First post, by Jinxter
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Take a look at my retro Pentium 2 computer. I am very satisfied with the setup, but please advice/give your opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Do1aUw9jH8
Dell Dimension XPS R350
Compact Flash 8 GB on IDE
Creative Voodoo3 (AGP) & Voodoo2 (PCI) - for compability with older games. I have only installed driver for the Voodoo 3 / AGP card. I used glide.dll/ovx in the game directory for older games.
Sound Galaxy Waverider Pro 32 - 3D - ISA16. This card has a very good MIDI chip. Way better than SB.
With 384 MB RAM i decided to use 65MB for ramdrive and configured Windows and dos to use the ramdrive for swap and temp files.
Windows 98 SE with config.sys and autoexec.bat
In my config.sys i am using uide.sys as a cd-rom driver. As far as i understand uide.sys is also workes as a hdd cache. When using uide.sys Windows98Se does not work.
In autoexec.bat i use ctmouse fra Freedos and XMSDKS to create a ramdisk (c:\XMSDSK\XMSDSK.EXE 65000 g: /C1 /T /Y). This ramdisk is also used in windows by changes settings in system.ini to direct PagingFile=g:. I Also set ConservativeSwapfileUsage=0 (maybe this is already default?) I also put set temp=g:\ in my autoexec.bat
Is this a good setup for a 384MB Pentium 2, with a Compact Flash card for HDD?
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