Don’t Meet Your Childhood Hero’s ? | Dell Inspiron 8100 

My grandfather recently passed and he was the one who introduced me to computers as a boy with the Apple 2. During Christmas I realized he had a Dell Inspiron 8600. My grandmother told me to take it no problem. %Windows XP. I was able to install rebel Assualt 2 and it plays great. I ordered GTA vice city and Die Hard Nagatomi Plaza. Great video.

Unbelievable high resolution for a PentiumIII Notebook. Awesome!

To anyone struggling with the trackpoint making the cursor freak out, install the dell synaptics driver and disable it. That way you keep the touchpad functionality without the cursor going wild

Great game choice. I had a laptop with very similar specs around the same time and played most of the same games!

When your video started up, my first thought was... and now they are all over the dumpsters around me 🤣 You always have great intros, pal.

I had an 8100 brand new back in 2001 with Windows Xp Home. It was USB 1.0. Mine was a lemon, but many people swore by them. In the span of three years my hardrive failed, the network card failed, the keyboard paint wore off from normal typing use, and the screen backlight died.

I always thought those palm rests were padded too!

The crazy thing is I have one of these stacked within a pile of other laptops. It worked nearly a decade ago when I bought it on eBay. Today... who knows.

Makes for a decent 98se retro gamer, nice one!

the ess maestro has dos drivers, you have to get it from the vxd driver package which you can from vogons. the OPL3 on the card is emulated though and sounds pretty bad.

I found one a recycler but the screen was broke and needed the hardrive adapter so bought a cheap donor and it happened to have the gf2 16 mb. The other had a ati 32 mb. I need to benchmark the ati again to see which is better. Ive tried the dos driver and while it detects the maestro sound blaster does not produce sound. Seems like something isnt hooked in hardware. I also bought a harddrive caddy for a 120 gb drive with sate to ide adapter. I dual boot mine with 98/XP. Im leaning more to XP only with no DOS support.

Great video! How have You solved scaling issues? In most of the games after install on my 8100 laptop the resolution is 800x600, even if I change it in game options to 1400x1050 is still 800x600.

hey guys, is this machine worth 100 euros (its maybe a 110USD) with shipping and a bag and some more goodies in your opinion - i could get that at a pretty complete package, thank you in advance

just like my dell c840 notebook w the zip250 zip drive