LGR - Keypunch Games on an IBM 5150 Part 1 - Master Blaster
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Date: 2022-04-14
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LGR
-rhiannon650 I'm in my mid-20s now. First home PC was a low-end 486 and we had that until 1997, so for software I kept digging backwards in time. I also used Apple IIs in school, and early IBM clones (with green/amber monochrome displays and 5-10MB hard disks) at my mom's workplace which I was at all the time. And I was also at my Uncle's a lot, and he had a spanking new Pentium, so I saw games like FS5 and Out of this World then. So I -grew up- with this stuff but it wasn't necessarily -new-.
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-rhiannon650 I'm in my mid-20s now. First home PC was a low-end 486 and we had that until 1997, so for software I kept digging backwards in time. I also used Apple IIs in school, and early IBM clones (with green/amber monochrome displays and 5-10MB hard disks) at my mom's workplace which I was at all the time. And I was also at my Uncle's a lot, and he had a spanking new Pentium, so I saw games like FS5 and Out of this World then. So I -grew up- with this stuff but it wasn't necessarily -new-.
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LGR
-tombert256 I've never gotten it to work properly in DosBox, due to the very specific tweaking of CGA that the game takes advantage of. It comes close, but the screen is stretched bizarrely, the graphics are garbled and like any game dependent on a PC/XT setup it's hard to get the speed correct even with cycle adjustment. In fact, it won't even run on an EGA/VGA card with CGA compatibility, due to the same reasons!
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-tombert256 I've never gotten it to work properly in DosBox, due to the very specific tweaking of CGA that the game takes advantage of. It comes close, but the screen is stretched bizarrely, the graphics are garbled and like any game dependent on a PC/XT setup it's hard to get the speed correct even with cycle adjustment. In fact, it won't even run on an EGA/VGA card with CGA compatibility, due to the same reasons!
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BaronRhino
I never got into DOS when i was younger(the first computer i ever used was running windows 98 and so it ran solely on Cds and didn't need me to go through the dos prompt) and i have recently downloaded dosbox in order to play daggerfall but i dont know how to get to the game without having to reinstall it again and again. do you know what i need to do to launch it without reinstalling?
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I never got into DOS when i was younger(the first computer i ever used was running windows 98 and so it ran solely on Cds and didn't need me to go through the dos prompt) and i have recently downloaded dosbox in order to play daggerfall but i dont know how to get to the game without having to reinstall it again and again. do you know what i need to do to launch it without reinstalling?
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NeoTifasRevenge
I've been trying to find those floppies for a while in my parent's garage for the Apple 2e. just so I could play them again. I wonder if there are any soft copies? I had one with Sea Hunt, J-walker, and Galactic Blasters. I also had one with Rod's Revenge as well too. very fun to play, but I cannot for the life of me find them at all!
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I've been trying to find those floppies for a while in my parent's garage for the Apple 2e. just so I could play them again. I wonder if there are any soft copies? I had one with Sea Hunt, J-walker, and Galactic Blasters. I also had one with Rod's Revenge as well too. very fun to play, but I cannot for the life of me find them at all!
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Peter
These were the classic boot-leg games of old. Magazines would have clones of popular games like Wizards of Wor called 'Crossroads' instead. I also bought a pack of 700 5. 25- disks for the IBM. I haven't tried any of them yet, and most are packed in nitro bags in stacks of about 50-75.
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These were the classic boot-leg games of old. Magazines would have clones of popular games like Wizards of Wor called 'Crossroads' instead. I also bought a pack of 700 5. 25- disks for the IBM. I haven't tried any of them yet, and most are packed in nitro bags in stacks of about 50-75.
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tom611
Oddly, I seem to recall liking the games on 'Real Life Adventure'. I found Bridge Contractor to actually be a fun text adventure. My brother loved playing Big Rig. (both of us were fairly young at the time, no idea how'd they hold up to adult views)
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Oddly, I seem to recall liking the games on 'Real Life Adventure'. I found Bridge Contractor to actually be a fun text adventure. My brother loved playing Big Rig. (both of us were fairly young at the time, no idea how'd they hold up to adult views)
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sven's
It's amazing all those things still work.
Try leaving a current computer in an old basement for 23 years and then putting a CD and getting the CD, the CD-rom reader, and the entire computer to work!
Bet the reader won't even open!
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It's amazing all those things still work.
Try leaving a current computer in an old basement for 23 years and then putting a CD and getting the CD, the CD-rom reader, and the entire computer to work!
Bet the reader won't even open!
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Foxhack
I think the 24/7 text in Rockets' title screen may have had a BBS phone number at one point, but Keypunch removed it. That stuff was way before my time, but I remember seeing similar screens in some DOS games I have in my shareware CDs.
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I think the 24/7 text in Rockets' title screen may have had a BBS phone number at one point, but Keypunch removed it. That stuff was way before my time, but I remember seeing similar screens in some DOS games I have in my shareware CDs.
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LGR
-shorty1k It's very much worth it, if only just to experience that awesome tweaked 16-color CGA mode. Also check out Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom for later PCs! It's the spiritual successor to Round 42 and is also crazy fun.
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-shorty1k It's very much worth it, if only just to experience that awesome tweaked 16-color CGA mode. Also check out Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom for later PCs! It's the spiritual successor to Round 42 and is also crazy fun.
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needlove1982
I planned many games like this on my Tandy 1000 SX, the machine really was 99. 99% compatible at the software level. It would have been harder to find a program that it did not run, that titles that it could run.
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I planned many games like this on my Tandy 1000 SX, the machine really was 99. 99% compatible at the software level. It would have been harder to find a program that it did not run, that titles that it could run.
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