i wrote this on my cherry4 system which is a 286 system! i fucking adore 286 systems so much i got 2 of them!! <3
i have 16 mb on all 3, but i use the 25mHz board the most and it has bad
i wrote this on my cherry4 system which is a 286 system! i fucking adore 286 systems so much i got 2 of them!! <3
Glad to see someone appreciates 286 systems. First PC we had at home was a 286 hence my interest in them, what sparked your interest in them?
Wow I've got a 20 Mhz 286 and love it, been looking for a 25Mhz board but they are so hard to find! Is the speed increase noticable from 20Mhz?
I had a friend in school whose family got a 286 "late in the game" - I remember they bought it used from someone who told them it was just as good as some of the 386s that were popular at the time. We played
Wow I've got a 20 Mhz 286 and love it, been looking for a 25Mhz board but they are so hard to find! Is the speed increase noticable from 20Mhz?yea a bit just a lil bit. they are very hard to find! and expensive too!
Glad to see someone appreciates 286 systems. First PC we had at home was
a 286 hence my interest in them, what sparked your interest in them?
Great to see the 286 love around!
I don't think I've ever owned a 286 - oh no - another thing I absolutely need to have! Maybe I can satisfy myself with some memories of 286 computers and stay away from eBay.
I had a friend in school whose family got a 286 "late in the game" - I remember they bought it used from someone who told them it was just as good as some of the 386s that were popular at the time. We played Wolfenstein 3D on that computer, I remember I was impressed at the time that a game like that could actually run on a 286. I don't remember
what clock speed that PC ran at.
Another game we had a great time playing was Scorched Earth. Itwas a AK> blast trying to blow up your friend before they hit you, and the variety AK> of weapons was a lot of fun to explore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_Earth_(video_game)
My friend had a Gravis gamepad hooked up to that 286, I don't remember
how many games we actually used it with but I remember with every new
game trying it and hoping it would be amazing with the gamepad. I remember playing a lot of games with the keyboard.
That's so cool! I have mTelnet and mTCP on my 486 so I'm able to access boards from it as well.
I always had a soft spot for 286s for some reason.
Unfortunately my 286 that I've owned for 25+ years seems to be dead for good. It's a Pulstar Turbo-16 that's 16MHz and 4MB of RAM. A bit back, I disassembled it to borrow a floppy drive from it and didn't know there
was a loose 'bodge' wire on the bottom of the motherboard. Well, it
popped off and I have no idea where it was soldered on. With it off, the computer doesn't boot at all or even beep when turned on. I tried searching where it was connected on the web but got nothing due to it being a random knockoff 286. Looking at the mobo for traces of where it could have been soldered also didn't work. I was able to find one side
of where the wire went but not the other. :\
Unfortunately my 286 that I've owned for 25+ years seems to be dead for good. It's a Pulstar Turbo-16 that's 16MHz and 4MB of RAM. A bit back, I disassembled it to borrow a floppy drive from it and didn't know there
was a loose 'bodge' wire on the bottom of the motherboard. Well, it
popped off and I have no idea where it was soldered on. With it off, the computer doesn't boot at all or even beep when turned on. I tried
Don't lose heart, we all make mistakes and we learn from them.
don't know what the lowest speed part of the thing was tough.. I suspect the memory, it took both DIP chips and SIPPs... neither of which were
real speed demons. If you're used to a 20/21Mhz 286 I don't think
ME TOO! :D MTCP IS AMAZING!
That's so cool! I have mTelnet and mTCP on my 486 so I'm able to acce boards from it as well.
I always had a soft spot for 286s for some reason.
i have a bunch of spare 286 boards i can send you one in similar specs
if you pay 100$ and shipping.. xD they aint cheap boards now. i remember getting them for 60$ or a lower spec one not they are all over 100$ for working boards fucking ebay! aargh
Yes it is! What are you using it for on your 286 computers? Tried web browing on one of you 286es?
Mosty use it for the ftp server to make file transfers easy. Also have managed to mount NFS file shares on my 286 with mtcp and XFS...
Tried web browsing via Arachne & that was a bit painfull due to how slow it was..
Doslynx works pretty well and can use all your 286's ram if you set it
up right but is text only. I've not found anything better though.
... OS/2 Virus Scanner: WIN Virus found [R]emove or [R]emove?
NOT writing this b/c mary's offer is bad - at all - but in the past
month I've found RE-PC in the Seattle/Tukwila area... they sell all
sorts of vintage electronics; tested/working vintage boards are $60-100 and I saw everything from Pentium4 to 286 boards; but you can grab untested ones for $5-20!!!
Such an awesome place, just in case anyone is in the pacific northwest U.S...
There was a tested/working 486DX/100 for $100 that I almost wanted to
pop on. :P
Chipset & Bios settings seem to make quite a difference with the performance from what I've observed. Got a couple of 16Mhz boards
and the performance differs quite a bit between them. My Headland
H10 based 16Mhz board performs pretty close to my 20Mhz board
probably because it can run the RAM with 0 wait states. The other
one is a SARC chipset based board and it is quite noticeably
slower...
NOT writing this b/c mary's offer is bad - at all - but in the past month I've found RE-PC in the Seattle/Tukwila area... they sell all sorts of vintage electronics; tested/working vintage boards are $60-1 and I saw everything from Pentium4 to 286 boards; but you can grab untested ones for $5-20!!!
Such an awesome place, just in case anyone is in the pacific northwes U.S...
There was a tested/working 486DX/100 for $100 that I almost wanted to pop on. :P
HOLY FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!~!!!!!!!!!@!! i want!!!!!!!
gimmie! i'd buy all of the 286s
Another game we had a great time playing was Scorched Earth. It was a blast trying to blow up your friend before they hit you, and the variety
Yes sir! That was one of the best games I played in ms-dos.
I have to check it out - if it's in exodos archive - I'll show it to my kids. Oughta be fun =)
Tried web browsing via Arachne & that was a bit painfull due to how
slow it was..
Doslynx works pretty well and can use all your 286's ram if you set
it up right but is text only. I've not found anything better though.
</3 u need that wire!
i have a bunch of spare 286 boards i can send you one in similar specs
if you pay 100$ and shipping.. xD they aint cheap boards now. i remember getting them for 60$ or a lower spec one not they are all over 100$ for working boards fucking ebay! aargh
Have you tried Microweb? It should work on a 286, it can use EMS, and just yesterday 2.0 came out with support for displaying GIFs inline.
... whens the last time you saw a web page with a .GIF in it?
accessible over http: any more. I am kinda done with the web.i HATE the current http web now
Have you tried Microweb? It should work on a 286, it can use EMS, and just yesterday 2.0 came out with support for displaying GIFs inline.i tried to compile it but lfn is required :/
https://github.com/jhhoward/MicroWeb/releases/tag/v2.0
Here's an example :-)
http://ftsc.org/
I think the deal breaker for me is no TLS. Very few web sites are
Have you tried Microweb? It should work on a 286, it can use EMS, and just yesterday 2.0 came out with support for displaying GIFs inline.
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