My spouse & I bought our first IBM clone in December 1988, with CGA graphics and a single floppy drive. Added a 2nd floppy drive (both 5 1/4") within the first 2 weeks, and an EGA graphics card & a hard drive (20MB) about a year later. Didn't have VGA graphics or a 3.5" floppy drive for at least another year after that, when we bought a 486 computer.
Currently use DOSBox to run DOS games from "shovelware" CD-ROMs. There's a few games I miss that never got rereleased on CD-ROM, though. :(
@phreakindee I found DOSbox a pain in the ass, but I don't have a real DOS computer... I want a fast 10 Mhz 8088 or a similar speed 286, EGA graphics and maybe AdLib sound... Recommendations?
I remember my first computer being a Philips brand. YES they did computers back it the days it seem! It was a 386 SX, 25Mhz, 4.1mb of RAM (and let me tell you the .1m more was welcome!), Sound Blaster Pro sound card, Single speed CD-Rom with 3,5" floppy drive, though i wonder what the graphics card was. It had a Datatrain 14inch CRT monitor. I still have some artifacts from that computer here: The stereo (or dual-mono) Philips speakers, and the provided CDs and floppy disks with the system.
@RaptorZX3 The CDs were bundled softwares by Microsoft mostly (like Microsoft Works), Multimedia CDs to showcase the "Multimedia PC" experience like CD Storytime, cd samples, Almanac 1991...and drivers floppies and of course Windows 3.1 on floppies. Some of the CDs have the Philips logo on them.
Interesting fact: My single speed CD drive had to be manually opened and closed by pushing on the door, with a click when you push on it to open or close it properly)
@RaptorZX3 I don't have this computer anymore, as i gave it to my cousin a long time ago, and many years later, when i asked him, he said he trashed it.
Sometimes i wish i had more space to have a 486 full-equipped PC somewhere in here, just to play old games on a real computer, not on Dosbox.
Wolfenstein 3D ran on my 386SX as slowly as in this video, but I found out that adding a proper video card with VESA extension is a really huge speed boost to these computers.
I enjoy your videos and believe you have an excellent speaking voice with a little twist of humor. All of which make a fine presentation. Keep up the good work.
Dude, this was an awesome video. My first computer after my Vic20 was a 386sx 16MHz machine, with a 52 meg HD and a 1 meg chip of RAM. I used to love Commander Keen and Test Drive 3.. Death Track and Stunts were good too.
It's funny that this was my first video I've watched from you. I never knew about you before watching this, I was just searching for some random computer stuff one day, then this comes to me and I was instantly hooked.
If there's a Youtube channel I could watch to the day I die, it would be yours. Keep up the good work! And do you have any hardware reviews coming up?
I believe the 386SX has a 32-bit ALU with a 16-bit data bus. Since the 286 is entirely a 16-bit device I think the 386SX is more than just a particularly fast ("souped-up") 286. But great video, as always (I've seen this one several times). :-) You are lucky to have these old systems. They are actually quite hard to find these days.
My first system was a 386sx, we got a 486dx2 later on I believe, then yep, next was Pentium I (as an overdrive, so it fit in the 486 slot). Cool stuff!
@TheHalflife123 Ever tried filming an old CRT monitor with an old VHS video camera? It looks like balls, just awful flickering and color balance. An LCD is much more suitable for recording. When I'm playing without recording I use an old IBM or Sony CRT.
I still have my 486dx4 100mhz plugged up and running, hooked up to my LCD monitor in VGA, and I love it! Playing oldschool games on the real deal is so much cooler than using buggy emulators. :D
What do you mean, not on a 386. Don't you remember that catchy song from the late 80's where that one lady is sapping (sing-rapping) to some r-tarded themesong attempt? I had windows 98 AND ME working on the overdrive 386 I had. Thank You Cyrix! Centaurs DO haul!
The 386 chip was fully 32bit, the main dfference between the DX and SX,
is that the SX lacks a floating point unit (FPU), and if I dont remember wrong, the DX had a faster or larger cache built into it.. Maybe something about a MMU missing in the SX, not sure about that one though, my memory is a bit sketchy about it.. long time ago ;-)
@thedarkhenrik , Actually no. The 386 SX and DX were both 32bit internal, but the SX was a 16bit external chip with 24 memory address lines. Hence the reason the 386 DX could address 4gb of ram and the 386SX could only address 16mb. It was a cost saving measure as the boards were cheaper to produce. There were no 386 chips with a built in coprocessor. That was ALWAYS handled by adding a i387. More in next post.
@thedarkhenrik , cont. What you're thinking of is the i486. Initially it was just called the 486, but later on Intel released a version without a coprocessor (actually it had one, it was just disabled) and to prevent confusion they re-branded the original 486 to the 486 DX and the new chip the 486SX. Both are the same chip minus the coprocessor. That's why in older systems the 486 is just marked 486, even if it has a coprocessor. A i487 can be added to a SX system to make it a DX.
@harshbarj thanks for that info, I must have been thinking of the 486DX/SX series.. always good to have the facts straight, thanks for cearing that up :-)
@Shiqna1 No need to be rude. I was just wondering if he had another computer starting up off camera or if he added the Windows 7 sound to the video as a joke.
Excellent video! It really took me back. Mind you, my first pc had an 8088 processor that ran at 4.77 mHz. No HD, just one 5 1/4" floppy. Keep up the great vids on vintage machines!
