MMaximus wrote on 2023-01-26, 10:09:
That's an interesting analysis, thanks for sharing. It's true that some of us were probably still using some DX4 machines at the turn of the millenium
I don't know enough about it too be sure, but I think that the Company Deskpro that I continued to use as my personal computer in my bedroom was a 486. I don't recall exactly, because I didn't know enough about computers at the time to open it up, and I don't recall the exact model.
It was pretty basic, and may have had Windows 95 initially. I don't know if it ever had Windows 98. It never felt slow at all. Although, time went on, I did run into problems with the tiny hard drive (250MB) and the video card (256 colors only) when I bought and tried to play Age of Empires. I had to delete everything I could find on my computer, even some of the larger junk files in my Windows folder, to meet the disk space requirement. I was so excited from watching the tiny little guys walking across the progress bar during installation. It crushed me when I got a dialog informing me that it would not run without a 16-bit graphics card.
I ended up installing and playing it on the family computer, which was a Pentium 2, I think with a Rage XL.
If my computer was a 486, I think I used it up through late 2000, if I recall correctly.