"Hi, some guy wants to get some games for a really old laptop and palmtop. One has an 8088 processor with mono graphics, the other a 80186 with CGA B+W graphics. My question is what CPUs were installed in what computers, what I think is the 8088/86 was in IBM PC, 186 XT, 286 AT, is this true? Many of my games use the AT/XT/PC designation, not actual CPU."
Hey Tom, here's the original IBM PC hardware release list and what CPUs/speed they had: (1981) IBM PC 4.77MHz 8088 (1983) IBM XT 4.77MHz 8088 (1984) IBM PCjr 4.77Mhz 8088 (was slower than PC/XT because of several design issues relating to cost) (1985) IBM AT 6MHz 80286 (1987) IBM PS/2 Model 25 (and 30) 8Mhz 8086 (1987) IBM PS/2 Model 30 "enhanced" 8MHz 80286 Those are the only early ones worth mentioning. Everything after those (Model 50/60/80, etc.) had a microchannel architecture bus, and you don't want to go there, trust me :) The laptop with mono may be grayscale CGA, so check any game that lets you choose either CGA or Hercules and see which mode works. The palmtop is probably the coveted HP 200LX, which is indeed an 80186 running at 8MHz and runs 640x200 CGA in shades of gray. It's literally portable PC gaming goodness :) -- Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.oldskool.org/ Want to help an ambitious games project? Drop by http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.demodvd.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
