Intel 80486DX2 starting

[HarryPitfall]

before the 3d cards, nvidia, and everything... there was TRIDENT TVGA!

[007agent0007]

Intel Inside: Idiot Outside

[sephiroth671]

fuck my ass

[nipperoid]

Trident TVGA = my first graphics card

[JohnFortman]

I think 1 zetabyte of HD memory would be just enough for me;)

[paulisthebest3uk]

if you had enough ram that machine could even run windows 98!

[srRicardoHacker]

uahsuahsuhsas windows 3.1 em portugues...

Tenho uns 3 laptops aqui com windows 3.11 em ingles...

[Buzzlybonk]

This might be the perfect machine to run Descent on

[xxmago]

Good old times, huh?

[fragwits]

you can still find bios updates using the bios string (post screen, bottom)

that sting will help you in google :)

[OneEyedJack1970]

I'd always overclock my DX2s to 100 MHz, although was kind of tricky getting VLB cards to work at 50 MHz. I had one that ran at 100, but when I hit the turbo button, it would slow down to around 14 or 15 MHz, which is precisely the same speed range as a 386-33, which made it perfect for Wing Commander.

[pietrora]

beautiful!

[EXdriver97]

Hey, please help me. I too have got I486, but SX2. I have problem with mainboard: Hurricance GA586TX3512K

Can someone give me specification/manual of this board?

[nelizmastr]

theres no info anymore on that mobo. if you dont have a manual, there wont be any.

[clone4crwproductions]

My first rig was a 486DX with 24MB of RAM and a 320GB hdd, running Windows 95. I still love that thing to death.

[nelizmastr]

lol.... 320GB harddrive? you mean 3.2GB or 320MB

I have a 320GB now running Windows 7 so thats probably a very big typo

[clone4crwproductions]

@nelizmastr Oops. You're right. I mean 320MB. But I used Drivespace to compress it to 512MB.

[myid9876543]

@nelizmastr i once saw dos say the cd rom drive was 1.8TB

dunno how dos knows about terabytes, but it did.

[JaradTProductions]

The versions of Windows where you needed wayyy less RAM and memory... Windows Vista needs 512MB of RAM, thats too much for one OS...

[DeltaPhi79]

What do you expect? Windows to look like it still did in the 90's?

[DeltaPhi79]

I don't know why my comment was rated low, but it would still look sort of like it did in the '90s or at least the way it looked in Windows XP if it wanted to take up less RAM. Vista needs 512 mainly because of the look.

[yousubmeyougetasub]

you need 4MB!

[ashthepokemonmaster]

i got windows 3.1 and windows 3.11 to work on a pentium 2 with 156 MB of ram

[Blurredman]

i have wfw3.11 and it runs on a machine of 128mb of ram. of course, its too much to recognise. 16mb of ram is more than enough for windows 3.1

as for windows taking 512mb ram. Use the classic view. i have never taken to the xp,vista or even 7 taskbar. I always prefered the 95 look

[captain150]

They thought 8MB was far too much for an OS when windows 95 came out.

I agree Vista is a bit bloated, but every version of windows has been when it was first released.

[anewman1980]

The AMD 486 processors were the mutts nuts. The high end ones were faster than the early pentiums.

[maricahn]

Early Pentiums were crap, boy

[Lachlant1984]

Does this computer have a sound card and CD-ROM Drive?  Do you have any games on it?

[edonldutch]

good old days.. and windows started in 2 sec... unlike windows todays :P

i had a 286 and some 486's but then i got a p75i and man what an upgrade that was woot:D

and win95 on floppy.. took forever to install haha:D

[JaradTProductions]

@edonldutch

I have to agree with you on that. My laptop [running XP] ALWAYS crashes.

[DeltaPhi79]

Windows didn't literally start in 2 seconds lol. Compared to now, on a machine back then and a new machine, I think that the older one would still take longer... maybe. Windows never seems any faster than it was, although (being a Mac user) some of the Macs never were any slower. If not, they were faster. (OS1. About 45 seconds to a minute. OS X 10.5.8: 26 on 2GHz.)

[xm4nlinux]

Yeah, I used to have a 486 DX4 -100. That was the shit back then along with me playing trial/shareware versions of DOOM II.

Rise Of The Triad was also good. And going to computer shows to buy parts was the shit back then. I remember getting my first music CD to play on Win 3.1. Oh shit!! I was very HAPPY!

[esraesuocs]

I had a 486DX2/66 and then went to a

Pentium 90 and was blown away by

the difference.

