DOS Games Discussion

The_Sinister_Mastermind · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:08 am Post subject:

This laptop would be about 3 years old, my desktop would be... hrmmm, 10+ years. As for m DOS machine, Odin only knows. Tbbbbbth!

Howard81 · Member Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 12 Location: England

I have two IBM 5150's with IBM 5151 green monochrome displays. One has a Hercules card, both have 20MB hardcards.

I also have two IBM 5160 XT's, both with IBM 5153 CGA displays. One is an early model XT with 256kB on the motherboard, an expansion card to 640kB, and a 10MB Seagate ST-412. The other is a late model XT with 640kB on the motherboard, a 20MB WD25 hard drive and IBM 'enchanced' keyboard.

Then there is the Amstrad PC1640 (8MHz XT clone), that has a 30MB hard drive and EGA display.

I like my 8088/8086's Shit-Eating Grin

wardrich · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:19 pm Post subject:

well, the oldest still-running computer in my house is a 1989 Tandy

dayaccus007 · Expert Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 137

Mine was build 3 years ago but I have changed the Graphic card, PSU, the case,I add another 768 DDR and a DVD-RW.

486 player · Gaming Demi-god Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 1079

It's 15 years old and still workin'. Celebrated with Keen 4, Alley, Islands of dangers and Duke 2. (Best sound)

tinman47 · Lord of Gaming Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 231

Mines is 3 years old.Hey...its my 100th post!LETS CELEBRATE. Celebratory

Larry Laffer · Admin Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 3924 Location: Romania

Hmm... I really forgot how old is my 486 powertool... I guess it's 10 years++ now... Don't use it that much right now... I'm too lazy to bother to look for it!

dayaccus007 · Expert Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 137

His place is in a museum Laughing

Larry Laffer · Admin Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 3924 Location: Romania

Well, it's in the topic Tbbbbbth!

And please, don't revive old threads just for this:

RetroGoth · Member Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 21

I got my first PC in 1995 which was a packard bell P75mhz with a gig of ram and windows 95 in it!! That PC is long gone but I have another one that I recently fixed up that came out around 1997 and is also a packard bell. I want to buy me an older one with windows 3.11 to be able to play great DOS GAMES!

Larry Laffer · Admin Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 3924 Location: Romania

'Bout 3.11... don't! You'd be better off with Win98se. But if you desperately want win 3.11, use the Microsoft Virtual PC(2004), install MSDOS 6.22, and then install 3.11.

Simply installing Win 3.11 in DOSBox would probably be too easy! Tbbbbbth!

dosraider · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:04 am Post subject:

Zalensia · Member Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 22 Location: England

I think I must have been 7 or 8 when I had my first computer. Not sure.
It was windows 3.11 and it had the dos games like nibbles, gorillas etc.

My computer now...
Had it since August, self build. I usually replace/upgrade my computer once a year, sometimes 2 years. This one will prob be at the 2 yr mark. And I bought a mobo that will support quad core processors as well so it won't be a complete rebuild.

This computer:-

Mobo: Asus P5N-E SLI
Processor: Pentium E6750 (2.66 ghz dual core 1333 mhz fsb)
RAM: 2GIG 800mhz dual SLI
HD: 500GIG Samsung multi-boot XP/Vista/Fedora (64bit system)
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 8800 640mb GTS
Monitor: Old ;p Samsung 19" 12ms response time ^^
K/b: MS comfort split
Mouse: MS Habu Razor

Can't remember my sound card Happy

Larry Laffer · Admin Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 3924 Location: Romania

2LT Worm · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject:

I wanna get another gig of RAM for this rig, but that means I have to buy two new DIMMs...