Building a 386 DOS gaming PC with modern parts Roland MT-32

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[obsoletegeek]

It's amazing what an 80386 can accomplish with the right configuration!

[fabianification]

That SoundBlaster Pro with that MT-32 sounds amazing in stereo!

[wysoft]

I'm sad to think of how much 386 and 486 stuff I threw out in the late 90s and early 2000s. I never would have thought I would want to still have my roided up AMD 5x86 rig in the mid 2010s, but here I am.

[kennyj]

Wow this was posted so long ago, and I completely missed it. Well, I found it now and it was GREAT lol. Thank you for sharing your video, 🙂👍

[InsaneWayne]

Good stuff here, thanks for sharing. And I like how you used the MT-32 as a monitor stand.

[Metroidprime]

Love your retro PC builds, you've inspired me to take some of my old pc parts from my Pentium 3 days and try and get a old machine running again. Miss my old dos and windows 95/98 games. lol

[mattglad]

Damn that Roland sounds amazing. I had no idea what i was missing as a kid.

[RanyBx]

Absolutely loved the intro and that build, I remember always wanting to that soundcard as a kid as I was stuck with the internal speaker all the way.

[slapfish]

A 386SX at 33MHz was my first computer. That bios screen brought me so many memories and pure joy on my face. Thank you sir for that! I have to go back at my parents house and look around in the basement for that old horizontal case of mine!

[JasonBrown]

Awesome build, definitely a rarity seeing people build "new" 386s subscribed!

[jubeh]

Halfway through your playing wing commander i had forgotten that this was a video about a 386 build. And that AT cable, man, i had forgotten about those, but as soon as i saw the connector on the motherboard my mind immediately remembered "blacks go on center". Now i can add 386 to my list of hardware that i have to track down, but yeah, wing commander was (and still is) so amazing

[brucesmith]

Love your build video's! keep up the great work.I started building computers around the socket A (462) day so it's really cool to see some of these old machines and what they can do.

[danaeckel]

The first PC I had was Zenith 286, monochrome VGA, 2MB ram, soundblaster 8-bit, so I ran lower quality DOS games, but did have Wolf 3d. Mid-90's I splurged for 586-133 AWE64, and some sort of VL-B video card so I jumped over the whole 386 gaming experience. By looking at the video the 386 was quite a capable system and a blast to plat games on. Modern PC gaming is missing the magic that the retro had. Nicely done!

[vulturius]

This is the kind of videos I like from your channel. Great work Phil!

[thomas]

After more than 30 years, I find out that you don't have to fight the doorman to get into the show in 'Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis'?! I need to process this first... with more of Phil's videos. ;-) Thanks for this great entertainment! It's especially fun when you're in the middle of building a 386 yourself.

[TheTurnipKing]

7:01 a rectangle of plastic harvested from a DVD case can make a pretty good io shield

[jmw]

This gave me a few ideas to keep my old relic computers going with newer parts. I still have an XT, 286, and 386.

[dkehrerproductions]

Use plastic stand offs where their is no mounting holes instead of paper .

[xaerknight]

It's a friday night, got me an energy drink and time to watch. Sure beats going to a bar ;) I can not recommend that StarTech 5 1/4 to 3 1/2 converter enough :) I ordered 2 just in case, great for OEM PCs with only 2x 3 1/2 bays. That On-track disk tools to boot to CDROM is just awesome... i remember back in the early 90's (i was in middle school) trying to figure that out LOL

[goldeng]

Very well made Phil. I really enjoy watching your videos. :)
What kind of capture hardware do you use to record the monitor output for the video?