I have made the designs/STL files for the Mini 486 computer available on my Patreon. You can get them if you are a member or you can purchase the monitor or the case for 3 dollars each. Yes, you are able just sign up for the $1.50 membership, download them and then cancel your membership. Here's the link to the store: www.patreon.com/theericexperiment/shop
Did you consider the Am5x86-P100 X5-160 ADZ 160 MHz CPU instead? since it would make even more games playable and it can also be slowed down better than the DX chips if you want to run older titles.
LGR would get such a kick out of this. Fantastic job on the period-accurate subtle bumpy texturing of the front bezels of the monitor and case by printing them face-down on a textured printer bed! Almost looks like you got it injection molded for a high price!
12:52 If you want to ever do a bigger screen, an original iPad 9.7" screen can be pulled from a now useless ipad and paired with one of those hdmi/vga controller boards and you'll get fantastic viewing angles. 1024x768 4:3 too!
I remember going to computer shows back in those days(when 486dx was the dream), and they actually had vendors selling full fledged systems that size complete with crt and floppy drives. I was going to call b.s. on your video thinking you had found one of those machines. But you done shocked me with what you did here!! Nice work and spot on the esthetics and functionality.
Back in the 80s I had a mini calculator computer and took it everywhere with me. This is really awesome! Great work and design! Love how it looks like a early 90s CRT monitor.
Great video! I've always wanted a tiny retro gaming computer. I've been messing around with old thin clients which has gotten me close to what I really want, but not quite getting their. Something like this would be perfect. Time to start looking at old SBCs 🙂
I have the 14" Samsung SyncMaster 3 (SVGA capable) with a 0.28 dot pitch. It uses a 9-pin DSUB that "breaks-out" to a 15-pin HD-DSUB (VGA) using a special cable. The front plate controls are all dials instead of buttons. Both the bezel and the power button is well done and makes me smile.
@@TheEricExperiment It was repaired half a decade ago. Almost every solder point had to be reflown (100+ points). It uses Goldstar (LG) chips. But the tube is Samsung. It is limited to resolutions with a horizontal sync frequency between 30.5 kHz to 40 kHz. The vertical refresh can be set to 60 Hz or 70 Hz but nothing else. I was almost able to drive it down to 53 Hz by adjusting the innards (internal potentiometers).
@@TheEricExperiment The symptoms that the monitor would manifest, before its repair, were shearing of the display, rolling of the image, and a sharp audible high-pitched tone. The capacitors were working well. An image was present on the display. Albeit, completely unrecognizable. After about 5 minutes of being powered, the monitor had completely died and stopped making any noises. Once dead, it was no longer able to be powered and failed to display an image. The screen rheostat on the flyback produced no noticeable effects when turned in either direction. The majority of the dried cracked solder points were found around the flyback. The rest could be found around the deflection chips (horizontal and vertical). The neck board needed to be touched up as well. Some factory defects were present. Through-hole leads being depressed onto the board and severing copper traces. The monitor had survived in that poor state only due to charges arcing across gaps. It was in essence electroshocking itself in order to stay alive. This monitor contained a large amount of lead. The front and the back of each circuit board had a chemical smell. A yellow residue that was similar to sulfur was smeared everywhere. Almost every solder point had ring shaped micro-fractures. I repaired it only because I wanted it out of the landfill. It was too toxic and it needed help.
That case and monitor are SO CLASSIC. I absolutely love what you’ve made here. In reference to the video card - hunt around and find an ISA Cirrus Logic card. They were one of the first accelerator cards to come out. I used a whole bunch of them. They weren’t as fast as the S3 cards like Diamond made at the time, but they were heaps cheaper. Thanks for the video. Cheers 😊
In 1990 when I went to COMDEX in Vegas, lil computers were so popular on the show floor! YOU did great even the TURBO buttons and display. Oh and the pastel buttons. Most were 286 however
Omfg. This was my very first computer way back in the day. My dad built one of these for me when I was 9 years old because I kept crying about how I wanted to play DOOM. God, watching you build one brings back so many fond childhood memories.
You are beyond talented building this. I don’t recall anyone showcasing such a wide skill set in one video! This video brought back so many great memories of that time period. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I pray and hope you get the success you deserve.
