You know you are old when Bob is referencing the software that started me on this crazy PC journey . Keep up the fantastic work fella . Why is it no one else does the sponsors like Bob ? Keep em entertaining and I don’t skip them .
@TheoRae82896 сағат бұрын
He's one of the only ones whose sponsor spots I don't skip. He gets it.
@Gage_Danger5 сағат бұрын
i'm surprised he hasn't been picked up to write actual commercials
@TheoRae82895 сағат бұрын
@@Gage_Danger right? Though, I've heard writing commercials professionally is harder than it looks.
@krankymann4 сағат бұрын
nakey jakey does decently funny sponsor spots too
@HUNT3RdotME10 сағат бұрын
...Yeah, kinda mean to preload Doom onto a 386. For the young-uns curious enough, it's like getting a PS4 preloaded with Cyberpunk. Doom was basically made for the 486 onwards.
@mc10guru9 сағат бұрын
Ahoy, I bought a Compaq Prolinea 4/25S just so I could play Doom. Wolfenstein 3D was great on the 386 but not Doom. Cheers, daveyb
@WedgeStratos8 сағат бұрын
No one thought Doom on the SNES was a bad idea, look how far we've come since.
@Fender1788 сағат бұрын
Or Doom on the 3do now that was a painful port. The SNES Doom was a miracle that anyone got that game to work on the SNES hardware.
@Kumimono6 сағат бұрын
@@Fender178 They didn't. Had to have extra hardware on the cartridge, a Super FX 2 chip.
@Fender1786 сағат бұрын
@@Kumimono oh my mistake. Thanks for the info.
@ChildOvAtom10 сағат бұрын
Clear shell makes it look like a computer inmates can purchase
@peppyrobo704910 сағат бұрын
I legit thought that's what the video was going to be about.
@hyperturbotechnomike5 сағат бұрын
I had to look that one up, because i was confused. In the country where i live people use normal devices and the prisons have fully furnitured single person rooms. I think the clear devices are only used in maximum security prisons.
@RXR2510 сағат бұрын
That manual referencing Planet X3 is crazy. Thats a new game made by The 8-Bit Guy. Zero chance thats officially sanctioned.
@TheoRae82896 сағат бұрын
Oh shit I forgot to migrate 8-bit guy to this account's subs 😮
@onedeadsaint6 сағат бұрын
@@TheoRae8289 wut?
@TheJunky2285 сағат бұрын
@@onedeadsaint bot probably
@TheoRae82895 сағат бұрын
@@onedeadsaint I used to be subbed to him on my old account, and apparently I didn't sub on this one. That's been rectified though lol
@micheleulrich94797 сағат бұрын
This was awesome!! As a 46 yr old, DOs brings back memories!! I so remember going over to friends house and playing low res Doom and loved Xwing on my parents 486!!!!! Old school nostalgia man
@ketel35574 сағат бұрын
I had Doom on my 386 33mhz 4mb RAM. I had to run it at the lowest res, it shrank the viewable area down to a quarter of the screen. And taht was on a 12 inch monitor. I needed my face right up next to the screen to see what was going on...and I loved it :)
@SuperNicktendo5 сағат бұрын
One quick note - it's not necessarily OLD hardware but new hardware that's meant to be compatible with old software. A lot of companies have software that only runs on hardware like this so it still requires this type of hardware to be made. My company has their entire system running on AS/400 green text on black screen software. Thankfully it's emulated because I still like to cruise reddit from time to time while at work.
@Toby_Kat9 сағат бұрын
Windows 98 is as far back as I'd go personally, but for the novelty this does look pretty sweet! Thank you for documenting the struggles involved haha
@teddd74319 сағат бұрын
Miniature computers are so interesting to me... please make more videos like this!
@HudsonBrownie10 сағат бұрын
A wulff den video about old tech? Hell yeah.
@thatmanjamie10 сағат бұрын
Remember the 1995 movie hackers….this thing screams STRAIGHT outta that. SO COOL!!! 😮
@lovescarguitar10 сағат бұрын
I was like "movie hackers"? What's that. Then I realized. "movie, Hackers".
