/vr/ - Retro Games

soup /vr/. i've been wanting a little dos gaming rig for a while now. when i was only 9 or 10 my fondest gaming memories were playing zork, the early ultima games. doom, duke nukem 3d, redneck rampage, day of the tentacle and just so many old awesome games that were actually pretty out dated when i was playing them. dosbox is great but playing it on hardware from that era has its charm.
i recently got an old ibm thinkpad 750e for free and it supports booting into dos mode with a great looking screen in the proper resolutions and a cool little ergonomic keyboard slant that picks up in levers with the little nipple in the middle of the mechanical keyboard. it just sets my nostalgia boner off. im not great with hardware from this era so i had just a few questions for some people with more experiance than me with systems from this era.

should i get an sd to floppy adaptor or a usb floppy drive and a box of cards? i know the adapters hold way more info but with the way dos runs games wouldn't i have to dump and reload the data every time i ran a new game? i havent had a chance to play with one yet. with 98 how difficult is it to load dos games onto the harddrive to be ran from the gui? i have seen the hard drive adaptors where i could run an sd drive as my main hard drive and have all the storage in the world but i'm not familiar enough with dos to know if that's a simple thing to do.

i am also just looking for any general tips and tricks for dos and 98 based machines in particular laptops.