[ Music and Keyboard Typing] Greetings, and therefore welcomed an LGR thing! And today, let me introduce to you, this fine computer. A crony of mine was recently wanting to build a PC, so I said I’d help him get it on, with his chosen specs being an AMD Ryzen 5 1600 X CPU, 16 gigs of Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM, a 500 gig 960 EVO M. 2 SSD, a 6 gig GeForce 980 Ti SuperClocked video card, a Fractal Design Define C example, and MS-DOS 6.22.* Laughter* Oh just- I’m kidding, he didn’t collect that. I did. Suffice to say, this is just for a bit of amusing. I is not recommend installing DOS on a modern PC; There’s a whole multitude of conformity publishes, but that’s kind of what I wanna explore in this video.Legacy support is an interesting subject to me, as you are familiar with, the fact that modern PCs still technically passed all sorts of older compatible application, including old-time Microsoft operating systems like MS-DOS, and so I figured, “Hey, why not try to install this on there? ” This, straight onto the SSD from floppy disks and everything. Um, yeah, let’s try to impel that happen because I’ve actually never done this with a computer this new. So, what we’re going to be using to fulfill all this is an external USB 3 inch floppy disk drive, with an MS-DOS boot disk, and you are familiar with, I’ve never tried this out on a modern machine- Just booting from a USB floppy, but we’ll see if it labours! Really gonna go into the BIOS here and check the boot determines to see if it realise it as a boot maneuver, and yes it does! A USB floppy drive indicate up right there. So, precisely hoping it’ll office and … it works perfectly fine! MS-DOS is booting just like that! Of track, we can’t actually install anything to the C: drive yet, it hasn’t been partitioned or formatted or anything, so I’m gonna see how fdisk administers this 500 gig M. 2 SSD.This is asking if I want to enable Large Disk Support, begin this account of the program I’m actually abusing is from Windows 98. And it does recognize it as a fixed disk drive, so I’m going to tell it to use the maximum accessible width for a primary DOS partition. So alright, let’s just go ahead and try to format the C: drive, and…Well,* Chuckle* it says that it’s “1 8,18.5 megs.” I’m assuming that’s 18 gigs and 180 megabytes or something like that. I’m not entirely sure … It might be actually considering the whole 512 gigs and it’s just not displaying it properly. Either action, this is going to make far too long for me to mess with. That’s gonna take a looooong period! I dunno if I wanna do that! I* don’t* want to do that. So I’m just gonna go back and not even mess with trying to have it visualize the whole drive. And just limit it to the two gigs that I know that MS-DOS will work with.And that time around, it is doing it just fine and formatting unusually very quickly! We’ll give it a volume label right here that is appropriate for this particular situation there are still we go! We have a formatted C: drive, ready to install MS-DOS! Which I have on another floppy disk here and the setup is just going to go through and … Well, this is MS-DOS 6.22, so it’s pretty standard. It just sees it as any other PC that it would see it as because DOS, it don’t care. All it knows is that there’s an A: drive, a C: drive, and there’s a PC it can be installed on, so that’s what it’s gonna do. Once those three saucers are complete, MS-DOS is completely positioned. We’re just gonna restart the computer, and…Well, it’s not insure it. At all. I entirely unplugged the disk drive, went into the BIOS, and built sure that it’s only trying to boot from the one internal drive, and it’s just- only not doing it! So whatever this system is looking for, it’s just not know with MS-DOS 6.22. However, if I start it up* with* a boot floppy disk, and then go over to the C: drive, you can see everything is there. And … MS-DOS is now working! Just for the heck of it, let’s passed ScanDisk and see how that works! Wow! That was … instantaneous.* Laughter* I necessitate, I suspect I shouldn’t expect anything less, but uh … Yeah, I thought that was kind of amusing. Alright, time to try out some activities and I have Commander Keen, Episodes 1 and 4 on a floppy disk here.We’re just gonna copy them over to the C: drive, and then try out Commander Keen 1. This is a 16 -color EGA game and it’s booting up just fine, nonetheless … It’s kind of hard to see it in this because my camera was correcting for it a little bit, but the colorings are … wrong. They’re not nearly as vivid as there is a requirement to. The white-hot is colors a little green, and there’s no sound effects whatsoever. Exactly the melodic reverberate sounds of the Model M keyboard.[ Keyboard clicking noises] Now this is no longer a game that uses like a soundcard for sound aftermaths or anything, but that’s one reason that I was wanting to try this first because it uses the PC speaker.But it’s not even toy that! I was thinking maybe it was just incapacitated, so I went into the BIOS again and checked and watched that there was a boot beep that you could enable there, but I too find that it says “Please note that a buzzer is needed.” Sure fairly, that made absolutely no gap in-game. There’s still no voice influences. Keen walking now should be making a little hubbub. It doesn’t.Turns out this board does not have any kind of PC speaker or buzzer invested. Only one last thing to check though, I recollected perhaps it might be propagandizing the PC talker colors through the resound poster yield. I’ve seen some systems that do that, so I plugged in some speakers now and … NOPE! Still no bang whatsoever, so apparently you just have to find a PC loudspeaker and set it in this computer. There is a motherboard header who is able to push it into. PC orator was a matter of the past. Many of them rely on board gauges and light-coloreds and things like that instead nowadays.Alright, time to try Commander Keen 4 now. Amusingly, it does say that the PC speaker is detected, but that probably just means that while there’s the thing on the motherboard that allows it, so whatever, it’s not going to get any chime cause there’s just not one invested. However, I did want to check to see if the EGA would be weird here too, and…It certainly is. Again, everything has this sort of greenish hue going on. It’s just gradation in such a way that does not look right whatsoever. Yellowy-green, pee-colored mush going on top of everything. And I’ve seen this happen on a assortment of more modern video cards like this one. This is a 980 Ti. So