@jesseslack208910 сағат бұрын
The monitor is pretty crisppy.
@tybera11149 сағат бұрын
If you want a modern version GPD has some mini form factor laptops and handhelds that run modern hardware. The Pocket 3 runs around $600 and has 16gb Ram and a decent intel chip in it. It would make a great little Linux pen tester.
@LtBlankmanСағат бұрын
Hack the Planet!
@robertnewton23049 сағат бұрын
Oh the nostalgia... Thank you for taking me on this trip down memory lane.
@Danominator10 сағат бұрын
Well, its still less privacy-destroying than Windows 11...
@josephfrye734210 сағат бұрын
Or windows 12 but still from what you said. But my question is what do you mean?
@PabloPadilla-eo6bm9 сағат бұрын
Blah blah something something windows bloatware steals data like every company ever blah blah
@PowerCube3D9 сағат бұрын
Hahahaha
@steventechno10 сағат бұрын
I would absolutely love something like this, a small UMPC, but built around a higher-end Windows 98 gaming machine but with a firmware tweaked to support USB boot and USB optical drives. I would love to have something like that, Have my childhood dream laptop! Who wouldn't want a portable Age of Empires machine?
@edtuckerartist9 сағат бұрын
You know your old when you remember buying your first PC and it was a 386 because you could not afford the new 486. In hindsight I should have got a 486 as the cost when I payed back the 386 on credit was astronomical.
@fungo66314 сағат бұрын
The 486SX was quite affordable and much better than even the highest end 386.
@mukiex44132 сағат бұрын
I had a 486 SX which was damn near a rebranded 386. I 100% remember the performance that Bob was getting in Doom.
@fungo66312 сағат бұрын
@@mukiex4413 No, not at all. The 486SX was MUCH better clock by clock. In Doom it's more than 2x faster. The lowest end 486SX performs as good as a 386DX 40. Your video card was likely the problem. A 486SX in Doom peforms the same as the 486DX, as it doesn't use the FPU. Ideally you'd want a PCI board, though an ISA ET4000 was fast enough not to be bottlenecked by the lower end 486.
@waggington2 сағат бұрын
While watching you be annoyed at the latest and samest from Anbernic or whatever is always entertaining, these kinds of videos are my favorite of yours. Your process really lends itself to scratching the "tinkerer itch" in my brain - seeing the frustrations and wonders of a piece of tech unravel - without me having to invest the energy, money, time, or winding up with a useless (to me) object in my house. I know this kinda stuff doesn't perform as well, but it's really a joy to watch.
@ellemenop1125310 сағат бұрын
That sponsor video was pretty fire
@PhilipSchweitzer43 сағат бұрын
Only channel I don't skip the ads
@pyrotek452 сағат бұрын
Finally something besides the same old retro handhelds. 🎉
@davidpeterson564710 сағат бұрын
Chip’s Challenge, FUCK YEAH!!!!! Ski Free!!! I played the SHIT out of Tetris For Windows in 7th grade computers class!!!!!
@StereoTyp07 сағат бұрын
**BUMMER**
@s77funky5 сағат бұрын
i love that you did this but also really shows how hard working with old tech is
@NoctuaFann10 сағат бұрын
Yeah, those DOS laptops got a bit of popularity.
@niezzayt380910 сағат бұрын
Imagine going back in time and showing everyone this video or just this device. Everyone will think you're an Alien with so Advanced Technology trying to make contact with Humans
@RusticRonnie8 сағат бұрын
Japan made a few computers back in the late 80s to mid 90s that were similar to this. At least on the surface level. Im sure this is slightly better
@RusticRonnie8 сағат бұрын
Japan made a few computers back in the late 80s to mid 90s that were similar to this. At least on the surface level. Im sure this is slightly better
@cloudycolacorp8 сағат бұрын
I felt that way seeing an RM tablet PC at my school in around 2003. An entire computer in a fraction of the space even the monitor took up
@Diego_Borges9 сағат бұрын
Cats was one of my first PC games in the 80s. Still love it.
