Gaming on a 25 YEAR OLD Laptop!!

[nicklmg]

Buy laptops on Amazon: https://geni.us/quhUN

[aisle9]

I can already tell this is going to be spectacular.

[NineEyeRon]

Rumour has it this is exactly the same laptop Chandler couldn't print from in F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

[markr54632]

Our modern ultrabooks will all be in a landfill not functioning when they are 2-3 years old and this still functions perfectly at 20 plus years old.

 

 

[Ufroman]

do a sleeper laptop with it man it would be sick. with that you can put alot in that case.

[3 Lions]

@LinusTech

 

You have to come over to the UK at some point and visit The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park, it's definitely your type of cup of tea.  

 

http://www.tnmoc.org/

 

 

Edited March 7, 2019 by LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo

[gnz]

Liero FTW! I still play it from time to time.

 

My first laptop was remarkably similar, Compaq Presario 1270 with an AMD K6-2 350MHz, and 64mb of RAM. Managed to top it at 160MB and could install XP instead of w98, those PCMCIA slots where a blessing cause I could add USB and RJ45, and even WiFi (802.11b tho).

 

Every now and then I have to work with old hardware, so I use a floppy drive USB reader. If the machine has W98SE and USB, I can even load the generic pendrive drivers and use them! I remember having found a 16mb pendrive in early 2000s garage sale and nobody knew what it was, my early years at university (3rd world country) was mostly floppies but that thing saved my life (had the w98se drivers always in hand in a floppy, or downloaded from the early internet... just checked and the same webpage I used IS STILL WORKING)

[aisle9]

That did not disappoint.

 

Well, actually it did. Linus didn't play any Will Wright games. No SimCity 2000, no SimEarth, no SimAnt, not even SimCopter. I hereby give this video an I for incomplete.

 

#Windows98MasterRace

[SolarNova]

1 hour ago, nicklmg said:

Buy laptops on Amazon: https://geni.us/quhUN

Nostalgia ftw!

 

That boot sound ..glorious!

 

Indeed when u owned a CDR , u were the go to guy for ..software ..music ....a certain consols games . But more so u also realized pritty damn quickly that u needed to upgrade to a CDRW, saved money in the long term lol.

 

Music played from the CD was used for a fairly long time after that particular time frame.  I remember that Cavedogs Total Annnihilation (1997) played it from CD, what a epic music score that had, and i dont think it stoped being a thing untill into the 00's.

 

And iirc , for the time period , that hard drive space was really good.

 

Ball mouses ..ah the memories, at school the 1st thing i would do when i sat down at a PC was immediatly clean the mouse becouse i was pritty much the only 'PC kid' in school so no one ever cleaned the damn mouses, even the teachers, I would think  " how the hell has nobody lost their mind trying to use this .. clean the damn thing!".

Also tyring to bypass the rudimentary security they used to use ..i remember loading up games like Elastomania (check youtube) and running it by draging the icon into Word and running it from there since you couldnt run it directly from the desktop.

Ah good times.

 

[WereCatf]

39 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

Well, actually it did. Linus didn't play any Will Wright games. No SimCity 2000, no SimEarth, no SimAnt, not even SimCopter. I hereby give this video an I for incomplete.

Did he play Fallout 1 or 2? Please, tell me that he did!

 

If he didn't I'm not going to bother even watching the damn video. Anyone who doesn't appreciate proper classics doesn't deserve my time! *tries to shoo all the kids off of her lawn*

[GodAtum]

I think you are offensive, it's not worthless. i still use a Windows 95 PC to write up docs and spreadsheets, rather then have micros$ft spying on me in Windows 10.

[mariushm]

You should have used a null modem cable and Dos Navigator or Volkov Commander to transfer data through the serial port from another computer.

 

Though you'd still need to have the software in the first place copied to the machine, so considering it has a cd rom drive, you could just burn a CD first..

 

[Dissitesuxba11s]

2 hours ago, WereCatf said:

Did he play Fallout 1 or 2? Please, tell me that he did!

