LGR - IBM PC 5170 Upgrade Special! 640K RAM etc.

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I love it when a plan comes together 😎

Let's be honest... putting a sound card in a PC back then must have been equal to the level of excitement of our ancestors when they finally had sliced bread.

The game at the end reminded me of a 3d game called DarkSide that I played (at a snails pace!) on my MDA fitted 5150 as a kid. So I figured I'd download it and give it a go! How spoiled we are in 2017. Anyway great video, thanks for sharing. I enjoyed watching it almost as much as you enjoyed making it I'm sure.

Charles Wiltshire

I can relate to that! I remember the first time adding a video card and then a CD-ROM drive, it was an addictive rush. If you liked this, I recommend my 486 PC build video too! It's quite a journey :)

LGR

Watching you working on that computer reminded me when I was doing the same on my 486 and Pentium 100 back in the 90s. Installing a CD-ROM back then made me feel like I was a top engineer at NASA or something...

Frederic St-Georges

No GUI was ever sold with it to my knowledge, they only sold version of PC-DOS for it, with v3.30 being the one in 1988 when this was made!

LGR

I wonder what the proper GUI environment would be. I guess it does not have enough memory for OS/2? I know that we had a IBM 286 with windows 3.11 on it when I was a kid, but it was a big tower, so probably a later machine.

Excellent, thanks!

LGR

Thanks! And I know right? I miss that particular era of sci-fi style in games.

LGR

Loved watching the trouble shooting - those replacement drive-rails were an ingenious solution! And unf. That whole Crescent Hawk's Revenge box and contents. Or just the Battletech art in general. *fans self*

Rob Caporetto

I really enjoyed this video, really glad I can watch you deal with problems and fix them without me having to get all stressed about it. :D

Cool upgrade :O

floverSaeu09

Quite enjoyable video, this. I love the old Adlib music, and never realized that that game had such great sound. Looking forward to what comes next!

Zem Hysong

Oh yeah, it's well worth it in the end. Such a treat to work on a brand new one of these.

LGR

Glad you enjoyed it :)

LGR

Noted!

LGR

Thanks man!

LGR

That just links to a college homepage..

LGR

Ad-Lib! You should check out <a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.cs.cmu.edu/</a>~tom7/abc/ and see if the code there works on non-emulated hardware.

Same here !

Maximilien Noal

Such a sweet setup dude.

Nostalgia Nerd

That seemed like a stressful upgrade! I admire your patience, and glad you got it all working in the end. :)

Christopher Foss

Love your hardware videos! They're my favorite thing on your channel! Keep 'em coming!

Timo Schmidt

Goodies for the 5170! And they make this already amazing time capsule even better! I'm sure there's more in store, will stay tuned for what comes next. Thanks for yet another awesome PC hardware video Clint (big thumbs up! ^_^).

more things like this, please!

Thanks for the clarification, will address this in the next draft :)

LGR

Nice job on the drive-rails. I've had to do similar things. FYI the Adlib can do PCM samples.. but it has no DMA or buffer, so it was rarely used since it required dedicated CPU time to accomplish it, just like the PC-speaker. Also, while most modern USB floppies are only 1.44, some of them can do 720K. I found one for $15 that does both 1.44 and 720K and have found it very useful for dealing with my ancient PCs. LHX was also one of my childhood favorite DOS games.. but I agree the Adlib sound isn't very impressive, ironically the PC-speaker intro is actually impressive (as far as PC speaker music goes) since it does a lot of arpeggio to make it sound like there are multiple voices.

The 8-Bit Guy

I remember the old man doing a lot of stuffing around like this, use to watch/help haha. Great fun.

"There's links; they exist!" hahaha

Thomas Fuchs

What do you mean with "old days"? :D A few days ago I changed just the SATA port for my SSD and my PC was like "I can't find your operating system anymore"

Zapfenelch

"Why is it not showing up?!" Oh how I remember the old days XD This is why my retrobox is my 486 and not 286 XD