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Looks great, but the effort required proves that IBM PC was not a viable platform for entertainment. Also, how much was CGA in 1981?

The art is nice but this lacks the ultra high quality animation of enemies that helped make Thexder so iconic. Neat game, though! I actually have never heard of this one until now. Thanks.

Tseng-6000 video card, one of the fastest 2D cards. thanks to fast memory with 128bit bus.

i got that same card in my 386SX

This video reminded me of the days when you had to specify cylinders and sectors in the bios of hard drives. Also, I have a memory that you had to put that in COBOL programs as well. Thank you.

Thank you for your video. I purchased this floppy drive unit but wrongly purchased the data cable and your video has solved the problem for me. Otherwise I won't be able to use this device forever.

a video card and ram upgrade would be interesting to see. without using a voodoo card. most of us cant afford a voodoo card. going 8 to 32, 64, and 128mb with max sdram.

Would the MDA card work?

Hi, what was the bottom right game during the intro and outro? I had the shareware of it back in the day and regret not buying the full version on the one occasion it was available. Thank you!! *Dark Side- I just read the comments. Unbelievable to see it again!

My 486 66 MHz had a Paradise Accelerator 24. Not the same as in your video, mine looks newer/different and lacks the slots for extra RAM?. It's from 1993. Can't wait to benchmark it once I get my 486 133 MHz up and running. Both of my oldest PC's booted up just fine after 20+ years in storage, well I got into the BIOS anyway 🙂

Cool trick. I guess with even more programmer effort it would be possible to accomplish on non-original hardware. But then again at the time developer had IBM PC and nothing else so it makes sense he implemented palette swap logic tied to that machine timings. A lot of very early games really needed IBM. Unlike later DOS games which were made on clone machines instead.

Can it play Doom... yes it can!

I got the "101 System Board Error" when the Pc is on,it's the same like this one,any help?

one of my machines at that time (lan party gaming!) had a 200Mhz 6x86 that I got running at 166Mhz using 83Mhzx2. Was mostly stable but got VERY hot on 83Mhz bus. Was ALWAYS stable running at 75x2(PR200+).

I actually use an ET4000 card in my 5150 since I have no CRT monitors. It has excellent CGA/EGA support. I think it will even do Hercules monochrome but I haven't tried it.

There was also a TEMPEST version of the IBM EGA card which has no RCA jacks and a coverplate for the DIP switches.

i think in the 90s up to 1997 video cards made no difference on frames as it was all done by the CPU the video card just game you the image buffer and colours... my ISA 8900C trident card could play everything from 1991 to 1996, even red alert ran great with a 486 dx4 100 i had no idea later on i learn that the trident cards were bare budget min cards at the time that were common, i could even play duke nukem 3D the cpu and ram was the biggest difference.... later on in 2006 or so the video card was very important

Dave Haynie from commoder amiga team said in interview the BOB (blitter object) is more universal and better technique than hardware sprites. Usability of this solution depends on color depth and RAM + gpu frequency. Need of two raster operation to remove old BOB and write BOB on new position. If graphics hardware has enough off screen dedicated video RAM to store sprites like BOB only graphics card is involved in operation without slow down system RAM.

Flex architecture - compaq was first who divided pc common bus to system and external (ISA, EISA, etc) by bus bridge. Then every manufacturer copied this in 386 ant newer machines.

I used CP/M on my Commodore 128 with WordStar for business for a number of years.

It's a decent board, sadly missing VLB, limited to 512k L2 cache and meh Pentium Overdrive performance.

Great video! I'm already eagerly awaiting part 2. Transparency effects (for fog, water, light...) for games in low resolutions (320x200 16bit) would be particularly exciting.

YD380bB drive that does the clacking noise has a bad track 0 sensor. If you move the head to the inside of any drive, and apply power it will home to track 0 (either initially or after loading a disk) (Also, not the old old drives without microprocessors like the tm400) Forgive the rambling. There is a switch or sensor that tells the electronics when the heads are at track 0, this is your culprit

I think I would be good working on this microcomputer because I am an avid and a staunch typist who can work on anything that has a typewriter-like keyboard. Otherwise, I relish seeing people use microcomputer technology, whereby, today this act is rare.

Turn off cache in BIOS and even zaxon will run fine.

