LGR 486 Update! Installing & Enjoying Windows 3.1
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- The LGR Woodgrain 486 PC is due for an upgrade... to the year 1992! I've got a boxed copy of Microsoft Windows 3.1 and a brand new Microsoft Mouse to enjoy so let's install everything on top of MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.0 and have fun with Lode Runner and Print Shop Deluxe.
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I like how that box for Windows 3.1 is so old that it has circled back around and become modern minimalism. It would not look out of place at all on a shelf today. Except the .... box ... on a shelf.. For software.. Part.. But you know, *theoretically* would not look out of place on a shelf today.
I was thinking the same thing!
You aint seen minimalism yet...Go look at the gui of an An Atari ST The average desert looks a well compared to this shit...And before you say"it aint a pc" , we talking about graphical Oses..
@@eurocrusader1724 I was talking about the box art.
My sister had this. And the old Office huge box with all the manuals inside. They do hold up now with the minimalism.
I always loved the white minimalism designs of games back then. If it was just a white box with a title on it..I had to go over to see what it was on the back..it always got my curiosity.
Love that Techmoan puppet mug!
Yeah, I just saw that too. So nice!
Flippin’ ‘eck!
What if I told you there were two of them?
I'm always a little disappointed when I watch a Techmoan video and it DOESN'T have the "Funny Puppet Segment". :)
keremizgol I was going to say the same thing! 😄
TV/movies are so crappy now it's more entertaining to watch someone install Windows 3.0.
amaxamon oh so true!
amaxamon I've never agreed more!
yep..
3.1*****
You aint wrong
Thing I never expected to hear: "man, that is one clean ball bay."
Did.. Did he blow the dust off it?
Your mom has said it many times. Sorry lol
That is a new one for me too. I'm used to hearing, "That is one smooth ball bay"
😂
That was my first computer when I was a kid, even though it was around 2002-2005 😂 (We basically lived like the 90s back then cuz of not having much money so everything we had was from the 90s including games and clothing) It makes me so happy and nostalgic seeing this again, I honestly want to go back
I had a Phenom II X2 550 based PC in 2017 - 2022 😂
@@RowanBird779 uhh what?
I had a windows 98 in 2003 Lol
@@knartfocker_ that's an OLD pc not hard to understand
@@SandboxerSandy as old as a 90s pc? Nope...
I can't believe I'm getting all nostalgic about a version of Windows. I spent several years with WFWG 3.11/Dos 6.22 and they were happy days.
I don't why; but I kinda am too! (Even though my first experience with us owning a new PC with a GUI was having Windows 98 Second Edition...)
14:55 My friends and I used to have an unreasonable amount of fun making Igor say absurd things. Mashing the keyboard to put a string of useless noises in his mouth was a personal favorite.
lol
you!
Whats wrong?
@@matinsveismans not you, him. I always write that if I see a comment from a verified person that has not many likes / replies
Soisoisoisoisoi
Fun fact: the way a window is closed, by double clicking the top left corner of it, still works in every modern Windows version up to 10!
That Twilight Zone feeling... when you realize hes right. D:
I still close windows that way because 3.1 was my first Windows OS
I have seen old people do this. Now I know why
What is this sorcery!?
Or maximizing a Window by double click the top
God, that little "ta-dah!" noise is just the cutest damn thing.
Thank you!
Yeah! That sound was actually used until Windows XP, and was replaced with a newer (and more boring) version on Vista.
If you told me in 1999 that in 20 years Id be watching people install and use windows 3.1 on an HD video sharing service Id never have believed it
Shameful product placement: Techmoan mug. And now I want one, too ;)
Flippin 'eck!
Awesome...but who makes those rockin speakers?
Shut it! MOAN REPRESENT!
edit: then he flipped it to the other side. Sort of a two-fer easter egg.
"And now I want one, too" Right?! My first thought was, "Where can I buy one of those?!"
I dunno. Techmoan is kinda hard on the 8-bit guy. He should leave him alone.
It's been years since I've been following but man, always gets me how genuine you are.
I think he's gotten better at it along with his showmanship style.