First of all, congratulations to the great work you have done. This case is an absolute masterpiece in regards of looks and also the ideas you put in there. The floppy drive is absolutely stunning. But I feel there is something wrong with your system, the DX4 is a pretty hefty 486 and the ET4000 is the peak of ISA graphics performance. The overall performance should be much higher. Two ideas: Either the board is lacking of L2 Cache (could be quite common among industrial SBCs, then unfortunately you cannot change a thing about this on this SBC board), or the cache is disabled in some setting (BIOS/Turbo/...). Does the SBC have a turbo switch connector? Because not all boards handle it the same way, if closing the turbo-switch-jumper will turbo (full speed) or de-turbo (reduced speed - in modern systems typically a combination of disabled cache and added waitstates) the system. So if you have a turbo switch currently open, it might be worth to put a jumper on it and see how the performance changes. And in regards of checking on cache, try the benchmarks collection from Phils Computer Lab.
The ISA bus is EXTREMELY slow at 8Mhz, an ISA graphics card will severely cripple any 486 CPU. That said, the performance in the video seems too slow even for an ISA card, which might point to something else being off. I've used a crappy Trident 8900D ISA on a DX/33 in the early '90s and it was faster than what is shown. The possibility of there being a turbo switch on the board is one to check - although I gotta say, the loading times for Win 95 and Win 3.1 seem quite good and in line to what'd be expected from a DX4/100 (assuming there aren't cuts...). A good way to figure out what's going on would be to run the standard DOS benchmarks suite from PhilsComputerLab. That would give some figures to start comparing from.
an incredible project. it is especially impressive that this is not an emulator but a real 486. and although there were no such technologies as USB and a card reader then, I really liked the idea of hiding it in a fake disk drive. if I had the opportunity, I would order one for myself. I think many retro lovers will be interested in such a project
This is one of the coolest retro pc projects on RUclips. I love it. It's absolutely beautiful. Maybe I should give it a go too, at least the monitor, that was my favourite part :)
Little update: I checked on the BIOS and all cache levels were enabled. I think the next steps to increase performance are to either use a Pentium Overdrive or an AMD CPU, I'll give it a try eventually. A lot of people asked if the computer can run Doom, here's a little video demonstrating it: ruclips.net/video/wDDZUhJ8iyY/видео.html Thanks everyone for watching the video, I'm really mind-blown by the fact that this video passed 100k views, that's absolutely crazy! And I really appreciate all of the positive comments as it gives me more motivation to keep going with this. Again, I'm not gonna promise any schedules as my videos take a lot of time and energy and I have to balance it with my day job and stuff, but I hope that's not something that will keep you all from sticking around and checking out future videos.
A 200Mhz-250Mhz Pentium CPU (if compatible with the board) should do the job for most of the games to play on that generation, for the card try to find a voodoo, I remember them being the cards to get when I built mine new, and sound blast pro would be best card for the size and shape you made. In regards the monitor, they still make 7" CRT screens, usually for industrial use, but that would make this device amazing! Overall I love to see stuff like this, gives me all the nostalgia feels :)
@@AaronTheGeek Yeah, I had a Pentium 200 MMX and a Matrox Millenium/3DFX Voodoo 1. It did Descent 2, DOOM nicely. I would prefer that to a 486. Just too slow…
Nice experiment! I just installed a Pentium Overdrive w/ 83 Mhz, but it's not really much faster than an AMD 5x86 P75 (which is basically a 486 at 133 MHz). For your case you should try a Cyrix 5x86, which is a cut-down Cyrix 6x86. It outperforms the two, and given the description of your CPU socket, it should work as well. You'll probably have luck with 100 Mhz versions, 120 Mhz ones are rare. But I was able to overclock mine to 120 MHz without stability losses. For graphics, you're limited by ISA, BUT you have some options: Try overclocking the ISA bus. Also, the ET4K you have is no Windows-Accelerator. The W32P version for example is, or many S3 (Vision) cards, which are cheaper and are really good (surely cheaper than the Mach cards). Getting an accelerated card will at least speed up scrolling (done on the card itself).
As an Australian I was just wondering where you sourced your SBC since the only place I know of is eBay and the prices are absolutely jacked at the moment...
