I'm not going to lie, coming into this I figured it would be some idiot shoving a raspberry pie into a box and thinking it's hot shit. What I found was actually a really cool story and some awesome specialty and custom hardware. Really enjoyed it.
Incredible work on this! I was aware of the PC/104 boards, but stopped looking because of the difficulty of getting sound. You may have just sold me on building my own.
Best DOSCEMBER video i've seen so far! I hope everyone appreciates the huge effort involved in all this. Must have taken you a long time to complete this.
This was crazy comprehensive; I had no idea these were still available. Your level of dedication getting a sound device onto these is really admirable. Really nice work.
@6:48: I think the name "Wee86" is *great.* Also, RUclips's automatic captions spell the name "wii eight six," which is kinda hilarious. Very cool project! Just subscribed.
I had an industrial mini 486 a lot like this a few years ago and happily played DOS games for a few days. But, because it didn't have a sound card option it ended up shelved. What I didn't do is design and build a sound card module for the thing, that's next level DOS dedication!
This came in my recommended and I am glad it did. This is also the first time I have seen DOS on a network. I had read about it, but never seen it work. THANKS!
This editing was really tight, your methodology really well thought out, your build satisfying! What a great thing to get recommended by the Google bot.
So the difference between men and boys are the price (and size) of our toys...except for the brilliant engineers who prefer a different tack. What a truly brilliant project and video! Kudos, mate!
I'll do a follow-up with more details, as I haven't really finished the PC104 card yet (if you look closely there's some components bodged onto it to make it work :) )
The name is absolutely perfect, you legend. Love it. My first PC was a Highscreen 486 SX from PC World in Northampton. It was DOA on Christmas Day, so when we returned it on boxing Day, my dad screamed at the manager and I played the devastated son. We got a free upgrade to a 486 DX, more RAM and an EA games collection. Badass.
That tip to use PCBs for the front and back cover is pretty great. I never would've thought of that and it really opens up options for a wide range of projects.
Now I have to go buy a PC/104 CPU board before the secret gets out. I've been wanting a small DOS compatible PC for a while (mainly as a way to test games I develop), and this seems like the easiest way to get what I want. Thanks for the excellent video!
Truly one if the coolest builds I’ve seen! I would buy one premade in a heartbeat as I do not possess the skills nor equipment to do all the soldering. Great video!
I was a developer in a embedded systems company that used PC104 boards to run a Speed Trap Camera system, I've worked on this project. Awesome to see it for real fun use! =D Nice video, congrats!!
Finally somebody that have time and passion to build a proper mini-PC! I am so tired of emulation boxes) They don't suck, but they lacking charm that building a PC or modifying a real game console gives you) Great stuff!
OH MY GOSH! This is the greatest thing! I BEG YOU, make these and SELL them! Even just as a parts-kit, they would sell well, and as a completed set with FreeDOS you could make a bunch out of each one. Like many others, I have no love for the PlayStation 7 or the XBox-One-Zero-X-2.50. I *do* have love for an old PC. THIS would make me happy, and that matters!
Looking forward to a parts list and build guide. I think a lot of us retro computer enthusiasts would love to put one of these together especially considering it’s getting harder and more expensive to build an old legit 90s pc anymore. Also as great as vms and emulation is we love our bare metal! Thank you so much for sharing.
Just for the network tutorial alone I have to give a big thanks. But the project itself is amazing. And I really love how dense the ports are on the finished system. There is a certain charme to machines that fully utilise the size they got available.
That's really cool! And the fact that you made the extra effort to build your own freaking soundcard makes it really really cool. Next to missing the fpu, do these boards come with any L2 cache?
FANTASTIC build, what a brilliant project, your DIY approach to so much of it was very impressive, this got you an instant subscribe. Also, reaching out to Foone Turing was the smart call, I hope he's seen this build, he would love it.
