Somehow I ended up watching that whole damn Defcon presentation on the Archive Team. It's pretty interesting to think about how such large quantities of user-generated content can be wiped away so easily. So much history, just gone from the web. True, a lot of it was probably sites dedicated to …

I've found that having a ton of games in one location just leads to decision fatigue, so I only install the couples of games I'm playing at any one time, and remove them once I've beaten them.. :pppt: However ive not really played a game for an eternity... Ive not seriously played a game since last …

Thanks for the info, everyone. I'm putting together a P3/Win98SE system and this is all good to know. I am tempted by the CF-IDE idea, but if it's recommended that I still install games on a regular 3.5" hard drive, I might as well keep things simple and just use a regular hard drive for everything …

I think you're right, once you get to 8GB+, the price skyrockets. Now you've got me eyeballing CF cards and adapters. 😉 If you were to put together a Win98SE machine on a CF "drive," would it be worthwhile to stick 512MB of RAM in the system and disable the page file?

Does anyone have an experience with, or opinions about these Transcend IDE vertical flash modules? It seems like a good candidate for a DOS machine, but maybe I'm overlooking something?

You're right- I'm probably going through old hardware overdose right now, what with the addition of new s7, s8, s370 and slot 1 systems into my collection over the last few months. Very likely, but trust me, even if you "learn your lesson" from the overdose, you'll be back for more. Once an addict, …

My guess is that the SteelSeries 3GC uses Xinput (not DirectInput) and so input isn't detected by the emulator. What emulator are you using?