Nice point about the battery replacement, I might go this way with my 486 DELL board. Thanks, awesome system, really love these slightly bigger cases, I don't enjoy working inside the ultra small baby AT computer cases.
That case is an absolute unit for a baby-AT board.... I love it! I have so much retroactive nostalgia for this stuff. That case especially is to DIE for!
In my previous comment "BOY I CAN KICK MYSELF!!" What great memories and now I began pondering... The wife was happy to see the parts go... I am gonna see what can be found and make an old 486 machine again being that I never threw away any of the software or games for keepsake and I have library of software and games!! Many thanks for the inspiration again!!!
Such a satisfying build, and the Roland sound system just tops it off. There are so many awesome games you can play on this system, it really does accommodate the best of the pre-3D golden era. Duke 3D might be a push but that's one game out of thousands. And great as ever to see those classic Apogee titles dominating the game selection. I use my 5x86 system whenever I want to do some gaming so I can see you're going to get a lot of enjoyment out of this.
Thanks! I'm really happy with how it turned out and have been enjoying some games most days (when time allows). The audio setup really does make this such an enjoyable rig. I absolutely love the Roland SC-55, MX-5 mixer and MA-8 speakers (and the PAS16/MPU-401 card of course). Totally exceeded my expectations on the audio front. I did give Duke 3D a try briefly, and it's not that bad actually. It does choke up a bit in large open areas or with lots of enemies on the screen, but I'd say it's definitely playable.
Seems like your turbo switch is 3 pin variant - you could switch around which way is "high" and which way is "low", and so you could achieve "ICE" possibly, too. :)
Wow. Such memories (good and bad). Seeing those god awful plastic standoffs again nearly brought me out in sweats. I'm somewhere around the middle (or maybe early stages, depending on when I "finish") of doing an Ultimate XP build, though I don't really care about period specific hardware (so may end up with a GTX980, though currently a 750 is ready for it), as I'm more interested in experiencing the kind of gameplay that I wasn't close to being able to afford in the 90s-00s (but could occasionally behold round a fairly wealthy friend's house). It really is the old clock-cycle locked FPS games that keep me most from going proper old school retro, too finicky and hardware limiting. I really appreciated the "alternative" component based component choices for this build, bringing some real variation to what can easily be copy-paste, given the hindsight availability afforded to retro-ers today.
Great 486 build with meticulous research together with system optimisation. It brings back memories of my days with 8086/286/386 PCs and the early days of personal computers. I had the Plextor CD player too (the earlier 4X drive) and MediaVision PAS soundcard. I jumped from the 386DX to the Pentium 133, so I never had a 486 that I can call my own. The 486 motherboard shows how far we have progressed since those days to where we are today. However one thing that did not progress as quickly as the rest is the front side bus (FSB). Intel never adopted 40 MHz FSB and moved quickly to ratchet up CPU multipliers using a 100 MHz FSB as well as the 133 MHz FSB. And that was the end of the FSB story till today! Thanks for taking us back in history - a very nice trilogy you produced here!
Thats a fantastic system you've assembled there. Really nice to see the thought behind each component over the 3 part series and they all complement each other well. Some good hints and tips fot the old AT systems too!
Nice rig! I always thought the 486 was the peak for DOS gaming. Many happy memories playing on one back in the day. Great tip on using nimh batteries too, going to use that in my retro machines 👍
As I said in one of your previous videos I'm not really into pre-Pentium systems, but this one is really awesome! Now it's time for a Pentium II w/ Voodoo2 daily build 😬😎 BTW I have a nice old Enermax power supply I'd like to recap, do you know how long should it stay unplugged before I can manage it safely?
I used 486SX-33 with turbo downshift for Wing commander game. It was possible to install a more powerful processor, but then you would have to disable the L2 cache through the BIOS. And if you use the BIOS to disable it, then the choice should be made towards more powerful systems based on the Socket 7 socket. Still, now I'm leaning towards building a classic 386DX machine for my retro games. I wish you good luck in your activities.
