Hi Adrian! Thank you for your kind words about my channel. ☺️ and this video is great! You are doing what I am not brave enough for. Opening this fantastic new sealed OverDrive 😍. I have the same one here but left it sealed since years. 😅. And this chip removing tool, I could feel how happy you are about that. I enjoy this tool so many times and have also no idea how I could life without that for so many years. 😄. Cheers from Austria 🇦🇹, Peter
Yes, I have found many amazing UA-camrs thanks to recommendations! Hey Adrian - it would be so cool if you would maintain a list on your home page of your personal favorites (and they don't have to be all retro-tech, I am sure that your other interests are cool as well).
For fixing bent pins on old processors like that I usually use a mechanical pencil. If you retract the lead the pins fit nicely into the tip and it makes a great tool to straighten them.
I had a DX4-100 back in the day... I ran into this limitation with tracker files as well, so I bought a Gravis Ultrasound. It used hardware to mix the samples, freeing up the CPU and providing better sound. It sounded so good :)
Wow, I’m kinda blown away by how, despite the less/lack of writing, he’s still recognisably got the same basic style and interests. I’d misremembered his early stuff, or maybe I’m remembering the stuff that predated even that, as being distinctly different from the modern ones. And I hadn’t gone and watched them partly bc he kept saying he doesn’t rly like em but just leaves em up for posterity and somebody else would only mirror them etc etc.
Adrian... I took a look at the specs for the Presario 425. I sold tons of those when I worked at Micro Center back from 1992 to 1997. They were great. You have to put the RAM in matched pairs. That's why it only shows 12MB. If you put in two 8MB SIMMS you'll get the maximum of 20MB. Love the videos on both channels.
It's funny watching these videos and seeing cutting edge for the day struggling with stuff we completely take for granted now. I thought my 486DX266 was the bees knees back in '94 with its ability to play postage stamp sized videos from Encarta ☺️
@@adriansdigitalbasement2 It really helps, any fan will do, I ended up having to use a 60mm and bending some of the heatsink fins inward to take a screw. I'd suggest using a 50mm if you can. Aside from this, the RAM in these as I've commented before is VERY finicky, and the RAM slots themselves aren't the best. if you can get some better 30-pin slots, it would be worthwhile to replace them outright... one of mine died and it only ever sees 12MB no matter what I do. You can easily tell which slot is bad by using one good RAM stick and bringing it up to 12MB. This is definitely something to look into because the people that do have these mostly have issues with them, and it only gets worse with age. Tracing out the pins to where they go on the board would also be a worthwhile endeavor... it might also help me and a few others I've seen on vogons with a 425/433 figure out RAM issues... and maybe a fix to get more than 20MB to be detected or if it's really a BIOS limitation. it might be possible to get more seen if the onboard RAM is desoldered too but no guarantee on that, no one has been silly enough to try it. take very good care of the plastic on the back of the tray, it WILL break and you'll need to drill holes and bolt mod it.
The problem with this system is it has limited clearance with the soundblaster installed and limited air intake too. I too thought a ram slot could well be dead. However it could be some kind of density issue with either of the sticks if they're both supposed to be 8mb. A memory testing program should be able to show what it is detecting in each socket.
So many great retro vibes in this video, reminds me of my DX4-100 that accompanied me through the 90s and gave me so much fun playing games ‘til 3D cards came along. Also nice to see LGR ‘supporting’ the channel 👍
Hi Adrian! Great video about that CPU upgrade. I use Cubic Player a lot on my retro pc's as sort of a mod jukebox. I noticed you use the FPU mixer on your 486. Actually, that mixer is coded for the Pentium FPU and is very slow on 486s (also mentioned in some whatsnew.txt or something). On my 486 DX2/66, the regular mixer (devwMix) is much faster and can play 18 channels XMs, whereas with the FPU, it really can't and does the same as your machine. Maybe worth checking out. You can edit the CP.INI file or you can select a different mixer when you go to the @ drive and then to devices.
Adrian - not only is the depth and breadth of your knowledge amazing, your ability to produce material is absolutely super-human! Thanks for your very informative and entertaining channel!!!
This brings me back 20 years back! Among the many Compaq Deskpro 2000's, I had one of these Presarios in the office. And we bought a bunch of Overdrive processors, so yeah I used to have a drawer full of those chip pullers. In the end, I used to Presario to generate licence keys: I had a floppy disk which contained 40 licences and every time I installed this software I had to transfer a licence key from the floppy. Whereas the floppy couldn't be copied, I found out that a harddrive which contained a licence key _could_ be copied! So I setup a partition on the harddrive with this key and an autoexec.bat which would restore this partition from an image. Every time I transferred a licence key from the floppy to a pc, I would copy another key from the Presario to the floppy and restore the partition to regain this key. Limitless licence keys!