I don't know if GEM would have been quite as useless as Windows- seems to be enough presumably now free softare floating around for it which is quite decent.
It's easy to forget just how good these PCs were. With bloatware and even greater demands on a processor's time, you can get used to thinking computers have only gotten good just recently.
I like a nice power PC for my recording work. Yet so many great machines I've had for free or practically nothing. Currently, a Duron 1.2 Ghz machine is great for extra studio processing duties whilst a Pentium 400 Mhz at my grandmother's place is ace for DVDs and games. Both machines were found on the kerb.
I love old computers and OS's and have countless emulators and virtual PC's. But really want some vintage computer but haven't really got the room for it. Also I'm quite good at hiding what a total geek I am and it would really me be shouting it off the roof if I got a machine like this.
Great Video man I also dig older computers I have a couple of computers on has the components to to interface with other computers that run MS-DOS meaning that It has has a 5.25 disk drive for formatting and copying files to and from the 5.25 disks. I used to have some older computers several years ago but I had to get rid of them to save space
What's that knob like thing to the right of the PS/2 keyboard port? Is that a volume control for the PC Speaker? If it is, then that's very unique, how many PC's had a volume control for the PC Speaker apart from at least some Tandy 1000 computers?
@scenegta Because you're an insecure, pathetic little troll who apparently has some bizarre fetish for judging vintage computer collectors' moobs. (not sarcasm)
@phreakindee Because you're an insecure, pathetic little computer collector who apparently has some bizarre fetish for judging vintage trolls' tactics. (not sarcasm)
Back in the day one of the kids in my neighborhood has a 386 that we played games on. Not only did it sound like a refrigerator on its last legs when you started it up, it also gave off a foul smell like burning copper or something.
This is why computers from back in the day are better than the ones we have now: the new ones don't even smell like anything.
Whenever I see this, the first thing that comes to mind is my Packard Bell Legend 316SX. Runs on a 25MHz AMD 386SX with 4MB of RAM, built-in VGA graphics card, 1GB hard drive(the original one crashed, so I fitted a spare 1GB hard drive I had), a SoundBlaster Vibra16 sound card and has MS-DOS v6.22 along with Windows 3.11 installed. To think I was using this computer to play Solitaire in Windows when I was a kid in the '90s. Good stuff, but nowadays, it's inadequate for my DOS gaming needs.
Hey, and thanks for an awesome Video! I recently found my dads old IBM PS/1 Consultant. It's one of the older versions, as it comes equipped with Windows 3.1. Do you know how to wiew the system specs on this without opening it? I CAN open it up, but i really don't want to, because that would ruin the Seal to the keys that can open this tin can. Thanks again for an awesome video!
Hi there, just wanted to say thanks for this great vid, I am in the process of building my own old DOS based PC for playing old games and found this vid really useful, thanks again mate.
The 386 came out in 1986? I thought it came out later. In 1986 my dad bought an 086 pc and wouldn't let us kids touch it, because it wasn't a toy. We were only allowed to use the Commodore64. In 1995 I had a 386 pc that ran Windows 3.1. In 1993 when astronauts went to fix Hubble they replaced the computer processor with a 386 processor.
@TheIntolerantAtheist If you want to get technical it actually was created in 1985... so if anything, it's older still! The first production model of the 386 was introduced in June 1986.
@TheIntolerantAtheist You have to understand, in the early 90's PCs varied pretty wildly in speed. Even though the Pentium was released in '94 and the 486 in '89, slower PCs like the 386 you owned were still selling extremely well until the late 90's. Heck, up until about '95 even 8086/88 and 286 PCs were being sold.
@TheIntolerantAtheist it came out very early but was also very very expensive costing more than some cars at the time.. C64 prety much ruled the roost as a household computer until the amiga was released. the 286 and 386 came into their own when vga and sound were added along with cloned chips from companies like AMD and IBM. to put it into perspective... in AUS in about 1989 a C64 was going for about $299 a clone PC with a 386SX chip some sound and vga in c.1991 was costing about $1200
I love dos i can never fiqure out how to get sound i just got it working on a doul core computer doul boot win xp the sata driver was a bitch to get working i must have used the sata driver of course
try aladdin lion king red barron lawn cuttting simulator volleyball etc
Ah I remember the noisy hard drives when I was a kid. I had a PC clone that my dad bought at Radio Shack. Played mostly educational games. Loved Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego. Also enjoyed Conquest of the Longbow and Conquest of Camelot. Good times. Thank you for the videos.
@phreakindee : some pc's had a "hidden" turbo button. I had a 286AT 16 mhz once, that was in turbo mode by default. By pressing ALT+CTRL+"-" (<-- minus on your numpad) you could put it in "not-turbo mode", and by pressing ALT+CTRL+"+" (<-- plus on your numpad) you could put it back in "turbo mode". It also gave a nice sound effect from the pc speaker. Btw, this 286AT 16 mhz ran 20 mhz in turbo mode (10 in not-turbo).
I love your reviews, especially your hardware reviews. Keep up the good work!
