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Old 18-06-2008, 01:53 PM   #7
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Pentium 3 733MHz CPU -> totall overkill
256MB PC133 RAM @ 100MHz -> total overkill, but *shouldn't* hurt as MSDos only uses 64Mb, though some older games will choke on that speed.
Gigabyte ga-6vxc7-4x motherboard (with ISA slot!) -> can do
Vibra 16 CT2260 (OEM CT2230) ISA soundcard (IRQ 7 - DMA 1,5) -> nice but ....***
ATI Rage Ultra 128 AGP (running at 1x AGP) -> total overkill
Two HDDs (one 10GB and one 40GB) -> 2 Gb partitions for Dos??? What a waste of space (clustersize !!!!!!)

I am dual booting DOS 6.22 with enhanced tools -> get rid of those 'enhanced tools, only gives compability troubles with older dosgames. Eventually make a dosbootmenu with different configs...

II have tried the "-sb" and "-gv" switches with no success. *** -> Think you should set soundcard IRQ to 5, many older games expect it to be 5, the IRQ 7 was used later....

I use "slowdown.com" to eat up CPU. -> And another TSR running on the background ... :/

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Originally Posted by raekwonchef View Post
I spent a lot of time putting together and configuring this PC for DOS to gain the real experieince again.
You hardly can say you even can get "the real experience again" on such PC -(talking MSDos here of course, not W98)-, you probably would get a better feel of a "real experience" on VPC/MSDos or even dosbox .... you can boot MSDos in dosbox ... did you knew that?
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