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Hunter_Rose
September 21st, 2006, 05:21
I recently purchased a Amstrad Megadrive Computer for a customer that had its hard drive formated. (It can still play sega genesis games) Now I have a choice (I moved the Tetradrive from its original casing to a better one, made some adjustments and changed the Mother Board, and added better graphics, and sound) but my question is: Should I stick with the V-Dos 5 that I got with it (somehow the Amstrad computer came with the Japanese Tetradrive OS), or should I go with XP.
Lefteris_D
September 21st, 2006, 07:29
Is it powerful enough to run XP?
alcoatjez
September 21st, 2006, 08:47
Should I stick with the V-Dos 5 that I got with it (somehow the Amstrad computer came with the Japanese Tetradrive OS), or should I go with XP.

This will definitely NOT run WinXP. The PC was already severely underpowered for it's time. Just stick to the standard OS.
Hunter_Rose
September 21st, 2006, 21:37
ok well it is up to speed for most games these days, it has a AMD 64D in it, (I replaced the mother board) about 2gb of RAM, and 500 gb harddrive, with the newest Video and Audio cards.
Zach
September 23rd, 2006, 09:09
So what.. this thing is an upgraded modern PC and still can play Megadrive games or something?

At any rate, uh yeah, that will definitely run XP.
Hunter_Rose
September 24th, 2006, 05:47
Yeah its basically a riped apart Amstrad PC that was messed around with and changed to make stronger, faster, but it can't play megadrive/pc games at the same time. (you still need to choose between the two, however the difference is that there is two different power buttons. It looks good, sad to say I sold it just yesterday after building it for a nice $1,500 profit, which went to paying off my debts.
Zach
September 24th, 2006, 05:50
That's pretty neat, I didn't know machines like that existed until I looked it up.. Now I miss my old Commodore 64... :(
claytonbuster
September 24th, 2006, 06:14
I love the fika
DudeJustDoIT
September 24th, 2006, 07:42
DUDE this is the 2nd time you posted this. Dont spam our community.
Zach
September 24th, 2006, 08:32
If you see spam just report the post, and let the staff worry about disciplining others.
Hunter_Rose
September 24th, 2006, 21:47
That's pretty neat, I didn't know machines like that existed until I looked it up.. Now I miss my old Commodore 64... :(

I can hook you with a C-64
Zach
September 25th, 2006, 01:17
While I'm sure you could, I don't have the money to purchase one if I wanted to, and probably won't for a while.
alcoatjez
September 28th, 2006, 14:42
C64s are pretty cheap, but for some dumb reason I still don't own one.
I did buy a VIC20 with 10 carts, some tapes and the tape player for 25 Euros. It was complete and boxed. Not bad, huh? :)