1 00:00:00,299 --> 00:00:08,040 there are thousands of games even entire genres that can only be played 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:14,160 on an old Windows 98 PC like this one but it sucks it's big it's loud it's 3 00:00:11,519 --> 00:00:19,500 heavy unless I spend extra money the most reliable way to transfer files to 4 00:00:16,139 --> 00:00:21,240 it is to burn a Flippin CDR but it's my 5 00:00:19,500 --> 00:00:24,560 only hope if I want to share my favorite childhood games with my kids 6 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:35,399 wait what is this Windows 98 running on a modern computer 7 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:37,260 the hardware even all works what sorcery 8 00:00:35,399 --> 00:00:41,160 is this the kind that gives me confidence you are not going to be able 9 00:00:39,300 --> 00:00:45,960 to navigate away while I tell you about our sponsor pulseway pulseway is a 10 00:00:44,219 --> 00:00:50,340 mobile first remote monitoring and management tool that's built with msps 11 00:00:47,940 --> 00:00:54,360 and it teams in mind to learn more about how you can see and control your network 12 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:58,260 from anywhere check the link in the video description while we won't be 13 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:04,559 completely rid of our friend scale here anytime soon PC emulators that is to say 14 00:01:01,980 --> 00:01:10,799 software that emulates the hardware of a retro PC rather than emulating a retro 15 00:01:07,380 --> 00:01:13,619 game console have gotten extremely good 16 00:01:10,799 --> 00:01:17,880 in the last couple of years now there were already solutions to running older 17 00:01:15,780 --> 00:01:21,860 software dosbox and Windows compatibility mode come to mind but this 18 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:27,180 is different PCM is an honest to goodness we're even 19 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:31,560 emulating the CPU and firmware solution that drastically improve software 20 00:01:29,340 --> 00:01:35,000 compatibility can your dosbox do this 21 00:01:39,420 --> 00:01:49,140 I'm impressed that sound is working and check this out 22 00:01:44,780 --> 00:01:51,299 it's a whole working PC BIOS there's not 23 00:01:49,140 --> 00:01:55,560 much we can do in here I mean even things we take for granted 24 00:01:53,159 --> 00:01:59,939 now like overclocking we're not done in firmware in those days it would have 25 00:01:57,119 --> 00:02:05,219 been like conductive pencil mods uh replacing oscillators there were jumpers 26 00:02:03,119 --> 00:02:09,060 jumpers you had moving jumpers around on the motherboard now we're in Windows I 27 00:02:07,140 --> 00:02:12,720 don't remember process Explorer this was an add-on or something right uh yeah so 28 00:02:10,979 --> 00:02:17,400 this is assist internals app we actually have a video on that basically this 29 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:21,000 gives us a much better task manager experience there's something that I 30 00:02:19,260 --> 00:02:24,239 would always do oh yeah yeah you have to go in here and you have to uncheck this 31 00:02:22,620 --> 00:02:27,660 you got to be like oh do you have a proxy yeah it would make things really 32 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:31,080 slow every single time you launched Internet Explorer speaking of which 33 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:36,720 obviously Internet Explorer is not going to work but we are on the network are we 34 00:02:35,099 --> 00:02:42,959 go to entire network all right here we go no what no we do not have an IP how 35 00:02:40,379 --> 00:02:47,400 is it that Windows networking tools have actually gotten worse I know right the 36 00:02:45,660 --> 00:02:51,080 fact that this just has a release and renew button right there 37 00:02:52,519 --> 00:02:58,560 hey look at that here we go and check it 38 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:04,140 out all those all those familiar faces no way wait can I just 39 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:08,340 okay well it makes sense that Yvonne's um workstation would not just let people 40 00:03:06,420 --> 00:03:14,099 browse it do I have no I don't have any shared anything okay what about a Nas 41 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:15,480 though well the thing about wow 42 00:03:14,099 --> 00:03:20,459 I was going to say the thing about Windows 98 is that it will use the login 43 00:03:17,940 --> 00:03:24,599 that you chose at the beginning for all of your logins for Network places so it 44 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:29,760 probably wouldn't have worked but this enables Anonymous access so it totally 45 00:03:27,180 --> 00:03:36,920 works can I just no not enough free disk space it's only 46 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:36,920 an 8 gig disk there you go okay 47 00:03:38,580 --> 00:03:46,500 I wasn't expecting that Windows 98's file sharing is ancient most things 48 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:51,780 don't support it I remember it being terrible now this is with the unofficial 