That looks like my DOS setup, except I have a SB Pro 1.0
The machine looks like this.
S3Trio 64V with 2MB RAM
MPU IPC-T
Sound Blaster Pro 1.0
Roland CM-64 (I have 3 MT-32 Modules in the closet)
Roland Sound Canvas SC55 MK2
486SX-25 or 486DX2-50
16MB RAM
540MB Hard Drive
4x Sony CD-ROM drive (for full classic experience)
All in an NCR 2320 desktop case
keropi said:
Pentium 200mmx
4MB Riva128 vga (yes yes, this is actually an excellent DOS vga with vesa3.0 support, I have done so much testing and never found a bug - I dare say it is better than the S3 cards - way faster and no vesa tsr's needed)
SoundBlaster16 + DB50-XG combo
Roland LAPC-I
64MB RAM
80GB HDD
6x CDROM
classic baby AT case
Actually, I've found the Nvidia cards to have excellent DOS support - even the TNT2 has great VESA 3.0 modes... unfortunately it was AGP and the machine it was in just *would not* work with the Ultrasound, I could never get it to assign DMA channels. So I went back to a PCI-based machine from the AGP one (it
was overkill for DOS though - a P3 1GHz!).
The full spec of my current machine is:
DEC Venturis GL - Pentium Pro 200
192MB ECC RAM
24X CD
S3 Virge 2MB (the one that didn't work in the Mediator 1200!)
Voodoo 1 4MB
Soundblaster 16 - CT2290 (CDROM version with all interfaces disabled)
Ultrasound MAX v1.8
Roland MT-32
Roland SC-55 mkII (just scored this one yesterday afternoon)
Intel Etherexpress 10/100
It has USB onboard (1.1, obviously!), but they're not active - I think it needs a BIOS update to use them.
Storage is only a 10GB 2.5" IDE at the moment, but I think I need something bigger - even without getting in to anything downloaded, my old DOS game collection sitting on my shelves would fill it.
I'm going to replace the Virge and Voodoo 1 with a single card solution in the form of a Voodoo 3, which will free up either a PCI or ISA slot (the motherboard has the slots back to back, so you can have an ISA or PCI card in the top 4, the bottom two are ISA-only)... which is where I'd like to place the MPU-401 interface card.
Also looking for a DOS NFS solution, as I think that will give me better flexibility for installing stuff. Anyone tried anything along those lines?
BTW. My thinking behind the external modules (beside looking super cool and having blinky lights!) is that eventually, these old ISA machines will stop working, but I can always hook them up with a modern USB MIDI interface in Dosbox instead.
