I want to buy a 486 MSDOS machine, but the prices on ebay are

Well, your best bet is using dosbox.

Or

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games

>>60035602
DosBox is a pain in the ass though. It has no fullscreen and it just wipes my progress when I close it.

>>60035631
>it just wipes my progress when I close it
Set permissions properly or point it to your user folder, dumbass.

Try FreeDOS.

Can't you just run it in a VM?

486's are expensive now? I suppose hipsters and gold scavengers are too blame.

Just go to pawn/thrift stores and look around, you're bound to find something at some point. Some of the small e-tailers may also still stock old parts. Ebay should always be your last resort when all else fails. You can even try dumpster diving but probably not going to find anything that old now unless you get real lucky.

>>60035774
This sounds like my best option.

>>60035631
Of course it has fullscreen, there's even the standard shortcut ALT+Enter . Try it.

>>60035631
>It has no fullscreen

Yes it does. lrn2dosbox.conf

>>60035806
There are some games that do not run in VMs or DOSBox because they use some weird graphics or sound hardware trickery, but they're quite rare.

>>60035839
Pretty much. Also unless you're looking to run games that specifically depend on a 486 class CPU and shit themselves on anything faster, consider including the earlier Pentium systems in your scope too. They're pretty damn good for DOS usage as well, you still get the ISA slots for the popular sound cards and the extra performance really helps in some later DOS titles, and it's significantly better if you're looking to run some flavor of Win9x.

there's many torrents with every single mainstream DOS game and a program to run then all

>>60037266
This is also often hosted on flash game websites

Unless you're buying one with a Gravis Ultrasound sound card, don't bother, just use a VM.

No one has emulated Gravis, which 30 years later is still probably the best sound card ever made.