It should be called big dumb racing, but I mean that in the best possible way. It just doesn't take itself seriously AT ALL. I think this is one that I will be installing on my DOLCH PAC-65 build with a Pentium 200 in it. And yeah want to do some serial play with it when I can finally have friends over or go visit folks again. Stupid pandemic.
Cool retro setup you have, with the case, the keyboard, the mouse, the joystick. LHX was one of my favorite games, back in the day. Another helicopters cool game you shold try is Thunderhawk. I like Dark Forces, but it gets way to complicated in later missions.
Haha yeah. It's an actually really nice stick. Will be doing a video on cleaning it up super good. It's actually kinda grungy. Came from the same place as the case actually. :D
Hey Chris thanks! 486 DX4 100 is still my all time favorite CPU followed very closely by the AMD K6-2. Just really special CPU's to me. Even if my mobo supported the 133Mhz "586" I think I'd stick to the 100Mhz CPU. Also your latest video is an exact video I was planning on doing haha! Haven't watched it yet but will very soon. Cheers man!
@@ChrisLenderman Yeah, I have a 5140 in my collection. It's the non-backlit version and came with 512K of RAM. I got a NOS RAM upgrade for it. I also have a modem to install. I think it's 300 baud. It's mostly to plug the hole. I heard that the non-backlit version doesn't support more than 512K but I can't find this in writing. The NOS ram was reasonably inexpensive, so I thought I would give it a shot. Looking forward to watching your video on it.
@@c90s_tech no kidding! No sooner did I find out that IBM Museum already did a video on this as well, haha! I think you should make the vid. It will help folks learn something about the non backlit version. If you make it, I'll certainly link to it!!
@@RetroTechChris I would ask if you're is the backlit version but please don't tell me. I wanna watch yours. I love your upbeat style. You also manage to keep your videos ACTUALLY SHORT. haha. Yeah I will get to it. I've had the RAM for MOOOOONTHS, maybe even a year. Had the modem even longer.
thx for video, i've been searching "Big Red Racing" game title for some time, because i cant remember it( what a nice surprise that i found this on this channel
Glad you found it & enjoyed it.. I guess it found it as a key word or from the timestamps. If you want to play it, it looks like it's available over on "myabaondonware.com" You can even play it in a browser (with some fiddling). :D Cheers!
Well, not sure how Quake can be speeded up on 486 more, but we were kinda used to such low frame rates back then. I was thinking about it lots of time too. We were used, that 20 fps is "ok", and 15 fps is still playable. Lots of people played on 286 and slow isa VGA cards, games like wolfenstein. Now, you are used to framerates over 30, 60 and also over 100, so it seems pretty choppy. But back then, you were ok, because "you were playing most advanced 3D of all times". I mean in 1996. I have same situation, was on 486, but DX2 66 back then. And remember, I had to play Quake. When I find out, how slow is Quake on 486, I didnt understand how could I play it, and probably, remember it wrong, and we played it from Pentium era. But no, later I've understand, we played it with lesser window, and framer rates were still around 12-15 fps in average. But we kind was used to it, as best 3d Game simple have to be slow, cause it's so demanding. I think, we could accept it, just to play Quake. But maybe I remember it wrong too, and we skiped it, till Pentium 1 era. But I remember playing it in 1996 and 1997... cannot believe, I would skip it for 1.5 years. I would like to know the truth, but I'm affraid, would need time machine, to move there, to find out.
Totally agree with all comments here. I played a lot of Quake on a DX-2 80Mhz and later when I got my DX4-100. It was rough but I loved it. I sure as heck couldn't afford a Pentium back then or even an Overdrive. Not sure I even knew about them back then. Thanks for the comment.
@@c90s_tech Yes, money was issue back then. Even more, in post - socialistic countries, where I'm originate from. I just checked prices, and computers used to costs from 999$ to 2500$ back then, but 999$ was cheapest of all. In 1996, you would get probably only some 486 SX for that, or DX 40. That is lots of money. Motherboards used to cost 300-400$. Here situation was even worse, because of low salaries. If I remember correctly, typical computer costed about 50000 crowns, and that was quite average ones. Salaries were around 5000 per month in mid 90's. So you can count it, it was like spent 10 whole salaries, just to buy average computer. Mad. It would be like 10x your salary today... just to buy for example 486 DX 100. Or Pentium 75. If you earn for example 1000 euros in average, that would mean 10000 euros. :) Crazy.
Watching this play Quake I am struggling to remember if this caused me to upgrade to the Cyrix 5x86 CPU (not best idea for Quake) or buy my first Voodoo Card. Owned both at one point.
What a beautiful 486 system, great restauration! And your speakers fit the pc case design very well. (Btw. What's that kind of switching board under your CRT monitor?) Nice selection of less known games as well👍
Thanks so much! The old Altec's sound great. They also have a subwoofer, it's under the desk. They sound... OK. We are spoiled by today's speakers. :D It's just a generic power distribution surge protector/monitor stand. Very common back in the 90's. I have 3 of them, one of them is black. I'll be pulling out the black one for a future video. Not sure when that will happen yet. SO many video idea, never enough time. Cheers!
big red racing was so much fun back in the day. Especially multiplayer
It should be called big dumb racing, but I mean that in the best possible way. It just doesn't take itself seriously AT ALL. I think this is one that I will be installing on my DOLCH PAC-65 build with a Pentium 200 in it. And yeah want to do some serial play with it when I can finally have friends over or go visit folks again. Stupid pandemic.
