My dad bought this exact computer in the early 80s via DAK mail order. I recently found this in my garage. I cant believe someone actually made a video about it! This was our family computer into the mid 90s. Original had EGA and the 1.2 floppy and 40meg HDD 1meg memory. He Later upgraded to a CompuAdd VGA card and monitor because our EGA monitor died. He also added a 3.5 1.44 drive and the original sound blaster card. It had DOS and Gem desktop installed. I have yet to power it on because its been sitting in my garage for 10+ years.
@jozsiolah1435Күн бұрын
Intel stands for intelligence, you can activate it by reading, plain text games, or Monkey Island text game. It turns on an autopilot, so if you shoot or drive, it corrects your mistakes. Stunts also turns it on hen you choose menus, select cars, colours, etc. AMD stands for Agility, Magic, Dexterity. Better chance for finding rare websites.
@OzzFan1000Күн бұрын
If it helps to explain the 32bit/16bit nature of the 386SX vs DX: the 386SX is a fully 32bit microprocessor internally but uses a 16bit data bus. This means that to fill a 32bit CPU register, two bus cycles must occur, which seriously hampered the overall performance of the 386 chip. Also, the 386SX has the same 20bit address bus as the 286, meaning that the maximum amount of memory it can handle is 16MB of RAM. Fully 32bit 386DX chips can theoretically handle the full 4GB address space but were limited by the chipsets available at the time. To confuse matters, there was a bug in very early 386 designs that prevented them from running 32bit software. Intel had to test each CPU and those that had the bug were stamped with "16BIT SW ONLY" on the chip.
@BollingHolt2 күн бұрын
Very nice build. I love your representation of all performance specs hardware.
@turbinegraphics162 күн бұрын
I like it because in some ways its 16 bit so its in the same family as amiga and snes/megadrive and its interesting how each has its strength. The gameblaster sounds like its missing half the channels in the test near the end though.
@bryancozort20682 күн бұрын
Kings quest had some amazing graphics at the time.
@bryancozort20682 күн бұрын
I had a 386 sx 25 mhz amd cpu. Also it had the famous creative labs upgrade kit with cd rom 2 or 4x and sb16. 8 mb ram. It could run most fmv games at the time well but it irritated me trying to doom on it. No cigar.
@jjohnson719582 күн бұрын
google the ibm pc junior error code
@carlbyronthompson3 күн бұрын
A 386 sx 12 was my first computer. It had Dos 6.22
@vardekpetrovic97162 күн бұрын
Your parents cheaped out on both the CPU and OS then. By the time 6.22 came out DRDOS was already up to version 7 and was a lot better than any version of MSDOS. It could do multitasking and networking. and the SX is just a 286 with a different memory manager making it slower than a 286 in most cases, but it could run some 386 software that the 286 could not. Not that you would want to as it was WAY too slow for 386 software for the most part due to its single line addressing. For just about the same price you could have probably gotten a DX equivalent CPU from Green, C&t, AMD, Cyrix, or any of the others for the price of a SX (the Super 386 by C&t is my favourite at 33 mhz, but i think there was a 40mhz version as wel). And DRDOS was only 50 bucks for a home computer user, that is 146 dollars in todays money.
@AOKComputers3 күн бұрын
The Algorithm pushed this to me just now. This is the content I mess with.
@AncientElectronics2 күн бұрын
Keep in mind this particular video is a bit outdated and my benchmarking scores were flawed. I did make a correction and update video.
@NielsHeusinkveld3 күн бұрын
Test Drive 3 was such a horrible execution of a great idea. You can see the speed of the 'game time' by following the clock in the top left. The more stuff that is going on, the slower the game runs. It is worse even than Geoff Crammond's F1GP / world circuit game, where the game would at least never run faster than real time, only slower if you set details too high.
@nodaitsu3 күн бұрын
No 386 SX case badges kind of makes sense. If you were a system integrator back then, you'd want your customers to know that they're definitely getting a real 386. No need to complicate matters with extra letters. 😆 I remember basically everybody around here had the SX, except for a few CAD and business power users with elaborate DX setups. Only really changed when people started upgrading to 386 DX-40s, 486 DLC and the like, years later.
