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wk_end 4 hours ago

Tomb Raider (1996) ostensibly required a Pentium, and I remember (though memory may be faulty) the demo refusing to run on my 486. Does this FPGA 486 support the additional Pentium instructions?

Zardoz84 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I remember playing Star Fleet Academy demo on my 486DX5@133 and a Trident 3d SVGA card at slow motion in battles. The game requires a Pentium 75 or 90 and a DirectX accelerator.

tsunamifury 3 minutes ago | parent [-]

Wait wait. You’re one of the rare people to ever this odd period of 486 history. What kind of overclocker did you use?

rasz 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not require, just recommends Pentium 60 minimum. Like Quake Tomb Raider loves pipelined FPU, 30 fps on Pentium 60 vs 15 fps on 486DX2@66 and 20 on DX4@100.

tharkun__ 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Whoa, you took me back quite a few years there!

I really wanted a DX4@100 back then but it wasn't available in my area. I "had" to get a Pentium 60, which I was not happy about lol.

Upgraded to a Pentium 200 MMX. Whoa!

And then I also got a specific batch Celeron 300a to overclock.

"Stole" my dad's Matrox Mystique, coz what does he need a "3D" card for? Played "Destruction Derby" a lot, just coz 3D card: https://archive.org/details/dd2matrox_19961205

Wow, the times!