49 00:03:49,019 --> 00:03:56,580 Service Pack three yeah so it has like up-to-date stuff 50 00:03:53,700 --> 00:04:00,180 but it's still a pain to get set up and it doesn't work with like Windows 10 51 00:03:57,900 --> 00:04:03,120 Windows 11. yeah that's a Linux server that I was pulling files off of yeah 52 00:04:01,620 --> 00:04:07,500 because that was a Plex server or whatever it was on my RAID yeah as I 53 00:04:05,580 --> 00:04:13,319 mentioned obviously Internet Explorer is completely unsupported on the modern web 54 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:15,299 but we can fire up Opera which is still 55 00:04:13,319 --> 00:04:20,579 available for Windows 98 or like this is a version of Opera that only really runs 56 00:04:17,579 --> 00:04:22,560 as a consequence of installing a package 57 00:04:20,579 --> 00:04:26,940 called kernel X which kind of emulates Windows 2000 so we're kind of multiple 58 00:04:24,300 --> 00:04:32,120 levels deep here I see that being said not everything will work 59 00:04:29,220 --> 00:04:36,780 https generally doesn't like to work there are other browsers you can try but 60 00:04:34,860 --> 00:04:42,300 you can also use the old web the oldnet.com okay 61 00:04:39,300 --> 00:04:42,300 1998 62 00:04:42,419 --> 00:04:48,259 how have I never seen this before this is amazing 63 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,259 there it is 64 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:55,620 pc97.com baby netlink computer Inc your 65 00:04:52,740 --> 00:05:00,600 One-Stop computer and internet Store the store that I used to work at ncix.com 66 00:04:57,780 --> 00:05:05,040 this was their original domain click here for more options 67 00:05:02,220 --> 00:05:10,259 PC filter that was my job much later the software that enables all 68 00:05:07,620 --> 00:05:14,639 of this PCM was originally written by Sarah Walker as an open source project 69 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:20,340 that as we saw when we were booting it up uses the original BIOS ROMs for old 70 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:23,280 motherboards and gpus to emulate the 71 00:05:20,340 --> 00:05:28,259 hardware in its entirety and there is a shocking amount of Hardware supported 72 00:05:24,900 --> 00:05:30,479 everything from the original IBM PC and 73 00:05:28,259 --> 00:05:34,800 plasma display luggables all the way up to the Pentium 2 with pretty much 74 00:05:32,639 --> 00:05:39,539 everything in between and with support for a wide variety of both sound and 75 00:05:37,139 --> 00:05:44,280 video devices some of which are really obscure I think what's most impressive 76 00:05:41,940 --> 00:05:48,720 though is how easy it is to set up the user interface is so intuitive that with 77 00:05:46,259 --> 00:05:52,139 no guidance whatsoever I managed to stumble my way through it in about 15 78 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:56,699 minutes after which I had my kids playing The Magic School Bus explores 79 00:05:53,820 --> 00:06:00,720 the solar system like it was 1994. I mean it helps a little bit that I used 80 00:05:58,380 --> 00:06:05,759 Windows 98 back in the day and I wrote down explicit instructions for how to 81 00:06:02,639 --> 00:06:07,740 use it on my underwear which by the way 82 00:06:05,759 --> 00:06:13,560 is now available on ltdstore.com with new patterns now because it emulates the 83 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:18,360 original hardware and not just the environment like dosbox does you can run 84 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:23,100 basically any software from the time period including Windows and even 85 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:28,919 alternative operating systems like os2 and BOS which has been not impossible to 86 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:32,639 do up until now unless you used very old virtual machine software that provided 87 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:37,080 virtual devices that were compatible with these old os's and even then you're 88 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:44,039 not running that old software on a brand new machine which clearly isn't a 89 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:46,500 problem here on a 12900k Anthony has set 90 00:06:44,039 --> 00:06:52,440 up a period accurate Windows 98 SE virtual machine complete with Pentium 2 91 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:55,680 CPU 3dfx Voodoo 3 GPU and a sound card 92 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:57,960 that can do eax for the full win 98 93 00:06:55,680 --> 00:07:03,240 experience that's a really big deal because a lot of games in the Windows 98 94 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:06,600 era not only used 3D video acceleration 95 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:08,039 but also used audio acceleration to 96 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:11,639 enhance the overall immersiveness something that Windows Vista dropped 97 00:07:10,020 --> 00:07:15,479 support for entirely it's time to play some games Anthony you 98 00:07:14,220 --> 00:07:19,500 didn't tell me we were