Hi all,

My first post , need help with spec for quite a specific retro build.

Firstly, some background, I have a small collection of various old IBM XT's, sad I know, but those old CGA EGA games don't play the same on anything else. So I need to build an intermediate machine to write floppies and transfer stuff from my home network/internet via rs232/parallel. So I have an area to setup 2 machines, an XT and the intermediate next to it. As I had a spare empty XT case I thought, great idea, lets fill it with a more modern pc, it'll look great, those old pc towers were so big and ugly.

Anyway after many hours of research the initial idea morphed into making a 98/XP glide rig, I miss Quake! Nothing AT form factor shaped would really run quake 3 or XP well, so I've redesigned the XT chassis so I can fit a modern ATX motherboard. The question is what ATX board/cpu will best suit my requirements.

My Requirements:-

Dual boot 98se(for its dosness, the XT's, games) & XP (connectivity?)
Voodoo 5 5500 PCI (I have)
I really want to use a 60Gb SATA SSD I have spare, win98 is so fast & its small.
Need parallel, serial, ps/2 keyb/mouse.
CD/DVD writer, 5 1/4" & 3 1/2" Floppy, USB (ideally USB2.0)
Network.
DOS games/sound compatibilty.
Full size ATX (so the Voodoo PCI misses the drive bays)
Say 1GB RAM?

Options:-

PIII socket 370 with ISA SoundBlaster, PCI USB2 + PCI SATA
P4 socket 478 with USB2, PCI SATA & PCI SoundBlaster
P4 socket 775 with USB2 & SATA + PCI SoundBlaster
Core socket 775 (Like Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 R2.0) + PCI SoundBlaster

I will need to get a PCI SATA card if required, I have tried an IDE to SATA adapter and it crashes/corrupts XP on various boards, maybe faulty.

How fast can/do I need to go? Want to play all quakes, UT, DOS glide games, maybe even older DOS games, Doom, Jazzy, Duke3D etc.

Any help, recommendations of specifc motherboards greatly appreciated.