Our family PC was a 1640MD, but we modded the B/W screen to support ega with 16 shades of grey. I want that machine back, the 20mb hdd made sooo soothing bird chirp sounds. ❤

Grand Prix Circuit has a conceptual framerate limit or something. If you use the successor game, Grand Prix: The Cycles, you get an improvement in framerate/smoother gameplay.

Just picked up one of these - the VGA card on the motherboard looks the same, I'm pretty sure there isn't any cover missing - this was one owner from brand new. Has a 40MB hard drive, the official Compaq joystick adapter card (for two joysticks) and a very proprietary 4MB RAM expansion too!

I was looking for video on primeval Windows GUI acceleration and how it was done and this video delivers that.

I had the 1640 after my grandad upgraded to a 386. Mine had a 20MB hard disk mounted directly on an ISA card. I remember before powering off the computer, I had to type "wdpark" to park the hard drive heads.

5:42 The volume is probably controlled by software. Thus you will need a tool to adjust it.

20:43 CP/M had a graphics layer called GSX which abstracted away the underlying hardware. The downside of this is that no matter how good your assembly coding skills were, they didn't matter, b/c everything had to go through the GSX layer.

Any news about the final release?

A pretty nice computer for the time. the 8086 and EGA together would have made this a desirable home computer in the late 80's. Just add an adlib sound card and it would have been a pretty good home computer and still usable for business applications as well.

You completely missed the point of those purple CGA graphics.. Search for the video titled : "CGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought!" you might learn a thing or two.

Its funny how the video is 40:25 minutes long 😂 (if u dont understand it is a text mode)

So I watched over half of this and I guess I missed why you shouldn't put a 1981 graphics card in a 1994 PC except for some CPU speed issues? It looks like it worked just fine except for the required tinkering for the bus speed. Is there some reason I couldn't put a Hercules in any ISA slot and use it with appropriate software on any PC?

I never knew Kevin Rudd was into retro pcs

TOD should be Time Of Day not short TODay

18:34 For Tseng ET3000AX, you need a VBE driver loaded to enable its 640x480 8bpp mode. I believe the same applying to the Oak and Paradise VGA ISA. ET3000AX scores 2.2 point on my DX486-33Mhz on PC Player Vesa Mode 101h test, and it scores 17.5 on 3D Bench ISA test, which is pretty close to your test, 17.8 points. So I think this is a valid value. And as for Chris 3D test, this one is CPU related, comprehensive test, Therefore, it cannot be used as a performance comparison of a graphics card. The ET3000AX got 20.9 and 6.6(640x480) respectively on my 486.

Good times of the old CPM/80 I used on my Brazilian clone of "Apple//e" in 1990. MBasic, dBase2 was complex for a kid but with the help of some books I was able to learn a few things. This PIP command is very powerful for copying data segments between devices, memory, disk, etc. What became obvious is the superiority of MSDos and especially PC/Dos in its time. Whoever said Unix is difficult never had to deal with the limitations of CPM! Good job.

I have a Windows 98se computer built around this same 3dfx Voodoo 1 card (the same card I had back in 1997), paired with a Nvidia MX400, and a SoundBlaster Live sound card; it has a AMD K6-2/500 CPU, and 256mb of PC100 ram. I have 42 games for this machine, many are Glide games, such as NFS2se, POD, Wing Commander Prophecy to name a few.

I have an ISA Video 7 that does 15 fps in Quake.... I have no idea why

Excellent presentation, I learned a lot of things I didn't know back then...

YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT THE ADLIB IS CAPABLE OF ? LISTEN TO THE "MEGARACE" PC GAME SOUNDTRACK AND YOU'LL SEE ;-)

This might have been a great accelerator for flat shaded 3D construction kit games like Castle Master if only the features has been supported

Спасибо за видeo

Such a nice monitor.

definitely one of the best, that UMC chipset was excellent -BTW the Amiga demo scene was better lol

Would it be faster if you created a 320x200 byte map in main memory, and used only the first two bits in each byte (4 colors) for all graphics primitives (no need for four different sprite drawings, perhaps easier calculations since each pixel is one byte), but then copied that into CGA memory with packing 2 bits of 4 bytes into each CGA video memory byte?