Cool retro setup you have, with the case, the keyboard, the mouse, the joystick. LHX was one of my favorite games, back in the day. Another helicopters cool game you shold try is Thunderhawk. I like Dark Forces, but it gets way to complicated in later missions.
Great rolled up Blinker tats! You even have those old Joysticks from the era!
Haha yeah. It's an actually really nice stick. Will be doing a video on cleaning it up super good. It's actually kinda grungy. Came from the same place as the case actually. :D
Man, I loved Dark Forces!! ;)
Long live the 486 DX4!! This build turned out great, and it's good to see you are enjoying it.
Hey Chris thanks! 486 DX4 100 is still my all time favorite CPU followed very closely by the AMD K6-2. Just really special CPU's to me. Even if my mobo supported the 133Mhz "586" I think I'd stick to the 100Mhz CPU.
Also your latest video is an exact video I was planning on doing haha! Haven't watched it yet but will very soon. Cheers man!
@@c90s_tech haha! Which video, the PC Convertible memory upgrade?
@@ChrisLenderman Yeah, I have a 5140 in my collection. It's the non-backlit version and came with 512K of RAM. I got a NOS RAM upgrade for it. I also have a modem to install. I think it's 300 baud. It's mostly to plug the hole. I heard that the non-backlit version doesn't support more than 512K but I can't find this in writing. The NOS ram was reasonably inexpensive, so I thought I would give it a shot. Looking forward to watching your video on it.
@@c90s_tech no kidding! No sooner did I find out that IBM Museum already did a video on this as well, haha! I think you should make the vid. It will help folks learn something about the non backlit version. If you make it, I'll certainly link to it!!
@@RetroTechChris I would ask if you're is the backlit version but please don't tell me. I wanna watch yours. I love your upbeat style. You also manage to keep your videos ACTUALLY SHORT. haha. Yeah I will get to it. I've had the RAM for MOOOOONTHS, maybe even a year. Had the modem even longer.
Now I want a pin-up calendar of fugly 90s computers!!!
thx for video, i've been searching "Big Red Racing" game title for some time, because i cant remember it( what a nice surprise that i found this on this channel
Glad you found it & enjoyed it.. I guess it found it as a key word or from the timestamps. If you want to play it, it looks like it's available over on "myabaondonware.com" You can even play it in a browser (with some fiddling). :D Cheers!
Awesome.
Cool beans
Well, not sure how Quake can be speeded up on 486 more, but we were kinda used to such low frame rates back then. I was thinking about it lots of time too. We were used, that 20 fps is "ok", and 15 fps is still playable. Lots of people played on 286 and slow isa VGA cards, games like wolfenstein. Now, you are used to framerates over 30, 60 and also over 100, so it seems pretty choppy. But back then, you were ok, because "you were playing most advanced 3D of all times". I mean in 1996. I have same situation, was on 486, but DX2 66 back then. And remember, I had to play Quake. When I find out, how slow is Quake on 486, I didnt understand how could I play it, and probably, remember it wrong, and we played it from Pentium era. But no, later I've understand, we played it with lesser window, and framer rates were still around 12-15 fps in average. But we kind was used to it, as best 3d Game simple have to be slow, cause it's so demanding. I think, we could accept it, just to play Quake. But maybe I remember it wrong too, and we skiped it, till Pentium 1 era. But I remember playing it in 1996 and 1997... cannot believe, I would skip it for 1.5 years. I would like to know the truth, but I'm affraid, would need time machine, to move there, to find out.
Totally agree with all comments here. I played a lot of Quake on a DX-2 80Mhz and later when I got my DX4-100. It was rough but I loved it. I sure as heck couldn't afford a Pentium back then or even an Overdrive. Not sure I even knew about them back then. Thanks for the comment.
@@c90s_tech Yes, money was issue back then. Even more, in post - socialistic countries, where I'm originate from. I just checked prices, and computers used to costs from 999$ to 2500$ back then, but 999$ was cheapest of all. In 1996, you would get probably only some 486 SX for that, or DX 40. That is lots of money. Motherboards used to cost 300-400$. Here situation was even worse, because of low salaries. If I remember correctly, typical computer costed about 50000 crowns, and that was quite average ones. Salaries were around 5000 per month in mid 90's. So you can count it, it was like spent 10 whole salaries, just to buy average computer. Mad.
It would be like 10x your salary today... just to buy for example 486 DX 100. Or Pentium 75. If you earn for example 1000 euros in average, that would mean 10000 euros. :) Crazy.
@@warrax111 Daaaaaaang! Thanks so much for the insight.
Nice video! What were the other games in there? I recognized some of them but not all and I’m looking for other dos games to play
If you do a RUclips Search for "dos games worth playing" there are some great videos there that go over all kinds of little gems.
Watching this play Quake I am struggling to remember if this caused me to upgrade to the Cyrix 5x86 CPU (not best idea for Quake) or buy my first Voodoo Card. Owned both at one point.
Dark Forces uses Jedi engine.
Ahh thanks for the info.
What a beautiful 486 system, great restauration! And your speakers fit the pc case design very well. (Btw. What's that kind of switching board under your CRT monitor?)
Nice selection of less known games as well👍
Thanks so much! The old Altec's sound great. They also have a subwoofer, it's under the desk. They sound... OK. We are spoiled by today's speakers. :D
It's just a generic power distribution surge protector/monitor stand. Very common back in the 90's. I have 3 of them, one of them is black. I'll be pulling out the black one for a future video. Not sure when that will happen yet. SO many video idea, never enough time. Cheers!