When you update a driver in Windows 98, don't have a floppy connected and you accidentally click next on A:\ Instant Doom Loop 😂

DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user.

Happy Friday folks, I'm setting up an AMD Athlon PC tonight, with a Creative Sound blaster Live and Nvidia Geforce4 4200 Ti. My kind of Friday night fun! 👍

Another awesome V2 repair job! 😁

Took one to the face while using the heat gun. Goggles people, goggles!!

I got the RGB mod done on my Orion TV1334A. It looks fantastic.

Stranger things.

Olivetti Modulo M4-P75S -Pentium-S 166MHz (Upgraded) -48MB EDO Ram (Upgraded) -Cache On A STick (COASt) (Added) -IDE Drive 8GB (Upgraded) -OnBoard Video: Trident TGUI 9680 2MB (Upgraded) -Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 CT5420 (Added) -Triple boot Windows 95, 98SE and DSL Linux

yata rambley story thing i still think its hilarious that i used older computers most of my life :p i held onto my first build for the longest time and very reluctantly retired it for a newer system :p went from a pentium 4 to an i7 4790k lmao :p look at this absolute unit o7

For such a popular series, it's crazy that it took THREE YEARS for Megaman to come to the Super NES as "Mega Man X". But the wait was well worth it! Excellent graphics, amazing music, super-tight controls and that wall jumping mechanic is *chef's kiss*.

<sips tea. Sets mug down on the table quietly> <pinches bridge of nose> <writes the following> So I have a new VLB VGA card that i want to spit out low res VESA modes. Test bench LCD monitor says out of range, and I am honestly considering running VSync through my scope to find out WHAT is going on.

Spent 2 days trying to figure out why this card wouldn’t work after reballing. It would show up as sometimes, but the device ID was wrong. Turns out the BIOS address line A1 is open on the core. MAYBE the temperature I was using was too high and killed core? A lesson learned hard🤔

Another obscure video card in my possession🤪

Awesome job! 👍

This Dell System 310 was one of my employer’s first PCs. It was found in a closet, but I was disappointed to discover the original 386DX-25MHz motherboard had been replaced with an AMD K6. Amazingly, my long-standing eBay alert finally paid off, and I now have the system’s original motherboard!

This is the typical BS you go through when you have a hobby called vintage computing.

two of them tuesday

I love my 3D printer but the amount of effort I invested into prototyping a cap for my flux gun needle is a little embarrassing.

So... I did control all the jumpers and tried to have it POST, but instead, I had a literal explosion on the board the instant I flipped the power switch. Flying sparks and a loud bang. TC26 is gone. No idea how this could have happened.

Cleaning out some stuff. I found the CPU from my very first custom build, one I used to learn FL Studio and to write all my music from 2002-2007, pretty much the pivotal moments that started music for me for real. It needs to be cleaned properly. Maybe I’ll figure out a way to frame it.

Look what came on the trip home with me 🙂

A bit more care for this lucky card😌

Amazing work! 😁

Btw, I’ve finally verified that you CAN design a super thin PCB as a reballing stencil. However on the 3rd pass the FR4 would begin to carbonize😂

Windows 95

Well... I guess I am trying to prepare everyone for retro PC content on the channel. "Brace for impact," so to speak. www.youtube.com/post/UgkxkiH...

struck out on the 386, next up on the bench is the Pentium 266 MMX i installed Win98SE but neither cardbus or USB are working and i'm pretty sure its because the BIOS battery is stone dead lets get it apart, i even have a service manual this time a travelstar, nice and not at all foreshadowing

I have no way to convey how strange it is for me to be able to see this from an FPGA.

Questioning my sound card choice here: The "People's Gaming Machine 1992" will be powered by a 486 DX2-66, 8 MB RAM, 256k cache, a Cirrus Logic CL-GD5429 1MB VLB graphics card and a PicoGUS. But I have three choices for main sound card, which I'll detail in the blueskeet below.

Good or bad, here’s the one and only attempt🫠

I don’t know if there is a reward for dumbest retro pc endeavor on youtube, but I might be aiming for it.

New Doom8088 and elksdoom releases. This release is almost 5% faster than the previous release. Why didn't I think of optimizing the BSP trees with a node builder before? github.com/FrenkelS/Doo...

$300k with 9 hours to go! 😵‍💫#PicoIDE www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

I think we all could use some good vibes right now. But I need your help with this, okay? Tell me about one of the BEST DAYS you ever had as a kid that involved a video game. Think about why that day meant so much to you, and share it. Good memories are so, so precious, and I want to know 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴.

As the #PicoIDE campaign on Crowd Supply enters its final hours (www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...), @ctrl-alt-rees.com has come out with a fantastic video all about the PicoIDE! And wow it looks good in that baby AT case. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_t...

I would be too powerful if I had the full size chieftec dragon pc case

Whoever invented SIPP memory should be locked barefoot in a room with a floor made entirely of upside-down 80s motherboards adorned with overly long, spikey through-hole pins.

My next mini retro gaming thing. A tiny passive cooled thin client.

Look who's back! All of the cards I had sent away for repairs, tha's who. These two Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428 1 MB VLB cards weren't even defective, unlike the board I tested them with! But the CL-GD5429 had gotten vartabombed. That was practically a rebuild.

I just bought Duke Nukem 3D… for benchmarking VLB graphics cards. Maaaan.

Monday or Tuesday I'll get back the Cirrus Logic CL-GD5429 1MB VLB that had no less than 6 different issues. Together with the VLB motherboard from @vswitchzero.com's generous care package, I can finally build a "typical" 486 DX2-66 PC and enjoy some DOS games on real hardware like it's 1993!

Actually, I'll wait with my annual Might & Magic World of Xeen playthrough. I'll prepare a savegame with my party created and 0 things done, then play it once I got my "repaired" stuff back (with my only VLB graphics card) and play it on this machine, 486 DX2-66, 8 MB RAM, SB16 compatible sound card

There was an atomic purple gameboy color and a GBA sitting at a thrift store near me for over a month. They had it behind the glass counter priced at a premium. When I found a 20% off coupon, I decided to go buy one of them. ... both gone 😐

Dark Forces (1995). This was one of the first FPS games I ever played.

(1/8) Finally got my MK1869 XTREME from Edro in Portugal! The first thing I did was set up Theme Hospital with ESFM music. Well, it took time for me to figure a lot out again because I finally have a full Windows 98 build again. I was just abstaining from MS-DOS mode until I would receive this card.

Very nice find! Love these Compaq all-in-one systems from this era.

It’s stupid but it’s also very funny calling this thing the MolarPaq.

I got a crt monitor that I dragged here when I moved but didn’t know what to do with it. Well I moved the Core One printer to the other side of the shelf and now use the crt as a secondary monitor. 1280x1024@60hz seems to be the sweet spot (even though it could do 1900x1200 somehow).

Here is some prototype boards.

You can honestly say you've had a solid day in retro computing if pulling off a molex connector caused a substantial loss of blood on the edge of a vintage 90s computer case