When rating sound and graphics cards, people often rate them for use in a MSDOS Time Machine. But... general midi was widespread around 1993. Windows 3.1 became widespread in 1993, and Windows 95 in 1995 (but was planned for a 1994 release, so most hardware companies would've assumed it'd be out by …

Careful with Sound Blaster compatibility. Many work well from within Windows, but not from MS-DOS mode. A standard Pentium MMX notebook maybe? With crystal ISA chips like used in the PII Thinkpad 600, they are hardware compatible to the point where Windows sound blaster drivers will work without a …

We had a Pentium 133 Thinkpad. S3 Trio graphics. Perfect for most stuff you mentioned, but unfortunately no Quake 2 or Unreal. I would be fine with that. I understand that laptops didn't really have decent 3D acceleration until much later on, so something like that would probably work. I wonder, …

I was thinking more late 90s as well, though I wasn't sure if there were any Pentium II notebooks with Soundblaster support. I think it would be really sweet to be able to run UT 99 and Quake 2 as well, even just in software mode. The last thinkpad with SB support is actually a PIII -- the thinkpad …

There are three ways to do this: BootMulti=1, which requires manual configuration and is cumbersome and limited, but works OK on Win95 950 (first edition)... less good on 95B/C. A good idea if you can get your hands on 95/95A. It's worth noting DOS 6.22 can not boot win95 , under any circumstances. …

Is there going to be pcem 0.8? If not, can someone help me compile pcem from source code? Also i have problem with EGA. PCem beeps but doesnt give any screen output and crashes.Please help Thanks in advance Basic procedure for compiling is to install mingw, install OpenAL (use archive.org to get …