I've always questioned if hobbyist grade 3d printing could truly produce a case that looks like a good quality retro case. You just proved that it can. I loved everything you did. I'd be curious what it would take to put together a kit of 3d printed parts to recreate a standard size baby AT case .
I was thinking while watching this, Man. I wish I could effortlessly design and print a project as massive as this without messing up so much.. Cue the waterfall of failed parts 😂 Great job on this project though!
For the gotek I would have moved the port further in and use a very small sandisk flash drive so you can close the cover and hide it while it was in use. Just by looking on the thumbnail if the video I thought that case was a very small original metal one and not a 3d printed one, great work on the design.
I really wish I could have done some aluminum work for the case, but that's way out of my skill set. Yeah, maybe that could've worked, maybe that could be an improvement for a future update video!
Wonderful project to watch. I am glad you took the time to create the video. It was well edited and narrated. Kudos and thank you. PS you just gained a subscriber.
Brilliant build, attention to detail, integration, just about everything is spot on. Awesome job. I would take a look at your BIOS settings and see what is holding you back. You should be getting much better performance out of this thing than you are. The ET4000 may not be the greatest thing ever but it shouldn't be that weak. I suspect your ISA bus may be limited in some way, likely due to the industrial nature of the thing, reliability > performance. There may even be BIOS updates/custom BIOS versions that unlock better performance and features out there for it.
Such a cool video, well done man! Great skills and very well presented.. Subbed! Would you mind sharing the STL's of that monitor BTW? I have a full size CRT that needs a stand, and the one you designed looks very very close to what I need!
test your internal cache. It sounds like the bios settings (or hardware jumpers) might have the cache disabled. That would explain your lacklustre performance.
Congratulations on the case. It looks absolutely fantastic. If this was available as a kit I’d absolutely buy one! I’d also love to see something like this build but with a Pentium III/AMD K6-2 processor and a Voodoo 2/3 card to run early 3D accelerated games.
Absolutely Stunning build!!!!! Every single component was so perfect!!!! I learned a lot and really enjoyed this. Thank you so much for sharing! I was also a huge Sim Tower fan, I remember holding Control + Shift and placing the lobby to have the three floor lobby.
absolutely incredible. i remember as a kid the family computer was an old IBM XT with the big huge disks. many years later we got the 486 one for Christmas and it changed our lives forever. never wouldof thought it would ever become retro, let alone miniaturized. in a way, this one youve made is almost better. may i please have it? 😊
Dude, you're kinda like an actual genius. Like most normal intelligent individuals cannot build or do what you just did. Wow, you're something special man.
5 minutes in and that monitor is epic. One thing, if later down the road if the acrylic gets scratched up from cleaning it, you can go to a local glass store or hardware store and have them cut you a piece for like 5 bucks. I remember breaking my neighbors window which was 10" by 7", and it only cost me 7 bucks at the local hardware store. They just asked me how big, and they cut it on the spot from a larger glass sheet. It only took 10 minutes. Just something to keep in mind later down the road.
Just found this video randomly browsing. First thought was "ok, raspberry pi right? seen it." and then... totally mind blown. End result was amazing. I agree with the other poster about cirrus logic cards, I had one back in the day and it worked well. Also loved seeing the ESS audiodrive in there. That floppy mechanism is a great touch.
IMO this is SO MUCH COOLER than anything built around a Pi or even a Mister could be! I love the custom stuff you did with the front of the case! That's worth a Subscribe right there.
Wow you are brilliant, this is so cool, man... this really takes me back to early/mid 90´s, my fav game of all time for an old computer like this is Doom and then Quake 2, i still have a couple of old towers with AMD K6-2 CPU, kinda fun to play around with from time to time. Great video.
This is really cute! I appreciate that the files to do this are available to the public, even with a small and well-earned fee. It really is a shame that the laptop cd rom wasn't working :(
I am super impressed by your fusion skills. how the monitor and cases are designed and assembled are top notch!!! You make it look easy but that is a humongous amount of work and ingenuity. For the LCD, I highly recommend using ipad 2 9.7" LCD panels (LTN097XL02-A01) they are 4:3 native 1024x768 but can run lower res. The blacks and view angles are very good and the latency super low. if you grab a LCD panel from a busted ipad, the monitor will run you about $20USD total with a controller from Ali.
