Younger people cant imagine, we spent more time getting a game to run than play it in those DOS days. Getting those pesky last 4000 bytes of lower ram together with needed drivers was exhausting. Many ended up with boot scripts for desired combinations of EMS, XMS and selected drivers.
Yep. Editing my autoexec.bat and config.sys files for almost every game... Imagine that nowadays. I also had lots of fun with IRQ conflicts too... the things I learnt back in the day. Despite the never-ending pain.. I kinda miss it in a disturbing sorta way.
I’m not much of a gamer and really didn’t play that many games as a kid, but my family did a lot. As soon as the intro to IndyCar started playing, I got transported right back to 1995. My dad played that game so much. He had a stroke back in 2008 and is basically unrecognizable from his former self (the stroke left him paralyzed on his right side and completely changed every aspect of his personality, even the sound of his voice is different) so things that remind me of him before the stroke are pretty special to me. Thank you for triggering some memories of better times.
Sorry to hear about your dad. Can only imagine how difficult this must be. Glad to hear this video brought back some good memories. Stay strong, healthy and take good care of one another !
Those sweet 486 days are still fresh in my mind.I think i was like 12 (in 93) when my dad bought an Ambra Sprinta 486 and the Soundblaster, and even a modem. It was so badass back then! Many cool games (lots of demos too), fun programs, and the dawn of websites, they looked so creative back then. Great memories!
Oh CRAP you are totally bringing me back. After my 486DX2 from Packard Bell which was extremely expensive and became severely outdated in a year, I became a computer builder and started setting up ISDN networks so me and my friends could play Doom2, Hexan, Duke Nukem and other 1st Player shooters. This was the age of cyber cafes and gaming tournaments. Age of the Empires was another game I got into and Microsoft launched its Gaming Zone so that people could connect and play multiplayer games. Those were the days man! Loved it 🥰
I remember, my first PC I bought in 1993 (which was a 486/DX33), I ordered not only a Soundblaster card, but also a single-speed CD-Rom (and I payed a fortune for this). Took me so much effort to get the mouse, the Soundblaster and also the CD-Rom running in parallel, but after a lot of attempts, studying the DOS 5.0 "handbook" (in fact it was more like a tome), I did it and I was soooo happy. For other games like Ultima VII, I created boot scripts in order to choose the best combination right from the beginning. Thank you for uploading this video 😊
We're from the same era. My system was the same as yours. The single speed CD-ROM had a tray. It came with an entire encyclopedia on one CD, which was really something. And I could finally play Police Quest 3 and King's Quest 5 which my old 8088 with 640k RAM wasn't able to handle.
It's probably what you meant but in case it wasn't or other people misunderstood: The PC Speaker header isn't for the PC speaker, it's to connect to the PC speaker header on the motherboard so that the audio from that is routed through the system speakers via the sound card internal mixing.
This reminds me of the day when I got sound on my PC for the first time, a 486 too. It was like hearing for the very first time after having been deaf for years. More than 25 years ago...
yep. fun to revisit them. But we have been spoiled with videogames lately. Becomes harder to get impressed. But in 1993 this would have blown you away for sure.
When you watch an awesome video, then get excited about part 2, because it's the internet and everything is instant... just to realize he published this 52 minutes ago, and you need to wait for part two 😆
@@RetroSpector78 Dave At 1:38.. the PC_SPK heather is for connect the speaker heather of the motherboard.... _(Not the PC speaker)_ ........ you use a 4 pin to 2 pin cable...... and then you have the bip's of the PC speaker coming out from the Sound Blaster Output........ Inside windows have his own volume and balance control in the SondBlaster Mixer....... is perfect for have the sound effects of games like..Commander Keen of Crystal Caves.. coming out of the SB16 Speakers 😁..... you should try it..... is a feature that got lost in Awe 32 forward.. 😮💨
My first PC was an Intel 8088, 128K RAM, dual 5.25" floppy, no hard drive, boots into BASICROM if no DOS disk. Ran games on Hercules/PC speaker. I've been through it all. Such memorable experiences. Thank you for this video.
I was so hooked on F1 gp. It was such a groundbreaking game, couldn't get enough of it. It also came with the best manual ever, so descriptive, going into history of every team, explaining various setups in detail, driving lines in detail etc. Oh the memories
nice enjoyable video!! thanks! I love the retro dose computers and the great games....and you make this all come alive in this fun video! thanks again mr.spector!!
