If you can boot off those things, consider yourself Champ. Unfortunately there is no sure way, always has to be try and fail, repeat. I sincerely haaaate that. Especially when some vendors do not stick to specifications. Now why do I always have to look dumb, telling people... maybe NOT!

Something like a Socket 5 or 7 mobo that has an Intel chipset would probably be quite usable. But ya, 486 era and older gets you into some very headache-inducing fun most of the time. I have an original Intel Advanced/ML Socket 7 motherboard and it's one of the pickiest I have ever used. Not only …

As far as I remember, only diamond V2 worked flawlessly @ 100Mhz clock, where Creative and co worked at 90Mhz. Diamond was the best V1 card and the best V2 cart as well. Good old monsters... That's right. Diamonds V1 and V2 were overclocked straight out of the box. Remember their slogan, if you are …

I need to do what @5u3 has done, and get a Compact Flash to IDE adapter with a (8 GB Transcend 133x) CF card. This is because getting a fairly modern PCI based IDE controller card to work on a 486 mobo is too problematic. Sometimes the mobo doesn't 'see' the controller card at all, and so therefore …

The best Warcraft II music experience is taking the original midi tracks and playing them on a Roland SoundCanvas or similar. To bad they changed from Midi to pre-recorded music on the Battle.net edition. As it degrades quality and increases size. Did you actually notice the degradation? I think it …

Heh I wish there was a Turbo button I could press off. Nice and simple.

As per subject, is it really worth it? It's a 300 dollar question to me. Basically I would love to hear somebody that already gone that route 😀 2) I would of already done it if I could get a pair of digital ears. That setup seems a bit cumbersome.

Yeah all that extra memory that is so hardly sought after by many individuals... is really a waste in DOS 😐

It also depends on the video input you are using. My monitor would automatically stretch digital input in DOS. Although I've got a 1680x1050 panel those lower resolutions are way too pixelated [not blurry] unless some FSAA is applied. 640x480 looks best on 14" screens. The common monitor size of …

I`m looking to buy a 3dfx voodoo 5 PCI off ebay, i see one that is in excellent condition with manuals, box, cd etc. Is it worth getting it for £100? Or should i just consider a cheaper alternative for a retro PC Pentium 3 system i have. Boxed V5 PCI is worth around 75 quid. When I say around is …