I used to have two of these PCs rescued from the dumpster at my wife's work. I think I still have one in storage somewhere. I need to get it out and do some upgrading!
I think just about every techtube repair channel I watch has that same black and yellow precision screwdriver set from ali/ebay! I actually have 2 sets myself 😊
Just FYI: CTRL+ALT+DEL *_does_* clear any configuration that you may have made through CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. The thing is, Cubic Player doesn't rely on either the BLASTER environment variable (SET BLASTER A=220 I=5 D=1 or whatever your specific values may be); it'll detect compatible sound cards when used at their default settings. Also, no drivers are needed to make it work.
I saved up and bought the 100mhz overdrive back in the day. I was super excited that it would make my Dos games rock on my 486, only to find out after installing it that it glitched out a good portion of my favorite Dos games.
I love this video. I’m actually in the process of restoring an AST Advantage 4075p, which is also an all in one. I’m documenting the process as I go along also in hopes to get a video up. 😊
Cool, I just bought a 486DX4 Overdrive off eBay for my Compaq Presario CDS520! I will be upgrading from a 486SX2 66MHz, hope to see a decent improvement. Thanks for the video!
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My first "new" out of the box pc, was a 486 DX4 66, that we just jumper oc'd to 100 mhz, it had identical perfomance to a proper 100mhz version. It worked great :D I had a 386 sx before that, and before that, we had a 286 "family" computer, Thought I can't remember the clock speed, with a 20mb hdd non the less. Before that, we had the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The first one that came, rubber keyboard, and cassette tape for storage..
The most powerful 486 DX4 I had, was 133 MHz, and the biggest overclocking was that me and my brother boosted it up to 233 MHz with a very large heatsink and 2 fans
Sweet, I’d suspected you liked tracker music given the style of that Donkey Kong music and your love of the demoscene. For any viewers who don’t know where to find them or how to play them (though VLC does them just fine fyi), tons of them have been archived to UA-cam and SoundCloud as well! Often by the original creators, too, which is great (always watch their versions over other rips when possible!) For anyone who might find it more convenient to seek out the genre.
I had a 486DX2-66 PC that had a small heatsink and fan on it. I wasn't sure if it really needed it but it sounds like it did. I later upgraded it with one of these OverDrives.
Adrian's digital basement 2 often does not have shorter videos than on Adrian's digital basement has so you could just as well have everything on one channel!
@@adriansdigitalbasement2 ok. Take way less time to make. videos I have seen have as good quality as any other videos you make I think! not worse. If you edit too much and it changes from one to the other all the time to get as much as possible in the video then it will not always be as good I think. You are number one retro computer channel. keep up the good work
Hi Adrian, I did several upgrades using that processor and if I'm not mistaken in that floppy that comes in the box there's an animation showing how to change the processor and a few more stuff... Maybe they were pictures only... Don't remember exactly to be honest. It may worth checking... Nice video. I'm your fan on the channels. Regards!
Yeah I meant to show the disk. I did check it out -- had some instructions and some "before and after" benchmarks ... but it was so cheesy hahaha. Felt like looking at an ad for how great Intel was. :-)
Adrian, don’t forget to recap the new processor; you don’t want all the spooge all over the chip! 😝 Also, you should probably de-lid the IC to make sure there aren’t microscopically-small RIFA caps in there; we all know what happens when those let go!
23:20 The second address from top was for Hong Kong; note the abbreviation (HKG) of the second line. The fourth address was for Taiwan, c/o to Intel's local marketing collaborator Hi-Smart International (凱順國際有限公司).
I seem to remember this held note bug happening a lot with Soundblaster 16 cards, often in the middle of games. It used to annoy me a lot back in the day as it often happened in either in the middle of games (at points like completing a mission or level) or when exiting the game and all you could do to fix it was reset the computer (unless you were running the game in a DOS window from Windows where you could often get away with just closing that window). BTW: That LGR badge should go to some case featuring woodgrain.
I had no idea there was a DOS version of vi! Is it in the default install or did you install it on there after? Great vid as always! And I think this LGR fellow might have a future on UA-cam
30 years ago, I would have written a Terminate-and-Stay-Resident utility that intercepts CTRL+ALT+DEL and switches off that annoying sound immediately instead of having to wait for the computer to reboot. But today, that's just no longer my problem.
