SoundBlaster & DOS Games : 1993 Nostalgia Part 1

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In this video we're taking a trip down memory lane with our 1993 Compaq 486.
We'll add a Soundblaster 16 soundcard and play some games !
Check this link for part 2 : • Part 2 of our 1993 MS-...
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:36 - The Soundblaster card
00:02:30 - Soundcard Installation
00:03:01 - Speakers
00:03:55 - Driver installation
00:05:23 - Alien Breed
00:06:27 - Alien Carnage
00:07:06 - Bram Stoker's Dracula
00:08:33 - Cannon Fodder
00:09:25 - Dune II
00:10:58 - Epic Pinball
00:11:15 - F15 Strike Eagle III
00:13:34 - Formula One Grand Prix
00:14:39 - Holiday Lemmings
00:15:40 - IndyCar Racing
00:16:47 - Jurassic Park
00:17:20 - Ken's Labyrinth
00:18:04 - Outro

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@sutorippuwebmaster8783 3 ай бұрын

People these days don't know the struggle of setting jumpers, manually setting IRQ and DMA channels and making boot disks to get just one game to run.

@jimmyfallon1890 2 ай бұрын

Failed floppy disks during installation, cd-rom drive not fast enough...man the list go's on.

@RealDocBobo77 2 ай бұрын

Not to forget XMS and EMS RAM profiles^^

@noelht1 2 ай бұрын

Colliding IRQs. Nightmare of nightmares

@MannyCalavera87 2 ай бұрын

I still remember the joy the first time I didn't nave to manually config evrtything...

@flatmoontheory Ай бұрын

I remember the heartbreak when our 2x CDROM was too slow to run the game Silent Steel (needed at least a 4X).

@thetaleteller4692 3 ай бұрын

Younger people cant imagine, we spent more time getting a game to run than play it in those DOS days. Getting those pesky last 4000 bytes of lower ram together with needed drivers was exhausting. Many ended up with boot scripts for desired combinations of EMS, XMS and selected drivers.

@John.Doe.2025 3 ай бұрын

Younger people can't ever imagine how to make cloth by loom. They just buy it in shops, and it made automatically on factories.

@user-tz2ch1im3r 3 ай бұрын

yeah sometimes it took you 30 min to install with 6 disks like 15MB now you could install 15 MB of files in 1 second

@Eddy0042 3 ай бұрын

And all that effort is how we learned about computers. But you tell the young ones that today, and, they won't believe you!

@Ommadon-Red 2 ай бұрын

Yep. Editing my autoexec.bat and config.sys files for almost every game... Imagine that nowadays. I also had lots of fun with IRQ conflicts too... the things I learnt back in the day. Despite the never-ending pain.. I kinda miss it in a disturbing sorta way.

@t.a.169 2 ай бұрын

Yes. Writing and re-writing batch files for the BIOS . Man ... That was fun !

@krisstopher8259 2 ай бұрын

Those sweet 486 days are still fresh in my mind.I think i was like 12 (in 93) when my dad bought an Ambra Sprinta 486 and the Soundblaster, and even a modem. It was so badass back then! Many cool games (lots of demos too), fun programs, and the dawn of websites, they looked so creative back then. Great memories!

@vishy 2 ай бұрын

Peasant, I have a Pentium

@Vestu Ай бұрын

@@vishy not in 1993

@AlexOjideagu2 19 күн бұрын

@@Vestu I had a Pentium 60 in 94/95

@ichbins8588 3 ай бұрын

I remember, my first PC I bought in 1993 (which was a 486/DX33), I ordered not only a Soundblaster card, but also a single-speed CD-Rom (and I payed a fortune for this). Took me so much effort to get the mouse, the Soundblaster and also the CD-Rom running in parallel, but after a lot of attempts, studying the DOS 5.0 "handbook" (in fact it was more like a tome), I did it and I was soooo happy. For other games like Ultima VII, I created boot scripts in order to choose the best combination right from the beginning. Thank you for uploading this video 😊

@jordanw8382 29 күн бұрын

We're from the same era. My system was the same as yours. The single speed CD-ROM had a tray. It came with an entire encyclopedia on one CD, which was really something. And I could finally play Police Quest 3 and King's Quest 5 which my old 8088 with 640k RAM wasn't able to handle.

