Building a Tiny 486 PC104 retro gaming computer(And it has a CD-ROM!)
12K views · Mar 14, 2026 · Gaming
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@drewnewby · 6 months ago · pinned
Want Some Rye? Course Ya Do!
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@skalifari · 6 months ago
Thank you for showing me a new rabbit hole to go down.
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@clintthompson4100 · 6 months ago
The moment I saw Return To Zork in the picture I had to watch the video. Absolutely one of my favorite games along with the Kings Quest series and 7th Guest. Also nice to see the Cyrix CPU get some love.
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@Earthgore · 6 months ago
this is almost perfect. Though i'd love a floppy drive, as i still have LOTS of games on floppy disks
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@PhazerSC · 6 months ago
This, and the previous 386 are such awesome and elegant builds. I also love old hardware and I have built a 486 last year myself, using a Lucky Star LS-486E with an AM5x86 133MHz CPU - because I never had a 133 and always wanted one, an ET-6000 2MB PCI video card and a PicoGUS because I had to have a Gravis Ultrasound but couldn't justify buying a real one for $700+
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@danandtab7463 · 2 months ago
This is a lovely channel I just discovered. I see projects within my abilities that I may have to try soon.
@MotownBatman · 6 months ago
Wikid Awesome, This is a Sexy Build
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@MalleusSemperVictor · 6 months ago
Ah, the sweepstakes winner!
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@LukeLunn · 6 months ago
Awesome build! The intro to Full Throttle was so bad ass. I gotta do a playthrough.
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@fraserskomorowski2311 · 6 months ago
Takes me back to college over here in Canada! Bought a 386 one year for gaming and upgraded it the next with the 486 dx/2. Was the most powerful computer in the dorm for a good while. Dam thing cost a small fortune then. Later went to the Pentium cartridge processors (and one with Rambus RDRAM, ugg), a 955 BE and finally a i5-3570K. Still rocking that i5 14 years later.
@theblobjectfish · 6 months ago
Love this! I feel like the ultimate evolution of this idea would have like a Pentium M or something.
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@delsarcade · 6 months ago
Well done and enjoyable video! I purchased the ITX Llama, but had no idea something like your setup existed. Congrats on the enclosure design as well. Looks great!
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