Do you mind launching SpeedSys 4.7 in pure DOS? Your benchmark result would be useful for Vogons Wiki! Will do! Got hold of a YMF-718 based card courtesy of a very fast seller on eBay. http://imageshack.us/a/img59/6681/img20130220132458.th.jpg Strange that it has a wavetable sticker when this card …

Well the XR385 arrived from China! It sounds awesome in Duke 3D, unfortunately I got a hanging note in the second level :-( Not entirely unexpected. The daughterboard connector on the SB16 is basically useless because of this, unless you have a noisy DSP 4.05 card... The Vibra 16S has low noise, …

Bit of an update, the project is nearly finished now... - Reduced RAM to 64MB - Installed Win98SE - Killed the heads on the floppy drive with some mouldy disks out of the garage, luckily I had another drive to hand - Replaced noisy 7200rpm drive with near-silent 4200rpm laptop drive - Replaced …

Looking good ! what games will you be playing ? Old point n' click adventures, DOS glide games, X Wing/Tie fighter :-) May even play some 640x480 windows games e.g. Starcraft. I would suggest removing extra 64Mb of RAM, the 430TX chipset can't cache more than 64Mb. The system will run significantly …

Reading about some of the great builds here inspired me to build a dos gaming PC using some of the parts I've had stored in the garage for nearly a decade. From about 1995-2005 I was into PC tech until I got too busy with work/family. Back then I was on a budget so some of the parts were pretty low …