In a nostalgic spur of the moment – I’ve decided to try and build up a gaming computer to run games from the late 90s.
I’m especially interested in the Wing Commander/privateer series and other of these "interactive movie" games, Masters of Magic and a number of adventure games, I have stored.
Because I like many of the old games, I follow initiatives such as Good Old Games and support it by buying some of the games. But because I have a number of the games still laying around on CD’s – unfortunately I seem to have lost/misplaced my floppy – I thought I might as well try and boot them up properly.
So my first order of business will be to identify what kind of hardware I actually have laying around the place. I basically have one full computer, but I have no idea what specs it contains, so I need to get it booted up somehow – meaning I have to invest in a VGA to DVI adapter so I (hopefully) can run it on my LCD monitor at home. Have to get a hold of a PS/2 mouse and keyboard, well the keyboard I have, unsure about the mouse. But to judge the hardware I don’t really need the mouse.
I also have an old Wingman Extreme joystick lying around – really curious if it still works as it was a wonderful joystick.
But time will tell – but I do hope to manage to boot up some of my old games again without having to rely on DOSBox or similar.