This is an awesome part 1! The libraries of the school district I went to used those Compaq's as the "librarian terminals" for the card catalog system they bought. The schools were 95% mac and I was the only "PC guy" on the student IT staff, so I got to work on them. They were well built and easy to service. Have a bit of fondness for the simplicity of them back then. I was a doofus and put Windows 95 on them at the request of the librarians, man did that run dog slow. Didn't bother them though, they liked using 95 more than Windows 3.11 or DOS.
I knew you'd have a driving game and @13:34 one of my favorites (anything by Geoff Crammond) didn't disappoint! I don't even want to think how much time I may have played this and the sequels. And then IndyCar racing at @15:45 another favorite! Papyrus did some great racing games too!
That F1 game blew my grandpa (Ayrton Senna fan) away! He was amazed that i could drive a F1 on the pc! Good times! And Jurassic Park is a effin hard game! I never finished it!
Really enjoyed this video. I still remember how excited I was when I managed to save up and bought a SB AWE32 in the mid 90s. That was the best sound card you could get at the time….
Cambridge Soundworks was Creatives brand for speakers. If the card has jumpers on board to set IRQ and memory address how can you then expect to be able to set those in software without changing the jumpers on the card? I'm not sure and I may be wrong but I thought the drivers ability to set those was for the plug and play versions of the cards when installed in non plug and play systems. It's been a lot of years since I played with one of these so I'm not sure if that's correct but just figured I would throw that out there. Let me know if I am wrong.
This particular card is not a true PnP card and has jumpers for the base address and MPU settings, but IRQ and DMA is set through software. (Using the diagnose.exe). The reason I went to configure the IRQs in the game setup was because I assumed the game had incorrect settings and I wanted to set them according to the current card (io 220 irq 5)
@@RetroSpector78 Ahh. Creative released so many different versions of these cards it's hard to know which or remember. I have a fully PnP ISA card in a box waiting to go into a Super Socket Seven build. I know they also made a version that you set IRQ and DMA through jumpers also and I assumed that's what yours was. I wasn't aware they made one that was partial jumper partial software config. I have not had one of those. I've only ever had two real Sound Blaster cards and one is the PnP I still have and the other was full jumper I had many years ago. Well I also have a Sound Blaster Audio PCI in my XP build but that's just an Ensoniq card in disguise.
Hi there. Nice video. Are you sure that card has 2 IDE connectors? Seems to me it has one proprietary and one IDE... Or can that proprietary function as IDE via jumper settings?
Huh, I never knew Dune 2 had speech in it, at least I don't remember hearing speech when I played it back in the day. We had a Media Vision Pro AudioSpectrum 16 sound card, and I only remember hearing the music and sound effects, so perhaps we never set up the game sound correctly for our sound card. Perhaps one day when I get around to setting up a proper vintage test machine, I'll try Dune 2 with both a SB 16 and PAS 16 cards, and see if I get the speech on both.
The pas 16 was harder to set up, and full support wasnt really there on most games. Addressing it as a normal soundblaster often worked for fm synth+pcm. The games that did support it really showed how impressive it was.
I remember the day I bought this Sound Blaster 16 ASP, I believe I paid $279 for it from a place called Brand Smart in my area. As much as a pain in the rear that it was to configure the IRQs and DMA channels you didn't feel it cause you would be so excited about having it in your system and enjoying your games. I also remember running MEMM386 software to get all those above the 640K boundary. This was first in my 486SX25 and then moved it to a new 486DX100.
Thanks for reviving those golden memories ❤. I did remember my brother had one creative blaster sound card for windows 98 machine and especially had that creative sbs speakers. Being a millennial kid i remember playing epic pin ball, f1 grand prix and Labyrinth game was mind blowing in that 90's decade..
I still remember my jaw hitting the floor when I saw the intro of Dune 2... that digitized speech! Excellent game as well. Set the standard for RTS games that remains relevant to this day. Really the only thing that was missing was click-and-drag multi-unit selection.
love seeing the Compaq logo, my first new computer purchased when i started working was a Compaq, they built some nice computers back in the day, shame they are gone.
As a 8 year-old kid I began gaming on a 386 pc in 1994 in South Korea. Those old days were really beautiful and I thank my parents very much for giving me a life.