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Nice rig, im jealous. Had a 386DX back in the 90's, mine had a whopping 8mb of Ram and a 800mb hard drive and CDROM running Windows 3.1. I used to play a lot of aces of the pacific and Beneath a steel sky. Pissed me off a bit when my buddy showed me Doom on his 486DX 66 and then lent it me, haha, i had to play it on a screen the size of a postage stamp in low resolution. Good times!
i'm scared that i lived to see all this... when i was 4, i played spellbound on a 286 pc my dad brought home. lol... remember spellbound? (spelling bee game)
@sirrvs At first, they really were lazy. Just thrown together without much thought or editing. But that didn't last long, and now it's more of a title that stuck that doesn't apply to editing so much as it does my experience playing games. Going on production value, more appropriately it would be titled "Efficiently-Produced Game Reviews" but that sounds lame.
I used to have the NCR 3421 model (386 DX 20 - microchannel version). Never knew of an ISA version NCR 386 though.. Used to blow my friends 486s out of the water with the video card and SCSI hard drive. Cursed on it for not being able to findi proper video drivers for Windows so i was stuck on 16 colours, and couldnt find an microchannel sound card. Wish i had it back today though ;(.
And those NCR cases? freakin tanks and classy. Still have a few orange buttons around. Those where the days
I love FreeBSD, but I think it is lame that FreeBSD now requires a 486. I think if it is still a 32 bit x86 OS, it should be able to run on a 386. :( Oh well, at least we still have FreeDOS, DR-DOS and Linux on 386s. :)
I just bought a vectrex game "console" and a friend will give an old pc (which I didn't test but think to be 286, 386 time, first view), let's hope it is. Your video's are awesome
@asagoth11 Seeing as how the title and subject of this video is not "How To Wear a Shirt That asagoth11 Finds Properly-Sized" I don't see how that's in the least bit pertinent.
no built in screen (the reason why that's good is because you can use an awesome screen like phreakindee and not a bulky screen that gives off black lines when digitally recorded)
to keep me from killing myself over typing code I"m probably gonna install a windows OS
@OBSysteme "All pre-pentium computers are gems, just so fun to use"
Trust me, they were NOT fun to use, they were a drama that I had to deal with almost on a daily basis as an IT guy is the late eighties. I can write a book about the extremely annoying issues.
@OBSysteme But nevertheless, I do like the vintage machines... it brings back many memories and they're fun too fiddle with as long it's just a hobby.
@3ytc Agreed, they can be a serious pain, especially back when these were still your everyday computer for work/school/play. I can't tell you much how I hated DOS and everything about the PC for quite some time. But now that I can relive those days at my leisure (the good parts at least) with real machines for very little cash, it's quite fun in appropriate doses. Fun to collect the software boxes and stuff as well.
@phreakindee Even Windows was a pain. Things got better with Windows 3.x, but it was only until Windows NT that I go the sense that Windows was finally somehow maturing.
I don't understand why you needed this machine to run specific games, I have yet to find a vintage game that I didn't get to work on my modern system. Which games are you talking about?
@3ytc Did you watch all of the video? I showed some of those games, like Test Drive III. There are plenty of vintage MS-DOS games that are built specifically for systems of this vintage and the speed (or lack thereof) that it provides. Stunt Driver, CD-MAN v1 and Bubble Ghost are more examples of these games that will run too fast or too slow on other systems. Try them on a ~486DX/4 to see.
You saying that you have a modern system to run these games confuses me, since these are DOS-only.
@3ytc Then why ask why I needed this computer if you're using a VM? That's completely different, and obviously I wouldn't run into the speed issue if I were using one.
This is a real machine. I run the games on their original hardware and for several I needed a very specific machine. VMs and emulators simply do not provide the actual experience, although they may be much easier nowadays to use. But I'm not about easy.
@phreakindee "Then why ask why I needed this computer if you're using a VM?"
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. The reason why I replied in the first place is because you explained in the video that you went with a 386 to be able to play the games that you couldn't play on the 486 or Pentium, so I assumed that your main motive to go for a 386 was the software and not so much the hardware.
There was nothing better than getting an old DOS machine and getting to find out what was left on the disk by the previous owner. Sorry you got robbed with that one.
By the way I had no idea about those 1ups on the first level of keen4. Learn something new every day.
Daym, this was my first "real" computer that I had at home.. way back, waaaay back.
Stuppern 17 hours ago
Hey! You stole my toaster
1mH3r3ToH3lp 17 hours ago
Would a 20Mhz 386 be okay for games from 1987-1991?
TeamRocketReviews 1 day ago
My spouse & I bought our first IBM clone in December 1988, with CGA graphics and a single floppy drive. Added a 2nd floppy drive (both 5 1/4") within the first 2 weeks, and an EGA graphics card & a hard drive (20MB) about a year later. Didn't have VGA graphics or a 3.5" floppy drive for at least another year after that, when we bought a 486 computer.
Currently use DOSBox to run DOS games from "shovelware" CD-ROMs. There's a few games I miss that never got rereleased on CD-ROM, though. :(
DOSBoxMom 1 day ago
nothing has ever been appropriate after the words "appropriateness commence"
arjenmiddelb 4 days ago
I just use DOSBox to play DOS games.
SamuraiClinton 6 days ago
@SamuraiClinton Hooray for people that are satisfied with emulation! I'm just not one of them, not in the least :)
phreakindee 6 days ago 3
@phreakindee I found DOSbox a pain in the ass, but I don't have a real DOS computer... I want a fast 10 Mhz 8088 or a similar speed 286, EGA graphics and maybe AdLib sound... Recommendations?
