
> I like having the option to use FDNPKG direct from ibiblio, and
> connecting to FreeDOS via Dillodos, but I also like sound for my mplayer
> and mpxplay and few vintage arcade games. Thoughts?
Buy a PC with more internal slots? :) (preferably ISA for sound
I have only one PCI slot on my PC. I have gone back and forth between a
sound card and an ethernet card and cannot make up my mind which is the
better option to have. I am not a gamer so no sound is not a deal breaker.
I like having the option to use FDNPKG direct from ibiblio, and connecting
to Fr