Awesome video! I'm 43 years, so, don't need to say too much. However, it brings back a lot of good memories, which made me emotional. My first one was an 386-SX 22Mhz, then, 486-DX2 66, then, 486 DX4-100 32MB RAM (a real cannon, for that time :) Thanks!!
Such memories! Who remembers playing with Dr. Sbaitso? Who remembers the pain of installing ISA cards? Having to really push hard to get the card into the ISA slot and then having your hands get ripped up by the neighbouring cards pins sticking out?
The people who started Creative Labs also brought us Commodore Computers, which had revolutionary sound on the C64 and Amiga's. They had audio in their DNA. The also went on to purchase Emulator, who made some of the first affordable sampling keyboards used by Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode and a zillion other top 10 bands back in the day.
Exact rig me and my family had in the early 90's, Prolinea 4/25s. ill never forget when my dad finally got a multimedia upgrade kit from Creative, 2x CD, SB16, and speakers bundled together. Took a few days to get it all working in the Compaq, the system was so very fickle as to how it needed everything connected and configured. It was glorious to me with the encyclopedia software running videos and getting actual sound from my games. Little upgrades felt far far more impressive to me back then.
I had one of those. It was sooo big, like a cruiser :) It was an AWE 32 by SoundBlaster. It was incredible experience that days. For "free'ing" memory I used a QEMM program.
7:07 I'm hearing a headache inducing high pitch noise starting at that time. But what puzzles me is why is it not throughout the video? It's been the same computer all along. I'm guessing it comes from the CRT but I do not know.
My sb16 requires me to run the mixer and set the default volume of zero to 100. Took me replacing a few components to realize that it’s a weird software quirk.
I put a retro pc together myself not long ago from my old "Junk". "Junk" because they were worth nothing 15 years ago. The only item, that wasn't mine, was a NOS Sound Blaster AWE 64. I had a few sound cards, SB 2.0, SB PRO Comp, SB16, SB PCI128, SB LIVE, SB Audigy2 ZS, but not of them has as much of an amazing stereo image as the AWE 64. Every second is a joy on that PC. Cannot wait for autumn, to re-play Broken Sword 1 again.
1993 was the year I started using PC. For us, having sound card was a luxury we couldn't afford yet. I eventually upgraded for CDROM first then eventually got my own sound card which was Yamaha OPL3-SA
I am so glad I lived these days. Everything was a huge step forward. Before Sound Blaster, I remember using a DAC converter attached to a printer port. Some music SW supported that as well as a few games, like Goblins or Simon the Sorcerer :D Then SB was made, SB AWE32 (Doom, System Shock), and so on. First GPU accelerator, new and new game genres... Sweet times. PS: Made in Singapore. My first RC Formula car was also made in Singapore. Today everything is made in China :)
I can smell the PC aroma, blitzing CRT monitor, back in those day I played games without any sound coz I coudnt afford buy soundcard, until Im in highschool in 99, im amazed that I can enjoy music mp3 without buying cassette.. thanks for making this video
Wow, i did play many of these games back in the day. I also had the same setup sound wise, that is SB16 and speakers. Had also to install the card myself, as i did back then with all my computers.
OMG, I've done all these waaaaaaaaay back then, throughout the 90's. Installing hardware and configuring and countless reconfiguring Autoexec.bat and Config,sys files to play games on DOS. I had a 486DX2 back then. And a Soundblaster card 16 bit as well. I don't remember what VGA card I had back then, but I do remember tinkering and replacing that a LOT.
@@RetroSpector78 Oude systemen zijn leuk en interessant om mee te spelen en te knutselen. Ik heb jaren gewerkt voor IBM, dus ik heb ook een heleboel IBM's. Ik werk nu aan de 5170. Deze heeft harddisk issues.