going to go off script because I have to play Road Rash 99 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:23,639 I had to install all these games to test them and make sure that they all work 100 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:27,780 you know and as a little surprise I guess I left them installed I'm so 101 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:32,460 excited I love road rash excited 102 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:34,740 let's go oh what you guys are looking at 103 00:07:32,460 --> 00:07:39,720 right now is how you put a disc into the drive it just uses a virtual CD-ROM so 104 00:07:37,500 --> 00:07:43,139 as long as you have those isos on your host computer 105 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:52,380 you can pop them in and race DirectX 3.0 a oh man even just 106 00:07:49,020 --> 00:07:54,479 this intro screen is so good the arcade 107 00:07:52,380 --> 00:07:58,740 version no character selection no bike shop no unnecessary gossip just pick a 108 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:03,479 race and go man remember when you could actually just play a racing game yep 109 00:08:01,380 --> 00:08:08,160 okay could you change the camera angle I forget no this is it are you sure this 110 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:12,180 is how the game looks I'm pretty sure oh yeah because this is me this is me right 111 00:08:09,599 --> 00:08:16,620 yeah yeah I think maybe the uh The Knockout side to side it's either side 112 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:19,500 that was the old gamer stance it wasn't was it was the arrow keys you had 113 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:25,139 everything clustered around the arrow keys I'm gonna kick this cop 114 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:27,419 they'll never catch me copper 115 00:08:25,139 --> 00:08:30,020 get out of here oh no no 116 00:08:33,419 --> 00:08:38,820 no yeah you don't want to be on the sidewalk the sidewalks have real bad 117 00:08:36,479 --> 00:08:44,219 time oh yeah there you go oh not good not good you got Road Rash oh 118 00:08:42,300 --> 00:08:49,820 you have to hike back to your bike yeah you do old games unforgiving oh no the 119 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:49,820 cop got me yep 120 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:57,779 I love these segments so much no like 121 00:08:54,779 --> 00:08:59,220 a thing guys playing old games might not 122 00:08:57,779 --> 00:09:04,620 impress you much so what right you're running a PC game 123 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:06,000 on a PC want a cookie and I can see why 124 00:09:04,620 --> 00:09:10,860 a lot of people would take this sort of thing for granted odds are that a lot of 125 00:09:08,279 --> 00:09:15,180 old Windows software you try to run will work on newer versions of Windows but 126 00:09:12,839 --> 00:09:18,060 it's not a given it's thanks to an incredible amount of software 127 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:22,980 engineering that goes into making Windows backwards compatible one of my 128 00:09:20,820 --> 00:09:28,320 favorite stories comes from the 90s when Microsoft discovered a bug in Sim City 129 00:09:25,620 --> 00:09:33,120 that caused it to crash on Windows 95. their solution was to actually build a 130 00:09:30,779 --> 00:09:37,380 mechanism to detect if SimCity was running and then temporarily alter 131 00:09:35,519 --> 00:09:42,180 Windows memory management to work around it isn't that incredible uh let's try 132 00:09:39,779 --> 00:09:47,339 Mech Warrior three sure that's hardware accelerated hold on yeah you need the CD 133 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:52,200 these are images from my own CD collection by the way I don't have them 134 00:09:49,260 --> 00:09:55,560 all here but I own all these games now I never played this game back in the day 135 00:09:53,339 --> 00:09:59,959 do you want to take the wheel uh sure I don't remember much about this game so 136 00:09:57,180 --> 00:10:05,339 that's cool I do know the mouse works holy crap I didn't have a good computer 137 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:10,019 back then and I did not know that games looked this good back then what's 138 00:10:07,260 --> 00:10:13,740 impressive about this is that this is 3D accelerated how do I help people wrap 139 00:10:12,060 --> 00:10:18,240 their heads around how cool it is that we were able to play a game on a voodoo 140 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:23,880 3. well it no longer exists and like Voodoo Hardware only existed for a short 141 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:30,240 period of time anyway so like a lot of games that supported Voodoo Hardware 142 00:10:25,980 --> 00:10:32,580 also supported like opengl or direct 3D 143 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:37,860 so oh he took out my leg immediately whoa dudes with the snipe he just got 144 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:42,420 wrecked holy crap Voodoo 3D accelerators were the best back in the day NVIDIA had 145 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:45,980 