is awesome that this game 3d-like with such big screen only needs 10MHz or less to run! this is without doubt one of the greatests softwares in history!!
this was one of my favourits games on my first PC 386DX40, 2 mb ram, 80mb hdd, some Trident VGA and a Sound Blaster 2.0 (compatible) sound card... Sweet memories :)
This reminds me of playing Doom on my 486DX-50, I had 4 mb of ram at the time, and I put many many hours in on that game but it was fun as hell !! Cool video,
Still got my old 286. I remember finding the W3d Shareware disk on 5.25", which was hard. But my mom wouldn't buy it, telling me she's bout to buy a new computer.
My dream PC was i486dx2/66 with 8MB RAM while i was using 286. I remember i was buying 5.25" Double density diskettes. Maxell, 3M and Verbatim were my most favorite diskette labels.
@justincc87 Other way around dude. AdLib possessed only a Yamaha YM3812 FM synth (OPL2), and delivered the music and some synthesised sound effects in Wolf3D. Sound Blaster could play digitised samples, and produced most of the sound effects. This video shows that a Sound Blaster was detected, but no digital sound effects were played. (The synthesised item pickup sounds were played though). With no EMS and only a little XMS, there probably wasn't enough memory for the digital effects.
I used to play the original Castle Wolfenstein, which was 2D. I believe I played it on either my school's Apple 2es (through its internal speaker) or my Atari 800XL (through the TV's speaker).
I SO MISS the days of old school computing - i was born in 1985 but these noises these computers made and the things they did were like a high. I SO miss the time in my life when it was the early 90s.
Who the hell would put any dislikes- what kind of narrow minded fools exist?
its computing history folks. and the author showed us something very cool. THANK YOU Kingcrimson234. you are a big time geek in my book, and I would enjoy hanging out with you haha.
@DarkBolo yeah lol mine was close but it was 90mhz and 64megs of ram, i remember buying a 4mb sis 6326 video card and running it on jediknight dark forces 2 and was blown away cause it was my first 3d capable card
@DarkBolo Ahhh, memorys...I remember my first PC...it was a 386 made by a company called "Lazer" which I think was the Montgomery Wards PC brand. It was 16MHz...I can't remember exactly how much memory it had, but it was in the 100's of kilobytes. And a whopping 40MB of Hard Disk space. I told my mom I wanted it for school...but truth be told...I just wanted to play Wolfenstein 3D...and I did. It took another year before I could afford a Sound Blaster with my allowance XD.
@gamewizard Dont forget that the quality setting at the player isnt just a resolution change. It changes the whole video file and so higher settings on the player are with much better quality.
the 240p file has only a very very small video and audio bitrate.
@mohabiraq1 i just got a little touchy because you said stop reading from wikipedia, and i've been up for like 20+ hours. i need to get to sleep. sorry.
These games and thes machines like Commodores, Ataris, MSX runs fantastic without problems, not like modern computers, a lot of Terabytes Of HD or a lot of memory but the soft sux a lot...you need to change the Hard every year, I am a collector, every day im happy to use my Commodore Amiga 500 or 1200 and other fantastic machines like MSX, C64 or Atari XL XE series..
I noticed that you have more Conventional Memory than usual; this always helps increase the framerate with Wolf3D. And E1L1 always runs much better than the other levels; this map has the fewest Objects and enemies in it.
In my 80286 days, I shrank the window size to minimum, pressed the Up button four times, and pressed Enter. The view size was smaller, but the performance was better, and the gun didn't look so "pixellated". You really need this when attacking enemies from a distance.
Oki dont get these comments people are saying this game is like CPU intensive and how they need top line graphics cards, wtf? this game is old how can it take hardcore gaming shit to roll it out? I dont understand the connected to playing old games on new hardware and why everyone is syaing how they need more CPU or ram to play and old game ERRR SO CONFUSING!! EXPLAIN IT PLZ
Old gamers rules ;) , in 1992 when i build my 80-386 dx 2 i play Wolfenstein 3d for days... amazin game!, then when i beat the game i play again only with Luger entirely.
@Fazz73jr Do it! i am a old computer collector, i have more than 37 computers from 1977 (Texas Ti99 4a to 1992 Commodore Amiga 1200) when i bored i play original videogames with my collection is amazing, best machines! no heat, no fan sounds, no hangs, with very less memory processor and all specs but can enjoy like champion older videogames running on original machines.