[svtcontour]

I used to have a 486 DX2-66 with an ATI Mach32 video card and 16MB RAM. Drives were 1GB and 2GB SCSI on a Symbios logic controller. Used to run OS/2. Miss those days...

[peterclarke4]

i have a 486 with a 500mb hd

[BilisNegra]

@svtcontour Those specs (ram, drives) sound quite high end for 486 times. You were a lucky one.

[svtcontour]

@BilisNegra I was actually lucky because the RAM was given to me at a very good price because I worked at this PC company and I got it at cost. Still expensive but barely managable. It was the most expensive of the purchases. The SCSI was not cheap either but I got quite a few years out of this box.

[thomas007]

old school

[soundtheology]

My friend had the DX4/100mhz model, I was always so envious.

[marlls1989]

tri essa tua maquininha, talvez eu poste meu pentium 100 de sucata, mas ainda to pondo o nt4 nele!

[mcfuson1]

Cool. I have an P.B. 486 I upgraded to 100mhz, 36megs, 1.2gig h.d., with win98. I works great.

[TifasRevenge2]

I had one of these machines in the past, ran Quest for Glory 4 Shadows of Darkness on it. ;)

[AlfaRomeo20081979]

good ol' times.

exit windows

cd..

cd games

cd doom2

doom2

[jamesjan]

*sigh*

now i regretted scrapping a perfectly working HP 386 based system unit at my workplace a few months ago.

would've loved playing with old OS n apps on it

quite a capable unit too that old thing....about 8-10MB of ram if i'm not mistaken.

now its probably just scrap metal at a computer graveyard somewhere.

[jamesjan]

pretty souped up 486 there.

good vid but too bad the AF spoiled it. got dizzy just watching it focus IN and OUT all the time.

[nipperoid]

i have tat graphics card :P

trident

[arcticbit]

A 486 cpu does not have enough cpu-power to play mp3. The mp3 playback req. a cpu with pentium instructions. Like Intel Pentium 75. When i had a P75 with win95 and winamp, mp3 playback used 40% cpu power!

[shizoninhishouse]

I remember when I had an 486 computer with windows 95. Back then for music, I just had Midi files, but now on my windows vista computers, I have Mp3 live music.

[jamesjan]

played MP3s on a 486-DX 33MHz on Win 3.11 BUT the MP3s had to be low bitrate mono ones. I think between 20 to 32kbps MP3s.

Tried also normal 96-128kbps MP3s on a 486-DX2 66MHz. Crapped out on me with the CPU not decoding it fast enough.

486-DX4 100MHz, barely scrapped through. Played well though, but during that time, only had enough spare cycles to IRC and nothing else.

Then at P75, CPU utilization typically >50%

[Jonhny2]

Thats valuable info! I've always wanted to try playing mp3s on a 486 and see how well (or poorly) they played.

BTW, I have a Fujitsu laptop with Pentium 100MHz CPU, 48MB RAM, NO L2 cache and Win95. It plays back 128kbps stereo MP3s acceptably, but at ~85% CPU utilization according to the resource monitor.

[tral1z]

Nice, but, why didn't you use the mouse???

[jsullivan80]

My first computer was 486DX280

[jamesjan]

i remember those....a Cyrix?

[clyde0007]

I remember a friend laughing at me for buying a 486 dx4 100mhz pc for gaming;Quote what a waste of all that power.

Mobile phones back then Sony Mars Bar Motorola Startac & 8800 to name a few.

[ThreeSixWii]

LOL !

Trip down memory lane. I had one myself.

I wonder.... in 13 or 14 years.. will TODAY'S PC be as slow and poor to use as YESTERDAYS pc's seem to us now ?

Or, will we hit a technological plateau, and not get much better nor faster than what we now have??

nice vid.

I wonder what my Kids will think of OUR quad core PC's of today in 15 years...

[SamuraiClinton]

If somebody could compile an MP3 playing program for Windows 3.1, and have LFN support, and depend on just enough memory for the average size of an MP3 file, it could allow us to recycle old DOS-age computers as MP3 playing clients.

[anidnmeno]

there are mp3 players and LFN support for 3.1

[ueberRegenbogen]

Yup. I used WinPlay3.

I didn't have LFN support though.

(Side note: i recently fired up Win3.1, from an old 200 meg drive, on my 1GHz P3. Fast!)

