Building a 486 DOS PC! The LGR Woodgrain 486
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Celebrating SEVEN contiguous years of LGR by building the "Woodgrain 486!" The idea here is to build a PC piece by piece that would fit in around 1994, using spare parts and simulated wood.
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● Specs of the finished Woodgrain 486:
66MHz AMD Am486DX2-66 CPU
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
425MB WD Caviar 2420 HDD
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 sound card
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
NE2000-compatible networking card
HDD/FDD VLB controller card
1.44MB Sony 3.5" diskette drive
1.2MB Chinon 5.25" floppy drive
4x Generic IDE CD-ROM drive
Woodgrain-clad generic AT tower with green turbo LED display
● BG music used is from www.epidemicsou...
Who's here 7 years later?
👍
yes
Yup
7 years and 6 months later....
Still discharging
"extra pin that's off to the side there, being alone and sad"
story of my life.
It's tough being an extra pin.
all joking aside, awesome video dude. I can't wait to check out your other vids.
486 has an extra pin that must be aligned
It's ok to be off to the side, alone and sad but, please, never ever be a pin. :D
Don't be sad, it's Christmas! Go find some friends and eat turkey with them. Have a happy day! :D
I like how this has a nicer BIOS interface than most windows 7, 8, and some 10 computers I've seen
Although "some" PCs with Windows 10 (or even probably 11 now) do have a pretty nifty looking BIOS interface. Take for example MINE; it has one with an animated background!
Newer computers exclusively use UEFI - BIOS no longer exists. Thank God. UEFI is entirely graphics driven with full support of keyboard and mouse with support for all those large capacity devices BIOS would never be able to support.
@ThinkGamer Right... let me make a correction. BIOS is being phased out. It's taking longer than what was originally planned by Intel some 5+ years ago.
Eventually, it's gone. It's just too limited in the current age and can't support some of the higher capacity drives.
You'll still see older systems being sold for years where manufacturers will provide deprecated support for the BIOS they publish, but there will be a time when in the not too distant future where UEFI will be almost required to support future OS releases.
@ThinkGamer its not called CMOS thats the battery save, UEFI is the thing after BIOS that has mouse support (allthough some UEFI's still call themselves BIOS, probably so you know the kind of thing they mean, but its not a BIOS), my uefi is slow and ugly, more than the extremly simple bios i used to have (it was basically white yellowish background and marked things were blue, all in text mode, but it was sooo more effective than the current uefi i have)
Basically my entire childhood revolved around how good I could get Simcity 2000 to run. I sympathize, Clint.
My greatest achievement as a 14 year old was overclocking my amd k6-2 350mhz to 366mhz with the jumper pins on the motherboard. Fun times... (1998)
@@novakjovanovic7313 I remember having to set pins on the mobo for clock speeds when building my first PC. Those were the days!!
SimCity 2000 tracks still get stuck in my head to this day. Landmark game
Classic
I played simcity 2000 on windows 7 even tho its not compatible with win 7 (2019)
Calling tech support in 1994:
"Who is General Failure and why is he reading my drive A:?"
I cant find the any key...
Why is Ms. Dos in my computer? How do I get her out?
My Cupholder wont open, it worked fine for months, but now when I press the button it wont slide open.
These days tech support calls you...
"If my PC has windows, then why can't I see through it??"
51:37 ''Look at that, its almost playable''
This is the insight that Ubisoft developers have after finishing a game.
Like they finish it at all.
yeah its the devs fault, not ubisoft for forcing games to come out before they are smoothed out
Remember when you got the whole game when you bought it?
@@notlNSIGHT ubisoft are also the publishers. the devs have no say in the deadlines the publishing dept sets
4k Trailer = 240p Game
"He's gonna take you to the past
Building outdated computers from scrap"
"He's the Lazy Video Game Nerd"
He'd rather have a Buffalo hard disk, take a binary dump in his SCSI. He'd rather heat, a Compaq Presario, and a RAID... damnit, this is way too difficult, I give up.
i wanna see LGR and avgn & mabe mike get together and play games out of character, Like how avgn and johntron did, out of charcter... sorta.
Nailed!
roflmao
Hooo-Boy... Feels just like yesterday :-)
Except:
1) I was 35 then
2) Now I ain't
:-/
Time just needs to stop some Times, Wait... Thiss video is 4 years old btw like what i remember watching this when it was new
Yes You are!!! The fact that you understand and watch these videos instantly makes you 35
1 hour of PC Bulding....