You're missing some sounds ingame. No digital sound effects?
I had a 286 for a few years to, back in the early 90's I collected all components second handed. I had a 286 motherboard with headland chipset, a Harris 20Mhz cpu and 16 megs of ram! An Aztech Galaxy nova 16 sound card. Wearnes CDD-110 CDrom player and a maxtor 30mb harddrive. I used this pc for all sorts of old games.
LoL Not fake. I have done the same with a 286-12mhz as well as 386sx-16mhz. You just need the right hardware. This game is not as cpu intensive as you think. All you need is a decent video card, like a Tseng Et4000ax or Et4000w/32. Throw in a decent caching ide controller, and it runs smooth as butter in fullscreen.
Also, some 286s had 0 wait state ram, which is an has a huge effect on the speed of the game.
@The1hamburgler he could be right, i dont have any experience with 286s but my 20mhz 386 loads slower than this and you can easily install dos on any x86 system. the only way this is possibly real is if OPs 286 has atleast 8mb of ram
@Rako692 nope this is about right. My 12MHz 80286 with 1MB and a 40MB drive used to run like this.
What you need to realise is that this game was coded SPECIFICALLY for the 80286. It's been a long time since I've read through the source code, but from memory it takes advantage of every trick in the book, including runtime code generation.
This was a technical work of art, and would run better on a 286 than a 386sx (clock for clock.)
Maybe it's just me, but I've always thought that clock for clock, the 286 was a bit faster than the 386sx. Then again, it could be that the only people I knew to have 386sx-based systems had Packard Bells.
Man you were lucky to get this, I had a TRIDENT video card on my 386sx 33, my computer was actually top spec but the video card was horrible and let down my rig so much, but I was only a kid at the time with no money to buy something better. This rans better than mine!
@kingcrimson234 My first pc was an olivetti 286, but it only had a 4mb hard drive and 640k ram with a green screen. So i got a 486 slc-33Mhz a year later. It had 2 MB ram, which I upgraded to 4. The only crap thing about it was the 120MB hard drive, and the slc-33 was apparently a laptop 486 cpu, and it had no floating point (similar to an sx) - so Doom and Doom 2 ran really bad. It could handle UFO and Terror from the Deep though, so I was happy.
@kingcrimson234 That seems really fast for a 286. My 386sx @ 25mhz runs at about that speed, but I need to reduce window size a bit. What video card are you using?
@vasko1611 hmm, if the monitor works on other computers with the same VGA cable i'm going to say either your pentium's video card is shot or it's something like bad memory preventing it from booting. swap the S3 out with some other card and see what happens.
Why use an LCD monitor surely a CRT would be better suited to older games as they are designed to display lower resolutions and would show a crisper picture, an LCD monitor would have a lot of blurring in games like this I would guess.
@ironchef3500 you can see when the game starts in the video. total of 1 MB. it's not RAM that makes a difference in this game, it's a VGA card with very fast memory. (relatively speaking)
@Hipolit21000 .... what are you talking about? this game came out when most people still had a 286 or 386 PC. why the fuck do you think it wouldn't play like this on one? and you spelled "machine" wrong.
woah this game was really optimized 10 Mhz at that max size with 1MB ram and it runs like that? I gotta say im honestly unpressed. its not the greatest, but it looks playable
those BIOSes were fairly generic as in they'd work between different machines in most cases, unless there was some sort of weird hardware on one board. the whole reason i took them off in the first place was because i was using them for a while on a 386 board. the BIOS the 386 came with did not let you enter custom parameters for a hard drive, and the 286 BIOS did.
@pincky14 i accidentally destroyed the BIOS chips some months ago, but i have the entire motherboard still if you want a picture of it. (i wasn't paying attention and inserted the chips backwards once, and turned it on. before i realized what i did they were scalding hot and never worked again)
the computer has 1 MB of RAM, and so does the Diamond Speedstar SVGA card i used on it. i'm thinking i may be able to get some other 286 BIOS to go on there.
