LGR - Keypunch Games on an IBM 5150 Part 2 - Gambler, Arcade II
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Date: 2022-04-14
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janmansde3dede
I also love to sometimes to run random old disks: ) and uncover awesome games like Mario bros VGA (the arcade game) and a incredible game that you play as a whisk hitting flies, spiders and all shorts of things (and of course I forgot the name)
If you want a Monocrome monitor I strongly recommend the Philips CM 8524 ( it look exactly like a Commodore 1804) which is a Amiga RGB and Monocrome PC monitor (its got a switch that makes the screen green) but now I remember that PAL and NTSC exist.
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I also love to sometimes to run random old disks: ) and uncover awesome games like Mario bros VGA (the arcade game) and a incredible game that you play as a whisk hitting flies, spiders and all shorts of things (and of course I forgot the name)
If you want a Monocrome monitor I strongly recommend the Philips CM 8524 ( it look exactly like a Commodore 1804) which is a Amiga RGB and Monocrome PC monitor (its got a switch that makes the screen green) but now I remember that PAL and NTSC exist.
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LGR
-compu85 It's a solid little game that I do enjoy in mono, didn't know it did color too (was playing with composite output.
I've come to really enjoy NCR machines, I have a PC386SX of theirs I covered in another vid. Quality rigs, although sometimes their proprietary cards can be a pain to replace.
Not surprising with the title change, Keypunch basically mutilated title screens and credits whenever they bundled games in their. bundles. They were pretty much a forerunner shovelware company.
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-compu85 It's a solid little game that I do enjoy in mono, didn't know it did color too (was playing with composite output.
I've come to really enjoy NCR machines, I have a PC386SX of theirs I covered in another vid. Quality rigs, although sometimes their proprietary cards can be a pain to replace.
Not surprising with the title change, Keypunch basically mutilated title screens and credits whenever they bundled games in their. bundles. They were pretty much a forerunner shovelware company.
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CaptainRufus
This was pretty fun! My friends had a Franklin CGA PC for Xmas 88 and they had a couple of these disks. (I was rocking a 16 color C64. I think I won)
I do remember the Star Trek C64 Keypunch disk. 3 different versions of that classic. Would love to see you cover those games. Maybe even EGA Trek, the flickeriffic Atari 2600 Stellar Trak version and the like? That would be a pretty boss video for ya to do: The world of original Trek games over the years.
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This was pretty fun! My friends had a Franklin CGA PC for Xmas 88 and they had a couple of these disks. (I was rocking a 16 color C64. I think I won)
I do remember the Star Trek C64 Keypunch disk. 3 different versions of that classic. Would love to see you cover those games. Maybe even EGA Trek, the flickeriffic Atari 2600 Stellar Trak version and the like? That would be a pretty boss video for ya to do: The world of original Trek games over the years.
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christo930
-phreakindee Unless you are getting a box and such, I would disagree with that. If you download the games and put them on a 360k floppy, you can get the same exact experience on the original hardware and identical media (the disk. I know you said you like the metallic labels, so in those cases I understand, but many of their disks are simple white labels printed on a dot matrix printer.
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-phreakindee Unless you are getting a box and such, I would disagree with that. If you download the games and put them on a 360k floppy, you can get the same exact experience on the original hardware and identical media (the disk. I know you said you like the metallic labels, so in those cases I understand, but many of their disks are simple white labels printed on a dot matrix printer.
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tonytechvt
A few things (yes I know this video is 11 years old) Ctrl-C was often used to quit out of stuff. Also ASCII and ANSI. I'll spare the technical differences but ASCII did not support color where ANSI did. You could load ANSI. SYS in your MSDOS config. sys and change all sorts of things most notably the color of your command prompt.
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A few things (yes I know this video is 11 years old) Ctrl-C was often used to quit out of stuff. Also ASCII and ANSI. I'll spare the technical differences but ASCII did not support color where ANSI did. You could load ANSI. SYS in your MSDOS config. sys and change all sorts of things most notably the color of your command prompt.
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Tim
Ah, the joys of having just downloaded a game off a bulletin board only to discover that you don't know what the controls are and no instructions were included. Thus began the hour of pressing every key at least once to see what it did, and (as you noted) half the time there was no quit function. You kids today and your ALT F4!
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Ah, the joys of having just downloaded a game off a bulletin board only to discover that you don't know what the controls are and no instructions were included. Thus began the hour of pressing every key at least once to see what it did, and (as you noted) half the time there was no quit function. You kids today and your ALT F4!
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Highretrogamelord
Gotta love the alarm clock sounds in -keno-. XD
In fact, I almost stood up to turn of my alarm clock, because I thought it would be mine, lol.
And Munchman has no mouth? The hell?
Seems to be as bad as the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man, lol.
Well, at least he has a mouth.
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Gotta love the alarm clock sounds in -keno-. XD
In fact, I almost stood up to turn of my alarm clock, because I thought it would be mine, lol.
And Munchman has no mouth? The hell?
Seems to be as bad as the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man, lol.
Well, at least he has a mouth.
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TheDustpile
This video may be just what I need - I have the PC DITTO emulator running on the Atari ST. 'MDA SYSTEM DETECTED. CANNOT RUN GRAPHICS' must have been the bane of many a 5150 owner's life as the Eighties wore on.
Any top-ten MDA games you can think of and where to get them?
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This video may be just what I need - I have the PC DITTO emulator running on the Atari ST. 'MDA SYSTEM DETECTED. CANNOT RUN GRAPHICS' must have been the bane of many a 5150 owner's life as the Eighties wore on.
Any top-ten MDA games you can think of and where to get them?
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christo930
-phreakindee Why don't you just download them and put them on a floppy? Believe it or not, most pc's, nearly all, can still, to this day, use a 5. 25 360k drive! I just couldn't imagine paying real money for any of these 10th grade experiments.
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-phreakindee Why don't you just download them and put them on a floppy? Believe it or not, most pc's, nearly all, can still, to this day, use a 5. 25 360k drive! I just couldn't imagine paying real money for any of these 10th grade experiments.
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khaoliang
Dude, under Dos it's always easiest to press ALT-F4. That combo never fails. that's why most games didn't have a -quit- option, and those that did basically send the same information to the computer that pressing alt-f4 did.
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Dude, under Dos it's always easiest to press ALT-F4. That combo never fails. that's why most games didn't have a -quit- option, and those that did basically send the same information to the computer that pressing alt-f4 did.
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