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Re:DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music by burnt-resistor on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @06:09AM (#46133093)
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.
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Re:DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music by minki_the_avali on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @10:15AM (#46135432)
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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