anatomy of 386 PC

All game footage taken via S-video on real hardware.

[kaczan]

A dog AND a cat? How does this channel not have a million subs already?

[larsenmats]

Even on a 486 DX33 Doom does not play well in fullscreen. Needs a DX2 66 to run well

[CooperMcKay]

Awesome! Loved reading your blog, I learned some new things.

[wysoft]

I miss this era even though I never got into building PCs until the 486 era. When a lot of my friends had newer 386 machines, that is when I started to learn how computers worked, played a lot of games, etc.

It was really frustrating at the time as I only had a used XT clone with an EGA card, but I didn't even have an EGA monitor, so I couldn't play many games. I had a friend that had both an AT and XT clone in his room, and I copied a bunch of CGA/EGA games off of the XT. I couldn't figure out why most of them just gave me a blank screen when I tried to run them at home. It wasn't until years later that I learned that they probably would have all worked fine on my XT (a Leading Edge clone) if I just had the correct CRT.

Oh well...

I wish I could piece some of these old systems together again, but so far I'm pretty satisfied just pretending with PCem and DOSBox.

I have always regretted selling my hot rod 486 in the early 2000s.. AMD 5x86 clocked to 160Mhz, 64MB RAM, and a VLB board. I never could get the 5x86 to run reliable at 200MHz thanks to the VL bus. It probably could have worked fine if I had a PCI board.

[FuzyK]

My first PC was in a case identical to that one. I got it in 1994, and played the hell out of Wolf3D and Doom on it. I wish I still had that computer.

[bunter]

A thumbs up to you good sir just for playing the whole Monkey Island 2 Intro Tune. Took me right back to the day I 1st played it - I got it bundled free with a SoundBlaster Pro. It was special day going from pc speaker to a sound card, no midi obviously but still seemed awesome :-)

[joselemusjr]

love the anatomy series esp this one because I have the same case and its the first rig that got me hooked into retro pc's. What's your take on the 486slc2 which is basically a 386 @66mhz .

[paladinepaladine]

I remember my original PC looking like that inside. Was a proper work out for a 14 year old to move it as well :)

[PTdaMAN]

That's make me remember when I played Lucas art's full trottle on my old 386 DX 40 (8Mb Ram) and with a trident supervga that after install the correct drivers was able to show 16-bit colors on the windows 3.11.
Running from the CD was terrible, but when I copied all the files to h.d.d the game ran really nicelly ( at the time my h.d.d. has 800Mb lol).

I don't remember however running doom with so low fps is it possible that is related with the graphic card?

thks

[geoimpala]

Very beautiful rig there! Love the case and parts! Though I don't think a cd-rom drive or zip drive are period correct for a 386. I'd say they fit with a late era 486. But they're a must-have if you need to transfer files through.

[infinitecanadian]

On a semi-unrelated note, the Wing Commander soundtrack for the Microsoft GS was awful, don't you think? That system was certainly capable of better (The Secret of Monkey Island).

[pauls]

Nice! I'm preparing a similar pc, I'm using an Intel 386 25Mhz, with both the memory (32MB) and cache (256kb) maxed out. I'm also planning to add a SCSI drive, and use it to install Windows NT, I guess. ;-)