My first PC was ADAX 386 DX 40 MHz from 1994 bought in BATBOX ComputerShop in Katowice. This pc was equiped with 4Mb ram memory, SVGA video card with 512 kB (Woow 1024x768), 170 MB Hard Disc Drive and CRT color Monitor 14 Daewoo LR NI. In 1996 i bought GRAVIS ULTRASOUND MAX Sound Card. Then this configuration was like Lamborghini 😜👍 Old good Times.
Now we have machines so powerful that we can't possible imagine, photorealistic games. Top hardware and software. Yet..... we still miss the old days. Even if everything was not that great technological speaking. Is it childhood memories that trigger happiness? We can't have happy memories in the present? Even the boot sounds made me feel things.
I just got a 386 couple of days ago! Got to get a CRT, mouse and keyboard for it, and its gonna get a full beauty treatment before I install all of my memories on it :)
@@pabloherrera7210 In the time between that I got a P100 and two PIIs, and decided to leave one PII that was in perfect condition. So now I have a perfect Windows 98/DOS platform ;)
This was my first computer ever. A 386 DX 40 Mhz! I still have it but not working for more than 20 years. It's a project that I have, to rebuilt it and put the games I used to play back then.
Usually these older systems had a NiCad battery that would leak and could destroy the motherboard. You should desolder it before it leaks if you haven't already.
I remember our 286 Apex Epson with 640 kb RAM couldn’t run Stunts. It needed at least 1 MB. i was so disappointed. So my father bought some extra memory and it ran! I was such an happy young teenager 😎😂😂
I had the same configuration. Except 4 Meg's ram. I ran Doom on it. LoL! But after doom I got into some Sierra games and then Turned it into a BBS running tribbs.
@@Xuevium Leasure Suit Larry... I owned (3rd entry) the game before even having a computer. I played it for 5 minutes at a friends house as a child... It was so amazing.. I dreamed of being able to play it on my own without having someone telling me I had to stop and go...
@@olo198111 Yeah I remember stripping my autoexec.bat and juggling with buffers and stacks on my config.sys for getting several games to run ... Wing Commander is a good example, not starting below 59Xkb of free upper mem, not displaying the animated hand and steering-stick in the cockpitbelow 604kb^^
Unless the battery leaks and ruins the traces on the motherboard. I suppose it still could be like an old incontinent dog with failing vision, or something.
What I really was hoping to see is how well ultima underworld ran on the 386 DX-40. It ran really well on the 486-DX2 66 which I played it on; and not when DX2 66 was new and expensive, but a year or two later when it was very cheap. I remember there was whining that ultima underworld was very demanding but never really got to see how it was "supposed" to run on a descent 1992 computer.
@@olo198111 It was only introduced in 1991 and it was ridiculously popular and ridiculously cheap for a very long while. The 486 DX-2 66 became the new budget king in 1994 or so but there were still freaking 386DX-40 being sold, alongside pentium PCs. It was the basis for the first really cheap PCs and I *almost* regret holding out for a 486DX2-66 in retrospect; almost; I would probably not have gotten an upgraded PC until the pentium-100 or so if I had gotten the DX-40 and I'd missed out on playing Doom, system shock etc properly until like 1995 or 1996. Ultima underworld had a minimum requirement of "386"; as in supposedly any 386. It ran very, smoothly on a 486 DX2-66. But I remember a lot of whining and gnashing of teeth about how incredibly demanding it was. It seriously would have been worth getting the 386 for Wolfenstein 3D and Ultima underworld if Underworld ran well on the 386; always kind of wondered.
Ultima Underworld was more advanced than Doom, hell, it is almost as advanced as Quake, yet it came out several months before Wallenstein 3D. The only reason it didn't make machines literally smoke is because only half of the screen was actually used up for the first person active part of the game, the other half was mostly static inventory. I played it on 386 DX40 4MB of RAM and it ran fine, which again, considering what it was is amazing; anyone that whined they should be lucky a game that far ahead of its time ran at all without literally melting your CPU.
@@3dmaster205 You don't have to convince me that Ultima underworld was special. It was the first immersive game of any kind. There was nothing even resembling it. There are no obvious inspirations, except maybe tangentially by elite and their own game space rogue. It is an anomaly sitting there in 1992, a decade ahead of its time; as if aliens bothered to make a game for the 386 and plop it down in the middle of 1992.