TeamRocketReviews 4 days ago
i got my first pc 1990 and it was an 386/25sx. Man that thing was expensive. =)
DiePixelspieler 6 days ago
When I grow up, I want to have a man cave with oldschool stuff like this. NO INTERNET ALLOWED in that room.
latuman 6 days ago
your also like CGR Classic game room exept it its gameing
EricssonXL 1 week ago
lol, good 'ol times !
thanks for that !
Numiah 1 week ago
I remember my first computer being a Philips brand. YES they did computers back it the days it seem! It was a 386 SX, 25Mhz, 4.1mb of RAM (and let me tell you the .1m more was welcome!), Sound Blaster Pro sound card, Single speed CD-Rom with 3,5" floppy drive, though i wonder what the graphics card was. It had a Datatrain 14inch CRT monitor. I still have some artifacts from that computer here: The stereo (or dual-mono) Philips speakers, and the provided CDs and floppy disks with the system.
RaptorZX3 1 week ago
@RaptorZX3 The CDs were bundled softwares by Microsoft mostly (like Microsoft Works), Multimedia CDs to showcase the "Multimedia PC" experience like CD Storytime, cd samples, Almanac 1991...and drivers floppies and of course Windows 3.1 on floppies. Some of the CDs have the Philips logo on them.
Interesting fact: My single speed CD drive had to be manually opened and closed by pushing on the door, with a click when you push on it to open or close it properly)
RaptorZX3 1 week ago
@RaptorZX3 I don't have this computer anymore, as i gave it to my cousin a long time ago, and many years later, when i asked him, he said he trashed it.
Sometimes i wish i had more space to have a 486 full-equipped PC somewhere in here, just to play old games on a real computer, not on Dosbox.
RaptorZX3 1 week ago
Jazz Jackrabbit music in the background :-D
somorastik 2 weeks ago
wow i can still browse internet with a 386 MS-DOS machine!
thenetdotcom 2 weeks ago
Id software, MADAFACKAS!
GAMERSHARK100 2 weeks ago
Wolfenstein 3D ran on my 386SX as slowly as in this video, but I found out that adding a proper video card with VESA extension is a really huge speed boost to these computers.
1xWertzui 2 weeks ago
cheers for the vid i could never remember the name of the game commander keen until today was child hood memory's right here !!
jnewbon00 2 weeks ago
MOUNTAIN DEW
beckwithpj 2 weeks ago
hey lazy dude do you play wow ?!?!
its my main reason to be pc fan
Faoman2011 2 weeks ago
jajaajaj with a Screen Acer good
david57899 3 weeks ago
I enjoy your videos and believe you have an excellent speaking voice with a little twist of humor. All of which make a fine presentation. Keep up the good work.
rgbreeding 1 month ago
Can I have your shirt?
TheUltimateGwonam 1 month ago
JAZZ JACKRABBIT MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND!!!!! :3
I GREW UP WITH THAT GAME
Kage999 1 month ago in playlist Lazy Game Reviews - Official
@Kage999 i know right?! freakin love that game
StillGotLives 1 month ago
Lol! Shut up Windows 7!
jchaodude 1 month ago
I MUST KNOW!!! where did you get that awesome id software t-shirt????
cacodemon357 1 month ago
@cacodemon357 From id Software's store.
phreakindee 1 month ago 5
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dejanmajstor41 1 month ago
Dude, this was an awesome video. My first computer after my Vic20 was a 386sx 16MHz machine, with a 52 meg HD and a 1 meg chip of RAM. I used to love Commander Keen and Test Drive 3.. Death Track and Stunts were good too.
teknifix 2 months ago
It's funny that this was my first video I've watched from you. I never knew about you before watching this, I was just searching for some random computer stuff one day, then this comes to me and I was instantly hooked.
If there's a Youtube channel I could watch to the day I die, it would be yours. Keep up the good work! And do you have any hardware reviews coming up?
LoticaStudios 2 months ago
What are you looking for a c1542 and IBM at the top?
jocika99 2 months ago
5:58 HAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH
samuxxn 2 months ago
Good video
NonstopRam 2 months ago
Wait, refrigerators fly?
4gasem 2 months ago
@4gasem Yours doesn't? Might wanna get that fixed.
phreakindee 2 months ago 9
Music from Megarace IIRC
someperson42 2 months ago
I love that 386
Mcunderpants 2 months ago
"Sounds like a vintage refrigerator preparing for lift-off" ROFLMAO!!
Foebane72 2 months ago
i like your Id software t shirt! :D i loved Doom, commander keen, and wolfenstein 3d! : )
Saiyuki2o4 3 months ago
I believe the 386SX has a 32-bit ALU with a 16-bit data bus. Since the 286 is entirely a 16-bit device I think the 386SX is more than just a particularly fast ("souped-up") 286. But great video, as always (I've seen this one several times). :-) You are lucky to have these old systems. They are actually quite hard to find these days.
ioctlvoid 3 months ago
I thought your camera was at an angle, than I realised it was me. I love you for the Nirvana reference :D
TempAvailableGaming 3 months ago
Would a Compaq 386/20E with 386SX, 10-16MB of RAM, 160MB HDD, VGA graphics and Soundblaster Pro be good for DOS games from the early 90's?
TeamRocketReviews 3 months ago
I kinda like how you use a VHS video camera, It gives your videos a sort of 80s/90s feel to it.
