Sparcie's Lo-tech web-page
Blog Downloads DOS games in Browser
Welcome to my super-outdated lo-tech web page. I've set this up mostly as a
location to store downloads for my blog as wordpress doesn't have the facility
for ordinary files, only media. You can find my blog at
sparcie.wordpress.com and the downloads
on this site here.
I've recently added a new section where you can play some DOS games in your browser. These include
some of my own games and a handful of obscure shareware games. You can find them
here
I used to run this on a Sparcstation 20 with 2x 50Mhz and 1x
60Mhz Supersparc processors. Surprisingly despite its age it did a
pretty good job. Some time ago I changed this machine to run on a socket 478 Celeron 2.4Ghz so I could
save some power and use the Sparcstation as a vintage desktop machine.
It did the job fairly well at a cost of roughly 60-120W.
I then got my first HP Thin client as a replacement, mostly because I wanted something that consumed less power. It had
an AMD GX415GA @ 1.5Ghz with 4 cores. It generally consumed about 7W and 17W under load.
Sadly my first HP thin client has died. I have been able to replace it with a similar lower power model
which has a dual core AMD GX-217GA SOC @ 1.65Ghz. While it has fewer cores it is still fast enough for
the duties I have for it, such as running this web server.
