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486DX CPU

Hardware entity

Requires at least 486DX type of CPU with clock speeds ranging from 16 to 100 MHz.

271
games
6
platforms

Alternate names: 486DX2, 80486, i486

Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in The Spinal Frontier (Windows 3.1)
Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in The Spinal Frontier
W31 1995
MegaRace 2 (MS-DOS)
MegaRace 2
DOS 1996
Apache Longbow (MS-DOS)
Apache Longbow
DOS 1995
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure (Windows)
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
WIN 1995
Alien Rampage (MS-DOS)
Alien Rampage
DOS 1996
Heroes of Might and Magic (MS-DOS)
Heroes of Might and Magic
DOS 1995
Savage Warriors (MS-DOS)
Savage Warriors
DOS 1995
Bolo (MS-DOS)
Bolo
DOS 1994
Flight Unlimited (MS-DOS)
Flight Unlimited
DOS 1995
Dive: The Conquest of Silver Eye (MS-DOS)
Dive: The Conquest of Silver Eye
DOS 1996
Lords of Midnight: The Citadel (MS-DOS)
Lords of Midnight: The Citadel
DOS 1995
The Dig (MS-DOS)
The Dig
DOS 1995-11-30
Most notable enhancement over 386 line is the addition of Floating-point Unit (FPU), though the 486SX budget version didn't have this.

DX2 variant could have twice as high CPU Hz than the bus Hz, meaning any 486 CPU faster than 50 MHz was a DX2.

DX4 could run thrice as fast as the bus and supposedly had better performing FPU, though it's most important feature was use of 3.3V instead of 5V.

Hobbyists were able to put replace 68040 CPUs in some Macintosh machines with 80486DX2 CPUs. Some OEMs experimented with this hack as well. But no 3rd party x86 Mac products, hardware or software, ever made it to market.

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Parent groups

Processor architectures, x86 CPU architecture, x86-32 CPU

Games by year

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A1989 - 486 introduced
B1993 - Pentium released
C1996 - Pentium MMX introduced

The first 486DX CPU video game was released in 1991.

Sierra On-Line, Electronic Arts and Mindscape published most of these games.

Platforms

MS-DOS 143
Win3.1 70
Windows 47
Linux 8
Mac OS Classic 2
Tandy Coco 1

Most common companies

Sierra On-Line10
Electronic Arts10
Mindscape6
Knowledge Adventure5
SoftKey5
Hasbro Interactive5
Sierra5
Activision4
McGraw Hill Home Interactive4
Virgin4
Levande Böcker i Norden4
Edmark4
Infogrames3
Acclaim Entertainment3
Humongous Entertainment3