> The ultimate gaming 486 would have an EISA+VLB motherboard. EISA for SCSI > caching controllers and 10/100 Ethernet cards, VLB for high end video cards, > plus room for an ISA sound card.
As it happens, this is nearly exactly what I have: EISA (with an AWE32 ISA sound card) with a VLB video card. The CPU is an Am5x86 133MHz, which AMD advertised as comparable to the 75MHz Pentium. This is fairly accurate for integer games (it runs things like Doom and Heretic like buddah), but obviously it chugs on FP and won't run anything requiring Pentium instructions. On the other hand, this machine runs a lot of finicky older games that don't like my PCI P75 (Bio Menace, I'm looking at yoooooooouuuu). -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * [email protected] -- You cannot have a science without measurement. -- R. W. Hamming ------------