@GothicMatt179 сағат бұрын
Windows 95 was the first OS I ever used. Played Hunter Hunted alot on it.
@AndriukYTСағат бұрын
14:58 Ski Free jumpscare, that Yeti used to freak me out
@HixxyDubz6 сағат бұрын
15:15, you're wrong there, there have been different versions of Chips Challenge and the one on Steam is NOT the same as the one you were playing on, that one is the Windows 95 version which is extremely rare to find and play.
@Theonedesire4110 минут бұрын
Dude, just let him cook
@joonglegamer98987 сағат бұрын
Quite happy about my Toshiba Libretto CT70 I got on a fleamarked for 7 bucks. Win 95, MMX 166 Mhz, small enough to fit in a pocket, has a mouse-pressure pad "early joycon". Life is good.
@timothymckane63624 сағат бұрын
Man, I feel so much nostalgia as a kid seeing Windows 95.
@supergearlandСағат бұрын
I remember going to microcenter with my parents to pick up our family’s first windows 3.1 machine. Played a whole lot of ms paint on that bad boy…
@bgjck8 сағат бұрын
I have an old Windows XP desktop that is similar to the Dell Dimension that my family used to have. I also picked up a lot of old Windows 3.1/95/98 PC games from a thrift store and I might eventually pick up an old computer to try out some of these games.
@bradical19916 сағат бұрын
The best part of this video is that I learned that Chip's Challenge is available on the eShop.
@mailgg44277 сағат бұрын
the music from the start immediately made me feel nostalgia
@zdanee6 сағат бұрын
Considering the price and availability of a Toshiba Libretto this could be fun, but also a Pentium 3 era machine with a VooDoo3 or a GF2 in this formfactor would be even more fun.
@holy_lettuce10 сағат бұрын
I was there for thumbnail education on stream last night 😂 imma have to share this video with a friend of mine, he loves this kind of stuff
@RitchianСағат бұрын
OK. That is kinda a neat toy that I'd love to try out for nostalgia's sake. Though for that price tag, maybe i should just try and fix up the old Windows 95 machine I built as a teen that I recently found at my parent's place.
@razorx20243 сағат бұрын
the button to the right of the spacebar is what you use to enable mouse controls, i can't remember if you press it or hold it but that's how you enable it
@javierdurini6 сағат бұрын
It'd be cool to see a latte panda inside that enclosure it could propably vome closer to the experience Bob mightve hoped for
@josephb82686 сағат бұрын
10:07 You're offer of a USB C cable is tempting.
@MatthewJohnCrittenden2 сағат бұрын
It might be niche but I enjoyed your struggle with this. Much better than another rundown of whatever incremental improvement of a retro handheld that has been shat out this week.
@Br--kfast7 сағат бұрын
i want modern laptop with this type of form factor, this is a very attractive look
@guardiangibbs26637 сағат бұрын
My windows 3.1 system sounded like a jet engine starting up whenever you threw the massive switch to turn it on. Also, Microcenter should always be your first choice.
@michaele16547 сағат бұрын
Hmm. Random thought / video suggestion. So, a Raspberry Pi 4 is decently powerful. Further, Box86 is an emulator that allows the Raspberry Pi to run software that was programmed for x86 hardware. On the subject of mini Retro PCs & Emulation, I had a thought. What if Bob purchased a Raspberry Pi 4, used Box86 to install Windows 98 on it (if that is possible), and then put it in a case that is designed to look like an old Desktop tower... That seems like it could be a fun project. Like a DIY retro PC emulator box thingy. Also, I think that there's something called a C64 Mini and a C64 Maxi, which is an emulation device mimicking the Commodore 64 (the Mini requires an external keyboard, while the Maxi has a built-in keyboard and it can emulate the OS. Both devices support loading your own Commodore 64 ROMs). Oh, and Atari has their 400 Mini (which emulates old Atari computer games), the 2600+, the 7800+ (the 2600+ and 7800+ seem to be Analogue mini versions of Atari Consoles, but officially licensed by Atari), and the VCS (which is like a Linux PC / Console / thing. IDK, I have a Steam Deck and that's good enough for me, lol). That's an interesting rabbithole to go down... I also will sometimes use the Legend of Zelda Game and Watch as a novelty emulation handheld. I bought it at the Nintendo store at a mall in Tel Aviv and it is actually pretty neat, like I probably play it more than I play my Switch, lol. I guess I really like Zelda 1, haha. IDK, this is just a whole interesting rabbithole, IMO. The officially licensed emulation handhelds. We all know about the NES Classic Edition and the Sega Genesis Classic, but there are so many weirder emulation devices on the market...