Print Shop... oh man... SO many memories. Thanks for treating those nostalgic times with such respect.
Man, this SERIOUSLY takes me back. My very first computer was a 3.1/3.11 one, and I definitely remember some of the weird built-in games and programs it had. I also remember playing a lot of odd DOS games like Sorcerian and Pinball 2000. Thanks for putting a big smile on my face with this. =)
Woah. This brought back some memories. Especially the mouse stuff. I remember helping my dad teach people to use computers when he still worked for CompUSA. There were a surprising amount of people who simply could not hold the mouse mouse still while double clicking. x_x
That dithered blue gradient setup background hits a specially nostalgic spot in my soul.
This video was like Christmas for my inner nerd. Hands down the best way how to spend 22 minutes ona Friday afternoon :-)
Dude i L.O.V.E. the new splash "LGR" graphic. Nice!
That was literally my first mouse! The serial port Microsoft mouse. And I still remember the mechanism that held the ball inside, for a 7-year-old me getting the ball out of that mouse was a fascinating experience.
“That’s one clean ball bay!” -LGR 2019
That isn't a computer. That is a time machine and took me back to my childhood. :)
Antonio Francisco Magaña Gómez its a computer
@@almostliterally593 What's a computer?
@@ixionn563 Go to Wikipedia.
what's a wikipedia?
@@TheBodgybrothers what's a internet?
Windows 3.1 was the very first version of windows I used. I can still picture my classroom and the computers that ran Windows 3.1. For leisure time, our teacher let us play "Math Blaster" an interactive space game in which the character flew by jet pack and shot his green laser gun at enemies. The enemies were vanquished when you typed in the correct answer to a math problem.
Simple times and awesome times.
Lol, me too. We had Type to Learn and played The Oregon Trail. Dont remember the math game. I can see the computer lab right now. We all worked on 3.1 til they got a few Win 95 machines. Only the cool kids got to use the 95's though. 😑
I love when LGR talks about his mouse balls.
"I've got balls of rubber"
Lol
@@Mick_92 I read that in Duke's voice
My first Windows was NT 4.0 because the machine used to belong to a lawyer. I'm typing this on the same keyboard that came with the machine, 25 years later! The keyboard is about all that survived but damn if it's not a fine-ass piece of tech - I'm glad to see you giving acknowledgement to OSes before 95 because it's something not a lot of people, even in the retro tech world, cover.
Accidentally left captions on from a previous video, and I must say, these are some of the most finely crafted I've ever read. Probably going to turn them on for all future videos, good job!
"Fine! I'll go write my own floppy drive! With Blackjack! And Hookers!"
Infact forget the blackjack!
@@jazmania
"Ah, screw the whole thing."
Chozo Ghost Bender!
readyyyyyyyyy
🎵 We're whalers on the moon...🎵
22 and a half minutes of 486 Win 3.1 nostalgia... and all I can remember is the Techmoan mug
Ahhh, the early 90s. Probably my favorite and most nostalgic era of computing.
@blackkey1976 Yeah, I think social media was the turning point. The analogy I use is that computing and the Internet of the 90s was like a small, friendly town, where life felt innocent and safe, even though there wasn't much going on. Present day computing is like the dystopian Los Angeles of the Blade Runner universe - busting, lots to see and do, a feast for the senses, but you always feel like you have to be on your guard.
Dude, you just triggered so much nostalgia in me. I still remember playing those arcade games on our old computer with either win 3.1 or 3.11 (can't remember) before I could even read. All those sounds just took me back. Exactly how I remember them.
Windows 3.1 was the first computer I experienced as a 7 year old. This video brings back so many memories. I used to listen to a Korn CD with headphones plugged in and zone out to the flying windows screen saver.
7:17 I like how they have illustrated an "ergonomic" mouse being used incorrectly with the left hand.
I'm left handed and those mice were not made for people like me.
Discriminate left handers is what bill gate and his ms friends calls ergonomics.
@@danem2215 OK?
@@danem2215 Mice like these is why a left-handed friend of mine taught himself to use a mouse with his right hand
@@wohlhabendermanager I always used a mouse with my right hand, even though I never had a mouse this biased against me. Too used to it to change now. I might even have a leg up since typing is largely left handed and gaming with your dominant hand seems better. Hard to imagine doing WASD with the right one.
