Very nice collection! 😀

MusicallyInspired wrote:

I also have a Toshiba 386 laptop (SVGA compatible graphics card, but with orange plasma monitor) it also has 2 ISA slots!

Is that a T3200/T5200? I love those gas plasma displays, although they are not really suitable for fast games.

It's a T3200SX. And yeah the plasma screen is cool 😀. Worked fine for all the games I played on it, though. Wolf3D is somewhat choppy, I suppose, but not unplayably so.

I also discovered I do indeed also have a Pentium MMX 233Mhz motherboard as well as another motherboard that when started up says "Pentium-100MHz". I think this might be the 486, though. I don't have a HD for either to tell much more from that, though. The CPU chip has a large heatsink and no fan.

I never heard of a 3x speed cdrom
I recall most things come in a power of 2.

Well the sierra test utilities tend to give VERY odd results.....sometimes even stating you have a 1x drive when in reality its >32. Hell some games won't even work if used on RW drives, at least I've found anyway. I've not tried them on my DVD drive (I prefer the dos versions)

Qbix wrote:

I never heard of a 3x speed cdrom

Some company (I believe it was NEC or Teac) came up with 3x speed CDROM drives, after they couldn't compete with the ultra-cheap Mitsumi FX-001D. Some high-endish SCSI drives also had crummy speed numbers, like 4.5x. Since most drives were spinning at CLV back then, it probably wasn't only marketing gibberish. Of course many of these "turbo" drives had horrible seek times and error correction, but most customers only looked at the bigger x-speed number and the price.

The Trident 9440 is quite slow, maybe change that to an ET4000/W32i VLB with 2 MB RAM. Thats a pretty nice card for a 486 VLB system.

Unfortunately I have no money to spare right now. Thanks for the information, though! 😀

I had a TGUI9440 PCI once... it was slow, but not nearly as bad as the old Trident ISA cards 😉
If you can't find a cheap Tseng ET4000/W32 with 2MB, take a 1MB card and upgrade the RAM chips (most models use the bog-standard DRAM chips that can be salvaged off old ISA video cards).

It's not that slow, actually. Runs fine. My problem was I couldn't find a DOS driver for it, but I finally found one. But games like Warcraft 2 and Space Quest 6 run perfect. Except in Warcraft 2 the game gets a little slow when there's a lot of stuff going on on the screen, I think that's just cause it's playing on a 486, though. Nevertheless, I'll keep a lookout for either of those cards.