This is amazing! I had just put dos on a hp thin client and the usb sticks would not work properly trying the multiple sticks trick had to clone the install from a virtual pc install just simply awesome!
That’s exactly what I did some time ago. But the problem with thin clients is the missing ISA-Sound. The mostly use AC‘97, which is incompatible with MS-DOS :(
This is so amazing, im blown away and so envious of people who cant find what theyre looking for and build it, you sir are amazing, and a great great engineer. I loved this so much.
This sir is nothing short of brilliant. Very well done indeed. It makes my frustrating and failed effort to get DOS games working nicely on a full size AMD K8 machine with a SB live card seem rather pointless. I'm looking for pc104 boards now instead.
I honestly don't know why anyone would sell an SX class cpu in this day and age. Like how much more would it cost them to add an FPU, like 0.005 cents? Great video!
Me too 486SX on 300MHz it is just crazy, and about FPU, even old SX class 486s was equipped with integrated FPUs so they in reality are just like regular 486DX , but their's FPUs are desabled bribably due manufactured defects, and marketed as SX to sell them at least.
Still got my tiny Unisys CWD4002 PC. The smallest 80486DX from the mid 90's. Then few years later, the even smaller Toshiba Libretto CT70 with color lcd screen which is a portable. But I went for the PI4 build, which uses a mounted usb floppydrive working in dosbox. Fit's very well in my custom enclosure.
I'm absolutely in love with this. About to build a retro mini pc myself, but it will be emulation based as I've no where near the technical ability seen here. Fantastic work.
This is what I've been looking for - I tried to build a pentium 2 and it just wouldn't work and it was bulky. I think I found my next new project. Thanks really for finding this and detailing the process.
Very cool. I have a small P233MMX industrial PC board I got for less than $5 and was going to eventually do something like this (but much, much, much less ambitious than making my own sound card; just a 2xPCI riser and voodoo 1 + PCI sound card and 12A 5V pico-PSU with a spare laptop adapter; make the box from plywood).
The joystick port on the front is also an external MIDI connector, if you have the exact cable for it then you can connect your SC-7 or any other MIDI tone generator instead of using the built-in FM/daughterboard MIDI synth as well as a passthrough connector for connecting your joystick while your MIDI device is connected.
I built a decked out 486 just a few years ago. Since the temptation is high to go for the best retro components available, the pricetag ended up being well over $1K. Cache chips, RAM, sound, wavetable, network, I/O, video, POD83 CPU, Gotek Floppy, flash IDE, case, PSU, cables. Hundred dollars here, hundred there. Eventually it's ends up costing a fortune. But that's kind of the whole point of irrational nostalgia. To build things that could only be dreamt of back in the day.
You should get a deal to mass-produce these! Look at the popularity of TheC64 and other retro computers. I think there are many others who had the same nostalgic feelings as you for PCs from late eighties/early ninethies, and who would love one of these!
I was a tech at circuit city early 2000s and I remember this photographer/videographer came in and wanted somthing installed he had a terabyte and all of us gathered around in awe of his like 20 harddrives jammed into this massive custome case hahaha I remember thinking there is no way I could ever fill this even with all my games , back ups ,rips, etc haahahah now I install like 3 games in a terabyte hahaha
And now 1TB drives are starting to feel small fast. Amusingly I still have a 900 megabyte iPod shuffle from ages ago though that still works, entirely eclipsed by my Fiio M9 with 500 gig SD but it's still cute
Yeah i thought all my christmas's came at once, was rummaging through a hard waste collection pile out front of a house when i was 9 or 10 and found a pair of western digital caviar 1gb drives in the pile, and amazingly a new in box quantum fireball 3.5gb drive. I was like "oh my god i can have all my games on the computer at once" turns out the wd drives were faulty hence thrown out, but one had jazz jackrabbit on it which i copied over to my old connor 512mb drive while it was still working (they worked fine for about 10 minutes runtime then seemed to start clicking and getting read errors) but then i put all the stuff onto the quantum drive and had the connor as the master with just windows 95 on it and a few small games. Was absolutely amazing to be able to not have to uninstall something in order to put another game on
The Vortex86 platform is actually Pentium-class, based on the MP6 architecture from Rise Microelectronics. The particular chip on this PC/104 board doesn't have an FPU, though.