The Techmoan puppet segments are so good, they’re sneaking into other great channels as well.
yes
3.1 was my first as well... you never forget your first..
Same monitor I had but my system was a lowly Packard Smell 486 SX25. I also ran Win 3.1 on DOS 5. But then I found the AMAZING Norton Desktop for Windows. It takes 3.1 to the next level. It was windows done right. Alas, I grew up, and I turned to Linux. Thanks for the fun videos!
Thanks LGR for uploading it. Win 3.1 was the first OS I ever used back in the early-to-mid 90s, thanks to my dad, who was a software engineer. He'd LOVE to watch ur content! RIP Dad.
Ah man, those harsh, old computer sounds. That's really nostalgic. Makes me happy just hearing the thing working.
Reminds me of the good old days before the uprising
@@CakeLorde XD
He needs to make a vid on late 90s apple computers. I mean, those Perfoma/ MacOS sounds where marvelous. I just miss the era where computers comunicate more through sound feedback.
As much as I appreciate the Techmoan mug, pouring fluid over a Model M terrifies me to my core.
At least he didn't smear peanut butter on it...
Not to worry -- friend of mine spilled Coke on her Model M keyboard once, unplugged it promptly, took it down the hall and rinsed in the dorm's bathroom sink, let it dry overnight, and it was fine.
Extreme marketing.
I've heard legend that the Model M can be safely cleaned in the dishwasher.
No heated dry, of course.
@@AndrewAMartin Yup, one of the first PC / Electronics shops I ever worked in. We would have business clients calling about their keyboards not working because someone spilled stuff on them. And most of them were Model M's or Clones. We would disconnect the cable from them, throw them in the dishwasher and let them dry for 48 hours, and they always worked good as new.
Pouring coffee over a model m. You live dangerously sir.
You're not a true Windows user unless you've poured a drink over your keyboard.
Cardboard Sliver True, I’ve spilt stuff on my keyboard before
As have I. Several times lol
Cardboard Sliver I once accidentally spilled tea on a midframe AS/400 keyboard at work. I took the keyboard home, removed all the keycaps, sprayed it off with a water hose, dried it off, took it back to work, and it worked like new.
yes, I held my breath there too.
So much in the box unlike buying things today
This was my first computer OS on a machine my dad made ( I was too young to know what brand all the things were). I haven't seen this is FOREVER! ^^ So nice to see it again! Thank you!
Print Shop Deluxe!!! I completely forget about that! You've just brought back some amazing memories!
Clint, I remember what happened the last time you had a text screensaver...seems like you remembered too ;-)
TShut TUp TNow
Windows 3.1 DOES compute
Man, I remembering upgrading from 3.1 to 95 on 13 floppy diskettes.
Me too, damn that was good times. Windows 95 was mindblowing back in the day.
Only 13? I had Windows 95 on (I believe) 33 floppies!
The first PC I ever bought was when I was stationed in Hawaii back in the early 90s. It was a 386DX-33, and had Windows 3.0. The shop that sold it to me said that 3.1 was coming out, and promised a free upgrade when they got the software. I never saw the attraction in Windows at first (with 3.0) and once I upgraded, I still mostly used DOS, since most of the programs I used were still DOS. Anyway, this was a big "memory lane" video for me! Thanks!
Great video Clint. Windows 3.11 was my first graphical operating system. Windows 3.11 was pre installed on the Packard bell computer that my parents bought for me in 1994.
Omfg!!!!! LODE RUNNER I’ve been looking for this game forever .. I remember playing this when I was 7 years old ☹️ time flys
That mouse sure brings me back, had the exact same one on my fathers computer! it was quite ergonomic for the time.
You may laugh at the instructions on how to use a mouse but my friend when he first saw my Amiga 500 and it's Mouse
picked it up and started sliding it across the screen asking what does this do
It is weird how used to we are to these things nowdays, but this probably made sense to him that time.
"computer this is scotty"
Clint, the Lode Runner and Microsoft Arcade brought back some memories, thanks for making this video.
i always enjoyed your videos. thanks for existing, LGR!
