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486 Update! HELP! AHHHHHH!
bcard74:
Again, I agree with it all, but everyone is missing my point. This system was meant for my bartop cabinet to play a handful of games. I will be getting a REAL system in the next couple of months for my Rampage cab which will have all the bells and whistles. All I am trying to do is practice with interfaces, buttons and sticks for CHEAP and see if I can end up with a bartop at the end of it.
I am not spending any money upgrading this thing, believe me ... 30 US for 30pin RAM? No thanks.
Thanks for all the price quotes, it is unbelieveable how cheap things are getting, even if I am buying in Canadian dollars. When I buy my new system I will heed the above advice, I agree with it all.
Thanks to everyone for responding, since I nabbed a P200MMX hopefully the 486 issue will go silently into the night ...
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: bcard74 on October 11, 2002, 07:06:46 pm ---
Again, I agree with it all, but everyone is missing my point. This system was meant for my bartop cabinet to play a handful of games. I will be getting a REAL system in the next couple of months for my Rampage cab which will have all the bells and whistles. All I am trying to do is practice with interfaces, buttons and sticks for CHEAP and see if I can end up with a bartop at the end of it.
I am not spending any money upgrading this thing, believe me ... 30 US for 30pin RAM? No thanks.
Thanks for all the price quotes, it is unbelieveable how cheap things are getting, even if I am buying in Canadian dollars. When I buy my new system I will heed the above advice, I agree with it all.
Thanks to everyone for responding, since I nabbed a P200MMX hopefully the 486 issue will go silently into the night ...
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Actually we do get the point... what we are getting at is without upgrading it isn't even workable as-is. And if you do upgrade you are going to waste your money as you need a better starting point. So it might be best to wait.
sorry :(
mikenotbob:
bcard74,
Rock on with your 486... It's fun to eek out every last morsel of speed from a dinosaur. Keep it in use and out of the landfill!
Speaking of keeping computers in use... The other day I came across a DOS web browser, 'Arachne'. I haven't had a chance to play with it, but between that and say, FreeDOS, there's a lot of pc resuscitation out there to be done for those who just need a web browser and some simple word processing.
HeadRusch:
Bottom Line: If you can't get Vantage running on it, or come into some free 2 meg ISA or PCI videocards (whatever your MB supports....a 486 I think was still all ISA, can't recall that far back :D).......then you're stuck with what you have.
Look at it this way...you can try running Nesticle or something like that, have it emulate a NES or whatever......and build a bartop off that.
A 486 was built to run VGA games at 320x200 resolution, and windows at 640x480 IF you had a videocard that could do that "heavy work" :).
Don't be too upset if it doesn't run Mame, etc..............
Good Luck with the 200........that ought to put you in a LOT better shape!
Howard_Casto:
Yeah what's really hurting you is the lack of ram and the crappy vid card. It's pretty much unplayable as is... unless you can cheaply get ahold of a vid card and a stick of 72 pin ram then you are probably s.o.l.