 

If he didn't I'm not going to bother even watching the damn video. Anyone who doesn't appreciate proper classics doesn't deserve my time! *tries to shoo all the kids off of her lawn*

No Fallout 1 or 2. Only Anno 1602 and Liero.

[Xandercusa]

If this laptop is anything to go by, then my Win95 Pentium laptop by Hitachi must be really fancy with its RJ-45 and trackpoint mouse, as well as a decent screen and a working (20+yo NiMH) battery.

 

Edit: Just booted the  laptop, and it only has 32MB RAM and a 1GB HDD.

Edited March 8, 2019 by Xandercusa

[Leslieann]

1994 would have been 25 years ago and this system is more like 1998 and even then ultra high end. This is closer to what we ran in 2000.

 

Yes, this stuff existed in 1998, but even in 1998 it would be like buying a laptop today with 64Gb of ram and an 2Tb ssd. That hardly represents what people use today.

[NumLock21]

I still remember those days, they're were awesome.

One thing I missed about these old school laptop compared to the new ones of today is, they have expansion slot in the form of PCMCIA and Express Card. About the resources, you can actually get some more resources back, when you disable search for floppy disk. That option is located in system, advanced, located in control panel. The other  way is to just right click My Computer and select properties and then go to Advanced.

[Thirdgen89GTA]

6 hours ago, SolarNova said:

Nostalgia ftw!

 

That boot sound ..glorious!

 

Indeed when u owned a CDR , u were the go to guy for ..software ..music ....a certain consols games . But more so u also realized pritty damn quickly that u needed to upgrade to a CDRW, saved money in the long term lol.

 

Music played from the CD was used for a fairly long time after that particular time frame.  I remember that Cavedogs Total Annnihilation (1997) played it from CD, what a epic music score that had, and i dont think it stoped being a thing untill into the 00's.

 

And iirc , for the time period , that hard drive space was really good.

 

Ball mouses ..ah the memories, at school the 1st thing i would do when i sat down at a PC was immediatly clean the mouse becouse i was pritty much the only 'PC kid' in school so no one ever cleaned the damn mouses, even the teachers, I would think  " how the hell has nobody lost their mind trying to use this .. clean the damn thing!".

Also tyring to bypass the rudimentary security they used to use ..i remember loading up games like Elastomania (check youtube) and running it by draging the icon into Word and running it from there since you couldnt run it directly from the desktop.

Ah good times.

 

Ahh, but you were the King when you had the little velcro cleaner ball to get the lint out of the mouse.

 

Strange that I can't find a picture of one on the internet.  I remember buying a few of them.  It was basically a regular sized mouse ball covered in fine velcro.  Drop it in, give it a few figure 8's and it would pull every scrap of lint off the rollers.

[Dr. Shields]

Great video Linus! Also FYI: Windows 95c supported USB.

[it_dont_work]

Had something of a similar generation, (1996 i think) had a full sized socketed 386 and a 3.5" hdd, was heavy and noisy as all hell. 

 

come to think of it might of been a pentium. It was made for running legacy sequencing software 

[thesweetiger]

2 hours ago, Dr. Shields said:

Great video Linus! Also FYI: Windows 95c supported USB.

that true , I remember my old IBM aptiva which come with windows 95 sp2 which support the usb port released in august 1997 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95#Editions

and also everyone know this video about bill gate fail with windows 98 and a usb scanner at cnn show

This is not the first time i hear linus tell  wrong information be missing some research about the subject 

[Nowak]

While the laptop is undoubtedly of the '90s, 25 years ago (as of 2019) would have been 1994, and laptops from 1994 did not have that much RAM, a 100MHz Pentium or a trackpad, and only a handful had a CD drive. In fact, the screen:body ratio would be much worse. The year this laptop is from is more 1997 - 1998, which would make this machine 21 or 22 years old.

 

Source: I own a laptop from 1997.

 

Edit: It appears to be a Compaq Armada 1500, which was released in 1997, according to manuals I can find online.

