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Building a retro gaming PC with DOS

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First post, by conmac7

Posted on 2019-12-23, 05:37

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Morniing mates.
So I have a couple of projects running right now for making old retro PCs.

One of those is a retro gaming pc with dos.
The idea here is to gather parts for running DOS games, AND the most demanding DOS games.
Examples are Armored Fist 2 (PI120MHz, 16MB RAM), Battlespire (P233, 32MB RAM) etc.
The latest DOS games was produced 1997-1999.
So i will go for only retro stuff from that era. I saw some guys building an PIII for DOS gaming but this is not the case. It simply doesnt feel retro DOS.

I decide to go with a P200, 64MB RAM (Max DOS Support) DOS 6.22, SB512PCI (DOS Drivers Included) and now im stuck at GPU and i need some recomendations.

S3 was 2D, later some 3D was produced but isnt the fastest.
In the other hand there was voodoo and nvidia. I dont know if TNT2 had drivers for DOS, if anyone knows? So witch was the BEST DOS gpu at the time?

Reply 1 of 5, by kolderman

Posted on 2019-12-23, 06:20

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S3 Virge DX/GX plus Voodoo 1/2 depending on what resolutions you want to run at. If the Pentium is a MMX it should slow down nicely.

Reply 2 of 5, by conmac7

Posted on 2019-12-23, 08:28

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P200MMX yes.
1024X768, but if some game support even higher ofcourse i will go with the highest availabe resolution

Reply 3 of 5, by collector

Posted on 2019-12-23, 09:19

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Wrong forum. As per the pinned topic in this forum: "This forum is for running old Windows games on NEW (supported) versions of Windows" Ask old hardware and driver/configuration questions in Marvin. Marvin, the Paranoid Android

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