Wolfenstein 3D minimum requirements was only a 286 CPU and 640 KB RAM. So it was deseigned to run on a 286 from the beginning. Wolfenstein 3D was released in 1992 after all, however the 286 CPU's were around since 1982, just weren't popular until the late 80's - early 90's.
i'm not lying. it's a 10 MHz 286, and the graphics card is a Tseng ET4000-based Diamond Speedstar. i think that card is a lot of the reason it's so smooth.
@kingcrimson234 You're probably right about the graphics card. I had an IBM PS/2 with a 386SX 16MHz CPU and it ran this game about half this speed. Couldn't play it with a smooth frame rate until I got a 486SX 25Mhz.
Nice video. But it shows clearly that wolfenstein 3d was a heavy game for the 286. Remember that in those days the graphics card wasn´t important as it is today for games.
If you can, go into the sound options and turn on the Digitized Sounds because they don't appear to be on in this video. The digitized sounds are for when doors open, when you fire your gun and when the guards yell a warning.
The commodore amiga 500 was 25 mhz and would struggle with those graphics, that cant be 10 mhz?
MrConsiderateguy 1 day ago
@MrConsiderateguy the amiga 500 was actually ~7 MHz and an 80286 is much more efficient than an an original 68000.
kingcrimson234 1 day ago
Retro gaming rules
heroijapa 1 week ago
xDDDD
adonis4441 1 week ago
looks a bit fast for 10 MHz
j78k 1 week ago
Good memories !
zerobrainfellow 2 weeks ago
is awesome that this game 3d-like with such big screen only needs 10MHz or less to run! this is without doubt one of the greatests softwares in history!!
zakopako82 2 weeks ago
GISTAPO!
laffo16 2 weeks ago
@laffo16 its GESTAPO
EricTheCavalier 2 weeks ago
this was one of my favourits games on my first PC 386DX40, 2 mb ram, 80mb hdd, some Trident VGA and a Sound Blaster 2.0 (compatible) sound card... Sweet memories :)
Banderius79 3 weeks ago
before Enemy Territory and RTCW :O/
Vidinotes 1 month ago
First game i ever play on my 486 sx50 4 mb ram
greatgnomex 1 month ago
GET PSYCHED!!!!!!!
lamiac2411 1 month ago
This reminds me of playing Doom on my 486DX-50, I had 4 mb of ram at the time, and I put many many hours in on that game but it was fun as hell !! Cool video,
Mosfet510 1 month ago
Wolfenstein was the coolest game in these times.
wonderfalg 1 month ago
i has dis computer i can run crysis ye?
mp2611 1 month ago 9
@mp2611 Crysis isn't a great game. Try to run Battlefield 3 dude, im sure you'll enjoy dat graphicz
MacacoKuiko 3 weeks ago
Still got my old 286. I remember finding the W3d Shareware disk on 5.25", which was hard. But my mom wouldn't buy it, telling me she's bout to buy a new computer.
downsouth420 1 month ago
My dream PC was i486dx2/66 with 8MB RAM while i was using 286. I remember i was buying 5.25" Double density diskettes. Maxell, 3M and Verbatim were my most favorite diskette labels.
evrenbetimen 1 month ago
this game ruled the world back then
alyraver 1 month ago
It is blend?
pitrecki666 1 month ago
Looks like there is Adlib sound instead Sound Blaster, heh..
Merlinorgua 1 month ago
@Merlinorgua no there was sound blaster...just no adlib
this game's music ran on sound blaster and most of the effects were on adlib
justincc87 1 month ago
@justincc87 Other way around dude. AdLib possessed only a Yamaha YM3812 FM synth (OPL2), and delivered the music and some synthesised sound effects in Wolf3D. Sound Blaster could play digitised samples, and produced most of the sound effects. This video shows that a Sound Blaster was detected, but no digital sound effects were played. (The synthesised item pickup sounds were played though). With no EMS and only a little XMS, there probably wasn't enough memory for the digital effects.
GGFSquallStrife 1 month ago
could i run this on a 7MHz 386?
fortifythamind 1 month ago
@fortifythamind
Why would you even run a 386 at 7 MHz? (and how?) The slowest 386 was the 386SX which ran at 16 MHz.
GamleErik100 1 month ago
@GamleErik100 in the bios it says the standard clock is 7 mhz. im new to old hardware so please excuse any of my errors
fortifythamind 1 month ago
@fortifythamind yes i ran it on a 5MHz 286
justincc87 1 month ago
I used to play the original Castle Wolfenstein, which was 2D. I believe I played it on either my school's Apple 2es (through its internal speaker) or my Atari 800XL (through the TV's speaker).
