tayyare wrote:

The result was quite creepy. Do you remember some key combinations was doing weird things to the game, like ctrl+L, ctrl+K, etc. One of the combinations was making everything but the prince invisible. I mean a balck screen with only the prince himself ovisible n it. After finishing the game and being forcefully memorized the first levels, we found that we can play the first 4 levels in this balck screen condition without loosing any lives... 😁

Shift + B I think to turn the lights off, +I to invert the monitor, +L to skip Level, +T to add extra health, and by just hitting K you could instantly kill the enemies. That would work, provided that you started the game by typing prince megahit. Otherwise only the Shift+L combination would work, but it would get you up to 4rth level, while also reducing the minutes left to just 15. And the classic bug of the game I think, if you had the cheats enabled(megahit), trying to get rid of the skeleton enemy on 3rd level (by pressing K) would crash the game.

This is a bit of a necropost, but why would someone be an old fart just because they were alive in 1992? Is every person today who is older than 30 an "old fart"? I don't consider anyone less than 60 year old to be old and I'm not even 20.

On May '92 I got the second and the BEST PC in my entire life.

Leo (First International Computer) branded PC!

Here's its specs:
MB: FIC-4386-VC-HD;
CPU: am386DX-40 (upgradeable to Intel 80486DX2-66MHz);
RAM: 8x1Mb 30pin SIMM;
VGA: Trident 8900cl 1Mb ISA;
HDD: 270Mb IDE Conner;
FDD: 5.25" + 3.5";
Sound: SB CT1350 (worked only one channel dunno why);
Monitor: 14" Sampo SVGA monitor with "protective glass";
Came with LEO branded "clicky" keyboard and 3-button COM mouse.

I still have the motherboard and the video card in working condition 😁

1992? An IBM PS1/pro (model 2123)

386sx/20
2MB ram
onboard vga , TI chip I believe with 512kb vram
80MB HDD
color vga monitor
ESS soundcard , can't remember which

386DX/40, 40mhz IIt FPU, Tseng ET4000 video card, forget the HD size, 16MB RAM (expensive). It was a home built machine, got the parts from an Asian importer in California a friend of mine dealt with (he sold PCs on the side back then and got a healthy discount). From what I recall it was cheap to build and I sold it a year or so later for most of what I paid for it and got a 486DX40 (Cyrix). Back then PCs in the retail stores were much more expensive then building them on your own.

stbunny wrote:

MB: FIC-4386-VC-HD;
CPU: am386DX-40 (upgradeable to Intel 80486DX2-66MHz);

Do you have a photo and model number for that upgrade kit?

I was very young at the time, here is what I remember about the computer I had in 1992, my first :

It was definitely a Packard Bell.
I believe it ran on a 386SX20, but I know it was not a 386DX or 486.
It had VGA built-in and probably had the ability to upgrade the Video RAM. I tried playing King's Quest VII and The Seventh Guest on it but couldn't get it to run.
My parents eventually added a Sound Blaster of some sort, probably a Pro, and later a CD-ROM multimedia expansion kit.
I believe the hard drive was originally 20MB, but later DoubleSpace compressed it.
It came with the Packard Bell Navigator, Windows 3.0 and DOS 5.0.

feipoa wrote:

stbunny wrote:

MB: FIC-4386-VC-HD;
CPU: am386DX-40 (upgradeable to Intel 80486DX2-66MHz);

Do you have a photo and model number for that upgrade kit?

Some time ago I had L2 problems with that MB and here's the thread about it.
L2 cache seems to be disappeared

As you can see, the upgrade kit including Intel 80486DX2-66 CPU and 33MHz oscillator.

I had no PC at 1992 but sometimes got lucky enough to play some Golden Axe and Prince at my father's work on some 286-based IBM PS/2.

In 1992 I had just bought an Atari Falcon030.

