You are so good already you depresses me to a degree that I am just gonna cancel my plans for my channel. No point in my mumbling into a mic looking clueless into a camera and helplessly fooling around with soldering irons and taking harddrives out of boxes when people can watch this instead. What was I even thinking, ffs.
@@catriona_drummondjust do it! If it helps, I write a script, shoot footage, edit the crap out of it, and then do take after take of voice over until it sounds right. If I was doing it live it would be a mess of mumbling too. But work with what you’ve got!
Wow, very nicely done! 18:43 that network card issue has to do with CD-ROM selection earlier in the install process, known issue, glad a reboot got you past it!
I'd probably watch and enjoy your video about paint drying. I figure this is about as close as we'll get to that video... and here I am, 39 minutes later, having gasped (OS/2 sound effects), laughed (tunnel visionary), and cried (OS/2's midi). Well done.
Bruh this is the very first video I saw of yours and I enjoyed every minute of it. What you did here was basically my childhood, doing stupid stuff on my family's main and ONLY computer much to their annoyance lol. Not many of us had the power of VMs back in the late 90's & early 2000's. I've played around with almost all of these Operating Systems (except NextSTEP, Temple and KolibriOS). Your videos are well produced and documented. Good Job! Subscribed!
I went on a Solaris admin course in London back in 1997. It turned out that my buddy (working for a different company) was also on the similar course at the same time in the same establishment. The main thing I remember was how many pubs we managed to visit in the evenings. All on expenses! lol Happy Christmas :)
I have a similar Pentium II based machine I love to mess with but this video brought up a weird nostalgia I'd mostly forgotten about. I'm 27 now but 11 years ago when I was a teenager I had a Samsung Galaxy tab 2. It was a decent tablet for the time and I loved it. I eventually learned how to unlock the bootloader and install a custom ROM on it to keep it updated after it stopped getting updated officially. I used to browse the xda forums and beta test custom ROMs for fun. It was always cool to see what tweaks people added or how they optimized newer versions of Android for it. Especially as it aged. This was back when mobile hardware was advancing extremely rapidly so it was outdated pretty quickly. This video reminded me of that same itch of installing something new on a device I loved. The video is really well done too! The time flew by because I was so invested in it.
Another great video! You’re killing it dude! Do you just enable individual drive images? I’m wondering if it’s possible to have an image that could be accessible across multiple of those installs.
For the most part I just use a single image at a time since back then almost every OS had its own file system and couldn’t read anything else. BeOS being able to read FAT32 was helpful since I couldn’t figure out flow to get any of the files faring stuff going there. I have a feeling BeOS R5 will work a lot better.
Those OS/2 MIDI results were just painful Can anyone explain why that's happening? Is it just a driver issue? with the SB16 it wasn't even using close to the right instruments!
That soundcard hardware emulator is the coolest thing I have ever seen! It makes me want to build an old PC again and go back in time to my youth. I don't understand why people pick the Matrox Millenium though? I was about 13 years old when I asked for one for Christmas, thinking it would make games play better (this is a couple years before the Voodoo card) and it did absolutely nothing.. I was so disappointed considering the price. I think it may have allowed me to run a REALLY high resolution in Windows. I had a pretty awesome CRT monitor and I pushed it up to 2800 x 1800. The text was so small it was barely legible - but that's the cool thing about CRT monitors, no native resolution. I've always loved using the tiniest font possible and highest resolutions. I have good eyes, even now. Other people hated it! I can't remember as it was so long ago.. I did eventually end up with SLI Voodoo 2 cards
Yeah the Millennium is not a good gaming card. Its strengths are very clean video signals and high resolutions. They were for getting things done. And they were certainly better for gaming than a trident card!
@@GutBombTech It was advertised heavily as accelerating graphics and there was literally nothing else on the market at the time - so young me was excited when I opened my Christmas present... ...then very disappointed to get no improvement whatsoever, especially for the price, which was about £200 if I remember right. I don't remember noticing any changes at all, I think dragging windows might have been a bit smoother ! btw. I just googled box images and I realise it was actually the Matrox Millenium II that I got. Still... didn't make any difference.