PoobahSCRG 1 month ago
U had sound blaster on a 286? I liked the most the sound from the computer speaker... it was awesome.
dragonclaw1986 1 month ago
@dragonclaw1986 I had a soundblaster on my 10Mhz 286, but I didn't have one of them fancy VGA video cards, so I had to settle for Catacomb 3D.
GotNextVideo 1 month ago
I SO MISS the days of old school computing - i was born in 1985 but these noises these computers made and the things they did were like a high. I SO miss the time in my life when it was the early 90s.
BoyishDriver 1 month ago
@BoyishDriver I'm from '82 myself, and couldn't agree more. It feels like computers kind'a lost their magic nowadays.
wanteds13 1 month ago
Who the hell would put any dislikes- what kind of narrow minded fools exist?
its computing history folks. and the author showed us something very cool. THANK YOU Kingcrimson234. you are a big time geek in my book, and I would enjoy hanging out with you haha.
BoyishDriver 1 month ago
My first PC was Intel Pentium 133MHZ, 16mb ram, 2GB HDD, 2MB Tseng Laboratory video card and Sound Blaster 16... Good old times
DarkBolo 1 month ago
@DarkBolo yeah lol mine was close but it was 90mhz and 64megs of ram, i remember buying a 4mb sis 6326 video card and running it on jediknight dark forces 2 and was blown away cause it was my first 3d capable card
PsiloCybinDreamX 1 month ago
@DarkBolo Ahhh, memorys...I remember my first PC...it was a 386 made by a company called "Lazer" which I think was the Montgomery Wards PC brand. It was 16MHz...I can't remember exactly how much memory it had, but it was in the 100's of kilobytes. And a whopping 40MB of Hard Disk space. I told my mom I wanted it for school...but truth be told...I just wanted to play Wolfenstein 3D...and I did. It took another year before I could afford a Sound Blaster with my allowance XD.
deusprogrammer 1 month ago
ah brings back memorys
first PC i had was 286 8mhz or 12mhz turbo mode (lol) 1993 (well not including the schneider 464)
and yep was playing this (but with black/white monitor)
you could even scale the screen to increase fps
took me another year to get a 386sx 16mhz (ouch weakest version), a precious Adlib soundcard and ...behold a colour monitor.....good times :P
SkampeX 1 month ago
a 286 with a sound card? I never imagined that was possible as a kid. I used to play wolf3d with just straight pc sound
swadlol 1 month ago
240p, we meet again :(
rswingman 2 months ago
@rswingman
Don't be such an ass. 240p is more than sufficient to display this game.
gamewizard 2 months ago 12
@gamewizard Dont forget that the quality setting at the player isnt just a resolution change. It changes the whole video file and so higher settings on the player are with much better quality.
the 240p file has only a very very small video and audio bitrate.
Fleshshredder 1 week ago
@kingcrimson234 Since you like classic games ,check this out
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mohabiraq1 2 months ago
@mohabiraq1 oh, awesome! playable on-site. and there's also megaman 2. sweet.
kingcrimson234 2 months ago
286 is never 10MHz It starts from 12MHz up to 25MHz
mohabiraq1 2 months ago
@mohabiraq1 uh, nope. they've been as low as 4 MHz. the one on my motherboard clearly says 10 MHz.
kingcrimson234 2 months ago
@kingcrimson234 dude there is no 10MHz 286 and stop reading from Wikipedia.
How much ram do you have in your computer?
mohabiraq1 2 months ago
@mohabiraq1 wtf do you want, a picture of my CPU?? it's a fucking 10 MHz AMD 286. i don't know how to make this any clearer to you.
kingcrimson234 2 months ago
@kingcrimson234 ok dude, don't be angry, I believe you.
mohabiraq1 2 months ago
@mohabiraq1 sorry lol i got a little worked up. it's all good.
kingcrimson234 2 months ago
@mohabiraq1 i just got a little touchy because you said stop reading from wikipedia, and i've been up for like 20+ hours. i need to get to sleep. sorry.
kingcrimson234 2 months ago
@mohabiraq1 it's one of these, go to bit.ly slash u3Np7u
(i can't paste the actual link on youtube, it doesn't let you)
are you convinced now? it's 10 MHz.
kingcrimson234 2 months ago
i can play this on my 5Mhz microwave
RDilus 2 months ago
I miss that MIDI music in this game. So good to hear it again.
