Classic PC gaming, should I get a classic PC, use my new one or wait for something like the Hyperkin x86??

[Ness7281992]

I remember those days, and I do NOT want to relive them. Getting games to run on those old x86 machines would take so long, I'd lose interest in the games. Awful, just plain awful. I'd gladly take DOSBox or similar, where I don't have to worry about how much EMS memory is available, or what IRQ my sound card is in? No thank you very much. I love original hardware, but no PC was truly original. There was no set standard like say MSX or Sharp.

Oh, but figuring all that out? That was what made it all rewarding in the end. And if you think there were no set standards on an "IBM PC Compatable", then you, sir, are rather oblivious. They're all based on the original IBM Model 5150 with its Intel 8086 processor. Just like the Amigas (well, most of them) and even with the MSX series, things got faster, looked prettier, and sounded better as time went by, but it was still based on a standard set back at the start. Even today's Intel x64 processors share much of the same roots as the x86 processors before. Yes, it was impossible to play games made for a 4.7 Mhz processor on a rig with a Pentium (unless you used something like MoSlo, but even then it was spotty), but it could stillrun it.