First post, by jheronimus
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Hi, all
I'm thinking about building a DOS machine for playing mid-90s games (mostly adventures and space/flight sims) that would support as many hardware options (2D & 3D cards, sound cards, etc) as possible.
Naturally, since I was a kid in DOS times and never built such a machine myself, I don't know much about picking hardware parts. While the CPU, GPU, sound and input options are covered extensively everywhere, I can't really find enough info about cases, motherboards, PSU, cooling, RAM and HDD. So I'm looking for a place like vogonswiki.com, just more comprehensive. E.g., I think that it's highly unlikely that I will be able to find a PSU by a particular model name, so I just need to know what features to look for.
Before you start going all LMGTFY on me, let me say that I did spend some time just googling =) However, it only led me to articles about very particular setups, that are not exactly what I want. For instance, I want a Pentium 166 in a horizontal desktop case, and most people only do such builds for 386/486 for some reason.
Any help would be really appreciated!