Subj : Re: Dolch PAC 486 system
To   : hollowone
From : paulie420
Date : Thu Jul 06 2023 18:37:29

 ho>  pa> great package for vintage computing, since its MIL spec and such a
 ho>  pa> strong and compact (luggable) package.
 ho> 
 ho> Any chances they can be available outside US, somewhere EU as well?

Their website shows a 'worldwide' page... heres the lineup of Dolch Rugged 
machines:
web.archive.org/web/19991128232101/http://www.dolch.com/html/portables.html

I found mine on OfferUp; and I see them on eBay from time to time, altho on 
eBay the prices are always stupid insane. 

 ho>  pa> The GPU is a Viper 535 (or 353 - I can't remember and I don't wanna g
 ho>  pa> look at the card. :P) - its a VGA, but nothing fancy... it'll play Do
 ho>
 ho> If with UniVBE you can confirm it has at least VESA 1.2 then this would
 ho> be a very legitimate graphics card for 486DX, but of course if its VGA
 ho> is fast and can do Doom in 70Hz then it's obviously a superior MS-DOS
 ho> retro gaming and computing platform. 

Yea, it has no issues playing titles from DOOM to Terminal Velocity to Quake, 
even. (Altho Quake is unplayable on the 486...) And since the machine is in 
such a cool package its almost like the perfect retro-machine. The *one* thing 
that it lacked, because of its original purpose, is a sound card... like 
Curious Marc showed on Youtube, I intend to install a 16bit SoundBlaster and 
then wire in a small amplifier and internal speaker so it has sound... thats 
coming. :P

 ho> If you have packet driver for MTCP the I believe you can also get it  ho> 
connected to BBSes, have you tested that?

Yep; I can run mTCP over a WiFi modem - and I believe I could get mTCP running 
over the network card with ethernet, too - but I haven't ran through that 
yet... I'm sure its possible, tho, as I HAVE used its stock Packer Sniffer 
Network Analyzation software over the network card and it grabs packets just 
fine!!! 



|07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
|08.........

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (1337:3/129)

.