First post, by snorg
So I've been thinking about setting up an old Pentium Pro workstation for some time now as a dedicated retro graphics workstation and downclocking it from 200 to 180 so I can run some speed sensitive software without any hacks. Its main purpose will be running an older version of 3d Studio as well as some other things I've collected over the years. I can't easily run a lot of this stuff on any of my modern systems (3d Studio in particular has a HASP dongle that requires a parallel port) so that is the reason for the dedicated system.
I've also got a Pentium Overdrive 83mhz VLB system that would also be a good candidate, and obviously while I'm not intending on using this for production work, whenever you're talking about computer graphics the more speed the better, so I'm a bit torn on which one to use. I may set that one up as a gaming system because I don't think I will be able to gimp the Pentium Pro enough to use it for most DOS games. But that is a different topic.
So which one would you go for? My feeling is the Pentium Pro will probably make everything seem like it is running at warp speed, given a lot of the software I'm looking at running was written for 386 and 486 and early Pentium era systems.
