- 40
- 196 583
RetroTechBytes
United States
Приєднався 14 січ 2021
Interested in vintage PC hardware? Vintage PC software? Oddball tech things? Forgotten relics of the 80s, 90s, and 00s? Retro games?
Yep, you've come to the right place!
Yep, you've come to the right place!
[Tech Byte 0010] This 386SX Motherboard has the WEIRDEST L2 Cache Setup!
Let’s test this weird 386SX motherboard and it’s fascinatingly odd Macronix chipset! Supposedly it’s got 8kb L2 cache built-in to the chipset. Does it make a difference in performance? You might be surprised!
● Awesome channels to check out:
SUCRA: ua-cam.com/users/SUCRA
CPU Galaxy: ua-cam.com/users/cpugalaxy
PixelPipes: ua-cam.com/users/PixelPipes
JikissGamer: ua-cam.com/users/jikissgamer
Modern&Retro Gaming: ua-cam.com/channels/Anaiu5r1lnoLgzA6S2A1sw.html
Brassic Gamer: ua-cam.com/users/BrassicGamer
RetroSpector78: ua-cam.com/users/RetroSpector78
Adrian's Digital Basement: ua-cam.com/users/craig1black
Rik's Random Retro: ua-cam.com/users/riksrandomretro
Uncle Mike's Retro & Gaming: ua-cam.com/users/UncleMikesRetroGaming
OCR: m.ua-cam.com/users/OCROldComputerRebuild
Tech Ambrosia: m.ua-cam.com/users/techambrosia
Ron’s Computer Videos: ua-cam.com/users/ronscomputervideos
● RetroTechBytes links:
RetroTechBytes
#Retro #Computers #DOS #Vintage
● Awesome channels to check out:
SUCRA: ua-cam.com/users/SUCRA
CPU Galaxy: ua-cam.com/users/cpugalaxy
PixelPipes: ua-cam.com/users/PixelPipes
JikissGamer: ua-cam.com/users/jikissgamer
Modern&Retro Gaming: ua-cam.com/channels/Anaiu5r1lnoLgzA6S2A1sw.html
Brassic Gamer: ua-cam.com/users/BrassicGamer
RetroSpector78: ua-cam.com/users/RetroSpector78
Adrian's Digital Basement: ua-cam.com/users/craig1black
Rik's Random Retro: ua-cam.com/users/riksrandomretro
Uncle Mike's Retro & Gaming: ua-cam.com/users/UncleMikesRetroGaming
OCR: m.ua-cam.com/users/OCROldComputerRebuild
Tech Ambrosia: m.ua-cam.com/users/techambrosia
Ron’s Computer Videos: ua-cam.com/users/ronscomputervideos
● RetroTechBytes links:
RetroTechBytes
#Retro #Computers #DOS #Vintage
Переглядів: 2 099
Відео
The Creative 3D Blaster PCI: Revisiting the Rendition Vérité V1000E
Переглядів 4,2 тис.2 роки тому
The Creative 3D Blaster PCI: Revisiting the Rendition Vérité V1000E
Building the Weirdest Voodoo 2 SLI Setup for #slot1buildoff
Переглядів 1,8 тис.2 роки тому
Building the Weirdest Voodoo 2 SLI Setup for #slot1buildoff
[Tech Byte 0001] Testing the Banned 486SX CPU: The UMC Green CPU
Переглядів 2,3 тис.2 роки тому
[Tech Byte 0001] Testing the Banned 486SX CPU: The UMC Green CPU
Paradise Accelerator Pro: A $300 ISA Windows 3.1/95 Accelerator Card!
Переглядів 1,9 тис.2 роки тому
Paradise Accelerator Pro: A $300 ISA Windows 3.1/95 Accelerator Card!
Building a Better 386/486 Hybrid DOS PC!
Переглядів 2,1 тис.3 роки тому
Building a Better 386/486 Hybrid DOS PC!
So You Think You Want a Roland SoundCanvas: The Magic S23A and Crystal CS9233
Переглядів 1,7 тис.3 роки тому
So You Think You Want a Roland SoundCanvas: The Magic S23A and Crystal CS9233
The 3dfx Voodoo Rush and its Hidden Secrets: #GPUJune Finale!
Переглядів 7 тис.3 роки тому
The 3dfx Voodoo Rush and its Hidden Secrets: #GPUJune Finale!
Raging With the Machine: ATI CIF and the Rage Pro Turbo, #GPUJune Part 2!
Переглядів 4,5 тис.3 роки тому
Raging With the Machine: ATI CIF and the Rage Pro Turbo, #GPUJune Part 2!
The Intel 740: Intel's Latest and Greatest Discrete GPU for 1998! #GPUJune
Переглядів 4,9 тис.3 роки тому
The Intel 740: Intel's Latest and Greatest Discrete GPU for 1998! #GPUJune
A Better Windows Than Windows: An OS/2 Warp 3 Retrospective!
Переглядів 65 тис.3 роки тому
A Better Windows Than Windows: An OS/2 Warp 3 Retrospective!