only just kind of started off the ground and they weren't doing super great with 146 00:10:44,339 --> 00:10:50,519 their original nv1 ATI was still kind of trying to find 147 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:55,680 their footing but Voodoo only existed for a short period of time yeah and so 148 00:10:53,220 --> 00:11:00,540 the fact that you can run a voodoo card and it's it's fully accelerated 149 00:10:58,500 --> 00:11:03,899 with all the food all the features like bilinear filtering which was a big thing 150 00:11:02,339 --> 00:11:08,040 back in the day otherwise you had the chunky pixels that kind of warped around 151 00:11:05,339 --> 00:11:12,420 yeah that was huge and the fact that you can do this 152 00:11:09,839 --> 00:11:18,720 is massive this is being emulated on the CPU there's no GPU in this system now I 153 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:24,480 want to make this clear some older games will work without jumping through PCM 154 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:29,700 Hoops you can use Community patches or Community projects like DG Voodoo to 155 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:34,440 convert old apis like Glide to modern ones but that can be its own entire 156 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:37,980 Rabbit Hole unless a studio like night dive has taken the time to restore it I 157 00:11:36,779 --> 00:11:43,260 wouldn't expect night dive to do anything with this but it's worth showing you guys just because this is an 158 00:11:41,579 --> 00:11:47,940 entire genre of games that I remember very fondly that simply doesn't exist 159 00:11:45,959 --> 00:11:52,320 anymore these Interactive Learning experiences and multimedia storybooks 160 00:11:50,399 --> 00:11:56,160 were pretty much how a couple of my younger siblings learned to read there's 161 00:11:54,300 --> 00:11:59,899 just no profit in it anymore speaking of things that became 162 00:11:57,660 --> 00:12:06,000 unprofitable to the point of Extinction encyclopedias I mean it sounds like a 163 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:11,279 wild idea now but what if I didn't want my kids on the internet there is no 164 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:15,600 reason you couldn't using Carter 98 also mind maze is lit unlike Wikipedia which 165 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:20,459 you're definitely not encouraged to use these days at school we were encouraged 166 00:12:17,940 --> 00:12:24,839 and in fact expected to use incarna or like Compton's or whatever usually in 167 00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:30,779 Carta just look stuff up and you know do our book reports or reports on selectomy 168 00:12:28,579 --> 00:12:35,160 tonsillectomies sure what should we learn about find 169 00:12:33,839 --> 00:12:39,120 um foxes smallest member of the dog family let's 170 00:12:36,839 --> 00:12:45,000 go here's some pictures it's so cool like to call PCM a success would be 171 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:46,920 selling it well short but it's worth 172 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:50,339 noting that there are other ways to do pretty much everything I've shown you so 173 00:12:48,540 --> 00:12:54,779 far and I would be remiss if I didn't at least mention them probably the least 174 00:12:52,380 --> 00:12:59,820 painful way to play older games is in a browser many abandonware MS-DOS games 175 00:12:57,420 --> 00:13:04,260 are a five second Google search away and require no configuration whatsoever to 176 00:13:02,279 --> 00:13:08,220 get running mixed up Mother Goose was another of my childhood favorites and 177 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:12,959 runs perfectly on play classic.games which aside from its obnoxious ads seems 178 00:13:10,740 --> 00:13:16,620 to work pretty well and those of you who were paying close attention probably 179 00:13:14,339 --> 00:13:22,560 noticed that this site and the others like it is simply using dosbox a free 180 00:13:20,100 --> 00:13:28,139 and open source dot simulator that you can also set up and run for yourself 181 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:30,000 without any ads dosbox runs on just 182 00:13:28,139 --> 00:13:35,459 about any modern operating system and can be used to run pretty much anything 183 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:36,959 that ran on dos or Windows 3.1 as as 184 00:13:35,459 --> 00:13:41,339 long as you have the patience to set it up and troubleshoot it and it's this 185 00:13:39,420 --> 00:13:47,399 troubleshooting that leads many retro enthusiasts to Simply acquire older 186 00:13:44,459 --> 00:13:53,820 Hardware hence scale old software even if it's running 187 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:56,279 correctly is full of idiosyncrasies that 188 00:13:53,820 --> 00:14:01,380 made sense at the time but seem pretty bass awkwards today for example many 189 00:13:59,519 --> 00:14:06,240 older games have their physics and animations tied to the CPU clock speed 190 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:11,040 therefore when you would upgrade your