ANARMEN1.MOD - I don't know what's the origin of this music but I heard it frequently in the cracktro of some Amiga500 game. When I was a kid we only had cracked Amiga games and I thought those intros are part of the games. As an adult I started collecting the old games I loved from my childhood in original boxed version and I'm missing those cracktros big time :)
I don't know about this VLSI chipset, but I know, that VIA on 486 does accept only 4MB modules and 16MB modules, but not 8MB. There were manufacturers, which solved this VIA issue somehow to accept at least one 8MB module. Such mainboards have 3 RAM slots and the 8MB may be installed only in one particular slot. If you install 8MB module in the wrong slot, it will be recognized as 4MB. Just an idea, I think that this compaq uses both modules, but the 8MB is recognized as 4MB, just like I know it from the VIA. So you are getting 12MB together with the on-board 4MB. You could try to pull the 8MB out and see how much memory the PC shows then. I guess, you will have 8MB. And vice versa with 8MB only installed, you also will have 8MB. 4MB on-board + 4MB from the 8MB module.....
Here's Space Debris playing on a real Amiga. ua-cam.com/video/thnXzUFJnfQ/v-deo.html It was composed in 1991 and is one of if not THE best MOD files ever created. Think about computer music in 1991 -- and this could play in the background while you did other things on your Amiga. (Since it was truly multitasking.)
I remembered the first time MP3s came out. I visited someone at his house and he was showing me and a friend this new file format. He had a Compaq tower running NT4 with a DX4-100 and it could just barely play the MP3 at a reduced bitrate. I think I tried it at home on the SX-33 I had and it would not run at all because it didn't have an FPU.
My .MOD player of choice was MODEdit. You could play, edit and write your own MODs. One interesting feature was it could play them through the PC speaker. Pretty sure it also had options for the Disney Sound Source and Covox.
I had an i486DX2-66 system, a clone system, that I ran my Fidonet BBS (Solsbury Hill BBS) on. I was running DESQview with two tasks...one running the BBS, and the other so I could do system maintenance, and read the BBS without having to take it down. I could even run some games that didn't suck down too much CPU, like Nethack. Fun times.
Damn Adrian, The pain of watching that unboxing and opening of that probably rare to find new in box cpu just hurt so much to watch. Though, I am glad it makes you happy to have it there.
I added the 75 MHz 486 Overdrive to my Tandy 486, but left the jumpers set to 100 MHz. Worked just fine with that overclock. I wonder what you could overclock the actual 100 to?
Adrian, any chance you can tell us where we can find these sweet mod files and players? I love music visualizers and would love to play with these. Apologies if you’ve covered or linked them somewhere else and I just was tuned out or forgot.
It's Cubic Player so you can find it with a quick search. The Mods are something I've been collecting since my Amiga days. Nothing unique but yeah it's just like my own CD collection but with mods :-)
@@adriansdigitalbasement2 Don't know if you heard, but Captain/Image (Markus Kaarlonen) is still active making music, in fact he remixed space debris for a game called rochard ua-cam.com/video/1sw7iT7C_wI/v-deo.html
A lot are also hosted on SC and YT by their original creators, for something more convenient. (I made a regular comment about this too but figured I should put it elsewhere people are commenting about it too.)
Hey Adrian, could you possibly upload your mod collection somewhere? I was a huge fan of mods back in the day and would love to get some more! I turned some of mine into mp3s using Winamp and have them on my phone now!
I’ve got tons downloaded since they work flawlessly in VLC on modern systems, but even then I predominantly listen to the versions the creators have put onto SC and YT. Just easier to have them in rotation with the rest of the music that way.
A few people have requested it -- so perhaps I'll do a video on the collection and upload it. I can now capture VGA since I got an OSSC -- so I can do it justice by playing it on real hardware.
Yes you can, but the program is quite smart and prioritises the mix routine before any screen update. You also have multiple graphic screens with oscilloscopes, note dots, fourier analyzers and a wicked video animation.
Great, video, Adrian! I really enjoy playing mod files, too, something I didn't even know existed at the time. Do you have a link to a mod file website, or a place to grab some in bulk?
Adrian, you should try putting some 303 aerospace stuff on those ram tabs. I've found that on rubber that stuff works miracles, and I've had pretty good luck with it on plastics that get bent to do various things.
Later Cubic Player builds can be pretty heavy. Try version 1.6. It isn't as compatible, but performance should be quite a bit better! Barring that, you may have to use other, more lightweight players from the era. Try using ScreamTracker, FastTracker and Impulse Tracker themselves. I fondly remember listening to these types of files in the background while drawing the ANSI art for my BBS on my 486DX at 33mhz!
Oh I'll check out the older one. I actually don't like other players of the era because they just didn't do a great job playing the Amiga files properly. I started listening to Mods on my Amiga so I expect exacting emulation or playback. :-)
In Cubic Player, disable the filters (by pressing twice on Backspace) in order to gain some precious CPU time. Also, use Cubic Player 1.7, although this version is not compatible with .IT files.
