I know this is off topic, but I just wanted to say, Clint, you have the nicest, most positive, helpful and friendly fan base here in the comments for each video. You should be proud. Well done too LGR fans, IT IS SOOOO REFRESHING + NICE.....

Seeing Sound Cards with freaking ram slots brings a tear.

God, I could watch Clint mess around with old PCs all day and bask in my second hand nostalgia. Can I move in buddy? We'd listen to diskette drives grind away over dinner, drape ourselves in wood grain, and frolic to the music of MIDI.

My first sound card was a Sound Blaster Pro 2.0. Fun times. :-)

What a wonderful blast from the past. I has this exact card. I was 13, saved up the money myself, and installed it in the family's 286. All these demo programs and sounds are still etched into my memory.

I don't even know anything about old computers but this video is comfy as hell. Great content as ever Clint.

Watching these videos on older PCs and hardware makes me really greatful that I'm using a computer that just works without needing to worry about if my PCs sound is compatible with everything else or any of that. Old PCs are cool and all, but man has standardization and simplification done wonders for computers in the past 20 years,

You know, I like your videos, but this video--after a stressful weekend and a hectic, anxiety-filled day--is the most relaxing thing I think you've ever done. DOS sound card talk paired with the smoothest of jazzes? So good. Thank you.

The little hand gesture at 9:41 is killing me XD

OMG, the memories! I had forgotten about much of this stuff. That talking parrot, that Dr. Sbaitso thing, I would've never remembered them if I hadn't seen them again. I think I had this exact same card, because I also got Lemmings and Indy 500 with it. This took me way back to my early teens.

Looking back at all the sound cards I've had (all of them from Creative) makes me appreciate my Realtek ALC889 integrated audio. It's crazy how a tiny chip like that (with the help of the main CPU) is pretty capable, probably sounding better than a Sound Blaster Live!, and costing practically $0. Ok, maybe $2 according to a Tom's Hardware article years ago. I have an X-Fi Titanium but I just tucked it away and contented myself with the ALC889. Btw, I had that exact Sound Blaster back in 1993-97. Good times. Having a sound card back then was really awesome.

Keep up the good work. Watching your videos take me back to the "good old times" and it is good to see that there are many people out there who share the same interest and nostalgic feelings (according to the reactions). Great. Just great.

16:21 turned into Druaga1 for a second there.

I envy this guy so much. Having so much joy with so simple things. Keep it going!

Been watching your content for a while and want to say a huge thank you for putting your time and effort into making these amazing videos. I grew up on the same games as you did and it's great to see people keeping vintage DOS gaming alive these days. Currently in the process of building a few machines (one for DOS/98 and one for XP era) and your channel gives me a lot of inspiration. Keep up the great work!

Thank you for making this Video LGR!! The Sound Blaster music/sounds brought back some heavy nostalgia for me!! As a kid back then in my Packard bell days we always used Sound Blaster in are PC's. I'm looking get a old PC like that again to play all my DOS games again but i don't know where to start looking.

I had SB AWE32 back in the day and I distinctly remember that you had to use the string "AWEUTIL /S" (from AWE32 drivers) to enable OPL3 FM sound capability. Also you had to choose Sound Blaster 16/SB PRO/SB/Adlib in the game options/setup to hear FM music, otherwise it would play wavetable music like in your video (which, to be fair, was the main point of AWE32 in the first place). There were also about a million versions of AWE32 cards with differrent OPL3/OPL3 compatible chips, some of them sounded exactly like SB16 (cause they used authentic Yamaha chips), but some versions, especially later "PnP" series sounded very different (and crappy) for FM synthesis. Also the util AWEUTIL didn't work with all games, so there could be some issues there. Overall, I think AWE32 was a great soundcard for its time, very good and capable, but it was a bit of a mess from engineering and software standpoint (since CREATIVE tried to push their own proprietary standard of MIDI playback interface and their own EMU chip and it introduced some compatibility difficulties). Also I recommend you get a working Roland Sound Canvas (SC-55 or more advanced SC-88) soundcard since that's the cards Bobby Prince used to compose MIDI music for Duke 3D and Doom (and lots of 1993-1995 games use MIDI music composed on Roland Sound Canvas, it was almost a standard MIDI soundcard for wavetable music). So it will sound just as it was meant to sound by the composer. I had one (SCC-1 actually) in 1995-2001, and it was awesome, but then was stupid enough to sell it (cause I bought SB Audigy). And of course Roland MT-32/LAPC for earlier games (1989-1993) would also be very cool. :-)

Oh that sound is lovely

I have binge watched this channel all day it brings back so many fond memories, many thanks for creating all this awesomeness :D

I'm so glad you're doing more videos on the woodgrain 486, I couldn't get enough of the first video

Was expecting to hear some Tyrian, that sounded amazing on the OPL3 Soundblasters :D

I love it how components are pretty much compared to how well it runs Duke 3D. "Yeah, but can it run Duke?"

