I'm hoping someone can help me here. I got the soundcard off of ebay, and the problem is that when 16-bit sound is played, the sound is horribly distorted, be it in pure dos mode or windows 98. 8-bit sound is fine. I'm not sure if it's driver related or not. I ran the diagnose program in pure dos …

Edit: I do see the voodoo came in PCI, so I'll keep that in mind.

Alrighty, so I got the PC here. The built in video has the full 8MB of RAM on it, which is really great and a big suprise since I was just thinking it had the 4MB. I installed both MS-DOS 6.22, and all the games I have tried work just fine so far, even using VESA, this includes The Ultimate DOOM, …

Thought I should post something real quick. I'm more or less just using Quake as an example. I know I can play the game on a modern PC, infact I had downloaded the Direct3D patch from http://dxquake.sourceforge.net/ and works just fine, but I was trying to find out what sort of processing power …

Off of ebay, I've gone ahead and purchased the P500. It's got 128MB of RAM, 10GB HDD, CD-ROM drive, Floppy Drive, Zip Drive, built in sound (Crystal Semiconductor CS4236), built in video (integrated ATI Rage Pro (AGP 2X) graphics, 4MB upgradable to 8MB), built in LAN and XP installed for some reason …

You are correct on the software rendering, and hearing you say that even with a 1GHz CPU may not be enough makes me feel better as I was sure in remembering my old 1GHz wasn't quite up to it, even though I was feeling pretty sure back then it would run just fine at that resolution. I think what I'll …

First post here, hopefully I have the correct forum. I've been thinking about buying and upgrading an older PC from the 1990's to be able to play all DOS based games, at least that's the goal anyway. I'm looking at picking up a Pentium 500MHz that includes 128MB RAM, 10GB HDD, 2 ISA slots and 5 PCI …