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		burnt-resistor 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music DOOM was playable on the 486SLC2 with a modestly smaller viewport despite having just a 16-bit bus. It was the one donated IBM box in my high school's computer lab that could play it because Model 25 and 30 286's sure couldn't.

minki_the_avali 18 days ago [–]

they can now though, there is a 286 port for 640k which even does cga and mda next to the initial ansi shaded text mode

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