@onfy oh wow that front panel thing
bet it sounds exactly like it looks
@onfy having line in on the front is weird though, what's up with that? shouldn't it be mic in?
@noiob I think that's what it's supposed to be. They just labelled it wrong.
@onfy from my experience you can switch between mic and line in in software, so who cares
Looks like a great way to use a drive bay, especially on a computer with so little front I/O for some reason. Also a bad speaker is better than none :D
@noiob "you can switch between mic and line in in software" on a SB16? Uhh no.
"so little front I/O for some reason" did you miss the 2002 part? This was before that was common.
@onfy idk my Windows ME computer has two front USB at least
@noiob It's probably quite new for Windows ME then, though imo that's also where ME excels.
@onfy I'm not sure when it came out, it's running an Athlon XP at 1.4GHz and a nVidia 2MX. Pretty decent little prebuilt, though it came with 128MB RAM and that was not enough for me, recently upped it to a gigabyte and now even XP is pretty nice on it
@onfy should've come out 2001-2002 unless they sold last-gen hardware
@noiob I thought the XP wasn't out until 03 or 04. In any case, newer than Windows ME. But with stuff like Athlon XP and Pentium 4, I think Windows ME is better than 98. No DOS isn't a disadvantage on that hardware.
As for this, it has a Pentium II in it. That's the era I'm aiming for.
@noiob Direct hardware access, which is only relevant if you have an ISA bus. This PC does (so 98 is better) and yours doesn't.
@noiob The problem there was that those drivers didn't come out until after Windows XP.
@onfy I just installed them from the CD it came with, maybe I just got lucky with the hardware
@noiob Yeah. By 2003 all new hardware was solid for ME. It actually started doing reverse. ATI was writing ME WDM drivers backwards compatible with 98!
@noiob Yeah. It's like with Vista actually.
@onfy I refuse to believe that Vista was ever good, but then again I also didn't particularly like 7
@noiob Well, it tends more towards being ok I guess. I never found an advantage compared to 7 OR XP.
@onfy and I've run DOS games on it with no issues, so I'm not sure what I'm actually missing