I don’t have PCI slots on my Z97 motherboard anymore — so I used a cheap PCIe-to-PCI adapter to bring a 3dfx Voodoo 2 back to life inside a modern Windows 10 PC. It took a full-height mounting workaround, an unsigned x64 driver from the 3dfxzone forums, disabling Windows 10 driver signing, and a very unlikely Windows XP fix for a “trying to map memory” error — but native Glide, on real 3dfx hardware, on a 2020s PC, is real.
Namco built an arcade cabinet that stitches three screens into one race. Nobody had properly emulated the chip that makes it possible. This is the full story — two other people’s abandoned attempts, a ROM dump that can’t be released, a canonical chip emulation built from scratch, and a discovery near the end that changed everything.
A case-study post on why the Dell Dimension E520 looked promising for Windows 98, but turned into a more mixed DOS, Win98, and XP experiment.
A case-study draft on why the Dell OptiPlex 760 looked promising for Windows 98, but turned out to be much happier as an XP and DOS machine.
You don’t need a RetroTINK or Framemeister scaler to get excellent results — with careful capture and post-processing, you can still achieve native-resolution, documentation-quality video.
A practical step-by-step guide to turning an old ASUS EeeTop ET2010PNT touchscreen PC into a modern Linux kitchen calendar and email kiosk, covering legacy BIOS installs, GRUB fixes, touchscreen drivers, and networking quirks.
I wanted a retro PC that could do the full “greatest hits” tour of retro gaming: native DOS, Windows 98, and Windows XP — without spending silly money, without hunting rare parts for months, and without ending up with something that’s allergic to modern conveniences like SATA.