SoundBlaster & DOS Games : 1993 Nostalgia Part 1

People these days don't know the struggle of setting jumpers, manually setting IRQ and DMA channels and making boot disks to get just one game to run.

Younger people cant imagine, we spent more time getting a game to run than play it in those DOS days. Getting those pesky last 4000 bytes of lower ram together with needed drivers was exhausting. Many ended up with boot scripts for desired combinations of EMS, XMS and selected drivers.

Those sweet 486 days are still fresh in my mind.I think i was like 12 (in 93) when my dad bought an Ambra Sprinta 486 and the Soundblaster, and even a modem. It was so badass back then! Many cool games (lots of demos too), fun programs, and the dawn of websites, they looked so creative back then. Great memories!

I remember, my first PC I bought in 1993 (which was a 486/DX33), I ordered not only a Soundblaster card, but also a single-speed CD-Rom (and I payed a fortune for this). Took me so much effort to get the mouse, the Soundblaster and also the CD-Rom running in parallel, but after a lot of attempts, studying the DOS 5.0 "handbook" (in fact it was more like a tome), I did it and I was soooo happy. For other games like Ultima VII, I created boot scripts in order to choose the best combination right from the beginning. Thank you for uploading this video 😊

Oh CRAP you are totally bringing me back. After my 486DX2 from Packard Bell which was extremely expensive and became severely outdated in a year, I became a computer builder and started setting up ISDN networks so me and my friends could play Doom2, Hexan, Duke Nukem and other 1st Player shooters. This was the age of cyber cafes and gaming tournaments. Age of the Empires was another game I got into and Microsoft launched its Gaming Zone so that people could connect and play multiplayer games. Those were the days man! Loved it 🥰

I’m not much of a gamer and really didn’t play that many games as a kid, but my family did a lot. As soon as the intro to IndyCar started playing, I got transported right back to 1995. My dad played that game so much. He had a stroke back in 2008 and is basically unrecognizable from his former self (the stroke left him paralyzed on his right side and completely changed every aspect of his personality, even the sound of his voice is different) so things that remind me of him before the stroke are pretty special to me. Thank you for triggering some memories of better times.

I was so addicted to Dune II back in the day! At the time, it just checked all the boxes for me. Really great!

When you watch an awesome video, then get excited about part 2, because it's the internet and everything is instant... just to realize he published this 52 minutes ago, and you need to wait for part two 😆

This reminds me of the day when I got sound on my PC for the first time, a 486 too. It was like hearing for the very first time after having been deaf for years. More than 25 years ago...

I was glued to the screen and wondered how the lemmings' mission would end 🤣

The name of the publisher behind Dracula is Psygnosis.. They were huge in the old Amiga/Atari era of UK game development/Publishing. :)

I have the same Cambridge SoundWorks speakers, right in front of me, playing your video for me right now 😄.

It's probably what you meant but in case it wasn't or other people misunderstood: The PC Speaker header isn't for the PC speaker, it's to connect to the PC speaker header on the motherboard so that the audio from that is routed through the system speakers via the sound card internal mixing.

Nice hearing the sounds of setting up a sound card. Really takes me back to the ms dos days. ❤

Thanks for reviving those golden memories ❤. I did remember my brother had one creative blaster sound card for windows 98 machine and especially had that creative sbs speakers. Being a millennial kid i remember playing epic pin ball, f1 grand prix and Labyrinth game was mind blowing in that 90's decade..

Awesome video! I'm 43 years, so, don't need to say too much. However, it brings back a lot of good memories, which made me emotional. My first one was an 386-SX 22Mhz, then, 486-DX2 66, then, 486 DX4-100 32MB RAM (a real cannon, for that time :) Thanks!!

I was so hooked on F1 gp. It was such a groundbreaking game, couldn't get enough of it. It also came with the best manual ever, so descriptive, going into history of every team, explaining various setups in detail, driving lines in detail etc. Oh the memories

Jools, Jops and Stu. Still remember the names some 30 years later. Thanks for the vid.

Omg sound blaster 😭 so much memories

That flight game looks awesome!