Running 90's era games today- what are my options?

[Ziggy]

The last option is a modern SATA drive with a SATA-IDE converter. I haven't tried these, but they ought to work.

I use a SATA HDD with a PATA adapter in my XP box. Works perfectly. The trick is trying to find those adapters. Most are to adapt a PATA drive to the SATA interface, and that's mostly what comes up when you try to search for a SATA-PATA adapter.

[Hatta]

Looks like this one is bidirectional.

[Pulsar_t]

I discovered lots of issues with the VMware XP drivers when it comes to DX6 and 7 and maybe even 5. I will seek a copy of Win98SE since XP can suck with backwards compatibility as well. Anyone has tips for 3D API virtualisation?

EDIT - Workstation is useless for pre-WinXP 3D graphics. Bah! I had an HP server with Voodoo2000 but I don't think it works anymore. Shame that there's no perfect software solution for retro PC gaming.

[Ziggy]

Looks like this one is bidirectional.

LOL, I've never seen a bidirectional one before. For $12 you'd figure it'd be junk, but it got 4 eggs with 95 reviews so it can't be bad.

[MrNash]

I'm trying to get a bunch of old games running as well with mixed results. I was happy to see that my copy of the original Kingdom Under Fire works. Then my computer took one like at the first No One Lives Forever and was like, "Nope!" and would have none of that. The game is 16-bit, though, so my 64-bit OSes will have none of that. Second game works with some fiddling around, though, apparently.