You could get hold of Doom 2 and the DCK toolkit and build custom Doom levels. You may even be able to get hold of Quake 1 and use Worldcraft to create levels. And of course, play both these games. For me, this is incredibly more interesting than Excel or the like. This is what I did on these computers when I didn't feel like doing my work, back in the mid-1990s I also started building websites on them, my first in 1995. You could do a great deal with 32MB of RAM on a 386 with some imagination.
@@matthewtrow5698 I wouldn't attempt to PLAY Quake on that... It may be fun to run it once to witness the slideshow but that's about it. I'm going to try some early non-3D DirectX games at some point though.
@@x12-f9z 32 MB was a luxury up to mid 90s. When Windows 95 was released, PCs normally had 8-16 MB, it was 1997 by the time 32 MB started to get common. Software was well optimised.
@@michaeldale837 yes, it has DIP sockets with 128kB installed :) Yeah, that S3 was a nice catch, although still not cheap at £40. But there are faster ISA graphics cards still and I want to build a Cirrus one with 2MB as one of the future projects
That is very cool! I had only 4 megs of RAM on my 386 back in the day. 32 megs would probably have cost more than my entire 386 system :)
You could get hold of Doom 2 and the DCK toolkit and build custom Doom levels.
You may even be able to get hold of Quake 1 and use Worldcraft to create levels.
And of course, play both these games.
For me, this is incredibly more interesting than Excel or the like.
This is what I did on these computers when I didn't feel like doing my work, back in the mid-1990s
I also started building websites on them, my first in 1995.
You could do a great deal with 32MB of RAM on a 386 with some imagination.
@@matthewtrow5698 I wouldn't attempt to PLAY Quake on that... It may be fun to run it once to witness the slideshow but that's about it. I'm going to try some early non-3D DirectX games at some point though.
As a Gen Z, I'm astonished how y'all made the world work on 32MB
@@x12-f9z 32 MB was a luxury up to mid 90s. When Windows 95 was released, PCs normally had 8-16 MB, it was 1997 by the time 32 MB started to get common. Software was well optimised.
Nice! Love a 386 DX40, nice machines. Does yours have cache on the motherboard? Also ISA S3 must be nice...
@@michaeldale837 yes, it has DIP sockets with 128kB installed :) Yeah, that S3 was a nice catch, although still not cheap at £40. But there are faster ISA graphics cards still and I want to build a Cirrus one with 2MB as one of the future projects
@@neointernalforce I've got a WD90C31-LR ISA which is pretty good. Although the ET4000 for DOS is pretty perfect.
I had a 20 MB hard drive on my 286 lol.
So you basically can do 90% of a normal office day?
@@kinghans6266 yep, most common office tasks could be still successfully accomplished on a 30+ years old computer.
is that ticking a 💣?
When I play Minesweeper, it is ;)