Remembre when EGA was the rage pf gaming

[Robert Maxwell]

Oh yeah, you're right. It was sold as a separate thing for 386s. There was a socket in the motherboard for it.

I think it was the Intel 80486 that had it built in. I believe they called it an 80487 if the coprocessor was actually on. I don't know, it's been a while. Silly model numbers.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Oh yeah, you're right. It was sold as a separate thing for 386s. There was a socket in the motherboard for it.

I think it was the Intel 80486 that had it built in. I believe they called it an 80487 if the coprocessor was actually on. I don't know, it's been a while. Silly model numbers.

Thats it.

All i wanted to do was play Star trek 25th Anniversary and some Wing Commander....i had no idea it was going to cost me a kidney......and i remember the price of the 486 on sale at the time, they were ludicrously expensive, if i had bought one of those i would have been on Kidney dialysis the rest of my life.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Oh yeah, you're right. It was sold as a separate thing for 386s. There was a socket in the motherboard for it.

I think it was the Intel 80486 that had it built in. I believe they called it an 80487 if the coprocessor was actually on. I don't know, it's been a while. Silly model numbers.

Thats it.

All i wanted to do was play Star trek 25th Anniversary and some Wing Commander....i had no idea it was going to cost me a kidney......and i remember the price of the 486 on sale at the time, they were ludicrously expensive, if i had bought one of those i would have been on Kidney dialysis the rest of my life.

My 386SX 40MHz played the original WC just fine. It was fucking amazing. I vaped furballs all over Vega Sector.

I sucked major ass at the Secret Missions, though.

 

[Yoda]

SX vs DX was definitely referring to whether it had the FPU , at least for 486. Looking back I wonder if having that did me any good. At the time it must've sounded like a massively awesome thing to have, but then again I also thought the Atari Jaguar would be the most epic thing because it was going to be '64-bit', which as we all know means it's 4 times as good as Super Nintendo.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

SX vs DX was definitely referring to whether it had the FPU , at least for 486. Looking back I wonder if having that did me any good. At the time it must've sounded like a massively awesome thing to have, but then again I also thought the Atari Jaguar would be the most epic thing because it was going to be '64-bit', which as we all know means it's 4 times as good as Super Nintendo.

I believe there were a few games and some applications that would either use an FPU if it was available--greatly enhancing performance--and a small number actually required one. I even remember seeing package deals where you could buy the FPU right along with the application that required it, since most people didn't have one in the first place.

The Jaguar was fraudulently marketed, as far as I'm concerned. It wasn't a 64-bit system in the way we think of it--neither the CPU nor GPU were 64 bits, but 32. There were some individual processing units that had a 64-bit bus to the system memory, and that was about it.

Not that the Jaguar had lousy specs--it didn't, at least for the time. But I think Atari really screwed up by marketing it on that basis.

 

[TEH BABA]

TNG A final unity needed a fpu.