In 92 I upgraded my clone 286-12 to an AMD 386dx-40. I reused the Trident video card and the 40MB MFM hard disk I had formatted as RLL for 66MB, and a 1.2 MB and a 360K 5.25 Floppy. It had 4 x 1mb simms and no sound card yet. The motherboard and ram cost me nearly $800for the upgrade. I had an EPROM programmer and a PC board design package and other DOS aps. I had a Roland 8 pen plotter and an Epson 9 pin NLQ printer and a 14" VGA monitor with .31 dot pitch. I was probably into it for $5000 by then. It's hard to imagine how expensive that stuff was back then, and I hadn't even discovered DOS games yet...

No PC hardware for me around 1992. I believe I was between Elementary and Middle School that year. The hardware for me at that time would be a NES, Gameboy and Sega Genesis High Definition. It wouldn't be till around Windows 95 and Pentium 166MMX (probably 1996) when I got to play with computers. School sucked for computers before High School.

AT clone made by Emerson.
-286/16
-40MB HDD
-5.25/3.5 combo floppy drive.
-2MB of RAM.
-DOS 5
-Mono Sound Blaster
-Some ISA ATI card driving a 14" fixed-res Emerson CRT
-I think it even had a modem in it, but we never used it.

The 8 year old me was just glued to that thing. 😜

m1so wrote:

This is a bit of a necropost, but why would someone be an old fart just because they were alive in 1992? Is every person today who is older than 30 an "old fart"? I don't consider anyone less than 60 year old to be old and I'm not even 19.

oldfarting ain't just an age thing - it's a way of life. 😏

In 1992 I just upgraded from c64 to a amiga 500+ with a 590 hard drive. Still works to this day. Also my c64 does xD

Acer/Acros 386 SX/20
8MB of RAM
Intel Math CoProcessor
100 Mb Hard Drive
3.5in floppy
Sound Blaster Pro 2.0? (from Creative Multimedia Upgrade Kit)
Creative 1x CDROM (from Creative Multimedia Upgrade Kit)
Cardinal? 24bit ISA graphics card
14" Acros monitor, 720x480 max, 60Hz only, .42 dot pitch

I had/ still have a leo mini tower
Intel 486sx25 qfp soldered on mobo and no l2 cache, i recall it was just as slow as a friends 386dx40 maybe?
I really wanted a dx33 or dx40 since i could not create maps for doom due to the absence of a math co processor.
4mb ram 4x 30pin
Isa oak87 1mb vga
Ide 250mb sluggish noisy conner disk
1.44mb drive sony
14" svga color monitor
Pc speaker

Upgraded later with sb16asp and a sony 2x cdrom drive
And later on an extra 4x 1mb simm ram
Played alot of ultima and uw on it.

I used this system up to 1998 when i got myself a pentium 233 mmx on asus tx97e with 64 mb sdram and 6.4gb quantum fb and 32x plextor and compro/panasonic 4x cd burner scsi and awe64 gold and hercules stingray 128 3d/3dfx rush card and a iiyama 9017T pro 17 inch diamondtron. Big step up.
No money for pentiumII 266 at the time 😀

I'm trying to recreate a timeline of my computing history but it becomes fuzzy before 2001 and I haven't kept the receipts.

I believe that in 1992 I still had an Atari 1040STFM while my parents let me use their Peacock PC XT clone. It was a cool machine in my eyes with NEC V20 CPU, turbo switch, 640K of RAM, Hercules video, 20MB hard drive, 360K floppy and an amber monochrome monitor. Played most Sierra On-Line games on it, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Prehistorik, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade and lots of other games. The computer still works although I think the hard drive developed a few bad sectors..

My next computer was a 486DX/40 but that's a whole different story 😉

In 92 I was still using an Atari ST but I did have a Supercharger external PC emulator. It was basically a full 8086 PC that used the Atari ST for video and peripherals. I was never able to get a Mac emulator back then, though, because they were too expensive.

IBM PS/1
386SX/16
2MB RAM
80MB HDD
2400 Baud modem
Windows 3.0
12" IBM VGA monitor, but boy was it blurry
Bought for CompuServe and Prodigy mostly at the time

Later upgraded it to Windows 3.1 and 4MB RAM. Damn proprietary RAM twas expensive.