$20 IBM Thinkpad T42 - Install IDE 2 SD and Windows 98. Does it make a good retro gaming PC?

$20 IBM Thinkpad T42 - Install IDE 2 SD and Windows 98. Does it make a good retro gaming PC?

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Publish Date:
February 6, 2023
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Vintage Gaming
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Picked up this IBM Thinkpad T42 in a bulk pick up of stuff. In this video I remove the IDE hard drive (and some of the RAM) and install a nice shiny IDE 2 SD with a 32GB card and Windows 98SE.

Then we run through some games and look at the advantages and disadvantages of this kind of thinkpad as a retro gaming PC.

Vogons driver thread: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=47591
Radeon 9000 driver (Win ME but works fine in 98) - https://thinkpads.com/support/Thinkpad-Drivers/download.lenovo.com/lenovo/content/ddfm/T42.html


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