Thanks very much! Yeah, I think building a proper 386 is definitely a good choice if you play a lot of games from that era. I have a 386 DX/33 and a DX/25 that I may build at some point for older games. Aside from Wing Commander, most of the games I play regularly are not speed sensitive, so I’m not too worried about it. Thanks again for your comment 👍
While thermal paste isn't really required for the 486. still best to put it on, allows even better heat transfer. For your application not really necessary. but i put a larger HSF and thermal paste in order to allow overclocking. Managed to get a AMD 486 DX4 100 to 150MHz with slight voltage tweak and keeping the CPU cool. As for the battery pack for the CMOS, great idea. I used the same setup but i used Energizer Lithium batteries, that way no leaks of any kind and they last longer than the HiMH, though you can recharge yours :) Also when you were putting the board into the case. it looks as if the metal back on the case where the board secures to was upside down. You spoke of gravity pulling the board out of the slots for the plastic standoffs. I have deal with many AT cases and they usually are orientated 180 degrees so that the smaller part on the metal cutout is at the bottom to hold the plastic standoff back
Thanks for your comment! Lithium AAAs or AAs are also a great choice. They seem to have a slightly higher voltage than regular alkaline batteries (about 1.85V when I checked) so a double battery pack instead of a tripple is probably plenty. Yeah its very odd about the motherboard tray. It really seems like it's on upside down, but I have two different AT cases of a similar style with them like this. I'll have to check some of my other cases too.
@@vswitchzero that is totally weird indeed about the case, maybe some manufacturers screwed up when having them made, cause the way that one is screams factory defect :) BTW Love your videos, some of the old vintage hardware takes me back to my youth,
Thanks! Yeah it really was awesome luck that my brother-in-law still had the monitor. Still works perfectly too. I have since bought a VGA transfer switch and hope to hook up my MiSTer system to it as well.
oh man, i wanna play the games again but without clipping its impossible, i think i just need an old mobo to put one together. i like the building parts here, very clear and now i know how it worked when i was a kid and needed that doom to run smoother
Informative and entertaining classic build. Regard the monitor, I always wondered how an LCD would respond to 320*200 resolution? since their lower support is 640*480. I found cheap 15" LCD with native 1024*768 res, but with horrible viewing angles (and lackluster colors). However, high quality 19" 5:4 IPS LCDs exist.
Thanks! All of the LCDs I've tried on older PCs seem to work fine at 320x200. Since it's not their native resolution, the monitor has to have some way to scale up lower resolutions like this. That has a bit of a negative effect on image quality, unfortunately. Also, 320x200 is often detected as 720x400 on newer devices with analog inputs (like capture cards etc) - something to do with lines instead of pixels when dealing with analog signals I believe.
my daily use 486 is with a modern Rosewill 550W ATX PSU with a ATX to AT adapter, a SiS 496/497 PCI 486 board, a Intel 486 DX4 100 Mhz CPU, 32 MB FPM RAM, 256K cache, 2mb s3 trio64v+ graphics card, ess es688fc sound card, 3com 3c509 nic
I gave them a try a couple of years ago actually. It’s true they are way less likely to leak, but for some reason their starting voltage is very high (I tested them at 1.85V!).. I’m sure they’d eventually come down closer to 1.5-1.6V but at 5.5V that battery pack was a bit too much for me to be comfortable 🙂
@@vswitchzero You're right - they're "officially unofficially" 1.7v batteries, lol. The packaging says "not for devices that require 1.7v batteries" and also "not for devices that cannot handle 1.7v batteries." Honestly though, I never even considered NiMH because they're rechargeable. They don't suffer from innate discharge over time like lithium ion batteries do? I guess that would be my concern - that they'd discharge themselves over a few months.
