...if that makes sense.
I now have a 8086 Amstrad low-end PC and a Pentium III 450 MHz W98 machine. I'm conscious there's a sweet middle in there with games that may not work well on these. What spec should I aim for? I've heard tell a 386SX of some unspecified speed would do well...thoughts?
i would go with a late 486 board, which offers a wide range of cpu speed between 25 and 160mhz, and allows using up to 4 hdds as large as 8gb to contain a lot more games.
Interesting. You think that would be the optimum overlap? It wouldn't be too fast for some 386 games, which I've heard have trouble pacing themselves?
The Pentium III should cover all "later" DOS games (from Doom, Duke Nukem 3D to Quake), if you're willing to set up a boot menu configuration to also be able to boot directly into DOS 7.1.
I agree with a 486 system, but (CPU wise) you could look at a 486DX 33 MHz or a 486DX2 66 MHz.
The former slows down nicely to 386DX 33 MHz speeds via the turbo switch header (which is ideal for games like Wing Commander). Not sure how well the DX2 66 MHz slows down if you're targeting 386 speeds.
shoot I'd go Socket 7 Pentium and use that setmul program everyone likes to target 286/386/486 and still have Pentium Preformance for 1994 games
Thanks 😀
Also, can anyone suggest a place to find PC cases with turbo buttons relatively cheaply? Fleabay is appalling.
486DX 33 MHz and higher is the middle indeed. But probably it's better to check faster and more flexible alternatives with Pentium (+), K6 and C3.
wrote:The former slows down nicely to 386DX 33 MHz speeds via the turbo switch header
It slows down to ~386SX 25 MHz, if not lesser. 386DX 33 MHz has 14.4 in 3dbench. 486 with turbo off gives 10.3. It's level < 386DX 25 MHz. With similar results on P3 with cache off, Dyna Blaster works too slow, for example.