computer they would become completely 191 00:14:08,399 --> 00:14:16,800 unplayable fun fact by the way that was the true purpose of the turbo button on 192 00:14:13,560 --> 00:14:18,839 pre-pentium era Intel PCS it was not to 193 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:24,240 make the computer faster it was actually to slow it down for compatibility with 194 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:28,500 last gen software so unfortunately even older Hardware isn't the Silver Bullet 195 00:14:26,639 --> 00:14:34,620 that you might think it would be I mean believe it or not the progressions from 196 00:14:31,019 --> 00:14:38,040 dos to Windows 3.x to 95 and Windows 98 197 00:14:34,620 --> 00:14:39,899 took place over many years and Lolly 198 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:44,579 might think of them all as kind of part of the Dos based era there's no one 199 00:14:42,959 --> 00:14:48,899 Hardware configuration that will cover you across the board so after a Time 200 00:14:47,399 --> 00:14:53,820 you're going to end up like Brian the electrician hoarding dozens of unique 201 00:14:51,060 --> 00:14:57,120 configurations and the spare parts to go with them out of fear that your old 202 00:14:55,199 --> 00:15:02,160 Hardware will eventually fail and that there will be no way to replace it 203 00:14:59,459 --> 00:15:06,600 now Windows xp's compatibility mode is going to get you a lot of the way there 204 00:15:03,860 --> 00:15:11,760 but anyone who ever tried to use it at the time can tell you that it was less 205 00:15:08,339 --> 00:15:14,279 of an apple Rosetta and more of a oh wow 206 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:18,240 it worked what a pleasant surprise kind of experience I mean even PCM can't 207 00:15:16,740 --> 00:15:21,060 account for software that's just straight up incompatible with the 208 00:15:19,980 --> 00:15:29,820 hardware speaking of which the Need for Speed SC 209 00:15:26,180 --> 00:15:32,699 DirectX is installed but that that's a 210 00:15:29,820 --> 00:15:37,620 weird hybrid of like a Windows and a Dos program like you saw that it said it's 211 00:15:34,860 --> 00:15:42,779 all DirectX 2 and DirectX 3 too I saw that both of those it actually runs in 212 00:15:40,260 --> 00:15:47,339 Daws and its installer is dos and it uses dos like sound configuration what 213 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:51,720 we're seeing here is whatever incompatibility we have either be a be 214 00:15:49,620 --> 00:15:57,540 it Hardware with our eax compatible sound card or maybe our Voodoo graphics 215 00:15:54,300 --> 00:16:00,620 card and Windows 98 at all Windows 98 at 216 00:15:57,540 --> 00:16:04,620 all it just will not run absolutely not 217 00:16:00,620 --> 00:16:07,260 however this apparent weakness is 218 00:16:04,620 --> 00:16:12,959 actually one of pcm's greatest strengths watch this through the magic of Simply 219 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:18,060 creating a separate VM that emulates completely different Hardware we can 220 00:16:15,540 --> 00:16:23,160 either select our eax compatible sound card for immersive audio or we can do 221 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:27,300 this and handle games that came out during the transition from dos to 222 00:16:25,019 --> 00:16:31,139 Windows 95. let me tell you as someone who lived through it that was a 223 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:35,459 painfully long period and compatibility was a huge problem did you know that 224 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:40,139 they still made dos games as late as 1998 because of the limitations of the 225 00:16:37,860 --> 00:16:47,820 early versions of DirectX let's try it again this time in Windows 95. 226 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:48,720 hey hey there we go 227 00:16:47,820 --> 00:16:53,579 shoot and stuff yeah yeah uh you should have an automatic 228 00:16:51,899 --> 00:16:59,279 shift but a you need to shift out of neutral oh hi there sorry Hi Mr speed 229 00:16:57,300 --> 00:17:03,120 limit inside this was a very immersive game back in the day this is 230 00:17:01,199 --> 00:17:07,740 unfortunately the special edition or SE which doesn't have any of the fun 231 00:17:04,799 --> 00:17:11,819 cutscenes or colorful characters you just had the racing experience but while 232 00:17:10,199 --> 00:17:19,199 this game from that period works fine Jane's ATF from 1996 will not run in any 233 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:21,000 version of Windows it has to be dos and 234 00:17:19,199 --> 00:17:26,760 good luck getting everything working Anthony juggled having sound a mouse and 235 00:17:24,660 --> 00:17:31,620 networking support back in the day due to the need for a massive amount of 236 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:36,360 conventional memory of which only 640 kilobytes of it is available in DOS 237 00:17:34,020 --> 00:17:42,299 with that in mind the farther back we go we can go all the way back to the 238 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:44,400 original IBM PC the more dosbox kind of 239 00:17:42,299 --> 00:17:49,080 just makes sense for people who only