@@angieandretti Interesting! I never noticed the 1.7V warnings on the packaging before. I wonder if that's something new they added. But if they stabilize at 1.7V (mine were 1.85 when I checked), that could be suitable for a 2xAAA pack. 3.4-3.7V would definitely work. NiMH batteries have come a long way in the last few years. The newer, better quality ones can last a very long time without self-discharging. I believe the ones that are marketed as "fully charged" out of the box are usually this type. They are pricy, but the Eneloop brand is great in that regard.
great video, i really enjoyed this series! is it possible the motherboard plate is installed upside down? (assuming its removable). That way standoffs wont fall out
Thanks so much! I wondered the same thing about the motherboard tray! But it's rivited and can't be removed/flipped upside down, unfortunately. I have another similar style AT case with the same type of mounts. Seems bizzare to me - would be so much more logical to have those tapered openings the other way around 🙂
Nice video and nice 486 assembly, maybe it would be good to change the sound card to GUS or ESS1869 + wawetable board for a wonderful feeling with retro gaming 🙂
Very nice video, thanks. I've noticed, that you have a different Wolfenstein 3d version than me. Being located in Germany, the enemy's also drop with the line "mein Leben", which yours don't appear to do. We're they regionally different versions of that game ?
Thanks for your comment! I seem to recall enemies dropping with that phrase as well - but perhaps it was the blue guards? I'll have to play it again at some point to see :)
Great series and very nostalgic as my first family PC was a 486DX4 100MHz which is almost what this is 😋 I knew NOTHING about wait states and cache memory back then and would love to be able to go back and tweak that old PC but alas I broke it up and sold the bit on eBay around 2005... Great to see you make the most of it, hope you've made some fun gaming discoveries since setting it up, any gems you missed back in the day?
Hey, I’ve heard NIMH batteries discharge on their own if not charged. You may lose you CMOS setting in several months. What about AA lithium batteries for cameras etc?
Thanks for your comment! Yes, that is definitely an issue with NiMH batteries in general, but the newer-generation cells are way better in this regard and can go a very long time without fully self-discharging. AA/AAA lithium batteries are also an option, but you have to be careful because they typically have higher voltages than alkaline batteries. I've measured some AA lithium batteries at 1.85V or higher. A tripple holder could result in 5.5V or more, which may be a bit too much for some boards. But of course you could just use a dual battery holder instead of a tripple in that case.
I wonder the same thing, it would have made so much more sense. I suppose it wouldn’t matter as much if my board could have lined up with another standoff or two, but it still seems backwards to me. I have two cases like this.
I just wish I can buy a new PSU today and use it with my LGA775 rig, put a decent GPU such as RTX 2xxx or 3xxx (I know it's a whole world of bottleneck but I just want to test it out),
Great job! I would prefer to watch the actual crt output, to really see what that FE1250 is capable of. Just a few (!) years ago, I had a NEC M500, upgraded to a M700; really fine monitor, both of them. Too bad I let them go, but friends were happy at least! Just a hint for another video. Cheers, M
Thanks for your comment! NEC made some great monitors back in the day. I've never been able to get CRT video recording to look right, unfortunately. The refresh rate/timing always results in lots of flickering and it ends up looking pretty awful. I believe there are some ways to 'sync' the timing with a camera, so I'll have to look into this for a future video. Cheers!
@@vswitchzero Try 640x480 or 800x600 at 120hz, if monitor can cope with it. Otherwise, someone suggest to adjust the shutter on the refresh rate. Unfortunately, I cannot say anymore, at this time. Cheers, M
I noticed that it sounds really clean but also aliased, kind of high-passed and tinny. It doesn't seem to apply a low-pass filter to low sample rate audio like, say a Sound Blaster Pro.
I also noticed something odd about the game capture. Many, if not all, of the games had visible uneven pixel scaling on the horizontal axis. This is more like something I would expect to see from DOSBox rather than direct capture from period hardware.
