My Ultimate DOS Gaming Machine! (Part 1)

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ghostfear — Tue, 22 May 2007 15:50:02 GMT

this brings back the good old days, Dos rocks.

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MajorD — Tue, 22 May 2007 20:21:42 GMT

Wow. This bring back memories. You might want to remove Windows since you wont be using it and use Norton Commander instead. You are also going to have to modify the autoexec.bat to get the most 640k convential memory and try moving some of the other driver such as the sound card into upper memory.

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nevergrownup — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:16:38 GMT

Nice, gotta love the old school. You might want to drop an original Voodoo card in there. There are plenty of old DOS games like the original Tomb Raider that have Glide versions. Mmmm, Diamond Monster 3D. Tasty.

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BenShami — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:27:51 GMT

I do have a question for anyone out there though.. it's a 133mhz gateway p-5 and had the same type of sound card modem.... I got a 10/100 ethernet working great and the old ati rage II is doing good.. but I cant get the Isa sound blaster 1.0 to play anything but the windows 95 stuff... can't do sound for any applications..

I cant find any Isa/pci Irq conflicts.. so I am wondering if its a on board sound vs sound card hard switch or jumper issue. e-mailed gateway several times and their tech guys are not to swift. none of them have yet to give me advice while looking at a schematic, I even asked for one and got a standard your sound card might not be compatible answer. my next move is a sound blaster 16 for pci

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reddoberman — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:21:53 GMT

Hey, I hope this becomes a new fad. Because I have about a truck load of old parts left over from upgrades going back to about 1990.I could sell some of this stuff instead of throwing it in the dumpster like people keep telling me I should do. Need an original Diamond Monster add on 4meg video card? that one should be a collectors item. Huh.........Cheers

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kunzy — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:46:41 GMT

This brings back the old days of qbasic and command line.

It was a good time.

But i would rather have the internet and multi-tasking.

Looks like a fun project, maybe i should give it a go.

Nice work.

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ZoltanZ — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:46:21 GMT

Hoo-Ray for DOS! Actually, I don't care about gaming but I fondly remember the compact functionality of DOS. The entire OS shipped on a few 5-1/4" floppies, and it performed all the necessary disk and file management functions we needed.

Now, anyone for CP/M? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M)

RT11SJ? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-11)

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phantomlord2k — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:42:44 GMT

Brings back great memories. My first computer was the IBM ps/1. Had a great time with it. Even ran a BBS with it for a while before the Internet was a household common. It was a 486 SX-25 with 4MB of ram and a 120MB hard drive. The term "gigabyte" was never heard of in those times!

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Baer — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:26:36 GMT

My first dos rig was a modified Compaq 80286, 1 Mb Ram, a 20 Mb HD and of course a 5" floppy. I eventually added the original mono Soundblaster.

That rig weighed about 30 Lbs :-), steel case and huge transformer for its about 125 Wt PSU.

The dos version was simply MSDos so I guess dos 1. That version of dos came on one floppy I believe and I do remember that it cost $50. THe entire rig cost over $4000 new, just under what the parts for my present rig cost.

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HOGHAULER — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:26:53 GMT

I like your idea on the old DOS system I've still got about $5,000.00 of old DOS programs including the original Windows 1.1 with all the books. Plus PC TOOLS 7.1 with the guide book and games out the ying yang as well as my 1st DOS program 3.1 with the books still have 2-3 5.25 floppy drives.