@internetabyss Ай бұрын

Oh CRAP you are totally bringing me back. After my 486DX2 from Packard Bell which was extremely expensive and became severely outdated in a year, I became a computer builder and started setting up ISDN networks so me and my friends could play Doom2, Hexan, Duke Nukem and other 1st Player shooters. This was the age of cyber cafes and gaming tournaments. Age of the Empires was another game I got into and Microsoft launched its Gaming Zone so that people could connect and play multiplayer games. Those were the days man! Loved it 🥰

@ouch1011 3 ай бұрын

I’m not much of a gamer and really didn’t play that many games as a kid, but my family did a lot. As soon as the intro to IndyCar started playing, I got transported right back to 1995. My dad played that game so much. He had a stroke back in 2008 and is basically unrecognizable from his former self (the stroke left him paralyzed on his right side and completely changed every aspect of his personality, even the sound of his voice is different) so things that remind me of him before the stroke are pretty special to me. Thank you for triggering some memories of better times.

@RetroSpector78 3 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear about your dad. Can only imagine how difficult this must be. Glad to hear this video brought back some good memories. Stay strong, healthy and take good care of one another !

@Bourrin4XL 3 ай бұрын

This reminds me of the day when I got sound on my PC for the first time, a 486 too. It was like hearing for the very first time after having been deaf for years. More than 25 years ago...

@phobos2k2 11 күн бұрын

I was so addicted to Dune II back in the day! At the time, it just checked all the boxes for me. Really great!

@Oldschoolgamerdad 4 күн бұрын

Dune 2 was amazing so many memories and the music intro was so good!

@dpkpraba 6 күн бұрын

Thanks for reviving those golden memories ❤. I did remember my brother had one creative blaster sound card for windows 98 machine and especially had that creative sbs speakers. Being a millennial kid i remember playing epic pin ball, f1 grand prix and Labyrinth game was mind blowing in that 90's decade..

@qdbefsj 12 күн бұрын

Awesome video! I'm 43 years, so, don't need to say too much. However, it brings back a lot of good memories, which made me emotional. My first one was an 386-SX 22Mhz, then, 486-DX2 66, then, 486 DX4-100 32MB RAM (a real cannon, for that time :) Thanks!!

@anumeon 3 ай бұрын

The name of the publisher behind Dracula is Psygnosis.. They were huge in the old Amiga/Atari era of UK game development/Publishing. :)

@RetroSpector78 3 ай бұрын

Goddamnit ... thought I double-checked everything. Thanks for clearing that up. I think the spelling checker kicked in for some reason.

@anumeon 3 ай бұрын

@@RetroSpector78 Nothing to be bothered about really. Stuff happens and all that. :)

@pipp33 3 ай бұрын

Came here to say the same :-)

@dokols 3 ай бұрын

Was looking for this comment. Couldnt let that slip by 😄

@JohnSmith-iu8cj 3 ай бұрын

Now I have a Psychosis because Psygnosis wasn’t spelled correctly.

@roadkill11091974 Ай бұрын

Nice hearing the sounds of setting up a sound card. Really takes me back to the ms dos days. ❤

@ThrivingInLife 3 ай бұрын

When you watch an awesome video, then get excited about part 2, because it's the internet and everything is instant... just to realize he published this 52 minutes ago, and you need to wait for part two 😆

@RetroSpector78 3 ай бұрын

Just imagine you’re in 1993 :)

@ThrivingInLife 3 ай бұрын

I remember it! I really liked game JeFighter 2 How I could just fly by buildings super fast =) @@RetroSpector78

@Blackadder75 3 ай бұрын

yeah, that should be forbidden.....