I probably had the same 1993 Compaq 486, first PC I bought myself, and bought X-Wing along with it. Eventually I added a CD Rom, additional RAM, and an Intel OverDrive and a Creative Labs sound card plus a pair of Soundblaster speakers. Was never really a PC gamer, I can remember almost every game I had for it, just a few mid-90's standards like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D shareware, Lemmings, Tie Fighter, Dark Forces, King's Quest, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Descent, and CD Rom games 7th Guest, Myst, and Rebel Assault. Stopped playing PC games once the PlayStation released in 1995.
oh, those times of my childhood. My first sound card for my Am386DX40 was the ess488 "audio magician", sound blaster 2.0/adlib compatible - 8bit mono. It wasnt such a shiny SB16 but gave me so much pleasure! Anyway it was much better than PC speaker. Thanks for Cannon Fodder and Dune moments - memories, memories... Also it was time for proprietary interfaces for CD-ROMs on sound card - i must tell it's not IDE interfaces there. At least Matsushita (Panasonic) interface may look as IDE and use the same cable but it wasnt IDE-compatible. That's why it was on sound card and not on usual IDE/FDD/COM/LPT-controller board.
gee wiz i remember playing that game in 1993 as well Alien Carnage that was the only and last time i played it... 31 years ago and your brain can still remember it so easily
People these days don't know the struggle of setting jumpers, manually setting IRQ and DMA channels and making boot disks to get just one game to run.
Failed floppy disks during installation, cd-rom drive not fast enough...man the list go's on.
Not to forget XMS and EMS RAM profiles^^
Colliding IRQs. Nightmare of nightmares
I still remember the joy the first time I didn't nave to manually config evrtything...
I remember the heartbreak when our 2x CDROM was too slow to run the game Silent Steel (needed at least a 4X).
Younger people cant imagine, we spent more time getting a game to run than play it in those DOS days. Getting those pesky last 4000 bytes of lower ram together with needed drivers was exhausting. Many ended up with boot scripts for desired combinations of EMS, XMS and selected drivers.
Younger people can't ever imagine how to make cloth by loom. They just buy it in shops, and it made automatically on factories.
yeah sometimes it took you 30 min to install with 6 disks like 15MB now you could install 15 MB of files in 1 second
And all that effort is how we learned about computers. But you tell the young ones that today, and, they won't believe you!
Yep. Editing my autoexec.bat and config.sys files for almost every game... Imagine that nowadays. I also had lots of fun with IRQ conflicts too... the things I learnt back in the day. Despite the never-ending pain.. I kinda miss it in a disturbing sorta way.
Yes. Writing and re-writing batch files for the BIOS . Man ... That was fun !
I’m not much of a gamer and really didn’t play that many games as a kid, but my family did a lot. As soon as the intro to IndyCar started playing, I got transported right back to 1995. My dad played that game so much. He had a stroke back in 2008 and is basically unrecognizable from his former self (the stroke left him paralyzed on his right side and completely changed every aspect of his personality, even the sound of his voice is different) so things that remind me of him before the stroke are pretty special to me. Thank you for triggering some memories of better times.
Sorry to hear about your dad. Can only imagine how difficult this must be. Glad to hear this video brought back some good memories. Stay strong, healthy and take good care of one another !
Those sweet 486 days are still fresh in my mind.I think i was like 12 (in 93) when my dad bought an Ambra Sprinta 486 and the Soundblaster, and even a modem. It was so badass back then! Many cool games (lots of demos too), fun programs, and the dawn of websites, they looked so creative back then. Great memories!
Peasant, I have a Pentium
@@vishy not in 1993
@@Vestu I had a Pentium 60 in 94/95
Oh CRAP you are totally bringing me back. After my 486DX2 from Packard Bell which was extremely expensive and became severely outdated in a year, I became a computer builder and started setting up ISDN networks so me and my friends could play Doom2, Hexan, Duke Nukem and other 1st Player shooters. This was the age of cyber cafes and gaming tournaments. Age of the Empires was another game I got into and Microsoft launched its Gaming Zone so that people could connect and play multiplayer games. Those were the days man! Loved it 🥰
I remember, my first PC I bought in 1993 (which was a 486/DX33), I ordered not only a Soundblaster card, but also a single-speed CD-Rom (and I payed a fortune for this).
Took me so much effort to get the mouse, the Soundblaster and also the CD-Rom running in parallel, but after a lot of attempts, studying the DOS 5.0 "handbook" (in fact it was more like a tome), I did it and I was soooo happy.
For other games like Ultima VII, I created boot scripts in order to choose the best combination right from the beginning.
Thank you for uploading this video 😊
We're from the same era. My system was the same as yours. The single speed CD-ROM had a tray. It came with an entire encyclopedia on one CD, which was really something. And I could finally play Police Quest 3 and King's Quest 5 which my old 8088 with 640k RAM wasn't able to handle.
