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[Grinder]

Great to see you making a dos pc too. It is the only way to play the games. I'm not saying DosBox is bad, but an older PC just has the feeling. I have a Pentium 166 running dos 6.22. I just played Doom with maximum screensize, curtains closed and headsets to full volume. That's the way you should play doom! engulfed in darkness..... :Titan:

[Omuletzu]

Totally agree grinder! All hail DOS!

[Spoonman]

Well, to me it's not as much the fact it is a pure DOS machine as the fact that I bought the thing all by myself at that age and grew up with it that adds up to the feeling. So partially I agree; playing paratrooper on my (t)rusty 386 feels great.

I wouldn't bother building a new old DOS machine nowadays though, it just wouldn't be the same.. I mean, every retrogame simply works on even the cheapest (newer) system available, you don't need to save money for buying a new SVGA compatible video card or a 50 MB hard disk.. it doesn't make sense anymore.

But luckily the games never change, and there's still a small oldschool challenge getting them to work by tweeking endlessly with the dosbox config file untill the gamespeed is right

[MV75]

Originally posted by Anubis@Apr 5 2005, 11:18 PM
I got couple old sysmtes and only problem I got is space. It requires a lot of space to have multiple computers hooked up.

Hmmm,
that's why I got KMV switch?! :blink: LOL

Heh, that's why I got a KVM as well.

I've got the old 486 system hanging off the new age optical mouse and LCD screen.

What is everyone else playing with? I built up the following:

486 dx2 66, 64MB RAM, 4MB s3 virge, SB16, 1GB HDD, 8x CDROM, 10base intel NIC. OS is win95 with my own custom dos directory and custom autoexec + config + dosstart files so I can boot with EMS or XMS memory, or be able to boot with CDROM or no CDROM, and a mix of them all. Oh yea, and it's win95 for the reason that I wanted easy networking to my "main" machine to copy stuff back and forth, otherwise it would have been dos 6.22. Max compatibility is what this is about.

While I've also got plenty of CPU's to plug in if I needed to, (dx 33, dx4 100, 5x86 133, etc), I'm considering replacing the motherboard with my pentium 60/66, but just have been too lazy to.
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[Grinder]

Pentium 166 (a little too fast, but still okay)
64 MB (far too much)
2GB Harddisk (I don't need more than 1, and i have about 55 Games)
Compaq ES 1886 (Soundblaster compatible, not great, but good enough)
DOS 6.22, NewDos update (pretty neat, € and stuff)
Madge smart 16/4 PCI Modem (not working though, planning on buying an external one)
I can't remember the rest, but everything works fine. xcept ultima7...

[Omuletzu]

P1 @166 Mhz(which is excellent for games made after 1990, ie exactly the games that i like k
2 Mb S3TRIO64V2DX, if i'm not mistaken...
ESS 1868(GREAT soundcard, very sturdy...)
1 Gb Caviar HDD
96 Ram(at sometime in the past i also had W98, and i needed all the RAM i could get; now that i use this computer solely for DOS, it's kind of sensless, but better in the comp, than in the drawer, i always say)

[racer]

Happy to hear old mobos are still working. And in the best way, doing what they were supposed to do (well, not just playing games at least).

AMD K5 P133
Opti 931 sound card
Trident video
32 mb RAM
4X CD
2 Gb HD
Win 98 SE (for some stuff)
Modem (I didn´t use it yet but I know it works)

Enough for retro Altough Nascar I still doesn´t work :angry:

[The Fifth Horseman]

Err... sorry for bugging you, but I cannot identify anything that might be the fuse on the MB... and, what should I do when I finally find it?

[MV75]

Originally posted by the_fifth_horseman@Apr 13 2005, 07:14 PM
Err... sorry for bugging you, but I cannot identify anything that might be the fuse on the MB... and, what should I do when I finally find it?

Don't worry, you most likely won't find one.

I'd be looking at the backup battery on the motherboard first. If it's an old ni-cad then there's a good chance it's leaked and stuffed the board.

Also try to just unplug everything and then plug it all back in. Give the bios chip a bit of a push down if it's socketed, and remember with an AT power supply cord/s to the board, blacks go in the center. Oh yea, and try the video cards in different sockets.

But in the extreme case, (most likely), just scour ebay for another motherboard. Should be able to get a 99c one.
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[The Fifth Horseman]

Backup battery is the usual flat round type. Not leaked. Plugging/unplugging - been there, done that.