Hi folks. You may recall me having posted here several times in
the past, about what sort of simulations would be nice to have,
and then adding that I'm drooling over the sims you do have, as
I've never owned a PC (currently on a 1985-tech Amiga).
Well, all that may change. A friend has offered to sell me his
system. Since I know I'll want a system to run stuff like ICR2
and NASCAR Racing, and you lot undoubtedly know how they run on
what sort of systems, I humbly request any comments you may have
about how they'll run on this system. Here's what I know of it:
It's an Acer with an AMD 120 MHz 486 processor. It has 12MB RAM
and a 1GB EIDE hard drive. A Soundblaster 16 card, VLB SVGA card
with 2MB video RAM. VLB EIDE HD controller plus 2 serial, 1 parallel,
1 game and 1 secondary IDE port. A 4x CD ROM, and a single 1.44MB
floppy drive. Win95 installed.
We haven't discussed price yet, so if you can suggest any offers I
might make, that'd be appreciated as well.
I'll want to get a steering wheel/flightstick and pedals. Are those
ports enough, or is that listing just what the controller adds to
whatever the system may have in it already (a mini-tower case)?
If this turns out to be something I get, I'll definitely need some
kind, experienced soul to help me get the hardware and software set
up to go racin', so if you wouldn't mind me writing email questions
should the need arise, please say so. I have very, very little
experience with PCs. I've gone from VIC-20, C-64 to Amiga -- never
used a PC. Given their hodgepodge nature, I'm sure there'll be a
lot of confounding quirks to discover.
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