It's probably what you meant but in case it wasn't or other people misunderstood: The PC Speaker header isn't for the PC speaker, it's to connect to the PC speaker header on the motherboard so that the audio from that is routed through the system speakers via the sound card internal mixing.
Thanks for clarifying. It is indeed what I meant but sometimes it doesn't always come out this way.
This reminds me of the day when I got sound on my PC for the first time, a 486 too. It was like hearing for the very first time after having been deaf for years. More than 25 years ago...
The name of the publisher behind Dracula is Psygnosis.. They were huge in the old Amiga/Atari era of UK game development/Publishing. :)
Goddamnit ... thought I double-checked everything. Thanks for clearing that up. I think the spelling checker kicked in for some reason.
@@RetroSpector78 Nothing to be bothered about really. Stuff happens and all that. :)
Came here to say the same :-)
Was looking for this comment. Couldnt let that slip by 😄
Now I have a Psychosis because Psygnosis wasn’t spelled correctly.
I was glued to the screen and wondered how the lemmings' mission would end 🤣
No lemmings got hurt during the mission.
"we all fall down"
sums it up ;)
I was so addicted to Dune II back in the day! At the time, it just checked all the boxes for me. Really great!
Dune 2 was amazing so many memories and the music intro was so good!
Great compilation! It has given me some good ideas on what to load on my 486. Glad to see you got Dune2 on there. Can't wait for part 2!
Great video! Really enjoyed the games showcased 🙂
That flight game looks awesome!
yep. fun to revisit them. But we have been spoiled with videogames lately. Becomes harder to get impressed. But in 1993 this would have blown you away for sure.
When you watch an awesome video, then get excited about part 2, because it's the internet and everything is instant... just to realize he published this 52 minutes ago, and you need to wait for part two 😆
Just imagine you’re in 1993 :)
I remember it!
I really liked game JeFighter 2
How I could just fly by buildings super fast =) @@RetroSpector78
yeah, that should be forbidden.....
@@RetroSpector78 Dave At 1:38.. the PC_SPK heather is for connect the speaker heather of the motherboard.... _(Not the PC speaker)_ ........ you use a 4 pin to 2 pin cable...... and then you have the bip's of the PC speaker coming out from the Sound Blaster Output........ Inside windows have his own volume and balance control in the SondBlaster Mixer....... is perfect for have the sound effects of games like..Commander Keen of Crystal Caves.. coming out of the SB16 Speakers 😁..... you should try it..... is a feature that got lost in Awe 32 forward.. 😮💨
@@RetroSpector78 The part 2 will be sent via mail on 128 disks
I have the same Cambridge SoundWorks speakers, right in front of me, playing your video for me right now 😄.
Haha ! Super cool.
My first PC was an Intel 8088, 128K RAM, dual 5.25" floppy, no hard drive, boots into BASICROM if no DOS disk. Ran games on Hercules/PC speaker. I've been through it all. Such memorable experiences. Thank you for this video.
I was so hooked on F1 gp. It was such a groundbreaking game, couldn't get enough of it. It also came with the best manual ever, so descriptive, going into history of every team, explaining various setups in detail, driving lines in detail etc. Oh the memories
nice enjoyable video!! thanks! I love the retro dose computers and the great games....and you make this all come alive in this fun video! thanks again mr.spector!!
Remember when CD drive speed determined what games and software you could run? LOL. The struggle was real. 😂
This is an awesome part 1! The libraries of the school district I went to used those Compaq's as the "librarian terminals" for the card catalog system they bought. The schools were 95% mac and I was the only "PC guy" on the student IT staff, so I got to work on them. They were well built and easy to service. Have a bit of fondness for the simplicity of them back then. I was a doofus and put Windows 95 on them at the request of the librarians, man did that run dog slow. Didn't bother them though, they liked using 95 more than Windows 3.11 or DOS.
I knew you'd have a driving game and @13:34 one of my favorites (anything by Geoff Crammond) didn't disappoint! I don't even want to think how much time I may have played this and the sequels. And then IndyCar racing at @15:45 another favorite! Papyrus did some great racing games too!
Boy, this was a lot of fun seeing games that I hadn't seen in 30 years! Thanks for doing this!
Nice hearing the sounds of setting up a sound card. Really takes me back to the ms dos days. ❤
That F1 game blew my grandpa (Ayrton Senna fan) away! He was amazed that i could drive a F1 on the pc! Good times! And Jurassic Park is a effin hard game! I never finished it!