Taking a Look at Some of the Weirdest Wolf3D Mods!
Переглядів 11 тис.3 роки тому
Taking a Look at Some of the Weirdest Wolf3D Mods!
A New Challenger Enters: #486QuakeRace
Переглядів 2,5 тис.3 роки тому
A New Challenger Enters: #486QuakeRace
A 486 DOS Gaming PC or the World's Fastest 386?: IBM's Blue Lightning!
Переглядів 7 тис.3 роки тому
A 486 DOS Gaming PC or the World's Fastest 386?: IBM's Blue Lightning!
Windows XP on a 486, Part 1?: Experiencing the Best of the Digital Age
Переглядів 5 тис.3 роки тому
Windows XP on a 486, Part 1?: Experiencing the Best of the Digital Age
So You Think You Want a 3DFX Voodoo: The Rendition Vérité V2200
Переглядів 10 тис.3 роки тому
So You Think You Want a 3DFX Voodoo: The Rendition Vérité V2200
QUAKED: The Cyrix MediaGX and the Rise and Fall of Cyrix Corporation
Переглядів 8 тис.3 роки тому
QUAKED: The Cyrix MediaGX and the Rise and Fall of Cyrix Corporation
Crystal Dragon | Skaven (1993) -- Gravis Ultrasound Max
Переглядів 1 тис.3 роки тому
Crystal Dragon | Skaven (1993) Gravis Ultrasound Max
Ice Frontier | Skaven (1993) -- Gravis Ultrasound Max
Переглядів 7323 роки тому
Ice Frontier | Skaven (1993) Gravis Ultrasound Max
I don't remember when I heard it, but there was an OS 2 commercial on the radio. I think it was in Russian because the actress called it," O S duh-viette VARP". STILL stuck in my mind THIRTY SEVEN YEARS LATER
How dare u nothing is better than CANYON.MID
I miss Cyrix so much. They might not the fastest, but i am forever grateful for the fact that they (and AMD) madr pcs affordable and not overcharged like intel. Tons of great memories stemmed from me playing my Cyrix rigs. After their sad demise, ive moved to building AMD till today. Never bought intel with my own money.
"Voodoo 1" does not exist, existed nor will exist. There is, there was and there are quite a few "Vodoo Graphics" left on the market. Please stop adding "1" to the first interaction of something. There is no such thing as "Playstation 1". Not even the "Pentium 1". There was the Playstation" and the "Pentium" processor. It's tiring to always have to show the same stupid mistake that many video producers make who clearly don't know what they're talking about.
I have to agree, the AT3D running Direct3D is indeed something.
You can still buy what is still essentially a miniaturized MediaGX system for around 10 bucks. The wyse SX0 series. They make for awesome tiny retro pcs if you bother fiddling with their strange bios, but as far as I know, you can install Windows 98 on them and the integrated graphics while not a powerhouse, are competent. All of this while consuming like... 10 watts?
I remember os/2.1 was really good. To bad very little amount of os/2 programs.
What version of the drivers were you using? Croc keeps crashing on my system.
Interesting seeing quake but if you're running an accelerator that's still a really great machine
only gui or game ?
It's a shame it lost out to Windows, because it was vastly superior.
This was my first 3D accelerator. Great memories playing all the games you demonstrated. V quake blew my mind at the time.
Few people mention this, but if you had a plain windows 3.1 system you could install OS/2 onto it and OS/2 would import/ use the windows you already had. So you could use the cheaper OS/2 that didn't have an IBM copy of Window licensed into it. This did have a rather large negative, because os/2 had to see the windows on FAT, you were stuck with using OS/2 on FAT as well, so you lost the option to use HPFS. But I think there was a way to backup windows/dos from your FAT computer, then convert the system to OS/2 + HPFS, then put the backed up DOS/windows back on the system but at that point on HPFS.
my laptop uses an intel pentium gold
The first computer i bought with my own money was a cyrix media gx 200. I bought a voodoo2 and a DVD card foe that sucker. Then the board fried and i swaped it for a high end used board with a pentium 200 mmx. Luckily the cards werent damaged in the power surge that fried the board.
Interesting thing, but there were versions of the AWE35 with built in wavetable - U6 can be fitted with a GM capable CS9236. I'm waiting for some parts in the post and am planning to add one to my card.
Great👍
Great video! I just learned intel once had a discreet gpu back then. Now intel has Arc competing with nVidia and Radeon in the ray tracing era.
Good old times. Even today I remember when I heard stereo from SB Pro for the first time. Long, long nights in the front of SVGA tube monitors. 📺❤
i had a 486 dx4100 with a 1 meg ISA 8900C trident graphics card and i could play duke3d dark forces and even quake just fine was never jerky perfectly playable .... i could load tomb raider but could not play it it was too jerky that really needed a 2meg pci card and pentium 75 as min
Fun Fact: The Windows NT kernel is actually based off of OS/2's kernel.
I ran Warp in 93-94 and it sucked. It was buggy, and support was a joke.
