Hi all, tonight i recieved a great bonus.
After applying on my local Freecycle group for some older AT & ATX PSU's for use with my Amiga i went to collect a couple tonight.
While collecting i got talking to the guy and mentioned i was planning on using them with my A1200 to which he replied that he had an A500 sat in his cupboard that i could also have too which i gladly accepted.
After some more talking he offered me an Amstrad CPC464 with original monitor, a second CPC464 base unit that he couldn't get working and an Amstrad Mega PC with original monitor mouse and keyboard and then he even loaded them all into his car and bought me home too!
I was amazed at his generosity.
I told me that he'd replaced the battery on the Mega PC with a new barrel type and although he had it working once it no longer worked.
Anyway i've powered it up and all seems to be working fine on the pc side connected to my TFT monitor but the megadrive side says mode not supported.
Anyway i'll stop rabbiting on and get to the point.
The PC is a 386SX so i can gather with max 16mb ram and a 40mb XT HDD.
I am wondering as the HDD as the same cable as an IDE HDD if i can upgrade the HDD to a 2gb i have spare and install windows 95?
Will the machine be powerfull enough and is it compatible with standard ATA IDE drives or are they XT only?
Thanks
Mike
After applying on my local Freecycle group for some older AT & ATX PSU's for use with my Amiga i went to collect a couple tonight.
While collecting i got talking to the guy and mentioned i was planning on using them with my A1200 to which he replied that he had an A500 sat in his cupboard that i could also have too which i gladly accepted.
After some more talking he offered me an Amstrad CPC464 with original monitor, a second CPC464 base unit that he couldn't get working and an Amstrad Mega PC with original monitor mouse and keyboard and then he even loaded them all into his car and bought me home too!
I was amazed at his generosity.
I told me that he'd replaced the battery on the Mega PC with a new barrel type and although he had it working once it no longer worked.
Anyway i've powered it up and all seems to be working fine on the pc side connected to my TFT monitor but the megadrive side says mode not supported.
Anyway i'll stop rabbiting on and get to the point.
The PC is a 386SX so i can gather with max 16mb ram and a 40mb XT HDD.
I am wondering as the HDD as the same cable as an IDE HDD if i can upgrade the HDD to a 2gb i have spare and install windows 95?
Will the machine be powerfull enough and is it compatible with standard ATA IDE drives or are they XT only?
Thanks
Mike