Kit List:
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1 x Cooler Master Lab chassis
1 x Creative Labs 3DO Blaster
1 x Creative Labs Sound Blaster
1 x Creative Labs CDROM CR-563-b
1 x SuperMicro P6SBA Motherboard
1 x 256Mb RAM
1 x 500Gb HDD cut into teeny-weeny little partitions
1 x Floppy Disk Drive
1 x Pentium III 450Mhz CPU
1 x Matrox 220 Mystique VGA adapter.
What have I learnt?
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MSDOS 6.22 is pretty hateful.
Windows 3.11 equally so (it's not a multitasking OS at all)
The connector on the back of the SB CR-563-B may look like a bog-standard IDE connector it isn't. It needs to be plugged into either the 3DO Blaster or Sound Blaster card proprietary header interface
The instructions in the 3DO Blaster config guide, particularly around config.sys and autoexec.bat aren't 'quite' as universal as they imply.
MS-DOS 6.22 can't be installed from HDD, neither can windows. Or if it can, I couldn't figure it out.
MS-DOS 6.22 is a particularly pedantic OS, spawned from Satan's own loins.
Windows 3.11 doesn't really know what to do with a CDROM.
The Sound Blaster CR-563 is very proprietary. Creative were cheeky gits selling this.
3DFX made good graphics cards. Matrox apparently didn't.
The death of Ribbon Cables was a good thing.