I just really enjoy watching you play old DOS and PC games. I'm just filled with nostalgia when ever I watch your channel.

Just discovered your channel and OMG. It's so good to watch!!!

Ahhh dude that sounds heaps better. All of a sudden I'm 11 years old again.

My 10 month old son likes this video. I dont usually see him this focused... :)

This Woodgrain 486 saga has been totally awesome! Never seen better retro PC gaming content anywhere! I'm waiting for my new (modern) PC build to arrive and these videos have been a great way to pass time while remembering my childhood gaming sessions on my family's brand new 486/66.

Man, I love your videos. No one else is making content that has the same balance of information and fun that you're able to!

You've earned a subscriber. Awesome video. Love your humor.

holy shit, theme song sounds so much different and better on sound blaster pro

I watched your video on the build for that computer. Watching this one has reinspired me to build another computer out of junk, it's amazing what people will throw on the side of the road. I'm hoping to build a computer with parts around 1998. Thanks for the reinspiration!

Glad you got all that working! Great games and sound!

Good lord, I remember that parrot and Dr. Sbaitso. I used to play with those and amuse myself greatly.

Dr. Sbaitso reminds me of Racter for my Amiga. Loved hearing that thing swear and use general "Potty Talk".

another great LGR video!! i was geeking out the whole time and loved it.

Wow! those test sounds instantly brought back some long lost memories! I Love it!

You should now build the most high spec DOS machine possible using parts that are actually supported under DOS. I think the highest CPU I saw with DOS still around was a Pentium 2 with Voodoo2 graphics.

I just came from the original video and it upset me that you didn't use a sound blaster. You have corrected you mistake and I can sleep in peace.

Man, just awesome. Makes me remember the good old days when I bought a Sound Blaster 16 for my trusty old 286. Later moved it to a IBM Aptiva 486 DX2 66 and magic happened together with a dualspeed CD-ROM drive. Keep up the good work Clint!

What a great video. Your excitement really shines through! Love how you instantly turn around and drive the other way in Indianapolis 500. That's all I ever did in that game. :D To watch the instant replays of the crashes. Then later the world was introduced to Carmageddon and I was in heaven!

My 7th birthday, I spent 140 dollars of my hard earned allowance on a Soundblaster Pro. It was the precursor to getting my panasonic 4X!!!! CD-Rom drive. (of which I paid for half, the other half was my christmas present) I was a pretty damn nerdy kid.

I recently cracked open a sealed sound blaster 16 I got for $5 and put it in a Packard bell with a Pentium II. It was glorious.

Thanks for taking us on this very personal nostalgia trip, loved playing Jill back in 1994!

Keep these build videos coming. I love this kind of content.

I miss the old days when I used to get migraines every time I stared at a CRT for more than 2 hours.

pls use DR Sbaitso one day for an LGR video

You put so much love in your video that it shows.

i just love to listen of the sounds of different sound cards. plus i LOVE old pcs. man, that's definitely a video for me! :D *instant thumb up incoming* :D

About the soundcard, i discover a neat bug about ISA audio card. if you install 2 sound card with slighly different brand. and make them share irq or ressources, you can do dual OPL, and with some mixing setup to mix 2 audio card with FM synthesizer into one sterio channel, you can get some nice rich and funky sound. I did that on a old pentium board. and routed the two audio card into a mixer

Oh god, Dr. Sbaitso. That brings me back.

Oh man, you truly are the brother I never had... With all the passion you put into this, It is like watching myself in 1992, building my very first (386) PC. You are the best.... :)

Another great video! Keep up the great work man!

Why would a sound card have a joystick port in it? Was it just in-case you didn't have one already

I totally agree; DOSBox sound has NOTHING on the real hardware.

