introducing the new intel 64

[solarbird]

Introducing the new Intel 64 cartridge-based PC system! Done with work for the day?

Why then, just swap cartridges...

Hit power, and you're ready to game!

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ ♥

(Basically, I gave up trying to get my old Win8.1 partition to take security updates, realised I had a clone of the current drive that I could play with safely, and started experimenting.

I tried to get it to upgrade to Windows 10, but that was also broken, somehow; tried to install Windows 10 as a replacement OS; that was also also kind of broken and fucked up the boot structure.

Then I realised I could just install Windows 10 on that disk, and boot flexibly using BIOS options for boot order, but turns Windows kinda hates having two separate physical bootable devices and was having no part of that nonsense.

I was going to give up, but then realised I could mount the drive externally in an eSata harness and not lose any speed, meaning I could just swap drives to swap systems if I really wanted to do this. And that was so stupid I decided I had to do this, so I did.

Now every time I turn it on, I hear SEEEEEEGAAAAAAA in my head. And I've decided that's... not really a downside. So now I have an Intel 64. Apparently. Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ )

Comments

[redsixwing]

....awesome.

How much trouble would it be to set the startup chime to the Sega sound? >:)

[solarbird]

I found I had another eSata card blank (the kind of thing you can stick in the back of the machine where you would put a card, but with no card, just cables to the sata attach points) so now the cartridge slot attaches in back, and the two front eSata points are both live for extra drives and cloning.

AW YEAH NOW WE'RE CRUISIN' （⌒▽⌒）

[redsixwing]

Niiiiiice!

[talkswithwind]

Yes.... eSATA can be really fun sometimes.

[solarbird]

I've had a fair bit of eSata nonsense going for a while on this box, which is why it was so easy to set up when I decided to try it. But this is extra. ♥

[glitch25]

Awesome solution for what otherwise is a pain in the ass problem. Windows really sucks for that. Drives (haha) me crazy.

[solarbird]

If I keep doing this I will clone that magnetic hard drive to SSD and then we'll pretty much be there in every meaningful way.

(Those SSDs really, though... they look kind of a lot like these. Which is hilarious.)

[glitch25]

Flip phones, bluetooth ear pieces, SSD drives.... Tribbles soon. Then Mogwais. Then world's end. #CrossedTheStreams