Reply 40 of 63, by alvaro84
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wrote:I didn't realize how many 486 systems were still being sold in 95-97 because Pentium's for the most part were still out of the budget range for most.
As a poor Eastern European student I bought my 5x86 m/b+CPU+8MB RAM (umm, well, I had stolen the RAM 😖 </confession>) in early 1997 to upgrade a 386SX/4MB. And I still had a CGA monitor. Definitely not period correct but it was I could afford. Connected to a Tseng ET3000 EGA/VGA, first via a home brew mess of resistors in EGA mode then with another self made adapter in VGA mode, with a TSR that set up the card for a 200/240 line output. I guess I still have the source code somewhere 😁
The ET3000 was dog slow, btw. Doom was far from optimal, despite the CPU that was capable of running it at the 35 fps limit.
Later the same year I worked for a month to get a 14" SVGA to finally replace the CGA. Mostly at night. And saved on food too, I lost a lot of weight that summer.
Shame on us, doomed from the start
May God have mercy on our dirty little hearts