I’d also recommend sticking with Windows 95 which has oddly quite good support for ISA.

Whilst the MegaPC will never be a Reddit browsing machine, adding an Ethernet card makes it vastly easier to add retro games and software – just bare in mind it’ll add an overhead to the box. That said, their relative simplicity compared to modern standards means they tend to be fairly reliable. With this technology fastly approaching 30 years old, ISA cards are becoming absolute gold dust. There are a ton of variants which are pin compatible with the empty slot on your MegaPC – most of which are a less than $10. It’s a Math Coprocessor which will give a few selected apps a bit of a boost – sadly, it wont give a boost unless a specific app or game requires it ( RetroCity!), but you do get a nice bit of e-bling in Windows 95. It is possible to upgrade almost anything, from the mundane memory upgrade, through to an full CPU turbocharge to a 486! So what’s a nice easy upgrade? Math Coprocessor Quite surprising, yet the Mega PC is rife for upgrading. With our modern Octo-core smart phones and exploding hoverboards why am I so curious about this humble little 386, significantly outclassed even in 1993? Who know’s, maybe my British desire to be both quietly conservative, yet cause a little chaos and fun at the same time …And who doesn’t want a bit more fun?

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All this could be had for the low, low price of £599 (+VAT) or nearly £1316.15 in today’s money.

If you’re not familiar with the Mega PC, it was a standard IBM compatible which had a cheeky little sliding door that switched it between Windows and gaming nirvana Inside it’s seemly innocent exterior was a red blooded Mega Drive in the form of a modestly sized ISA card which provided full RGB output and adlib compatible audio. Thankfully several little gems have remained for us today and one of which is the ever-rare Amstad Mega PC. While the gamers of the early nighties were tearing their hair out – and no doubt their wallets.