Clint, you're spoiling me
And you are spoiling us with your profile pic good sir.
+SengirShowsU HE-MAN YOU ROYAL BOOB
CURSE YOU HE-MAN NYAAA
WHY DO I SURROUND MYSELF WITH BOOBS?1
That's one of the friendliest comment sections I've ever seen.
This brought back so many bad memories, so many wasted weekends of plugging boards in, swapping boards around, yanking boards out, fiddling with memory sticks (the creaking sound when you put them in gave me shivers), things working then suddenly locking up (it felt like getting slapped in the face), and hardware details that everyone has long forgotten like sharing IRQs. If I got 75% of stuff working in the first weekend, it was enough success that I would be able to sleep. Subsequent evenings and weekends were getting that last 25% working, which often meant breaking things that had been working. *UGH*
And that's why consoles are king
Sure they are......
I miss the old homecomputers
@@Nitro_0999 they are great at doing one specific thing very poorly
@@h2oaddict28 I dissagree
Oh those sweet, innocent times when cable management and rgb lighting were just nullified by beautiful beige.
Sascha G. It’s as it should be
Those were the times
Im a after 2k child but i have 2 beige pc's pentium 4 and d
Beige is beautiful. Rgb is irritating
thsoe where real computer
I watched this 486 episode for the 7th time. I can do it until the 100th time.
Watch it 486 times
it's just sooooo rewatchable, i can't help but play this one while i'm cleaning the house
@James Armstrong same
This might be the best video on UA-cam! Brings me back to my DX4/100, which also had an AWE32 :) with a double-spin cd connected to it, and my 4-button gamepad running of its game port! 9-pin serial mouse, AT keyboard, etc... ahh... memories! I remember how blown away I was when upgrading to it from my 386 SX-16! Then again, I remember how blown away I was when upgrading to the 386 from my 8086 XT! I was amazed how the 386 had a backup battery for the RTC! No more having to enter the time and date every bootup, like I did for the XT lol! Anyway, AWESOME vid, and AWESOME PC! Entertaining, funny, and so nostalgic! Like I said, may be the best vid on the Tube! Cheers!
Thanks Eric, I'm glad you enjoyed and got a good nostalgia buzz!
Even a video i thought would be extremely boring, you had me watching the whole thing entertained every second. You got serious talent, man.
Thank you!
exactly :)
oh he does
I agree...great pacing. It was interesting the whole time. As I was growing up through the nineties, I always wanted a computer like this, but we didn't have alot of money, so I was stuck with a commodore 64. Anyway, great vid!
Therealgdude01 yeah I'm finally happy with UA-cam
Sometimes I think, "I want to build an old pc." Then I watch this video and remember figuring out jumpers and I'm just like "nope."
Don't even tell me, I'm messing with some socket 7 boards by the last couple of days. Couldn't quite find the exact manual on the internet, so it's been a pain in the ass to make it work with a pentium
Got it kinda working with a K6 tho
@@joseislanio8910 "Kinda working" sounds like most my builds lol...i know better but my lazy side kicks in lol...
Assuming you can find documentation it's nothing to get intimidated over. 🙂 In most cases you won't do permanent damage by having a jumper wrong. It just won't get past bios or if it does won't work right.
As the other people have replied, if you can't find documentation it can be daunting but in some cases what the jumper does is printed on the board itself
I'm an engineer on a laundry plant. A lot of Industrial machinery uses these CPU modules. Which run MS-DOS
They're... peculiar to manage, and to repair, restore
Sometimes I watch this again to calm my anxiety. Thank you Clint.
Same same.
Same for me! Nothing better than to calm your stress on some computers!
stress is not anxiety
Great channel for that!
2024 and same!
This is my favorite LGR video, I've probably watched it 5 times already. I would love to see more retro builds like this from different eras (386, Pentium II, AthlonXP... etc), I think people would find them fascinating. My first/childhood PC was a 486 DX 33MHz, 8MB SDRAM, 200MB HDD, ATi Mach 32 1MB VRAM, so this build really hits home for me.
QuantumBraced I sure as hell find old PCs so cool. I have an old ass dell laptop and it’s a lot of fun.
