From what I remember, I played Descent I on a Pentium 75 machine.
Gameplay was "okay" from what I remember. I also had got a PAS16 (and later, SB16 CT1740) installed.
As for the ISA bus. My family's Pentium III (733MHz) had got one or two ISA slots, too.
The PC was running Win98SE originally, so no need for special DOS compatibility (on-board sound was fine).
However, the on-boad sound card did feature an optional "SB16 emulation" setting in CMOS Setup..
As for late DOS games.. Toonstruck, circa 1997 (late 96), (in higher quality) seemed so demanding,
that I thought of using/building a dedicated Pentium II PC (~450 MHz ?) for DOS games.
I also thought about using a S3 Trio3D or similar AGP card with VBE 3.0. 😁
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