Very cool. Building a sound card from new-old-stock Crystal parts is pretty crazy. I imagine a 386/486 @ 300 MHz is pretty weird on games that are tied to clock speed though, lol.
This is incredible. Once this gets completely fleshed out and perfected, I'm definitely interested in purchasing an assembled unit if the price is sensible.
Daaaaaang. I was thinking about trying to build a mini PC similar to what LGR did (only smaller, as I found the right parts), but this... daaaaaang. If only I could actually solder, this would be my solution to the mini-DOS PC dilemma. What I really want is a mini-8088, mini-486, and mini-P3 for early-DOS, late-DOS, and Win9x eras.
Fantastic project!! And a lovely little 486 :) The performance blows the Mister 486 core out of the water, and I believe it's a better solution for those wanting a tiny 486 :) PS subbed :)
I have a Via EPIA C3 in an old Mame cabinet I built in 2004. Mini ITX form factor and has integrated SBPro compatible sound. It's a bit larger than your setup at 170x170mm though, but it has all the connectors you added without any extra work.
Before watching this video today. I didn't even know that Actual mini DOS machines would even exist. I am amazed that this guy made an actual DOS machine work without using emulation in such a form factor. Cool little computer to boast around your friends. But, I would still stick with my Raspberry Pi as it is too convenient and I don't have time to fiddle so much nowadays. Still, a cool little concept. I could see mini Amiga, mini C64, mini Win 98 etc machines being built on this concept.
Impressive! Thanks for letting me learn that old hardware is still buyable and how "easy" it is to get something like this up and running. Yeah the "I design my own soundcard" isnt really an easy part, but I mean the BOM didnt seem too high.
Awesome video, that sound card design is great - I love this kind of stuff! Reminds me of the new Orpheus card that's also powered by Crystal. Same chip?
I love the Wee86, in design and the name too :) I think it's awesome that you designed a PC/104 soundcard from scratch too! I wonder how hard it would be to build an MCA SoundBlaster clone.
And the winner of the most casual "So I designed and build a working SoundBlaster compatible soundcard'" award for 2020 is....
just reverse engineer the shit out of this crystal chip, solder a bunch of connectors - EZ, right?
bout that life
@@LindenAshbyMK surface mount chips are not that easy to solder bro'
Oh yeah, I design and build those in my sleep!
@@CaptainDangeax How? xD You hotair the shit out of them
You could easily sell these... I would buy one!
me too !!!
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Same here. Let me know when you're building them for sale.
Take my moneh! 💰
Definitely would buy one (or more) too!
I'm not going to lie, coming into this I figured it would be some idiot shoving a raspberry pie into a box and thinking it's hot shit. What I found was actually a really cool story and some awesome specialty and custom hardware. Really enjoyed it.
I too but then I saw the magic words (?) pc104.
I remember drooling over them 20 years ago and thinking about building the tiniest computer evar
Incredible work on this! I was aware of the PC/104 boards, but stopped looking because of the difficulty of getting sound. You may have just sold me on building my own.
Came here for some 486 action... found craft computing
Finally someone who understands the importance of having a banana around for scale!
Best DOSCEMBER video i've seen so far! I hope everyone appreciates the huge effort involved in all this. Must have taken you a long time to complete this.
Fantastic! I couldn't agree more.
Yes! This not only wins DOSCEMBER, but is one of THE best retrocomputing vids I think I ever seen. Simply awesome!
11:27 Build engine needs a FPU to render sloped surfaces, so Duke3d runs slow on this SX processor without one.