Great video! Subscribed! Is that model for the BlueSCSI available anywhere? For some reason it never occurred to me that I can throw in a SCSI card and use the BlueSCSI on my PC. That sounds like the perfect combo! Especially for ISO emulation!
The BlueSCSI really is fantastic for the PC. I have one in all of my Macs, but just this one extra to rotate around my few PCs. So good for CD ROM images. The bracket is available here: www.printables.com/model/1089000-bluescsi-v2-525-pc-drive-bay-mounting-bracket
Back around 2000 I used BeOS as my daily OS and nearly made my brother switch as well. It worked very well but only if it ran well on hardware it supported but that was a short list compared to Linux or Windows.
This reminds me how a few days ago, I decided to install windows 98 on dosbox, just so I could have a nostalgia trip over an instalation process of an OS that I haven't seen or used for over 20 years.... it was quite fun to be honest, but I confess that now I don't know what else to do with that Win 98 "machine"... I got the shareware version of Doom running on it tho...
How many weeks did this take? While I was around at the time such computers were common, I mostly kept sticking to Windows(and some DOS to get older software to run), because I was only a teenager and getting one OS to behave was already a big pita. If anyone came to me talking about a project like this, I would've asked if they're a masochist. And I still believe so today.
This makes me think how much I want to try Lubuntu 14 on my iBook g4 and the best thing I can do is image the internal hard drive to make it so I can install Linux.
When using BlueSCSI in the PC, take in count many hobbyist OSs wouldn't like it by the lack of overall SCSI support. And some obscure OSs like QNX may not install SCSI support by default. Remember also any OS which doesn't use the controller INT13H bios to access it would need extra drivers. It may be the case again with QNX, which I remember seeing its drivers in Adaptec driver floppies. SCSI support in the PC for non-DOS OSs isn't a granted, unlike with IDE/ATA basic support. As for KolibriOS... Is a shame it didn't managed to detect your mouse. Probably you have a resource conflict there the OS doesn't manage to overcome. And finally for TempleOS, actually you can pretty demo it with no C knowledge at all. But yeah, to do anything more substantial with it, you need at least some basic C knowledge indeed.
It wasn’t the C knowledge, it was the 64 bit requirement that kept me from using it. And as for qnx, scsi wasnt the problem, the installer booted just fine. I am not sure what it was, but one troubleshooting lead is that it’s trying to do some direct hardware stuff that the Bluescsi didn’t like.
BeOS I thought would suck harder than some of the others, some of the ealier linux distros couldn't even play midi files. I guess with time they figured out how to emulate over time. But yeah BeOS even had fullscreen doom! I thought next would be much better... Warps crazy I still here alot of older IT guys loved it back in the day.
While I was editing the video I found out the motherboard I was using (intel Portland) was on a very short list of "supported" motherboards by Be Inc. Just luck of the draw, I didn't even mean to do that. I needed a quick replacement motherboard after my last slot 1 board decided to stop working, and this was the cheapest one I could find on ebay!
Hey! I’m still learning. Is the music too loud? It feels like it’s too loud this time.
Audio balance sounds good to me; thanks for taking the time to create this silliness.
Not at all, in fact it is just right!
You are so good already you depresses me to a degree that I am just gonna cancel my plans for my channel. No point in my mumbling into a mic looking clueless into a camera and helplessly fooling around with soldering irons and taking harddrives out of boxes when people can watch this instead.
What was I even thinking, ffs.
@catriona_drummond Everyone has to start somewhere and we can learn through our failures.
@@catriona_drummondjust do it! If it helps, I write a script, shoot footage, edit the crap out of it, and then do take after take of voice over until it sounds right. If I was doing it live it would be a mess of mumbling too. But work with what you’ve got!
Wow, very nicely done! 18:43 that network card issue has to do with CD-ROM selection earlier in the install process, known issue, glad a reboot got you past it!
That's how you're supposed to OS/2 it!
All I have to say is WOW! You both entertained me and educated me!!! Better watch out, you may be setting a new standard for retro computing videos!
I'd probably watch and enjoy your video about paint drying. I figure this is about as close as we'll get to that video... and here I am, 39 minutes later, having gasped (OS/2 sound effects), laughed (tunnel visionary), and cried (OS/2's midi). Well done.
