Is your pentium 233 a mmx cpu? If so you might be able to use setmul to slow it down enough to play it.

ya u can setmul the 233 good thinking

I can use setmul on the 233 and I do, but my preference is to have a computer that's more period appropriate for these games.

whether or not you need a vlb io depends if the board has integrated io, and if the board is a vlb board you need a vlb vid card, unless its a pci board then go with a pci vid card. u can get a pci based board with integrated io. Save yourself some time. pci would not be period correct tho. for 1993 vlb is. personally i don't care about period correct. I only care about making good computers and if its good thats what matters.

Found this info on AOD online help file:

IBM' PC' compatible computer with an 80386 DX33 , or better processor,
and at least 4 megabytes (MB) of random access memory (RAM).
[Today we've learned that you should have at least an intel 486DX40 with
no less than 8MB RAM. However you might also run "too fast" as modern
PC's by far outline the specifications of those days. Moving to far up in the
Pentium hierarcy will certainly give you trouble (up to P133 is tested and
secured though

The game was released quite late (-94) regarding the 486 era, so if you want to find the sweet spot I'd go for DX2/66 just to make sure.

In DOS you need to load all drivers HIGH in Autoexec.bat and Config.sys
It requires a lot of conventual memory.