Now at 2.8 (2.77) FPS on my Am386DX + M326 v5.2
Always at default low settings (Phil's option c).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6CAnS1GbrQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnEwOjbzboo

I believe I tried it on a 386SL20 in a laptop back in the day, only had 4MB of RAM. I had discovered that it would run DN3D while swapping like mad if you did it from inside Windows 3.11 DOS prompt with virtual memory enabled. That took forever to load and was all stop/start and jerky even at minimum screen size. Quake would not launch like this though. I think I got Quake to run on 486DX33 with only 6MB in it, but that was also unplayable even at minimum screen.

BitWrangler wrote on 2021-06-25, 15:15:

I believe I tried it on a 386SL20 in a laptop back in the day, only had 4MB of RAM. I had discovered that it would run DN3D while swapping like mad if you did it from inside Windows 3.11 DOS prompt with virtual memory enabled. That took forever to load and was all stop/start and jerky even at minimum screen size. Quake would not launch like this though. I think I got Quake to run on 486DX33 with only 6MB in it, but that was also unplayable even at minimum screen.

it seems quite difficult to make a total of 6mb for me(and 3mb aswell), how did you do that?

Well there was some 2MB 72 pin modules around back in the day. I guess for systems that came with 2MB on the board, then you could upgrade with a 2MB stick. I don't know really the rationale behind them existing. The reason I had one is that I had an A1200 as my "real"computer (daily driver) in '93 and the magazines were saying that if you got an accelerator, the memory map was such that more than an additional 2MB would interfere with the PCMCIA slot, but it also seemed that 2MB SIMMs were rare and hard to get hold of for the Amiga accelerator suppliers. So when at a computer fair, I found a used 2MB dirt cheap, because to most of the PC world it was a stupid size, I bought it so I would have it for a future accelerator buy. I didn't see much point in the '030 accelerators though and was waiting for '040s or better, and meanwhile my A1200 seemed fast enough for what I was doing. So a couple of years passed before I got an accelerator. However, during that time I started screwing around with PCs, because these boring old business boxes seemed to be getting more important, and more fun. So the 2MB was underemployed on the Amiga front, so various thrown together from used parts PC builds borrowed it. Turned out though that accelerator manufacturers managed to remap around the PCMCIA memory addresses and you could use 4, 8, 16MB no problem in later accelerators.

Don't think I ever ran 3MB, but 1MB on board was common for late 286, so adding two 1MB SIMMs to that would do it.

#386QuakeRace go!