I actually picked one of these up a few months ago but haven’t had a chance to try it out yet. Would be nice to get an optical mouse working but I must say I’ve started getting used to the Microsoft serial ball mouse now 🙂
Don't take this the wrong way but It just drives me nuts when people say things like playing old games like Quake is better in some ultra low resolution on a CRT because this is how it was "meant to be played." It's Authentic. Nonsense. In the 90's if we could have played in 1080p with HD textures we would have. And Carmack and Romero would have made the game that way if they could. When I play Quake anytime in the past 10 years I play at 1080p using a port that give me access to tons of lighting and shadow and other settings plus enhanced textures and more. I played these games when they were new. And now that we can do it better. I see no sense in suffering with old and clunky.
Sure, but CRTs make low resolutions look better statically, and make lower framerates look smoother, so much so that Nvidia and AMD are still developing technologies TODAY which mimic CRT strobing. I have a 144hz 1440p IPS panel, and I have multiple CRTs capable of 90-160hz; at 50hz they have about the same motion blur as my 144hz IPS panel, at 90hz they handily beat it, at 160hz it's NIGHT AND DAY, no contest. IMO the best of all worlds for raw performance is a modern system connected to a high-end CRT. Which is a shame, because CRTs were successfully conspired against and will never come back. When they break they'll be gone, forever, unless some company out there is incredibly brave...or they become trendy and see a revival.
for me the old builds are way more fun than new machines of today. Thanks for sharing.
Ahh so many good memories. Messing with my parents 486 is what started my whole IT career :)
Nice point about the battery replacement, I might go this way with my 486 DELL board.
Thanks, awesome system, really love these slightly bigger cases, I don't enjoy working inside the ultra small baby AT computer cases.
That case is an absolute unit for a baby-AT board.... I love it! I have so much retroactive nostalgia for this stuff. That case especially is to DIE for!
In my previous comment "BOY I CAN KICK MYSELF!!"
What great memories and now I began pondering...
The wife was happy to see the parts go...
I am gonna see what can be found and make an old 486 machine again being that I never threw away any of the software or games for keepsake and I have library of software and games!!
Many thanks for the inspiration again!!!
Awesome! Always happy to see someone starting up a new retro 486 build! :)
Such a satisfying build, and the Roland sound system just tops it off. There are so many awesome games you can play on this system, it really does accommodate the best of the pre-3D golden era. Duke 3D might be a push but that's one game out of thousands. And great as ever to see those classic Apogee titles dominating the game selection. I use my 5x86 system whenever I want to do some gaming so I can see you're going to get a lot of enjoyment out of this.
Thanks! I'm really happy with how it turned out and have been enjoying some games most days (when time allows). The audio setup really does make this such an enjoyable rig. I absolutely love the Roland SC-55, MX-5 mixer and MA-8 speakers (and the PAS16/MPU-401 card of course). Totally exceeded my expectations on the audio front. I did give Duke 3D a try briefly, and it's not that bad actually. It does choke up a bit in large open areas or with lots of enemies on the screen, but I'd say it's definitely playable.
Best thing is there's always the pentium overdrive if he wants to play more demanding games
I am amazed how well this runs Doom and Triad. Perfect DOS machine.
This video took me back to when i got my A+ such fun equipment.
Seems like your turbo switch is 3 pin variant - you could switch around which way is "high" and which way is "low", and so you could achieve "ICE" possibly, too. :)
Very good point! I didn't consider that. May have to give it a try :)
Wow. Such memories (good and bad). Seeing those god awful plastic standoffs again nearly brought me out in sweats.
I'm somewhere around the middle (or maybe early stages, depending on when I "finish") of doing an Ultimate XP build, though I don't really care about period specific hardware (so may end up with a GTX980, though currently a 750 is ready for it), as I'm more interested in experiencing the kind of gameplay that I wasn't close to being able to afford in the 90s-00s (but could occasionally behold round a fairly wealthy friend's house).
It really is the old clock-cycle locked FPS games that keep me most from going proper old school retro, too finicky and hardware limiting.
I really appreciated the "alternative" component based component choices for this build, bringing some real variation to what can easily be copy-paste, given the hindsight availability afforded to retro-ers today.
