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Thx for the comment. The loading time was longer, that old 1.2 gb hdd is slow. But I had to cut/edit the video to make it under 1 min, maximum time alowed for shorts. I am glad you like it !

Thx for the comment. It really make my day to see people reviving some nice old hardwere. I hope you get it running and maybe this retro hobby will catch on you. But dont get dissapointed if the Toshiba will not work in the first try. If the hdd is bad, there are modern solutions like ide-CF, ide-sata adapters, if the floppy drive is bad, there are gotek floppy emulators... and so on. Patience is good in the retro hobby.

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You are funny, man! 😀

@@retroboby007 Funny how?

@@parapoliticos52 It is a pun/joke. Look for siemen (without S) in Finnish language (Language of Finland)

Indeed good old days! Things were simple and we had more fun playing video games.

Me too! Back in highschool, my best friend had a 486 dx2 66mhz and I helped him carry the pc and monitor to other friend who had a Pentium 75. So with just a simple serial null cable we had a mini LAN party. No drivers or setup needed. We played DOOM deathmatches a lot.

It is called Shadow Knights. I made a long video about this pc running that game, on my channel.

@@retroboby007 oh thank you :)

Thanks for the appreciation. I will use it again in other videos for retro multiplayer through serial cable.

It was a cool game with some interesting new elements of gameplay. That flying through tunnels, I saw only in Ace Combat series many years later.

Cool setup you had there. I totally missed the voodoo cards, back in the day. From 386 SX 16mhz I jumped to Athlon XP Thunderbird 1.1 ghz with Geforce 4 MX440 and later Geforce FX5200

@@retroboby007 wow that was a noticable performance jump :) I went to Pentium 3 733mhz and then Pentium 4 3.2 GHz and then athlon phenom X4 :p

Indeed. It was a pretty good office pc with pentium 133 mhz. Too bad that the motherboard died. But it lives on with the olivetti 486 inside of it.

Did you managed to finish the game, back in the day? It has no save function so it takes a lot to play from begining to end.

@@retroboby007 I forgot about that. I was 5 years old at that time.

I found it very interesting. There were drivers for ms-dos even, the S3vbe20 to load for better resolutions. I tried glquake in windows 98 with miniGL wrapper patch, but it was a slideshow. I needed an amd K6-2 to run GLQuake on S3 ViRGE at decent framerates.

It is funny indeed. Mr Beast is soo coool!

I miss those days too and I try to relive them by playing with these vintage/retro systems. Test Drive 3 is my "obsession" in a good way. The game was ahead of it's time (1990-1991). The cars handling was bad, but the tracks were just awesome! You start from nice weather near a marine bay with boats around, then you drive to the mountains with bad weather like snow, rain, thunders. The cars have changing radios, head lights, windshield wipers (to clean the bugs splashed), there are low-flying airplanes near the tracks, there are cows, horses near the roads. And the cops are chasing you to give you speed tickets.

Unfortunately, I no longer have the system. I did some maintenance, reinstalled os and sent it back to the client. But soon I will get other "modern" systems in my service shop and will record setting up Windows 10 from scratch.

@@retroboby007 I'll be waiting for this video) I wanted to learn from you)

Thanks for the appreciation. My first pc was an Apricot Computers 386 SX 16mhz. Imposible to find, but I try to relive those memories by playing 386 games on 486 or pentiums.

The same configuration? There were some models with ess isa soundcards, branded compaq. Interesting soundcards with no gamepprt but with a special connector to the integrated sound speakers.

Never had a close look unfortunately might make a video about them one day​@retroboby007

It has Windows 98se

@@retroboby007 ok

I dont have a 386 yet, but I saw LGR testing Test Drive III on a 386 dx40 using a real stopwatch and he said it was a bit too fast. It needed a 386 SX 16mhz.

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It is part of the turbo function, a button to slow down the pc for use with older software. Back then, many softwares were cpu sensitive, so when you upgraded the pc, the expensive software you had was running too fast. So these "turbo button" were used to slow down the machine when those older and expensive softwares were running.

Thanks for the appreciation. I have many more interesting retro pcs that will be on the channel. You will not be disappointed.

Is getting there. Please watch part II if you want to see it running original ms-dos retro games.

Thanks for the appreciation. Please check part II if you want to see some ms-dos original classic games.

It has Integrated AGP Cirrus GD5465 with 2mb videoram

Thanks for the appreciation! I had a 386 sx 16mhz when I was in school. So for me was waiting wolf3d and prehistorik 2 when arriving from school. But I was playing doom at my best friend who had a 486 dx2 66mhz. Simpler time indeed!