MLI pressed together = full health and all weapons but you lose high score.
coondogtheman1234 2 months ago
Wow..... thanks so much for this! :D
freemoviesonline23 2 months ago
These games and thes machines like Commodores, Ataris, MSX runs fantastic without problems, not like modern computers, a lot of Terabytes Of HD or a lot of memory but the soft sux a lot...you need to change the Hard every year, I am a collector, every day im happy to use my Commodore Amiga 500 or 1200 and other fantastic machines like MSX, C64 or Atari XL XE series..
nopochoclos 2 months ago
I noticed that you have more Conventional Memory than usual; this always helps increase the framerate with Wolf3D. And E1L1 always runs much better than the other levels; this map has the fewest Objects and enemies in it.
In my 80286 days, I shrank the window size to minimum, pressed the Up button four times, and pressed Enter. The view size was smaller, but the performance was better, and the gun didn't look so "pixellated". You really need this when attacking enemies from a distance.
Tricob1974 2 months ago
Whoa!
I hear no classical internal speaker bleeps. It's "real" sound!
I assume this computer got a sound card.
At the time when the 286 computers where "modern", soundcards where expensive and a luxury only few could have.
sysghost 2 months ago
Even after all these years I still know where the secret door leading to the MP-40 is...
timeodaneosetdona 2 months ago 2
Modern kids even don't know how terrific gaming was back in the past
crogeek 2 months ago
u can play minecraft on it?
lolzvid 3 months ago
@lolzvid Sure, but I had problems installing java. If you get it to work it runs on 60fps all time.
KubaPSP 3 months ago
@KubaPSP cool. if u can make a video of it,send it for me. i want to see how its lag :D
lolzvid 2 months ago
this game brings me so much memoryes :)
deiu9999 3 months ago
Lol you have the same monitor as mine.
blakegriplingph 3 months ago
lol reminds me of my old PAL 286.....ahh the memories..
nabasta 3 months ago
To see that on this machine Wolf actually has a load time is priceless! Thank you for sharing!
Szederp 3 months ago
OMG it has beter graphics than MW3
alecdepalect 3 months ago
Oki dont get these comments people are saying this game is like CPU intensive and how they need top line graphics cards, wtf? this game is old how can it take hardcore gaming shit to roll it out? I dont understand the connected to playing old games on new hardware and why everyone is syaing how they need more CPU or ram to play and old game ERRR SO CONFUSING!! EXPLAIN IT PLZ
shimorishiak 3 months ago
funny now this days you can play that on all cell phones
TheJohnhuhu 4 months ago
I miss the good ol' days. :(
BeefCaike 4 months ago
Have you just got a an adlib in their?
kreeddem 4 months ago
10 people couldn't get psyched...
ElectricG 5 months ago
Old gamers rules ;) , in 1992 when i build my 80-386 dx 2 i play Wolfenstein 3d for days... amazin game!, then when i beat the game i play again only with Luger entirely.
nopochoclos 5 months ago
Haha, we had a 386/DX40 back when i was playing wolf'.
Now i'm watchin' this vid' on an X58 i7@4 GHz with a GTX570.
I COULD be playing Crysis, but i'm watching vids on old games. Makes me laugh, anyway.
Back then, I could play Doom with the 386's VGA card, but the window had to be sooo small.
Seriously, not much bigger than a playing card, if at all.
JayGOS117 5 months ago
Damn, makes me want to dig my ol 486 out and play!
Fazz73jr 6 months ago
@Fazz73jr Do it! i am a old computer collector, i have more than 37 computers from 1977 (Texas Ti99 4a to 1992 Commodore Amiga 1200) when i bored i play original videogames with my collection is amazing, best machines! no heat, no fan sounds, no hangs, with very less memory processor and all specs but can enjoy like champion older videogames running on original machines.
nopochoclos 5 months ago
One of the best game ever made !
Kaynos 6 months ago
You're missing some sounds ingame. No digital sound effects?