@Ramdileo_sys Ай бұрын

@@RetroSpector78 Dave At 1:38.. the PC_SPK heather is for connect the speaker heather of the motherboard.... _(Not the PC speaker)_ ........ you use a 4 pin to 2 pin cable...... and then you have the bip's of the PC speaker coming out from the Sound Blaster Output........ Inside windows have his own volume and balance control in the SondBlaster Mixer....... is perfect for have the sound effects of games like..Commander Keen of Crystal Caves.. coming out of the SB16 Speakers 😁..... you should try it..... is a feature that got lost in Awe 32 forward.. 😮‍💨

@Vestu Ай бұрын

@@RetroSpector78 The part 2 will be sent via mail on 128 disks

@mikko8574 2 ай бұрын

I was so hooked on F1 gp. It was such a groundbreaking game, couldn't get enough of it. It also came with the best manual ever, so descriptive, going into history of every team, explaining various setups in detail, driving lines in detail etc. Oh the memories

@Nukle0n 3 ай бұрын

It's probably what you meant but in case it wasn't or other people misunderstood: The PC Speaker header isn't for the PC speaker, it's to connect to the PC speaker header on the motherboard so that the audio from that is routed through the system speakers via the sound card internal mixing.

@RetroSpector78 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for clarifying. It is indeed what I meant but sometimes it doesn't always come out this way.

@nikolayt9350 3 ай бұрын

I was glued to the screen and wondered how the lemmings' mission would end 🤣

@RetroSpector78 3 ай бұрын

No lemmings got hurt during the mission.

@mho... Ай бұрын

"we all fall down" sums it up ;)

@Cheeze_isLIFE 10 күн бұрын

Really enjoyed this video. I still remember how excited I was when I managed to save up and bought a SB AWE32 in the mid 90s. That was the best sound card you could get at the time….

@kenc8411 15 күн бұрын

My first PC was an Intel 8088, 128K RAM, dual 5.25" floppy, no hard drive, boots into BASICROM if no DOS disk. Ran games on Hercules/PC speaker. I've been through it all. Such memorable experiences. Thank you for this video.

@alberteinsteinthejew Ай бұрын

Omg sound blaster 😭 so much memories

@arfanachyar1926 2 ай бұрын

I had the exact SB card back in 1994. This video surely brings back memory to me.

@fordrugs 3 ай бұрын

Jools, Jops and Stu. Still remember the names some 30 years later. Thanks for the vid.

@Blackadder75 3 ай бұрын

R.I.P. Jools

@jorgemtds 3 ай бұрын

I have the same Cambridge SoundWorks speakers, right in front of me, playing your video for me right now 😄.

@RetroSpector78 3 ай бұрын

Haha ! Super cool.

@wel40 11 күн бұрын

I had a 486 and was addicted to "Aces over The Pacific" and "Aces over Europe".

@timcross3461 3 ай бұрын

Great compilation! It has given me some good ideas on what to load on my 486. Glad to see you got Dune2 on there. Can't wait for part 2!

@SquirrelMonkeyCom 3 ай бұрын

That flight game looks awesome!

@RetroSpector78 3 ай бұрын

yep. fun to revisit them. But we have been spoiled with videogames lately. Becomes harder to get impressed. But in 1993 this would have blown you away for sure.

@philscomputerlab 3 ай бұрын

Great video! Really enjoyed the games showcased 🙂

@miked4377 3 ай бұрын

nice enjoyable video!! thanks! I love the retro dose computers and the great games....and you make this all come alive in this fun video! thanks again mr.spector!!

@TraumaER 16 күн бұрын

Remember when CD drive speed determined what games and software you could run? LOL. The struggle was real. 😂

@bramvandenbroeck5060 3 ай бұрын

That F1 game blew my grandpa (Ayrton Senna fan) away! He was amazed that i could drive a F1 on the pc! Good times! And Jurassic Park is a effin hard game! I never finished it!

@doalwa Ай бұрын

Some real bangers in there! Gotta admit, that PsygnosisPsychosis mixup was pretty funny 😂

@fubarsnafu4994 Ай бұрын

Had me cleaning my screen about half way through the video 😆

@jeremiahrex 3 ай бұрын

This is an awesome part 1! The libraries of the school district I went to used those Compaq's as the "librarian terminals" for the card catalog system they bought. The schools were 95% mac and I was the only "PC guy" on the student IT staff, so I got to work on them. They were well built and easy to service. Have a bit of fondness for the simplicity of them back then. I was a doofus and put Windows 95 on them at the request of the librarians, man did that run dog slow. Didn't bother them though, they liked using 95 more than Windows 3.11 or DOS.