This project is fantastic, it looks amazing. If you want a nice extra touch you could print a square sticker of your logo (the triangle one you also have on the wallpaper) and put it on the right where the manufacturer/brand logo would go on a retail pc
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I have made the designs/STL files for the Mini 486 computer available on my Patreon.
You can get them if you are a member or you can purchase the monitor or the case for 3 dollars each.
Yes, you are able just sign up for the $1.50 membership, download them and then cancel your membership.
Here's the link to the store: www.patreon.com/theericexperiment/shop
Did you consider the Am5x86-P100 X5-160 ADZ 160 MHz CPU instead? since it would make even more games playable and it can also be slowed down better than the DX chips if you want to run older titles.
Amazed at how perfect your 3D printed parts look. They don't look 3D printed, they look real
Blown away. This is brilliant and so, so well executed.
Me too. A nice piece of nostalgia art there.
Fancy seeing you here Jason. I was just thinking about you too.
Absolutely beautiful. I don't have the skill to accomplish something like this, but I've lived a history that really makes me appreciate it.
Amazing job. If these PC cases were retail I'd have picked one up. The monitor is something special as well. Well done, good job all round.
Ok BIG missed opportunity to have Worms playing in the background when you said "whole can of worms! Amazing video! Very well executed!
OMG, I wish I had thought of that!
How you managed to design all those pieces to fit together is beyond me, amazing work!
LGR would get such a kick out of this. Fantastic job on the period-accurate subtle bumpy texturing of the front bezels of the monitor and case by printing them face-down on a textured printer bed! Almost looks like you got it injection molded for a high price!
12:52 If you want to ever do a bigger screen, an original iPad 9.7" screen can be pulled from a now useless ipad and paired with one of those hdmi/vga controller boards and you'll get fantastic viewing angles. 1024x768 4:3 too!
I'm impressed by how well designed all the parts are, they fit perfectly together.
I especially liked the floppy drive.
Well done 🙂👍
i respect your craftsmanship and eye for detail, your patience and the fact that you didn't rush the project really shows in the end result.
This is pure talent on your part. I'm so impressed!
This is bonkers! Congrats on seeing your vision through!
I remember going to computer shows back in those days(when 486dx was the dream), and they actually had vendors selling full fledged systems that size complete with crt and floppy drives. I was going to call b.s. on your video thinking you had found one of those machines. But you done shocked me with what you did here!! Nice work and spot on the esthetics and functionality.
That has to be one of the coolest retro pc projects i've ever seen! Amazing job!
your channel feels criminally underrated thanks for this fun build!
I love everything about this. Awesome idea for a project, superb implementation, and very entertaining presentation.
Back in the 80s I had a mini calculator computer and took it everywhere with me. This is really awesome! Great work and design! Love how it looks like a early 90s CRT monitor.
Great video! I've always wanted a tiny retro gaming computer. I've been messing around with old thin clients which has gotten me close to what I really want, but not quite getting their. Something like this would be perfect. Time to start looking at old SBCs 🙂
Go for it! But quick because they are only getting more expensive =(
@@TheEricExperiment Wow, you deleted a helpful comment I made. Unsubscribe!
@@Aaron.Newman I never deleted any comments!!
Even the nasty ones are up!
I have the 14" Samsung SyncMaster 3 (SVGA capable) with a 0.28 dot pitch. It uses a 9-pin DSUB that "breaks-out" to a 15-pin HD-DSUB (VGA) using a special cable. The front plate controls are all dials instead of buttons. Both the bezel and the power button is well done and makes me smile.
Yours is like my old one!
Yeah, I wish I could've done dials for it, it'd look so much cooler!
@@TheEricExperiment It was repaired half a decade ago. Almost every solder point had to be reflown (100+ points). It uses Goldstar (LG) chips. But the tube is Samsung. It is limited to resolutions with a horizontal sync frequency between 30.5 kHz to 40 kHz. The vertical refresh can be set to 60 Hz or 70 Hz but nothing else. I was almost able to drive it down to 53 Hz by adjusting the innards (internal potentiometers).