I had a 286 for a few years to, back in the early 90's I collected all components second handed. I had a 286 motherboard with headland chipset, a Harris 20Mhz cpu and 16 megs of ram! An Aztech Galaxy nova 16 sound card. Wearnes CDD-110 CDrom player and a maxtor 30mb harddrive. I used this pc for all sorts of old games.
gekkehenk1980 6 months ago
apogee version? ive never seen that version before.
thecooldude9999 7 months ago
@thecooldude9999 me neither.
djworrall 4 months ago
dificulty : im death incarnate LMAO thats awesome
TheBigupz 7 months ago
I HAVE THIS GAME ON A FLOPPY DISK!!
AltirisX 7 months ago
love it
SymbolicSoliloquy 7 months ago
LoL Not fake. I have done the same with a 286-12mhz as well as 386sx-16mhz. You just need the right hardware. This game is not as cpu intensive as you think. All you need is a decent video card, like a Tseng Et4000ax or Et4000w/32. Throw in a decent caching ide controller, and it runs smooth as butter in fullscreen.
Also, some 286s had 0 wait state ram, which is an has a huge effect on the speed of the game.
waytostoned 8 months ago
this game is so racist. no surprise americans still call us nazis.
hardstyle905 8 months ago
That game always made me motion sick when I'd play it for too long.
nexus1g 9 months ago
It's fake... to fast loading...
Rako692 9 months ago
@Rako692 oh shut up you fag its real i dont think you can fake dos menu then fake bootig the game
The1hamburgler 9 months ago
@The1hamburgler he could be right, i dont have any experience with 286s but my 20mhz 386 loads slower than this and you can easily install dos on any x86 system. the only way this is possibly real is if OPs 286 has atleast 8mb of ram
Antwan1500 9 months ago
@Rako692 nope this is about right. My 12MHz 80286 with 1MB and a 40MB drive used to run like this.
What you need to realise is that this game was coded SPECIFICALLY for the 80286. It's been a long time since I've read through the source code, but from memory it takes advantage of every trick in the book, including runtime code generation.
This was a technical work of art, and would run better on a 286 than a 386sx (clock for clock.)
devlinsakey 9 months ago
Back in those days, those were the BEST graphics!
kc2jga 10 months ago
Now those were games.
jvolstad 10 months ago
looks great!
drakon32 11 months ago
This is back when games where coded small and fast. Now they are fat, overbloated, DLL/Memory hungry monsters.
acount134 11 months ago
Lol, toooo fast for a 286 dude.
You run this game on like 386-20mhz
GroovyMango 1 year ago
@GroovyMango
You'd be surprised. I can run this game just fine on my Compaq SLT/286 laptop with 1MB RAM and an external VGA monitor.
Jerkwad152 11 months ago
How come your 286 got colors?!
carlosandregoes 1 year ago
How come you're 286 got colors?!
carlosandregoes 1 year ago
Maybe it's just me, but I've always thought that clock for clock, the 286 was a bit faster than the 386sx. Then again, it could be that the only people I knew to have 386sx-based systems had Packard Bells.
OneEyedJack1970 1 year ago
@OneEyedJack1970
The rare 25MHz 286 that Harris made was often mistaken for a 40MHz 386 in terms of how well the computer performed.
Jerkwad152 11 months ago
that game always gave me headaches
machonelo 1 year ago
What an awesome game, i spend tons of hours on that.
Kaynos 1 year ago
i still have a trident 4mb svga isa...
The old 286sx i had runned on 16mhz and had 4x256kb
kinmanyuen 1 year ago
Love these older 286, 386, 486, P100's ect. Have you had any luck running emulators on them?
atariforever2002 1 year ago
Man you were lucky to get this, I had a TRIDENT video card on my 386sx 33, my computer was actually top spec but the video card was horrible and let down my rig so much, but I was only a kid at the time with no money to buy something better. This rans better than mine!
leerees 1 year ago
@leerees an SX 386 was never top spec ;)
kingcrimson234 1 year ago 26
@kingcrimson234 It is when are 14 years old and relying on parents to pay for your rig! ;-) You rich 486DX kids don't know how lucky you were ;-)
leerees 1 year ago
@kingcrimson234 My first pc was an olivetti 286, but it only had a 4mb hard drive and 640k ram with a green screen. So i got a 486 slc-33Mhz a year later. It had 2 MB ram, which I upgraded to 4. The only crap thing about it was the 120MB hard drive, and the slc-33 was apparently a laptop 486 cpu, and it had no floating point (similar to an sx) - so Doom and Doom 2 ran really bad. It could handle UFO and Terror from the Deep though, so I was happy.
iris030380 1 year ago
@kingcrimson234 There's always gonna be people who bring down others.
jimmybrite 10 months ago
@kingcrimson234 That seems really fast for a 286. My 386sx @ 25mhz runs at about that speed, but I need to reduce window size a bit. What video card are you using?
