Reply 47780 of 53029, by BitWrangler
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Kahenraz wrote on 2023-01-26, 16:53:I don't know enough about it too be sure, but I think that the Company Deskpro that I continued to use as my personal computer i […]
MMaximus wrote on 2023-01-26, 10:09:That's an interesting analysis, thanks for sharing. It's true that some of us were probably still using some DX4 machines at the turn of the millenium
I don't know enough about it too be sure, but I think that the Company Deskpro that I continued to use as my personal computer in my bedroom was a 486. I don't recall exactly, because I didn't know enough about computers at the time to open it up, and I don't recall the exact model.
It was pretty basic, and may have had Windows 95 initially. I don't know if it ever had Windows 98. It never felt slow at all. Although, time went on, I did run into problems with the tiny hard drive (250MB) and the video card (256 colors only) when I bought and tried to play Age of Empires. I had to delete everything I could find on my computer, even some of the larger junk files in my Windows folder, to meet the disk space requirement. I was so excited from watching the tiny little guys walking across the progress bar during installation. It crushed me when I got a dialog informing me that it would not run without a 16-bit graphics card.
I ended up installing and playing it on the family computer, which was a Pentium 2, I think with a Rage XL.
If my computer was a 486, I think I used it up through late 2000, if I recall correctly.
I think the HDD size argues against it being a later Pentium machine, potentially something like this with a 486??? https://www.ardent-tool.com/media/PS2_MOST/AC … PAQ/2005001.PDF
I seem to recall Win98 being tight on a 400MB disk, while you could cram a 95 install without too many options on 100MB but it didn't leave you room to do much, so I'd guess it was 95 if you could clear space for an age of empires install without messing it up badly. Sounds like it would have been a dog anyway with Pentium 90 recommended.
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