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First post, by lutz79

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Hello guys,
i need your help for a choice.

I have two laptops: Compaq Armada 1700 (pentium 2 266mhz) and Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200 (Celeron 500mhz).
Both have Sound Blaster compatible sound cards.
In your opinion, which of the two is more suitable for playing old DOS games?
Windows 98SE is installed on both laptops.

Thanks for your suggestions!

Reply 1 of 1, by Warlord

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Compaq will be best, it has a C&T 6xxxx PCI video, and a ESS 1869
It will have good compatibility for "OLD" dos games. It will be too slow for anything but that.

But why don't you just get them both working and copy the games to both that you want to play and see which one works better. You don't really need to ask.

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