[Sebastian667]

I would want to have one of those old computers and explore it

[cesarwebsp]

BHehe, aki no Brazil é moleza, é só ir na Cracolândia, em São Paulo e fazer a festa. =D

Aguardem, em breve um novo vpideo, já instalei uma Sound Blaster Pro 2 e um Modem US Robotics 36, só falta a placa de rede. ;)

[dcomposers]

I still have another one, but I aint'n built it yet..

i486DX4-100

Unknown Mobo w/ 4 PCI slots, 2 ISA

I Still seek for RAM (EDO/FPM)

It's not easy to find, now..

My 2x 32Mb FPM doesn't fit on it.. :((

[okee9]

I might have some ram for that

[LOLZpersonok]

@Sebastian667 look on ebay. i am getting one for $24.50.

[cyberman486]

ye, I love 486 !! Probably , the greatest computer. Unfortunately, he can't run XP:(( :D

I have this one and it still works. Year ago I was using it like the second computer,i was writing docs on Office97 and play Transport Tycoon :DD

[dcomposers]

I Have AM586 Socket-3 (486 Socket), 64M of RAM, 40GigHDD on ATA66 PCI Card, VGA 4Mb MATROX PCI, S/C Creative ISA, USB-PCI Card and Win 98 Installed. It's OK to play StarCraft on it... :)

[Jonhny2]

Oh really? How many frames per second did you get at the lowest visual effects setting?

[dcomposers]

Well, Jon, do you have play StarCraft b4?

The minimum hardware requirement for this game is actually only for a Pentium 100Mhz

My AM586 performance is almost equal with Pentium 75Mhz, that's why it called AM586-133Mhz-PR75.

To tell u the truth, I don't even feel so many different between my Piv 2.26G @ 3.1G to my AM586-133PR75 whenever I playing StarCraft.

[mikeccuk2006]

my p2 does 467mhz

[rowanlloyd]

well mine did 334mhz... big deal?!?!?

[kdizdar]

I had same computer 1998...It has got only DOS...I have just memories

[smithm34]

Throw your garbage away.

[erydaboss]

thats not garbage! if you are interested in computer technology, this is very valuable!

[Ryoga2K]

That antivirus detected win95 installation as a Virus :P

[iratipr]

hehehe pqp q massa cara........ altos velhos tempos hehehehe......... dá prá escutá até o HD lendo as parada na hora do antivirus hahahahah....... legal cara!!

[code123ns]

I remember that I got Win 3.1 startup time on a 386 down from 30 to 13 seconds just by deleting unnecessary fonts :D

[skate0721]

ACHK I HATED DOS! In School we used it, we COULD OF used 3.1 or 95, but now we had to enter the command and when someone gets it wrong the teacher SCREAMS at you, i am usin linux and vista :D

[Ryoga2K]

mmm.. courious that you hated that and now you use linux, the powerful thing about linux is the command line, without it, it is not so impressive nor useful.

[richardbirch2007]

wow kool, i had an oldskool 386 that i had win 3.1 on with 8 mb ram and a 'generous' 171mb hdd! still it worked gr8, now i have a pIII 600! woo

[dadaddo]

Too bad DOS and Windows 3.11 only recognizes 2 gb of hard drive space.

:-(

[jebbyblobby]

I installed Win 3.11 FW on my Pentium 4 3.06, 768MB

RAM, 200GB 7200rpm HDD the other day. It loaded so

fast that the blue screen never even showed up. I literally typed win pressed return and the GUI appeared instantly!

[jalland]

"Microsft Anti-Virus"?

LOL

Nice video : )

[benchodbosrino]

I remember the antivirus progress bar. The best looking interface in Windows 3.11. The time when noobs were afraid to use computers.

[XmegaPresident]

That is awesome! I have a 80486 DX2 66Mhz 20MB RAM and still runs the classic DOS games! Windows 3.11 YEAH!

[blade004]

Oh dear, Windows 3.11 at the time as well as 95 were a travesty. I remember studying using the exact same spec in 94 as this machine here, and it was an extremely painful experience. My Amiga 1200 was CPU wise only 14mhz and only featured 2 meg or ram, but it could as many programs as your memory could handle ( usually about 6 in 2meg ) and it would never slow down. boot in 6 seconds. Oh well this video is good for painful nostalgia. lol :)

[de5hws]

it works with even less. but try to install that on a dual core machine.

[mauricio4xp]

it works fine on a p1 with 32 ram mb

[jimmymate]

i installed win 3.11 once on a pentium 166 and it started in less than a second :D