JD12345J 3 months ago 13
to the left is a highly complex office computer and all you need to learn to use it is this *a big book falls next to it*
slicker41 3 months ago
Ive been looking for commander keen 4 forever!! its the one I played as a kid and its still so good :D
GLR IS AMAZING
wrongfire 3 months ago
i built my first computer
it was a 386dx 40 with 2megs of ram a vga card roland mt32 sound 249 meg drive and doss 6.22 and win3.11 kings quest sounded awesome
nibelung34343 3 months ago
Game Lazy Reviews
Lvl22nerd 3 months ago
That computer is as old as I am! :D
Fuzy2K 3 months ago
My first system was a 386sx, we got a 486dx2 later on I believe, then yep, next was Pentium I (as an overdrive, so it fit in the 486 slot). Cool stuff!
theshep 4 months ago
@theshep 386sx here too followed by a pentium III and then a Pentium D followed by a Core 2 Duo....then...the dark side...AMD Phenom II
Lvl22nerd 3 months ago
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its fucking stupid to play dos games with lcd monitor *facepalm*
TheHalflife123 4 months ago
@TheHalflife123 Ever tried filming an old CRT monitor with an old VHS video camera? It looks like balls, just awful flickering and color balance. An LCD is much more suitable for recording. When I'm playing without recording I use an old IBM or Sony CRT.
phreakindee 4 months ago 28
@phreakindee yeah i know it flickers like hell but just saying
TheHalflife123 4 months ago
@phreakindee so thats where Mainframe from ReBoot has been at for all those years in some random gamer's house
makutateridax200 2 months ago in playlist More videos from phreakindee
@phreakindee But the monitor on 5150 (is that 5153 color monitor) looks very good, I don't see any flickering.
dvamateur 1 month ago
@TheHalflife123 Clearly did not watch the video.
GizmoFan1 1 month ago in playlist LGR Hardware Reviews
@TheHalflife123 FYM right now she's great troll
madhatterz64 3 weeks ago
I still have my 486dx4 100mhz plugged up and running, hooked up to my LCD monitor in VGA, and I love it! Playing oldschool games on the real deal is so much cooler than using buggy emulators. :D
sylvur 4 months ago
LOL "I suppose if I had big black disks being stuck in me all day too, I would be quite particular as well"
Cropduster777 4 months ago
What do you mean, not on a 386. Don't you remember that catchy song from the late 80's where that one lady is sapping (sing-rapping) to some r-tarded themesong attempt? I had windows 98 AND ME working on the overdrive 386 I had. Thank You Cyrix! Centaurs DO haul!
TronixGuy93 4 months ago
The 386 chip was fully 32bit, the main dfference between the DX and SX,
is that the SX lacks a floating point unit (FPU), and if I dont remember wrong, the DX had a faster or larger cache built into it.. Maybe something about a MMU missing in the SX, not sure about that one though, my memory is a bit sketchy about it.. long time ago ;-)
Nice to see a classic PC running
thedarkhenrik 5 months ago
@thedarkhenrik , Actually no. The 386 SX and DX were both 32bit internal, but the SX was a 16bit external chip with 24 memory address lines. Hence the reason the 386 DX could address 4gb of ram and the 386SX could only address 16mb. It was a cost saving measure as the boards were cheaper to produce. There were no 386 chips with a built in coprocessor. That was ALWAYS handled by adding a i387. More in next post.
harshbarj 4 months ago
@thedarkhenrik , cont. What you're thinking of is the i486. Initially it was just called the 486, but later on Intel released a version without a coprocessor (actually it had one, it was just disabled) and to prevent confusion they re-branded the original 486 to the 486 DX and the new chip the 486SX. Both are the same chip minus the coprocessor. That's why in older systems the 486 is just marked 486, even if it has a coprocessor. A i487 can be added to a SX system to make it a DX.
harshbarj 4 months ago
@harshbarj thanks for that info, I must have been thinking of the 486DX/SX series.. always good to have the facts straight, thanks for cearing that up :-)
thedarkhenrik 4 months ago
Great video man very informative.
Agret 5 months ago
It's got REVERSI!!
STDBYRUD 5 months ago
I love your videos; full of info and casual fun talk!
G9King 5 months ago
@Shiqna1 No need to be rude. I was just wondering if he had another computer starting up off camera or if he added the Windows 7 sound to the video as a joke.
sirrvs 5 months ago
Have WCLB on Apple IIc RUBBISH!!!
nviso209 6 months ago
COMMANDER KEEN RULEZ!
nviso209 6 months ago
Big Black Disks inserted into me... That's what she said! :) FIND ME AN AMIGA! YAY!!!!
nviso209 6 months ago
Kills me that PADS are rapidly replacing PCs to play games i.e. run everything else... I wanna tele-port back to 1993 PLEASE!!!
nviso209 6 months ago
@phreakindee when you were talking about the clock and said "this thing is amazing" that made me sub
pcmuzicpro 6 months ago
3:50 best. sound. ever. insta-nostalgia!
superkyol 6 months ago
@superkyol Ive Found You Kyol >:D
SgtBurned 6 months ago
04:03 MEGA LOL why u say? that was not him :D
MickXD2012 6 months ago
having a hard drive helps LOL
seventeenwizards 6 months ago
Excellent video! It really took me back. Mind you, my first pc had an 8088 processor that ran at 4.77 mHz. No HD, just one 5 1/4" floppy. Keep up the great vids on vintage machines!
