You were being missed man.... Glad you are back and then with interesting content again, as usual. I love SBCs too. They are so versatile. Just recently played with them too here. From 286 til Pentium III - but these 386 with their modern features are quite interesting.

Welcome back Peter! Really glad about your return, we live in a strange time and I already started to worry. Coincidentally I saw this board on Ebay shortly and my first question was - where is the CPU? :D So i started to investigate and was really surprised to find it in the chipset. I didn't buy it eventually, but was really curious about it. So, just as always, thank you very much!

"A riser can cannot get damaged..." Just wait till a lighning finds it. Or a hammer... :) I remember when I found my first and so far only one ALi CPU (M1386 A1B). A big round O-face. I had never heard about ALi processors. Of course I knew them as chipset designer/manufacturer. My little beauty was sitting sadly in the recycling container of a nearby hipermarket. Now it is paired with 4MB RAM, a Realtek VGA, a Multi IO (some GoldStar), an SB 2.0 and a Gravis Ultrasound ACE and it is on display in my living room..

The Austrian English accent is great. More iconic than my Dutch English accent ;) Great to see another video - very interesting SBC system this one.

Take all the breaks you want. We can wait. Excellent channel.

It's been a while! Good to see this channel booting up again :)

I just love how in german speed is called "Geschwindigkeit"

I used to read the engineering industry magazines back in the day and would lust over the adverts for these things.

lol I love how we say "not playable" today when back when doom came out you were just happy your PC could run it and would play in a 1" wide window if you had to to make it less of a slide show. I distinctly remember being really happy with my monitor because I could overscan to the moon with it and zoom that tiny window to something more reasonable sized.

HE'S ALIVE BOIS! HE'S BACK!

Welcome back !!! Been missing your content.

Oh Man! So glad you're back! Long time no Video! :D - Love your content, I hope you keep at it!

YAAAAY! I was just recently browsing ebay and see that strange board without visible 386 CPU

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Welcome back!

Welcome back. We missed you, nice SBC. Had 1 with a P1 a while back.. unfortunatly not anymore...

Interesting video because I just recently received a JUKI-730-M4-R3 sbc. It is almost the same as this Rocky 318 but also has a integrated video/lcd controller.

Always a good day when a new CPU Galaxy shows up! These industrial SBCs are so interesting =]

Great to see you back! Missed those videos!

Glad to see your content show up on my feed again!

You're back!!! Hooray. One of the very best YT Tech channels, superb video, thanks so much!!

New video! Was starting to get worried! Thanks for the amazing content!

Long time no see! Glad you're back!

Nice to see you back!

Great Video!

Good to see you back, awesome little system. 👍

...and my night program is saved! Great to have you back!

Very good to see you again, Peter. I was actually in a discussion with someone, just a few days ago, about this "SOC" and how it might function. As such, this video was a very nice surprise, indeed. The Disk-On-Chip comes back slower than I'd expect, but it might just be the implementation on that particular SBC. Hardly matters as it's almost certainly fast enough for whatever that SBC would have been used for. It certainly is always nice to see one in use in any case and SBCs on a backplane are invariably cool.

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Welcome back, I already missed you! :)

Missed your videos, glad to see you're back.

Welcome back :) As always a great video. And Monkey Island at the end is always a welcome treat !! :D

Happy to see you back! Another great video that made my day!

It is good to have you back!

Hi CPU Galaxy! Glad to see another video posted - I really like your content!

Glad you are back! I really missed your amazing content. Thank you very much! Have a great day!

Good to have you back again, we've missed you!

Nice SBC, Nice to see you back 😉

Great stuff!

Missed you. Good to see you back.

This is almost the perfect DOS machine. I have a review of one of these on my channel as well. I think Windows would probably be OK, but right at the edge. 40MHz is an odd speed for a 386SX, but I'll take it. I can only imagine how much better this would have been as a DX with a math coprocessor... but there are 486 SBCs, so why wonder? Thanks for the vid!

Thanks for new video 😊

Yay! I wondered what happened to you! Welcome back! You're a tech lover's dream. :)

Welcome back. Love the content. We cleaned our lab, unfortunatly nothing realy special.

Glad to see a new video from you! Interesting machine, an embedded 386 from 2003 or so. Also, I enjoy seeing the number of bytes of capacity which are "frei". :-)

I'm so glad you're back Peter! Greetings! ;)

Yea! Welcome back!

