[Josh8178]

I have been given this ancient Pentium PC, It has a 150Mhz Pentium-S CPU, 32Mb of EDO Ram, 20gb Harddrive, 2Mb Matrox PCI Video card and Soundblaster 16 sound card.

I really wanted to do something with this old banger, but i couldn't figure out just what.
Then, suddenly as if by magic a idea popped into my head while i was looking at my NES console, Why not turn it into a retro gaming pc and load it with emulators? What a great idea, i thought to myself.

The thing is, what operating system do you think would best fit the job and what would this thing be capable of running in terms of emulators?
Thanks, Josho

[Mavirick]

I know the earliest consoles have small, packaged emulators (like SNES, for example) that take very little harddrive space and dont need much to run well. i'm guessing your only problem will be ROMs (granted, they're not very large at all, but once you get into the large numbers on multiple systems, plus game saves, etc.) - you may need to load them up on CD's or an extra HDD. one idea would be to buy a cheap EX-HDD so you can take your retro-portable arcade to your buddy's house and show off your mad super metroid skills

[Josh8178]

Awesome lol, I've decided to stick Windows 98SE on it but i will also be purchasing a USB 2.0 Card as it has no usb on board, i've decided to spray the case black with some standard DIY spray paint and stick in a spare Sony CD-RW 52X Drive and some other hardware i have lying around including a LAN card so we can have lan parties and play some networked mario.

[gotrootdude]

I believe slackware would be great on it.