@MoreTVO8 сағат бұрын
Oh my god I havent seen JezzBall since I was like 6, this was CRAZY
@josephb82686 сағат бұрын
10:05 You used to be able to get USB to PS2 adapters back in the day.
@PsychoPlissken2 сағат бұрын
I feel old, knowing what that ram check boot up screen is like before the Windows logo pops up.
@saltymiro10 сағат бұрын
iDOS 3 on iPad is a great way to experience DOS again. Just connect a keyboard and mouse, get Norton Commander, some old games and ideally MT32/CM32 ROMS for the best music and you're set.
@mikelujanable10 сағат бұрын
I had a laptop in 91. It was HUGE.
@CasepbX9 сағат бұрын
Windows 3.1 was the first OS I ever "used". I say that in quotes because I was far to young to really know what I was doing. I do remember games like King's Quest though.
@Maxemillian_X9 сағат бұрын
14:08 HEY! Don’t disrespect Alleycat! Most people at the time didn’t have the luxury of having Doom. Or even knew it existed. 👀
@QuizMasterEntertainment9 сағат бұрын
Sheesh, I kept a computer with those specs until I was ten year old, pretty sure it's still there in the attic, but at least that one could get into a windows start up with the right command.
@SteveBrandon3 сағат бұрын
I want a "new" Windows XP machine, not just to play some games that won't work properly on 64-bit Windows without faffing around with Virtual Machine but also to use my old perpetual license copies of software like Photoshop and Microsoft Word that are subscription-only these days. Like, there's really nothing I want to do in Word that I couldn't do in a 20-plus year old version of Word that shipped on CD-ROM with XP era computers if only I were able to actually install it on a modern computer. (Yes, I do use open source alternatives like Gimp and Open Office and they're mostly adequate replacements but I still get the itch to use my old copies of Photoshop and Word even if they're not the current versions.)
@SteveBrandon3 сағат бұрын
Game recommendations? Well, I suppose it's too "old" to run even the original Midtown Madness from 1999 properly so let's go back to 1989 which had Vette by Spectrum Holobyte, the great, great grandfather of all 3D open-world racing games, which took place in a very low-polygon version of San Francisco and even had P2P online play via dialup modem.
@conza19897 сағат бұрын
This’ll be great for those businesses and institutions that NEED a 386 processor, the QOL for them will be portability and compatibility to some modern I/O
@someguy31862 минут бұрын
The thing with PC emulation is that while DOSbox is pretty good, accurately emulating the actual hardware is very difficult. Using an emulator like 86Box, my 5800x3D with RTX 3080 can barely manage to emulate a Pentium II 233 at full speed. So accurately emulating anything past 97 or so is out of the question even for powerful desktops, let alone handhelds. As for DOSBox, a lot of emulation handhelds can already run it. Of course, you sort of need a keyboard and mouse to fully enjoy a lot of DOS games... and for that you can just use any modernish small laptop to emulate DOS. So you can see why no one's making PC emulation devices. It would just be an Android in a laptop form factor... so basically a laptop, but worse.
@NataSenpai9 сағат бұрын
Honestly, when you think about it, how many pc games are lost to time if certain computer older systems are absolutely not accessible.
@ToumalRakesh9 сағат бұрын
Not to mention you can emulate the Gravis Ultrasound in Dosbox very accurately so.. yeah.
