First post, by retro games 100
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I have nearly finished building my first retro gaming rig. 😅 Its intended purpose is to play games from the advent of the PC CD-ROM (circa '92), to the end of the Windows 95 era.
Mobo: Pentium III (500mhz, 100mhz FSB)
AGP - Matrox 450 (single DVI output)
PCI - Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro (S3 chipset)
PCI - Diamond Monster 3D (Voodoo 1 chipset)
PCI - Ensoniq/Creative CT4740 (ES1373 chipset)
ISA - Roland SCC-1 (with Roland external CM-32L unit)
ISA - Gravis Ultrasound Classic (1MB RAM)
ISA - Creative AWE32 (CT2760, non-PnP & Yamaha DB50XG daughterboard)
I am worried that this rig may be much too fast for some DOS games released around the early 90s. If necessary, I could replace the PIII CPU with a slower PII CPU. I could also replace the PC100 RAM with slower PC66 RAM, and then set the mobo's FSB to 66 rather than 100.
Also for the AGP slot, I think that an older Matrox 200 might be more appropriate than a newer Matrox 450.
Good ideas or bad ones?
I would welcome any criticism about this rig. However, if you think I've got a few things right, that would be very nice to hear! 😀
Thanks for any thoughts and suggestions.
Best regards, Robert.