Late or early dos?

candle_86 wrote:

Late or early dos?

He said 1990 onwards, so "late" is probably more like it. Although even in 1992 there were still finicky speed-sensitive games.

keenmaster486 wrote:

Here is the hardware I currently have available in my stash:

I'd say that if you want to stay within the boundaries of your stash, you should go down the Pentium III route. I'm not up to speed when it comes to compatibility, but whatever works with your slot-1 board is probably what you want. Your K6-2 CPU is too slow @300MHz. If it had been a 500MHz chip, it would be more competitive.

Match one of your P-IIIs with the Voodoo 3000 and the AWE64 Value, and you should have a kickass machine for both late DOS and Windows.

I agree with dr_st's recommendation.
Microsoft's minimum requirement for Combat Flight Simulator 2 is a Pentium 266 MHz with 32 MB RAM and a DirectX 7 capable graphics card (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/275579).
Realistically, a 450 MHz or faster CPU with 64 MB RAM should provide adequate performance.

However, at that speed, some early 90's DOS games won't run well (Wing Commander comes to mind).
If you can get your hands on a slightly faster K6-2 CPU, then you can perhaps achieve beter slow down speeds (refer Phil's tutorial on what you can achieve with a K6-2).

For your glide games your sorted with the Voodoo3, which you would want to pair with the P3 That's windows sorted. depending on what d3d games you want.
I would then see which of your dos games do run into speed related issues if any.
AWE64 for dos although its a bit basic for windows, I'd use the Vibra 128 for that.