DOS Games Discussion

What computer is best for dos. Keep in mind that i own a lot of games from 1987 and older for Atari so i am not going to install games that are from 1987 and earlier except for text games and strategy games. I want to know what would work best for dos. I like dos games from 1994-1998 and HATE most games from 2001-2006.

The best configuration:
486 Processor at 100 MHz
16 Mbs RAM
video... it doesn't really matter but say... 2 Mbs

Windows 95 or pure DOS
You truly don't need a HDD that has more than 1.5 Gbs
And a CD-ROM drive would be great with this system

"486 Processor at 100 MHz" ?

Why not a nice 166Mhz running pure dos. That will give you the power to play games such as lighthouse or rise of the robots then.

I had no problem running ANY dos games on my 100MHz 486er

And it had win 95 too

I would like a computer with windows 95 and a 486 dx seems to be a great computer. I am playing some dos games with high reqirements though so i think a 166 mhz is the ideal computer. I love lighthouse. Lighthouse has recently became my favourite game.My favourite game changes every day. 1 day i may love a game and the next day i may hate it. Lighthouse is not one of those games though.

Forget Win 95.

66 MHZ, 32 Mb Ram, Sound Blaster 16 and Local Bus video.

Why 32 Megs of RAM???

There is no single perfect DOS machine, but a simple Pentium 166-233 with a soundblaster 16, 2GB HD, CDROM, and 16MB RAM should be enough for most people.

I you look for my old posts you will see what gaming rigs I put together (and still have).

Makes 8 Mb requirers as fast as 4 Mbers 1n 16 Mb includer.

I believe any PC is capable of running a DOS game, nobody said that new computers can't run DOS, you could make a new computer with all the nuts and bolts, buy an External Floppy Drive insert a Windows 98 start-up disk, and create a 30 GB Fat32 partition. Once created change BIOS settings to start using CD, insert a Windows 98 CD and install. (of course Windows 98, does support dual monitors or some graphics accelerators, so I would preferably use onboard (most motherboards come with this except ones with PCIe.)

I had a crazy idea for a dos computer what if i installed windows 98 on my xp and used virtual pc tp run windows 98. I could use dos box, windows 98 and virtual pc and even moslo. I can always buy a soundblaster pro or use vmd sound. I would probaly be able to run every last dos game ever.

[duh] Of course... As I said before, should I own a 5GHz PC with 1.5-2 GBs RAM and 1 GB video(thus high-end) I'd give 30 Gigs of my HDD just for Virtual PC and the win 98 games.

It wouldn't be a real thing, Hulk. And, after startup files setup, there's less work to play.

The problem with new generation computers (post - 2000) is the way they allocate Address, IRQ's and DMA for the onboard or PCI soundcards - in PURE DOS. You don't get the "standard" values required by DOS games.
A few years ago I gave up on using my new computer for DOS games. In pure Dos the onboard sound was unusable, a PCI Ensonique had poor perfomance, and emulating in XP was hust to damn slow.
So, I dedicated a DOS-only machine (PI233, 64RAM, SB AWE32) to dos gaming.