I'm trying to build the "Ultimate DOS/WINDOWS Games Machine" , but am not sure what soundcard to put in it. I am trying to find a soundcard that supports MIDI, Is something like the Soundblaster AWE32 good? Does the AWE64 play old Lucasart/Sierra games without any emulation required? Thanks. I …

Let me ask you a couple of questions, please. What compatibility reasons did you have for downclocking. If you look into my concurrent thread, you'll se that I am wondering about which minimum clock I have to hit. So any experience you have to offer would be welcome. Greetings ux-3[/quote] Well I …

Whoa that's a bunch of replys thanks people I will try your suggestions one by one. And thanks for the positive feedback :) To the guy asking about running an P1 at 8Mhz - well the BIOS offers a switch that says "ENABLE AT COMPATIBILITY" and it does exactly that - it's really great for Wincommander …

Hello fellow abandonware friends - let's not fuss around long and come straight to the point - I have a problem with "Cannon Fodder" part 1 and 2. Whenever I start the game it just freezes the PC at a black screen and/or restarts. The intro plays just fine with music and sfx. My specs : P1 133 - …

eL_PuSHeR wrote: VomitOnLino wrote: 32Mb of RAM (DOS can't adress more RAM - afaik) Nope. I think you can address 64MB of EMS using a third-party utility like QEMM and even more than that using XMS or protected mode (XMS, top-down allocation strategy). Ah okay. Another thing learned - thank you! 😀

Hello there Vogons People, I just tought I might tune in to share my toughts the "ideal" oldgames PC. For a start I use and love the DOS.Box emu for a quick fix of good old gaming. But sometime I felt like this was not sufficient - so I started to sink lots of time (like painting the desktopcase …