1. You'll need an active adapter like an MCE2VGA or RGB2HDMI (with an HDMI to VGA adapter) as the MDA/Hercules and CGA signals are digital TTL at a horizontal sync of 18.43KHz (MDA/Hercules) or 15.7KHz (CGA) while VGA is an analog RGB signal at a horizontal sync of 31KHz.
2a. There's also the...
Oldest computer game I've played is probably Mystery House on the Apple II and the oldest console game I've played is Space Invaders on the Atari 2600.
Still have the CD-Rs that I burned Mandrake 8.0 onto - took two weeks to download those ISOs on 56k. Ended up getting the PowerPack versions of 9.0 and 10.1 after that, moved to Debian for a little while then settled on Gentoo.
I'm currently running a Windows 7 and Gentoo Linux dual-boot setup. Outside of a few applications (that run fine in a VM) I've been able to migrate most of what I do to Linux and will never run a subscription OS.
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Been lurking on this forum for quite a while and decided to join. I am primarily interested in 386/486/Pentium PCs and 1990s/early 2000s software and games.