For Win9x usage I used to use a 4100 (P3 Coppermine-based) until recently. If you can live without ISA card support (needed mainly for DOS, but certain PCI sound cards such as the YMF7x4 series or Vortex 2 can help alleviate that slightly), then it's a good choice to consider. Plus the AGP slot is …

I was also asking myself this question over the past few weeks, as I contemplated how I would use a 2001 Pent 3-based Dell system in conjunction with my current setup (which includes a '98 Satellite laptop specifically for DOS gaming needs). However, upon reading this thread, and (unfortunately) …

I wonder, which models of drives are they specifically? Also it may help to use different CD (eg. SHSUCDX + videccd.sys) instead of the usual MSCDEX + oakcdrom.sys combination. When you say mute the sound is that cd audio ? From what BSoD and I have mentioned in private chatter elsewhere, he has to …

Ah, the old days of Win95! Sure, it wasn't my first experience with computers, but my first system (Pent Pro-based desktop whose specs I've long forgotten) included it and other neat things, so I'm rather fond of the OS. However, I don't find myself using Win95 anymore on my 90s-early 2000s systems, …

The SC-88 does provide extra polyphony versus the SC-55mkII (64 voices vs. 28), so it may be of use in some OSTs. Being an SC-8850 owner, I'd be inclined to say that for most games SC-55 and SC-88 maps are more than plenty. There are cases (mostly from Japanese developers) where the 88Pro or even …