Edited March 8, 2019 by Nowak

[Luscious]

Forget Windows 95. One of the first games I got when I put together my Pentium MMX rig was the DOS 6.2 version of EF2000. There's something to be said about starting a game from a cold boot totally independent of everything else you have installed on your hard drive, including your operating system. I really enjoyed blasting dams with the rocket launcher and taking down those 6 engine Antonovs, never mind planning super long missions with 2+ refuellings.

 

I also remember playing the very first Need for Speed game that had the white Ford GT90 in it.

 

Yeah, hardware back then was primitive to say the least. My Gigabyte mobo went inside a beige baby AT tower case and still had ISA slots on it, forget AGP or even PCI. Find a mobo today that has headers for a turbo button LOL My hard drives and burners attached with long, grey IDE ribbon cables that had a twist in the middle to differentiate between slave/master. And yes, a quality burner would set you back $1000. High end monitor meant 17 inch CRT with speakers, 21 inch if you were the top dog at work.

 

Case cooling? Forget 120mm and larger fans - 80mm was the norm with stamped punisher/biohazard fan grills being the rage plastered all over sites like Plycon and Danger Den. And if you owned a Digital Doc you were in the elite.

 

Of course back then software still came on floppies (CD SKU's appeared only when Windows 95 arrived). Updating over the internet just wasn't a thing, since the internet itself was still in it's infancy, not all homes had service and the back end to do it all wasn't even around. Try setting up a PC today without a connection LOL It was in many ways better than things are today since you still had total control over everything - today we are FORCED to constantly manage accounts/passwords/subscriptions etc...but back then none of that was necessary. You just hit that power button and enjoyed your computer. No greedy companies taking your money every month, spying on you and wasting your time to troubleshoot issues when shit broke. If you WANTED to go online and do updates, it was your option and at your own risk.

[MadDuke]

My PC from 1995 had a 16 megs of RAM and an 850 meg WD disk  (this later became my Windows install disk. You know. So you can clean install windows as fast as possible because you could crash those things in minutes while messing around with stuff.

So this laptop is freaking powerful. 

 

Also.  I remember manually "ripping" my games so I can fit more of them. And one way of doing it was to replace game music with something like couple of seconds of pure silence so that it would bring down the size tenfold or more without the need for CD changing. Especially when I didn't care about music and just wanted the sound effects.

 

I still remember the sound settings in autoexec.bat

Address 220,

IRQ 8 or 10

DMA 1 or 0 

 

And I still remember those glorious words from War2 install. Your sound card works perfectly.   C&C , sound hourdware initialized.   Same goes with Doom, Duke3D, Descent, Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Discworld.... 

 

And unfortunately. Later games like Fallout 2 which to this day have a better story than 99% of todays. 

 

5 hours ago, Dr. Shields said:

Great video Linus! Also FYI: Windows 95c supported USB.

 

Yep. We used to call it. Plug and Pray

 

[Pasi123]

I have one desktop PC from 1996 that has a Pentium 133MHz, 64MB RAM (originally 32MB), ATI Mach 64, Sound Blaster 16.

Spoiler

 

I don't have many old laptops, but I do have a small HP OmniBook 530 from 1994. It has an Intel 486SX 33MHz, 12MB(?) RAM, 130MB hard drive and 9"(?) 640x480 monochrome screen. With 4MB RAM it would have cost $1,799 which would be $3,055.53 in todays money.

 

Random picture from Google. Mine has Windows 3.11 instead of Win95.

[Radium_Angel]

Proper fucking keyboard.

Something that pisses me off to no end on today's systems. Everything is falling all over themselves trying to emulate an Apple laptop with their shyte chiclet keyboards. No tactile feel, no travel, utterly useless for any sort of long term work....when you've had a proper keyboard.

My 1st laptop was a (British, IIRC) Bondwell 286 with a built-in security system. You could set it and if anyone moved the laptop, a siren would go off and the keyboard would lock, pretty slick stuff back then.

 

Also grey-scale monitor and 20MB hard drive with 1MB RAM.