AthlonXP was the first complete MB up system rebuild I ever did. :D Souped up my 486 with an AMD 133mhz proc and it forever changed the course of my life. hahaha
I would love to see you play sim city 2000 as a series, maybe once a week or so, I dunno.
That woodgrain does look pretty awesome :O
Me too, it's weird because I don't like playing SimCity but find it so satisfying to watch someone else play it (especially a pro at the game like LGR) XD
In 20 years, I bet people are going to be building i7 PCs for nostalgia.
Nick Gregory Or rather, they'll be nostalgic for user replaceable parts
First gen i7's are kinda rare, since most 1366 motherboards are dead today, like those old nvidia based Athlon's.
not really ive got at least 40
Tiago Mian My i7 920 and evga x58 sli mobo is still going strong after a decade. It's outlasted 4 GPU's, 2 PSU's and a hard drive lol. These days its relegated mainly to file server as my laptop is more powerful but it's still a half decent comp even after 10 years
my athlon xp 1800+ machine from 2002 is still running to this day
Clint-- I can't stop going back to about 49 minutes in the video and hearing you talk about this Sim City 2000 story and hearing your genuine reaction to seeing it like you saw it all those years ago at a friends' house. SUCH good content! Thanks for this warm, authentic moment!
Holy crap... I'm sitting here watching a video from 2 years ago of someone building a computer from 24 years ago.... what am I doing with my life....
(Sweet video btw)
Let me join in. ^^
Btw my first PC in '94 was a VLB system with an AMD DX2/80 sold as DX2/66, 4MB, 420MB HDD and ET4000 VLB. Tryed to get full 80Mhz out of it but I think the board didn't support it. The board also came with a 2032 BIOS battery and even had IDE connectors onboad, not needing controller cards. The layout was generally more modern than this one.
Til researching what old PC to get I didn't even know that many boards came with soldered on battery chips. Thought the 2032 was common.
Actually you are learning pretty useful stuff, since anything you can assimilate and understand in some stack of the hardware can help you as an user or developer of software ;)
You're using your time wisely is what you're doing! :)
Same here!
Coming from someone who was born in 99 it’s just crazy to think there was a time when people had less than a GB of storage for their computer. There’s just something so fascinating about learning how computers worked before I was born. Somewhat charming
@@killerkitten7534 1998 here lol I agree
Grew up with XP
Clint, I've been following your channel for at least six years. Your channel inspired me to start my own niche gaming channel. Your pure, unfiltered enthusiasm is infectious and refreshing. Thanks so much for doing what you do. You're one of my favorite UA-cam creators, hands down, and I love your work!
Thanks for watching all this time, and I'm happy to have inspired!
When you almost cried to the start up of SimCity 2000 I smiled widely in happiness for you man. Though one idea comes to mind, any chance you would lets play it?
Skellitor301 dude... that would be amazing
it's so nice to see him happy by finally beeing able to install simcity after all these years
I seem to remember a lot more swearing, being involved
Don't forget the cuts and scratches all over the backs of your hands from those cases, and the tragedy of the dropped expansion slot screw that fell into the mobo and wouldn't come out.
And back paín, Those mofos were huge and heavy
The best part is when the power sockets weren't labeled and you spend 3 hours trying to figure it out with the manual
@@TheOtherBill Yes and not to forget dropping the case as you go to put it on your desk and the chiropractor bills.
Unnecessary comma.
Such a cozy video
Top comfy
*I've updated this 486 build!* Check my video adding a Sound Blaster Pro 2.0
ua-cam.com/video/g15J44xB2zU/v-deo.html
Update it again and drop in that 100mhz DX4... you know you want to!
Hey Clint ! I really love this video, you've build a great machine, but PLEASE add some L2-cache and do some "waitstate & timings tuning" in the BIOS setup.
Then run Duke 3D again & enjoy :) Thing is that your memory throughput is at its lowest without L2-cache. Just run some benchmarks before and after upgrading, you'll see.
Definitely worth it !
I second this. I remember watching this a while ago and wondering when he was going to put in the cache chips.
