Taken: AT 286 motherboard with mathco

[Jim Leonard]

Teo Zenios wrote:
> To play the original Wing Commander (way too fast on my 486)!

It would have to be a 16MHz 286, and you must play in VGA(*) (really 
MCGA) mode.  But with those conditions met, yes, the original Wing 
Commander is playable.  12Mhz is a hair too slow to be enjoyable.

(*) Original Wing Commander supported EGA and Tandy 16-color graphics. 
However, the graphics speed in these modes, even though they require 
half the memory, is so slow that the game is unplayable due to the 
bitwide manipulation needed.
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