My 486 didn't work with an PR100 Overdrive, that I bought boxed, but it did run with a DX5, detecting it as 100MHz in BIOS, but reflecting proper 133MHz in benchmarks. If the socket isn't blue on the motherboard, or if the Overdrive isn't listed in specs, there is often a chance it won't run. DX5 runs with the same jumper settings as a DX2-66. DX5 absolutely needs a fan, even though half the models out there come with passive cooling. It's not enough. If it's a plastic chip, it will die without active cooling.
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Ah man, missed opportunity to send you a sweet boot sector virus. Next time ;)
Enjoy that blazing fast processing power!
Only a life-long PC user would immediately suspect a floppy disk of having a virus. Love it
You should have sent him an audio file of you reading the note so that it could be integrated into the video as a voice over...
He received plenty of viruses via sent USB flash drives he put in his main PC.
Shrink wrapped.. so classy.
Wow you are really awesome guy LGR guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Adrian! Thank you for your kind words about my channel. ☺️ and this video is great! You are doing what I am not brave enough for. Opening this fantastic new sealed OverDrive 😍. I have the same one here but left it sealed since years. 😅. And this chip removing tool, I could feel how happy you are about that. I enjoy this tool so many times and have also no idea how I could life without that for so many years. 😄. Cheers from Austria 🇦🇹, Peter
I love how Clint wrote the readme as though he was narrating a video of his!!! :P
Imagine Clint having sex.
(Drops his pants) "Greetings, and welcome to an LGR thing."
When I worked at a computer shop back in the day I used a mechanical pencil with no lead to straighten bent CPU pins.
HA, i use paddle pop sticks to line them up left and right
"Basemental". It pains me when Clint's clever wordplay passes unnoticed. I appreciate it, LGR!
Given the music in this video more like bass-mental
CPU Galaxy really took off since EEVblog mentioned him with the CPU teardown. Amazing channel, highly recommended!
Yes, I have found many amazing UA-camrs thanks to recommendations! Hey Adrian - it would be so cool if you would maintain a list on your home page of your personal favorites (and they don't have to be all retro-tech, I am sure that your other interests are cool as well).
CPU teardown? More like CPU tearup! He really destroyed that thing!
For fixing bent pins on old processors like that I usually use a mechanical pencil. If you retract the lead the pins fit nicely into the tip and it makes a great tool to straighten them.
I had a DX4-100 back in the day... I ran into this limitation with tracker files as well, so I bought a Gravis Ultrasound. It used hardware to mix the samples, freeing up the CPU and providing better sound. It sounded so good :)
11 years actually. Here’s the Clint’s video for some of the old school Lazy Game Reviews goodness.
ua-cam.com/video/Qt-0lqkJUKE/v-deo.html
Wow, I’m kinda blown away by how, despite the less/lack of writing, he’s still recognisably got the same basic style and interests. I’d misremembered his early stuff, or maybe I’m remembering the stuff that predated even that, as being distinctly different from the modern ones. And I hadn’t gone and watched them partly bc he kept saying he doesn’t rly like em but just leaves em up for posterity and somebody else would only mirror them etc etc.
@@kaitlyn__L yeah, me too. Even the camera angles and so are similar. That is actually a good video don't know why he doesn't like it
@@Roalethiago Every artist always hates their old work.
I miss these good ole days lol
Adrian... I took a look at the specs for the Presario 425. I sold tons of those when I worked at Micro Center back from 1992 to 1997. They were great. You have to put the RAM in matched pairs. That's why it only shows 12MB. If you put in two 8MB SIMMS you'll get the maximum of 20MB.
Love the videos on both channels.
It's funny watching these videos and seeing cutting edge for the day struggling with stuff we completely take for granted now. I thought my 486DX266 was the bees knees back in '94 with its ability to play postage stamp sized videos from Encarta ☺️
Oh yes! I also ran in to this problem with the continuous sound problem back in the day. Was very annoying
You'll want to add a fan onto the DX4. I had to put one on mine in my 433 because the internal fan was not keeping it cool enough.
