[Anonymouse]

So I could just spend the £75 and that's it? Hmm.

I'm a hopeless retro games addict, and the games I like won't run directly on modern systems such as my Windows 8 laptop - so I've decided to build a legacy setup. I did try VirtualBox, and it works, but there's too much lag between screen action and sound effects; it's distracting. Plus the game display's limited to 640 x 480...on a 1600 x 900 screen. You can guess from that how far back in time I'm going - all the way back to the 16-bit days, specifically X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter.

I always loved that game. So tomorrow I'm off to Scan to get some advice; I'm apparently a bit out of date re PC building, as all the hard drives are now SATA and not IDE, which is all I'm familiar with. I might even end up just buying a bare bones system; we'll see.

So that £75 might come in handy...

Thanks, guys!