Great build. Inspired me to build my own. I have a GUS as well as an SB Pro 2.0 but I opted for the SB16. Like you, I had a packard bell back in the day (was a 386 though) and it had no sound card or cd rom just 3.5” floppy. My mom bought us the Creative bundle with the SB16, Cd rom and speakers and as a result, that is the most nostalgic setup for me but I may explore using the pro because it is such a great card!

Love you videos, brings back the past.

I had a virtually identical experience to LGR with my AWE32. Compatibility was so sketchy that it wasn't really worth it and the music wasn't really any "better" when it worked, it was just "different". Really, I never cared to buy another "premium" sound card until whatever model Soundblaster came out with 5.1 and optical out. That was fun, but also not necessary (and also not $400... I think mine was like $70).

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This is awesome! Great video Clint! :)

Nice! I just finished installing it's 8-bit older brother in a 5150. Right in the feels.

This is way before my time, but I just love how these old computers need an expansion card for EVERYTHING. The oldest machine I have is a P166 IBM PC 330 with 80MB RAM, an onboard S3 Trio64V+ graphics chip with 1MB of memory (and pretty noisy VGA output, at least to a 1280x1024 LCD - I wish I had an 800x600 CRT for it), a 1.2GB HDD with WIndows 98 SE, a 10/100Mbit ethernet card and a SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 sound card (I've upgraded it, it originally had 16MB RAM, a 540MB HDD and no expansion cards installed). Wish I could figure out how to set up two sound cards in this thing; the SB Live! obviously can't do OPL sound, but I have a Crystal SB Pro compatible card that does... but whenever both are inserted, DOS games just resort to using the latter for everything, including GM, which it obviously doesn't support. Makes sense, I guess, because DOS prefers ISA, though I would still love to be able to have General Midi and Adlib sound capability WITHOUT swapping sound cards every time I want to do either.

Don't forget to run MEMMAKER and load things into Upper memory to ensure you have lots of tasty Conventional memory free :) In all of computing the foremost thing I won't miss is trying to free 580k for Strike Eagle 3. Seriously, who has 580k after CD ROM, mouse AND sound card? Sheesh!

Sounds great! good job man!

Wow, I remember buying that sound card back in the day and being SO EXCITED to get home and install it and get it working. Blast from the past.

Anybody else went and played Duke Nukem 2 immediately after watching this video? :D

Help me, I'm in coma. Too many computer videos that I enjoy. D:

This card and Dr. Sbaitso brought back some childhood memories. lol Thanks for sharing.

I enjoy your vids quite a lot, Clint, but this one brought back many memories! My brother and I bought a Sony CDU-33A and a Sound Blaster Pro for our 486DX2 back at the time and we were blown away when we started playing our games and watching videos from CDs. Sniff (damn onions)

AWE wavetable vs FM music ... ahh, I recall eating popcorn while reading a flame war about that on some other forum ;-). I guess whichever you prefer, really depends on whatever you used to hear back in the day. But I also think that it also depends on the game. Some game developers clearly used some FM based synthesis while composing the music, while some used a GM/wavetable thing, and then just slapped on the missing type music support (but some games had decent music for both). In my opinion, Duke Nukem 3D sound better on the AWE, but that's just an opinion... still, the title music is not the best one on that soundtrack. The guitars always somehow sounded "out of tune" (while the rest of the soundtrack is a bit better overall). But I also think you have your bass&treble setting set up a bit weirdly (way too much bass).

I'm wondering what's that thing in the middle of the sound card that's screwed in?

This is the exact same card as my first soundblaster. Same pack-in software and everything! Nostalgia overload!

OMG!! Epic pinball!! I don't know how many time I played it with a friend at his house, but those music and graphics... so great and different from home consoles :P

OPL3 is the best and yeah, the emulated thing is just... not the same. Recently got a laptop with an OPL3 card specifically to play older games and half of them didn't work, but then I remembered about the SET BLASTER settings. Took me a while to figure it out and try different combinations but I got it to work! Duke Nukem 2 sounds so perfect!

DUDE! You still need an Gravis Ultra Sound for that!

Thank you for the tutorial, i brought one today to test out the new coolest sounds.

I'll give you a nickel to install a modern liquid cooler onto your 486.

