Need help w/ DOS gaming rig

Yes sir! Pentium II Processor w/ MMX, 64MB SDRAM, 8x CD-ROM drive, 3 1/4" floppy drive, Voodoo Banshee Card and a Soundblaster card.

Problem is, it's got Windows 98 on it now... about to NERF that in favor of a DOS-only machine.  Anyone know how to enable the CD-ROM with some generic string in config.sys or autoexec.bat?

I see there's FreeDOS now, but I think I'm gonna go with the real deal... lol

Google, motherfucker, do you know it?

http://www.computerhope.com/cdromd.htm

I used to spend ages tweaking my autoexec and config to load the cdrom driver, the mouse driver and the sound card driver into himem, leaving enough lomem to run games. Fun times. Windows ruined everything!

>>1
Would you be interested in taking a Windows 3.0 horizontal-case desktop? I'm not sure on the specs, but it used to run incredible games like Jump Start 3rd Grade and Troggle Trouble!! I think I've got one of those 100+ DOS GAMES ON ONE CD discs laying around as well.

(Sorry for posting as Anonymous earlier... never been to this side before)

Well, I'd take any PC from any era for free... if you're not giving it away:  I'm not buying!

Back in the day I used to run one of those home-brew overnight single-node BBSes.  TriBBS was so easy to learn, and the ANSI art was pretty nice.  We had 20 door games (all demo, no money!), and everyone who dialed in got 45 minutes to goof around and download stuff.

Oh yes, new development:  Got the PC up, VGA graphics going, mouse is working, CD-ROM is working...

...but for some reason, half of the games run veeeeeeeeeeeeery slow.  I mean, they ran at normal speed on my old 486:  Why would they be lagging with a Pentium II?

Prince of Persia - Perfect
Flashback:  Quest for Identity - Perfect
Bill and Ted - Perfect (though I don't know how to play)
Wayne's World - Slow
QBasic Games - Slow

...and that's just for starters.  I haven't tried to load up any FPS or cd-dependant games on it.  Something I'm not loading?

Black- I'd gladly give it away, I doubt we could really sell it for anything nowadays.

But, yeah. The only problem is shipping.

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We're all Anonymous here. Anonymous rules. Anonymous does not forgive.

Why would they be lagging with a Pentium II?

Probably because the timed loops are overflowing. Either that or there's a memory manager issue somewhere.