DrGiltspur$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on Windows 3.1 era
F/15/Out of curiosity, what’s the utility in this? Is it meant to be a toy of sorts?
Poasibly for government use? I know of a few systems running on the oldest software possible.
Industrial applications might be a thing!
Nostalgia
Probably jumping on the popularity of retro gaming
Which is about to get a whole lot harder with sony/nintendo shutting down rom sites and abandonware sites. It means you’ll need to have the original media the games came on.
And hopefully you can find that copy of Warcraft 2, Tides of Darkness on a cd thats not TOO scratched up.
“This way! No THAT WAY!!!”
Archive.org still exists and has DMCA immunity, you can get no-intro, good set & redump sets on there
Failing legal options, those sets will be available forever via BitTorrent
I’ve got a 486SX industrial PC that I refurbed. Much fun!
But you can hardly expand this thing at all. And there’s a hella dividing line between a 386 and any given 486. I got mine loaded with 128MB, USB floppy emulator (a MUST have) and an SSD (through adapters). You just can’t do that with this animal, can’t even add a math coprocessor.
I’d give $20 to have one to play with, that’s it.
King’s Quest V