Thanks for the kind words! I might surprise you with a paint drying video in the near future!
Absolutely first-rate production, GB! Very impressive all the way around.
Fan freaking tastic dude! Love it.
Bruh this is the very first video I saw of yours and I enjoyed every minute of it. What you did here was basically my childhood, doing stupid stuff on my family's main and ONLY computer much to their annoyance lol. Not many of us had the power of VMs back in the late 90's & early 2000's. I've played around with almost all of these Operating Systems (except NextSTEP, Temple and KolibriOS). Your videos are well produced and documented. Good Job! Subscribed!
i remember the 90s well, playing a game called 'do you have all the install disks?' its asking for disk 30 and i only have 29!
Dude, this was great!
33:00 our highschool computers (Unisys Icon 3s) had QNX installed. They taught us the database and programming classes in QNX.
Hey I have the same game!!! Lol!! Setup.exe is awesome :D Thanks for sharing
gold popped up on my recommended today
That was quite an ADVENTURE!
Thank you for the compete waste of time. I had fun.
I went on a Solaris admin course in London back in 1997. It turned out that my buddy (working for a different company) was also on the similar course at the same time in the same establishment. The main thing I remember was how many pubs we managed to visit in the evenings. All on expenses! lol
Happy Christmas :)
I have a similar Pentium II based machine I love to mess with but this video brought up a weird nostalgia I'd mostly forgotten about. I'm 27 now but 11 years ago when I was a teenager I had a Samsung Galaxy tab 2. It was a decent tablet for the time and I loved it. I eventually learned how to unlock the bootloader and install a custom ROM on it to keep it updated after it stopped getting updated officially. I used to browse the xda forums and beta test custom ROMs for fun. It was always cool to see what tweaks people added or how they optimized newer versions of Android for it. Especially as it aged. This was back when mobile hardware was advancing extremely rapidly so it was outdated pretty quickly. This video reminded me of that same itch of installing something new on a device I loved.
The video is really well done too! The time flew by because I was so invested in it.
Ahh yes. At first I was confused. But now I understand. I also enjoy the setup.
OS/2
"Let's see if the MIDI sounds better with Sound Blaster installed"
(The MIDI actually sounds even worse, lmao)
Another great video! You’re killing it dude! Do you just enable individual drive images? I’m wondering if it’s possible to have an image that could be accessible across multiple of those installs.
For the most part I just use a single image at a time since back then almost every OS had its own file system and couldn’t read anything else. BeOS being able to read FAT32 was helpful since I couldn’t figure out flow to get any of the files faring stuff going there. I have a feeling BeOS R5 will work a lot better.
Love the A5 case. Built many PCs in that case in the late 90s.
Those OS/2 MIDI results were just painful Can anyone explain why that's happening? Is it just a driver issue? with the SB16 it wasn't even using close to the right instruments!
That soundcard hardware emulator is the coolest thing I have ever seen! It makes me want to build an old PC again and go back in time to my youth.
I don't understand why people pick the Matrox Millenium though? I was about 13 years old when I asked for one for Christmas, thinking it would make games play better (this is a couple years before the Voodoo card) and it did absolutely nothing.. I was so disappointed considering the price. I think it may have allowed me to run a REALLY high resolution in Windows. I had a pretty awesome CRT monitor and I pushed it up to 2800 x 1800. The text was so small it was barely legible - but that's the cool thing about CRT monitors, no native resolution. I've always loved using the tiniest font possible and highest resolutions. I have good eyes, even now. Other people hated it! I can't remember as it was so long ago.. I did eventually end up with SLI Voodoo 2 cards
Yeah the Millennium is not a good gaming card. Its strengths are very clean video signals and high resolutions. They were for getting things done. And they were certainly better for gaming than a trident card!
@@GutBombTech It was advertised heavily as accelerating graphics and there was literally nothing else on the market at the time - so young me was excited when I opened my Christmas present...
...then very disappointed to get no improvement whatsoever, especially for the price, which was about £200 if I remember right.
I don't remember noticing any changes at all, I think dragging windows might have been a bit smoother !
btw. I just googled box images and I realise it was actually the Matrox Millenium II that I got.
