Hello !
I read this forum for years, but i've created an accound only recently, so now it's time to introduce myself. I'm from France, 26, and i've started using computers with an 8086 XT compatible Olivetti and a 486 in the early to mid 90'.
Now I've several vintage machines to play old games, from 8086 to P3.
So i've uploaded some pictures of several computers...
Here is my first computer, an Olivetti M24. It had originally an 8086 at 8 Mhz, but I upgraded it recently with a NEC V30. It has 640 KB ram, 20 MB ST-225 MFM drive, CGA-compatible Olivetti graphic card (with 32 KB ram so it can go up to 640x400 in mono mode), Realtek 8019 ISA network (works only with IPX, i'm unable to make it to work with TCP/IP), and a CMI 8330 SB clone sound card. It is now able to run some dos games like Rise of the Dragon, Commander Keen CGA, Prince of Persia, Eye of the Beholder... It can even play 4 CH MOD files with galaxy music player, midi files with Voyetra DOS FM driver, and mono 8 bit 44.1 kHz WAV (through LAN). At the moment, the proprietary mono monitor doesn't works anymore, i've to repair it.
Here is the pictures :
The BIOS was recently upgraded to the lastest 1.43 ROM and mainboard was previously repaired, a logic chip was bad in the ram refresh stages (blank screen) :




Here is some sysinfo/benchs :






Running Win 3.0 ! :



FRACTINT in 640x400 mono mode, seems to support 8087 FPU :




My AST Bravo LC, original specs : 486DX-33, 8 MB RAM, 200 MB HDD, cirrus logic 5428 onboard local bus. Now upgraded with a new mainboard with socket 3, WB support, and VLB slot, Pentium overdrive 83, 48 MB ram, 4GB HDD, SB32, AMD LAN board, Win 98 SE.
POD 83 on the original socket 2 mainboard:

New mainboard:


Running Tomb Raider 2 with the POD (not very fast, but acceptable for me...)

My 486 DX-2 66 : FIC socket 1 with Am386 DX-40 onboard, ISA only, 16 MB ram, 6 GB HDD, Tseng ET4000 1MB VGA (before : Acumos AVGA2, 512KB), Realtek 8019 LAN, SB AWE 64, Win 95 :


Compaq Prosignia 200 server, upgraded for retro gaming : P II 300 Deschutes, 440FX chipset, 128 MB ram EDO ECC, SIS 6326, Voodoo 2 12 MB, SB PCI 128, 18GB SCSI 7200 rpm hard drive. Original proprietary PSU failed some years ago, so i've put an ATX PSU in the original PSU case, and wired it to the MB connectors (standard AT, and a proprietary connector for + 3.3V); Need to take more pictures at the occasion. Bios setup is not in ROM, you have to load it from floppies or CD !



With ESS ES1869 sound card:

My Socket 7 rig : originally P133, 16 MB ram, S3 trio 64V+, now upgraded to the following specs : P200 MMX, 64MB ram (had 128MB on the picture), QDI Explorer 2 430VX board with 512KB L2 cache, ATI mach 64 VT 2 MB, Voodoo 1 4MB, 6GB HDD, 3COM ISA LAN, SB AWE 64 Gold :