At what time stamp did he say “nugget?”

@@charliesretrocomputing 4:45

I came here to wrote the very same comment

here b4 this blows up

i love being australian

"Can you believe no one bought this?" Dankpods intesifies :D

Yeah I never understood what a border thing was all about. How does that help the game run better? Modern games don't have a setting like that.

@@bland9876 Actually, they do. It's just *they* do it by running at a lower resolution which wasn't a practical option for the sort of hardware Doom was typically running on at the time, so Doom 'lowers the resolution' by letting you shrink the rendered area which will speed it up, since it has to do less.

@@aliasisudonomo so you couldn't just have the computer output a lower resolution and have the monitor upscale it like they do now?

@@bland9876 original Doom ran in a version of the 320x200 VGA "Mode Y" and was outputting things directly to the video hardware. (Remember, this was before *3D accelerated graphics cards*!). There *was no* lower resolution.

@@bland9876 "have the monitor upscale it" requires the monitor to have its own fancy digital logic. A basic analog CRT display isn't doing anything like that. A modern monitor probably has much more computing power than a computer of that era did.

Don't we all? :)

Oh yeah I've been meaning to try that!!

Was just thinking that. Old analog standard, cheap splitter, its most definitely halving the power on the RGB lines. They never sold cheap splitters like that for unamplified analog signals back in the day, so this is my first time seeing why its a bad idea. I'm surprised it works at all! Really cool to see that slice of history nobody talks about.

PLUS the music production capabilities, i mean dude this is literally a small FM synth and sampler that can have a step sequencer, midi note sequencer, a full daw, with internal FX and all that jazz, be it trackers, synth softwares, or just straight up cubase this thing can drive a midi controller also

Honestly, it would have been nice if it just included a switch to turn off the built in screen. And set up the headphone jack where it turned off the internal speakers.

Agreed.

FreeDOS is still maitained, there is developer (he also have channel on KZfaq) there are open source GUIs for DOS. Nooone yet created FreeDOS Mobile :) Nobody was inspired by such limited device. If i was him i would want this thing to be donated sent as surprise with FreeDOS pre installed fully featured to inspire make such odd thing as a prove of concept. There are USB drivers, network drivers and web browsers email clients. There could be some way to make wireless connectivity. There is linux but 8MB it's as much as router use very old Linksys OpenWRT based. To me its bearly usable device even for DOS, even for 2004 standards. Even 20 yaars ago in comparison to WIndows CE / 2003 Pocket PC that i used and liked. Opera Mini, TCPMP player, Resco Software all bunch of software. Worked as charm but that was like 200MHz Samsung ARM CPU, 64MB of RAM not 8MB. Or Intel StrongARM ~416MHz, VIA 8655 CPU 7" laptop, Toshiba Journe 7" Windows CE based tablet.. it's was really hard to use these things even if you tried. Would stuck to DOS. Use as platform to play with QBasic aLike programable calculator.nd solve some math problem.

Those are all hardware issues. Not something the community can really do alone without creating a new device.

FastDoom runs kinda nice with Potato detail on 386SX-40 cpu's, yeah it's very blocky but performance is much better than vanilla Doom

I can imagine people turning this into a sophisticated graphing calculator or using it to control scientifc instruments which still run on older hardware.

Be cool ...use a modem...Errrhh,,aaaaaahhh, errrrrhhh, aaaaahhhh, eReReReReReReRe, EERRRRRRRRRR, AHHHHH

@@cbtillery135 Sound that modems make, usual when you had a 386 / 486 back in the day and wanted internet access...that's the 'joke'.

It happens in every windows Version, Diehards who don't want to follow Microsoft's Upgrade instructions, look at the people on KZfaq getting Windows 11 to run on "Non Compliant Hardware", just in time for Windows 12 ...

It can, but it is very slow on a 33Mhz, even with 8MB. I think Microsoft set it such as you could run it on a 386DX with 4MB to help on its sales because 386 were still quite common around back in its launch date.

TI made a ton of those back in the day if you're willing to sacrifice perfect Mac compatibility. I'm still waiting for some madlad to port some early version to the Voyage 200.

