Rob_In_MO
Number of posts: 1024
Age: 38
Location: Park Hills, MO
Tobacco: Mostly Aromatics, Some VA's, Mild English Blends
Pipe: Peterson, Savinellis, Cobs & Basket Briars.
Registration date: 2011-01-19
 | | Subject: 486 DX2-80 - A trip down memory lane Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:49 am | |
| Well, for nostalgia I fixed up an old 486. Paid $5.00 for it at a flea-market and was given a large box of parts (sound cards, video cards, floppy drives, etc.) from a Ham Radio friend of mine. It's a 486-DX2 80-MHz, 256 KB Cache, 48-meg of ram (almost unheard of back then), 1-meg Cirrus Logic Video Card, 2-Gig HDD, 8X CD Rom Drive, 3.5 & 5.25 Floppy Drives, a SoundBlaster 16 Sound Card, and MSDOS 6.22 & Windows 3.11. While we laugh at these specs, in the early 90's this would've been one heck of a system. I hooked it all up, spend hours downloading abandonware, and have had a blast. I haven't played with Win 3.11 or DOS in years, not to mention ChessMaster 2100, Commander Keen 1-7, King's Quest 1-4, Leisure Suit Larry 1-3, Wolfenstein 3D, and Doom. I have to admit, it's been a while since i've manually setup an autoexec.bat and config.sys in DOS, especially manually configuring the CD-ROM drive and optimizing memory management. It even plays MP3's with a Windows 3.11 MP3 player - 256k encoding too, not the horrible sounding 128k mp3's. Amazing for an old 486. No if I get really nostalgic and ambitious, i'll hook up a Commodore 64 one of these days (complete with 1541 Floppy Drives)... Sorry about the poor pic quality.     
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Doc Manhattan
BoB's Team
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Pipe: Gregor Lobnik
Registration date: 2008-05-26
| | Subject: Re: 486 DX2-80 - A trip down memory lane Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:28 pm | |
| Awesome! Looks a lot like the system I wasted hours on playing Sam & Max and TIE Fighter.
I had a hand scanner and the Corel art program suite and thought I was large and in charge.
You should get a copy of Spyglass Mosaic and see if BoB is compatible.
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puros_bran
Nightrider
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Registration date: 2007-12-10
| | Subject: Re: 486 DX2-80 - A trip down memory lane Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:21 pm | |
| Tie fighter .. YES
I Sometimes play abandonware via DOSbox.
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Rob_In_MO
Number of posts: 1024
Age: 38
Location: Park Hills, MO
Tobacco: Mostly Aromatics, Some VA's, Mild English Blends
Pipe: Peterson, Savinellis, Cobs & Basket Briars.
Registration date: 2011-01-19
| | Subject: Re: 486 DX2-80 - A trip down memory lane Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:24 am | |
| | puros_bran wrote: | Tie fighter .. YES
I Sometimes play abandonware via DOSbox. |
I've downloaded too much Abandonware to conveniently mention it all.
I have Tie Fighter - it's great!
I have used DOSBox but an emulator doesn't have the same look and feel for me.
Plus, with $5 invested, I didn't get hurt on this deal. |
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puros_bran
Nightrider
Number of posts: 7480
Registration date: 2007-12-10
| | Subject: Re: 486 DX2-80 - A trip down memory lane Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:40 am | |
| Oh no doubt.. kicking it old school is always cool.
That would be a bit much to put in a truck sleeper though. :-D
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Carlos
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Registration date: 2007-12-10
| | Subject: Re: 486 DX2-80 - A trip down memory lane Sat Mar 19, 2011 4:09 pm | |
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