First post, by AceJoel96
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I need to know if I need to keep this PC to play old games optimally. Will the PC perform better than a newer one with DOSBox? In other words, will the same game on an older system have fewer skipped frames, a higher frame rate, and less stuttering in graphics or audio intensive sections? Will the audio sound better than emulated audio? Does Win7's general MIDI contain a vanilla set of voices, without having its own take on them (unlike Gravis UltraSound, which made voices with accents that made them sound more complex, but didn't take a strict transcription approach to the audio)? I have a mix of MS-DOS CDs and Steam games that could be extracted from their modified versions to play on the older PC (Return to Zork, Renegade, Cyclones, Wing Commander II, TIE Fighter). It's kind of a question of whether I want to livestream the play or not, since it's impossible with the older computer; but the advantage of the older PC is that I can put in the CD and go with less difficulty (I did run into Stack Overflows with TIE and Return to Zork).
Here's the specs on the Presario 2256 I'm considering getting rid of:
Windows 98
CPU: AMD K6 300MHz
Compaq Mitac MPU-75RFP 75W power supply
319234-001
Motherboard includes:
32MB RAM (on board)
S/N:TB87093195 M8074
SMC brand I/O controller FDC37C932QF P J9804-B5522 8H3123-5
Graphics Processor / Vendor S3 ViRGE/DX/GX Rev B software v4.0
(dxdiag says it has an ATI Rage Pro 3D, but Windows reports the above)
Video Memory 2.0 MB / 2.0 MB (max) EDO RAM
1.0 x MIDI Gameport
1.0 x PS/2 mouse,
1.0 x Serial,
1.0 x PS/2 keyboard,
2.0 x USB 2.0,
1.0 x VGA,
1.0 x Audio line-out,
1.0 x Headphones,
1.0 x Audio line-in,
1.0 x Parallel
Expansion Slots: .................... One open ISA expansion slot (8" x 4")
One open PCI/ISA combo slot (8" x 4")
One ISA slot with modem installed
Compaq Audio: ................ ESS AudioDrive
Compaq memory cache 256K
243117-001 M8074
237716-001
16MB SDRAM Non-ECC 168-pin DIMM buffered
TM4SN64EPN-10 9828
TI-10 TMS626812ADGE
VE 86A6NE P
Windows reports 64MB total
Seagate 4GB IDE hard drive
cpn: 286118-002 9902
The dxdiag:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5zIz1YSh_e7d … dit?usp=sharing
msinfo:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5zIz1YSh_e7V … dit?usp=sharing
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