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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. &nbsp;: )<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&apos;est intéressant, comme approche, d&apos;aller sur le monde de l&apos;industriel et de l&apos;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&apos;hui permet la meilleure expérience au meilleur rapport coût / compatibilité / capacités d&apos;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&apos;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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