First post, by Jan3Sobieski
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To start with, sorry for the large pics, to some it won't matter since most people have high speed anyways. Another reason I took these large photos is that whatever is left behind will go on ebay in the next couple of weeks.
Ok, so I finally dug out everything and have time to build up the three machines I always wanted to have. I understand you might say I don't need all three but this is more of a nostalgia thing than necessity. I do, however, want to play as many games as I can on these. Over the years I've gathered a lot of "junk" and would like some opinions on what should be in which machine. Also, if it's not here, I don't have it, so it's out of the question.
I'm interested in three computers. a 486-66Mhz Running Dos 6.22, P1-233MMX running Windows 95B and a P3-600Mhz running Win98SE.
I understand the 486 won't play a lot of the older dos games but I plan on using Malik's idea of disabling the internal cache of the proc. (in case I will ever play games like WC)
These are the motherboards:
The 486 - PVI-486SP3
Pentium 1 - Shuttle Spacewalker HOT-555A ver 3.2
Pentium 3 - Abit BX6 rev 2
I don't have a lot, but I do have some sound cards. Here's what I have:
ISA
Sound Blaster 2.0
Sound Blaster PRO
Sound Blaster 16 CSP
Sound Blaster 16 Value PNP
Sound Balster 16 WaveEffects
Sound Blaster Awe 64 Value PNP
Sound Blaster Awe 64 Gold PNP
Gravis Ultrasound Rev 2.4
Gravis Ultrasound Rev 3.4
Aztech Labs Sound Galaxy Pro 16
Covox SoundMaster II
Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16
Ensoniq ISA 16 bit (i do not know what it is exactly)
Also, can someone explain to me the difference between the two GUS's? The boards look somewhat different?
I also have these:
NEC XR 385 yamaha DB60XG clone daughterboard
Awe32 Daughter card
And This (Computer Music Supply CMS401), although I don't really know what it is, seems to me like something with midi? It has a cable that plugs in and as outputs it has a red and a black midi jack + a black rca jack. If someone can shed some light, that would be great!
PCI:
Sound Blaster Audigy LS
Sound Blaster PCI 128
ESS Technologies Maestro-1
Diamond Monster Sound MX300
Yamaha A301-G50 Sound PCI
Edio SC3000
And now video cards:
VLB:
Trident TWN7343 Vesa Local Bus
Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM VLB Rev A3
Cirrus Logic VLB
ATI Mach32 ( i do not know what version)
PCI:
Diamond Stealth II S220 (Rendition 2 V2100)
Diamond Stealth 64 (S3 Vision868)
Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM Pci (S3 Vision968)
Paradise (S3 Virge/GX)
STB Velocity 3d (S3 Virge/VX)
Matrox Millenium 4MB
Nvidia GeForce MX4000
Cornerstone ImageAccel 4 (ATI 3D Rage Pro)
ATI All In Wonder Rage 128
Matrox m3D (PowerVR)
Diamond Monster 3D (3dfx Voodoo 1)
Diamond Monster 3D II (3dfx Voodoo 2 12mb)
Orbit 3d (3dfx Voodoo 2 12mb)
AGP:
ATI 3D Rage Pro Turbo
ATI Rage XL (Rage 128)
Matrox Millennium G400 32mb
STB Velocity 128 (Riva 128)
Diamond Viper V550 (Nvidia Riva TNT)
Creative Graphics Blaster Riva TNT
Guillemot Maxi Gamer Xentor 32 (Riva TNT2 Ultra)
Asus AGP V7700 Pure 32mb (Geforce 2)
Guillemot Maxi Gamer Phoenix (Voodoo Banshee)
Voodoo 3 2000
Voodoo 3 3000
Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
Gigabyte GV-R925128T (Radeon 9250)
Prolink Prographics 3d Ultra 2mb (Cirrus Logic)
I'm mostly looking for advice like: "you should put this and this in the 486 and this and this in the... and so forth and then your reasoning behind it.
Also, drivers will be a problem for me at this point, any links would be appreciated and if someone could point me to the config.sys and autoexec.bat lines for configuring the cards, that would be (as Chandler once said) "perfection."
I do have many, many more video cards, a lot of them are duplicates and a lot of them are not, but at this point I don't think they matter.
EDIT: I removed the thumbnails and posted names/chips instead so it won't be as time consuming to look over the list. (thanks for the advice Malik!) The pics are still there in case there's a revision number you have to check or something. I also tried to group them together by chip manufacturer.