Nostalgia (AKA remembering my old Tandy.)

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yeah... I've got a disk of some old DOS games somewhere, and there's one with all these lifts everywhere - it's a crappy platform game.. you have some sort of time limit to do it, and lose a life if you run out of time.. I think you're supposed to get 3 or 5 minutes or something... I tried it on an Athlon 600 system and all 5 lives dissapeared within about 3 seconds, cos I kept running out of time :frown: .... LOL

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$hit Happens. I just wish it would happen to someone else for a change.
 
hahaha....LMAO

Ya know a game i remember...it was really fun...prince of persia...that game was amazing!

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz... 😎
 
prince of Persia... I got that for my birthday, and played it on the 086 I mentioned earlier... <i>great</i> game... I was really the $h!t at swordfighting... slashing the fat guys was always fun... :smile:

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$hit Happens. I just wish it would happen to someone else for a change.
 
I still have that game on my k6 machine...it seems to run ok even though the computer has a higher clock speed...

this forum gave me the idea to go through my old stuff and i found an intel chip...but i have no clue what it is...i am guessing it is a co-processor?

A80387 - 16

anyone have any ideas?

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz... 😎
 
yeah... I've got a disk of some old DOS games somewhere, and there's one with all these lifts everywhere - it's a crappy platform game.. you have some sort of time limit to do it, and lose a life if you run out of time.. I think you're supposed to get 3 or 5 minutes or something... I tried it on an Athlon 600 system and all 5 lives dissapeared within about 3 seconds, cos I kept running out of time :frown: .... LOL
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I did that with the very first version of Mechwarrior and my mission was over before I even had a chance to start. Blowned up I was. 🙁 The game obviously had no concept of timing programmed into it and just ran at full speed no matter what. Oh well. They have newer versions that are much better anyway. :) (Not MW4 though, that one is tainted and evil.)

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A80387 - 16
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Maths co-processor.. I believe that was the only real difference between a 486SX and a 486DX, was a DX had a maths co-pro built in (as has every chip since), whereas the SX did not... but if you look at an old 386 mobo, you'll probably find a socket for a 80387 chip, and you can 'upgrade' it with that chip you've found :smile: No idea what impact it would have on performance though...

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$hit Happens. I just wish it would happen to someone else for a change.
 
i had a dx4-100 athlon. it couldnt play mp3s in stereo so i had to play them in mono. and it wouldnt even play them in mono if the turbo button was off.

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well it wont fit the socket (copro socket) on my amd 386dx-40 board :frown:

I dunno what else i bought that copro for....

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz... 😎
 
in graphics and math apps the copro will help alot...

in normal ussage not so much...

I just never realised the copro for a 386 was called a 387...weird...

All i can say is SX stands for sux

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz... 😎
 
Great post.
I know this is going to sound kinda weird, but do any of you guys know where I can get my hands on some of these old computers? A website or something. I think it'd be great to get one for my Dad. He was a huge computer buff back in the day, and he'd get a kick out of it!


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flea market or ebay...

Tomarrow i will bit on a lot of 3 old mobos (386 and 486) 2 cpus (386 and 486 dunno if they are dx or sx or what speed but who cares...its gonna be slow) a modem (isa) and a graphics card (isa...wonder if it will be better than my old diamond speedstar 24x?)...total price...right now its 99 cents...possibly it will go up to 5 bux tomarrow?

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz... 😎
 
what i really want is a mobo for a 286 and a nice 286 cpu...i have that overclocking thing i was talking about...and would love to shoot for a 100% overclock...it should be possible with a dinky passive heatsink...

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz... 😎
 
I just never realised the copro for a 386 was called a 387...weird...
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That's because the math co-processor chip is just the x87 floating-point unit. For a 386 it's math co-processor is a 387. For a 486, a 487.

Basically anything without a math co-processor used the general purpose registers for floating point operations. Luckily Intel eventually decided to just make the x87 FPU a part of the CPU itself. So now adays we don't even really think about the fact that our x86 CPUs also include the x87 unit. Back in the day though it could make a world of difference.

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i had a dx4-100 athlon. it couldnt play mp3s in stereo so i had to play them in mono. and it wouldnt even play them in mono if the turbo button was off.
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Wow, I can remember encoding MP3s from WAV files on my Pentium 133. That sure would take forever just for a single track. **ROFL** At least I could listen to it in stereo though. :)

It's actually kind of scary to think of just how many years MP3 CDs have been around.

And scarier to think of just how many CD players (like walkmans and car radios and stuff) still don't support MP3 CDs. Talk about a concept just not catching on in spite of the obvious genius.

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It's funny that they're still so concerned about DVD burners for PCs when we can always rip and convert to an MP4 and put it on a CD. Not only that but thanks to most movies being broken up into scenes we can also very easily rip and burn a DVD into a set of VCDs that'll play on almost any home DVD system. Who even needs a DVD burner to copy the movie onto something that will play in a DVD player? **ROFL**

:\ Not so bright they are...

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mpeg4 divx and xvid are my freinds :smile: ...

I will not buy a home dvd player until i find one that supports these formats...

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz... 😎
 
I feel so young!!! My first PC (err first family PC) was a 486DX33 with 4MB, and I believe an 80MB hard drive (I don't remember, I was 4 or 5 years old back then, I'm only 17 now).

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it wont fry it...seriously they can take it...they had headroom...

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz... 😎
 
well...i dunno where my 286 is...it was actually my dads and he would play around with it when i was a yongin...but he gave it to me long ago...and i dunno where i put it...i have the kool overclocking device...i wish i could post pix...but he could get it to 12mhz but with graphics anomalies on hot days...because the graphics card was running out of spec..(6mhz is default)

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz... 😎
 
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