Ich vermisse das wunderschöne Nikotin Gelb dieser alten Computer sehr. :-)
I had a 486 and was addicted to "Aces over The Pacific" and "Aces over Europe".
Really enjoyed this video. I still remember how excited I was when I managed to save up and bought a SB AWE32 in the mid 90s. That was the best sound card you could get at the time….
I so remember setting these up with customers over the phone when I started working in user facing computer support at the end of the 90's!
Cambridge Soundworks was Creatives brand for speakers. If the card has jumpers on board to set IRQ and memory address how can you then expect to be able to set those in software without changing the jumpers on the card? I'm not sure and I may be wrong but I thought the drivers ability to set those was for the plug and play versions of the cards when installed in non plug and play systems. It's been a lot of years since I played with one of these so I'm not sure if that's correct but just figured I would throw that out there. Let me know if I am wrong.
This particular card is not a true PnP card and has jumpers for the base address and MPU settings, but IRQ and DMA is set through software. (Using the diagnose.exe). The reason I went to configure the IRQs in the game setup was because I assumed the game had incorrect settings and I wanted to set them according to the current card (io 220 irq 5)
@@RetroSpector78 Ahh. Creative released so many different versions of these cards it's hard to know which or remember. I have a fully PnP ISA card in a box waiting to go into a Super Socket Seven build. I know they also made a version that you set IRQ and DMA through jumpers also and I assumed that's what yours was. I wasn't aware they made one that was partial jumper partial software config. I have not had one of those. I've only ever had two real Sound Blaster cards and one is the PnP I still have and the other was full jumper I had many years ago. Well I also have a Sound Blaster Audio PCI in my XP build but that's just an Ensoniq card in disguise.
I remember how excited I was to install my SoundBlaster 16!
This is great, love seeing all those games, deciding which ones I still have to try
Cool game showcase for me who isnt familiar with games from this era
I love that early 90s era when people were more concerned with the quality of their sound card than with graphics
I was the one there.
Hi there. Nice video. Are you sure that card has 2 IDE connectors? Seems to me it has one proprietary and one IDE... Or can that proprietary function as IDE via jumper settings?
Well spotted. It has a non-standard Panasonic CDROM interface and a standard IDE interface.
I had the exact SB card back in 1994. This video surely brings back memory to me.
Dune II was great. I was trash at the game as a kid but I always loved it.
Dune is a good game before age of empires 2
Thank you so much for your vidoes. Brings back the memories alot.
Happy you enjoy them !
Aahhhhh, some classoc DOS gaming, including setup which could be quite time consuming.
omg cannon fodder, dune, f15, f1, indycar!
Had me cleaning my screen about half way through the video 😆
Huh, I never knew Dune 2 had speech in it, at least I don't remember hearing speech when I played it back in the day. We had a Media Vision Pro AudioSpectrum 16 sound card, and I only remember hearing the music and sound effects, so perhaps we never set up the game sound correctly for our sound card. Perhaps one day when I get around to setting up a proper vintage test machine, I'll try Dune 2 with both a SB 16 and PAS 16 cards, and see if I get the speech on both.
The pas 16 was harder to set up, and full support wasnt really there on most games. Addressing it as a normal soundblaster often worked for fm synth+pcm. The games that did support it really showed how impressive it was.
I remember the day I bought this Sound Blaster 16 ASP, I believe I paid $279 for it from a place called Brand Smart in my area. As much as a pain in the rear that it was to configure the IRQs and DMA channels you didn't feel it cause you would be so excited about having it in your system and enjoying your games. I also remember running MEMM386 software to get all those above the 640K boundary. This was first in my 486SX25 and then moved it to a new 486DX100.
Thanks for reviving those golden memories ❤. I did remember my brother had one creative blaster sound card for windows 98 machine and especially had that creative sbs speakers. Being a millennial kid i remember playing epic pin ball, f1 grand prix and Labyrinth game was mind blowing in that 90's decade..
I still remember my jaw hitting the floor when I saw the intro of Dune 2... that digitized speech! Excellent game as well. Set the standard for RTS games that remains relevant to this day. Really the only thing that was missing was click-and-drag multi-unit selection.
I enjoyed this. Thanks for the video!
