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Recently found an original Compaq 486, with 3-inch and 5-inch floppy drives, used up all the previous floppy disks, full of nostalgia. I wonder if everyone here mostly uses virtual environments?

DOSBOX
DOS in VBOX
DOSEMU under LINUX

Now add the DOS in PCEM recommended by briar

(I wanted to use a USB flash drive, but later found it very inconvenient. Other content can be directly queried in parallel systems online. It's because I'm a newbie)
(I really envy the landlord, who can toss around freely)

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Indeed, restarting the luxurious configuration of the 486 from back then now gives a sense of traveling back in time. Thinking about the excitement of staying up all night in school playing on the green-screen machine of the 286, and now reappearing in the era of various high-tech marvels, it's really indescribable. In terms of hardware, under the luxurious DOS environment with a 486/DX466 main frequency and 48M onboard memory, configure the Creative Gold64 ISA sound card, and the classic game sounds from the original Compaq multimedia speakers. Strive to match it with a Voodoo graphics card that was extremely popular back then, or my beloved ATI rage3D, which are all top configurations. Hehe. Currently, I just feel that the old Quantum 1.2G fireball hard drive has bad sectors. To prevent data corruption, I'm going to install an IDE interface solid-state drive or CF card and see if it can be successful.

Originally posted by vistalz at 2018-1-2 16:57:
Indeed, restarting the luxurious configuration of the 486 from back then now gives a feeling of time travel. Thinking back to the excitement of staying up all night playing on the green-screen machine of the 286 in school, reappearing in the era of various black technologies now, it's really no...

CLOSE THE DOOR, SHOW THE PICTURES!

[ Last edited by zzz19760225 on 2018-1-2 at 19:08 ]

Okay, wait for me to tidy it up perfectly and then put up high-definition uncensored beautiful pictures

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Compaq's old machines are really hard to tinker with. The host itself is of excellent quality. The machine from more than 20 years ago is still in good condition even after being kept until now. The coin - cell battery on the motherboard has failed. Now a new battery has been replaced. The original Quantum hard drive of the host has a bad sector in the 0th sector, so it has to be replaced. Now the problem is that the BIOS of this machine stores in a non - DOS partition on the hard drive. Without this partition data, it's impossible to update the device information, and it can't even boot. As soon as it's powered on, it says there's an error in the partition data. I've been struggling with this for a long time and finally found the system configuration software for this machine that is still stored on the server on Compaq's official website. I got excited and downloaded it. According to the steps, I used a USB floppy drive to make a system disk with 4 3.5 - inch disks on another computer. The work progress today is so far quite promising. I'll continue to report the work process later. Also, I hope experienced players can give some pointers and we can learn from each other.

Now I can't use a computer to go online outside, and I can't upload photos with my phone?

Originally posted by vistalz at 2018-1-2 16:57:
Indeed, restarting the luxurious configuration of the 486 from back then now gives a sense of time travel. Thinking back to the excitement of staying up all night in school playing on the green-screen machines of the 286, and now reappearing in the era of various black technologies, it's really...

Previously, besides Dungeon Keeper, there was another game called Men vs Women, which I forgot. It was similar to the simple mode of StarCraft. The male was a stone golem, and the female had flying birds or something. I felt that game was quite interesting. It seemed a bit similar to the appearance in Stone Age. Just these two impressions are relatively deep.


In the later stages of the Emperor and Star Dreamer games, they often crashed, and I had to keep saving, which felt a pity. Instead, I don't have a deep memory. (If the problem of crashing was solved and set to unlimited duration, then I could play indefinitely, which would be great.)


Photos give a direct feeling.


2012 Great Era Mainland Version Played on iQiyi Episode 5 7:54 minutes
Look at the picture

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Originally posted by zzz19760225 at 2018-1-3 14:47:

There was also a game called "Men vs. Women" besides Dungeon Keeper before. I forgot it. It was similar to the simple mode of StarCraft. The male is a stone golem, and the female has a flying bird or something. I feel that game was quite...

There were many classic games in the past. Although the graphics are simply rubbish compared to today's, the nostalgia is incomparable. I don't play any online games now

Originally posted by vistalz at 2018-1-3 15:36:


There were many classic games in the past. Although the graphics are simply rubbish compared to today's, the nostalgia is incomparable. I don't play any online games now.

It's a pity that I didn't play that text-only MUD online game before. I just sat in a private internet café with several computers and watched (because I had no money!).
You didn't play?

At that time, I hadn't played it either

My blog shares a lot of DOS games.

But you need to know how to use emule.