@HaoToDraw699 сағат бұрын
This device is kind of cool, imagine packing all the big PC we have in the 90s in one small device
@CrassSpektakelСағат бұрын
You should try the Gigatron TTL computer. It has no CPU but the whole CPU is build out of 37 TTL chips, equaliing 600 Transistors. This includes graphics and audio, although only over HDMI, but you also need to attach a SRAM for memory, 64kByte are standard. And WTF, it emulates an 8088 at around 800khz in pure software!!! It even runs DOS and Windows up to 3! Oh, it also emulates an 6502 at 500kHz.
@locoman73 сағат бұрын
My god chips challenge and skiifree videos awakened some deep memories lol
@alexisrivera200xableСағат бұрын
Well if it can run windows 95 it can run the NES, SNES emulators with tons of tweaking. Running those on a Cyrix based PC back in my childhood was as fun as playing the games themselves. (It has the NESticle emulator preloaded, you can see it on the directory around minute 11:00 right before he ran DOOM!)
@BittiPomo6 сағат бұрын
yeah 486 would make more sense with turbo on/off feature and possibillity to use external usb cd-drive. also there would be fairly good ammount of old graphics chips available like ATI Rage XL (with lower clockspeed it might be very power efficient too) and the system would operate with better speeds allover without (+ if it would have its own 8mb vram it should perform decently)
@Elkemper6 сағат бұрын
The most funny thing would be if adobe finds out and sends their lawyers. That would be hilarious. and scary. very funny rant and video!
@Azuris1906 сағат бұрын
I need this. I. NEED. THIS. It is just now a bit over what i can justify affording.
@waluigibro550410 сағат бұрын
YES!!! DOS!!! YAAHOOO!!! It has like 7 of my favorite games on it.
@arranmc1825 сағат бұрын
Windows 3 & 95 can be made to work with USB mass storage only things like game ports or mice and keyboard seem to never really work at all over USB in windows 3/95 when I was a kid we had a 95 PC I made the mistake of getting a USB controller and it didnt work later we upgraded that same PC to windows 98 and the controller started towrking as it should.
@mrfixite7 сағат бұрын
I remember playing commander keen on windows 3.1
@robert.sec210 сағат бұрын
There are so many old games that I just can't figure out how to get working on modern hardware-- god, I would love a retropc that could just boot up Catechuman
@richardhunter97797 сағат бұрын
I wonder how this compares to an EEEPC running Dosbox. IIRC, you used to be able to emulate machines that were at least 10x slower than the host, which may even be enough for the Pentium era.
@justincoleyYT5 сағат бұрын
Hot damn what a throwback!!!!
@DefaultUsername00017 сағат бұрын
Perfect machine for Castle of the Winds.
@RetroReefСағат бұрын
Getting Andy Rooney vibes from this one. Love it.
@iamjimbodini10 сағат бұрын
I miss 3.11.... so straight forward.
@deusprogrammer_thekingofspace4 сағат бұрын
When I was a kid, it was a long time until we had a Pentium or a 486. So I totally had to play Doom on a 386. And yeah…it was pretty bad. Then I tried playing Duke Nukem 3D on our 486 when we had it eventually. Similar story. Eventually we tried to get it to run Quake and Quake 2. Finally we got an AMD K6-2 and a 3D card and running these things became easy.
@Stormy4221-ft3snСағат бұрын
win95 and Doom were not meant for the 386, both kinda needed a 486 but ran better on Pentiums
@bastien-9 сағат бұрын
I just came here from watching a JerryRigEverything video and I feel like Bob is yelling at me!
@exodous0224 минут бұрын
I watch LGR setup old computers and it would drive me nuts, I did not like to mess with drivers when I used windows. It never really worked right and I doubt it does now. I think I'll wait until there is a FPGA system that can emulate everything for a windows95/98 machine that the community has the best drivers to make it as painless as possible. Until then I'm good with just using an proton for old games.
@thebaffman48987 сағат бұрын
I would pay good money for a ms-dos emulation mini pc like they did with the mini consoles, to play scummvm adventures and other games. The next best thing is gonna be the full size Amiga when it comes out in 2025.
