arncht wrote:what is your goal and your config, in witch want you use?
do you want to build an authentic computer from a specified year?
or j […]
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what is your goal and your config, in witch want you use?
do you want to build an authentic computer from a specified year?
or just it should work in a faster computer?
many isa boards has some problem with faster computers.
My goal is to build good computers to play these older games on, and that takes priority over exact authentic-ness.
Regarding whether sb clones are authentic in a retro sense, my thoughts are definitely, hell yes! Much more likely to see some stodgy SB clone than an actual creative card in computers of the old eras.
Regarding it working in faster computers, my targets for these cards are 386-DX40, 486-DX66 and 5x86-133, and maybe pentium 200, depending on how I feel. I do have a Pentium III-600 with an AWE64 value in it, but my faster computers use otherwise use PCI cards, because they are better for windows 9x and generally offer better sound performance than most ISA cards. It would be a particularly odd game that would benefit from working on a 1ghz P3, but also be allergic to a PCI sound card.