First post, by Elia1995
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Hello, after a lot of troubles about chipset drivers, sound card IRQ issues and more which I heavily discussed in the "Marvin" section, today I finally got that computer working perfectly well !!! (Except the audio sounds a lot distorted, but that must be because I'm currently using my main PC's front panel "mic in" as a speaker since I don't have another set of speakers here at the moment)
Here are the final specs of my Project 98 computer.
Motherboard: ASUS A8V-XE
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2GHz
Graphics Card: ATI Sapphire Radeon X300SE 128MB
Sound Card: Creative Labs SBPCI128 Sound Blaster CT4750 (most DOS games give me the error "Could not find AWE32", I'll try with VDMSound)
Hardisk: a single 8 GB IDE, I'll eventually add or replace it with another larger one... I also have 2 SCSI hard drives which I currently can't use since I had to remove the SCSI controller PCI card due to it conflicting with my sound card's IRQ...
Operative System: Just Microsoft Windows 98SE with Service Pack 3.53, which I can conveniently switch to DOS MODE (no need to install actual DOS, I already have the "DOS PC" based off the Intel Celeron, remember ?)
RAM: 1GB SDRAM (or DDR... I dunno, it's the "triple legged" kind)
Well.... pretty much this I guess...
It has some problems with few Windows 98 games which run extremely fast, such as Montezuma's Return and Captain Claw... I hope there's a workaround, but overall it works fine... Heretic II, Quake and some 3D DOS games are perfect.
I still can't get the S-Video port on my X300SE to display stuff on my capture card, though... 😢
Currently assembled vintage computers I own: 11
Most important ones:
A "modded" Olivetti M4 434 S (currently broken).
An Epson El Plus 386DX running MS-DOS 6.22 (currently broken).
Celeron Coppermine 1.10GHz on an M754LMRTP motherboard