Reply 20 of 22, by retrofanatic
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Funny that you say that because originally, before all this madness came about of me building all these systems, I was planning on building only one retro rig for DOS that would 'do it all' based on a P166MMX (based on this text file that someone put together explaining his experience with trying to build the ultimate all-in-one DOS rig: http://www.jumpjet.info/Application-Software/ … OS/Hardware.txt)...so I thought that yes, I would not need anything faster than a 166MMX, but I found out that there were many games like Carmmagedon, Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, Warcraft, Starcraft, some later Star Trek adventure games, some flight sims, and a heap load of Glide games as seen in this post:DOS Glide Games List that could benefit from a system based on a faster CPU like a PII or sometimes even a PIII.
I have so much surplus hardware that I could use to build faster systems, so I thought, why not? I really wanted to experience some later DOS games in a fast Voodoo SLI Glide setup on something faster than just a 166MMX.
Initially, I also had only two other systems planned - one for windows XP (main rig) and one for win98SE, but again, I have so much extra hardware, I thought it would be great to just build more than one for each using the various video and sound cards (and CPU's and motherboards) I had laying around.