First post, by gn0me
Hey all, been a hot minute. Finally finished a Win95 build that I’m stoked to be using, I decided to relax my usually strict demands for absolute period correctness, and allow for some non era parts still within the vein of what was available at the time.
The result is as follows:
Base PC: Micron Millennium MME build date June, 1997 (code named Anchorage)
ATX Socket 7 motherboard
Intel Pentium 200 MMX
64mb PC-100 SDRAM
Zip 100 IDE
I picked this case up in mostly original form with no hard drive and a busted IDE cdrom drive, and had been outfitted with none other than the Diamond Monster Fusion (16mb voodoo banshee).
I pulled the card and set it aside and proceeded with adding the following:
BNIB 350w ATX PSU
ATI 3D Rage II (temp card while I wait for my Matrix Millennium MGA-2064W w/ memory add on to arrive)
Orchid Righteous 3D Voodoo 1
Creative PC-DVD Dxr2
Adapted AHA-2940 SCSI controller
Thrustmaster ACM Game Card (BNIB)
Creative Sound Blaster 16 w/ Dreamblaster S2
Pioneer DVD-305s (QoL upgrade)
HL-DT-ST GCE-8160B CD-RW (16x10x40 QoL upgrade)
Quantum Atlas 10K3 18GB (QoL upgrade)
Iomega Zip 250 (QoL upgrade)
Windows 95 OSR 2.5
I’m still stretching my legs on this particular configuration, and debating on ditching the SCSI for more IDE, freeing up 2 pci slots (after ditching the dxr2 and dvd drive) in favour of 10/100 networking and an Aureal 1 for windows based gaming, keeping the sb16 for its unparalleled albeit noisy dos compatibility.
The other option could be to just ditch the sb16 altogether and use the Yamaha onboard sound, but not sure how I feel about that.
Pictures attached.
1990-1997 DOS/W95: micron millennium mme/p200mmx/64mb/matrox millennium II 6mb/orchid righteous 3d 4mb/sb16 & dream blaster s2