486 Project - Gaming Machine

sideways14a · 16 Sep 2019 at 18:36

Jeez windows 3.1/3.11 and 95 on floppy was miserable, these were the days before reliable ghosting - then having to add office 4.3 on floppy OMG its was dozens of 3.5" disks.
Towards the end of my private company working era

we did move to cd rom and that was bliss compared to the old days but heck it was still slow.

Cant tell you how many times i watched the Weezer video on the 95 cdrom - used it for testing lots and lots of audio/video systems.

Just to annoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApN2eLI4d-4

Donnie Fisher · 26 Sep 2019 at 08:32

Jeez windows 3.1/3.11 and 95 on floppy was miserable, these were the days before reliable ghosting - then having to add office 4.3 on floppy OMG its was dozens of 3.5" disks.

I used to have OS/2 Warp on floppy disk ... 27 floppies to install ... I had a 128Mb HDD ... installing all of the options on OS/2 took up more than 100Mb of it !

That Weezer video ^^^ god I loved that. IIRC its only took up a small amount of disk space for what it is - thats what amazed me.

Retro6 · 3 Feb 2022 at 00:26

I know this thread is a couple years old but I always enjoy reading 486 threads.

I got a POS machine given to me and it has a socket 3 board it has a WIN Chip which I will replace with a 486 processor. If it works then I will transfer the board to a AT case and do a 486 build.

Matzo · 3 Feb 2022 at 06:56

Retro6 said:
I know this thread is a couple years old but I always enjoy reading 486 threads.

I got a POS machine given to me and it has a socket 3 board it has a WIN Chip which I will replace with a 486 processor. If it works then I will transfer the board to a AT case and do a 486 build.

Thanks for digging the thread up again, it's been a while since I did much retro but got really into it, setup as an Instagram showcase as retronow.blog but life takes over.

Nice idea for a project, probably what I'd do too is replace with an Intel and re-case. Keep us all posted!