Hey all. Grabbed another tower today. Dirt cheap. $15. Missing the hard drive, but I have options for that. I have an IDE to SD adapter board coming, and I am really tempted to use that. IDE HDD would be real cheap at this point. The only SATA drives I have that are not currently in use are damaged …

Reading over the review, it seems a decently regarded piece of vintage kit. Glad I pulled it. Of course, I would pull any reusable parts from a blown rig. The Packard did have a Overdrive 63Mhz CPU in it with integrated cooler. I think the original CPU was a 486SX25. So I'm guessing it would go well …

That's good info on the jumper settings. Yes, I pulled it from a Packard Bell, from an older 486 machine with a damaged mobo. Other components from it are still good, so if I can find A decent 486 board, I could cobble it all together in a different case perhaps. Options. Does anyone know if it's …

Hey all. Figured I would share this/get a positive ID on this card. I think I've found info, and a driver pack for it. Number on back is MT9416, 0000022124+, and 030053. FCC ID is I38-MMSN811. Googling this tells me it is made by Aztech. That it's 16bit. I found a downloadable driver pack, which is …

Sound should be ESS 1868 (Soundblaster compliant). On games loaded through DOS mode, sound is fine. The speakers aren't even half bad for integrated units. For both Fallout and Doom (Doom95) are accessed through Win98. No sound on either. I'm not running anything yet that pushes the need for the …

So, I've been toying with this system some more. Nothing major. I am going to double check the drivers on the audio, and video after I burn off a CD with them on it. Make sure I've at least got the stock stuff going on it. I also nabbed drivers for the Voodoo, so I can hook that thing in line (had …

Oh yeah, I've been thinking about the IDE to SD stuff. Seems convenient, and stable. Nothing moving to break. Id's on my list of things I want to do. Installed Doom2, and Fallout...no sound. So, gonna either have to learn to tweak that, or plop in my soundcard, and ditch onboard audio. Conversely, I …

So... This is what I fast grabbed to run DOS games on, when I discovered the popped CMOS battery in my 486. From what I can tell, it has an AMD MMX200 CPU, 32MB of RAM, 2MB S3Trio integrated graphics, a 6GB HDD, integrated speakers (which is kind of nice), one PCI slot (which the Voodoo accelerator …

Ok, tore it down to the bare case. Man, that was easier than I recall. The stock CPU spec is an Intel 486SX25, but I can't tell... I didn't think the slower 486s had coolers on them? Also, my CMOS battery leaked, and it's one of those barrel types. Think it may have screwed some traces up. Think I …

Hey all. Dug out my 486. Kind of a time machine. Got my work cut out for me though. When I last had it, it booted up fine, into DOS, and could start Windows 3.11. No issues. It's been stored for some time now though. It has a Crystal ISA sound card in it, I'll have to pull the board number in a bit. …

It's more like trying to find the card with the most broad range of use to combo up with. I'll fiddle, take pics, and share them in the vintage build section as I go.

Would anything be gained by linking the Voodoo and the GeForce2? I suppose that is a better question. Being that I've got those two components on hand? I know some folks build more than one machine to accommodate more than one era (based on Google results). Is putting those two together a reasonable …

Yeah. I've got reading to do. I did a bit of searching prior to signing up. There's a LOT of information. I didn't mess with the insides of the machines as much back then, so my knowledge base is less in that area, than more recent stuff. I knew how to install the games, make boot disks, and play …

Well, I plan to steer this in a hardware direction, once I have a broader scope of what I'm dealing with. Like how is PCI Soundblaster 16 support under the last revision of DOS? and What GPU would you pair a Voodoo 1 accelerator card with for 90s era DOS gaming, or is that already too archaic?

Hey all. First post. Yay. Lol. Anyway. I haven't messed with a DOS machine since probably 1999. Fond memories of a few titles I owned, and societal my friends did. Now, I have a bunch of GoG games, and a couple good titles with an auto launch for DOSBox...but I also still have a couple mid 90s era …