First post, by songoffall
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Hey Vogons, new user here.
So my parents happened to sell all my retro tech (including a sweet 486DX4 laptop), but I finally decided to make a new build.
I found a Compaq Deskpro 200 with Pentium II MMX@266MHz at a garage and, predictably, it doesn't have a sound card.
I'm going for an MSDOS/Win3.1 build, I know I should go for a 386/486, not a PC from 1996 for that, but so far I've failed to locate one of those in my country and shipping it from outside would cost an arm and a leg. It's still on my backlog, so I'll keep searching and upgrade this to Win95.
I want a SB16 or an alternative with full compatibility, PCM audio, true OPL2/OPL3 is preferable, but I also need Dreamblaster compatibility because I'm planning to upgrade to Dreamblaster 2XGS (a Roland SC is outside my budget atm.).
I checked Ebay, but there were too many options and some looked like the SB16 I used to own (with a volume potentiometer at the back) and some had so many outputs they looked more like a SB Live!. And I know some later SB16 models use OPL emulation which sounds like crap.
The Deskpro 2000 has both ISA and PCI slots (not sure if ISA or EISA, but EISA, if I remember it right, is 100% backwards compatible with ISA) on a backplane. So either PCI or ISA would do.
And the reason I'm going for a SB16 is because I had that card, so I know what to expect of it. If you have better options that will work with Dreamblaster and can play The Secret of Monkey Island, Doom, Duke Nukes 3D, Blood, Quake etc. on DOS, I'm all ears.
Thanks in advance.
Compaq Deskpro 2000/P2 300MHz/384Mb SDRAM/ESS ES1868F/Aureal Vortex 2
Asus A7N8X-VM400/AMD Athlon XP 2ooo+/512Mb DDR DRAM/GeForce 4 MX440/Creative Audigy 2
Asus P5Q Pro/Core2 Quad Q9400/2Gb DDR2/GeForce 8800GT/Creative X-Fi