@maxick 3 ай бұрын

omg cannon fodder, dune, f15, f1, indycar!

@bluejoe1873 17 күн бұрын

Happy Memories from my teens 😁

@owenmorgan857 3 ай бұрын

So many fab memories

@TheSecretWorldRules 18 күн бұрын

Wing Commander II and Soundblaster Pro was my dream combo back then.

@DebsPhotography 2 ай бұрын

I so remember setting these up with customers over the phone when I started working in user facing computer support at the end of the 90's!

@rizaldiilman 29 күн бұрын

I can smell the PC aroma, blitzing CRT monitor, back in those day I played games without any sound coz I coudnt afford buy soundcard, until Im in highschool in 99, im amazed that I can enjoy music mp3 without buying cassette.. thanks for making this video

@saschapurner9579 2 ай бұрын

Ich vermisse das wunderschöne Nikotin Gelb dieser alten Computer sehr. :-)

@geisontm 9 күн бұрын

Hello! I'm from Brazil and this PC just arrived in stores!

@BradDrakePN Ай бұрын

Boy, this was a lot of fun seeing games that I hadn't seen in 30 years! Thanks for doing this!

@steveanimatrix3887 Ай бұрын

The people who started Creative Labs also brought us Commodore Computers, which had revolutionary sound on the C64 and Amiga's. They had audio in their DNA. The also went on to purchase Emulator, who made some of the first affordable sampling keyboards used by Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode and a zillion other top 10 bands back in the day.

@JenniferinIllinois 3 ай бұрын

Aahhhhh, some classoc DOS gaming, including setup which could be quite time consuming.

@user-zi8cu2mn4o 15 күн бұрын

As a 8 year-old kid I began gaming on a 386 pc in 1994 in South Korea. Those old days were really beautiful and I thank my parents very much for giving me a life.

@kaleyaron1019 3 ай бұрын

Warcraft and Warcraft 2 would be nice too to test.

@ryanhanks4852 3 ай бұрын

Dune II was great. I was trash at the game as a kid but I always loved it.

@kito1san Ай бұрын

Dune is a good game before age of empires 2

@technologyLife20203 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your vidoes. Brings back the memories alot.

@RetroSpector78 3 ай бұрын

Happy you enjoy them !

@GeoffSeeley 3 ай бұрын

I knew you'd have a driving game and @13:34 one of my favorites (anything by Geoff Crammond) didn't disappoint! I don't even want to think how much time I may have played this and the sequels. And then IndyCar racing at @15:45 another favorite! Papyrus did some great racing games too!

@alexgontijo 19 күн бұрын

Great memories from the racing games... Test Drive, Indy500, F1GP and Indycar Racing were my favorites!!!

@golimonkey 3 ай бұрын

Cool game showcase for me who isnt familiar with games from this era

@sweeleangloh 2 ай бұрын

just when i was thinking if u would test on Dune, then the opening scene appeared! Thumbs!!👍👍

@kaga1310 Ай бұрын

Crazy times back then... glade for been present.

@JohnSmith-ff1rk Ай бұрын

Soundblaster!!! Holy chit man. This brought back memories.....WOW!

@Wh0isTh3D0ct0r 2 ай бұрын

Holy crap, this takes me back!

@TaleOfTwoIdiots Ай бұрын

I remember how excited I was to install my SoundBlaster 16!

@_-MiamiVice-_ 17 күн бұрын

I put a retro pc together myself not long ago from my old "Junk". "Junk" because they were worth nothing 15 years ago. The only item, that wasn't mine, was a NOS Sound Blaster AWE 64. I had a few sound cards, SB 2.0, SB PRO Comp, SB16, SB PCI128, SB LIVE, SB Audigy2 ZS, but not of them has as much of an amazing stereo image as the AWE 64. Every second is a joy on that PC. Cannot wait for autumn, to re-play Broken Sword 1 again.