Thank you,good video,большое спасибо,видео доставило много удовольствия,с удовольствием посмотрел от начала до конца,хоть я не понимаю языка,я отлично понимаю то что происходит на видео,russian
Hey clint. Just wondering why you have the association of woodgrain with the early 90s? I've always associated it with the late 70s very early 80s (atari)
I know this vid is a bit older but it showed up in my feed in 2022. You literally built my first pc build back in 95. Part for part. Thank you for an amazing stroll down memory lane!
Imagine building a £10k computer, With GTX Titans etc, And then putting it in this case.
Nobody would ever know.
IneptOrange u
IneptOrange undercover supercomputer
I did that with a rig once. had my fx-6300 setup in a dell dimension tower
yeah, those from mid 2000s with P4 and 512MB RAM
I used to have my pc in a dell xps t450 case from 1998, but thermals were terrible and I wanted an r9 fury, so I had to switch to a more modern case
CyanideSurprise you think Gtx titans are supercomputers lol
when I had a 486 when I was In trouble my parents would lock the computer and take the key. I would lock pick the lock with a paper clip.
Ryan Peters but now it uses screwdriver
My parents would take the power cable instead, but I quickly found a spare cable to play sim city 2000 countless hours.
@Ryan Peters i used to unplug lock (grey wire) from mobo ;) and later on my dad was taking cpu out xD
Kids these days will never know the feeling of overclocking using jumpers. :)
Jumpers and dip switches are where it's at. ☺
I'm 16, so I don't know if I qualify as a kid, but I'm going to attempt building a 486 too!
or setting the lans, the sectors, and the heads in the hard drive.
Oh, fuck... that sent me over a memories trip
@@donskiver Too right that!
This brought back so many memories. Everyone should get to experience this. Building, upgrading and maintaining a machine from a pile of parts.
hahaha love the throwback intro
Right? So much memories!
intro music........
@@thetoraj jó
@@matekiss5764 helló! Magyar vagy?
LGR: "Oh, look at this! It's so cool!!!"
me (with a small tear in the corner of the right eye): "Dude, it is a little cool."
I reacted the exact same way! :)
I have case with real woodgrain from factory. It has keyboard lock too maybe from 1999-2003.
I'd love to see it! Have any photos or model numbers I could look up?
aijaa.com/xk4q5G There isnt any brand or name. Its from 478 socket era and really wellmade and tough case
What a funky case. Incredibly cool, thanks for sharing :)
Build a crazy sleep rig in it with the 1080 mini and an i7 or something
Its too big for that .... If LGR wants to pay the transportation i can send it to him :)
This is one of my favorite videos on this platform. Recent I got parts for a new budget pc since my crappy old laptop is on its last legs, and rewatching this makes me really appreciate not only how far we've come as far as personal computers, but also what was so great about pc making back then and now. It honestly makes me wanna build my own recreational DOS machine, if I hadn't already spent $800 for the new build.
Very cool video and Interesting to see an old PC getting built in this day and age. I could clearly see the legitimate enthusiasm in this, wether it was about passion for the classic parts such as an soundcard that is bigger than modern gpus or for playing the classic games "the way they're meant to" :)
Glad for you to manage to fullfill this childhood dream of yours.
cheers
I’m in my 50’s. My first experience with computers was in the 70’s at Socorro New Mexico. I had placed 3rd in a science fair and the State invited us to spend a week up at Santa Fe for the “State Science Fair”. Anyway we were taken to different government science laboratories. Then in 85 I went to College. At my college we were introduced to IMB XT and then later the AT. While in the Navy I worked on military super computers that were thousands of times less powerful than the cell phone I hold in my hand. On leaving the Navy in 90, I worked for Apple and fell in love with how elegant the Mac design was. I have always owned a mix of PC’s and Macs. I still feel the Mac is superior in design and execution even with the problems that closed architecture and poor senior leadership..... that have plagued Apple over the years...... And yet, there was something incredibly fun and rewarding when building a IBM clone or a gaming desktop of this day. Thank you for this quick trip down memory lane.
Ok bo0mer
@@speedinzosu bruh be respectful
Firstly, thank you for your service. Secondly, thanks for sharing this story. Gives me warm feelings.
@@speedinzosu just shut up dude it's not funny anymore
Mac is not Superior in Design , yes they may make their product look pretty , but they don't care much about over heating with their hardware.
I'd love to do this myself. Shame that a lack of money is a thing.
Well, pay a visit to a scrapyard. I found a complete DX2 years back in a container.
