I'm not familiar with the "Solutions" brand, but since the motherboard itself uses the same name, I would assume that 88C4386C is just a rebranded OPTi 82C291, which was a 386/486 chipset which they called the OPTi 349 chipset. The same chipset was used on the Everex Step 486 and Magitronic 602 …

Hi GN, You might be interested in my article here: https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/my_dos_gaming_pc_1.php doing the exact same thing (mimicking Phil's 136-in-1). My hardware differs from yours, but you may find some interesting decisions I made along the way. My build was designed as a dedicated DOS …

On the 486 the ISA bus is decoupled from the front side bus (if that's what you mean by 'card bus'). Ever since the late-80286 era motherboards have been decoupling the two as CPU clock speeds went ever faster. The ISA (AT) bus can theoretically run at 12 MHz, even a little higher, but by default it …

Point L2, which I am reasonably sure is ground based on a continuity test had one of those black components which I removed to assess the traces better (same as L3 and L4). My question is, what are these components and why is one necessary for a connection to GND? Those black components are …

It's also very misleading because game companies put out 8088/8086 requirement on most games until 1990, even though many of them would be barely playable on an 8088 in practice. Playing Secret of Monkey Island on an 8088 is torture, but there it is on the front of the box. Agreed, I'm sure a lot …

Agree with keenmaster486 - eliminate any hard disks from the system and leave it just with a known-good floppy disk and drive.

Hi there, I have a small amount of info on DOS Days about this here: http://dosdays.co.uk/topics/wavetable_audio.php and do a search for 'Wave Power'. Bear in mind it's 3rd-party info, so not my own findings. It would be useful to know what sound card you have the Wave Power connected to, as the …

What version of the game do you have? As I understand it, version 2.1 only supports MT-32 and two old IBM audio cards. Version 2.2 added support for Ad Lib. The installer writes its config into the file RESOURCE.CFG, so check in there what it's set to. Mine looks like this: EGA ADL.DRV NO HARD DISK …

Back in 2012 I was looking for a portable PC, one that I could use when travelling. I came across the EBox series, and in particular the EBox-2300. Just like the YT video above, it runs a SoC Vortex86, and claims to be similar in performance to a Pentium 200. It has 128 MB of RAM and supports …

Many years ago I bought one of those tiny PC systems that @t_r posted a YT video of, with the purpose of having a very portable DOS gaming box when I travelled. Everything was great apart from the sound card support. As I recall it had a rather obscure audio chip, like a CMedia one, that was Sound …