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Some good discussion here, but you've got Doom's original system requirements wrong. It required a 386 with 4MB of RAM. It would not run on a 286, much less th
by JohnBooty 5y ago
Some good discussion here, but you've got Doom's original system requirements wrong.
It required a 386 with 4MB of RAM. It would not run on a 286, much less the original 4.77mhz IBM PC.
source: https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/doom/techinfo https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/doom/techinfo
IIRC, Doom was very playable, but not exactly smooth on my cheap 386SX which was... 20mhz? But it ran like butter on the 66MHZ 486's in the school's computer lab.