I took it with me for 3$
Osmosis at my school found 3dfx vga card
Bitelaserkhalif *cringes* how.
do it one thing at a time man
It's not a "lack of money thing", it's having an eye for hardware that you need at the time which in turn will bring you to your ultimate financial goal and or project!
Your videos inspired me to build my own dream 486 setup I couldn’t possibly afford back then and my parents could only afford a 486sx25 which was my start into computing and I adored it anyway.
That was weird you unboxing a cd drive that was made 4 months before I was born.
noily
I am not sure if LGR has time machine, but Techmoan at least has one!
Pshhh, infant. I was 14 in 1994. *humor intended by this comment*
welp im 14
I remember editing my autoexec.bat and config.sys to free up conventional memory. loading drivers high. himem.sys noems.
I NEVER want to go back to those days. Getting DOS games to run in the right memory configurations? I'll stick with DOS box.
I remember utilizing loadhigh, devicehigh, smartdrv to free up enough memory to run some games. Sometimes placement in the file affected how much memory got freed up; so annoying, but satisfying when you get what you needed. lol.
YUP, I hated HATED that then the games said limited music would play anyway
ALSO boot disks Fuck that shit!
I use to make boot disks all the time to load up my CD ROM drives mouse and sound ect
@@troymeredith521 DOS 6.22 had "Memmaker" and it was glorius. Still needed some detail work, but it DID help a lot.
1990s, 486, custom Autoexec.bat/Config.sys load himem.sys. Configure speakers, joystick, run Wing Commander, Falcon 3.0, MiG-29, and matches/missions over dial-up. Those were fun days.
Back then I could dial-up and request books from the library for free by mail, and they were good books, great references, manuals, records, factual data and not the utterly useless fluff peddled these days.
One time I returned a fantastic reference manual and regret it to this day, especially since libraries destroyed them all. The great corporate book burning was done in the 90s and nobody even noticed it. Right after Barns and Noble and Amazon began carving up the book market, and finished off the library system by corporate takeover.
80s were booming, 90s were the last gasp of information freedom, 00s were the beginning of fanatical tech-cult that fucked it all.
Great video, nostalgia galore, brought me back to the days of info-freedom.
My favorite thing is seeing your PASSION and delight while building this box! I'm glad I didn't get into PC building until after ISA cards, though my first 2 machines had 3 1/2 floppies!
Congrats on the seven years and thank you for this wonderful video, where a number of us have had a chance to relive our childhood with you. :)
Keep it going man! (thumbs up)
Note... Had you played Star Wars Rebel Assault on that thing (My first CD-ROM based game, I still remember my father buying the CD-Drive and the game, tagging me along) I would have had a freaking fit here at home xD
Again.
Thanks for your hard work. :)
(Personally, I look forward to a mid-late nighties Win 98SE2 build)
Oh yeah.
Seeing the Logitech First Mouse, brought a tear to my eye.
This was my childhood in video form
I was having flashbacks to being 13-14 again when he started talking about the nightmare that was sorting out IRQ and DMA conflicts. Great video!
I saw you like a year ago under a different video :P
Just watched this whole thing and was thinking, "Man. I really need to play some SC 2000!" Inspired me to drag my old Dell laptop running Windows 2000 on it out of the closet and load it up! Like your style, LGR.
The hardware part was a trip (in acid) down memory lane. How many of those tricky 486 MoBo did I install when I used to work as computer tech? How many unexplainable behaviours made me lose my temper. How many time spent figuring conflict over IRQ, or address. or DMA, OR EVEN ALL OF IT TOGETHER. How many motherboards did I go through to satisfy that customer request of a 486DX 50 (NOT DX2) to find the one who would work at that FSB speed...
Eh, the good old times... that felt hardly all that good whilst we lived them. :D
This brings back fond memories, I have never seen a bios like that though.
cool video! i only wanted to take a short look but stayed until the end. well done!
Excellent, thanks!
the same here :)
Yeah, that is all well and good, but can it play Crysis?
Enough! Enough already!
can it run crysis 3 at max settings?
Doom, Doom II, Dark Forces, Rise of the Triad, Wolf3D, System Shock, Heretic, Hexen, etc.
Lots of cool classic FPS games run on it and they're more fun that that boring tech demo called Crysis.
xyz12345 I was only joking. It can definitely RUN Crysis with enough patience, but it can't PLAY it.