I seen several dx 486 industrial boards back in the day.. so they should be avalible. A 300Mhz Dx 486 should have excelent performance.
Just hitting pause here after you created a custom sound card pcb. Wanted to say I am really enjoying this video so far !! Wow ....
You rushed through this build as if it was easy-peasy. This is way beyond the normal geekiness..... Wow I'm impressed!
This was crazy comprehensive; I had no idea these were still available. Your level of dedication getting a sound device onto these is really admirable. Really nice work.
Those industrial boards was produced far into the 00tys
@6:48: I think the name "Wee86" is *great.* Also, RUclips's automatic captions spell the name "wii eight six," which is kinda hilarious.
Very cool project! Just subscribed.
This is literally one of the coolest things I’ve seen in IT.
ZX Uno
I'd definitely buy one of these, if available. Perhaps do a kickstarter? I'd back it in a second.
I had an industrial mini 486 a lot like this a few years ago and happily played DOS games for a few days. But, because it didn't have a sound card option it ended up shelved.
What I didn't do is design and build a sound card module for the thing, that's next level DOS dedication!
Much respect. You just casually design your own Soundblaster card rather than just somehow adapt an existing card.
This came in my recommended and I am glad it did.
This is also the first time I have seen DOS on a network. I had read about it, but never seen it work. THANKS!
And just like that. A new community of dos gamers was born. Really amazing job!
This editing was really tight, your methodology really well thought out, your build satisfying! What a great thing to get recommended by the Google bot.
This was my favorite DOSCember video. That was a super neat idea.
So the difference between men and boys are the price (and size) of our toys...except for the brilliant engineers who prefer a different tack. What a truly brilliant project and video! Kudos, mate!
Thank you for making this video. I've been in the same mini 486 rabbit hole for quite some time.
You won DOScember... This is unbelievably cool! And thanks for open sourcing your work!
LGR or Druaga1 should get their hands on your videos. Or the 8bit guy. The way you made a mini 486 in 2020 is AMAZING.
I could dig this, because I bought a mini Pentium similar to LGR's mini-486 a couple years ago. xD
Not sure how to get my hands on a video exactly ;)
But I have seen them. Love projects like this!
@@LGR not gonna lie when I saw the notification for your recent single-board-computer video my heart skipped a beat, I thought you'd beat me to it :)
see them ever collab ??? too nerdy
wow, this is seriously awesome! I would like to see more about the building of that pc104 sound card! (or any other pc104 cards)
I'll do a follow-up with more details, as I haven't really finished the PC104 card yet (if you look closely there's some components bodged onto it to make it work :) )
I just have to say I really like this guy's voice and how he explains. So casual, humorous... Subbed! Thank you RUclips for this recommendation.
selling these soundcard board wouldn't be a bad idea at all :-)
Unfortunately I don't really have the analog skill neccessary to design one good enough to sell, but I'd absolutely encourage others to do so
The name is absolutely perfect, you legend. Love it. My first PC was a Highscreen 486 SX from PC World in Northampton. It was DOA on Christmas Day, so when we returned it on boxing Day, my dad screamed at the manager and I played the devastated son. We got a free upgrade to a 486 DX, more RAM and an EA games collection. Badass.
I always find it great if RUclipsrs are considerate and include metric measurements
for us metric heads
A PC104 soundcard? Sounds like a fun project to build in 2021! Great work!
Wow, I'm amazed! I wish I had all this type of skill to build things myself, I've always wanted solutions that do not exist - yet. Thanks for sharing.
Duke3d uses floats on sloped floors, might be the reason for the dropped framerate.
Nice build!
Where you run Duke3D on?
That tip to use PCBs for the front and back cover is pretty great. I never would've thought of that and it really opens up options for a wide range of projects.
Now I have to go buy a PC/104 CPU board before the secret gets out. I've been wanting a small DOS compatible PC for a while (mainly as a way to test games I develop), and this seems like the easiest way to get what I want. Thanks for the excellent video!
