SB Live! and Audigy 1 have dos drivers, Audigy 2 and 2 zs can be made to work with the audigy 1 drivers but I've not tried that there's a patch floating around for it, I've only tried the Live! in dos and it seems to work well. Some motherboard audio will be soundblaster compatible but depends on …

The TX-97 series boards have the Asus Mouse/IR header. A PS/2 port can be installed. Games like Duke3d and Quake (not so much Doom) can certainly benefit from a faster CPU, but a PMMX clocked to 233 or 266 may be fast enough. Also, if OP wants to play Monkey Island or early Wing Commander games …

I disagree about using anything other than a socket 7 for DOS (unless you want to try the VIA C3 route). Slot 1 and S370 chipsets are just not versatile enough. Also, using Creative PCI cards for DOS audio has a compatibility penalty as they require EMM386. I have a TX-97 motherboard and I can …

For the 98 machine go for the P4 and the nvidia 6800 and you can use nglide for 3Dfx support if you like. For the MSDOS machine, you could use either the slot 1 with the 440bx chipset with the PII OR the socket 370 and a PIII For sound I agree with gdjacobs use either the AWE64 or the Soundblaster …

Tried the .com files Jepael wrote, but they don't seem to work on my card. I wonder if passing it through a Voodoo 2 PCI card would do anything to clean it up a little, I might try that, don't think it'll work. Looking at other card options now, Maybe a MX4000 will do the job but I've got no idea …

Almost finished with a Pentium 120mhz 32mb RAM build aimed at MSDOS games with maybe some windows 95 action. The machine has an AT motherboard with 4 ISA slots and 3PCI slots, and a USB header which I've not played with yet. Current Issue is the S3 Virge DX PCI video card image quality is not very …

on my Celeron 900mhz machine (emachines e320) I went with an ATI Radeon 9000 PCI 64mb card as I had one from back in the day, and the machine has no AGP slot, it's newer than what you're currently looking at but works great, HL looks fantastic especially if you can use the OpenGL mode with the high …

I like to stick to Hitachi Deskstars SATA 7k series 7200RPM drives, as personally I've found them reliable, not managed to kill one yet. but any quality drive should do really. unless you wanna go bling n go with thw WD Raptors or Velociraptors, think they done a model of the Raptor 10k with a …

Working on my PII 266 MMX Retro Gaming rig build Installed new WD 80GB IDE hard drive Installed MSDOS 7.10 Installed a new fan on the CPU heatsink, put in a Soundblaster Live! PCI card and set up the drivers for that Installed Duke Nukem 3D, Duke 1 and 2, Desert Strike and Crusader No Remorse for …

There's a ridiculously huge range of hardware you can use for a windows xp machine, literally more than a decades worth of hardware. Thanks for the reply... I agree with the go big statement but as I don't gather hardware on a frequent basis, I work with what I have acquired. I have a few other AGP …

I have a similar build in the works using a Pentium-S 120 32mb ram an S3 Virge DX (i think it's 4MB) PCI card, undecided on the sound card as I have a AWE64 gold but it's in another system, and have a Yamaha card on order (YMF718-S). from what I've listened to the Creative VIBRA cards are not very …

Awesome, Thanks darry, much appreciated will give the bios files a look into, Hopefully will now be able to solve my issues 😁

Unsure if this is the right place to put this post, but if not, Sorry :D I am currently building a Pentium II 266 MMX based slot 1 system, with a Cezch(i think?) made motherboard which i believe to be the ASKA SST-5721 It's an ebay purchase, using it because it came with the I/O shield and ticks all …