First post, by KT7AGuy
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Awhile back, I inherited an old Gateway P5-100 Baby AT desktop from my father. The case is a bit rusty and filthy, but in otherwise good condition. It has a PCI S3 Trio64V+ video card in it. The sound card is some sort of ESS model, but I'll replace that with a SB16 or AWE64 if I rebuild this computer. I don't know how much RAM it has, but I'm sure it's at least 8MB (and probably 16MB) since my father remembers running Win95 on it.
With DOSBox being what it is, I'm having trouble coming up with reasons to put this PC back into service.
(I already have a very nice P200 system for early Win9x gaming)
About the only purpose I can think of for this PC would be to run Falcon 3.0 Gold with my real CH Products gameport HOTAS. Unfortunately, I seem to remember Falcon 3.0 having problems with my old 486 DX4/120 being too fast. If the 486 was too fast for it, then surely the Pentium would be too. It looks like the slowest CPU I could downgrade to would be the P75, which is probably equivalent to a 486 DX4/120.
Does anybody else remember Falcon 3.0 Gold? Do you think a P75 or P100 is too fast for it? If not, how about a P200?
Also, what are the pros and cons when considering a SB16 or AWE64 for a pure DOS environment?
(I've never actually used my various AWE64 cards in pure DOS. I always run them under Win98SE.)