OK. You blew me away when you said you made your own PC/104 SB/Adlib card! WOW
It just dazzles me to imagine how much work and time you spent on this video! Its dope!!!
Truly one if the coolest builds I’ve seen! I would buy one premade in a heartbeat as I do not possess the skills nor equipment to do all the soldering. Great video!
What a blast from the past! We used to run Win95 on our 486 machine and boot to DOS for gaming.
Awesome video, glad to find one of these videos from a guy that sounds local !!
I was a developer in a embedded systems company that used PC104 boards to run a Speed Trap Camera system, I've worked on this project. Awesome to see it for real fun use! =D Nice video, congrats!!
And here i thought that period computers by Unisys were small. Very impressed with the concept and the result!
Finally somebody that have time and passion to build a proper mini-PC! I am so tired of emulation boxes) They don't suck, but they lacking charm that building a PC or modifying a real game console gives you) Great stuff!
OH MY GOSH! This is the greatest thing! I BEG YOU, make these and SELL them! Even just as a parts-kit, they would sell well, and as a completed set with FreeDOS you could make a bunch out of each one. Like many others, I have no love for the PlayStation 7 or the XBox-One-Zero-X-2.50. I *do* have love for an old PC. THIS would make me happy, and that matters!
Looking forward to a parts list and build guide. I think a lot of us retro computer enthusiasts would love to put one of these together especially considering it’s getting harder and more expensive to build an old legit 90s pc anymore. Also as great as vms and emulation is we love our bare metal! Thank you so much for sharing.
Just for the network tutorial alone I have to give a big thanks. But the project itself is amazing. And I really love how dense the ports are on the finished system. There is a certain charme to machines that fully utilise the size they got available.
That's really cool! And the fact that you made the extra effort to build your own freaking soundcard makes it really really cool.
Next to missing the fpu, do these boards come with any L2 cache?
I love how casual you sound about this AMAZING mini retro gaming pc you invented. Awesome video and accomplishment.
FANTASTIC build, what a brilliant project, your DIY approach to so much of it was very impressive, this got you an instant subscribe. Also, reaching out to Foone Turing was the smart call, I hope he's seen this build, he would love it.
This is amazing! I had just put dos on a hp thin client and the usb sticks would not work properly trying the multiple sticks trick had to clone the install from a virtual pc install just simply awesome!
That’s exactly what I did some time ago. But the problem with thin clients is the missing ISA-Sound. The mostly use AC‘97, which is incompatible with MS-DOS :(
@@beejayOne I built a covox, I want to build a DSS compatibility plug as well but that's more work 🙂
oh man, I really wish these were available for purchase.
This is so amazing, im blown away and so envious of people who cant find what theyre looking for and build it, you sir are amazing, and a great great engineer. I loved this so much.
This sir is nothing short of brilliant. Very well done indeed.
It makes my frustrating and failed effort to get DOS games working nicely on a full size AMD K8 machine with a SB live card seem rather pointless.
I'm looking for pc104 boards now instead.
Incredible. You made a DOS NUC! I wish I could just build a sound card.. I am in awe. So very well done!
You're a beast with the reversed engineering and shrinking boards down, thats a sub and like from me, thats awesome!
Saw "Thanks to Foone" in the description and knew I'd found a good channel.
I honestly don't know why anyone would sell an SX class cpu in this day and age. Like how much more would it cost them to add an FPU, like 0.005 cents? Great video!
Me too 486SX on 300MHz it is just crazy, and about FPU, even old SX class 486s was equipped with integrated FPUs so they in reality are just like regular 486DX , but their's FPUs are desabled bribably due manufactured defects, and marketed as SX to sell them at least.
Congrats, your Homestar Runner wallpaper just got you a subscriber.
great jorb!
Still got my tiny Unisys CWD4002 PC. The smallest 80486DX from the mid 90's. Then few years later, the even smaller Toshiba Libretto CT70 with color lcd screen which is a portable.