Just found your channel, noticed you havent uploaded in 2 years, i subscribed because i really like the content and hope you decide to upload one day again.
awesome presentation sir.
I have my BL3 running at 100MHZ its fast as hell but the asus board im using is isa only, no vlb. If i find a vlb 386 board and run the BL3 cpu on it, it be a weapon.
Do you know where I Can get the Update disc for os/2 danish version?
I played Doom on OS/2 on a 486 with 4MB Ram and it was fast and stable! Great OS, hard to install
I have a Dell Optiplex GX1 with this POS ATI card built into the motherboard. Even has the 8MB upgrade module. Chucked in a 550MHz PIII, 384MB of RAM and a PCI FX5500 with modded FX5200 drivers so I can run SS2, and never looked back. Yes, it's a nice authentic experience, but I don't have time for that. I lived through the era, and the FX5500 can drive a 1920x1200 panel in 98SE without breaking a sweat.
That IDE controller should be VLB. Pitty it is not, it is much faster over VLB (assuming correct implementation, not all were)
Oh look, same motherboard as the one I killed as a teenager (already working on pc hardware for years at the time) because I was tired and when I saw the VGA card not fully in decioded just to push it the rest of the way with the thing still on. Worse idea ever as it killed the board (would have survived had I done that with it off). Worse still the next one was a SLC33 that was the most shitty system ever in terms of compatibility. Its stupid tendency to crash randomly was astonishing, and no that was not a memory or other issue it was a CPU compatibility issue, did many many a test.
Mine was an SX16Mhz though
Sounds a lot like the Bejeweled 3 OST, because it's from the same composer
I used OS/2 Warp. I could not believe that I could run a video game like Wing Commander in a windowed mode and do other things at the same time.
Eight megs was the high-end standard for the time. Sixteen megs was "power user" classification that most could not afford.
Who in the name of BALLS understood ANYTHING about networking on your home PC?!!! My HOME system was how I taught myself about any technology. Naturally, because my company wouldn't allow the use of dialup networking to access my office system, I WASTED tons of time trying to figure out how to get actual WORK done on my home system. That created more security holes in our corporate network than swiss cheese. Then someone at the top got the idea to outsource IT. The company went belly up not long after.
"PRESENTATION MANAGER" was the absolute DUMBEST name EVER!
I still have the 3 disc that came with my IBM PC, Let's installing onto my Presario CDS520 which is like your worlds fastest 386 486-SX2-66 64mb ram 2G HDD
9:48 this is actually the first version of os/2 warp… that has warped text
I have a daughterboard with a Crystal CS9233 chip from 1996. What sound cards can you recommend paired with this board?
OS/2 v.2 had animated wallpaper. Kind kewl.
If there was only a way to find out how effective the cache is. If only the BIOS had a setting to disable the cache then you could run the benchmarks with cache enabled and again with cache disabled.
Weird in that it is a reverse sleeper build
I have the Macronix version...Any difference?
Just found one of these while thrifting $5.99 plus tax. Never knew Acer made SB clones Sadly I don't have a machine with a ISA Slot at the moment
I still have the Quake CD that came with the card. All nice packed with its manual and all. The CD itself was a multi-cd type that came with 11 music tracks by Trent Reznor (NiN).
In the beginning, the purpose of a 3D card was to relieve the load on the CPU and thus achieve much smoother frame rates than the CPU could in software rendering mode due to the existing games, which were initially all developed for software rendering. For this reason, it is best to put such a card in a slow Pentium 133 MHz or slower. A Pentium 2 is already faster in software rendering mode. I played the first few levels of Jedi Knight in software rendering mode because my P2 266 MHz was fast enough for that and there were no usable 2D/3D graphics cards for my taste available, when i bought my P2 brand new. Around 2 years later i installed a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI as soon as it was available. A suitable card for your P2 333 MHz would therefore be a Voodoo 3 or even better a Voodoo 4 or 5 but definitely not this Rendition Verite V2200.
Socket 5 was no joke... now lets see a socket 8 pentium pro!
ISA VGA - I'm crying :D Well done, sir!
Wow this machine is beautiful, and what nice hardware you found, amazing. May I ask you, how(where) did you find it in so clean and new state? The ones I find are all rusty and yellow :-) Great video! Thanks
Funny to run into this video. As the original contributor of the Mobygames article on Rebel Moon (and the person who dumped the pack-ins onto the net), I do feel it's fair that you know that I wrote it nearly 20 years ago in 2006. At the time, the switch to run it in software mode wasn't known... because I was the first and only person to have even written about the game at the time. I had hunted down and purchased a 3D Blaster PCI on eBay in 2005, and previous to my article on MobyGames no information or screenshots of the game even existed on the Internet. So please, don't take it as intent to misinform or spread myths. When the article was written, as far as anyone knew the only way to run it *did* require the 3D Blaster. But I'm very happy now that everyone can enjoy the game!
I still have my OS/2 shrink wrapped that I won at an early '90s COMDEX. I never thought to try it out & just shelved it.