Meu primeiro computador foi um Cyrix 486DX-40 com 16MB ram e 1MB VESA da Cirrus Logic, e HD 320MB WD Caviar. No seu 386 só faltou um co-processador e uma Sound Blaster.
Weird, looks like the PC version of Stunt Car Racer was optimised for the 8088 with adaption for faster CPUs, but no consideration that people with ATs or better might like to play a game that was more like the Amiga/ST version than the Sinclair and C64 versions...
Oh man... Stunt Car Racer was so fun!! My parents first computer ever was a Packard Bell 386 DX4 and it came with this game.
My first PC was ADAX 386 DX 40 MHz from 1994 bought in BATBOX ComputerShop in Katowice. This pc was equiped with 4Mb ram memory, SVGA video card with 512 kB (Woow 1024x768), 170 MB Hard Disc Drive and CRT color Monitor 14 Daewoo LR NI. In 1996 i bought GRAVIS ULTRASOUND MAX Sound Card. Then this configuration was like Lamborghini 😜👍 Old good Times.
Die Grafik flüssig. Kaum Ladezeiten. Höllen Ding damals
My first pc! Amd386 dx40 with 5 mb of ram! Svga! And it ran doom on lower detail!
Haha Doom in the 90's... man, good memories. Amazing how we thought that those graphics were so good back then.
Thats exactly how I rolled with doom. Though I only had 4 megs ram. used to deathmatch with a local friend over modem.
Now we have machines so powerful that we can't possible imagine, photorealistic games. Top hardware and software.
Yet..... we still miss the old days. Even if everything was not that great technological speaking.
Is it childhood memories that trigger happiness?
We can't have happy memories in the present?
Even the boot sounds made me feel things.
we used to play stunts on a 386dx 40 too. so much fun.
I just got a 386 couple of days ago! Got to get a CRT, mouse and keyboard for it, and its gonna get a full beauty treatment before I install all of my memories on it :)
@@pabloherrera7210 In the time between that I got a P100 and two PIIs, and decided to leave one PII that was in perfect condition.
So now I have a perfect Windows 98/DOS platform ;)
This was my first computer ever. A 386 DX 40 Mhz! I still have it but not working for more than 20 years. It's a project that I have, to rebuilt it and put the games I used to play back then.
Usually these older systems had a NiCad battery that would leak and could destroy the motherboard. You should desolder it before it leaks if you haven't already.
I remember placing my 386dx40 MB with co-processor in the bin about 20 years ago. Shame as now it would be a museum piece.
I remember playing many of these games back in the day on our old packard bell 286 w/vga and adlib and they played very well on it.
Stunt Car Racer, I loved this game, thank you, just remind me, wooooooo
I remember our 286 Apex Epson with 640 kb RAM couldn’t run Stunts. It needed at least 1 MB. i was so disappointed. So my father bought some extra memory and it ran! I was such an happy young teenager 😎😂😂
It was the first computer I had, that emotion
I had the same configuration. Except 4 Meg's ram. I ran Doom on it. LoL! But after doom I got into some Sierra games and then Turned it into a BBS running tribbs.
Man there were some great Sierra games back then in the early and mid 90's... good memories.
@@Xuevium Leasure Suit Larry... I owned (3rd entry) the game before even having a computer. I played it for 5 minutes at a friends house as a child... It was so amazing.. I dreamed of being able to play it on my own without having someone telling me I had to stop and go...
Norton Commander on the bridge - long time no see! :D
It was Dos Navigator, but very similar to NC, much lighter than NC, very important when you have only 640kb base mem. 😉
@@olo198111 Yeah I remember stripping my autoexec.bat and juggling with buffers and stacks on my config.sys for getting several games to run ... Wing Commander is a good example, not starting below 59Xkb of free upper mem, not displaying the animated hand and steering-stick in the cockpitbelow 604kb^^
And old PC is like a faithful dog.
Unless the battery leaks and ruins the traces on the motherboard. I suppose it still could be like an old incontinent dog with failing vision, or something.
Stunts is still a very cool Game! I play it still today
heyy norton commander ♥♥ ooh
6:18 when the Stunts theme is about to kick in
Street rod! my first and best game ever!
