Building a mini bookshelf PC104-386 retro gaming PC for MSDOS
16K views · Feb 8, 2026 · Gaming
Comments · 60
@drewnewby · 7 months ago
A PC/104 sound card, oh sure, I'll just pick one up when I go to the store later for extra unicorns.
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@GetFitEatRight · 7 months ago
I'll just stick with dosbox. You guys are insane thought and I respect that.
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@danielpetrov9179 · 7 months ago
Nice job, you were very lucky to find a PC/104 sound card.
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@OmeedNOuhadi · 7 months ago
Excellent detective food for thought video, thanks for sharing
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@Vanessaira-Retro · 7 months ago
Superb project! I am fortunate to have a WeeCee, but I have still be seeking out the smallest PCs I can do up while still having a real Floppy and a CD Drive. These tiny projects are really neat and I have been watching the ITX Llama project as well. Totally awesome and glad to see you doing neat projects like this.
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@LotoTheHero · 7 months ago
Nice solution!
@MotownBatman · 7 months ago
Wikid Awesome Brotha!<br>This is Awesome!
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@ivana.medina3126 · 7 months ago
Cool video! <br>You earned a new subscriber!<br>I may no understand why someone is going to build a 386 SX equivalent instead of a 486/pentium (i dont know if the last one exist, i suppose yes) which allows you to have almost (if not all) MS-DOS catalog, i mean, why specifically a 386 SX? For better retro-compatibility? i kinda dont understand it. : )<br><br>PD: I saw you pressing spacebar to shoot in wolfenstein3d and taking a hit with the first enemy of the level, lol , (it should have been the default option instead of Ctrl.).
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@DewyBlazer8 · 7 months ago
i literally have the same Dell Monitor watching this video on lol
@esseferio · 7 months ago
C'est intéressant, comme approche, d'aller sur le monde de l'industriel et de l'embarqué. Reste peut-être à explorer le chemin du FPGA et on aura fait le tour de la question au sujet de quel matériel aujourd'hui permet la meilleure expérience au meilleur rapport coût / compatibilité / capacités d'extension et complexité...
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@fcf8269 · 5 days ago
I think you found a nice one here. Just not sure why you didn't make a passive cooler with the top case; as it is metal so it would be perfect to be connected to the main chip on the board and release some heat off
@Reapermonteraspayteclavatodas · 7 months ago
MS-DOS be like:
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