@@techeadache did it cause the image to flicker and go crazy? The ones I had that that problem because of the solder.
@@TheEricExperiment We recommend to stay flickering for avoid the motion blur issue. 🙂
@@TheEricExperiment
The symptoms that the monitor would manifest, before its repair, were shearing of the display, rolling of the image, and a sharp audible high-pitched tone. The capacitors were working well. An image was present on the display. Albeit, completely unrecognizable. After about 5 minutes of being powered, the monitor had completely died and stopped making any noises. Once dead, it was no longer able to be powered and failed to display an image.
The screen rheostat on the flyback produced no noticeable effects when turned in either direction. The majority of the dried cracked solder points were found around the flyback. The rest could be found around the deflection chips (horizontal and vertical). The neck board needed to be touched up as well. Some factory defects were present. Through-hole leads being depressed onto the board and severing copper traces. The monitor had survived in that poor state only due to charges arcing across gaps. It was in essence electroshocking itself in order to stay alive.
This monitor contained a large amount of lead. The front and the back of each circuit board had a chemical smell. A yellow residue that was similar to sulfur was smeared everywhere. Almost every solder point had ring shaped micro-fractures.
I repaired it only because I wanted it out of the landfill. It was too toxic and it needed help.
That case and monitor are SO CLASSIC. I absolutely love what you’ve made here. In reference to the video card - hunt around and find an ISA Cirrus Logic card. They were one of the first accelerator cards to come out. I used a whole bunch of them. They weren’t as fast as the S3 cards like Diamond made at the time, but they were heaps cheaper. Thanks for the video. Cheers 😊
I'll search for them!
In 1990 when I went to COMDEX in Vegas, lil computers were so popular on the show floor! YOU did great even the TURBO buttons and display. Oh and the pastel buttons. Most were 286 however
Thanks so much for the super thanks! I wish I could have gone to COMDEX.
@@TheEricExperiment there were so many small PC makers with tiny PCs and Monitors, and also the NewTek folks with the Video Toaster.
This was SOOOO cool! Hearing that Windows 95 startup sound was a mental trip into the past. Nice job!
Omfg.
This was my very first computer way back in the day. My dad built one of these for me when I was 9 years old because I kept crying about how I wanted to play DOOM.
God, watching you build one brings back so many fond childhood memories.
This is the coolest build i've seen in a long time. God tier cable management too! also, lemmings paintball ftw!
ur website is now my new homepage for my compaq, its so vintage looking and you got alot of useful stuff for all my old pcs
What a great build! Its so cool that you use actuele hardware from the time with a modern 3D printer. It looks really amazing!
You are beyond talented building this. I don’t recall anyone showcasing such a wide skill set in one video! This video brought back so many great memories of that time period. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I pray and hope you get the success you deserve.
First of all, congratulations to the great work you have done. This case is an absolute masterpiece in regards of looks and also the ideas you put in there. The floppy drive is absolutely stunning.
But I feel there is something wrong with your system, the DX4 is a pretty hefty 486 and the ET4000 is the peak of ISA graphics performance. The overall performance should be much higher. Two ideas: Either the board is lacking of L2 Cache (could be quite common among industrial SBCs, then unfortunately you cannot change a thing about this on this SBC board), or the cache is disabled in some setting (BIOS/Turbo/...). Does the SBC have a turbo switch connector? Because not all boards handle it the same way, if closing the turbo-switch-jumper will turbo (full speed) or de-turbo (reduced speed - in modern systems typically a combination of disabled cache and added waitstates) the system. So if you have a turbo switch currently open, it might be worth to put a jumper on it and see how the performance changes. And in regards of checking on cache, try the benchmarks collection from Phils Computer Lab.
I'll give it a go, I'm not sure if the mobo has the connector for a turbo switch, I'll have to check the manual!
Thanks for the comment!
I agree, it should run faster with a DX4. In the video it behaves like a DX2. Try to run some benchmarks.
I love the small form factor by the way.
@@cptcrogge I played Lemmings paintball pretty well on my DX-2 back in the day. Acts more like a 386. Something is definately up with the system.
