BitWrangler wrote:A K6-2 400 is so friendly, it will hump your leg.
🤣 you made me spit coffee on my keyboard 🤣
So, so true. On the flip side, some configurations can be a pain in the butt to set up. OP wants to play late dos games - I use a K6-II+ rig for that:
AMD K6-II+ @400MHz (6x66) - will also run at 450MHz (6x75)
Lucky Star 5V-1A (VIA VPX, 256kb l2, up to 512MB of ram, can cache 256MB with a K6-II or pentium MMX and up to 768MB with a K6-III)
128MB PC-100 SDRAM 2x64MB quad banked
Eagle S3 Virge 4MB
STB 3dfx Voodoo 2 12MB
Guillemot Maxi Gamer 64 (ES1868+Dream 9250 for general midi)
It runs the following games great:
- Quake (DOS) 640x480 ~ 30 fps in timedemo 1, 35 fps when running at 450MHz
- GL_Quake (win9x, glide ~40 fps @ 800x600)
- Duke 3D SVGA 800x600
- Carmageddon 3dfx (DOS)
- Tomb Raider (3dfx or software, they both run great)
- Doom I and II (DOS)
- Heretic (DOS)
- Hexen (DOS)
- Hexen II 3dfx (DOS)
- Descent (DOS)
- Descent with 3dfx patch
- Descent 2 @ 800x600 (univbe loaded, s3spd loaded, -ForceVesa or -SuperHighRes)
- Descent 2 3dfx under win98
- Red Alert DOS
- Command and Conquer DOS
- Dark Reign (DOS)
- Terminal Velocity (DOS)
- KKND (DOS)
- Magic Carpet (3dfx)
- Populous 3 the beginning (Win98 3dfx)
- Quake 2 (win9x)
Of course, all of these games run great on a pentium II/III machine as well.