ProfMichaelMacD 6 months ago
same screen prod =D
SuprTuned 6 months ago
Good times when computers have "turbo" key.
lsbtrindade 6 months ago
nice t shirt :D
gbmruk2345 6 months ago
I don't know if GEM would have been quite as useless as Windows- seems to be enough presumably now free softare floating around for it which is quite decent.
thelyniezian 6 months ago
WHAT! No math coprocessor!! hehehe should have got the 386DX :)
cdnerds 6 months ago
Serial Mouse..LOL..Priceless.
joetylerdale 6 months ago
nice... I can see how you get "caught up" with the old games haha I totally would and still occasionally play CK4 on WinXP lol
Steph6n 6 months ago
It's easy to forget just how good these PCs were. With bloatware and even greater demands on a processor's time, you can get used to thinking computers have only gotten good just recently.
I like a nice power PC for my recording work. Yet so many great machines I've had for free or practically nothing. Currently, a Duron 1.2 Ghz machine is great for extra studio processing duties whilst a Pentium 400 Mhz at my grandmother's place is ace for DVDs and games. Both machines were found on the kerb.
TheDustpile 7 months ago
I love old computers and OS's and have countless emulators and virtual PC's. But really want some vintage computer but haven't really got the room for it. Also I'm quite good at hiding what a total geek I am and it would really me be shouting it off the roof if I got a machine like this.
b3ntleg 7 months ago
Gotta love running ancient computers on an LCD monitor.
I love old computers... but I can deal with pretending CRT's never existed.
Pilotgeek 7 months ago
Bubble Ghost FTW! I first played it on my brother's Wang PC with an IBM emulation board installed. I wish that computer was still around.
xargos 7 months ago
Great Video man I also dig older computers I have a couple of computers on has the components to to interface with other computers that run MS-DOS meaning that It has has a 5.25 disk drive for formatting and copying files to and from the 5.25 disks. I used to have some older computers several years ago but I had to get rid of them to save space
cgohma 7 months ago
What's that knob like thing to the right of the PS/2 keyboard port? Is that a volume control for the PC Speaker? If it is, then that's very unique, how many PC's had a volume control for the PC Speaker apart from at least some Tandy 1000 computers?
Lachlant1984 7 months ago
Wait, why did his 386 computer make a Windows 7 startup sound?
sirrvs 8 months ago
@scenegta Because you're an insecure, pathetic little troll who apparently has some bizarre fetish for judging vintage computer collectors' moobs. (not sarcasm)
phreakindee 8 months ago 55
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MasterLPG 1 month ago
WOOPTEEDOO!
kinmanyuen 8 months ago
4:03, SHUT UP WINDOWS 7, YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE!!!!!! XCD
PortalJumper98 8 months ago
4:03, SHUT UP WINDOWS 7!!!!!! XD
PortalJumper98 8 months ago
Thanks ! Great video! HP forever :)
alexriesenbeck 8 months ago
Hmm... I think that Computer Chronicles used the same games to compare a 5150 and a 386 in the 386 episode...
kargaroc386 8 months ago
That shirt is pure win!
nl3paul3nl 8 months ago
"Shut up windows 7, you're not welcome!" I laughed at that XD
Zestypanda 9 months ago
Great PC - only needs a 14" VGA CRT monitor, instead of the TFT :)
subj1 9 months ago
Back in the day one of the kids in my neighborhood has a 386 that we played games on. Not only did it sound like a refrigerator on its last legs when you started it up, it also gave off a foul smell like burning copper or something.
This is why computers from back in the day are better than the ones we have now: the new ones don't even smell like anything.
illDiology 9 months ago
@illDiology xD
MyFavWoWvids335 9 months ago
Whenever I see this, the first thing that comes to mind is my Packard Bell Legend 316SX. Runs on a 25MHz AMD 386SX with 4MB of RAM, built-in VGA graphics card, 1GB hard drive(the original one crashed, so I fitted a spare 1GB hard drive I had), a SoundBlaster Vibra16 sound card and has MS-DOS v6.22 along with Windows 3.11 installed. To think I was using this computer to play Solitaire in Windows when I was a kid in the '90s. Good stuff, but nowadays, it's inadequate for my DOS gaming needs.
Ace9921 10 months ago
I had an old 386SX CPU.
jvolstad 10 months ago
damn 10 years later i download almost 900 MS DOS games holy shit balls
TheCleardeath 10 months ago
@TheCleardeath You are not alone there, haha.
thatguyontheright1 8 months ago
Try to run Crysis 2! ;)
ethai1 10 months ago
хочу такую же футболку !!! наверное он разработчик в id software =))))
RUSEL2510 10 months ago
Hey, and thanks for an awesome Video! I recently found my dads old IBM PS/1 Consultant. It's one of the older versions, as it comes equipped with Windows 3.1. Do you know how to wiew the system specs on this without opening it? I CAN open it up, but i really don't want to, because that would ruin the Seal to the keys that can open this tin can. Thanks again for an awesome video!