That Roland sound system is really cool
Great 486 build with meticulous research together with system optimisation. It brings back memories of my days with 8086/286/386 PCs and the early days of personal computers. I had the Plextor CD player too (the earlier 4X drive) and MediaVision PAS soundcard. I jumped from the 386DX to the Pentium 133, so I never had a 486 that I can call my own.
The 486 motherboard shows how far we have progressed since those days to where we are today. However one thing that did not progress as quickly as the rest is the front side bus (FSB). Intel never adopted 40 MHz FSB and moved quickly to ratchet up CPU multipliers using a 100 MHz FSB as well as the 133 MHz FSB. And that was the end of the FSB story till today!
Thanks for taking us back in history - a very nice trilogy you produced here!
Thats a fantastic system you've assembled there. Really nice to see the thought behind each component over the 3 part series and they all complement each other well. Some good hints and tips fot the old AT systems too!
Thanks so much! :)
Awesome build! nice to see part three! brings me way back love it!
Nice rig! I always thought the 486 was the peak for DOS gaming. Many happy memories playing on one back in the day. Great tip on using nimh batteries too, going to use that in my retro machines 👍
Nice, was not expecting to see Raptor COTS.
As I said in one of your previous videos I'm not really into pre-Pentium systems, but this one is really awesome!
Now it's time for a Pentium II w/ Voodoo2 daily build 😬😎
BTW I have a nice old Enermax power supply I'd like to recap, do you know how long should it stay unplugged before I can manage it safely?
Vary nice setup. You have some good points about the PSU's and battery's
I used 486SX-33 with turbo downshift for Wing commander game. It was possible to install a more powerful processor, but then you would have to disable the L2 cache through the BIOS. And if you use the BIOS to disable it, then the choice should be made towards more powerful systems based on the Socket 7 socket. Still, now I'm leaning towards building a classic 386DX machine for my retro games. I wish you good luck in your activities.
Thanks very much! Yeah, I think building a proper 386 is definitely a good choice if you play a lot of games from that era. I have a 386 DX/33 and a DX/25 that I may build at some point for older games. Aside from Wing Commander, most of the games I play regularly are not speed sensitive, so I’m not too worried about it. Thanks again for your comment 👍
Great work mate. Awesome setup
Thanks so much 👍
Really beautiful build! The complete setup is incredible!
While thermal paste isn't really required for the 486. still best to put it on, allows even better heat transfer. For your application not really necessary. but i put a larger HSF and thermal paste in order to allow overclocking. Managed to get a AMD 486 DX4 100 to 150MHz with slight voltage tweak and keeping the CPU cool. As for the battery pack for the CMOS, great idea. I used the same setup but i used Energizer Lithium batteries, that way no leaks of any kind and they last longer than the HiMH, though you can recharge yours :) Also when you were putting the board into the case. it looks as if the metal back on the case where the board secures to was upside down. You spoke of gravity pulling the board out of the slots for the plastic standoffs. I have deal with many AT cases and they usually are orientated 180 degrees so that the smaller part on the metal cutout is at the bottom to hold the plastic standoff back
Thanks for your comment! Lithium AAAs or AAs are also a great choice. They seem to have a slightly higher voltage than regular alkaline batteries (about 1.85V when I checked) so a double battery pack instead of a tripple is probably plenty. Yeah its very odd about the motherboard tray. It really seems like it's on upside down, but I have two different AT cases of a similar style with them like this. I'll have to check some of my other cases too.
@@vswitchzero that is totally weird indeed about the case, maybe some manufacturers screwed up when having them made, cause the way that one is screams factory defect :) BTW Love your videos, some of the old vintage hardware takes me back to my youth,
@@camjohnson2004 Thanks very much! :)
nice vid, build looking good. great luck getting the nec back, they made some sweet monitors, 15 inch (14 inch viewable!)
Thanks! Yeah it really was awesome luck that my brother-in-law still had the monitor. Still works perfectly too. I have since bought a VGA transfer switch and hope to hook up my MiSTer system to it as well.
oh man, i wanna play the games again but without clipping its impossible, i think i just need an old mobo to put one together. i like the building parts here, very clear and now i know how it worked when i was a kid and needed that doom to run smoother
Informative and entertaining classic build.
