Running DOOM On £30 eBay Office Furniture
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Published 2024-04-04
I bought this weird desk PC from a community centre that was about to be demolished. So lets explore it and see what it's all about, and do what any sensible retro gaming fan would - run DOOM on it.
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00:00 Desk Acquisition
02:13 Desk Unload & Exploration
06:49 Firing Up The Desk
10:19 A Look Inside The Desk
14:16 Installing DOS (and Doom) On The Desk
17:29 Just Show Me Doom Running On A Desk Already
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All Comments (21)
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I have to give a very big shoutout to Steve from Steve's Tech Shed for originally posting the eBay link on my Discord server. He's into IBM stuff and has his very own channel, and I think if you enjoy my videos you'll definitely like his too! youtube.com/@StevesTechShed
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Rees showed me this on eBay. Before I could say “do it”, he’d done it. I’m proud my friend. Your brilliant stupidity knows no bounds. Love it.
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If you were seriously committed to continuity you'd have five identical T-shirts to wear.
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With Hiren's Disc it's a matter of minutes to get passed that password.
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Duron was a competitor to Celeron. I also seem to remember wordplay jokes about Duron/Durex.
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You can actually get doom with sound under pure dos with that ac97 chip nowadays :) Someone made the impossible true : they've made a "sbemu" driver for dos that does great sound blaster compatibility in DOS on the ac97 chip !
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Doom UNDERNEATH the desktop! Legit!
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Why ME? I never used ME back in the day, only Windows 98, 2k and XP when it came out. ME was always called here in NL "Meer Ellende" which roughly translates to "Misery Extended".
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This desk could be nice base for building some kind of "sleeper" machine with modern parts.
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I'm unclear about the size of the desk without seeing the "rees scale"
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AGP 👀 Well I'm glad you saved this machine, and if nothing else, should you ever decide it doesn't HAVE to stay original, you have some pretty vast possibilities for what you can fit in here. There even seems to be enough room for another small computer inside...
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If only Gene could see what his old office setup is being used for now. 🤣🤣🤣
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I have an idea for your fax. In the 90s we had one and turned it into a poor man's scanner and printer. We connected the cable directly from the fax to a fax modem in the PC and basically faxed a document directly into the PC and faxed directly to it to print. I actually scanned a page from a coloring book and then colored it in using MS paint in windoss 3.1.
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Rees and taking 'desktop computer' literally :) Love it!!!
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Kool beans, Doom is always a worthy cause in my opinion :) Couple of caps looked suspect on that motherboard btw - but you've probably noticed that already. Very interested to see how the 'Desktop' PC evolves :)
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back in the mid to late 90s I was in high school and had found a wood desk, 3 sets of drawers on the right side and 1 long drawer on the left side. My mom had it refinished and I took the top right drawer out of it and built my 486 dx 2 66 computer right in that spot. I didnt have room for a case on top of the desk or turned up on its side next to it. it was a great desk.
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This would be an intresting desk to turn into a sleeper build!
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All jokes aside this is actually very useful like you say. Perhaps upgrades would be in order one day? Might make a nice video of "pimp my desk" 😁
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Duron was a great little cpu in it's day. Cheap, overclockable, rock solid.
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This was awesome! The Desk of Doom. Love it! (Also I recall always being "tempted" buy Tiny computers back in the day. They were cheap, but the spec was always just shy of what I wanted....well...that's why they were cheap).