CT2230 and CT2290 are some of the best SB16s, you will rarely encounter the hanging note bug on them. I have never heard it yet on those models.
love seeing the Compaq logo, my first new computer purchased when i started working was a Compaq, they built some nice computers back in the day, shame they are gone.
As a 8 year-old kid I began gaming on a 386 pc in 1994 in South Korea. Those old days were really beautiful and I thank my parents very much for giving me a life.
I remember, I had the Soundblaster 16 in my first Computer (Pentium-1 with 133MHz)^^
Awesome video!
I'm 43 years, so, don't need to say too much.
However, it brings back a lot of good memories, which made me emotional.
My first one was an 386-SX 22Mhz, then, 486-DX2 66, then, 486 DX4-100 32MB RAM (a real cannon, for that time :)
Thanks!!
Such memories! Who remembers playing with Dr. Sbaitso? Who remembers the pain of installing ISA cards? Having to really push hard to get the card into the ISA slot and then having your hands get ripped up by the neighbouring cards pins sticking out?
The people who started Creative Labs also brought us Commodore Computers, which had revolutionary sound on the C64 and Amiga's. They had audio in their DNA. The also went on to purchase Emulator, who made some of the first affordable sampling keyboards used by Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode and a zillion other top 10 bands back in the day.
Exact rig me and my family had in the early 90's, Prolinea 4/25s. ill never forget when my dad finally got a multimedia upgrade kit from Creative, 2x CD, SB16, and speakers bundled together. Took a few days to get it all working in the Compaq, the system was so very fickle as to how it needed everything connected and configured. It was glorious to me with the encyclopedia software running videos and getting actual sound from my games. Little upgrades felt far far more impressive to me back then.
Omg, those speakers! I have the very same, and totally coincidentally, someone found the exact same pair at work.
Great memories from the racing games... Test Drive, Indy500, F1GP and Indycar Racing were my favorites!!!
Great stuff! Those machines back then really taught you patience.
Wing Commander II and Soundblaster Pro was my dream combo back then.
I had one of those. It was sooo big, like a cruiser :) It was an AWE 32 by SoundBlaster. It was incredible experience that days. For "free'ing" memory I used a QEMM program.
I loved Indy Car Racing, the graphics at the time blew me away
Hello! I'm from Brazil and this PC just arrived in stores!
7:07 I'm hearing a headache inducing high pitch noise starting at that time. But what puzzles me is why is it not throughout the video? It's been the same computer all along. I'm guessing it comes from the CRT but I do not know.
Yeah sorry about that … noticed it too late. Was indeed from the CRT that started doing that from time to time.
@@RetroSpector78 Ah I see. It's the CRT itself that is intermittent lol
Sneaky
Some real bangers in there! Gotta admit, that PsygnosisPsychosis mixup was pretty funny 😂
My sb16 requires me to run the mixer and set the default volume of zero to 100. Took me replacing a few components to realize that it’s a weird software quirk.
Omg sound blaster 😭 so much memories
Dude .... The sound when you kill someone in Dracula .... Awesome .... Hahaha damn !!!!!
I put a retro pc together myself not long ago from my old "Junk". "Junk" because they were worth nothing 15 years ago. The only item, that wasn't mine, was a NOS Sound Blaster AWE 64. I had a few sound cards, SB 2.0, SB PRO Comp, SB16, SB PCI128, SB LIVE, SB Audigy2 ZS, but not of them has as much of an amazing stereo image as the AWE 64. Every second is a joy on that PC. Cannot wait for autumn, to re-play Broken Sword 1 again.
I remember hearing a voice on a game and being totally stoked about it.
On the Amiga computer, the sound in Cannon Fodder was definitely better. There was also a great song at the beginning of the game.
first time i see ken's labyrinth, nice game
Your sound card works perfectly!!
1993 was the year I started using PC. For us, having sound card was a luxury we couldn't afford yet. I eventually upgraded for CDROM first then eventually got my own sound card which was Yamaha OPL3-SA
Had a 486DX with a Sounblaster. Fave game back then was DUNE Battle for Arrakis.
This brings back memories, this was my second sound card my first one being an adlib sound card.
How much video ram is on your integrated graphics, is it 256k and if so is that a problem with the games of the time.
Crazy times back then... glade for been present.
I still have this Compaq Prolinea 433s, upgraded to a dx2-66, SB AWE64 soundcard, and cd-rom drive, running DOS 6.2 and win3.11!
