Reply 20 of 29, by dr_st
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Wilczek_h wrote on 2021-09-07, 09:08:@dr__st: thank you 😀. You can still get a nice consumer Socket 7 board as well as SDRAMs dirt cheap. With a P200 MMX CPU you would have a lot of options, you could build a very nice DOS gaming machine, or if you like experimenting, you could build a retro server, experiment with other OSs of its time. Or, maybe you would like to push it to its limits and see what the latest software is that it can handle, etc. I think you would have fun once you get into building it 😉.
Oh, I still have my Super Socket 7 with AMD K6/2+ CPU @500MHz and a Voodoo 3000 AGP. It's running Windows 98 SE and I enjoy it from time to time to play DOS / early Windows games. I feel it's not at 100% as it does lock up occasionally in Windows, but it gets the job done. 😀
At one point a long time ago, I had that P200 MMX in a secondary machine and I hoped to play DOS multiplayer games between the two systems. However, I never had friends sufficiently into retro gaming to play with, and when the other machine stopped working, I got rid of it just kept the CPU...
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