The ISA bus is EXTREMELY slow at 8Mhz, an ISA graphics card will severely cripple any 486 CPU. That said, the performance in the video seems too slow even for an ISA card, which might point to something else being off. I've used a crappy Trident 8900D ISA on a DX/33 in the early '90s and it was faster than what is shown. The possibility of there being a turbo switch on the board is one to check - although I gotta say, the loading times for Win 95 and Win 3.1 seem quite good and in line to what'd be expected from a DX4/100 (assuming there aren't cuts...).
A good way to figure out what's going on would be to run the standard DOS benchmarks suite from PhilsComputerLab. That would give some figures to start comparing from.
@@h3llr4iser1 Indeed, that was the very reason why VLB was a thing.
an incredible project. it is especially impressive that this is not an emulator but a real 486. and although there were no such technologies as USB and a card reader then, I really liked the idea of hiding it in a fake disk drive. if I had the opportunity, I would order one for myself. I think many retro lovers will be interested in such a project
My guy, This is REMARKABLE. I LOVE this, and really want one of my own!
Excellent video man, you're an inspiration for a nerd like me! 😁
One of the best projects. It's so nice to see that almost everything is on screws and latches, and not on glue. Great job.
This is one of the coolest retro pc projects on RUclips. I love it. It's absolutely beautiful. Maybe I should give it a go too, at least the monitor, that was my favourite part :)
That’s a super smooth looking 3D print! No wait, it’s actually properly textured on the outside? How did you manage that?
That's the bed of the Prusa mk3s
Fuzzy skin can also do it. But textured beds are great too 😊
The coolest 486 project I have seen so far!! Well done dude. I clearly love the outcome. 😊
Little update:
I checked on the BIOS and all cache levels were enabled.
I think the next steps to increase performance are to either use a Pentium Overdrive or an AMD CPU, I'll give it a try eventually.
A lot of people asked if the computer can run Doom, here's a little video demonstrating it:
ruclips.net/video/wDDZUhJ8iyY/видео.html
Thanks everyone for watching the video, I'm really mind-blown by the fact that this video passed 100k views, that's absolutely crazy!
And I really appreciate all of the positive comments as it gives me more motivation to keep going with this.
Again, I'm not gonna promise any schedules as my videos take a lot of time and energy and I have to balance it with my day job and stuff, but I hope that's not something that will keep you all from sticking around and checking out future videos.
A 200Mhz-250Mhz Pentium CPU (if compatible with the board) should do the job for most of the games to play on that generation, for the card try to find a voodoo, I remember them being the cards to get when I built mine new, and sound blast pro would be best card for the size and shape you made. In regards the monitor, they still make 7" CRT screens, usually for industrial use, but that would make this device amazing! Overall I love to see stuff like this, gives me all the nostalgia feels :)
@@AaronTheGeek Yeah, I had a Pentium 200 MMX and a Matrox Millenium/3DFX Voodoo 1. It did Descent 2, DOOM nicely.
I would prefer that to a 486. Just too slow…
Nice experiment! I just installed a Pentium Overdrive w/ 83 Mhz, but it's not really much faster than an AMD 5x86 P75 (which is basically a 486 at 133 MHz).
For your case you should try a Cyrix 5x86, which is a cut-down Cyrix 6x86. It outperforms the two, and given the description of your CPU socket, it should work as well. You'll probably have luck with 100 Mhz versions, 120 Mhz ones are rare. But I was able to overclock mine to 120 MHz without stability losses.
For graphics, you're limited by ISA, BUT you have some options: Try overclocking the ISA bus. Also, the ET4K you have is no Windows-Accelerator. The W32P version for example is, or many S3 (Vision) cards, which are cheaper and are really good (surely cheaper than the Mach cards). Getting an accelerated card will at least speed up scrolling (done on the card itself).
As an Australian I was just wondering where you sourced your SBC since the only place I know of is eBay and the prices are absolutely jacked at the moment...
I've always questioned if hobbyist grade 3d printing could truly produce a case that looks like a good quality retro case. You just proved that it can. I loved everything you did. I'd be curious what it would take to put together a kit of 3d printed parts to recreate a standard size baby AT case .
Yeah, that would be such a big project but it would be really cool!