@protox073 күн бұрын
Awesome
@jjohnson719583 күн бұрын
the motherboard needs a good washing warm water and soap
@jjohnson719583 күн бұрын
i had the tower version of this gx110 and i gave it a custom pci card slot cooling fan... and it worked
@Pickle1363 күн бұрын
fyi necroware reverse engineered the cms chips so if you have some gal chips and programmer we can program them ourselves.
@DominatorHDX3 күн бұрын
Did a fully specced super deluxe 486 DX-2 66 build last year and am now in the process of collecting/buying parts, building and testing a Pentium 233 MMX with 3DFX Voodoo and all the bells and whistles. Maby next year I'll go further back in time to do a 386 or maby even a 286 build. We'll see 😅
@RobertoCorreaEdwards3 күн бұрын
He doesn't like empty sockets...
@Raul_Gajadhar3 күн бұрын
That board could probably take a DX 386, also you should have turned the board over to see if the empty sockets has traces that even go anywhere. I have a similar board with cache sockets that are not wired to anything. Fake cache so to say, hence 'Cheap'. I wonder if you have to have a separate oscillator for the FPU, I can't really remember right now, I plan to dig my board up as the last time I tested it was in 1998/1999. I am sure the sticker is still on it. I really need to start photographing my stuff, and upload them somewhere. Rather than having go and look for it. Nice job on this one, really entertaining.
@AncientElectronics3 күн бұрын
The CPU is soldered on so any CPU change to a DX would require desoldering and soldering on the new CPU, or a socket. I always thought the SX boards themselves were also 16-bit so I'm not sure a DX would work or would it just function as an SX if it did work? I believe there is a second oscillator on the board.
@NiTye3573 күн бұрын
Lovely PC case
@alession40903 күн бұрын
Very interesting, just a question: by looking at the photos on your site the graphics card doesn't look like a PCI model, it has three "prongs" instead of the usual 2, and I can't seem to find any GeForce 2 with PCI online. Am i missing something here? I've been looking for a graphics card for the exact same machine so I'm referencing to you material a lot
@AncientElectronics3 күн бұрын
It is indeed a PCI card. PCI cards were 5v and later 3.3v so cards have different keyings. The card in question is a universal PCI card for 5v or 3.3v
@detalite3 күн бұрын
12:17 Smaller RAM sockets are for parity bit chip. 1 bit memory chip plus two 4 bits chips, and you get something simmilar to 30 pin SIMM. 50:27 Laser engraved SAA1099? Obvious fake. You need to look one with printed Philips logo.
@dk34063 күн бұрын
13:30 When the monitor shows blurring, it suffers from Altersschwäche (weakness in old age). Possibly exchange capacitors? I had this with this monitor as well in the past, but now replaced with an IIGS-to-VGA-adaptor: "Apple IIGS VGA adapter by Manila Gear" studio.kzfaq.infoqUYHgiIQ8zA/edit
@aaldrich19823 күн бұрын
every time you post a video I'm gonna leave a comment wishing you and the doggos well. Anyway a 386 huh? I guess it's kinda nice although perhaps a little slow for my personal desires. It'd be good for Wing Commander and Wolfenstein 3D. I'm sure plenty more but it's kinda a niche build in 2024. I guess the whole hobby revolves around nostalgia so build whatever makes you happy and takes you back to a better time.
@AncientElectronics3 күн бұрын
@@aaldrich1982 indeed, in all honesty if I wanted I could probably whittle the collection down to 2 or 3 setups and still be able to cover most games. Still, as you said a lot of it is nostalgia and just fun. Thanks for the best wishes. Unfortunately one of the doggos is 17 and unfortunately he hasn't been doing well so I'm not sure how long he has left in him.
@aaldrich19823 күн бұрын
@@AncientElectronics I asked you recently and you said something similar. I'm sure you have given - and will continue - to give him the best life he can have and will equally make the right decision when the time comes. You'll know. Pets take a piece of our heart but leave a piece of theirs permanently in ours. You're right - it'd be very easy to have maybe 2 or 3 setups. I think maybe a high end XP machine, a Pentium 3 Win98 machine with a 3dfx card and a Pentium 75 DOS 6.22 machine would be my personal choices.