A Player 69 Bottom line, Crysis was made for PCs made in 2006 or newer. Older systems ran the game but not that well.
The extra holes along side of the CPU were there for the Pentium Overdrive Cpu's
Your builds are genuinely some of the most comforting & enjoyable content on this side of the internet. Even 4 years later, this is a fave to return to from time to time :)
That and his Ninja Nanny video. He has a load of classics.
But do i have to upgrade to run Half Life 2?
Damn, an obscure reference to an old promo video
You mean Crysis right?
At 0.025 frames per second?
How bout minesweeper
@@metalmat3651 half a sec*
I am a simple man. I see an LGR video. I grab some drinks. I sit down. I enjoy
Cheers!
Lazy Game Reviews Cheers!
Me to lol.
Dude when you said "i just bought this at Circuit City".. it took me a split second to be like wait what? lol
Such a legendary video! It's like the 20th time that I'm watching it. This is basically what inspired me to get into collecting and building retro PCs. Keep up the good work)
It is indeed an awesome video! Having lived through and built pcs during this era, I was starting to think it’d be cool to put one together. Then he had the floppy drives wonk out on him, the CD-ROM fail to work with the AWE32 and... I remembered all the hours I’ve already spent fighting 90’s hardware... :)
Seeing that woodgrain at the end made me make up my mind. Next time I'm building a new computer I will make my own wood case because it looks so good!
It will be heavy as balls but who cares when you can have a PC of pure wood! :D
Make a video of it or something. I would absolutely love to see it.
cool, but make sure u dont run ur pc too hot!
I saw an Intel NUC with a wood top, looked amazing: www.techpowerup.com/gallery/4133/13_0_547.jpg
I so miss times when everything was on a floppy's , no internet , the only way you could get a game was to borrow/copy it from a friend... There was always this kind of tensing during every installation , as it could fail due to various reasons such as corrupted disquete or HDD or lack of room on HDD... .Man now everything is so easy..not even afraid that any of newly released games would turn into slideshow when trying to play..
I still have a floppy drive in my current PC. It is the original one that came with the 486. Over the years that 486 got upgraded and the floppy drive just carried over. It was connected to the mobo up until 2013. Too bad my current mobo does not provide a connector for a floppy drive :(
(I know there are specials cards that allows you to connect floppy drives to modern mobo's)
But yeah gaming has gotten so much easier over the years for PC's because I for one sure don't miss messing around with boot disks and IRQ settings.
this is officially the best UA-cam channel ever made!
Hehe, well thanks!
Second
Man I really loved this video. Your excitement reminds me of my own and that wood panel cover... getting the cd rom to work... man this whole video was incredible
"SUCK IT 1993 ... BAM"
Dude, you rock
This video made me build 486 pc for Fun, made repair my old pentium 166 mhz and now i use these pc almoust as regular as my modern gaming pc. Nice!
There's absolutely nothing like that satisfying "click" when you're putting in new RAM.
Conrad Vogel no have you ever put in cpu cpu chips? Those are soooo much better
Not with DDR4 where only 1 side clicks...
@@NinjaContravaniaManX on my mobo its the same wit ddr3
What click? I only get the annoying sensation that I seated it wrong. Like half the time it doesn't lock, it just sits there. Twenty minutes of troubleshooting that I'll never get back.
I feel your joy SO much coming through in this. I'm geeking out just watching. Reminds me of when I built my first machine. Love your vids. :)
I've enjoyed watching this way too much. I'm such a nerd.
You definitely built one of the dream PCs I wish I had back then with the AWE 32 Soundblaster card and the Vesa compatible video card.
Later my grandfather, who used to work for a credit union, had a Compaq Presario PC to work from home provided by the company. It was one of the first Pentiums at 100MHz and it had a sound blaster 32 card and a Vesa graphics card and a 33.6 kB modem. It had 2 partitions, one had IMB OS/2 Warp and the other had Dos Win 3.11. The Dos partition was for personal use and he let me play with it and it was amazing. A friend and I used to build our own Duke 3D maps, send them to each other using QuickLink II for Dos and then played multiplayer games on our custom built levels. What a time that was.
Kids these days can't appreciate the high tech instant response stuff they have today with internet and all that.
