Old PC for DOS games

[blake0812]

I'm thinking of making a PC for old DOS games like DOOM, Quake, and the like. What build should I make? Budget doesn't matter, this is something I'm just making a list of and putting aside for when I want to take on the challenge.

 

[alkemyst]

It's going to be more of what OS than what hardware. Budget always matters.

 

[blake0812]

It's going to be more of what OS than what hardware. Budget always matters.

To be honest, I'm not sure what OS to use, like I said I want to play old DOS games because DOSbox is crappy, so i guess DOS then. Whichever version it is.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Well, you'll probably want something pretty old for driver support reasons.

I would probably look at early Pentium hardware and run Windows 95, which had (In my experience anyway) the best DOS compatibility layer of the 9x/Me Windows versions for gaming.

Sorry to hear DosBox doesn't work for you. What about emulating a DOS machine in VirtualBox or something?

 

[zir_blazer]

For Doom and Quake you may as well run modern source ports, at least for Doom there are a few that try to work on modern OSes but give the same experience as the original (Chocolate Doom for example).

 

[GagHalfrunt]

DOSBox isn't crappy, it works great on most games from the DOS era and runs both Doom and Quake flawlessly.

 

[Elixer]

Sorry to hear DosBox doesn't work for you. What about emulating a DOS machine in VirtualBox or something?

Using a VM for DOS would be the way to go...

 

[Skott]

An old Pentium PC would be pretty cool to have just for old time fun. Windows 98 running on it.

 

[alzan]

Go real old time and run a Commodore 64 emulator. C64 Forever works great so far.