Building a good retro machine...

[Hobie-wan]

An eMachines 500 celeron, with 512 ram and a Voodoo 3 2000 and just some cheap off market compatible 5.1 sound card.

Actually if you clean out all the dust, put some new thermal compound on the processor, wipe and reinstall fresh windows or do a factory restore and remove the crapware, this one should do you for games up to the very early 2000s pretty well. The Voodoo will be 16 bit color or lower only, so you might upgrade that, but if you're going to be running mostly DOS games it won't really matter as not many are 32 bit color anyway as I recall.

[BananaXX]

Ugh this reminds me of when I left my Voodoo 2 in my crappy old Compaq that I took to the computer recyclers.... Sad day.

[Hatta]

That's a fantastic pair of machines for DOS & Windows gaming. Throw DOS and Win3.11 on the Pentium 133 and 98SE on the Celeron 500 and you have a good decade of games covered.

[RiverBoa999]

I don't know if the 133 pentium even runs. The computer is a Packard Bell from 1997 that I'm sure hasn't been turned on in at least a decade or better. It came standard with Windows 95 and ran Starcraft and DOS games decently.

I kept the 500 Celeron because I like to play Final Fantasy VII and VIII without any problems but maxed out on graphics. The Voodoo 3-2000 does that pretty well, and has the proper 8-bit palettized textures. Any idea if I throw it in my newer machine if it'll let me use it rather than the AGP card I have in there now?

[Hobie-wan]

The Voodoo 3-2000 does that pretty well, and has the proper 8-bit palettized textures. Any idea if I throw it in my newer machine if it'll let me use it rather than the AGP card I have in there now?

I don't know how Windows 9X handled multiple video cards. XP should be able to if you can get drivers for the Voodoo to play nice with the game letting you select Glide.