OMG Lemmings! My wife and I loved that game!
I am so glad I lived these days. Everything was a huge step forward. Before Sound Blaster, I remember using a DAC converter attached to a printer port. Some music SW supported that as well as a few games, like Goblins or Simon the Sorcerer :D
Then SB was made, SB AWE32 (Doom, System Shock), and so on. First GPU accelerator, new and new game genres...
Sweet times.
PS: Made in Singapore. My first RC Formula car was also made in Singapore. Today everything is made in China :)
And then there was adlib which was the cheaper sound card.
You're really good at World Circuit, and on the keyboard as well! I was not expecting that! :-)
Muscle memory :) was obsessed with this game when I was a kid. Never really liked steering wheels or even joysticks.
Sound blaster was something incredible back then! Most of us used to solder covox with resistors.
@7:53 it was Psygnosis, not Psychosis.
I can smell the PC aroma, blitzing CRT monitor, back in those day I played games without any sound coz I coudnt afford buy soundcard, until Im in highschool in 99, im amazed that I can enjoy music mp3 without buying cassette.. thanks for making this video
Warcraft and Warcraft 2 would be nice too to test.
Lazy Game Review on UA-cam would love this computer. Ooh that clicky start button!
Man brings back memories.... had all the same gear...lol
I have the same Sound Blaster, but mine doesn't have the Advanced Signal Processor chip in it... I wonder how hard those are to find, separately.
Wow, i did play many of these games back in the day. I also had the same setup sound wise, that is SB16 and speakers. Had also to install the card myself, as i did back then with all my computers.
So many fab memories
OMG Dune II, i cant believe I finished this game. You cant select more than one unit at a time. Just brutal.
Soundblaster!!! Holy chit man. This brought back memories.....WOW!
OMG, I've done all these waaaaaaaaay back then, throughout the 90's. Installing hardware and configuring and countless reconfiguring Autoexec.bat and Config,sys files to play games on DOS. I had a 486DX2 back then. And a Soundblaster card 16 bit as well. I don't remember what VGA card I had back then, but I do remember tinkering and replacing that a LOT.
Nice Compaq system. I have exactly the same. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands
Zijn leuke machines inderdaad. Heb ook de 33MHz variant. Alsook nog een hele hoop andere compaqs :)
@@RetroSpector78 Oude systemen zijn leuk en interessant om mee te spelen en te knutselen. Ik heb jaren gewerkt voor IBM, dus ik heb ook een heleboel IBM's. Ik werk nu aan de 5170. Deze heeft harddisk issues.
8:40 did the "war, never been so much fun" song get played on the sound blaster? shouldn't have stopped there...
Sentinel Worlds (Future Magic) was my game.
I’ll never forget discovering the space yacht….
On my ibm rig the et4000 on board never show the artifact in Alien breed
I probably had the same 1993 Compaq 486, first PC I bought myself, and bought X-Wing along with it. Eventually I added a CD Rom, additional RAM, and an Intel OverDrive and a Creative Labs sound card plus a pair of Soundblaster speakers. Was never really a PC gamer, I can remember almost every game I had for it, just a few mid-90's standards like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D shareware, Lemmings, Tie Fighter, Dark Forces, King's Quest, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Descent, and CD Rom games 7th Guest, Myst, and Rebel Assault. Stopped playing PC games once the PlayStation released in 1995.
I remember getting stuck on that Indiana Jones game and never figuring out how to move forward.
@@millermc74 me too. Also never completed 7th Guest or Myst.
16:40 looks more fun than the Ocean's SNES version. My mom and I played that every day for years
oh, those times of my childhood. My first sound card for my Am386DX40 was the ess488 "audio magician", sound blaster 2.0/adlib compatible - 8bit mono. It wasnt such a shiny SB16 but gave me so much pleasure! Anyway it was much better than PC speaker. Thanks for Cannon Fodder and Dune moments - memories, memories...
Also it was time for proprietary interfaces for CD-ROMs on sound card - i must tell it's not IDE interfaces there. At least Matsushita (Panasonic) interface may look as IDE and use the same cable but it wasnt IDE-compatible. That's why it was on sound card and not on usual IDE/FDD/COM/LPT-controller board.
gee wiz i remember playing that game in 1993 as well Alien Carnage that was the only and last time i played it... 31 years ago and your brain can still remember it so easily