But I went for the PI4 build, which uses a mounted usb floppydrive working in dosbox. Fit's very well in my custom enclosure.
This is the PC MINI we deserve
I'm absolutely in love with this. About to build a retro mini pc myself, but it will be emulation based as I've no where near the technical ability seen here. Fantastic work.
This is what I've been looking for - I tried to build a pentium 2 and it just wouldn't work and it was bulky. I think I found my next new project. Thanks really for finding this and detailing the process.
Very cool. I have a small P233MMX industrial PC board I got for less than $5 and was going to eventually do something like this (but much, much, much less ambitious than making my own sound card; just a 2xPCI riser and voodoo 1 + PCI sound card and 12A 5V pico-PSU with a spare laptop adapter; make the box from plywood).
ABSOLUTELY my kind of thing, LOve this stuff.
With windows 3.1 you can have Castle of the Winds, in your living room! My earliest Rogue-like.
The joystick port on the front is also an external MIDI connector, if you have the exact cable for it then you can connect your SC-7 or any other MIDI tone generator instead of using the built-in FM/daughterboard MIDI synth as well as a passthrough connector for connecting your joystick while your MIDI device is connected.
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Here's some engagement man, another cracking upload.
please sell these, find a way to make 1000 of them, they'll sell.
I am sure many 40 year old people like me would pay up to a $1000 to buy something as cool as this
@@_Digitalguy yes
@@_Digitalguy Well, not 1.000 but I can safely say that I would cough up anything up to 500.
I built a decked out 486 just a few years ago. Since the temptation is high to go for the best retro components available, the pricetag ended up being well over $1K. Cache chips, RAM, sound, wavetable, network, I/O, video, POD83 CPU, Gotek Floppy, flash IDE, case, PSU, cables. Hundred dollars here, hundred there. Eventually it's ends up costing a fortune. But that's kind of the whole point of irrational nostalgia. To build things that could only be dreamt of back in the day.
finaly someone that thinks like me...
You should get a deal to mass-produce these! Look at the popularity of TheC64 and other retro computers. I think there are many others who had the same nostalgic feelings as you for PCs from late eighties/early ninethies, and who would love one of these!
Damn... You deserve a lot more views, you are a quality youtuber. Amazing job!
Who remembers their first 1gb drive? Seemed like an infinite amount of space back then.
I was a tech at circuit city early 2000s and I remember this photographer/videographer came in and wanted somthing installed he had a terabyte and all of us gathered around in awe of his like 20 harddrives jammed into this massive custome case hahaha I remember thinking there is no way I could ever fill this even with all my games , back ups ,rips, etc haahahah now I install like 3 games in a terabyte hahaha
I have a 42gb hard drive(win98 installed) and a pentium 3, some ram, (idk how much) culd it run win 10
And now 1TB drives are starting to feel small fast.
Amusingly I still have a 900 megabyte iPod shuffle from ages ago though that still works, entirely eclipsed by my Fiio M9 with 500 gig SD but it's still cute
haha mine was the cheapest possible : a 5.25" ( yes, 5.25" ) Quantum Bigfoot hdd . huge and slow but... 1gb!
Yeah i thought all my christmas's came at once, was rummaging through a hard waste collection pile out front of a house when i was 9 or 10 and found a pair of western digital caviar 1gb drives in the pile, and amazingly a new in box quantum fireball 3.5gb drive. I was like "oh my god i can have all my games on the computer at once" turns out the wd drives were faulty hence thrown out, but one had jazz jackrabbit on it which i copied over to my old connor 512mb drive while it was still working (they worked fine for about 10 minutes runtime then seemed to start clicking and getting read errors) but then i put all the stuff onto the quantum drive and had the connor as the master with just windows 95 on it and a few small games. Was absolutely amazing to be able to not have to uninstall something in order to put another game on
The Vortex86 platform is actually Pentium-class, based on the MP6 architecture from Rise Microelectronics. The particular chip on this PC/104 board doesn't have an FPU, though.
