I like DEC, never owned one but the ones I came across always felt like had high level of build quality.

The Voodoo Rush is a funny card. For dos your actually better off using the onboard S3 video The Riva 128 is also strong here
D3D games The Rush will be slightly faster then the S3, The Riva 128 is the clear winner though.
Glide is where the Rush wins, but even this isn't a clear win as compatibility isn't as good as a Voodoo 1.

With all that said If the Rush works with all your games I'd keep it. Makes your build somewhat unique and is 100 times more interesting then an old Nvidia card.

Nice build! How are you liking the EWS64XL so far? Don't see people using that card too often lately.

I own one, and it's a pretty cool card, but damn my headphone jack is noisy 😀 Maybe I'll give it another go after shielding the cables with tinfoil or something.

sndlbn wrote on 2023-01-31, 18:21:

My objective was to build Windows 95 / DOS machine to use as […]
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My objective was to build Windows 95 / DOS machine to use as

• MOD music player
• make some MIDI, MOD music
• play games
• sporadically use it as a stationary type writer

...

So, I end up with below config:

1. Digital Venturis FX-2 machine
2. Pentium MMX 233 Mhz
3. 128MB RAM (2*32, 1*64)
4. 32GB SSD + 3.5" adapter
5. Terratec EWS 64 XL with MCCake MT-32 (ISA)
6. Innovision Voodoo Rush AT25 4MB (PCI)
7. 3Com Etherlink III (ISA)

i'd say you met the objectives! a very nice looking set up too with impressive specs for the era

jheronimus wrote on 2023-02-01, 12:59:

Nice build! How are you liking the EWS64XL so far? Don't see people using that card too often lately.

I own one, and it's a pretty cool card, but damn my headphone jack is noisy 😀 Maybe I'll give it another go after shielding the cables with tinfoil or something.

I used to use the (internal) Digital out on the Panel and route it into an audigy. It sounded really nice like that. The Headphone jack is noisy as hell though!

My first choice was AWE64 Gold. However, I was not satisfied with MIDI Soundfont's quality in DOS games, so I started looking for something that could give me "better quality" sound plus DOS capabilities. I found this card attractive as it has two different synthesizers, FM and Wavetable, based on DREAM out of the box. To add, it also has a Waveblaster port (I'm using it for MT32 emulation). So it has far more abilities on one ISA port than any other card. Additionally, it has SPDIF output which I use to drive better headphones, through an external DAC and amplifier. As you said, the headphone jack is very noisy, and as far as I realized this I switched to the spdif port.

jheronimus wrote on 2023-02-01, 12:59:

Nice build! How are you liking the EWS64XL so far? Don't see people using that card too often lately.

I own one, and it's a pretty cool card, but damn my headphone jack is noisy 😀 Maybe I'll give it another go after shielding the cables with tinfoil or something.

As you may see in the last photo, it is my choice. Unfortunately, I'm using SPDIF and external DAC with a headphones amplifier. Also, I couldn't find separate volume control for headphone output, but it could be that I'm missing something.

Bancho wrote on 2023-02-01, 15:21:

jheronimus wrote on 2023-02-01, 12:59:

Nice build! How are you liking the EWS64XL so far? Don't see people using that card too often lately.

I own one, and it's a pretty cool card, but damn my headphone jack is noisy 😀 Maybe I'll give it another go after shielding the cables with tinfoil or something.

I used to use the (internal) Digital out on the Panel and route it into an audigy. It sounded really nice like that. The Headphone jack is noisy as hell though!