About the turbo button, my first computer was a 286, and it was so fast that in addition to turning off turbo, I had to run a memory resident program to slow it down more!

Maybe PCem or 86Box will allow GOG to package some of this period titles the way they do with DOSBox games. It's a good way to renew my library with latest versions of the games I like instead of digging old disks that may or may not be any good. There is a noticeable gap in games from those transitional early windows(usually 3D) games and that's the time of the first true 3D games that were any good. The ability to play those games with "high spec" virtualized hardware is rather exciting also. So DOS games running on Glide and windows games with odd compatibility requirements will be available now.

tying game performance to CPU clock speed being a retro thing from late 90s?
you clearly never heard of Bethesda Game Studios xD
Fallout 4 and Skyrim's physics engines are tied directly framerate, which due to the Creation Kits development style, mostly runs off CPU performance.
thats right, CPU bound games from 2011 and 2015. yikes xD

not quite the same, but close enough for me to get a dig in at Bugthesda 😛

I've had all of my DOS games in DOSBox with a D-FEND environment set up for may years now. I've enjoyed many of then on occasion. To be able to replay early windows Glide, wing.dll and early DirectX games in a similar way was basically impossible as they required very varying hardware and software setups. Some of the games from that era have really old and obscure bindings, which cannot be satisfied in newer windows.. or hardware. Now I'm really intrigued. I have even forgotten many of the games from that era, unlike actual DOS games.
P.S. actually DOS conventional memory management for a VM should be way easier then physical PC as you can drop the disk cache entirely and it had to run in conventional memory. It should be easy to get 610-620KB of free conventional memory, which will run any DOS game. The host system will "accelerate" a lot of things for you, simply because it's underlying hardware is orders of magnitude faster. Anyway for DOS games I'd use DOSBox with D-FEND anyway all of the ones I'm interested in work fine there.

Linus should invite Messi to build a PC together.

Getting Windows games to run properly is a royal pain in the ass. There was a short period with my Win98 system where most games meant for Win98 worked just fine. However, when I got a faster system with a better Nvidia graphics card, the incompatibilities started to pop up.

On my current system, which is now quite old and considered 100% obsolete, I can't get most old games like Jedi Knight and Carnivores to run in Direct3D mode. The display is just a mess of broken polygons. I can run Carnivores with Nglide 2.10, but it doesn't work with any other Glide wrapper. I've tried every fix under the sun (that will run on this system) and none of them fixed Jedi Knight. I had hopes of installing the Jedi Knight Enhanced mod, but you need hardware rendering for it to work, and that's just hopelessly broken with my Nvidia card.

This is one reason why I often prefer emulators of video game consoles. They may have minor glitches, but there isn't a single PS1 game that I've been unable to run.

This is nice timing, I want to put something together for my grand kids to play MS Mid Town Madness. I wonder if this will be able to utilize a game port on an old sound blaster? My kids are itching to play it again as well. (me too)

This information on PCEM isn't true. PCEM virtual drives can be mounted in Windows and you can copy files across to your virtual C drive with no problems. That's how I've been doing it for ages now.

18:20 ARRRRRRRRRR

Dude. Himem.sys. I learned to memory manage in DOS by myself with no internet when I was like… 10? 11? I wanted to play Falcon because I was (still am) in love with the F-16 and at the time I was convinced I was going to be a fighter pilot. That didn't pan out but I have a pretty great career in IT. Thanks video games!

Excellent video!!!

14:08 THat is why there is a character in ReBoot named Turbo.
Enzo: Who the hell are you?
Prime Guardian Turbo: The name's Turbo