Welcome back!!!

Welcome back. You were missed by all of us. You brought us this 386 gem and it's a awesome 386 board build with a back plane expansion board. Love how if you want something more powerful you pull out the 386 and put in a 486 and hook back up the drives. I always thought this way of building your computer was a nice option as well. Have a good one.

Missed you dude!

Of course you get a thumbs-up! Also, your voice and accent is very soothing. :)

I like industrial embedded systems. And welcome back. Great channel.

Nice to have a new vid, welcome back! Not sure about the rest of the world, but here in Australia the AWE64 was said not as an abbreviation but as a rhyme, like AWEsome. Awe rhymes with Four.

👍good review🙋‍♂️

Excellent!!! great Great opction to play old games from 90's.

great to have you back, peter! 👏😀 great choice in video topic, too! these old architectures turned out to be amazingly long-lived in industrial environments where cutting-edge performance wasn't needed. funnily enough, i have an email to you in my draft folder right now about a somewhat similar 486 sx-based industrial mini pc (about nuc size) that runs at 366 mhz and is apparently still available to buy new today. i've been tinkering with it for a while now, found it to be quite a convenient little box for retro gaming (e.g. usb mouse/kb support, cf slot, the only real downside being that it is limited to pc speaker) and i've been wondering if you'd be interested in taking it for a spin. looking at this video, i'm thinking you just might be. 🙂

Welcome back, and as someone else also pointed out the Win 3.11 software looks like it's for a 6 axis milling machine, and it does not take much to run one, so I'm not surprised they used this to keep it simple.

Welcome back! I didn't know, the 386 was still produced as late as 2003.

I was wondering in recent days what happened to you. Wellcome back

This is great. I have always wanted to know how a 386SX-40 would perform with DooM etc.. I had a 386Sx-25 back in the 90s and use to play doom on it.. albeit in a smaller window with graphics set to low (pixel doubling).. it ran playably when I used a Tseng labs ET4000 fast ISA video card and t turned sound blaster sound off as I had a sound sound blaster 16bit in it, but it slowed down Doom significantly

Welcome Back! As always very interesting content, would be great to see if it can be overclocked somehow.

Nice video, please next :)

Nice one!

9:00 Taken out of CNC machine XYZ axis? ENGEL, Battenfeld injection moulding machines, extruders i worked with in 2005-2010 was still based on i386 and DOS. Much more reliable than more modern Windows XP based.

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If only the BIOS could be found online so that those of us that have a 386SX PC could try it and see if it would work in another motherboard. Having a 540MB limit in BIOS for a hard drive is the worst when you can't find anything under that limit that works.

You earned your thumbs up. I have some old EZNET 200 units... those are NOT routers or switches by the same name but MSN produced internet Netpliance computers that have GEODE 6x89 or 5x85 cpus I forget. from the early 2000s

That reminds me of those Apple DOS compatibility cards back in the 90s

Welcome back. Nice video. A bit amazing how much they managed to fit in 16MB. I have also some of these DiskOnChips. It is the top models of 256MB. Unfortunately more than ~80MB is not supported by most systems.

Welcome back, my friend! It's so great to see you again and hear you sharing such interesting content. I really found this SoC quite interesting; these industrial SBCs are very cool and quite robust. I found the Disk-on-Chip to be a neat addition and seeing you document its performance really answered a lot of questions. I thought they'd be faster, but the fact that there's zero seek time is still going to be pretty nice. The ALi M6117C is so neat for what it is; 386SX-40s are already odd, but seeing an embedded one couldn't have been neater! This video was a gem, but so is all of your content! Very cool stuff indeed. Thank you for sharing!

Nice yo ser You again. Un abrazo desde Argentina

very interesting to see a machine like this. On my day job, I create software for industrial computers, though nowadays they most likely have an Intel Atom and Windows 10 LTSC. that control program seems to be made in Borland C++ or Pascal, as given away by the "check mark" and "X" button design

Those were used a lot for gaming back then. When there was a shutdown the technicians had nothing better to do than play games on the SBCs.

I love computer chips that have my name on it, specially if they are microprocessors.

