Comment on $200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on Windows 3.1 era

Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve got a 486SX industrial PC that I refurbed. Much fun!

  But you can hardly expand this thing at all. And there’s a hella dividing line between a 386 and any given 486. I got mine loaded with 128MB and an SSD (through adapters). You just can’t do that with this animal, can’t even add a math coprocessor.

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• aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Nostalgia

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• yeather@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Poasibly for government use? I know of a few systems running on the oldest software possible.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Industrial applications might be a thing!

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Probably jumping on the popularity of retro gaming

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Which is about to get a whole lot harder with sony/nintendo shutting down rom sites and abandonware sites. It means you’ll need to have the original media the games came on.

    And hopefully you can find that copy of Warcraft 2, Tides of Darkness on a cd thats not TOO scratched up.

    “This way! No THAT WAY!!!”

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Archive.org still exists and has DMCA immunity, you can get no-intro, good set & redump sets on there

      Failing legal options, those sets will be available forever via BitTorrent

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• tjsauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  King’s Quest V

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