Yeah I did look it's just that it's not really a bustling market so there isn't much history to go off. I guess what I'm asking, more generally, is what kinds of software (o/s, games etc) should I be looking out for if I want to collect things that will be of most value as time progresses.

Hm I've not got anything that old unfortunately. I did see some Completed Sales on eBay of Win3.1 for £60 so it seems some people are willing to pay that kind of money for them. I guess I'll keep my eye out for older versions though and hope I get lucky 😀

Yeah I've had a look on eBay and there are some listed for 50/60 - I've seen some boxed Windows 3.1 on sale for £100 plus but it's hard to know whether they will actually sell or whether it's just people being overly speculative. I'm thinking about starting to collect them in the hope they will …

Hey I was wondering are any of the older operating systems worth anything nowadays. For example I have a sealed copy of MS DOS 5.0 - is this a collector's item at all? Are any versions of Windows collectable? 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 etc?

Thanks a lot 5u3. The postage rates were very reasonable and they arrived within 4 days, which is great. Just have to find some time to put the cards in now!

eL_PuSHeR: Do you not get tired of moving every single post in this forum to the DOSBox forum? As I said in another thread can someone not rearrange the index page slightly so people find the right forum first time?

Hope you don't mind a noob making a couple of suggestions :sweatdrop: I'm new to this site but have already taken some things from 5u3 (the items were free and I just paid postage), however I only found his thread by chance as I was looking to see what most of the forums were about. I'm always on …

swaaye wrote: You'll have what will essentially be a 1994 Dream Machine. 😁 Hehe, yeah I'm only 15 years too late! 😦

Well, as I said I've ordered a Stealth 64 GFX card already and am waiting for a DX4/100 chip so I'll let you all know exactly what kind of boost (if any) I get. If it's none then I'll stick to the point n clicks / strategy games on this system and hunt around for a decent pentium in the meantime : …

What is fast enough for one person is not for another. It's hard to judge. Back in '94, I played TIE CD in SVGA on a 486DX/2 50 with a ISA Cirrus Logic card and enjoyed it. I doubt that I would be happy with that anymore. At this point I would not even bother with SVGA games on a 486/5x86. Yeah, it …

DosFreak: Yeah I meant old GFX cards for a 486. I just don't understand why there would be cards that were so expensive if they didn't really offer any performance increase for games. I've already ordered a stealth 64 before I read all these posts so I'm feeling like that was a bit of a waste of …

Ram expansion Driver support VESA support Better DAC. Sorry for asking so many questions, I'm not really up on all this though. What are the benefits of those things if it's not improved graphic performance in games etc? For what purpose(s) would someone go out and spend $500 on a card instead of …

gulikoza wrote: None, unless you have a really crappy ISA card with very slow dram 😀 Well, when I asked that question, I didn't mean just for TIE Fighter. I mean there must be some advantage to having a card that originally cost $500 compared to an on board card, surely? 😕

No, graphics card will make very little difference (there's no acceleration). For TIE Fighter it's just the CPU. I remember it was quite playable on 486 dx4/100, but it slowed down a lot when lot's of action was on the screen. P100 or higher is highly recommendable for SVGA mode. Even dosbox needs …

Minimum requirements are just that. In terms of CPU yeah. For graphics it just says "VLB card required for high resolution". I guess I'm asking what will help most, a better gfx card or a higher CPU? Or are both needed? I'm looking at a Diamond Stealth 64 4MB card - do you think that would make …

Hi I've recently got my 486 set up and bought Tie Fighter Collector's CD to play. The game plays fine but I have to turn all the graphics down to either off or lowest setting. I thought perhaps a RAM upgrade would help so I bought 64MB and stuck it in. If it's made any difference at all though, it's …

organisation64: Can I just ask.. did you download the game from Dosgames? I'm just asking because I downloaded their version and I too can't manage to get the sound working, only music. I originally thought I would just have to play around with the memory settings some more (I remember this was a …