Well, I found an old AMD K5 (aparently not working) here at the office depot (ya know old chairs, tables,... CPU´s) complete with keyboard and Viewsonic monitor. A small talking with the boss and later was up and ready at home. The computer works fine (it didn´t work anymore!!!??? and came with W98SE, trident card, CD, modem and 32 Mb) and I´m starting to enjoy early and not so early good old computing days. After a small tune up, the comp works like a dream, and in pure DOS is quite fast. I downloaded some games here...and thinking about how funny those days were with no accelerators, or massive ram´s fighting with hungry OS´s. :crazy: I´m spending most of time in this AMD than in my main 3.00 Gb workstation....just a bit more RAM to get the job done with Windows and I have a good old system for nothing. Have a look around to get an old system. It´s worthy and you´ll enjoy every penny :ok:

I totally agree! :ok: Dos games should be played the way they were meant to be played! :ok:

Yeah! :ok:


Now, if I only could manage my old mobo or CPU to work... a 486 PC... :whistle:

I got couple old sysmtes and only problem I got is space. It requires a lot of space to have multiple computers hooked up.

Hmmm,
that's why I got KMV switch?! :blink: LOL

Hmmm...what´s the problem with the 486 :blink:

No problem with it. Except last year it decided to quite the job. So far I've been unable to ascertain whether it is the CPU or MB that went to the netherworld, tho.

same thing happenned to my old 486 100mhz...i miss it so much, since it broke down its been difficult playing crusader (without slowdown...dosbox isnt the fastest even on a 3ghz)

now im using a Pentium 3 500mhz with Win98SE...oh well...

Have both of you checked the fuse in the CPU? Processors and RAM´s are very weird to fail if wasn´t for a shock hazzard...maybe the drive is bad, getting a cheap 2 or 4 Gb drive is not expensive maybe used in good shape.

:blink: How could I identify this thing?

Well, the case here is that the HDD works still in a different piece of hardware. MB just does not respond when turned on (checked with different GPU's and stuf - nada)

Older mobos had a fuse, mostly near the processor. So if rams are bad, just try to turn on without them. If nothing happens, a 32 mb PC 100 ram should be good to get. They are very cheap (and obsolete that´s why, but we´re talking about a museum mobo :ok: )

Why my 486/Pentium I/II insistence????? :sneaky:
´coz I´ve seen a lot of problems related to compatibility with abandon in Win XP. If you´re serious (????) about abandon gaming, try to have one of those old systems and forget about compatibility (ok, anyway I have the sound syndrome with Nascar I who´ll help me :eeeeeh: )