This takes me back.
Which is pretty much the idea of this channel summed up in four words.
Ah, Windows 3.1 one of my first experiences with Windows, I played Solitaire, Minesweeper, Tetris, and tons of shareware games.
I could never understand how to play Minesweeper? :(
mrmactknife it’s a mind game that you have to avoid the touching the mines with the numbers that correspond to its proximity. It’s kind of hard.
I haven't watched the video yet, but this is going to take 22:34 out of my stressful life while I forget about my problems and am transported back to a simpler time and get lost in the sound of Clint's perfect radio voice. Thanks for making my day 22:34 less full of suck.
yeet
you ain gettin me boy
Thanks for the video; it brought back memories. My first PC ever was a 486SX/25 with a paltry 4MB of RAM and 170MB of disk space in 1993. It came with Windows 3.1 and that was my computing world for a couple of years until I upgraded to Windows 95 and discovered Linux.
I didn't have an actual boxed copy of the OS but I DID buy that exact Sound Blaster Pro box and seeing you install that software brought back even more memories.
I still have the machine, even; I could probably restore it and get it going but it wouldn't be worth it without period-accurate peripherals, which I don't have.
Those original Microsoft branded mice were very comfortable to use. Takes me back to hangin' out in the computer lab in middle school circa '99-'00. They were old and ran Windows 3.11 and I remember using PrintShop all the damn time and hated it lol.
15:07 "Flippin' 'Eck!" It's TECHMOAN's MUG!
Ten years from now:
"Today Im going to install WinXP with service pack 2 on my Pentium 4 with hyperthreading"
d ph Except he already built an ultimate XP machine a few months back. SP3 on Core 2 Extreme
Nobody:
Pentium 4: I think I'm going to run at the temperature of the Earth's core
Nah, about 2 years ago. XP Pro on my AIO liquid cooled 478 pin Pentium 4 EE with that sweet AGP 8x action. Need to still do a few upgrades on it though, when I get around to it. I'm just glad RGB was never cool, so I don't have to worry about it having retro appeal.
Soon Windows 7 and my current PC will pass into the retro history hall of fame and I will be living in the glorious post modern past, or on Linux. Been using Manjaro this year on newer laptops and Debian for like 6 years on servers and VMs. The desktop PC as we know it is being slowly eroded away in favor of social engineering and cloud computing services. It might have 10 years left.
@@WR3ND OK but windows 7 has nothing to do with this tho
Shout out if you grew up on Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.
I was about 14 when I upgraded my 486 SX2 50mhz monster from Win 3.1 to Win 3.11. I really had no idea what the improvements were... I just knew that I NEEDED it.
Yep. lol I even recall I was going for an IT sames job. The interview had gone a little stagnant. The company director (small company) said "So what are you running at home?" I spouted "Oh just a 486SX33 with SB16 Sound Card running Windows 3.11 with 32 Bit extensions." The director looked at the support engineer, who looked back at the director. I got the job.
But but but I first used a Microsoft operating system of DOS 3.2 sans windows. QQ
Brings back memories from computer classes back in primary school!
I switched from an C-64, 1992 to an 386/40 from AMD with 4MB Ram and an 80MB WD Cavier. I really forgot if I had Windows 3.1 but 3.11 I remember very well, playing Civilization over a 14K Modem with a guy in the next city lol I think that was 1995, at that time I had an 133 Mhz Amd overclocked to 160 Mhz. That was such a beast compared to my 386 ;) Good times, does someone remember the FIDO Net? That was the source of my Windows95 beta on I think 35 Floppy Disks, wich took forever to download. My parents kicked me out after that lol
Man, Print shop Delux brings back alot of memories of my childhood. Thank you!
I remember having Windows 3.1 on my old 386 computer. It ran SOOOOOO poorly, that I seldom used it for anything other than "Afterdark" screen saver app or...well, I think that's it. I used DOS for everything else. But I LOVED that Afterdark screen saver program, I'd spend hours on it just goofing around with custom screen savers. Even that ran in slow motion, but back then I didn't know any better so I didn't care. I got so many nostalgic vibes watching this one. Thanks again!