Not a bad idea. Even the 66mhz CPU I had in there was super hot
@@adriansdigitalbasement2 It really helps, any fan will do, I ended up having to use a 60mm and bending some of the heatsink fins inward to take a screw. I'd suggest using a 50mm if you can. Aside from this, the RAM in these as I've commented before is VERY finicky, and the RAM slots themselves aren't the best. if you can get some better 30-pin slots, it would be worthwhile to replace them outright... one of mine died and it only ever sees 12MB no matter what I do. You can easily tell which slot is bad by using one good RAM stick and bringing it up to 12MB. This is definitely something to look into because the people that do have these mostly have issues with them, and it only gets worse with age. Tracing out the pins to where they go on the board would also be a worthwhile endeavor... it might also help me and a few others I've seen on vogons with a 425/433 figure out RAM issues... and maybe a fix to get more than 20MB to be detected or if it's really a BIOS limitation.
it might be possible to get more seen if the onboard RAM is desoldered too but no guarantee on that, no one has been silly enough to try it.
take very good care of the plastic on the back of the tray, it WILL break and you'll need to drill holes and bolt mod it.
The problem with this system is it has limited clearance with the soundblaster installed and limited air intake too.
I too thought a ram slot could well be dead. However it could be some kind of density issue with either of the sticks if they're both supposed to be 8mb. A memory testing program should be able to show what it is detecting in each socket.
That Space Debris track has some serious uplifting & nostalgic vibes to it man!
Am I the only one that heard that readme.txt file in Clint's voice rather than Adrian's?
Nope.
LOL! Not only that, but I swear Adrian's own voice was beginning to morph to LGR mode
you mean Duke's voice (since his Duke is spot on lol)
@@Fred_Raimer yeah especially the first few minutes after reading it, like with the closeup of the box
It always makes me happy to see youtubers talk to each other, makes it feel like a crossover video.
So many great retro vibes in this video, reminds me of my DX4-100 that accompanied me through the 90s and gave me so much fun playing games ‘til 3D cards came along.
Also nice to see LGR ‘supporting’ the channel 👍
I love CPU Galaxy! Glad you shouted out his channel.
A decade ago I built a javascript-based MOD player on a whim, and Space Debris is the mod I used to test it.
It really is one of the best ones! And it has so many good remixes too.
Oh, good memories....
Back in the mid-90´s i´ve installed the same Overdirive chip in dozens and dozens of IBM Aptiva´s....
Hi Adrian! Great video about that CPU upgrade. I use Cubic Player a lot on my retro pc's as sort of a mod jukebox. I noticed you use the FPU mixer on your 486. Actually, that mixer is coded for the Pentium FPU and is very slow on 486s (also mentioned in some whatsnew.txt or something). On my 486 DX2/66, the regular mixer (devwMix) is much faster and can play 18 channels XMs, whereas with the FPU, it really can't and does the same as your machine. Maybe worth checking out. You can edit the CP.INI file or you can select a different mixer when you go to the @ drive and then to devices.
Exact, Obviously a 486 can play MOD Much faster, Impulse Tracker was made for 486.
Adrian flexing on us, showing us that he knows how to exit vi.
[Duke Nukem voice] Oooh. CPU upgrades![/] Love watching your videos. Keep 'em coming!
CPU Galaxy is awesome. The only man on the planet to run a 486 at 200 Mhz!
Adrian - not only is the depth and breadth of your knowledge amazing, your ability to produce material is absolutely super-human! Thanks for your very informative and entertaining channel!!!
Awesome! I'll always enjoy new videos with the Presario 425. Quite a journey so far. Keep up the great work!
I know Space Debris so well! Has to be my favorite mod of all time! :D
Now I want CPU Galaxy to try those MODs on his 200MHz 486. :)
haha that would be very cool actually
Space Debris brings back so many memories. I had such a large collection of .mod files.
That little Compaq had became an almost flawless 16-bit (audio) dance party machine with a 32-bit address and data bus. :)
I know, I had one back then and I have one know as a retro enthusiast. Winamp had switchable optimization per CPU family in it's MPEG decoder.
This brings me back 20 years back! Among the many Compaq Deskpro 2000's, I had one of these Presarios in the office. And we bought a bunch of Overdrive processors, so yeah I used to have a drawer full of those chip pullers.
In the end, I used to Presario to generate licence keys: I had a floppy disk which contained 40 licences and every time I installed this software I had to transfer a licence key from the floppy. Whereas the floppy couldn't be copied, I found out that a harddrive which contained a licence key _could_ be copied! So I setup a partition on the harddrive with this key and an autoexec.bat which would restore this partition from an image. Every time I transferred a licence key from the floppy to a pc, I would copy another key from the Presario to the floppy and restore the partition to regain this key. Limitless licence keys!
Stonks.
I used to have two of these PCs rescued from the dumpster at my wife's work. I think I still have one in storage somewhere. I need to get it out and do some upgrading!
I think just about every techtube repair channel I watch has that same black and yellow precision screwdriver set from ali/ebay! I actually have 2 sets myself 😊
Funny - I can see you talking to the camera in the screen reflection, even though the camera is not pointed at you :)
Captain made some epic MODs. Elwood was another of my favs back in the day.
