Closed looking for a 486 dx for Pentium or other

[Sardine]

looking to build a 486 dos/win31/Win95 machine , doom , duke3d , warcraft + others

so ideally a DX4-100 and motherboard with I guess 16mb ram ? PCI slot (or Vesa) with a good dos card pci or vesa to cope with doom / duke3d chunky planner etc.

hopefully a bit of cache and built in IDE ports etc. (or with an appropriate IO card) + a working cmos setup (no dead dallas unless you have modded the battery)

and hopefully a bios that can cope with drives around 8gb ??



I can swap from a range of items below and can add a bit of cash depending on what you want.

P1-133 or 233mmx board and cpu.
boxed new IDE cdrom drives
C64C boxed but yellowed
PS Vita with custom firmware (I just haven't used it at all)
Boxed SNES mario world ED and Mario game with I think Fzero and Pilot Wings

I have other pc stuffs, Like PII and PIII setups, PII-Laptop with dos sound. Shuttle SN41G2 AMD 2500+ Nforce2, HP thin client t610 Plus (PCI Express slot and 6gb ram)
I have a couple of P1 i think MMX laptops, Boxed original Xbox with all contents,

 

[keropi]

I know this is not what you ask but that p133 system will be better for the purpose you want than a 100mhz 486...
in few words the p133 system will have better PCI performance and less stability issues - not to mention it won't framedrop in demanding games like DN3D
those higher end PCI 486/100+ systems are kind of a hybrid/gap-filler , they still fall sort from a pentium system though
I run 9x/3.11/DOS on my 233mmx systems and there are times I wish I could squeeze a little more fps in those demanding build/quake engine DOS games

 

[Sardine]

so.... I have 2 * 233mmx systems

my main (the one you suggested) shuttle hot atx mobo SS7, 233mmx i think runs either a banshee or Geforce 2 cant remember with AWE32

the 2nd 233mmx at, i think has SB32 I can put a vibra 16 in there instead and running either the above banshee or i think an S3 pci (not a 64 something a bit 3d if i remember with a voodo 1) I could drop a P1-133 in there.

also I PIII-450 or 550 slot setup and a PIII-800 setup.

as emulation is getting pretty good I was going to get rid of most and just have 1 good doom/duke3d PC not to fast but not to slow either but a lot of older winXP games have just started to fail on the latest Win10.
MOHAA and codename eagle (we play on lan now and then for a laugh) has worked no issues until we tried recently and get d3dinit fail etc bah!!!! so I might have to have an XP machine now


as for space I run an Eigel (i think thats how you spell it) think client 1ghz x86 compatible (so about PIII-500 speed) with a PCI sound card Vortex with a S1 Wavetable addon everything works except warcraft II thats the only game that bombs out lol.

I also have an IBM P1-266 thin client (yes P1) with a voodoo 1 in it thats ok i guess..


so the vote is keep just 1 233mmx setup ???? or lower one to p133 (ive goto keep the space down)

 

[Half-Saint]

From my own experience, I had a Pentium 200 non-MMX as my main system for DOS/Windows98 back in the day. It was very good for most of the stuff and I remember using 'moslo' when it ran too fast in certain DOS games. I still have the disk drives and the motherboard/CPU but sold the case thinking I won't be needing it.

I later upgraded it to a Slot 1 Celeron 333 but that's another story

 

[keropi]

I would keep 1x233mmx system then since it's about space - you can do all dos/win3x/light-9x gaming with it better than 486/100
the 486/100 has the potential to scale down to a slower system but that 233mmx can already be brought down to 386DX speeds - I doubt you will want any lower judging from the games you mention

 

[aaronkatrini]

I have a motherboard you might be interested, PM soon.