made a old dos system.
Well i made a old computer to play old dos games. The specs on that computer is:
Pentium-S 133 Mhz intel motherboard, wit pci/isa slots. 64mb EDO ram. Trident 9680-1 pci graphic card. floppy drive old Toshiba cd-rom drive, probally 2x or 4x speed. Conner 850mb harddrive. Sound blaster awe64 value ISA soundcard. newer logitech mouse. Then i downloaded the soundcard drivers, and got the rest of the files from a win98se install, like mscdex.exe, command.com, and so on. Found a old cdrom driver vide-cdd.sys on a old floppy drive disk i had. and a mouse driver too. I made custom made config.sys autoexec.bat so that cdrom, soundcard, mouse all work fine. Games that work fine now is: Master of magic Colonization Master of orion Dune 2 Warlords 2 Cavewars Golden Axe Blood & Magic Games wit trouble: (describtion of whats wrong follows) Syndicate (Sound is working, but game crashes when i click start first mission) Syndicate wars (Sound is working, but there is graphical errors, cars is not rendered correctly, probally to old graphic card?) Dynablaster ( atm cant get the sound to work, game is running ok) |
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Cannon Fodder 2 is working fine too. Games with trouble: Cannon Fodder ( game seems to not be able to detect conventionel memory, says it need 398k to run, and reports that i have 0k free, but i have 592k free. Dont know a solution yet. |
I know that last problem of yours... damn.. i think i did some playing around with reserving memory... *L* was 10 yrs since i owned my Compaq Presario DX2-66... sorry i couldn't be of more help.. but i had the same problem with the same game..
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That's sounds similar to one I built a few years ago for playing old games.
Pentium-S 200 MHz Chaintech 5SEM 32MB EDO RAM Matrox 4MB PCI PowerVR PCX2 Voodoo 2 8MB (SLi) Seagate 1GB HDD LG CD-ROM Drive TEAC 5.25" Floppy TEAC 3.5" Floppy SoundBlaster 16 MS-DOS 6.21/Windows 3.11 Windows 95 Most of my games ran great on it. I used the PowerVR card solely for playing Tomb Raider as it kept locking up under 3dfx. The newest game I could get to run on it was Moto Racer, but just barely. Later on I ended up selling it to someone for their kids to do homework with. I put Windows NT on it for them and as far as I know they are still using it. I'm not familiar with Syndicate Wars, but a lot of times it ends up being a problem with poor VESA support. Scitech display doctor has been released as freeware now, and it's good for diagnosing problems such as that. |
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For Dynablaster, set sound & music to Adlib only - the sounds should work then, Soundblaster won't work with this game (at least it didn't, when I played the game on my old PC with Soundblaster 16). ;) |
I have 386. I will get it to work. And play all those old games. As much as I want. :)
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386? That might be a bit tight for some games here, but a good deal of them should work....
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Ultima 8, for example, needs 486DX 50MHZ to run playable fast. ;) Better results with 486DX2 66Mhz or better...
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hehe yeah, the graphic card might be too old for syndicate wars, but now i got hold on 3 old pci graphic cards :)
I gave about $10 for Tseng 4mb Cirrius logic 2mb Trident 1mb so im gonna try them the next few days, if the urge comes over me, and i need to play syndicate wars. ;) |
I didn't connect it to eletricity for more than 6 or 7 years. I guess it should still work.
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