Welcome back! I've missed your delightful videos, so this was an unexpected joy. Never heard of that ALI chip before, that's very cool. Like you I love those industrial PCs and SBCs. They can be really weird and over-engineered, and often just fun to play with. Don't see many of them nowadays sadly, but I used to get decomissioned ones from a factory I worked at some 20 years ago. Those were fun days! All gone now though, sadly I never had space to keep any of them for long.

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Yay! The CPUGalexy drought is over!

Raptor was so fun

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Very cool card! That ALI CPU was surprise to me.. 😂 Yeah, I still remember Windows 3.11.. Back in days, that was cool improvement in MS-DOS.. But Doom is still nostalgic as many other DOS games..

The DiskOnChip is basically a ROM and Flash in one. The BIOS option ROM is also inside the chip and it emulates an IDE drive. I have a thin client with a similar chip and it would conflict with drives on the secondary IDE controller if it was plugged in. I think with an adapter it can be used in any PC.

As for those Dallas chips, I think the idea of soldering them to the board is braindamaged and am glad that here it's socketed. (My PS/2, a 30/286, also has a socketed Dallas chip.)

On ebay, I've seen some 2 and 3 slot ISA backplanes. Just imagine fitting 3 or 4 separate SBC's into a single AT case!

One Could make a HandHeld 386 PC with that Board. I might try doing that.

Interesting card! I wonder why they did not integrate VGA, especially since it's from the 2000s. Couldn't have been that much more expensive.. unless the machine it was made for still ran on a composite monitor? I'd say that Raptor runs a little too slow on a 386SX. Especially in the later levels with much more enemies and effects, you're going to need a 486 for it to still be enjoyable.

Still waiting for new videos from this super interesting channel.

I have seen many different Single Board Computers, usually as part of the Human-Machine Interface, and attached to a touchscreen. They often wait for communications to a Programmable Logic Controller and the sensors. The layout of that control software is typical. I don't play games on them though - the customer wants it back, usually yesterday,

One look at that software tells me it is probably for a 6-axis computer controlled milling machine.

It may be a SBC, but for a 40MHZ SX ('almost SOC') system its really pretty impressive :)

Great info! Thank for sharing. #DudewhereismycarChristian

A board called Rocky? I bet it fights well! 🥊

These SBC's tend to go for quite a lot o money sadly. The passive packplane system I have though is a 386sx-16 and consists of several boards for the CPU module. Its rather crazy. It uses much more descrete logic than IC's. And was probably among the very fist implemented SX machines.

Eugh, those DoC2000 chips. Lovely idea and certainly revolutionary back then, but I've managed to break various of them due to the flash cells reserved for boot sectors going bad when developing a DoC that would plug into a commodore PC-1. I think those cells can be rewritten 30-50 times maybe. In the end a prototype "somewhat" worked, but I didn't persue to develop it into an actual, reproduceable product. On the other hand, I remember the interface being extremely easy to implement on an ISA8 bus. Good thing your SBC also has an integrated IDE interface.

That IDE input card 4 pin power with SD card slot (11:25) is so year 2021!! I can't believe they created such thing. Will they make an I/O card IDE interface for NVMe? (THAT would be crazy!!)

I just found at a recycle center nearby a similar board, the same ALI SoC but a PC104 only form factor. I am still to find a suitable PC104 video card or maybe even better, a PC104 to ISA adapter. Maybe I will do one myself as a ISA back-plane. It can make a very low power and compact early dos gaming machine. I wonder if the IDE port of ALI SoC can support dual IDE devices (master/slave) so I could add a CDROM too. I have a very beautiful Creative IDE 4x CDROM that mach ms-dos time. Great to see that CPU in action.

I do wonder if those benchmark figures could be improved by tightening the memory and bus speed settings. You did indeed have a few options, visible at 7:25, and everything is set to its most conservative (slowest) settings.

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Hmmm, are you sure that the white connector above the topmost serial port is not a VGA port? I believe it may as well be considering the onboard RAM chip.

I'm wondering if that system hits the sweet spot for CPU speed for Wing Commander 2, a classic game which depends very on the correct system speed to work properly. Just out of curiosity, how do you capture and record the VGA output? I tried capturing VGA of my old 486 and Pentium PCs various times, and i was never successfull in DOS, even with capture boxes claiming to support VGA.

I am curious, is that the same sort of edge connector that you'd see on an expansion slot? And, if so, what would happen if it was plugged into a PC instead of a riser?