Pilotgeek 7 months ago
@kingcrimson234 Exactly. DX forever Hi-End ;D
elkey1000 4 months ago
I thought all 80286's were shipped back to China to have children rummage through them!
ImoenOfTelengard 1 year ago
Brings back memories, all those late nights playing this on my 286!
ShadyMan01 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
I like your pimped 286 :)
I am trying to hook up a newer machine pentium S3 TRIO 1 mb to 19'' samsung LCD but there is no picture (I am using the VGA jack on the monitor)
Can you help me with my problem?
I want to build a retro gaming rig
Thanks.
vasko1611 1 year ago
I like your pimped 286 :)
I am trying to hook up a newer machine pentium S3 TRIO 1 mb to 19'' samsung LCD but there is no picture (I am using the VGA jack on the monitor)
Can you help me with my problem?
I want to build a retro gaming rig
Thanks.
vasko1611 1 year ago
@vasko1611 hmm, if the monitor works on other computers with the same VGA cable i'm going to say either your pentium's video card is shot or it's something like bad memory preventing it from booting. swap the S3 out with some other card and see what happens.
kingcrimson234 1 year ago
That runs really well, I played the shareware version of Wolfenstein on an ancient IBM PS/2 286 about 15 years ago - it ran much worse than this!
saberblock 1 year ago
On the other side its hard to film an CRT.
DengekiGamer 1 year ago
Why use an LCD monitor surely a CRT would be better suited to older games as they are designed to display lower resolutions and would show a crisper picture, an LCD monitor would have a lot of blurring in games like this I would guess.
1990chrism 1 year ago
@1990chrism fact is that all games look better on a CRT
simon1234simon 1 year ago
Odd, this ran like balls on my 286. How much ram do you have?
ironchef3500 1 year ago
@ironchef3500 you can see when the game starts in the video. total of 1 MB. it's not RAM that makes a difference in this game, it's a VGA card with very fast memory. (relatively speaking)
kingcrimson234 1 year ago
@kingcrimson234 and what is your video card? The game seems to be kind of slow tho...
omarsis81 11 months ago
@kingcrimson234 Nah, dude, for games like this it was all about your CPU.
erikpurne 3 months ago
@ironchef3500 I think I found some 30-pin 4MB Simms for my 286. I could actually max it out to 16MB.
2wayfreq 1 year ago
@2wayfreq They might not work. I had a 386 board that would only take 256K or 1MB SIMMs.
OneEyedJack1970 1 year ago
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Hipolit21000 1 year ago
@Hipolit21000 .... what are you talking about? this game came out when most people still had a 286 or 386 PC. why the fuck do you think it wouldn't play like this on one? and you spelled "machine" wrong.
kingcrimson234 1 year ago
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@kingcrimson234
Acha sorry nie wiedziałem o tym.
Hipolit21000 1 year ago
I Think My Computer cant run this kind of graphics :O
terekevadexD 1 year ago
could run on my old 386 as well
1coteca 1 year ago
the phone used to record this video has a faster CPU and more ram than the computer playing wolfenstein lol
1488slav 1 year ago
I had the 12Mhz version :)
tinotrivino 1 year ago
woah this game was really optimized 10 Mhz at that max size with 1MB ram and it runs like that? I gotta say im honestly unpressed. its not the greatest, but it looks playable
Sypran 1 year ago
wolf3d
thelastmanalive87 1 year ago
i remember playing these older games when i was little...so much fun dude! 8D
WeskersCountess 1 year ago
This is OPTIMITATION
kanfor 1 year ago
this kills crysis
CUZIIN 1 year ago 3
@CUZIIN crysis is a crappy game. even this dinosaur is more fun.
kingcrimson234 1 year ago 15
@kingcrimson234 nice to see people still have the 286 :)
leet2222 1 year ago
@kingcrimson234 That is your opinion.
