Greetings,

I am working on recreating my Tomato 4DPS 486 that died. Of course, some things will be different. For example, I had a faded-black DVD-ROM drive in the last one, simply because it was what I had on hand at the time. I am going all beige with this build, and I am going with period correctness when possible, with the exception of hard disks (using CF and SD cards with adapters.) I remember reading a while back that there are some CD-ROM titles that don't work well with anything beyond 4x speed. I have a yellowed 2x speed drive, and the rest are ##x speed. I am trying to find a beige 4x speed that will hopefully read CD-R discs (I used to have one, but it died, long ago.)

In the meantime, I will have to put a ##X drive in the machine, until I can find a suitable quad speed with CD-R compatibility. Is there a list somewhere with speed sensitive games? I know that there are throttle programs that work with *some* drives, so that is an option, as long as I stick to the 1994-1996 era and is CD-R compatible. There used to be a list of drive models that also listed whether or not they were CD-R compatible, with listed speeds. I back up all my games (I am going to buy an Imation CD stakka, for fun) and I sometimes use CD-Rs to move files from one PC to the other (though I will eventually get networking up and running under Windows 3.11.)

A quad speed, CD-R compatible in beige is the desired component, though I can go with a 6x or 8x if it is within the mid-90's time frame, can be throttled, is beige, and can read CD-Rs. Bonus if it has an MPC2 label on it (because I am a nostalgia driven nerd.)

Thanks!
Scythifuge