while they do have legacy compatibility for CGA and EGA graphics, it’s … not quite accurate for recreations like this. In fact, “youre seeing” some decay going on here with some of the tiles or whatever it’s using for the graphics. They really don’t look right at all. Text modes seem absolutely fine and ASCII people are showing up, it’s all good there, but EGA is just not quite compatible.Alright, I wanna try some other larger games out, but I don’t wanna copy them over by floppy or anything. And I don’t have an external CD drive on hand, so what I’m going to try here is FreeDOS, which, as the figure shows, is a free alternative to DOS and it has all sorts of additional options for more modern hardware, including USB support. So you can plug in USB adheres and this copy of DOS will allow you to open programs and stuff from those. And once I had it installed, it booted up just fine. Whereas MS-DOS was needing a boot disk, FreeDOS was perfectly cool; The computer heard it and booted to it , no problem. So I’m gonna go to the D: drive, which is a USB stick that I have here and lay on it are some activities I wanna try. We’re gonna start with Jazz Jackrabbit now, the CD-ROM version, and it boots up to my surprise, absolutely fine! Again, of course, there’s no sound whatsoever, but it does have the VGA graphics exposing properly … and, in play … it’s good! It’s colorful and accept and it’s fast as it needs to be.For the best part, it’s very smooth. I did notice some stuttering every so often, but that could be because I believe the game actually guides at 75 hertz? Or 70 or something like that. So, it’s dropping some makes every so often, which causes a stutter, but otherwise, yeah, I imply, it’s running it perfectly fine, which is awesome! No emblazon falsification or anything. Next I wanted to try Duke Nukem 3D and I’m gonna try it in 640 x480 VESA compatible procedure and…Well …* Laughter* This is somewhat of a surprise. It flows … like total garbage and there’s some weird corruption going on here. All styles of choppy stuttering composition matters, from the menus to the game itself, mostly in the overlays of the different graphics, like your user interface bits and overlays of the weaponry and whatnot. But it is even worse once you get into certain areas of the game where you have a mirror* Chuckles* It’s just abysmal! The sport totally craps itself. And this is not an peculiar trouble, even on like late’ 90 s, early 2000 s video placards. They really weren’t quite compatible with these SVG-Akinda VESA modes going on, so it does not surprise me that a more modern video placard like this would not have the comparability for those working modes built in. And to confirm that it is the VESA mode that is the culprit, I tried to run it in 320 x200 and it is absolutely fine. Scampers full speed with no problems that I has actually tell, there’s no corruption, all the colourings are good, yeah, this is just Duke Nukem 3D and it’s running neatly, except there is absolutely no bang accomplishes once again.But that’s just gonna be how it is. And yep, the areas with the mirrors are no problems whatsoever. Yeah, is about to change the AMD Ryzen is great for flowing Duke Nukem 3D in DOS in 320 x200 non-VESA 2.0 procedure. Stick that on the box and sell my shares. One more thing I wanna try here, it came to me that I hadn’t actually tried video games in CGA yet, so I was going to try out the CGA version of Lemmings, exactly to see if the emblazons were messed up like EGA was and … yes it is. Everything has this kind of greenish hue to it. Anything that’s supposed to be like white-hot or off-color has a yellowy-green overlay on top of it, is what it looks like. It’s just generate the colours altogether incorrectly. And merely to satiate those wondering if maybe it’s the monitor that I’m expend, I am trying it now on another observer, which I know moves EGA and CGA stuff perfectly well when it has the remedy video card. And yes, you still get the same weirdly mismatched color going on with the palettes of CGA and EGA, it’s just wrong! And that pretty much satiates my curiosity for testing out bequest harmony on this machine here.Time to install boring age-old Windows 10 for the guy that his- this is actually his computer, so I’m sure he “d rather” have that than FreeDOS because uh, probably actually wants to be able to use his computer he bought and you know, there’s always DosBOX. So what is the life lesson, what did we learn here today on LGR? Absolutely nothing of value, I can tell you that! Uh, hopefully it was something at least of modest curiosity and interest. Yeah, you are familiar with, I don’t really know that I have a point here, to be honest, but that’s okay! Uh, another thing though that I did want to mention before I finish up here, is the sound card issue because clearly it wasn’t just the PC loudspeaker, it was the fact that I was get no reverberate whatsoever.I did try a couple of other things, like adding the SoundBlaster variables to autoexec.bat and whatnot, to see if I could push it to get some sort of SoundBlaster compatibility off of the built-in sound chip, but … You can’t do that. These Realtek integrated things really don’t have that sort of DOS compatible sound in there at all, as far as I know. So that’s why I wasn’t able to get SoundBlaster stuff to work. I merely didn’t go into that much earlier. The interesting thing is, maybe you could* theoretically* get it to work if you had a PCI music placard, like SoundBlaster 16 PCI or something. Yes, it has audio drive, whatever, and plugged it in now, and went that to work. That might actually labor, but you would need for First, either to have a PCI slot or a PCI to PCI Express in now, an adapter and whatnot.RetroManCave, the path on YouTube, actually did a topic video on that and “hes having” some real problems even coming that to work with FreeDOS. Maybe if you have a modern motherboard with a PCI slot natively, you might be able to get like SoundBlaster sound on a Ryzen computer. I’m not aware of any configurations like that. Anyway, I’m just saunter at this level now.Who helps? This- this is a pointless project and I hope that you experienced watching. And if you did enjoy what the hell are you accompanied here, then perhaps you’d like to see some of my other videos. I occasionally do quirky bullshit like this, and other epoches it’s something a little more serious, like the history of off-color Heads. But whatever the instance may be, thank you very much for watching LGR.[ Music Outro ].
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