He just brought you a compaq… Amazing.
I remember getting that same overdrive processor for my system back in the day, it really was a huge upgrade speed-wise.
Just FYI: CTRL+ALT+DEL *_does_* clear any configuration that you may have made through CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. The thing is, Cubic Player doesn't rely on either the BLASTER environment variable (SET BLASTER A=220 I=5 D=1 or whatever your specific values may be); it'll detect compatible sound cards when used at their default settings. Also, no drivers are needed to make it work.
I saved up and bought the 100mhz overdrive back in the day. I was super excited that it would make my Dos games rock on my 486, only to find out after installing it that it glitched out a good portion of my favorite Dos games.
I love this video. I’m actually in the process of restoring an AST Advantage 4075p, which is also an all in one. I’m documenting the process as I go along also in hopes to get a video up. 😊
Adrian, you are killing it lately!
Gonna be huge soon!
ooooh you seem soooooo excited .... like me launching my first MacPlus!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge 👍 👏 🤖
Cool, I just bought a 486DX4 Overdrive off eBay for my Compaq Presario CDS520! I will be upgrading from a 486SX2 66MHz, hope to see a decent improvement. Thanks for the video!
SABIA! ESTAVA SÓ ESPERANDO !
i knew i was just waiting!
esse canal é muito bom
@@marcelofrau8818 O meu segue a mesma linha, porém caseiro.
@ desculpa mas achei que seu canal segue uma linha beeem diferente..
@@marcelofrau8818 é que eu tenho muito video espalhado, mas estou sempre consertando, fazendo upgrade e modificando consoles, pcs etc
My first "new" out of the box pc, was a 486 DX4 66, that we just jumper oc'd to 100 mhz, it had identical perfomance to a proper 100mhz version. It worked great :D I had a 386 sx before that, and before that, we had a 286 "family" computer, Thought I can't remember the clock speed, with a 20mb hdd non the less. Before that, we had the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The first one that came, rubber keyboard, and cassette tape for storage..
I guess now that Adrian acknowledged it, the "LGR Empire" is a thing... :-D
And Clint might be thinking: "Oh, no, now I'll have to make new videos for the Foods channel again?"
Hail to the Clint baby!
The most powerful 486 DX4 I had, was 133 MHz, and the biggest overclocking was that me and my brother boosted it up to 233 MHz with a very large heatsink and 2 fans
Those chip lifters are the best. They also work perfectly with 68040s.
Sweet, I’d suspected you liked tracker music given the style of that Donkey Kong music and your love of the demoscene. For any viewers who don’t know where to find them or how to play them (though VLC does them just fine fyi), tons of them have been archived to UA-cam and SoundCloud as well! Often by the original creators, too, which is great (always watch their versions over other rips when possible!) For anyone who might find it more convenient to seek out the genre.
enjoying the wee Monday Micro Mail-Call!
I had a 486DX2-66 PC that had a small heatsink and fan on it. I wasn't sure if it really needed it but it sounds like it did. I later upgraded it with one of these OverDrives.
Adrian's digital basement 2 often does not have shorter videos than on Adrian's digital basement has so you could just as well have everything on one channel!
They usually are and usually take me way less time to make.
@@adriansdigitalbasement2
ok. Take way less time to make.
videos I have seen have as good quality as any other videos you make I think! not worse.
If you edit too much and it changes from one to the other all the time to get as much as possible in the video then it will not always be as good I think.
You are number one retro computer channel. keep up the good work
Hi Adrian, I did several upgrades using that processor and if I'm not mistaken in that floppy that comes in the box there's an animation showing how to change the processor and a few more stuff... Maybe they were pictures only... Don't remember exactly to be honest. It may worth checking... Nice video. I'm your fan on the channels. Regards!
Yeah I meant to show the disk. I did check it out -- had some instructions and some "before and after" benchmarks ... but it was so cheesy hahaha. Felt like looking at an ad for how great Intel was. :-)
I love the UA-cam crossovers - as soon as I saw that woodgrain tape I was like "Thats OBVIOUSLY from Clint." Yet another good video.
Adrian, don’t forget to recap the new processor; you don’t want all the spooge all over the chip! 😝 Also, you should probably de-lid the IC to make sure there aren’t microscopically-small RIFA caps in there; we all know what happens when those let go!
Haha!
Adrian/LGR crossover. Nice.
Funny, I had commented to Clint last month when you both had featured the 425 a day apart.
23:20 The second address from top was for Hong Kong; note the abbreviation (HKG) of the second line. The fourth address was for Taiwan, c/o to Intel's local marketing collaborator Hi-Smart International (凱順國際有限公司).
