RE: Which DOS era computer makes for the best retrogaming PC?
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For me it's hard to choose because I had several models mentioned above and each one of them marked an era of my life.
I started with an IBM PC 286 where I learned to use DOS and where I started to play some games that I still enjoy today like PreHistorik/2, Keen, Lemmings, Pacman, Bumpy and much more...
Later I had my first Windows 95 computer which was a Pentium 166Mhz MMX with 16MB RAM where I played among other games, Age of Empires, Theme Hospital, KKND, Seven Kingdoms (yes I am a strategy game lover), etc.
Later I had an ADM K6-3 400Mhz with 4MB cache L2 which was a beast at the time! It was there that I also had my first 3D VooDoo 2 Video card that allowed me to start playing heavier games like Carmageddon.
So my choice goes to Socket 7 (later Pentiums usually with MMX, add K6-2s and K6-3s, add Cyrix).
Each one of them allowed me to live each era and they were just fantastic.
I started with a Commodore 64. I had experience with IBM PC XTs early in high school and later PS2s but I liked my Commodore 64 so much better than those. My first "PC" was a 486 from Gateway. Doom, Doom 2, Mechwarrior 2, NASCAR, X-Wing, Tie Fighter, Heretic, Descent...those are the games I remember the most from that time.
I wanted to upgrade around the Pentium MMX era but was a poor college student at the time. I managed to upgrade a little later with an early Pentium II. X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter, X-Wing Alliance (I really liked this series of games), Baldur's Gate...those are the games I remember most from my P2 days. I probably would have gone with AMD had I been building my own systems at the time. I would with my next PC which was Duron based which would fairly quickly be upgraded to an Athlon XP.