Gaming on a 25 year old Cisco firewall

Taking a look at a Cisco PIX 520, a late '90s enterprise firewall. These PIX units used commodity hardware, this one has an Intel motherboard and a Pentium II CPU. I'll get a hard drive and CD-ROM hooked up to it, install Windows 98 SE, and trying gaming on it!

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PIX Failover Video:    • Cisco PIX Failover  

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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00:00 Intro
00:31 PIX 520 Physical Overview
03:05 Failover Capabilities
04:14 Looking Inside
06:50 Booting it up
08:49 Putting in an AGP Video Card
10:52 Pulling the ISA Flash Card and Booting
12:04 Hooking up a Keyboard and Mouse and Looking at the BIOS
15:43 CD-ROM and Hard Drive Headaches
19:08 Trying to get Windows 98 SE Installed
25:50 Trying Audio Cards
27:44 Driver Setup
28:19 Playing Need for Speed II
29:42 Future Plans