Ayyyyeee glad you all like the music! I love this dude's vidz!
Thanks so much for the track, man!
Thanks for thinking of me when you wanted it remade!
Hey good job of that music!
You'd think by now that they would have standardised the case front panel connectors for each motherboard. But no, I literally built a new PC the other day and it had those stupid front panel connectors that you have to look up in your manual to figure out the arrangement for plugging them in
Yep, setting up the front connectors is the only "difficult" part of building a modern computer.
Hell yeah, those are always a pain in my ass when building a PC, and even harder for me personally because I'm blind in one eye, and trying to see all the tiny writing on the motherboard is another big pain in the ass. So yeah unless you are building some extreme custom water cooled setup, then that's the hardest part, besides cable management, and picking what parts you want/need to fit your budget.
When I build systems I wrap the front panel connectors up with tape once theyre on the board, so if I ever need to take them off they come off in one block rather than 50.
It's not even consistent in the same brand. I have two different MSI boards with different pinout, come on!!
yournamehere23435 I've come across the same on 2 Foxconn boards on a pair of ACER AMD desktops I was cleaning/repairing/upgrading for a client a few years ago, and they said they had bought the computers about a 2 weeks apart for their kids Christmas gifts, and that was the only thing different on the boards was the front panel pin layout, even the model #'s on the boards where the same. It's fracking BS!!! All motherboard makers should get together, and agree on a common standard just like they have card bus standards for example.
I'm 34 and the oldest computer I can remember is my dad's 486dx that I used to play "microprose grand prix" on.
After that he upgraded to this and that and I'll never forget when he first got a cd drive (same as this video) and it was "A whole newww wwoorrllddd!"
When we moved away from the coast dad said I could sell the old boat and keep the money for a computer for myself.
Intel celeron 2 something with 256mb ram and a tnt2 pro graphics card and windows 98se!
Man playing half life, starcraft, bf1942 and NFS Porsche in 1024x768 with my mates (man we learnt a LOT about networking back then) was some of the best days of my life.
Who is General Failure and why is he reading your drives?
I don't know, but it's probably Lieutenant Letdown's fault.
just keep away from Private Parts and major letdown...their parties are nefarious!
You can see the joy in Clint's face. The computer ended up looking pretty good!
Ohh, man. I Loved sim City 2000. Civilization 2 was another Thing, beneath Doom 1, Doom 2 and Wolfenstein 3D. I Loved this time...
I keep rewatching this and it just makes me happy. I love how passionate you are clint too. How happy you are to see sim city 2k running. So awesome. Man the world needs more people like you in it man.
I'm loving the awesome throwback ish intro. Can you keep that in your new videos? :D
Probably won't be the intro to every episode, but I'll keep using it when it makes sense!
34:00 LOL 😂
thats becuse of clock battery, right?
There was something about watching you play Doom running at a *slightly* lower frame rate made it feel so much more authentic. When you play it now on a massively overpowered machine, it runs buttery smooth. It's not the same, there is something missing. Your computer doing all it can to barely render each frame is the way its supposed to be played. Loved it!
Anyone in 2020? 😍
i watched the whole thing... i even cried a little bit
Yes
No
No...
Unfortunately
Don't connect it to the Internet, MS will try force a Windows 10 install on it.
Car salesman: *slaps roof of car* "This baby has so much wood grain in the interior."
LGR: "HERES $100,000 GOODBYE"
Sold! To the man with all the old computers!
You may want to try using the SciTech Display Doctor/Univbe driver with duke nukem. It enables VESA 2.0 (linear/non-bank switched) mode which is WAY faster. Might even make 640x480 playable
I recently acquired what appears to be a close relative to the woodgrain 486. Pionex 486SX-25 with 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives, dx/2-66 overdrive CPU, 32mb of 30pin RAM, and a socketed Dallas RTC which I replaced with a Glitchwerks module. It even came with a Cirrus Logic GD5426 VLB video card and the same protect sheet warning sticker on the 5.25" drive bezel. Still love the videos. Gives me a little inspiration when I've got my collections of 486's out on the bench.
"Time to address the RAM" Ha!
I always was under the impression these needed all slots to be used, was impressed by seeing him just put 2 modules in there without problems.
So much nostalgia and weird feelings from this video...