Very cool. Building a sound card from new-old-stock Crystal parts is pretty crazy. I imagine a 386/486 @ 300 MHz is pretty weird on games that are tied to clock speed though, lol.
Amazing! The appeal is dripping from this video for a potentially sell-able product.
This is incredible. Once this gets completely fleshed out and perfected, I'm definitely interested in purchasing an assembled unit if the price is sensible.
Wow... I was familiar with PC/104 but I had no idea they still made modern versions of 486SX!! How cool is that!
I think this is the most wonderful thing I have ever seen in the world of pc retro gaming!
This is probably the greatest way to build a modern DOS pc.. Awesome.. I might have a few new demoscene demos I'd like to try on there..
Nice work. I never knew that PC-104 boards covered such old hardware.
Daaaaaang.
I was thinking about trying to build a mini PC similar to what LGR did (only smaller, as I found the right parts), but this... daaaaaang.
If only I could actually solder, this would be my solution to the mini-DOS PC dilemma. What I really want is a mini-8088, mini-486, and mini-P3 for early-DOS, late-DOS, and Win9x eras.
This is spectacularly implemented. Well done!
Fantastic work. Really enjoy watching people make this level of stuff!
Also... 300mhz 486?!
@@georg6876 disappointingly the 300mhz vortex only runs about as fast as a 100mhz 486 :(
All I want for christmas is ... this :)
The amount of work that went into this! Amazing haha, so cool to see this unfold
Fantastic project!! And a lovely little 486 :)
The performance blows the Mister 486 core out of the water, and I believe it's a better solution for those wanting a tiny 486 :)
PS subbed :)
This is pretty stellar. I had no idea pc104 existed. I just so happen to have a 486 powered CNC that would love a downscaled control box :D
I have a Via EPIA C3 in an old Mame cabinet I built in 2004. Mini ITX form factor and has integrated SBPro compatible sound. It's a bit larger than your setup at 170x170mm though, but it has all the connectors you added without any extra work.
Tangentially related, but although it feels weird hearing a rhotic British accent, I quite like yours!
Before watching this video today. I didn't even know that Actual mini DOS machines would even exist. I am amazed that this guy made an actual DOS machine work without using emulation in such a form factor.
Cool little computer to boast around your friends. But, I would still stick with my Raspberry Pi as it is too convenient and I don't have time to fiddle so much nowadays.
Still, a cool little concept. I could see mini Amiga, mini C64, mini Win 98 etc machines being built on this concept.
Impressive! Thanks for letting me learn that old hardware is still buyable and how "easy" it is to get something like this up and running. Yeah the "I design my own soundcard" isnt really an easy part, but I mean the BOM didnt seem too high.
This is a reminder of why I embrace FPGA and emulation. I must say job well done!!!
cool Vid,i have a Thin Client with a Pci Ess Sound card as a dos box...1.4Ghz Cpu...works well
You went through a heck of a lot of work to get a smaller fuutprint, but the end result is an awesome PC!
Awesome video, that sound card design is great - I love this kind of stuff! Reminds me of the new Orpheus card that's also powered by Crystal. Same chip?
the only time I saw a pc with this form factor was one of those boxes to attach to the TV. They must be very rare
not really, just not well known, like Mbed
that's one of the most amazing gadgets I've ever seen
Really wish these were for sale. Would buy one in a heartbeat.
I´m amazed, ata boy, phreakin´n fantastic good job Sir.
beautiful! brings back so many memories. And I was thinking, yesteday, where did I put my soldering iron. :)
Amazing video, please post a video about making that sound card from the Crystal chip!
I love the Wee86, in design and the name too :) I think it's awesome that you designed a PC/104 soundcard from scratch too! I wonder how hard it would be to build an MCA SoundBlaster clone.
Great job making the sound card.