keropi wrote:Excellent! So glad the mobo is in your hands Carlos 😁
I am also waiting for a parcel to arrive from the US so I can build my IDEXT card as well - hopefully it will arrive soon. In the meantime I started restoring that Hyundai clone I just got, maybe I use it instead of the Acer one, it has more slots and more space .
Seems like 2015 is the XT year or something 🤣
I know right? There's been like a sudden rush of XT build related threads.
Yeah you seem to get the most epic complete XT boxes now, the Acer one is awesome and this Hyundai seems to have a lot of potential.
I'm gonna have to find a desktop case for this system. Kixs has an interesting DTK branded one, which would be really fitting since the board is DTK but...there's always a catch...the case does NOT have a power button. Instead the AT PSU that comes with the case has the power button on the back. Bummer, because i just restored the Seasonic PSU and i'm not gonna spend more money restoring another. Buying the case + shipping is already fairly expensive.
I feel that for DOS games all you really need is 2 computer builds. A Socket 7 and and a Turbo XT. The Socket 7 will pretty much cover anything EGA, VGA and Super VGA and all the games that aren't XT speed sensitive. My socket 7 build can be a 386DX-25+, 386DX-40, 486DX-33, 486DX-40, 486DX2-66 (really close to) and all sorts of Pentiums.
The Turbo XT will cover 4.77MHz games, plus others that might run too fast even on a 386DX-25. I'm thinking of Bubble Ghost a game i really like and should run pretty OK in a 10MHz XT. I want to play Digger as well, which is a very CGA dependent game, but that i know that will run well on a VGA card that can switch to CGA mode. It ran great on a Tseng ET4000AX!
I guess i might also take a look into the Music Quest clone cards so i can drive my LA modules.