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286 with VGA? I guess no problem because I've seen a 8086 machine with VGA.

Around 1994, I've seen and played a game on a 8086 machine with a VGA card and full-screen perfectly smooth scrolling. I don't remember the name but it was a 2D-from-above toy-car racing game where each level/race had a different theme.

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One of my fondest memories is when my dad had the neighbor up the road from us upgrade his 286 work PC from 1MB to 4MB of RAM and replace the EGA card with an Orchid VGA card so we could play Wolf3D in a postage stamp sized window.

I spent weeks playing Wolfenstein and mashing the “MIL” cheat code on the keyboard as fast as I could to get it to register. The machine was so slow that it would often not process the multiple keystrokes fast enough to enable max ammo and all guns, without multiple attempts.

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