[AGS] 👾 [020] - The Pentium III Time Machine

Servus! This episode could also be named "The one that got delayed - for multiple times". Anyhow. Have you ever wondered what computers were like in the late 1990s? Back then, when the new millennium was just around the corner, Y2k horror stories were commonplace and Half Life, Age of Empires 2 were among the hottest PC games? Good timing, join me building a Pentium powered machine to travel back in time!
Hope you'll enjoy this episode! Rock on🤘
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#timemachine #retrocomputing #pentiumIII #windows98 #spacequest
0:00 - Back in the late 90s
0:26 - Intro
0:34 - How to assemble a Time Machine
1:32 - Inspecting the Mainboard
3:26 - Testing for Time Travel Capabilities
7:25 - Changing the Caps
8:25 - Was it worth it?
9:25 - What else is needed for time traveling?
10:50 - Building the Time Machine
14:44 - ....some time later
15:08 - Some Obstacles on the way
16:51 - Back to the late 90s - GAMES...
17:30 - Capturing the late 90s - AoE II
19:03 - Capturing the late 90s - System Shock II
20:31 - Capturing the late 90s - Unreal Tournament
22:02 - Capturing the late 90s - Gabriel Knight III
24:16 - Outro & Pharaoh
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[@2528drevas]

I remember upgrading my Windows 98 PC to a PIII EB 800. It is still one of my favorite CPU's ever, even though I now use AMD exclusively.

[@schnitzelsamy]

Nice

[@robert-yates]

😍love this, i've built 3 machines now for mid 90s to mid 2000s and buying big box pc games has all become an expensive hobby 😅 not to mention getting into the recap and electronic repair equipment side of it also)) always great to see you well and your videos, retro power eam guad 🤘/R.

[@schnitzelsamy]

Why do you say Servus in your greeting? Servus is German

[@kristosh_retro]

Well, I'm from Austria and that's just the way we greet each other here 😀

[@Hakan89]

A lot of Romanians from Transylvania and Banat regions use servus as a greeting

[@AxiomofDiscord]

I take it that you don't know what the term "Time Machine" means in the Retrocomputer World (At least the Retrocomputer World I live in). Usually it means building a newer computer than what would be period correct for your software so that it runs without any real limitations yet is still compatible with that software. As if the computer itself is from "the future."
Also you said Kalamath it is Klamath named after the falls in Oregon not the Street in Denver you pronounced it correct for Kalamath. Klamath is pronounced like --> th-cam.com/video/a9olH_3rvXA/w-d-xo.html. You definitely don't sound like you are from the Western US so I understand, but just thought you might like to know that is how native speakers pronounce it.

[@AxiomofDiscord]

I would count that graphics card as a bit newer my 9x machines so that is pretty time machine even by my definition. I use a FX5500 most of the time it can run nglide to run glide games. I recommend upgrading to one if you can they can still be had on Ebay and the like for 30 ish dollars USD sometimes a little less if you are patient. For the 90s such a card is going run everything maxed out so I never needed anything more and a lot of the more period correct options that are comparable are rather expensive and often use more power.