10 sats \ 14 replies \ @486DX2 6 Dec 2023 \ parent \ on: First memorable retrogame that you played? gaming
Hah, that sound as you hit the spikes.
krsh... taaa da daa ...
reply
also, I appreciate the username @486DX2, I'm happy for you that you have a co-processor... :)
reply
The brutal truth is that I only actually had an SX25... I never got the 66mhz beast I really wanted and clearly, I never got over it.
reply
DX2 66 MHz wasn't the real beast, DX4 100 Mhz was! :)
For SX25 I would not even switch to 486, had AMD Am386 40 MHz (fastest 386, Intel only had 33 MHz) with external FPU (don't remember what was the manufacturer of that, some other company IIRC) before.
reply
Ahhh but I was coming from a 286 10mhz and probably got sucked in by the 486 hype. I do now to seem to remember those meaty 386s. Good times.
reply
"My" first PC (actually my mothers, but I had some hours per day access to it) had AMD Am286 14 MHz CPU (again, fastest Intel 286 was 12 MHz), it was in mid-1990s (we weren't rich, so all 386, 486, Pentiums come to me with some delay later).
reply
I didn't realise AMD were doing chips that early on, I thought it was all intel. I do remember not having a soundcard in my pc (IBM/PS2) that was so frustrating.
reply
They produced them under licence from Intel. But had better versions. They were actually very good, later with K5, K6, Athlon, when they started doing their own thing, their CPUs stopped being so reliable (but had good price / performance).
Nowadays I actually prefer Intel over AMD. Ahh, and heat. Even some Pentium III, when it overheated, it just downclocked itself to some 100 MHz and continued to work. In comparison - I have burned two Athlon XP CPUs in my life, just because of failing heatsink, they don't automatically downclock, they just overheat and die forever.
I also had PC Speaker initially (the real one, not those small beepers they have on motherboards now), but managed to connect even bigger speaker to it. Tried to build my own Covox DAC for LPT port, but something didn't work there. Later managed to get my hands on some ISA SoundBlaster Pro card.
I feel the pain! :) I managed to get Pentium 1 75MHz for Socket 4 and it was overheating...
reply
Pre proper cooling tech eh? I think there were even clip-on co processors weren't there? Cyrix rings a bell?
reply
It was long time ago, but I think 75 MHz Pentium even could more or less work without a heatsink at all.
reply
486 could, Pentium could not :)
reply
It was long time ago, and memories could lie to me, but I kinda remember running 75 MHz Pentium without any heatsink. And 486 vs P5 should not be a difference, heat is mainly from MHz, not CPU generation.
...so long as you didn't press the turbo button
reply