@@charliekahn4205 I own a 92 Plus. Those things can't run SHIT. No MMU, no FPU (which is insane for a CALCULATOR) barely any RAM, and most of that RAM is taken up by your programs.

@@rwall514 The Voyage would be the better fit

@@rwall514 tbf most calculators use binary encoded decimal.

An 030 or 040 (or imagine an 060) Amiga would be nicer..... but the Mac would be nice too and much easier/cheaper to build as it is all just off the shelf parts - where would they get all the Amiga custom chips from?

Which portables? 386 is a little old for me but I'd be interested in a 486 portable...

I counted 100 pins, I wonder if it's -standard- _s_imilar enough to PC/104 (with the ground/power pins omitted?) that a generic 64/104 pin (8-/16-bit PC/104) adaptor would work (with shielded jumpers). Would need to x-reference the schematics if a logic-analyzer is unavailable... (edit:) The schematic I found for the "BOOK" model shows an abbreviated version of the 8-bit connector, so it stands to reason that the signal order's the same... (edit 2:) By using a multimeter to find which pins are (the various) power, and ground, it could be practical to 'stretch' the "HAND" 's ISA port back to the standard 104 arrangement, and make/order an adaptor from the video's sponsor...

He said this one DOES not have that BIOS … jeeez ?

Yup you can get 486's, in SOCs, at some speed around 1GHz or something. Why they don't just add on the few extra Pentium instructions I dunno. Then again though you'd still be left with an obsolete instruction set, the Pentium's. Since then there's been lots and lots of additions, MMX, SSE, and all the little tweak instructions here and there. So I suppose if you don't want to build a full-on Core Whatever you may as well pick a point in history and stay there, and the 386 or 486 is gonna cover almost all DOS software of the type that runs CNC machines and the like. So actually I answered my own question there, sorry, pardon me. So yeah a 486 at hundreds of MHz would be nice! Wouldn't necessarily play newer games that want the new instructions, but wouldn't be designed to. You could even put a little slider, a knob, for clock speed! Or maybe a program to do it since the SOC probably has a clock generator PLL onboard. Shame, a slider would be nicer but I imagine you can only alter clock speed in software running on the 486 itself. That said it's as easy to just emulate nowadays. Simpler overall, and as "authentic". You lose authenticity with every change from the original PC, and even running a 386 core on an SOC with the other addons is still not the original PC experience. Even though it has ISA, IDE, and PS/2. There's maybe some video amplifier chip you could use for the dim video problem. The maker should have thought of that. He doesn't seem that advanced with electronics for somebody who's made what he has! Just a buffer IC would've done nicely but too late now, it'd have to go in front of the internal display circuit. It's a cute gadget but too many compromises, I wouldn't have one, even though he's made it cheaper than he could have. Probably better off with a phone, a Bluetooth keyboard / mouse, and DOSBOX.

​@@epicwildstar1918 he said it did?

@@polocatfan he said this particular device did not use the uncredited BIOS, it was another one built by the same guy

What about FreeDOS based programmable calculator? Qasic/Turbo C++ based calculator? Louts 123 spreadsheet. Its x86 standardized platform nothing will get lost even if optimized and written in assembly noiseless, low power, pocket friendly. I would make ton of use - if this was mine thing (80s). I recently rediscovered the power od DOS prompt when it comes to put order to files, git reposistories, power of batch files CALL IF ELSE FOR GOTO etc. To me somehow more user friendly than BASH, turned to be better faster to spend 1 hour to figure out, than any GUI based app. Also discovered that PHP actually to me - just regular user, it's better write script in PHP or Windows "DOS" Shell than PowerShell. Achieved more via DOS prompt than i expected from GUI software - i couldn't find. If i was into math. Like some people are. Would know how to use it basically calculator. I wouldnt even try to keep Windows 95 on that.

Some UMPC I have like Samsung Q1 and Fujitsu U810 as well as iPods came with 1.8" ZIF hard drives. It was an easy upgrade to SSD. On older machines I switch to SSD more to preserve the original hard drives than for speed anymore.

Hahaha

Yep, TC needs a 486 with 46MB RAM. I run Debian 2.1 on my 386 with 8MB -- I had issues with anything newer.

@@nu11man if netBsd is still around you can try to boot that thing from the toaster’s hard drive…