unrelated but I'm sure many of you also watched this show in the early-mid 90s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Now4KeAiys

Which is the best Homebrew Soundcard?

https://youtu.be/8pwxGidYyxk

appiah4 wrote:

Nice video, looking forward to Pt. 2. ....

Much appreciated for the feedback! I will keep that in mind. And yeah it seems very hard to track down a quality AT case in 2019. I've got another one that I will be doing a restoration to. I think it should make for a neat video. Cheers.

Forgot to post this when I finished it. A full 53 minute long look back at the Yamaha MU series, answering many rumors and questions I've seen floating about the units, along with tons of demos 😀 https://youtu.be/PF9ul5JFAH0

Retro Game Review 8: Mappy for Atari 2600

https://youtu.be/TXTdoGRrKIw

Retro Game Review 9: Scramble for the Atari 2600

https://youtu.be/qHlOmOLssTw

^^ that is pretty damn astounding for the 2600. Reminds me a lot of Parsec on the TI99 & even manages to play "faster", if not smoother. Mappy is an impressive port too.

Imagine if these had been around in the '80s...

Part 2 of my 486 build series. This one is 40 minutes long and took 6 hours to edit. I didn't want it to be this long but I also wanted to be thorough while cutting out as much as I possibly could. In part 3 I'll finish up the build, then walk through the setup of the SD-IDE board, DOS & Windows 3.1 install, as well as a few games oh and some B-Roll beauty shots haha. I had a few people suggest they liked something a little longer form and given that I'm only putting out a video every other week right now, I didn't want this to take like 2 more months to finish.

https://youtu.be/QTdTx6O0g8U

P.S. - I still feel weird saying this, and while I am just doing this channel for fun, I would also love to see it grow. If you enjoy this video please consider giving it a thumbs up and maybe subscribing. I still have lots of projects and videos planned. Cheers!

I will watch it tomorrow 😉

A little(?) tutorial for my recent DOS/VGA text mode font editor.

https://youtu.be/aEGT7A5RVRU

I should mention that the download now includes even more fonts (over 1400 of them, from various computers, operating systems, software and hardware). You also get the full source code, for those who enjoy spaghettified ASM. 😉

xjas wrote:

^^ that is pretty damn astounding for the 2600. Reminds me a lot of Parsec on the TI99 & even manages to play "faster", if not smoother. Mappy is an impressive port too.

Imagine if these had been around in the '80s...

Indeed. But the tools nowadays are so much better, including excellent emulators. But yeah, it’s amazing what amounts of fun you can get out of a 40 year old console with literally less RAM than characters in a tweet.

VileRancour wrote:

A little(?) tutorial for my recent DOS/VGA text mode font editor.

https://youtu.be/aEGT7A5RVRU

I should mention that the download now includes even more fonts (over 1400 of them, from various computers, operating systems, software and hardware). You also get the full source code, for those who enjoy spaghettified ASM. 😉

Very cool. I remember a few shareware games using custom fonts. Also PC Tools and the like would use it to create pseudo graphical UIs. Best trick was to simulate a graphical mouse cursor.

The VGA text mode had quite a bit of tricks. Smooth scrolling, custom palettes... thanks for the video!

Yep - the sort-of-classic example in my book is Impulse Tracker, although the mouse cursor thing was done earlier (I wonder who was the first to implement that?).
I was semi-seriously thinking about trying to add that to the editor, but then I realized that mouse support would be more of a liability than a useful feature 😀

(Re: custom palettes - some of you will notice there is one called "Vogonic"...) 😉

Kiteless wrote:

Part 2 of my 486 build series. This one is 40 minutes long and took 6 hours to edit. I didn't want it to be this long but I also wanted to be thorough while cutting out as much as I possibly could. In part 3 I'll finish up the build, then walk through the setup of the SD-IDE board, DOS & Windows 3.1 install, as well as a few games oh and some B-Roll beauty shots haha. I had a few people suggest they liked something a little longer form and given that I'm only putting out a video every other week right now, I didn't want this to take like 2 more months to finish.

https://youtu.be/QTdTx6O0g8U

P.S. - I still feel weird saying this, and while I am just doing this channel for fun, I would also love to see it grow. If you enjoy this video please consider giving it a thumbs up and maybe subscribing. I still have lots of projects and videos planned. Cheers!

Watched and thoroughly enjoyed your vide/

I also left you a comment; you have no cache on your motherboard and 64MB is a bit too much if you want it cacheable, especially in WB mode as the BIOS is currently configured.

appiah4 wrote:

Watched and thoroughly enjoyed your vide/

I also left you a comment; you have no cache on your motherboard and 64MB is a bit too much if you want it cacheable, especially in WB mode as the BIOS is currently configured.

Thanks so much for the kudos and the comment on the video. My plan is to finish up the 3 part series on the 486 this weekend with final assembly, OS install(s), play a few games, etc then install the Cache and do a short video on what impact that has, mainly on gaming compared to the previous video. I want to keep the cache video under 10 min and release it the following weekend. I'm just really having fun with the YouTube channel now that I finally have the ball rolling on it. Something that surprised me is that it is helping me stay productive and on track for projects. Doing a longer form video every 2 weeks helps the pressure off. Your's and other's feedback has been awesome too! Cheers.

Greetings all. Part 3 and the final part of my 486-DX4 100Mhz build is done. Came out a bit longer than I wanted it to. Tried a few new things for editing. I think I talked too much haha. Ahh well. Hope you enjoy it.

https://youtu.be/I21saEpph0c

Let's Code MS-DOS 0x08: Using the Mouse

https://youtu.be/Yrp0Eb87_cA

Kiteless wrote:

Greetings all. Part 3 and the final part of my 486-DX4 100Mhz build is done. Came out a bit longer than I wanted it to. Tried a few new things for editing. I think I talked too much haha. Ahh well. Hope you enjoy it.

https://youtu.be/I21saEpph0c

Thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm not sure I 100% agree with the 'Just by any VLB card and be done with it' advice (I see where you are coming from though, and it's not an advice one can really argue against to be honest) because if your motherboard has PCI slots then there are probably a lot of less expensive and faster solutions to be had (I'm going with a PCI card for my DX4 build personally) even though the build will have less character and charm.

I look forward to seeing what you post about sound cards. That one will be very long I presume, considering the vast amount of options.

root42 wrote:

Let's Code MS-DOS 0x08: Using the Mouse

https://youtu.be/Yrp0Eb87_cA

Added to Watch Later 😀

appiah4 wrote:

Thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm not sure I 100% agree with the 'Just by any VLB card and be done with it' advice (I see where you are coming from though, and it's not an advice one can really argue against to be honest) because if your motherboard has PCI slots then there are probably a lot of less expensive and faster solutions to be had (I'm going with a PCI card for my DX4 build personally) even though the build will have less character and charm.

I look forward to seeing what you post about sound cards. That one will be very long I presume, considering the vast amount of options.

Oh yeah agree with you. If you have PCI, go that option for sure. Thanks for the good vibes. Will try and keep future videos shorter. Next video is an easy one. A quick guide on cleaning/lubricating 3.5" PC floppy drives, after that the NuXT build. Then some more 486 videos. Cheers!

My Channel is PCetroTech. This weekend I hope (but cannot promise) to put up a video about a new 486 build I've been working on. Just trying to get the case all cleaned up now.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWYne_mhlRE1AiN2ApjmZDA