Best computer for old DOS games

[OMF2097]

A 486 DX2 66 MHz(preferably with a turbo button to downgrade to 33MHz), 16mb of Ram, and a Soundblaster 16 should be more than sufficient to run older DOS games. Run Dos 6.22 as specified above and you shouldn't have any issues. If you're planning on running the original disks from Sierra, make sure you have the patch disks/files.

Don't forget an older IDE HD.

[Jorpho]

Vsync issues, hertz issues, color issues, native resolution issues... all sorts of reasons to play on a real machine with an old CRT.

The "real" machine with an old CRT will have even more issues, even if it solves those other ones, which it might not.

A 486 DX2 66 MHz(preferably with a turbo button to downgrade to 33MHz)

Turbo buttons are extremely handy, but there are much faster processors that still support a turbo button.

[JustRob]

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[Vigilante]

I got my hands on an old IBM thinkpad laptop. I can't remember the model, but it is a P2, like 512meg ram, 8 gig hdd. Took forever to tweak but it is a dos 6.22 and win 3.11 system. Spent forever digging thru my archive of everything, then thru the underdogs and abandonware websites. I broke it up into 4 partitions, the first has dos and win 3.11 games, the second has more dos games, the third has mame, and the fourth has other console emu's. When I need a fix it is easy to pull a laptop out of the drawer for a few hours, then put it away.