@sloppynyusziСағат бұрын
11:15 for anyone playing around with dos. You don’t need to type .exe or .bat. Just type in doom or whatever the .exe or .bat file name is and it will run it. I have iDos for my iPAd when I want to relive old PC times, it’s honestly a horrible way to get games running 😅 i rather just pay the couple of bucks it costs to run doom on any console that exists.
@Green420699 сағат бұрын
Oh yes chips challenge that's a name I haven't heard in years
@polocatfan9 сағат бұрын
should be mentioned that chips challenge on switch is the Lynx version if that ends up mattering to anyone
@Taodster18 сағат бұрын
It's not exactly the same thing, but a deep dive into old Windows emulation could be cool with something like virtualbox
@adleswim96369 сағат бұрын
i like the form factor, could be a little thinner but yeah id be down if it was more modern.
@damian93035 сағат бұрын
If only you were around last year for the _Hand386,_ which came with Windows 95 by default (although unimpressive compared to a Libretto of the same price point). I still have mine and quite enjoy the GameBoy sorta Analogue Pocket form factor, if anything I intentionally downgraded mine to Windows 3.1 for Chip’s Challenge which works right on-the-go
@JankieHands9 сағат бұрын
i wanted this, until i saw the specs on ali. honestly i would pay more with this format with modern hardware
@LrdLnitari10 сағат бұрын
One of my favorite DOS games out there is Master of Orion. Its on that archives page and on GOG, but you're going to definitely need a mouse for it. But it's a cool one as one of the original 4X games.
@LukeLunn23 минут бұрын
If that was 486 66mhz it would be perfect! Still interesting though. I believe there is an abundance of 386 CPUs around for some reason and that's why these devices are popping up.
@danandtab74639 сағат бұрын
I was amused to see this usually comes with Windows 95. I feel like it was just yesterday in actual 1995 that people were pointing out that 386 *barely* runs Windows 95. Personally I want to see a 486 one of these and I may have to get my wallet out.
@soochanamatya11298 сағат бұрын
This device looks like what a timetraveller lost along the way and was just released from the secret service archives in the present.
@909crime9 сағат бұрын
I got the 8088 version of this when it came out.. i should have waited until this model 😭
@DaDonMega9 сағат бұрын
I'd love something that's the same form factor but present day specs
@blubullie48506 сағат бұрын
No Space Pinball? That was a classic game back on early Windows. I also remember playing The Great Adventure, Battle Bots, and this one game that had the Mona Lisa on the CD. These were all on Windows 95/98, so they may be too new to work on this thing. I'm honestly surprised Doom worked on this, considering how cheep the hardware looks. All of that looks like it isn't even original hardware from back in the day, but rather reproduction parts with plastic components.
@GabrielCardinal43 минут бұрын
Omg chips challenge I forgot all about that
@aublak7492Сағат бұрын
a 386 is too slow for Doom but also too fast for the Megaman PC port, which is why its fast as balls.
@Grimmessmcdonald6 сағат бұрын
Thank you for correctly pronouncing niche even though I can't spell it
@TrondRune7 сағат бұрын
Man, i would LOVE if someone from China can make us a cheap retro pc emulation laptop thingy. Like, there is so little of this on the marked now. Maybe if a big company like Anbernic would try it it would be good? So the ideea of the device you have is great, would buy it if it was around 100 USD and more user friendly.
@Skywardstrike1237 сағат бұрын
Guys... should we let Bob know that he can still use the command line in modern Mac/Windows/Linux? You can have the fun you had back in the 90s to this day!
@TemporaryTony8 сағат бұрын
You can find those old mouses at goodwill
@JgHaverty6 сағат бұрын
Lol it looks like that laptop they used in the movie Hackers
@ShinVejita2 сағат бұрын
PS/2 to USB A Adapter, you can use a wired USB mouse.
@kodywill544110 сағат бұрын
I think i have that same anime figure sitting on your shelf