What an awesome and informative video! You should definitely do more of these.
Glad subscriber in here, dude! :)

Thank you for the kind words :)

;)
I gotta thank you, Phil. Saw most of your vids during this weekend and had lots of fun + I've learned so much. Rewarding as heck!

ps: on the windows xp machine you say that was very hot during past december; just for comparison sake, how much ºC was it?
C ya! .)

The last video was superb stuff, plenty to take in.
Cheers :)

I find your videos really enjoyable as well, the gog tweak guides are really useful and I followed the MUNT emulator guide yesterday. It's amazing the difference that spending 5 minutes tweaking a game can make.

Keep up the good work!

Same here. Amazing job he did with Screamer 2, helped me a lot! :)
Hey Phil, do you consider building a Windows Vista machine?
Cheers!

Thanks for all the feedback, means a lot!

A Vista machine? Good idea, I'll add it to the list :)

Checked it out today. Seems pretty cool and a good supplemental to some of the stuff LGR does. Good work!

Ultimate retro hard drive? Seagate SSHD

Have I found the ultimate retro hard drive? It certainly is extremely fast and flexible!

It's Seagate's SSHD! Featuring SSD technology, but you don't have to worry about TRIM support and running SSD maintenance software.

With the SeaTools software you can set the capacity to whatever drive you like. Great for making the drive compatible with older computers with BIOS or OS capacity limitations such as 32 or 120 GB.

SmartAlign keeps the performance high, even on misaligned partitions that don't fit the 4K format (Windows XP and older).

The drive is also nice and quiet.

Enjoy this video!

Do I need to run a program on my pc due to having an SSD?
Not sure what TRIM support is.

TRIM looks after your SSD. It's integrated in modern versions of Windows, but not in XP. So under XP, some SSD come with a tool that you can run to manually "clean" or "maintain" your drive.

With the SSHD you don't need to worry about any of that :)

Very interesting. Guess I'll check out your videos. :p

That's cool, thanks :)

These are some videos you guys might enjoy.

Intel vs AMD S1E2 - nForce2 joins the fight

Intel vs AMD S1E3 - P4 vs XP 3200+ GeForce 6800 GT and 875 chipset

Building the 3 in 1 DOS Retro Gaming PC: 386 486 and Pentium

In this video I am building the 3 in 1 DOS Retro Gaming PC. Based around an Intel Pentium running at 133 MHz and slowing it down by disabling caches, we can play games from the 386, 486 and Pentium era.

Games that run well on a 386, but too fast on later machines are for example Wing Commander and Test Drive 3. Some game run too slow on a 386, but too fast on a Pentium, Theme Park is such a game. Here we put the machine into 486 mode.

And finally, at full speed we can play Doom 2, Wing Commander 3 and System Shock at 640 x 480.

I am showing the entire process of building the machine, partitioning and formatting the hard drive.

You can download my MS-DOS starter pack which gets up and running in no time with working mouse, CD-ROM and boot menu for memory options.

I am also showing you how to install the Sound Blaster drivers, configure the mixer, route the PC speaker through the Sound Blaster and how you can use Reverb, Chorus and 3D Stereo Enhancement to bring new life to FM sounds.


♦Additions / Corrections♦

I totally forgot to record how you change the interrupt from 5 to 7. What you do is go to C:\CTCM and run CTCU. At the screen with the resources, change the configuration profile from 0 to 1. Now you can change the resources manually!