Yea it seems so!
Well I didn't have much luck getting my Slot 1 > 370 adapter to work in my new BX440 board. That board seems a bit flaky anyway, got a few weird messages and required a reboot (that was without an adapter, just a normal slot 1 cpu).
With the adapter it would lock up at post...
I have played more with my S370 board and tightening the RAM timings helped a little bit. I get a Norton SI of 20 and I tried all my favourite games (WC1, WC2, Monkey Island 1 and 2, Fate of Atlantis, Hearth of China and so on) and they all worked perfectly! FreeDos seems very compatible and it has plenty of memory plus CD drive and mouse support out of the box.
I keep reading that Wing Commander runs better on something faster, but maybe it's because these S370 boards have really fast video cards for DOS? I use the onboard video card that comes with the intel 815 chipset.
I have ordered a 1.4 GHz S370 cpu and hoping that this will give me 386DX 25 MHz performance which I would be happy with. Then I can close that part of the project and settle for recommending S370 boards with a ISA slot and a 1+ GHz cpu...
Next issue will be dealing with a single ISA slot...
I might post a new thread but maybe you know. Is there a Soundblaster clone card that has a real MPU401 (with intelligent mode) port.
So I can have digital speech and MPU401 for MT-32 and General midi (I will use external modules) with a single card...