Bryan Pope wrote:
Where is this board? I googled it but I am not sure
if the hits I
received were "the one". :)
You may have better luck looking on ebay
for "a3d" "aureal" or "vortex".
Are these more compatible then Creative Labs ones?
That's subjective. *No* PCI card fully and completely emulates a
"legacy" ISA Sound Blaster without problems, not even from Creative
themselves. So I can't really answer that.
Me personally, I solved this problem a few years ago by getting a ABIT
KT7-RAID motherboard, and sticking a 1.3MHz Duron in it. That gave me a
1.3GHz machine with a single ISA slot, so it became my
uber-dos-game-box. The speed was several times faster than what
Pentium-era games were expecting (and *orders of magnitude* faster than
what 1980s games were expecting) so don't expect things to be rosy...
but for the games that worked properly, the additional speed/framerate
was just breathtaking (Flight Unlimited, Quake, and Carmageddon come to
mind). For that machine, I used a Sound Blaster 16.
At those kinds of speeds, you can expect greater than 30 frames per
second at 640x480 and above -- not too shabby for games that never
supported 3D acceleration.
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