Regard the monitor, I always wondered how an LCD would respond to 320*200 resolution? since their lower support is 640*480.
I found cheap 15" LCD with native 1024*768 res, but with horrible viewing angles (and lackluster colors). However, high quality 19" 5:4 IPS LCDs exist.
Thanks! All of the LCDs I've tried on older PCs seem to work fine at 320x200. Since it's not their native resolution, the monitor has to have some way to scale up lower resolutions like this. That has a bit of a negative effect on image quality, unfortunately. Also, 320x200 is often detected as 720x400 on newer devices with analog inputs (like capture cards etc) - something to do with lines instead of pixels when dealing with analog signals I believe.
my daily use 486 is with a modern Rosewill 550W ATX PSU with a ATX to AT adapter, a SiS 496/497 PCI 486 board, a Intel 486 DX4 100 Mhz CPU, 32 MB FPM RAM, 256K cache, 2mb s3 trio64v+ graphics card, ess es688fc sound card, 3com 3c509 nic
What about Energizer Ultimate Lithium batteries? I've got those in my IBM and I was given to understand that they almost never leak. Is that true?
I gave them a try a couple of years ago actually. It’s true they are way less likely to leak, but for some reason their starting voltage is very high (I tested them at 1.85V!).. I’m sure they’d eventually come down closer to 1.5-1.6V but at 5.5V that battery pack was a bit too much for me to be comfortable 🙂
@@vswitchzero You're right - they're "officially unofficially" 1.7v batteries, lol. The packaging says "not for devices that require 1.7v batteries" and also "not for devices that cannot handle 1.7v batteries." Honestly though, I never even considered NiMH because they're rechargeable. They don't suffer from innate discharge over time like lithium ion batteries do? I guess that would be my concern - that they'd discharge themselves over a few months.
@@angieandretti Interesting! I never noticed the 1.7V warnings on the packaging before. I wonder if that's something new they added. But if they stabilize at 1.7V (mine were 1.85 when I checked), that could be suitable for a 2xAAA pack. 3.4-3.7V would definitely work. NiMH batteries have come a long way in the last few years. The newer, better quality ones can last a very long time without self-discharging. I believe the ones that are marketed as "fully charged" out of the box are usually this type. They are pricy, but the Eneloop brand is great in that regard.
@@vswitchzero I've seen that brand. Good tip!
great video, i really enjoyed this series!
is it possible the motherboard plate is installed upside down? (assuming its removable). That way standoffs wont fall out
Thanks so much! I wondered the same thing about the motherboard tray! But it's rivited and can't be removed/flipped upside down, unfortunately. I have another similar style AT case with the same type of mounts. Seems bizzare to me - would be so much more logical to have those tapered openings the other way around 🙂
Nice video and nice 486 assembly, maybe it would be good to change the sound card to GUS or ESS1869 + wawetable board for a wonderful feeling with retro gaming 🙂
Very nice video, thanks.
I've noticed, that you have a different Wolfenstein 3d version than me. Being located in Germany, the enemy's also drop with the line "mein Leben", which yours don't appear to do.
We're they regionally different versions of that game ?
Thanks for your comment! I seem to recall enemies dropping with that phrase as well - but perhaps it was the blue guards? I'll have to play it again at some point to see :)
Great series and very nostalgic as my first family PC was a 486DX4 100MHz which is almost what this is 😋 I knew NOTHING about wait states and cache memory back then and would love to be able to go back and tweak that old PC but alas I broke it up and sold the bit on eBay around 2005... Great to see you make the most of it, hope you've made some fun gaming discoveries since setting it up, any gems you missed back in the day?
I hope you make a video on the modem and BBS
Hey, I’ve heard NIMH batteries discharge on their own if not charged. You may lose you CMOS setting in several months. What about AA lithium batteries for cameras etc?
