First post, by MrEWhite
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So, lets here the story of this PC...
I bought it off Ebay last year, the IBM PC 365. The graphics card was screwed but other than that, the machine was perfect.
It had a Pentium Pro 200 with 256k cache gold topped, 128 MB of RAM, so... perfect for Windows NT right?
HELL NO!
The main reason I like this PC so much is it's DOS performance, just hear me out on this one. The PPro was pretty much faster than any PC at the time, so it is perfect for DOS games from around that era, and even beyond in my current testing! I will admit it does run better under NT, but... It runs DOOM, Duke3D, and even Quake at a decent framerate. So this, in my opinion, this would make a perfect DOS machine for mid to late DOS games and even some Windows 95 games like Blood II and Quake 2 (albeit at a sub-30 FPS framerate). So, lets get to the planned specs of the machine!
First off, the graphics card is a ET6000, one of the best, if not the best 2D cards out there.
And I removed the hard drive which came with the PC (Forgot the size, it was small) and replaced it with a 6GB hard drive.
And for the sound card, I'll be getting a Soundblaster 16 CT2290 for it's Yamaha OPL3 chip.
And for a 3D accelerator to make this baby really fly I will by getting a Orchid Righteous Voodoo 1 to be as period correct as possible with a 3D accelerator
I'll take pics of the machine and it working when I get the sound card and 3D accelerator in.