"Wrote my own disk with blackjack and hookers!"
I laughed way harder than I should have at that.
That would be a shoutout to "Bender Rodriguez", the SOB robot from Futurama...
@@syxepop Yeah. I know. Hence why I laughed.
I seem to recall disk 7 being entirely for printer drivers. That's likely why you didn't need it.
very natural coffee pour
does not seem suspicious in the least
I also enjoy my mug handles being hard to reach
Print Shop Deluxe was the best, and the color scheme!! I can't believe a channel like this exists, but I'm glad it does.
Thanks for the nostalgia trip! Print Shop Deluxe was the bomb, fond memories of me and my neighbour spending hours on the computer with it as children!
Ah, classic Windows 3.1, good to see a new video from you to help me get through the day Clint!
My first Windows was 3.11 back in the day, great vid!
My first PC was an 8 MHz 286 that came with Windows 1.01. Inspired by LGR, I reassembled my second PC (a 20 MHz 286) and installed Windows 1.01 on it -- still needs a little work (replacement CMOS battery), maybe I'll make a video of it. It'll take you back to 1987 or so...
Same, such a great OS
SAME
That Sierra intro brings back so much memories! ❤️
I had never seen a pre-Windows '95 installation, so that was really fun to watch.
Dude, seeing the menu and watching the images getting drawn in Print Shop was a huge nostalgia moment for me, I'd forgot all about that program entirely. I also used to go nuts playing around with it and wasting paper.
Serious nostalgia, but I have to admit starting my PC years with DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.11.
The reason you rarely use the last installation disk, at here in England, is because that's where it keeps all the alternate language files. For instance, if your copy of Windows is American and you want to have the language be French, then you'd need to use that last disk to get the language files. Sometimes(for instance on the Amiga OS) this was called the Locale or Localization disk.
I thought it was for the printer drivers.
Not just OS' but quite a few games did this, too.
For instance, the original Worms was 3 disks, but disk 3 was only required if you chose French or German language during start-up(the first disk was bootable, and would request disk 2 or 3 after loading halfway, depending which language you chose) or installation.
Yay New LGR 486 Video!
**Updates WoodGrain 486 playlist**
Very great! Brings up a lot of memories from the 90th.
Next to my Soundblaster Pro, I installed a Turtle Beach Maui Wavetable card. Very great experience
The 486 with Windows 3.1 was a revelation to me. I had used computers and printers at college about 8 years previously and not found them particularly useful to me as they were such clunky things and getting any time on them was difficult anyway due to cost and demand etc. On a return to further education I found these 486's all over the college and they were now soooo useful for writing up work and researching information. For someone with poor handwriting like me it was the first time I could really present all my ideas in a professional way and to do so in record time.
For me the ultimate version of WIndows 3.x is Windows 3.2, which was only released for the Chinese market
Absolute cream of the crop content!!
My family's first computer was a Packard Bell with Windows 3.11 on it.
Ah, the memories...
My Family’s first PC was a Gateway 2000 with a 386SX. I flooded the bathtub and water leaked on top of it. We then had another Gateway 2000 that was fairly similar and I broke it by typing a lot of keys on the keyboard(don’t know what I did) we then got an AMD k6-2 PC at some point, then my dad gave it to my grandfather who just recently gave it back to me.
Wow what trash... im an elite soo excuse me
Same. My uncle had one in his wood shop and we used to play DOOM on it. Then we got one about a year later.
Happy 1000th video Clint! Thanks for the excellent content and memories!
Oooooooh, the nostalgia! In... I think 1993(?) my dad somehow got hold of a 386 with Win3.1 and let me tell you, coming from a Spectrum+3 to THAT was a revelation. I had thought before that the game little Speccy with its eight colours and 48k of RAM was an *amazing* thing that did wondrous stuff as if by some kind of witchcraft. I had no idea what was in store for me, technology-wise!
Not long after the old man also acquired DooM, and I was once again completely floored by what a "modern" computer could do.
Fun fact: that "spinning gear" item seen while Print Shop Deluxe was installing is called a "throbber".