ByzantinePD 10 months ago
Hi there, just wanted to say thanks for this great vid, I am in the process of building my own old DOS based PC for playing old games and found this vid really useful, thanks again mate.
mwinn23 10 months ago
Who looked at their cell phone to see if it was going to ring at 6:06 thumbs up
ProjectNinjaSlime 10 months ago
Nice 386. But I really love your 5150.
summer20105707 10 months ago
SHUTUP WINDOWS 7 YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE!!
ChristopherSmith2010 11 months ago
The 386 came out in 1986? I thought it came out later. In 1986 my dad bought an 086 pc and wouldn't let us kids touch it, because it wasn't a toy. We were only allowed to use the Commodore64. In 1995 I had a 386 pc that ran Windows 3.1. In 1993 when astronauts went to fix Hubble they replaced the computer processor with a 386 processor.
TheIntolerantAtheist 1 year ago
@TheIntolerantAtheist If you want to get technical it actually was created in 1985... so if anything, it's older still! The first production model of the 386 was introduced in June 1986.
phreakindee 1 year ago
@TheIntolerantAtheist You have to understand, in the early 90's PCs varied pretty wildly in speed. Even though the Pentium was released in '94 and the 486 in '89, slower PCs like the 386 you owned were still selling extremely well until the late 90's. Heck, up until about '95 even 8086/88 and 286 PCs were being sold.
Dant2142 11 months ago
@TheIntolerantAtheist it came out very early but was also very very expensive costing more than some cars at the time.. C64 prety much ruled the roost as a household computer until the amiga was released. the 286 and 386 came into their own when vga and sound were added along with cloned chips from companies like AMD and IBM. to put it into perspective... in AUS in about 1989 a C64 was going for about $299 a clone PC with a 386SX chip some sound and vga in c.1991 was costing about $1200
2Shye 11 months ago
@TheIntolerantAtheist they then upgraded Hubble to a whopping 486 processor after!
khisanth75 7 months ago
I love dos i can never fiqure out how to get sound i just got it working on a doul core computer doul boot win xp the sata driver was a bitch to get working i must have used the sata driver of course
try aladdin lion king red barron lawn cuttting simulator volleyball etc
bbidner 1 year ago
Ah I remember the noisy hard drives when I was a kid. I had a PC clone that my dad bought at Radio Shack. Played mostly educational games. Loved Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego. Also enjoyed Conquest of the Longbow and Conquest of Camelot. Good times. Thank you for the videos.
physalis17 1 year ago
big black disks bwahaha!
GreatNorthWeb 1 year ago
You could install windows95 on that machine. Had it running on a 386SX25 with 6MB ram back in the days. Terribly slow but it worked.
metro2002 1 year ago
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linuxlove4004 1 year ago
i myself owned a 286sx on turbo (20 mhz)
but when it comes to games with dos4gw.exe, 286's are screwed.. no EMS memory.
kinmanyuen 1 year ago
don't forget to push the Turbo button
itubeyoublah 1 year ago
@itubeyoublah If it had a Turbo button, I'd totally never forget to press it :D
phreakindee 1 year ago 13
@phreakindee : some pc's had a "hidden" turbo button. I had a 286AT 16 mhz once, that was in turbo mode by default. By pressing ALT+CTRL+"-" (<-- minus on your numpad) you could put it in "not-turbo mode", and by pressing ALT+CTRL+"+" (<-- plus on your numpad) you could put it back in "turbo mode". It also gave a nice sound effect from the pc speaker. Btw, this 286AT 16 mhz ran 20 mhz in turbo mode (10 in not-turbo).
I love your reviews, especially your hardware reviews. Keep up the good work!
TheTallGuy1985 1 year ago
@phreakindee you know the turbo makes the system slower actually?
NoxiousGER 1 year ago
@phreakindee i had a 486 that had one of those... but i sold it sadly
thecooldude9999 1 year ago
@phreakindee the turbo button never did anything. i never saw a increase in speed, no better performance, not even a higher cpu temp.
is there a video of the turbo button that actually does osmething?
GAKtion64 7 months ago
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Prettyrichy1 1 year ago
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Prettyrichy1 1 year ago
Nice rig, im jealous. Had a 386DX back in the 90's, mine had a whopping 8mb of Ram and a 800mb hard drive and CDROM running Windows 3.1. I used to play a lot of aces of the pacific and Beneath a steel sky. Pissed me off a bit when my buddy showed me Doom on his 486DX 66 and then lent it me, haha, i had to play it on a screen the size of a postage stamp in low resolution. Good times!
Think i feel a Sub coming on...
RibNSpicY 1 year ago
HOLY SHIT COMMANDER KEEN!!!!! that brings back sooo many memories!!!!!
SumDuDe34 1 year ago
i'm scared that i lived to see all this... when i was 4, i played spellbound on a 286 pc my dad brought home. lol... remember spellbound? (spelling bee game)
izlude2 1 year ago
@izlude2 Spellbound was freakin' rad. That dude with the red hat and cool shoes? Ownage.
phreakindee 1 year ago
LOVE the Pink Floyd poster. Great taste dude!
