It was written for Roland Sound Canvas.

Too rich for my blood. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem … em=370173360220

There's really no advantage to any point between a 486-66 and a P-MMX. I can't think of a single game that can be played optimally on the 60-150 Mhz Pentiums that cannot be played optimally on a 486-66 or P-MMX.

I'm using 95. I considered going with a PPro, but I figured the slight benefit with the small amount of 32-bit code I would be running wouldn't outweigh the possibility of a performance decrease on 16-bit code vs. a similarly clocked PMMX.

That's exactly what I'm doing now with a Dell Optiplex Gs+. It has a 200Mhz Pentium MMX and onboard S3 Trio64V+. I'm putting in a Diamond Monster 3D card and a AWE32 CT3980 w/ DB50XG (or clone).

A V5500 PCI I was bidding on on Ebay got up to over $120. Too much for me. I got an AGP version for $20.

Does anyone here have a mid-90's Optiplex (GXpro, etc) desktop machine? I might be able to get a Gs+ for cheap, but I want to determine whether I can fit a SB AWE32 in at all before I bother with it.

If you have any more of the "Ultimate Gaming PC" articles, like the Jan. 1997 one you posted, I'd love to see those.

Yeah, my old Spear of Destiny retail CD had the manual check questions too. I played that so much I, to this day, still have all the answers memorized.

@randomnewbie, try running it on a dual core desktop. Laptops have all kinds of power saving methods that will cause the processor to run at a lower speed than it's capable of. There are a variety of other things that could be slowing you down, and until those things are ruled out, it's premature to …

Actually, CPUs are still getting faster and faster on a per-core basis. The GHz numbers may have declined since the introduction of the Core architecture, but those numbers can't be objectively compared between architectures. One core of a Core 2 Duo 2 GHz will likely match, or even trounce, a 2.8 …

To what degree could a Pentium MMX 200 or 233 be underclocked via multiplier modifications and changes in bus speed? I know the lower speed chips were had higher multipliers locked out, but surely the lower multipliers weren't locked out of the faster chips. Could a 233 be run from 120 to 233?

DOS had a "type" command that would echo a text file to the command prompt. Doesn't DOSBox have some equivalent?

Sorry to bump an old thread. I've been giving this a little thought. Let me know if I'm on the wrong path. It seems as though the default sound set of the MT-32 could be reproduced as a sound font (perhaps it already has?). After all, the SC-55's MT-32 emulation mode did something similar. What …

If you buy it and get the WAD files, you can use them with a Doom source port like Doom Legacy that's Mac OS X native.

Here's a blurry pic. Maybe someone recognizes the socket?

Does anyone have any experience with these motherboards? They seem to have a 486 socket (not sure whether socket 1, 2, or 3 at this point), along with a 386DX soldered on the board. I guess the idea was you could buy a cheap 386 and upgrade it to a 486 later. I'm having trouble finding good …