Yay techmoan mug! Not often anymore is your monitor so dwarfed by your keyboard...lol
I remember when the Microsoft mouse came out. And YES they were high gloss in a time when ALL mice were matt finish. I remember wanting one because it was smooth , shiny and fit in the hand well.. BUT they were $69. And I thought that was a little too expensive for a mouse. I always used a plain old IBM mouse.
Good memories and flashbacks man, excellent job and video.
This has all come flooding back to me... This is the thing my parents had on the old computer when I was 5ish. I know we had dos games as well, which I treasure, but these games I really played the hell out of.
The Techmoan mug is awesome.
You tubes new logic for inserting ads in the middle of a video is hopelessly broken. They drop ads right in the middle of you speaking a sentence and it's jarring.
Kevin Loughin Also, no way to indicate a specific ad is not interesting and won't generate saleable clicks from me.
They do this in the middle of music tracks too
Well, they try this way, to force you to subscribe to the UA-cam Premium service...
use ad block! im watching youtube in the browser, not the application on my android tablet. I don't get any ads.
@@simontay4851 and the video creators you watch are not getting paid for your views. Like LGR, I earn my living through you tube. More than 53 percent of my views are lost income due to ad blockers. We don't make that much as it is. Its not a good paying job. You might reconsider if you enjoy the entertainment we toil to make for you.
Legit version of Windows 3.1? Now there is something I never owned :D
Don't copy that floppy!
This is my childhood. My parents were small business owners with Windows 3.11 386 machine. Used Print Shop Deluxe III for everything having to do with the business. Printing out black and white graphics on a dot matrix printer, and it was miraculous stuff.
Man, this brings back so many memories! To this day, those voices still to crack me up!
The way you said balls.. sounds like Duke Nukem lol
The star screensaver pulled a nostalgia string I didn’t know could exist for someone born in 98. My school didn’t upgrade their tech for a very long time.
I remember playing with it as a kid, being almost hypnotized, changing the amount of stars and different speeds.
I remember one of the many cheap disks I would get having a version that added colored stars and other stuff. I think it may have let you change options while it was onscreen, and allowed adding Star Trek sounds.
I think I ended up using Windows XP (my school didn't upgrade too much either) from 2003 until 2013/2014 and was so different going from that to 7 to 10. Would be interesting to try out these older versions of Windows sometime. Love watching his excitement for this stuff and I find it so fascinating and enjoyable.
Well, Windows had that screensaver up until XP. So perhaps the computers weren't all the outdated.
Personally my most anticipated LGR video.
Not disappointed. r o l a n d
I love how the illustrations for the mouse show pictures of left-handed examples, and the mouse is right.
Your videos are keeping me sane in a rough time
4:00 "Aliens Studied My Copy of Windows for 47 Straight Hours!"
Alright, cool.
Not as unbelievable as the "Windows 3.1 reliable" headline.
"Ah! It's so pink!" - That is, indeed, what she said.
We used to find widows 3 so clunky that we stuck to DOS and used a program called Automaxx to lauch all our programs from a configurable splash page after boot.
Yep.. I used batch files for certain things, and a program called "Stereo Shell" for working in the file system, and a program called "LIST" (yep, that was the name) for viewing text files. I had a metric s**t ton of disks back then.. Looking back, I wish I'd kept my old computers.. Aah well.
Where can I find more information on Automaxx?
My first computer was a Gateway (cow print boxes) 486 with a 100 MB hard disc drive that was running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. My dad bought it and didn't realize it was more suited as an office computer unfortunately. It had a dual speed CD rom, but no sound card. So I couldn't play games on it until I bought some RAM and a Sound Blaster 16 a year or so after getting it. I learned so much about computers and coding just from playing around with DOS. I added a 28.8 BPS modem and was able to call into bulletin board services (precursor to the internet chat). I accidently racked up a bunch of long distance phone charges, my folks were so upset lol. Still, I have so many fond memories of playing around in Windows. Microsoft Paint, solitaire and all the basic programs it came with.
OMG, my buds and I used to play with Talking Scheduler for hours. So nostalgic! Thanks for the great memories.