I was thinking while watching this, Man. I wish I could effortlessly design and print a project as massive as this without messing up so much..
Cue the waterfall of failed parts 😂
Great job on this project though!
Hahahaga I'm a hobbyist, messing up, a lot of frustration and almost giving up is part of the processes! =)
im honestly not even into old tech that much but i still find videos like this so fascinating i feel compelled to subscribe
For the gotek I would have moved the port further in and use a very small sandisk flash drive so you can close the cover and hide it while it was in use. Just by looking on the thumbnail if the video I thought that case was a very small original metal one and not a 3d printed one, great work on the design.
I really wish I could have done some aluminum work for the case, but that's way out of my skill set.
Yeah, maybe that could've worked, maybe that could be an improvement for a future update video!
Wonderful project to watch. I am glad you took the time to create the video. It was well edited and narrated. Kudos and thank you. PS you just gained a subscriber.
Brilliant build, attention to detail, integration, just about everything is spot on. Awesome job.
I would take a look at your BIOS settings and see what is holding you back. You should be getting much better performance out of this thing than you are. The ET4000 may not be the greatest thing ever but it shouldn't be that weak. I suspect your ISA bus may be limited in some way, likely due to the industrial nature of the thing, reliability > performance. There may even be BIOS updates/custom BIOS versions that unlock better performance and features out there for it.
Yeah, I'll look into that, and I'll post a pinned comment if something improves.
A DX100 and a ET4000 should be a serious powerhouse for running anything up till about 1996.
@@DavidAStephenson yeah, heard that multiple times in the comments. I'll see if I can improve it.
@@TheEricExperiment It's a stunning build, and really deserves to be running at it's full potential . Looking forward to follow up video 🙂
Revenant from Small Form Factor Network here. Awesome build! I’m going to link it in our news section tomorrow.
I'm glad you like it, thank you so much!
Such a cool video, well done man! Great skills and very well presented.. Subbed! Would you mind sharing the STL's of that monitor BTW? I have a full size CRT that needs a stand, and the one you designed looks very very close to what I need!
Mind blowing, that's perfectly suitable as an accessory on a regular desktop. I love that!
This is incredible. What a build.
Man! Congratulations!! 🎉🎉 I was thrilled about this build!
test your internal cache. It sounds like the bios settings (or hardware jumpers) might have the cache disabled. That would explain your lacklustre performance.
I loved this, as someone who had a full sized, similarly specced computer back in the day. Amazing work mate.
Congratulations on the case. It looks absolutely fantastic. If this was available as a kit I’d absolutely buy one!
I’d also love to see something like this build but with a Pentium III/AMD K6-2 processor and a Voodoo 2/3 card to run early 3D accelerated games.
That'd cool, but hard to fit in the case haha
dude what the hell i cant imagine the amount of work you put into this! it looks soooo good! that floppy drive is the coolest part!
Does it run DOOM?
If a calculator is Run DOOM the computer might also Run DOOM
My digital watch runs Doom
One of the coolest things I've seen on RUclips in a long time.
Absolutely Stunning build!!!!! Every single component was so perfect!!!! I learned a lot and really enjoyed this. Thank you so much for sharing! I was also a huge Sim Tower fan, I remember holding Control + Shift and placing the lobby to have the three floor lobby.
Really fun to watch, and remembering that time. Oooh,win 3.11 😁. Thank You for this. Really good job!
absolutely incredible. i remember as a kid the family computer was an old IBM XT with the big huge disks. many years later we got the 486 one for Christmas and it changed our lives forever. never wouldof thought it would ever become retro, let alone miniaturized. in a way, this one youve made is almost better.
may i please have it? 😊
😲😲😲 I can't belive my eyes! I'm so impress. It is increadable. Just... WOW!
This video gave me a lot of great nostalgia. Great work and thanks very much!
Dude, you're kinda like an actual genius. Like most normal intelligent individuals cannot build or do what you just did. Wow, you're something special man.
This is freaking cool. Great job!!!
