Deep inside a Delaware strip mall closet, an old, forgotten Pentium computer's NPC.EXE is running wild, compiling deranged and out-dated modmails that read... well, retarded like THIS! Any local frogs up for a mission? Please find & unplug this poor museum relic of a PC! It is suffering! 🐸
(media.greatawakening.win)
YOU'VE GOT BETA MALE!
I thought it still was an AMD 386DX40.
Yeah with 256K bytes of RAM.
Came here to say that. They aren't even close to a 486DX2-66
Just before Windows was eventually released by Microsoft, I had a DOS PC with the 486DX2-66 with only 8 megs of RAM with IBM Geoworks 2.0 which was very similar to Windows and lots of AD&D games. It was fully booted in 25 seconds LOL. It was very reliable, super fast for any 3D game of those days and I never had to update or patch. Spent many nights in the dark dungeons of the Eye of the Beholder series. When I got my first Windows PC with a 3dfx card, it was a whole new world of innovations and great 3D graphics and the old DOS PC went on the shelf, miss the simpler times.
You were doing good with 8 Megs! I remember spending $300 on 8 megs, my friends thought I was nuts.
My friends knew I had evening and weekend college classes so they would come play games on my PC when I wasn't using it. They played Doom, Pinball, Castle Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem and Descent.
8 megs with DOS was awesome and really all that you needed with a 2 meg VGA card, for those games. You are right about the cost of RAM in those days, a buddy of mine had spent a fortune upgrading his PC with expensive RAM. We only learned years later that the RAM manufacturers were complicit in cornering the market and everyone ended up paying these inflated prices. That old PC also had the typical Sound Blaster audio card, CD drive, two 3.5" floppies with a WD 230 meg HDD all of which were dependable. Its funny to see how ancient that tech seems to us today. Lands of Lore series, Doom, Wolfenstein, Eye of Beholder series and of course Descent were all great games. Nonetheless, that 486DX2-66 could handle it all very well.