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That old beast should play CD's just fine *unless* you are using a PCI sound card or an old ESS (or similar) card, they just take up too much CPU overhead. Look around for an old ISA AWE32 or AWE64 sound card, that's your answer, they do not hit the CPU for processing and they sound a LOT better than a SB16 or any other ISA mainstream card. However, that's not enough horsepower to play MP3's unless you use an OLD version of Winamp - like a 1.x. It would also be better if you downgraded to Win95 with IE3 or earlier, you need the smallest footprint you can get without browser/OS integration - 95B (OSR 2.0 or 2.1) is the best way to go here because that will at least give you FAT32 and only IE3. I used to run Winamp 1.x on a 486DX4/100, 64mb ram, with 95B and it actually worked with an AWE32 (but not terribly well). Winamp 2.x wouldn't even run on it. The trick is - use old software on old hardware.
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