I just clicked this video to check out the specs you planned to use and then ended up watching the whole hour+ video. Thanks for the old memories.
You need to put a fake turbo button on a computer that just makes it blue screen. Anyone that hits it would be really freaked out.
Clint - never commented but just want you to know how much I enjoy your videos. I’m not even much of a computer guy, but really enjoy your attitude and style and the subject matter is always kinda obscure and interesting. Thanks.
o god i hate IO panel connectors so much.
why cant motherboard just be universal with the pin layout?!?
it would make so much more sense.
The camera he is using has much more power than that thing.
Actually it has a cpu that's about as powerful as the 486 not even kidding they are using a 1980's cpu in most canon or otherwise cameras. I can even pull it up.
yeah Canon does use shitty really low end Cpus on the boards in cameras they make, the Digic series uses pretty much 60mhz cpus not even kidding. But because of the optimization it works.
Although it says that digic series uses a NEC V20 8mhz cpu for the image processor and a Motorola 68HC12 cpu for something else. so I mean cameras really don't use high end parts lol.
PilsPlease what version of digic are you talking about though?
PilsPlease pretty sure most if not all HD cameras today use a MIPS or ARM that are much, *much* quicker. If anything it needs much more bandwidth to process that video and be able to encode it.
dude remember the creative kit that came with a 52x cd rom a soundblaster sound card and remote control they were awesome products bro.
Ahh yes, Creative had some really awesome kits for CD-ROMs back then!
I had to come back and witness the birth of a legend
I love LGR!!
Clint if you were to meet an untimely demise, people are going to have a hell of a time disposing of your estate.
Actually I'd show up at that estate sale heh-heh
I guarantee the barbarians will classify it as junk and sell it for scrap...
Yup. Lets just hope that the barbarians find nostalgia if this happens
kmfurr1 A modern age Charles Foster Kane lol
I remember when I use to work for AOL I would get calls on dropped internet. I would find out their mouse IRQ or UART address was the same as the modem.
Having to walk people through clearing their cache is enough of a hassle. I can't imagine walking somebody through this...
D. Barton
After awhile it got easy at least with 3.11. PNP was a nightmare when it first came out since a lot of the time it really was not plug in play at all. Some rebuild systems would have two drivers for the mouse which interfered with AOL or Netscape. I worked with GNN (which was owned by AOL) while working with regular AOL software.
So sometimes I would listen to the problem and simple tell the to turn off their manufacture drivers since Win95 had its own drivers. One time I had a supervisor for said company on the phone with the customer. He was shocked that it was their driver. He said their techs could not figure it out and then offered me a job on the spot with the customer still on the line.
That was when you actually had to have a certificate in computer science. Now all you find is morons or people from India.
+FuYing Bro I still call PnP devices plug and pray.
Sollux Captor
LOL.
Have this playing off to the side at work today...bringing back so many memories of PC building in the 90s - also how much I spent vs what it's worth now - all sitting in storage. Was SO excited to find a MB with both 72 and 30 pin memory slots. Felt like a god with that much RAM.
Crazy that this is a 6 year old video and you were around for 7 before that. Thanks for being the best and keeping the chill for so long. Lgr videos are top notch and just relaxing and entertaining. 😊
What a pain in the but, dealing with all this jumpers and cards and wide cables. Building your own PC is so much easier today.
yeah
Yeah, but when you finished it had even more of the "Ikea effect".
The biggest issue was that many of the connectors weren't keyed and so you could plug stuff in the wrong way and / or jumper it wrong and obliterate $100's in a split second - one of the worst was the AT motherboard connectors as they have different pin outs but plug into each other.
I can understand why the manuals for basically anything from hardware to software were so thick (or had even existed in the first place).
yeah but it isnt as fun
Legit, this is one of those videos I wish I could like more than once. Very educational in my opinion. And just a plain ol chill video to hang out with. Love this build.
i like re-watching it a bunch...believe this is my 5th time
I love this man. "Oh here's a fun part. And by that, I mean not at all." @21:55
I was over here yelling at the screen like "That other board has cache chips that you can raid!!". This takes me back. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
15:49 Yeah but more importantly:
Watcha Drinkin'?
:-)
Prob Some wisky check out his altair video he drinks a very similar looking drink in that video u SEE the bottle
Man, this takes me waaaay back. You've got yourself a new subscriber.