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Nice.  And Doom to boot!  Quake was a power hungry game when it came out.  I remember the AMD K6-2 500mhz CPU I had at the time struggled a bit.  Quake and Hexen...but I could play Final Fantasy 7 without problems.  Once I installed a Diamond Monster video card it could play anything seemed like.

Very nice all-in-one setup for sure.  Can you add more RAM if you need it or is it maxed already?

I think it could do 2GB DDR memory (2 * 1GB sticks), but I don't have those).

The integrated graphics in this machine is an NVidia Geforce 4 MX 440 and it runs Quake and Quake 2 pretty well!

 

Edited December 13, 2022 by RickR

If I remember correctly, once integrated sound chips became a standard, most DOS games took the hit.  My little Compaq has an ESS sound chip in it with legacy support.  No DOS game can find the settings and setting them manually does nothing.  

 

Words of advice...if you can opt for it, and are trying to repurpose an old computer, get a true Sound Blaster.  You'll have less headaches 😉.

 

 

Agreed.  However, DOSBox does an amazing job of sorting this all out.  It works great.  On a machine like this, there is no option to use expansion cards, so DOSBox is a savior.