@JohnSmith-iu8cj 3 ай бұрын

This is great, love seeing all those games, deciding which ones I still have to try

@mindsofeuropa2955 Ай бұрын

I still remember my jaw hitting the floor when I saw the intro of Dune 2... that digitized speech! Excellent game as well. Set the standard for RTS games that remains relevant to this day. Really the only thing that was missing was click-and-drag multi-unit selection.

@christophermcdonald5578 3 ай бұрын

I loved Indy Car Racing, the graphics at the time blew me away

@NikuKashi 18 күн бұрын

I remember, I had the Soundblaster 16 in my first Computer (Pentium-1 with 133MHz)^^

@Dosgamert 2 ай бұрын

I enjoyed this. Thanks for the video!

@littleowl43 Ай бұрын

Your sound card works perfectly!!

@gsgk9674 Ай бұрын

I had one of those. It was sooo big, like a cruiser :) It was an AWE 32 by SoundBlaster. It was incredible experience that days. For "free'ing" memory I used a QEMM program.

@Corsa15DT Ай бұрын

first time i see ken's labyrinth, nice game

@tranceightseven Ай бұрын

Oh man. The flashbacks!

@BodySculptTV 2 ай бұрын

I remember the day I bought this Sound Blaster 16 ASP, I believe I paid $279 for it from a place called Brand Smart in my area. As much as a pain in the rear that it was to configure the IRQs and DMA channels you didn't feel it cause you would be so excited about having it in your system and enjoying your games. I also remember running MEMM386 software to get all those above the 640K boundary. This was first in my 486SX25 and then moved it to a new 486DX100.

@alexanderkharin7036 2 ай бұрын

oh, those times of my childhood. My first sound card for my Am386DX40 was the ess488 "audio magician", sound blaster 2.0/adlib compatible - 8bit mono. It wasnt such a shiny SB16 but gave me so much pleasure! Anyway it was much better than PC speaker. Thanks for Cannon Fodder and Dune moments - memories, memories... Also it was time for proprietary interfaces for CD-ROMs on sound card - i must tell it's not IDE interfaces there. At least Matsushita (Panasonic) interface may look as IDE and use the same cable but it wasnt IDE-compatible. That's why it was on sound card and not on usual IDE/FDD/COM/LPT-controller board.

@EnjoySynthSounds 2 ай бұрын

When beige was fab! It was an exciting time in PCs. Incremental advances in processor, sound and vga technologies. Painful to the pocket, but awesome. Now this kind of tech can be done onboard, but back in the day,it was totally awesome.

@mbwoods2001 8 күн бұрын

I still have this Compaq Prolinea 433s, upgraded to a dx2-66, SB AWE64 soundcard, and cd-rom drive, running DOS 6.2 and win3.11!

@wilsonbriggs1614 2 ай бұрын

This brings back memories, this was my second sound card my first one being an adlib sound card.

@FoxMulder78 3 ай бұрын

CT2230 and CT2290 are some of the best SB16s, you will rarely encounter the hanging note bug on them. I have never heard it yet on those models.

@DavidWhitley 3 ай бұрын

love seeing the Compaq logo, my first new computer purchased when i started working was a Compaq, they built some nice computers back in the day, shame they are gone.

@AllboroLCD 2 ай бұрын

Exact rig me and my family had in the early 90's, Prolinea 4/25s. ill never forget when my dad finally got a multimedia upgrade kit from Creative, 2x CD, SB16, and speakers bundled together. Took a few days to get it all working in the Compaq, the system was so very fickle as to how it needed everything connected and configured. It was glorious to me with the encyclopedia software running videos and getting actual sound from my games. Little upgrades felt far far more impressive to me back then.

@airfixer9461 3 ай бұрын

Woohoo...great video..can't wait for part 2 :-)

@MrKuros 2 ай бұрын

Underappreciated channel

@dexterfitben Ай бұрын

Im wearing a Psygnosis (not psychosis)T shirt as I watch! Used to support the boys in their London studio! Their cool logo was designed by Yes' album cover artist Roger Dean.

@PostcardsFromJapan 3 ай бұрын

Great stuff! Those machines back then really taught you patience.

@TSteffi 3 ай бұрын

Omg, those speakers! I have the very same, and totally coincidentally, someone found the exact same pair at work.

