Vintage 486 Gaming System

[Garak]

Originally Posted By: JustinH
You can boot to a freedos cd, and play all the old games on a newer pc.


Freedos rocks. I have my old computer set to dual boot with freedos and Ubuntu. Love the old games! Actually, some of the "old" RPG games that are still updated are updated for DOS, but not Linux. That's the main reason I went to freedos.

 

[Scooter_man]

Originally Posted By: xxch4osxx
The 486DX2-80 I had was a Cyrix as well. It was dual speed 40mhz and 80mhz and it ran Doom and Doom2 and Duke Nukem 3D quite well. I wish I could put those old games on my current system!


All of those games are available for download as Abandonware. Quite a few sites are up and i've seen those on several. That's where I got my copies of them.

Freedos works, so does DosBox - but I just wanted the authentic look & feel.

 

[greenaccord02]

Originally Posted By: Scooter_man
Originally Posted By: greenaccord02
That's a really cool machine. Probably some of the best specs for a 486 machine that I've ever seen. Where did you get the parts from? I had an idea to do something similar not long ago, but I didn't do it because I couldn't find the parts.


I have a couple of Ham Radio buddies that are pack-rats. A couple (2 or 3) of old computers given to me from them and a $3.00 computer I bought from the local flea-market and there I was. I took the best parts from each (and working floppy-drives) and built it. I guess I was lucky in finding what I did, but for the investment I won't complain. I was quuite supprised that the one (in the case that I used) was a 486 DX2-80, added RAM/Soundcard/Video card/Drives from the others and it fired right up.

Now i'll get into it more when it cools off, maybe add another hard drive, put more games on it, etc.


Lucky! I'm stuck here running DosBox...

 

[crinkles]

I remember playing Kings Quest 1 as a kid... that was great!