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07-02-2008, 06:44 PM
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Your dream DOS box...
If you could have any classic PC model for DOS gaming use, what would it be?
Mine would have to be the IBM PS/2 Model 95 with the "Type 4" CPU complex (the Socket 7 version)... |
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07-02-2008, 07:03 PM
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This is an area I know little about, as I didn't get my first PC until May of 2001 with Windows ME. The money simply was never there until then. Most of my friends didn't own an IBM either, as their systems were C64s, C128s, Amigas and Tandy's... few of which I ever actually got to play anything on. My first PC-ish thing was my Atari XE, which I still have (and play games on). I know it had an early version of DOS made for it, but I never got it, so I did most of my tinkering in Atari Basic.
Anyway, there's my short story. Since ME didn't have a true DOS environment, I didn't use that aspect of it too much. As a result, DOSBox was my first real taste of DOS a few years ago. So really, I've no clue what a dream DOS box would be :amused: Last edited by The Coop; 07-02-2008 at 10:51 PM. |
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07-02-2008, 07:20 PM
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Any 486 with at least 4 ISA slots. I have a Compaq Pentium 90 that works pretty well. It only has two ISA slots, though.
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07-02-2008, 07:57 PM
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07-02-2008, 08:41 PM
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My 486 had sound, video, network and modem. PCI wasn't out yet when the 486 was introduced. Some of the later 486 machines could have had PCI I guess. Not sure. When I say ISA I should probably be saying ISA/EISA.
AGP was later. There was a bus named VLB, I believe, that was a high speed alternative to ISA.
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07-02-2008, 09:31 PM
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