@LCTesla 2 ай бұрын

I love that early 90s era when people were more concerned with the quality of their sound card than with graphics

@itce6043 Ай бұрын

I was the one there.

@sdweston8 2 ай бұрын

OMG Lemmings! My wife and I loved that game!

@mho... Ай бұрын

the good old days xD Dune2 & X-Wing where my first pc games ever, what a time to be alife (ran on Pentium1 133Mhz & ATIRage 3dPro)

@DarrenYung Ай бұрын

Such memories! Who remembers playing with Dr. Sbaitso? Who remembers the pain of installing ISA cards? Having to really push hard to get the card into the ISA slot and then having your hands get ripped up by the neighbouring cards pins sticking out?

@2cents422 2 ай бұрын

I remember hearing a voice on a game and being totally stoked about it.

@bobbywhiskey Ай бұрын

Dude .... The sound when you kill someone in Dracula .... Awesome .... Hahaha damn !!!!!

@ferenczsinko6770 2 ай бұрын

something very cool and relaxing playing those older games rather than the brain burn out games of today

@Hanzales077 2 ай бұрын

I am so glad I lived these days. Everything was a huge step forward. Before Sound Blaster, I remember using a DAC converter attached to a printer port. Some music SW supported that as well as a few games, like Goblins or Simon the Sorcerer :D Then SB was made, SB AWE32 (Doom, System Shock), and so on. First GPU accelerator, new and new game genres... Sweet times. PS: Made in Singapore. My first RC Formula car was also made in Singapore. Today everything is made in China :)

@mikko8574 2 ай бұрын

And then there was adlib which was the cheaper sound card.

@sbatomic1210 Ай бұрын

I can remember getting the original WOLF3D game going on my 486 it was tons of fun

@VimyScout Ай бұрын

Had a 486DX with a Sounblaster. Fave game back then was DUNE Battle for Arrakis.

@novel886 9 күн бұрын

Modern computers are like consoles, install the game and go. Everything that made the magic in the early days of computer gaming is missing.

@ATLRCFlyer 2 ай бұрын

I had a Novell Netware 4.1 server running on a 486 DX-66 for my Fidonet node system. Aahh the good old times of MS-DOS 6.22, 4Dos and DOS4GW

@UpLateGeek 3 ай бұрын

Huh, I never knew Dune 2 had speech in it, at least I don't remember hearing speech when I played it back in the day. We had a Media Vision Pro AudioSpectrum 16 sound card, and I only remember hearing the music and sound effects, so perhaps we never set up the game sound correctly for our sound card. Perhaps one day when I get around to setting up a proper vintage test machine, I'll try Dune 2 with both a SB 16 and PAS 16 cards, and see if I get the speech on both.

@mattaaron6142 21 күн бұрын

The pas 16 was harder to set up, and full support wasnt really there on most games. Addressing it as a normal soundblaster often worked for fm synth+pcm. The games that did support it really showed how impressive it was.

@hkoizumi3134 Ай бұрын

1993 was the year I started using PC. For us, having sound card was a luxury we couldn't afford yet. I eventually upgraded for CDROM first then eventually got my own sound card which was Yamaha OPL3-SA

@EnjoySynthSounds 2 ай бұрын

Lazy Game Review on KZfaq would love this computer. Ooh that clicky start button!

@fixitalex 3 ай бұрын

Sound blaster was something incredible back then! Most of us used to solder covox with resistors.

@fffUUUUUU 3 ай бұрын

No CCPway ads - instant like!

@channelvr1293 2 ай бұрын

Man brings back memories.... had all the same gear...lol

@locked01 3 ай бұрын

11:29 ooh shit! Epic Pinball! I used to love it

@VikingGuard 2 ай бұрын

Wow, i did play many of these games back in the day. I also had the same setup sound wise, that is SB16 and speakers. Had also to install the card myself, as i did back then with all my computers.

@paulbeesley5743 2 ай бұрын

Blast from the past.

@Eddy0042 3 ай бұрын

The test successes at 4:48 actually triggered an uncontrollable feeling of uphoria at the hope that Im about to play the damn game with working audio, when I realised it's 25 years too late and I'm watching a video in bed at 2 in the afternoon. Grrrrrr...