Aww, I only have 6 zip disks for my parallel zip drive, but I do have a port adapter, although I am not sure the drivers even exist anymore! I do know all the discs are blank.
Why is it always the C:\ drive, not the A:\ drive?
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Aww, I only have 6 zip disks for my parallel zip drive, but I do have a port adapter, although I am not sure the drivers even exist anymore! I do know all the discs are blank.
Did you get it off a tip or something? You should not have encountered 5.25" floppies if you're 20-something.
Our first home pc also had both 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives. Was a 386 25MHz with 2MB of ram, a creative sound blaster pro with 2x cd rom and something like an 80MB hard disk. Played all the games of the time, wolfenstein 3d, doom, duke nukem, commander keen, space quest, leisure suite larry, oils well, prince of persia and so on, makes me feel old and i'm in my twenties too. Ironically i still use my old ms-dos boot disk now and again for using bdm tool with car ecu's. (mainly as i haven't got around to making it a bootable pen drive) I am surprised that the reservations still exist though.
The drivers are native for Windows 7 See here
Kei you could not have played Doom or Wolfenstein 3D on 386 min spec was a 486 with a DX coprocessor of at least 50Mhz
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The drivers are native for Windows 7 See here
Kei you could not have played Doom or Wolfenstein 3D on 386 min spec was a 486 with a DX coprocessor of at least 50Mhz
I doubt the parallel port drive will work on Win 7. SCSI, IDE and USB versions will be fine.
Wrong on the game specs. Wolfenstein ran on a 286 with 640KB. Doom was any 386 with 4MB. A Co-Pro helped with complex maps, but wasn't required. Ran on my Dad's 486SX-25 just fine.
yup just noticed that as I pulled up the txt file from the game directory on my external drive
Ran like a dog on my original 486sx2 50mhz though even with an s3 Virge 3d Card!!
It was quake that needed the Coprocessor getting my games mixed up
Yes, my uni used to boot and run Windows 3.1 from a server over 10Base2 Ethernet. The PCs had no hard disks so you could only save your work on to a floppy. What days!
I wish I had space to collect old computer stuff.
I miss old computer sounds as well. Dot matrix printers, dial up modems, the "thunk, thunk, thunk" of disk drives... even the XP setup music.
Dossing around computer fairs, getting told to go online for modem drivers.
Consumerization of IT has robbed us of our hobby somewhat.
I miss old computer sounds as well. Dot matrix printers, dial up modems, the "thunk, thunk, thunk" of disk drives... even the XP setup music.
Dossing around computer fairs, getting told to go online for modem drivers.
Consumerization of IT has robbed us of our hobby somewhat.
I'll say what I always say in these sort of threads....
The youth of today don't know how lucky they are, never having to deal with pesky games wanting different combinations of config.sys and autoexec.bat, let along the fun of setting up the physical jumpers to get an ISA bus I/O card to give you a serial port to use for your mouse, and then getting the enhanced RS232 card to work in conjunction with the slower speed ports so you could use a 56k external hardware modem, or run a null modem cable....
The youth of today don't know how lucky they are, never having to deal with pesky games wanting different combinations of config.sys and autoexec.bat, let along the fun of setting up the physical jumpers to get an ISA bus I/O card to give you a serial port to use for your mouse, and then getting the enhanced RS232 card to work in conjunction with the slower speed ports so you could use a 56k external hardware modem, or run a null modem cable....
I must have wasted so many hours loading stuff from cassette tape. Even the loading screen used to take seconds to load.
Oh and it wasn't a proper game unless you wrote your own autoexec.bat and boot from a floppy just to get the thing to load from cd.
Oh and it wasn't a proper game unless you wrote your own autoexec.bat and boot from a floppy just to get the thing to load from cd.
Haha very true. IRQs... the bane of my life!!!! Trying to get the soundcards working in DOS games.
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, pure luxury!!!Now everything is digital its taken some of its charm away when dealing with computers. The sense of achievement has waived when all you need to do is tick the right checkbox with zero danger to blowing any hardware up.
I don't think people realise how easy it is today with computers, I wonder how they would cope if they couldn't just Google for an answer for whatever question/problem they might have.
I buggered up my first PC (a 486 from Amstrad) not long after buying it and it was a nightmare getting it fixed and running properly again but I'm so glad it happened as it started me on the road to being the PC geek I am today
I buggered up my first PC (a 486 from Amstrad) not long after buying it and it was a nightmare getting it fixed and running properly again but I'm so glad it happened as it started me on the road to being the PC geek I am today
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I remember having an S3 ViRGE and then upgrading to an S3 Vision with 8MB (iirc) of VRAM.