Die guten Alten Zeiten ! Danke fürs Video hab auch noch nen 386 aber kein Bildschirm mehr da für ^^ :(.
What I really was hoping to see is how well ultima underworld ran on the 386 DX-40. It ran really well on the 486-DX2 66 which I played it on; and not when DX2 66 was new and expensive, but a year or two later when it was very cheap. I remember there was whining that ultima underworld was very demanding but never really got to see how it was "supposed" to run on a descent 1992 computer.
Ultima underworld was made in 1992 when 386dx40 was a bit out of date in those days. I will try to run it in free time and upload video
@@olo198111 It was only introduced in 1991 and it was ridiculously popular and ridiculously cheap for a very long while. The 486 DX-2 66 became the new budget king in 1994 or so but there were still freaking 386DX-40 being sold, alongside pentium PCs. It was the basis for the first really cheap PCs and I *almost* regret holding out for a 486DX2-66 in retrospect; almost; I would probably not have gotten an upgraded PC until the pentium-100 or so if I had gotten the DX-40 and I'd missed out on playing Doom, system shock etc properly until like 1995 or 1996.
Ultima underworld had a minimum requirement of "386"; as in supposedly any 386. It ran very, smoothly on a 486 DX2-66. But I remember a lot of whining and gnashing of teeth about how incredibly demanding it was. It seriously would have been worth getting the 386 for Wolfenstein 3D and Ultima underworld if Underworld ran well on the 386; always kind of wondered.
Well I can confirm that Ultima Underworld is fully playable on my 386. It's not 60fps but it's not choppy neither. Video coming soon.
Ultima Underworld was more advanced than Doom, hell, it is almost as advanced as Quake, yet it came out several months before Wallenstein 3D. The only reason it didn't make machines literally smoke is because only half of the screen was actually used up for the first person active part of the game, the other half was mostly static inventory.
I played it on 386 DX40 4MB of RAM and it ran fine, which again, considering what it was is amazing; anyone that whined they should be lucky a game that far ahead of its time ran at all without literally melting your CPU.
@@3dmaster205 You don't have to convince me that Ultima underworld was special. It was the first immersive game of any kind. There was nothing even resembling it. There are no obvious inspirations, except maybe tangentially by elite and their own game space rogue. It is an anomaly sitting there in 1992, a decade ahead of its time; as if aliens bothered to make a game for the 386 and plop it down in the middle of 1992.
great video!
a thumbs up just for the music!
Your machine is beautiful, but! You should have use it with an CRT Monitor, or even CRT monochromatic monitor... :-) cheers from POLAND ALEX
very very cool !!!! great man !!
The background music,,,,what was that, I've heard it in my life..somebody please tell
Axel F theme from Beverly Hills cop
Meu primeiro computador foi um Cyrix 486DX-40 com 16MB ram e 1MB VESA da Cirrus Logic, e HD 320MB WD Caviar. No seu 386 só faltou um co-processador e uma Sound Blaster.
i love you alex!
golden axe sutakora sassa, best music
Meu primeiro PC foi um 386 DX 40, HD Quantum Maverick 270 mg, Vesa 1 mg e apenas 4 mg de RAM. Bons tempos kkkkkk
Get a Yamaha sound edge sw20 to pair with that sound blaster pro.
my best friend! good times!
Weird, looks like the PC version of Stunt Car Racer was optimised for the 8088 with adaption for faster CPUs, but no consideration that people with ATs or better might like to play a game that was more like the Amiga/ST version than the Sinclair and C64 versions...
Du könntest gern ein HDD-image (z.B. mit Ghost) irgendwo hochladen ... das würde viel helfen. :D
I want too see Doom on it.. in low detail mode it should run decent enough
ist that the MOD-Version of AxelF?
I have the same case :)
Stunts!!!
Very Nice MAN!!! :-) I LiKe IT!!!! :-)
Yessssssss
Oj słabo że znajomością retro gier i sprzętu. To była profanacja.
I had 486 and was confident 386 could barely run commander keen 1.
You were better off playing Castlevania in Nesticle.
my 386 does not run this smooth lol
Would've shown more appropriate games like Tyrian or Jazz Jackrabbit.
It doesn't even show wolfenstein 3d or Doom
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