lilleborik 4 months ago
those BIOSes were fairly generic as in they'd work between different machines in most cases, unless there was some sort of weird hardware on one board. the whole reason i took them off in the first place was because i was using them for a while on a 386 board. the BIOS the 386 came with did not let you enter custom parameters for a hard drive, and the 286 BIOS did.
kingcrimson234 1 year ago
i am calling bs on this i don;t think wolf 3d would run that fast on a 286
pincky14 1 year ago
@pincky14 fuck you dude why would i fake it? go try it yourself or shut up. do i need to take a picture of the damn CPU or what?
kingcrimson234 1 year ago
@kingcrimson234 give me a screen shot of your bios screen how much ram you got in there? how much video ram you got on what kind of card?
pincky14 1 year ago
@pincky14 i accidentally destroyed the BIOS chips some months ago, but i have the entire motherboard still if you want a picture of it. (i wasn't paying attention and inserted the chips backwards once, and turned it on. before i realized what i did they were scalding hot and never worked again)
the computer has 1 MB of RAM, and so does the Diamond Speedstar SVGA card i used on it. i'm thinking i may be able to get some other 286 BIOS to go on there.
kingcrimson234 1 year ago
@kingcrimson234 give me a screen shot of the bios screen i want to see the config the only reason why your getting a smooth is the video card
pincky14 1 year ago
Wolfenstein 3D minimum requirements was only a 286 CPU and 640 KB RAM. So it was deseigned to run on a 286 from the beginning. Wolfenstein 3D was released in 1992 after all, however the 286 CPU's were around since 1982, just weren't popular until the late 80's - early 90's.
Chaniyth 1 year ago 2
amazing performance, given that configuration
SvenSiegmund 1 year ago
What's the OS for your system?
spookymcfuzzy 1 year ago
@spookymcfuzzy
seriously?? as you can see, it's DOS.......
kingcrimson234 1 year ago
@kingcrimson234 So to operate this computer you have to know DOS?
spookymcfuzzy 1 year ago
that was a computer !
Xan995 2 years ago
I ran wolf3d.exe on my 80386SX/16MHz. 256KB VGA video. PC speaker only.. About 16 fps or so.
XmegaPresident 2 years ago 4
wolfenstein 3d also ran on the 3 mhz super nintendo, but it even lower res
nooblet911 2 years ago
in a*
nooblet911 2 years ago
Games like Wolf3D could have been done in the early 80's but no one realized that, kind of a disappointment.
Appule69 2 years ago
later 80s more like
nooblet911 2 years ago
What a graphic card? Stop kidding us pls...
Uranos144 2 years ago
i'm not lying. it's a 10 MHz 286, and the graphics card is a Tseng ET4000-based Diamond Speedstar. i think that card is a lot of the reason it's so smooth.
kingcrimson234 2 years ago
@kingcrimson234 -> but LCD on 286? What a reduction...
Uranos144 2 years ago
@kingcrimson234 You're probably right about the graphics card. I had an IBM PS/2 with a 386SX 16MHz CPU and it ran this game about half this speed. Couldn't play it with a smooth frame rate until I got a 486SX 25Mhz.
fretwizard420 1 year ago
awesome! i can now play this on a cell phone!! can't believe how much things have changed!
cruelangeltesis 2 years ago
obviousely a 286 pc is 16bit.
johneymute 2 years ago
I was just wondering... does adding a soundblaster to 286 or 386 PC make games run any slower?
Conner149 2 years ago
Awesome :D I want a pimped out 386DX!
Rezorrand 2 years ago
Nice video. But it shows clearly that wolfenstein 3d was a heavy game for the 286. Remember that in those days the graphics card wasn´t important as it is today for games.
YarisTex 2 years ago
If you can, go into the sound options and turn on the Digitized Sounds because they don't appear to be on in this video. The digitized sounds are for when doors open, when you fire your gun and when the guards yell a warning.
Lachlant1984 2 years ago
yeah, i know. my BLASTER variable settings were incorrect and i was too lazy to bother pulling out the card to see the proper IRQ at the time.
kingcrimson234 2 years ago
the music gives me chills and memorizes
ewupawly 2 years ago
it will play on a 286?
DRNEGOLICIS 2 years ago