Fantastic work. This video needs a million views asap!
wow the details you put in your 3D design is incredible
5 minutes in and that monitor is epic. One thing, if later down the road if the acrylic gets scratched up from cleaning it, you can go to a local glass store or hardware store and have them cut you a piece for like 5 bucks. I remember breaking my neighbors window which was 10" by 7", and it only cost me 7 bucks at the local hardware store. They just asked me how big, and they cut it on the spot from a larger glass sheet. It only took 10 minutes. Just something to keep in mind later down the road.
You are the first retro gaming youtuber i see that play Sky roads. This game was not maybe so well known on those days.
Respect for not going down the route of crappy emulation, and most of the AMD 486 processors can be overclocked to double their clock speed
Just found this video randomly browsing. First thought was "ok, raspberry pi right? seen it." and then... totally mind blown. End result was amazing. I agree with the other poster about cirrus logic cards, I had one back in the day and it worked well. Also loved seeing the ESS audiodrive in there. That floppy mechanism is a great touch.
Very cool! that is some serious talent you have. You have just laid the foundation for a retro gaming pc kit.
It would be amazing to build something like that and make it available
IMO this is SO MUCH COOLER than anything built around a Pi or even a Mister could be! I love the custom stuff you did with the front of the case! That's worth a Subscribe right there.
Amazing job, all around top notch, design, manufacturing, modifications and video production. I'm pretty sure I will love your content.
Thanks!
The end result was epic! Great job!!
Google actually suggested something I wanted to see, subbed. Great work on this, it looks awesome!
This is dope! Your hard work paid off!
That's the cutest thing I've seen in ages. Throughly enjoyed this video!
What an awesome project. Those models came out really nice.
Oh man, even the monitor base slots in like the real thing! Absolutely brilliant!
For sure, this is one of the most epic video I've ever seen on youtube :0
This is so well done and brilliant! My only nitpick is that at times the background music might have been a bit loud, but that's really it! :)
Wow you are brilliant, this is so cool, man... this really takes me back to early/mid 90´s, my fav game of all time for an old computer like this is Doom and then Quake 2, i still have a couple of old towers with AMD K6-2 CPU, kinda fun to play around with from time to time. Great video.
Whoa. Phenomenal project, man! Great work!
This is really cute! I appreciate that the files to do this are available to the public, even with a small and well-earned fee. It really is a shame that the laptop cd rom wasn't working :(
i like it. good job! On another note, I don't miss that era of computing. Computers are so nice now by comparison.
I am super impressed by your fusion skills. how the monitor and cases are designed and assembled are top notch!!! You make it look easy but that is a humongous amount of work and ingenuity. For the LCD, I highly recommend using ipad 2 9.7" LCD panels (LTN097XL02-A01) they are 4:3 native 1024x768 but can run lower res. The blacks and view angles are very good and the latency super low. if you grab a LCD panel from a busted ipad, the monitor will run you about $20USD total with a controller from Ali.
I'm not that good at fusion, there was a lot of google involved.
Yeah, someone else mentioned the iPad screen, I wanna get one!
WOW!
I am speechless. This is absolutely amazing
Really impressive how you built both a monitor and case. The floppy/sd card is brilliant.
the mechanical design of those 3d prints is just masterful... so great.
Nice job, all those 'iterations' paid off in the end!
Good God how do you only have 3.9k subs.... the 3D printing and design alone is crazy
Worth every moment of your time dude! Good work!
Oh, man this brings back memories. I used to love messing with old computers like this lol
Great video man, very cool to see this all put together!!
The aesthetics on this build are absolutely phenomenal! 😍
Just discovered your channel,didnt finish the video,but that intro...I LOVE IT
Man, this monitor blows me away. Now i have to order some filament.... Good job!
This is amazing. What a lot of work to get it done. Looks beautiful.
Skyroads!!! My childhood right there. Amazing build :D
This project is fantastic, it looks amazing. If you want a nice extra touch you could print a square sticker of your logo (the triangle one you also have on the wallpaper) and put it on the right where the manufacturer/brand logo would go on a retail pc
Yeah, it's the final touch that is missing
Awesome! Congrats on your project's success!
Fantastic work dude excellent job keeping it period looking too, brought back fond memories working on these machines !
Very cool, when i had my 486 back in the day, i never settle for less than 1024x768
I'm impressed! So cool to revive a 486!
Absolutely incredible. Great work. You should be proud of yourself, this is a fantastic project.