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First post, by Radiotubes

Posted on 2014-04-30, 22:51

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Jameco JE2019 (yes they made computers at one time)
..80286 CPU @ 16MHz
..500 MB hard drive (the 40MB MFM drive wasn't working well so I upgraded)
..8MB ram (36 1 Mbit chips + 4 x 1MB SIP SIMMs)
,. 1.44MB floppy
.. 1.2MB floppy
..3COM 3C509 ISA type Ethernet card.
.. SoundBlaster 16
..VGA video
..Serial Mouse

It was a challenge getting this thing to work.
Many many circuit traces were eaten through when the barrel
type CMOS batter spilled its guts. I found the ram chips at the local
electronics surplus store as well as some 30 pin SIMM sockets.
The SIMM socketes made it easy to plug in a standard SIMM to a SIP.
I am creating this post on this machine now.

I would like to find some arcade games for it, however it seems that many
games require a 386+ and EMM386 to run. Any suggestions are welcome.

1st post :>)

Reply 1 of 12, by Radiotubes

Posted on 2014-04-30, 22:54

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oh, forgot to mention. Im using Doslynx to post this. it works quite well. I also have occasion to use SSH, telnet and FTP. I did find a minimal webserver application I'd like to try on this and when I do, I'll throw up a post here.

Reply 2 of 12, by bristlehog

Posted on 2014-05-01, 08:59

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Prince of Persia, Golden Axe, Star Goose, Xenon 2: Megablast, Ski or Die, Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion, Shadow Warrior are arcade games I remember myself playing on 286s.

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Reply 3 of 12, by PeterLI

Posted on 2014-05-01, 11:51

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Dune, Civilization, Lotus, Streetrod, King's Quest I thru IV, Space Quest I thru IV, SimEarth, SimCity, SimAnt, Hero Quest, Quest for Glory, Wolfenstein 3D and so on all play fine on a 286. 😎

Operation Wolf is a real arcade game of course and works fine as well.

Reply 4 of 12, by sliderider

Posted on 2014-05-01, 12:50

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What version of DOSLynx are you using? I think this is probably the most current

http://users.ohiohills.com/fmacall/#doslynx

It was last updated in 2012, so it should be about as far as up to date as you can get in a DOS browser although 'updates' in this case really means bug fixes and workarounds to prevent crashes rather than new functionality being added to keep up with the modern web.

Reply 5 of 12, by LunarG

Posted on 2014-05-02, 15:24

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Posting on Vogons from a 286? Hah! Respect! 😁

WinXP : PIII 1.4GHz, 512MB RAM, 73GB SCSI HDD, Matrox Parhelia, SB Audigy 2.
Win98se : K6-3+ 500MHz, 256MB RAM, 80GB HDD, Matrox Millennium G400 MAX, Voodoo 2, SW1000XG.
DOS6.22 : Intel DX4, 64MB RAM, 1.6GB HDD, Diamond Stealth64 DRAM, GUS 1MB, SB16.

Reply 6 of 12, by RacoonRider

Posted on 2014-05-02, 16:55

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LunarG wrote:
Posting on Vogons from a 286? Hah! Respect! 😁

Just what I wanted to say! Grats, man!

Reply 7 of 12, by Tr3vor42532

Posted on 2014-05-03, 15:18

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bristlehog wrote:
Prince of Persia, Golden Axe, Star Goose, Xenon 2: Megablast, Ski or Die, Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion, Shadow Warrior are arcade games I remember myself playing on 286s.

Is there more than one Shadow Warrior? The one I know of barely runs on my Pentium MMX 200...

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Reply 8 of 12, by leileilol

Posted on 2014-05-03, 15:22

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Tr3vor42532 wrote:
Is there more than one Shadow Warrior? The one I know of barely runs on my Pentium MMX 200...

It's really called Shadow Knights. Sometimes it's mistakenly called Shadow Warrior even by Softdisk thesmelves, and this mistake was before that other game!

long live PCem

Reply 9 of 12, by mr_bigmouth_502

Posted on 2014-05-04, 02:52

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Tr3vor42532 wrote:
bristlehog wrote:
Prince of Persia, Golden Axe, Star Goose, Xenon 2: Megablast, Ski or Die, Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion, Shadow Warrior are arcade games I remember myself playing on 286s.

Is there more than one Shadow Warrior? The one I know of barely runs on my Pentium MMX 200...

I used to play the shareware version of the 1997 Shadow Warrior on a Pentium 166, non MMX. Ran just fine. Shame I threw that machine out.

Reply 10 of 12, by armankordi

Posted on 2014-05-05, 01:20

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Posted from my PMMX-233 /w Windows 98
also, did you accidentally?

IBM PS/2 8573-121 386-20 DOS6.2/W3.1
IBM PS/2 8570-E61 386-16 W95
IBM PS/2 8580-071 386-16 (486DX-33 reply) OS/2 warp
486DX/2 - 66/32mb ram/256k cache/504mb hdd/cdrom/awe32/DOS6.2/WFW3.11
K6/2 - 350/128mb ram/512k cache/4.3gb hdd/cdr/sblive/w98

Reply 11 of 12, by Tiremaster400

Posted on 2014-05-05, 07:27

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Impressive! How long did it take to post on the 286? I am curious. Also good job fixing the corroded traces. My first 486 board is ruined from the Varta barrel battery destroying the keyboard interface.

Reply 12 of 12, by MartinC

Posted on 2014-05-09, 12:32

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Tiremaster400 wrote:
Impressive! How long did it take to post on the 286? I am curious. Also good job fixing the corroded traces. My first 486 board is ruined from the Varta barrel battery destroying the keyboard interface.

He is using a text based browser so it would be near instant, I wonder how well you would be able to navigate using a text based browser

Respect for "Posting this on my 286"

I also suggest trying PC-Pine a text based email client

Win98 Gold: 1GHz PIII - GeForce2 - Voodoo2 - 768MB - SCSI 😀

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