A nice one :) Multitasking in DOS, well I used Desqview. I really loved that one.
I used Real32 (and - before that - DR Multiuser DOS); still have one machine at work that has Real32 on it.
wow, mods! i have not thought about mods in over 10 years.
5:20 - I just caught myself tilting my laptop screen to get rid of that glare over the text before i realised it wasn't glare on my screen!
Awesome! Love to see how it does with Duke Nukem 3D!
I watched CPU Galaxy and his DX4 200Mhz overclock video. and also in one video he reminded me of RetroRecipes
Yeah that 200mhz overclock was wild. This is so much more of a "tame" 100Mhz. LOL
I seem to remember this held note bug happening a lot with Soundblaster 16 cards, often in the middle of games. It used to annoy me a lot back in the day as it often happened in either in the middle of games (at points like completing a mission or level) or when exiting the game and all you could do to fix it was reset the computer (unless you were running the game in a DOS window from Windows where you could often get away with just closing that window).
BTW: That LGR badge should go to some case featuring woodgrain.
When you say Excellent, reminds me of Mr Burn's from The Simpson's :D
I had no idea there was a DOS version of vi! Is it in the default install or did you install it on there after?
Great vid as always! And I think this LGR fellow might have a future on UA-cam
30 years ago, I would have written a Terminate-and-Stay-Resident utility that intercepts CTRL+ALT+DEL and switches off that annoying sound immediately instead of having to wait for the computer to reboot. But today, that's just no longer my problem.
The Address was in Taiwan - if you remember the was an embargo for high tech till 1994 ("COCOM")
ANARMEN1.MOD - I don't know what's the origin of this music but I heard it frequently in the cracktro of some Amiga500 game. When I was a kid we only had cracked Amiga games and I thought those intros are part of the games. As an adult I started collecting the old games I loved from my childhood in original boxed version and I'm missing those cracktros big time :)
I don't know about this VLSI chipset, but I know, that VIA on 486 does accept only 4MB modules and 16MB modules, but not 8MB. There were manufacturers, which solved this VIA issue somehow to accept at least one 8MB module. Such mainboards have 3 RAM slots and the 8MB may be installed only in one particular slot. If you install 8MB module in the wrong slot, it will be recognized as 4MB. Just an idea, I think that this compaq uses both modules, but the 8MB is recognized as 4MB, just like I know it from the VIA. So you are getting 12MB together with the on-board 4MB. You could try to pull the 8MB out and see how much memory the PC shows then. I guess, you will have 8MB. And vice versa with 8MB only installed, you also will have 8MB. 4MB on-board + 4MB from the 8MB module.....
Could you do a video on the mod files you like listening to and the player? I'd like to learn more! Space debris sounded amazing
Here's Space Debris playing on a real Amiga. ua-cam.com/video/thnXzUFJnfQ/v-deo.html
It was composed in 1991 and is one of if not THE best MOD files ever created. Think about computer music in 1991 -- and this could play in the background while you did other things on your Amiga. (Since it was truly multitasking.)
@@adriansdigitalbasement2 Hi adrian, What about Space debris on an Amstrad PC1640 ?
ua-cam.com/video/bcff3LsCzH8/v-deo.html
+1 for space debris!
12:28 never underestimate exiting vim!
So... now I'm also official LGR fan😁👍🏻
*Clint* - A virus? Son, your Compaq has been infected by wood grain fever! It’s now a hungry monster that can’t be satisfied. You’re welcome!
I remembered the first time MP3s came out. I visited someone at his house and he was showing me and a friend this new file format. He had a Compaq tower running NT4 with a DX4-100 and it could just barely play the MP3 at a reduced bitrate. I think I tried it at home on the SX-33 I had and it would not run at all because it didn't have an FPU.
I remember encoding an MP3 on an AMD K6-266 and it took about 10 minutes for a 4min song.
I have a Compaq 486/50 and I modified a player to play MP2 and MP3 on it. here you go (French) ua-cam.com/video/Uylerj76r6w/v-deo.html
My .MOD player of choice was MODEdit. You could play, edit and write your own MODs. One interesting feature was it could play them through the PC speaker. Pretty sure it also had options for the Disney Sound Source and Covox.
I had an i486DX2-66 system, a clone system, that I ran my Fidonet BBS (Solsbury Hill BBS) on. I was running DESQview with two tasks...one running the BBS, and the other so I could do system maintenance, and read the BBS without having to take it down. I could even run some games that didn't suck down too much CPU, like Nethack. Fun times.
LOVING THIS....LOVE FROM ENGLAND.....
Damn Adrian, The pain of watching that unboxing and opening of that
probably rare to find new in box cpu just hurt so much to watch. Though,
I am glad it makes you happy to have it there.
