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Any other non-gaming retro PC enthusiasts out there?

Posted on 2019-10-06, 03:39

in Milliways
I've been a retro computing enthusiast/collector for about 5 years now, and have bought/found a number of different DOS-compatible PCs since then, from a pristine early model IBM 5150 to more than a few 486/Pentium beige boxes. However, I didn't own my first PC until 1995 and was a console gamer for …

Re: Best Windows 95 Version For 486 66MHz

Posted on 2019-03-12, 20:25

I don’t know if Win95 will run on a 486dx-66mhz computer but you definitely want to use a CF card for a hard-drive. They provide better performance and multitasking. I use a CF card with my AMD 5x86-133 running at 133mhz. , 64mb. Ram, And it performs good in Win95c. I use the Sandisk Extreme 8gb. …

Re: Development on a 286, for a 286

Posted on 2019-03-12, 19:49

I think perhaps my best bet here is to develop on a 486 or Pentium-class machine with OpenWatcom, and set it to produce 8086-compatible executables. Primary testing can be done on the development system, and more thorough testing can be done on the target system. My instinct is to not use DOSBox, …

Re: Development on a 286, for a 286

Posted on 2019-03-10, 05:19

The executable sizes were a different story, however - the Open Watcom exe was a couple of kilobytes. The MSQC executable was, I think, about 18K or thereabouts. This is compiling the same exact program and include stdlib, stdio, and dos.h. a most simple program that hardly does anything compiled …

Re: Development on a 286, for a 286

Posted on 2019-03-06, 02:36

If I was going to code on real hardware, I'd probably use something period-specific like Turbo/Borland C++. Those are real mode applications that generate real mode code and were designed around the time that the 286 was a mainstream CPU. Personally, I'd avoid doing the work directly on a 286 since …

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