want to play games that is unless you 240 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:54,480 really want to relive the experience of manual memory management like Anthony 241 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:56,640 and so many others PCM will give you 242 00:17:54,480 --> 00:18:01,740 that experience and it will be faithful which I guess leads us pretty well into 243 00:17:58,559 --> 00:18:04,080 some of pcm's other weaknesses for 244 00:18:01,740 --> 00:18:09,539 starters while serial ports and parallel ports are emulated you cannot pass 245 00:18:07,140 --> 00:18:12,600 physical devices to them Anthony learned this the hard way when he tried to 246 00:18:10,860 --> 00:18:18,480 transfer saves from his Dreamcast massive memory card plus so what that 247 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:20,880 means is that if say an app had a dongle 248 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:25,440 for copy protection it's to the high seas for you matey and if you had 249 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:31,260 designs on replacing Old Point of Sale Hardware while keeping the software 250 00:18:26,940 --> 00:18:33,059 tough luck at least for now 86 bucks a 251 00:18:31,260 --> 00:18:37,380 fork of PCM that's looking to improve accuracy actually has us on the road map 252 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:41,160 but as of right now you would need to use something like dosbos X for 253 00:18:39,059 --> 00:18:45,179 pass-through and then hope that the software is compatible 254 00:18:42,660 --> 00:18:50,640 it's also a lot more difficult to access files on your host PC with PCM and with 255 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:56,700 its derivatives compared to dosbox where dosbox can just Mount any folder you 256 00:18:53,039 --> 00:18:59,039 want as a drive letter PCM is For Better 257 00:18:56,700 --> 00:19:04,620 or For Worse much more like the original Hardware requiring either a network 258 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:06,960 connection or a disk and unfortunately 259 00:19:04,620 --> 00:19:12,360 while the network interface is emulated just fine and we were actually you saw 260 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:14,700 able to transfer files it couldn't see 261 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:19,380 our host machine on the network because they have the same Mac Address like 262 00:19:16,260 --> 00:19:21,299 we're not 100 sure what was going on and 263 00:19:19,380 --> 00:19:27,240 the reality of it is that networking in Windows 98 wasn't great so what some 264 00:19:24,900 --> 00:19:33,419 people end up doing is setting up an FTP server on a separate VM or something but 265 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:36,419 what we did was to use folder to ISO or 266 00:19:33,419 --> 00:19:38,940 any to ISO to quickly turn folders into 267 00:19:36,419 --> 00:19:44,220 disk images that then can be mounted inside the vm's virtual CD-ROM drive 268 00:19:41,340 --> 00:19:49,799 it's clunky but at least it's something finally there's the configuration I did 269 00:19:47,220 --> 00:19:53,280 say that PCM was easy to use but the problem is that there isn't as much 270 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:57,960 granularity as you'd get in dosbox things like setting the irqs and dmas 271 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:02,520 for your sound devices might cause problems for you and unless you're a fan 272 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:07,080 of black Borders or uneven pixels or Vaseline blur you're probably going to 273 00:20:04,500 --> 00:20:11,460 need to use the opengl 3.0 renderer with the sharp bilinear 2x prescale Shader 274 00:20:09,539 --> 00:20:15,720 from retroarch if you want to get proper scaling it also doesn't come with the 275 00:20:13,980 --> 00:20:20,880 ROM files that you need to emulate the old Hardware because they're probably 276 00:20:18,120 --> 00:20:25,320 still legally protected the good news is that an archive exists on GitHub because 277 00:20:22,799 --> 00:20:28,919 at this point nobody actually cares but you never know when some company will 278 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:34,799 reach the verge of bankruptcy and decide that it wants to enforce its copyright 279 00:20:30,660 --> 00:20:37,320 from 1997 on its BIOS firmware 280 00:20:34,799 --> 00:20:40,620 that would be a dick move maybe instead they should try getting money from 281 00:20:38,340 --> 00:20:44,880 someone like our sponsor Micro Center thanks to Microcenter for sponsoring 282 00:20:42,419 --> 00:20:48,539 today's video February is build your own month at Microcenter they have 283 00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:52,440 month-long great savings to help you build your newest PC whether you're a 284 00:20:50,580 --> 00:20:56,880 seasoned PC Builder or a first-time Shopper Microcenter is there to help you 285 00:20:54,720 --> 00:21:00,660 with their knowledgeable Associates and with a great variety of products and 286 00:20:58,919 --> 00:21:05,760 even better prices they can be your 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