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panto-esp said:
t's a matter of taste, but for me they're too old and too...
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For example: Stronghold: Kingdom Simulator
Amazon says:
  • IBM/Compatibles Requires Hard Drive, Mouse & High Density 2.44 MB Disk Drive.
  • Runs on 386, 486 and Tandy (25 MHz recommended).
  • 2 MB required, VGA Only.
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That's great! I think I still have somewhere my S3 Trio+ 2MB and my Pentium MMX 200. So, it should work perfectly.
 
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ivo-ivic said:
That's great! I think I still have somewhere my S3 Trio+ 2MB and my Pentium MMX 200. So, it should work perfectly.
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It requires 2 MB of RAM, not VRAM, XD, and VGA (640x480), not supported EGA, Monochrome
I had that same one, 200MMX, 32MB EDO, S3 Virge325 2MB ("the decelerator"). I still have it.
A mistake, because 3 or 4 months later the Pentium2 was available at the same price and it was much better, and the following year, a friend bought the Mendocino 300, which was cheaper and much better processor. Furthermore, it could be overclocked by 50% without problems (450 MHz), whereas with my motherboard I could only OC the 200MMX by 12%, and with problems. I always regretted buying that computer, but over time I grew fond of it 🤣

Possibly too fast. Some games sped up considerably if you ran them on a processor that was too fast (not these, because they come in DOSbox). A P_MMX cannot be compared to a 386.
 
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panto-esp said:
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It requires 2 MB of RAM, not VRAM, XD, and VGA (640x480), not supported EGA, Monochrome
I had that same one, 200MMX, 32MB EDO, S3 Virge325 2MB ("the decelerator"). I still have it.
A mistake, because 3 or 4 months later the Pentium2 was available at the same price and it was much better, and the following year, a friend bought the Mendocino 300, which was cheaper and much better processor. Furthermore, it could be overclocked by 50% without problems (450 MHz), whereas with my motherboard I could only OC the 200MMX by 12%, and with problems. I always regretted buying that computer, but over time I grew fond of it 🤣

Possibly too fast. Some games sped up considerably if you ran them on a processor that was too fast (not these, because they come in DOSbox). A P_MMX cannot be compared to a 386.
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Yeah, those were pretty much my performances as well, but at the time I bought it, it was the third most powerful configuration - only 233 and 266 were better.
 
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ivo-ivic said:
Wing Commander for me. The first three games were way too fast on 200 MMX without the SloMo DOS app.
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The difference between dos4g/w and using direct hardware interrupts in low level code I would guess...similare to dosbox it was a virtual environment to access windows 32-bit and an actual clock in the sense we think of them, before that you were using timers and milliseconds...the migraine I gave myself not realizing this back then :LOL:
 
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