Just found an old unknown PC model with this CPU in it
http://www.cpupages.com/store/index.php?id_item=154
It has some isa riser card which is mounted in one of the ISA slots on the mobo so I guess I can stuff the case with a newer mobo and use that riser card?
Can this ancient PC play any games after 1990?, 🤣
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Throw it down a flight of stairs while giggling like a schoolgirl.
Wolf3d
Mean Streets
Monkey Island 1, 2
Blake Stone
Flight Simulator 4...probably 5 as well. Don't remember.
wrote:Throw it down a flight of stairs while giggling like a schoolgirl.
hmmm....consider it done 😁
nah....if the damn thing starts I'm going to keep it until I'm grown tired of it and keep the case (maybe)
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wrote:Wolf3d Mean Streets Monkey Island 1, 2 Blake Stone […]
Wolf3d
Mean Streets
Monkey Island 1, 2
Blake Stone
I had a feeling it could coipe with those games but Wolf3D? doesn't that game demand at least a 386?
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Nope, definetly runs on a 286. Remember going up to the BX and seeing it run on the latest 386's....."aquiring" a copy from school and installing it on the school's 286's and my home 286-12mhz.
wrote:Nope, definetly runs on a 286. Remember going up to the BX and seeing it run on the latest 386's....."aquiring" a copy from school and installing it on the school's 286's and my home 286-12mhz.
Maybe it's worth then to breathe some life into this PC 😀
Think I have to upload a pic of the mobo so you guys can tell me if it's crap and what memory that goes into the weird looking "simm sockets"
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I wish I'd kept my 286. 🙁
Oldest PC I have now is a P166 laptop.
Think I have to upload a pic of the mobo so you guys can tell me if it's crap
It's crap. 😉
I think SIMM memory goes in SIMM sockets.
wrote:I wish I'd kept my 286. :( […]
I wish I'd kept my 286. 🙁
Oldest PC I have now is a P166 laptop.
Think I have to upload a pic of the mobo so you guys can tell me if it's crap
It's crap. 😉
I think SIMM memory goes in SIMM sockets.
It sure is crap....quality looks crap too but back then PC's were crap and Amiga's + Mac's ruled the world
I think it's 30pin simm slots like I have one some of my Amiga memory/scsi cards and my Golden Gate 486 PC emulator card for the Amiga
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Since it's 286, I think you need an Expanded Memory Board instead of EMM386, am I correct?
Never thought this thread would be that long, but now, for something different.....
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman.
emm386 needs v86 mode (ie. 386+)
wrote:Since it's 286, I think you need an Expanded Memory Board instead of EMM386, am I correct?
Which is like finding a needle in a hayestack? 😜
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wrote:emm386 needs v86 mode (ie. 386+)
really? so I'm stuck with 640k base mem for everything?
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well extended memory(int 15) and xms will propably work
Water flows down the stream
How to ask questions the smart way!
really?
Hehe ever wondered why they named it emm386 and not emm286 😉
wrote:really?
Hehe ever wondered why they named it emm386 and not emm286 😉
Damn, that person must have been smart 😁
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wrote:well extended memory(int 15) and xms will propably work
Can you please explain what you mean by "(int 15)"
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Well games can request memory by different means: below-1mb ram,
ems, xms, int15 (bios interface) or by switching to protected mode.
In your case ems will be missing, i'm not aware of a tool similar to emm386
for 286 systems, but you might want to try looking for such a thing.
wrote:Well games can request memory by different means: below-1mb ram, ems, xms, int15 (bios interface) or by switching to protected m […]
Well games can request memory by different means: below-1mb ram,
ems, xms, int15 (bios interface) or by switching to protected mode.In your case ems will be missing, i'm not aware of a tool similar to emm386
for 286 systems, but you might want to try looking for such a thing.
I see...but himem.sys (XMS) will work?
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Yes, himem should work.
