Now that's a funny message on the sticker.

Neat and cute and well-loved PC! Very nice white plastic with shaggy surface and OMG the quad speed drive!

For some reason, my brain can't read "Vectra" from the first try, I always see "Vecha" 😀

filipetolhuizen wrote:

Now that's a funny message on the sticker.

Does it mean "Technological shock is best served with beer"?

I'd be throwing in a AM5x86-133 into that system would be a better match for the capabilities of the S3 TRIO64, its pretty much the best of the video cards of that era for that system.

I would probably have left the DX2/66 since that is probably *the* 486 (in combination with a VLB video card, but a PCI one should have the same speed). Tons of games are targeted at that speed. I suppose a lot of those won't run too good with a DX33. Since it is in the screenshot, how fast does Doom run?

@dirkmirk: With a 133MHz 486 you could as well use a slow Pentium.

RacoonRider wrote:

filipetolhuizen wrote:

Now that's a funny message on the sticker.

Does it mean "Technological shock is best served with beer"?

Close enough. Literally it would be: "I feel the technological shock with a beer in my hand"

idspispopd wrote:

I would probably have left the DX2/66 since that is probably *the* 486 (in combination with a VLB video card, but a PCI one should have the same speed). Tons of games are targeted at that speed. I suppose a lot of those won't run too good with a DX33. Since it is in the screenshot, how fast does Doom run?

@dirkmirk: With a 133MHz 486 you could as well use a slow Pentium.

This build is intended to substitute my first PC a 386, but with more grunt. Mainly for late 80's and early 90's .
I tested Doom and Need for speed out of curiosity and they are playable, but both are a better experience with dx2 66. I could be wrong but I think both can be played on a Win9x system (a faster system) so I don't need them to be on this pure ms-dos PC.
I remember playing Doom on a 386 33MHz and PC speaker, that was 😎

filipetolhuizen wrote:

RacoonRider wrote:

filipetolhuizen wrote:

Now that's a funny message on the sticker.

Does it mean "Technological shock is best served with beer"?

Close enough. Literally it would be: "I feel the technological shock with a beer in my hand"

Yep, that's right. The sticker came with a modem.

TELEPACMAN wrote:

Yep, that's right. The sticker came with a modem.

Always good to see language coleagues here. 😀

I think we're quite a few here on vogons 😀 (um abraço filipe!)
I did some more tests and at 25Mhz I can't stand to play doom. It's playable, but too much slowdown, when I reload the shotgun I just forget the aliens and stare at the piece admiring it for a while, and only then shooting some more aliens. So, for this particular system 33MHz is perfect, because it has a very acceptable performance on doom and I still can watch some loading screens in older games that wiuld fly by otherwise. Maybe I'll test with a 2x25MHz config.

So, why downgrade the CPU? The DX2 66 was one of the best I ever had.

This is my way of having an overkill "386" 😀

Also think the CPU is a strange choice, but nice to see it getting some love. Most jump straight to a DX2/66, DX4/100 or 586.
Indeed Doom, NFS 1 will work happily on any DOS/Win9x PC so if you have a faster dos machine then you'll be fine.
A SB Pro is more period correct for 386 games with the reverse stereo channel problem but really depends on what games you are going to use on this PC

Yes, I know. Actually I'm considering setting it to 25MHz. I just want the experience to be close to my original one, so that includes being able to watch some loading screens/waiting for the game/level to load. Some kind of zen therapy some would say, other would talk about masochism. Anyway I can allways go back to the original 66MHz DX2 if I get bored/stressed too much.

stunts
warlords
lemmings
rampart
flashback
wolfenstein 3D
prince of persia
lost vikings
fury of the furries
outrun
lotus
testdrive
micromachines
rick dangerous
prehistorik
california games
many more...

chinny22 wrote:

Also think the CPU is a strange choice, but nice to see it getting some love. Most jump straight to a DX2/66, DX4/100 or 586.
Indeed Doom, NFS 1 will work happily on any DOS/Win9x PC so if you have a faster dos machine then you'll be fine.
A SB Pro is more period correct for 386 games with the reverse stereo channel problem but really depends on what games you are going to use on this PC

I've never seen TNFS run at a playable performance on a 486, even my own DX4. Unless, are you talking about at low res? I find the graphics in TNFS to have too much detail to work at 320x240, it becomes too muddy.

Nope, talking about high res, on a 1995 Vectra VE with 486 WBack DX2 66MHz 16MB RAM S3 TRIO 64...