Thanks for your comment! Yes, that is definitely an issue with NiMH batteries in general, but the newer-generation cells are way better in this regard and can go a very long time without fully self-discharging. AA/AAA lithium batteries are also an option, but you have to be careful because they typically have higher voltages than alkaline batteries. I've measured some AA lithium batteries at 1.85V or higher. A tripple holder could result in 5.5V or more, which may be a bit too much for some boards. But of course you could just use a dual battery holder instead of a tripple in that case.
I wonder why they didn't reverse the motherboard mounting punch outs so gravity pulls the standoffs into the right position
I wonder the same thing, it would have made so much more sense. I suppose it wouldn’t matter as much if my board could have lined up with another standoff or two, but it still seems backwards to me. I have two cases like this.
I wanna mix new and old things, mabe let your old sound system plays nowadays modern songs, use a new modular PSU today with your legacy system,
I just wish I can buy a new PSU today and use it with my LGA775 rig, put a decent GPU such as RTX 2xxx or 3xxx (I know it's a whole world of bottleneck but I just want to test it out),
very good channel, keep working👍vswitchzero means vmware vSwitch0 ? 🙂
Thanks very much! Yes, I used to blog and create VMware related videos years back, so that’s where the name came from 🙂
gravis analog pro would have been better pick for a joystick
Great job! I would prefer to watch the actual crt output, to really see what that FE1250 is capable of. Just a few (!) years ago, I had a NEC M500, upgraded to a M700; really fine monitor, both of them. Too bad I let them go, but friends were happy at least! Just a hint for another video. Cheers, M
Thanks for your comment! NEC made some great monitors back in the day. I've never been able to get CRT video recording to look right, unfortunately. The refresh rate/timing always results in lots of flickering and it ends up looking pretty awful. I believe there are some ways to 'sync' the timing with a camera, so I'll have to look into this for a future video. Cheers!
@@vswitchzero Try 640x480 or 800x600 at 120hz, if monitor can cope with it. Otherwise, someone suggest to adjust the shutter on the refresh rate. Unfortunately, I cannot say anymore, at this time. Cheers, M
there is something off about the soundcard, it sounds very rough to me.
I noticed that it sounds really clean but also aliased, kind of high-passed and tinny. It doesn't seem to apply a low-pass filter to low sample rate audio like, say a Sound Blaster Pro.
I also noticed something odd about the game capture. Many, if not all, of the games had visible uneven pixel scaling on the horizontal axis. This is more like something I would expect to see from DOSBox rather than direct capture from period hardware.
You can use ps2-serial-mouse-adapter
I actually picked one of these up a few months ago but haven’t had a chance to try it out yet. Would be nice to get an optical mouse working but I must say I’ve started getting used to the Microsoft serial ball mouse now 🙂
Don't take this the wrong way but It just drives me nuts when people say things like playing old games like Quake is better in some ultra low resolution on a CRT because this is how it was "meant to be played." It's Authentic. Nonsense. In the 90's if we could have played in 1080p with HD textures we would have. And Carmack and Romero would have made the game that way if they could. When I play Quake anytime in the past 10 years I play at 1080p using a port that give me access to tons of lighting and shadow and other settings plus enhanced textures and more. I played these games when they were new. And now that we can do it better. I see no sense in suffering with old and clunky.
Sure, but CRTs make low resolutions look better statically, and make lower framerates look smoother, so much so that Nvidia and AMD are still developing technologies TODAY which mimic CRT strobing. I have a 144hz 1440p IPS panel, and I have multiple CRTs capable of 90-160hz; at 50hz they have about the same motion blur as my 144hz IPS panel, at 90hz they handily beat it, at 160hz it's NIGHT AND DAY, no contest.
IMO the best of all worlds for raw performance is a modern system connected to a high-end CRT. Which is a shame, because CRTs were successfully conspired against and will never come back. When they break they'll be gone, forever, unless some company out there is incredibly brave...or they become trendy and see a revival.