Still... didn't make any difference.
26:13 On Linux in 98. Sure. Looks good.
Triggering. I had to do this repeatedly to setup test machines at the time. Then I would go home to my mac. And relax.
Great video! Subscribed! Is that model for the BlueSCSI available anywhere? For some reason it never occurred to me that I can throw in a SCSI card and use the BlueSCSI on my PC. That sounds like the perfect combo! Especially for ISO emulation!
The BlueSCSI really is fantastic for the PC. I have one in all of my Macs, but just this one extra to rotate around my few PCs. So good for CD ROM images. The bracket is available here: www.printables.com/model/1089000-bluescsi-v2-525-pc-drive-bay-mounting-bracket
@GutBombTech awesome thanks buddy! I have one device but I'm using it as a replacement for a failed Amiga hard drive. So I just ordered another.
Back around 2000 I used BeOS as my daily OS and nearly made my brother switch as well. It worked very well but only if it ran well on hardware it supported but that was a short list compared to Linux or Windows.
This reminds me how a few days ago, I decided to install windows 98 on dosbox, just so I could have a nostalgia trip over an instalation process of an OS that I haven't seen or used for over 20 years.... it was quite fun to be honest, but I confess that now I don't know what else to do with that Win 98 "machine"... I got the shareware version of Doom running on it tho...
How many weeks did this take? While I was around at the time such computers were common, I mostly kept sticking to Windows(and some DOS to get older software to run), because I was only a teenager and getting one OS to behave was already a big pita. If anyone came to me talking about a project like this, I would've asked if they're a masochist. And I still believe so today.
Can you do this with Games? I love honing in the settings to get the right frame-rate / visual setting!
We need another video with QNX
Time wasted? What could possibly be a better use of 39 minutes of my time on December 25th??
There is the simcity 2000 for os/2 i think.
yep, that's the one I'm playing in the video.
This makes me think how much I want to try Lubuntu 14 on my iBook g4 and the best thing I can do is image the internal hard drive to make it so I can install Linux.
Blue SCSI is fine, but the Purple SAS, and the Orange MFM is way better
When using BlueSCSI in the PC, take in count many hobbyist OSs wouldn't like it by the lack of overall SCSI support. And some obscure OSs like QNX may not install SCSI support by default. Remember also any OS which doesn't use the controller INT13H bios to access it would need extra drivers. It may be the case again with QNX, which I remember seeing its drivers in Adaptec driver floppies. SCSI support in the PC for non-DOS OSs isn't a granted, unlike with IDE/ATA basic support.
As for KolibriOS... Is a shame it didn't managed to detect your mouse. Probably you have a resource conflict there the OS doesn't manage to overcome. And finally for TempleOS, actually you can pretty demo it with no C knowledge at all. But yeah, to do anything more substantial with it, you need at least some basic C knowledge indeed.
It wasn’t the C knowledge, it was the 64 bit requirement that kept me from using it. And as for qnx, scsi wasnt the problem, the installer booted just fine. I am not sure what it was, but one troubleshooting lead is that it’s trying to do some direct hardware stuff that the Bluescsi didn’t like.
BeOS I thought would suck harder than some of the others, some of the ealier linux distros couldn't even play midi files. I guess with time they figured out how to emulate over time. But yeah BeOS even had fullscreen doom! I thought next would be much better... Warps crazy I still here alot of older IT guys loved it back in the day.
While I was editing the video I found out the motherboard I was using (intel Portland) was on a very short list of "supported" motherboards by Be Inc. Just luck of the draw, I didn't even mean to do that. I needed a quick replacement motherboard after my last slot 1 board decided to stop working, and this was the cheapest one I could find on ebay!
I've never heard Solaris pronounced any other way.
I worked with some folks that insisted it was pronounced soul-arr-iss once and they just wouldn't listen to reason.
loved to get my time wasted
You could have (and should) have milked this into > a year of videos @ 1 per month
I like genshin!
git gud
idk if i can bring myself to be subscriber #667 lol somebody else click it first
oh thank god someone did
All the different "versions" of canyon.mid!
The canyon.mids were the footprints in the sand he made along the way. that's how that one goes, right?