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What speed of processor(usually says on booting up) K6-XXX

I would guess it will be about a 300-450.

Memory I would be pretty sure you need PC100 Dimms. XP likes 128M min, 256M preferably. I may have some knocking around.

Hard disc you may have a bit of fun with. Some PCs can only 'see' up to 8GB. To get it to see above this limit you need to upgrade the motherboard bios. This usually means booting from a floppy disc which has the upgrade program on.

As for XP, I assume you don't have a disc? I guess this means you also don't have a license. as such its best not discussing this on a public forum.

One other consideration with his fav game is will it run on the spec of PC you have? If its a newish version you may find it will struggle.

All in to get this up to a reasonable standard to run this game will probably cost you a reasonable chunk of cash and a lot of time. It will probably be cheaper and easier to get a different PC.

To connect them together you need to have network cards in each. A specific cable between them will allow his pC to share your net connection. You can do this wirelessly as long as they are less than about 100ft apart. Wireless will cost ~£30 all in, Wired costs £10 for two cards + £2-30 for the cable depending on how far we are talking.

Hope this helps