U should do asmr vids lol

Damnit! I'm supposed to be cleaning the house for inspection and here I am instead watching your epic videos again! All I want to do now is pull out a 486 and play some DN2! That music, and your excitement for said music, is infectious! :)

This is nostalgia for me. I really want to build myself a 486 computer one day. Just gotta get hold of some components. I don't remember the specs of the computer I had when I was a kid, but I remember having a SoundBlaster AWE32, and a 486 DX4-100 cpu. I really like your videos, and I feel really nostalgic when I watch them.

Man feels like 1993 again. Great video. Felt like a kid again. Love indy 500 and lemmings.

Great video. Brings back memories. I had a 486 with a Sound Blaster 16 with the Waveblaster daughter card. This perhaps had the best sound of all of them IMHO. The OPL3 in 4 operator mode in conjunction with the wavetable based Waveblaster gave it a rich sound palette. Plus the Waveblaster worked with many games that supported the MT-32 and General MIDI standards.

I totally forgot about it, but this video brought back so many memories about that freaking Soundblaster Parrot :)))) Thanks, LGR

all those games were my childhood, except my 386sx had no sound blaster, I did eventually get a disney sound source because it was for sale at k-mart, it worked with a couple games.Man I could watch you play those games all day :D

This was an amazing video. Brings back good memories from the past. Someone brought a old computer at work fro recycling. An old MMX Pentium, but wasn't working. Too bad.

Oh man, that brings me back. This was my first sound card back in the day. Those FM sounds in the install really brought me back. I totally remember that. Makes me feel like playing Hero's quest 3 or something.

This video was like a freaking TIME MACHINE to my youth when I played almost all these games in the 90s on my 486 with the very same sound card. I can definitely back up your experience with the AWE32. I upgraded the SB PRO 2 to an SB32 (basically identical to an AWE32, but cost reduced in design) and many games just didn't sound "right" anymore. I ended up running for quite a while with both the SB Pro 2 and SB32 installed so I could play all my games properly. Hell at one point I had the SB32, an SB Pro 2 AND a Gravis Ultrasound MAX installed in the same machine, with jumper cables on the back so I could run all the audio together to my boom box amp. It was truly a chaotic but fun as hell time. Thanks for posting this and bringing me back there briefly! :)

All that classic 90's games music... makes you soooooo chilled out! Makes me wish I had a 486 or P90 rig set up so I could play games like Zoombinis (I still have a full legit copy of "Logical Journey of the Zoombinis" from 1996) or Gizmos & Gadgets.

As a kid I alway wanted to have a SB 16. Oh, that sound! Lately I bought a brand new SB AE-5 and this thing blows me away everytime. Soundcards are, in my opinion, even today as important as a decent (but not too expensive) graphics card. Btw. your channel got me into this old memory rabbit hole, thanks 🙂

Love your vids man - I came across one by accident a few months ago and I've been hooked since. Great productions with great video, sound and content. Allround fantastic stuff. Also as a syntesizer enthusiast, all this stuff about 2op and 4op synthesis is really interesting. Did you know Korg just released a 6op battery operated synthesizer with a great built-in sequencer?

A tear, rolling down my cheek... But seriously, I remember all of this, we have a Sound Blaster 2 and the parrot and Dr Sbaitso, all that stuff was tons of fun :D Man, you're bringing back memories, and when you say it sounds exactly right, I agree completely, those games (that I've all played and remember, hah) all just sounded so good with the Sound Blaster pro 2

JUST LOVE watching your videos.

I am definitely get the sound blaster Pro 2.0 for my future 486 build after watching this. I already have a sound blaster 16 in my socket 7 build.

OH MY GOD, MANUALGASM! I love those old manuals, back in the old days you really got some value for your money :)

This build really brought back some memories. Very jealous of your storage unit, I got rid of all my old vintage stuff years ago and regret it now.

This is really bringing back memory, I still remember playing Warcraft 1 multiplayer by connecting a parallel cable (old school printer cable) to another PC and play head to head multiplayer. I think it was on a 386DX or 486.

playing with old computers is like travel in time. back to the past. it´s amusing to see you revive all these child memories

I really love these vids mate

so glad i found this gem of a channel last year, many many days off spent watching.

I had this same card to, but together with the Creative cd-rom player! Fantastic combo!

I frickin loooove your videos man