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Everything tagged Retro Computing, wherever it's filed, newest first.
My list for loading a Windows 98 machine with the software, games, sounds and screensavers of 1998 to 2001, plus the DOS-era diagnostic kit I'd keep beside it.
Thread: The retro workbench ↗My phased plan for turning a 1GHz PowerPC G4 eMac into a solid classic Mac, from maxing the RAM to swapping the old IDE drive for something faster.
Thread: The retro workbench ↗How I format and load HFS+ USB drives for old Macs from a Windows PC, plus the retro-specific catches that trip you up on the Mac side.
Thread: The retro workbench ↗How I got MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 onto an old Gateway 2000 486 from a stack of floppies, including the two problems that ate most of the afternoon and the config files I ended up with.
Thread: The retro workbench ↗My parts list and order of operations for turning a Pentium 4 Dell Optiplex GX280 into a period-correct Windows XP gaming machine.
Thread: The retro workbench ↗