Looking for some suggestions on PCI Video Card to use for a Pure DOS / Gaming machine....running a Pentium 60 MHZ....
Have 4 MB Matrox Millenium set to be used right now, but figured I'd look for suggestions....
You'll never need more than that 4MB Millennium for pure DOS gaming (for VGA software-rendered games. You can add a Voodoo2 for the handful of DOS glide games you might encounter).
wrote:You'll never need more than that 4MB Millennium for pure DOS gaming (for VGA software-rendered games. You can add a Voodoo2 for the handful of DOS glide games you might encounter).
still, a voodoo 2 with a pentium 60 seems overkill
Ohh, the humanity 😢
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The S3 Trio and Virge lines of cards have great DOS compatibility and are readily avaliable. Image quality depends on the RAMDAC used by the card manufacturer.
Matrox cards are known for good image quality and are also widely compatible but not as compatible as S3 cards.
Tseng ET6000/6100 cards have great image quality but are again a bit less compatible and are mostly rather expensive right now.
Those are the options I would explore even though you are probably going to be fine with your Matrox card. 😀
All real 3D accelerated cards are probably better used with a Socket5/7 system.
S3 Trio or Virge or a Cirrus Logic GD5446 or Tseng ET6000 are good cards for DOS PCs.
wrote:wrote:You'll never need more than that 4MB Millennium for pure DOS gaming (for VGA software-rendered games. You can add a Voodoo2 for the handful of DOS glide games you might encounter).
still, a voodoo 2 with a pentium 60 seems overkill
Any 3D card is probably overkill for a P5-60. I personally used a PCI Millennium (I think I had 8MB) from 1995 to 1998 and never met a DOS game I couldn't handle, but that was on a P5-133. I dabbled with Voodoo2 but never got much out of it. The first game that the Millennium couldn't run was Baldur's Gate, then I switched to AGP.
