/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8916145
thats a fair point. the P100 machine has 4 ISA and 3 PCI so if I ever came across some ISA card to play around with, I could do it there.That one also has a Vibra16 ISA card and 2mb S3 PCI card. I think its fine to leave that as the dos machine. (also has a 5.25" floppy drive)

If I move the XG card to the P3 system that will cover my bases for DOS games, and MAYBE in pure dos mode. That card has the SB-LINK on it and so does my win 98 motherboard so I can get direct DMA in pure dos without needing to be on an ISA slot. I wont have that in the P3 system, but it might not matter.
but to answer your question
Win 98 has 2 PCI slots, 1 ISA slot, onboard ATI RAGE PRO agp graphics. not shitty actually
The ME has no ISA, and shitty graphics, and a bottlenecked chipset,
maybe it would be best to keep the tower and drives and just get a better PIII motherboard.one with an 815 chipset. OR go all out for an XP era machine and skip the P3 era. since the P2 can handle the lower end stuff.


In terms of money, I figure I could get a decent amount if I sold the compaq as "untouched vintage system" since I still have the keyboard and restore discs and a clean insteall of ME non it and it MIGHT fetch more money to someone out there, and I could use that money to put towards other PC parts.