brostenen wrote:

kixs wrote:

brostenen wrote:

I just thought that it was a reasonable trade.

Just seen you offered him a Pentium board... Any Pentium board for good 486 board is not reasonable trade at all in my book 😉

FIC PA-2013?! It's a SS7, going for the same or more as his board on eBay. Both overpriced on eBay. Though they should both carry the same value. He even refused a complete build with an K6-II-500, using that specific board. I think that's actually more than fair.

I think it really depends on the person. I don't like K6-2 or Pentium Pro systems, for example.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

I always use 8 MB in my 486 😀

16MB for me so I can run Windows 95 on mine.

computergeek92 wrote:

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

I always use 8 MB in my 486 😀

16MB for me so I can run Windows 95 on mine.

Yea for Windows you want memory.

I use MS-DOS 6.22 and 7.1 with 486 projects.

I find DOS memory management to be troublesome. Games that require 8MB of memory work far better in a Windows 95 8MB system than the same one with DOS 6.22 and Win3.11.

computergeek92 wrote:

I find DOS memory management to be troublesome. Games that require 8MB of memory work far better in a Windows 95 8MB system than the same one with DOS 6.22 and Win3.11.

That makes no sense...

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

computergeek92 wrote:

I find DOS memory management to be troublesome. Games that require 8MB of memory work far better in a Windows 95 8MB system than the same one with DOS 6.22 and Win3.11.

That makes no sense...

I find that hard to believe too.
Games build for MS-Dos 5.0/6.22, will run best in MS-Dos 5.0/6.22
Win95 just makes some setup more easy, yet Windows will eat a lot of precious ressources on a 486.

If you plan on running all Dos games from Win 3.11, you are asking for a real masochistic experience.

brostenen wrote:

I find that hard to believe too. Games build for MS-Dos 5.0/6.22, will run best in MS-Dos 5.0/6.22 Win95 just makes some setup m […]
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PhilsComputerLab wrote:

computergeek92 wrote:

I find DOS memory management to be troublesome. Games that require 8MB of memory work far better in a Windows 95 8MB system than the same one with DOS 6.22 and Win3.11.

That makes no sense...

I find that hard to believe too.
Games build for MS-Dos 5.0/6.22, will run best in MS-Dos 5.0/6.22
Win95 just makes some setup more easy, yet Windows will eat a lot of precious ressources on a 486.

If you plan on running all Dos games from Win 3.11, you are asking for a real masochistic experience.

That, or I'm just not as good as you on working with the autoexec and config files. The educational games I tried are designed for Windows 95 but are backwards compatible with Win3.x.