@initial_kd3 күн бұрын
I've never used or built or 386 sx or dx so i do enjoy seeing them sometimes in vids like yours. I have a Cyrix 5x86 as an all round dos based rig. Some speed sensitive games run just right on a 386 and that's the only reason I think someone would want one, other than nostaliga. The 16bit data bus reminds me of the Apple Mac Classic II that has a 68030 but a slower 16bit bus.
@definitelycasualpcs87894 күн бұрын
Oh nice build!! And mix of parts...almost like it was a 286 that was just board swapped to 386 but left the expansion cards for cost savings. Ironically...I was about to start recording my 386sx build this week lol 😆
@AncientElectronics3 күн бұрын
Thats more or less what I was going for. A 386 but with more of a late 80s 286 feel. Good luck with your SX build, looking forward to seeing it.
@definitelycasualpcs87893 күн бұрын
@@AncientElectronics thats about what I think mine will be... I think the board is from 92 but it's a super budget board with a 33sx so 88 or 89 ish build and parts. Assuming I have a working ide drive that's low capacity...if not I'll temp use my test cf card adapter until I order the right style I'll save the higher end et4000 and stuff for the dx40 build lol
@autingo65834 күн бұрын
"without combo" probably means w/o integrated floppy / ide controller? btw. yes, dip, dual in-line package.
@ingoreimann2824 күн бұрын
oh and concerning (not undoable) modifications: yeah, i also don't find it pretty. but your example is of course rather tame. i'm almost up in tears whenever i hear those keyboard people horror stories, them ripping apart everything for their switches, including ancient super-rare systems. the tech time traveller has some heartbreaking stories.
@AncientElectronics3 күн бұрын
Yea, I'm not a fan of more rare items getting dismantled for parts but were still in a time I can walk into a goodwill on almost any given day and still find an old PC CD drive so I wouldn't call them rare or expensive to aquire even in 2024. I'd also say there's a diffrence between a cosmetic modification that keeps the functionality in tact and tearing somthing apart for parts.
@fra44554 күн бұрын
Great video
@dirkruppol38504 күн бұрын
I am building a very similar system, 386SX-33, 8Mb ram, some soundblaster clone with midi, 5.25 and 3.5 floppy, cdrom, with the same goal, for some special games like WC, the early Testdrives, Indiana Jones games that run way to fast on my main DOS machine. On the subject of period correct, it is my opinion that everyone does what he/she likes to do. Yes, period correct is nice, but I am not using a spinning HDD, I am using a CF card, a multispeed cdrom (8x I think), a ET4000 (as this is what I have and know it works), a 15 inch CRT monitor. It's part of the fun to get this mix of new and old working!
@ninjamaster34534 күн бұрын
28:30 yeah in the 90s id get a new case and spray paint colors in wanted. Inclhding the drives. It took masking and time but it was a unique build. Besides the plastic of the drives will yellow over time unmodified.
@matthewday75654 күн бұрын
Ah, I think you have the "Trang Bow/Trangg Bow 80386SX SCAMP". JP11 is 2-3 to run NPU sync to CPU speed, 1-2 to run it from OSC2 - and looks like the DIP sockets are for chip RAM and parity
@AncientElectronics4 күн бұрын
@@matthewday7565 thanks for the info
@user-pm3lu7vw5l4 күн бұрын
I love the 386 sx ! great memory ! 😎
@vardekpetrovic97164 күн бұрын
386sx is just a 286 with an altered memory manager, it is actually shower than the 286 in most cases at the same speed.
@mattelder19714 күн бұрын
The issue you mention around 35:30 can be from a floppy drive with a bad change detection line. That can result from a bad switch in the drive, a bad cable, or a bad controller card. It can also be the result of a caching issue in DOS.
@zenmaster245 күн бұрын
i had one of these with 2 celeron 366's overclocked to 550mhz running windows 2000 workstation - happy days
@carlosnumbertwo5 күн бұрын
My first build was a 423. Now I have an amd am4 5700x with a 4070 super. Holy shit we’ve come along way! And yes I drive a manual 97 Miata. Lmao!!!