R33Racer 1 year ago
wow that a nice rig
5british5 1 year ago
My first computer was a Pentium 1 but, I remember playing these games at school.
kickflipjr 1 year ago
@kickflipjr we had the imb pc when i was a kid, we got this too one christmas, it's funny but the neighbors used to come over to play with it
toptenmaterial 1 year ago
i have a question.Will a Pentium 1 at 166MHz be too fast for some early dos games or i have to slow it down.
hellrazorforever 1 year ago
Is "Lazy" Game Reviews meant to be sarcastic? Your reviews are very thorough, which I like!
sirrvs 1 year ago
@sirrvs At first, they really were lazy. Just thrown together without much thought or editing. But that didn't last long, and now it's more of a title that stuck that doesn't apply to editing so much as it does my experience playing games. Going on production value, more appropriately it would be titled "Efficiently-Produced Game Reviews" but that sounds lame.
phreakindee 1 year ago
@phreakindee What about "implosive game reviews"?
jjovereats 1 year ago
I used to have the NCR 3421 model (386 DX 20 - microchannel version). Never knew of an ISA version NCR 386 though.. Used to blow my friends 486s out of the water with the video card and SCSI hard drive. Cursed on it for not being able to findi proper video drivers for Windows so i was stuck on 16 colours, and couldnt find an microchannel sound card. Wish i had it back today though ;(.
And those NCR cases? freakin tanks and classy. Still have a few orange buttons around. Those where the days
MarkNF82 1 year ago
I love FreeBSD, but I think it is lame that FreeBSD now requires a 486. I think if it is still a 32 bit x86 OS, it should be able to run on a 386. :( Oh well, at least we still have FreeDOS, DR-DOS and Linux on 386s. :)
neutrino78x 1 year ago
I just bought a vectrex game "console" and a friend will give an old pc (which I didn't test but think to be 286, 386 time, first view), let's hope it is. Your video's are awesome
jdhaerynck 1 year ago
LOL @ Being particular about having a big black disk stuck in me all day.
initvesa 1 year ago
lol your shirt is too small
asagoth11 1 year ago
@asagoth11 Seeing as how the title and subject of this video is not "How To Wear a Shirt That asagoth11 Finds Properly-Sized" I don't see how that's in the least bit pertinent.
phreakindee 1 year ago 3
what the hell is up with that camera?
2 advantages of 386-486
5.25 inch floppies
and
no built in screen (the reason why that's good is because you can use an awesome screen like phreakindee and not a bulky screen that gives off black lines when digitally recorded)
to keep me from killing myself over typing code I"m probably gonna install a windows OS
I said the same thing about the 486.
you should try out the terminator games for dos.
hobocamptheater 1 year ago
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@OBSysteme "All pre-pentium computers are gems, just so fun to use"
Trust me, they were NOT fun to use, they were a drama that I had to deal with almost on a daily basis as an IT guy is the late eighties. I can write a book about the extremely annoying issues.
3ytc 1 year ago
@OBSysteme But nevertheless, I do like the vintage machines... it brings back many memories and they're fun too fiddle with as long it's just a hobby.
3ytc 1 year ago
@3ytc Agreed, they can be a serious pain, especially back when these were still your everyday computer for work/school/play. I can't tell you much how I hated DOS and everything about the PC for quite some time. But now that I can relive those days at my leisure (the good parts at least) with real machines for very little cash, it's quite fun in appropriate doses. Fun to collect the software boxes and stuff as well.
phreakindee 1 year ago
@phreakindee Even Windows was a pain. Things got better with Windows 3.x, but it was only until Windows NT that I go the sense that Windows was finally somehow maturing.
3ytc 1 year ago
I don't understand why you needed this machine to run specific games, I have yet to find a vintage game that I didn't get to work on my modern system. Which games are you talking about?
3ytc 1 year ago
@3ytc Did you watch all of the video? I showed some of those games, like Test Drive III. There are plenty of vintage MS-DOS games that are built specifically for systems of this vintage and the speed (or lack thereof) that it provides. Stunt Driver, CD-MAN v1 and Bubble Ghost are more examples of these games that will run too fast or too slow on other systems. Try them on a ~486DX/4 to see.
You saying that you have a modern system to run these games confuses me, since these are DOS-only.
phreakindee 1 year ago
@phreakindee "You saying that you have a modern system to run these games confuses me, since these are DOS-only."
Virtualization, it even allows you to throttle CPU speed
3ytc 1 year ago
@3ytc Then why ask why I needed this computer if you're using a VM? That's completely different, and obviously I wouldn't run into the speed issue if I were using one.
This is a real machine. I run the games on their original hardware and for several I needed a very specific machine. VMs and emulators simply do not provide the actual experience, although they may be much easier nowadays to use. But I'm not about easy.
phreakindee 1 year ago
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@phreakindee "Then why ask why I needed this computer if you're using a VM?"
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. The reason why I replied in the first place is because you explained in the video that you went with a 386 to be able to play the games that you couldn't play on the 486 or Pentium, so I assumed that your main motive to go for a 386 was the software and not so much the hardware.
3ytc 1 year ago
@phreakindee Btw, it's fun watching some of your videos, brings back many old memories, the days of the pioneers. ha!
3ytc 1 year ago
dosbox?
racingisfun 1 year ago
@racingisfun Defeats the purpose - running the games on original hardware in their original form.
phreakindee 1 year ago
oh man I remember my old 386 laptop with no sound card...so expensive and poor perofrmances.
GeorgesVI 1 year ago
There was nothing better than getting an old DOS machine and getting to find out what was left on the disk by the previous owner. Sorry you got robbed with that one.
By the way I had no idea about those 1ups on the first level of keen4. Learn something new every day.
wysoft 1 year ago
sounds that game sounds like genesis
brandonnesfan 1 year ago