Building the 3 in 1 DOS Retro Gaming PC: 386 486 and Pentium
In this video I am building the 3 in 1
DOS Retro Gaming PC.
Based around an
Intel Pentium running at
133 MHz and slowing it down by disabling caches, we can play games from the 386,
486 and
Pentium era.
Games that run well on a 386, but too fast on later machines are for example
Wing Commander and
Test Drive 3. Some game run too slow on a 386, but too fast on a Pentium,
Theme Park is such a game. Here we put the machine into 486 mode.
And finally, at full speed we can play
Doom 2,
Wing Commander 3 and
System Shock at 640 x 480.
I am showing the entire process of building the machine, partitioning and formatting the hard drive.
You can download my
MS-DOS starter pack which gets up and running in no time with working mouse,
CD-ROM and boot menu for memory options.
I am also showing you how to install the
Sound Blaster drivers, configure the mixer, route the
PC speaker through the Sound Blaster and how you can use
Reverb,
Chorus and 3D
Stereo Enhancement to bring new life to FM sounds.
♦Additions /
Corrections♦
I totally forgot to record how you change the interrupt from
5 to 7. What you do is go to C:\
CTCM and run CTCU. At the screen with the resources, change the configuration profile from
0 to 1. Now you can change the resources manually!
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Links to resources relevant to this video♦
MS-DOS starter pack as shown in the video:
http://www.philscomputerlab.com/phils-dos-starter-pack
.html
AWE64 CTCM and SBBASIC drivers as shown in the video: http://www.philscomputerlab.com/drivers-for-awe64-gold.html
GOTEK
USB Floppy emulator review: https://youtu.be/taFP1J_lZBI
DFI motherboard review: https://youtu.be/yzmzkYCL0OA
AWE64
Gold review: https://youtu.be/kXb3gNj--yo
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Overclockers
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Music♦
Production Music courtesy of
Epidemic Sound: http://www.epidemicsound.com