@riggsjr312610 күн бұрын
gateways and puppies ? definitely hit sub . give puppy scratches
@shirley-h2o10 күн бұрын
nice video ,,,, very cool dell,,,,,,, the fan in the back that covers the cpu blows air out the back of the computer
@bobbinsthethird11 күн бұрын
Literally the only review on KZfaq for this game. If you're thinking of talking video games nobody else having talked about it should be some inspiration
@thefisherman438011 күн бұрын
so i have an ibm aptivia 2171 that has an slot 1 socket, i am useing an pentium 3 750 mhz right now, i bought a pentium 3 tualatin 1.4 ghz 100fsb with a MSI MS-6905 MS6905 V2/2.3 Slot 1 Socket 370 converter board. it boots up fine, i have tested it with 3dmark 2000 and got a nice score, but it is very unstable, opeing programs or some random freezes, and it dont like deamon tools at all, cant open any games from deamon tools, or sometimes it can but if i try again it wont open and program freezes makeing the pc freezes after some time. when i go back to my pentium 3 750 cpu problems go away. win 98 2 stick 128mb ram 256 total 1 agp gpu nvidia mx 440 64mb 1 pci voodoo 2 monster mb psu Spire SFX-300-PEC-PSU 300watt when it ran 3dmark 2000 i did try to see if the cooler was hot but it was not, so the cooler seams fine. motherboard Acer V66M-2Z Chipset Intel 440BX (Seattle) i am wondering if this is normal, since the cpu is not supported or mishmatch.
@HuSerrVVVF13 күн бұрын
Apparently it was made by Hyosung Computer
@kman20139914 күн бұрын
hmmm i don't see the value to this i owned plenty of these machines have no wish to own another i just love making or edit a floppy config and auto files even than others i/o port serial etc. even win 95 plug and play was hit and miss at least stuff was standardized, i didn't have to worry about if this or that part working together, unless i was pushing the limits at the time
@boardernut14 күн бұрын
So you are testing only one execution unit of every processor and call it a comparison. Well done mate.
@Apple2gs17 күн бұрын
I've never seen an FV310, but I did pick up a free 27 inch FS12 and the image quality has blown me away! It's quite possibly the nicest looking CRT I've ever seen (I suspect it's the same picture tube used in the FV310). The colors pop, it's razor sharp and has excellent black level. It's not perfect, but it is very close to PVM quality. In fact, I've hooked up an vintage 80's Apple IIGS computer using an RGB to component transcoder and it looks as good as VGA displays that sync down to 15 KHz!
@jacobnix669117 күн бұрын
Liking for the intro, haven’t even seen the video yet! 😂
@Arcadecomponentscom17 күн бұрын
The 64K internal memory card sits inside an RFI shield to help meet FCC emissions. The smaller power supply board is an earlier one from IBM, but also one that puts out less power than the long board. I'd suggest replacing it with the long version. The plastic dividers were an add-on from IBM to help keep pins from getting bent from not putting the plugs in straight. On the Jr, the Jr version of River Raid doesn't work with the V20 installed. The Jr. Booster referred to by Microsoft was their 128K sidecar expansion that had the first rev green-eyed mouse with it and also had a clock/calendar in it. It can be expanded to 512K with some moderate reworking.
@yellowblanka605820 күн бұрын
Your footage of Wing Commander definitely illustrates a major advantage of DOSBox...being able to control the number of CPU cycles available at any time to dial in the right speed.
@kintustis24 күн бұрын
i wonder if in 30 years, people could criticize my own build as "not period correct" with all these peacemeal old parts.
@isaiasprestes26 күн бұрын
Greetings! Great video! How is the 386 dog doing? :D
@NightSprinter26 күн бұрын
To each their own, dude I share a first name with. :D The only reason I have a PiStorm in the 2000 a friend's repairing, isn't really so much games. With the more creative-focused apps I want to use (that isn't ProTracker, AHX, or HivelyTracker), I want to have as much CPU oomph as I can for stuff like DPaint and 3D modeling programs.
@xXxCobraCommanderxXx28 күн бұрын
Amiga is way more advanced than either IIgs or ST.