I added the 75 MHz 486 Overdrive to my Tandy 486, but left the jumpers set to 100 MHz. Worked just fine with that overclock. I wonder what you could overclock the actual 100 to?
Adrian, any chance you can tell us where we can find these sweet mod files and players? I love music visualizers and would love to play with these. Apologies if you’ve covered or linked them somewhere else and I just was tuned out or forgot.
It's Cubic Player so you can find it with a quick search. The Mods are something I've been collecting since my Amiga days. Nothing unique but yeah it's just like my own CD collection but with mods :-)
@@adriansdigitalbasement2 Don't know if you heard, but Captain/Image (Markus Kaarlonen) is still active making music, in fact he remixed space debris for a game called rochard ua-cam.com/video/1sw7iT7C_wI/v-deo.html
modarchive.org/ - no ideal, since it is designed for downloading one and one tune
A lot are also hosted on SC and YT by their original creators, for something more convenient. (I made a regular comment about this too but figured I should put it elsewhere people are commenting about it too.)
6:23 just SEEING that game controller to the left of the Comaq makes me hungry to play some Space Quarks or maybe Choplifter.
Wonder if a Gravis Ultrasound would make a difference in the MOD speed
I can´t believe Clint Eastwood is into computers and just sent that to you! :-D
Hey Adrian, could you possibly upload your mod collection somewhere? I was a huge fan of mods back in the day and would love to get some more! I turned some of mine into mp3s using Winamp and have them on my phone now!
I’ve got tons downloaded since they work flawlessly in VLC on modern systems, but even then I predominantly listen to the versions the creators have put onto SC and YT. Just easier to have them in rotation with the rest of the music that way.
A few people have requested it -- so perhaps I'll do a video on the collection and upload it. I can now capture VGA since I got an OSSC -- so I can do it justice by playing it on real hardware.
@@adriansdigitalbasement2 Legend! Thank you very much!
I loved watching this upgrade. On the Cubic player, is it possible to disable the spectrum analyzer to help the music tracks play?
You can press 'A' to change the screen location or disabling it, by pressing it over and over again
Yes you can, but the program is quite smart and prioritises the mix routine before any screen update. You also have multiple graphic screens with oscilloscopes, note dots, fourier analyzers and a wicked video animation.
Great, video, Adrian! I really enjoy playing mod files, too, something I didn't even know existed at the time. Do you have a link to a mod file website, or a place to grab some in bulk?
I have 20MB (2x8 + 4 internal) in my Presario 425 without problems. So I don't understand how there could be "sharing" with the internal memory.
Adrian, i'm not sure but i do remember to overclock these cpu's by just replacing the clock crystal on the mainboard.....
Hi... great video as always...but what's the name of that mod file player again and where can we get it...thanks
Adrian, you should try putting some 303 aerospace stuff on those ram tabs.
I've found that on rubber that stuff works miracles, and I've had pretty good luck with it on plastics that get bent to do various things.
I've had good look with 303 making black plastic look great again -- but hadn't thought about it on flexible plastic. Thanks!
time to replace the SB16 with a GUS. nothing beats the GUS at playing mod files.
So I would be interested in your mod/s3m/xm list....
Later Cubic Player builds can be pretty heavy. Try version 1.6. It isn't as compatible, but performance should be quite a bit better! Barring that, you may have to use other, more lightweight players from the era. Try using ScreamTracker, FastTracker and Impulse Tracker themselves. I fondly remember listening to these types of files in the background while drawing the ANSI art for my BBS on my 486DX at 33mhz!
Oh I'll check out the older one. I actually don't like other players of the era because they just didn't do a great job playing the Amiga files properly. I started listening to Mods on my Amiga so I expect exacting emulation or playback. :-)
I have a Gigabyte ga-486is board that is 5v only, would this cpu work on it even though it doesn’t mention it in the manual?
In Cubic Player, disable the filters (by pressing twice on Backspace) in order to gain some precious CPU time.
Also, use Cubic Player 1.7, although this version is not compatible with .IT files.
(Open) Cubic Player has three software mixers available. FPU, High-Quality integer and standard integer, or use a hardware mixer with AWE32 or GUS.
My 486 didn't work with an PR100 Overdrive, that I bought boxed, but it did run with a DX5, detecting it as 100MHz in BIOS, but reflecting proper 133MHz in benchmarks. If the socket isn't blue on the motherboard, or if the Overdrive isn't listed in specs, there is often a chance it won't run. DX5 runs with the same jumper settings as a DX2-66. DX5 absolutely needs a fan, even though half the models out there come with passive cooling. It's not enough. If it's a plastic chip, it will die without active cooling.