System info:

P5-90 (no FPU error) overclocked to 100 MHz.

Random Taiwanese motherboard.

CIS chipset, AMI bios, 3 PCI slots, 4 ISA slots. EIDE controller, 2 serial, 1 parallel, on board.

32MB RAM (16x2).

ATI Win-turbo PCI video card.

(This is an OEM version of the Mach 64 Pro Turbo, however the 2 Meg VRAM cannot be upgraded to 4.)

Adaptek 2940 PCI SCSI-2 controller

Micropolis MC4221 2Gig SCSI HD

Old 500MB Fugitsu (non-enhanced) IDE Hard Disk.

Intel 144i internal modem.

Sound Blaster 16 ASP.

NEC 4FGe 15" monitor.

HP Laserjet 4P printer.

Software I run:

• OS/2 Warp v3 Fullpack.
  • ATI v1.54 video drivers (actually better than the drivers that came with warp, if you can believe that!)
• OS/2 progs:
  • Object Desktop
  • NPS WPS enhancer
  • WPcls-1.37 WPS class
  • Zoc 2.11
  • EMX
  • emTeX + pmTeX
  • ghostscript/ghostview
  • Lotus SmartSuite for OS/2 (mainly for AmiSlow)
  • Backmaster 1.1
  • MKS toolkit for OS/2
  • ZipControl 2.1.9
  • PM View
  • PM Jpeg
  • Lemmings
• Windog programs:
  • Quicken v3
  • Turbo-Tax, once each year
• DOS programs:
  • Chuck Yeager's Air Combat
  • Doom 1.1
  • Descent
  • X-Wing
  (all of which run great under OS/2)

Software I have had problems with:

Arts and Letters for Windog

Would not install.

Warp IAK NewsReader/2 and Gopher

These would not run, no matter what I did, until a fairly recent release. Now there is no problem. The rest of the IAK runs flawlessly.

Hardware problems:

Video:

None with the Mach64, however I used to have a Mach32 (ATI Graphics Ultra Pro) and I found the ATI Mach32 drivers to be exceedingly stercoraceous.

Monitor:

The NEC allows 1024x768 at 76 Hz which is real nice, but I am not otherwise impressed with the NEC. It has distorted edges along the top centimeter. I would not buy another.

George R. Welch
grw@tamu.edu
http://leona.tamu.edu/george