LGR - Award Winning GMS on an IBM 5150 PC
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Date: 2022-04-14
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namayake
I played most of these exact same games as kid in the mid-80's. It made me wish I had at least a C64, but better yet an Amiga or Atari ST. I pleaded with my father to get one of those but he worked for a company selling business machines, so that was the computer we had at home. Eventually we got a VGA card & monitor to replace the original monochrome counterparts, but until then the pc was nothing but the lifeless, colorless world of crappy shareware games, WordStar & Lotus 1-2-3. Sad memories.
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I played most of these exact same games as kid in the mid-80's. It made me wish I had at least a C64, but better yet an Amiga or Atari ST. I pleaded with my father to get one of those but he worked for a company selling business machines, so that was the computer we had at home. Eventually we got a VGA card & monitor to replace the original monochrome counterparts, but until then the pc was nothing but the lifeless, colorless world of crappy shareware games, WordStar & Lotus 1-2-3. Sad memories.
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christo930
-phreakindee If it's for lack of slots, if my memory serves me correctly (and it's been a long time, most MFM cards have a parallel and serial port and can replace your IO card doing that function now. The earliest PC I have experience with is the PC-XT, though. I noticed in other videos you use dos 6. 2, but IMHO, dos 5 would be the best version for your machines that I have seen, especially since 6. 2 automatically loads the drvspace driver, wasting precious conventional memory.
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-phreakindee If it's for lack of slots, if my memory serves me correctly (and it's been a long time, most MFM cards have a parallel and serial port and can replace your IO card doing that function now. The earliest PC I have experience with is the PC-XT, though. I noticed in other videos you use dos 6. 2, but IMHO, dos 5 would be the best version for your machines that I have seen, especially since 6. 2 automatically loads the drvspace driver, wasting precious conventional memory.
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christo930
The Janitor game looks to be a clone of miner 2049er, a pretty good game that made the rounds on 8 bit computers. Pango is a pengo (arcade) clone
Be careful with these shareware disks, many of them have viruses that infect the boot sector of your hard disk and any floppies you insert in the machine. The easiest way to get rid of them is to boot with a known clean boot disk, write protected with fdisk. exe on it, then type fdisk /. mbr and reboot.
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The Janitor game looks to be a clone of miner 2049er, a pretty good game that made the rounds on 8 bit computers. Pango is a pengo (arcade) clone
Be careful with these shareware disks, many of them have viruses that infect the boot sector of your hard disk and any floppies you insert in the machine. The easiest way to get rid of them is to boot with a known clean boot disk, write protected with fdisk. exe on it, then type fdisk /. mbr and reboot.
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LGR
-christo930 The main reasons are due to lack of space inside the machine (I'd have to remove a 5. 25- drive) and the power supply. A hard drive has the potential to overload the original 5150's PSU, and that would suck. If I ever get an XT though, it will be HDD time for sure!
And I use DOS versions 3. 3 - 6. 22 for my machines, depending on what I need. Like my 5150 uses v3. 3, my 386SX machine has v5. 0 and my 486DX/4 has v6. 22
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-christo930 The main reasons are due to lack of space inside the machine (I'd have to remove a 5. 25- drive) and the power supply. A hard drive has the potential to overload the original 5150's PSU, and that would suck. If I ever get an XT though, it will be HDD time for sure!
And I use DOS versions 3. 3 - 6. 22 for my machines, depending on what I need. Like my 5150 uses v3. 3, my 386SX machine has v5. 0 and my 486DX/4 has v6. 22
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mase5701
anyone remember that war game? you had to capture countries throughout the world and they would turn blue if you conquered them. you could leave a certain number of troops and bring a certain number with you. You took turns back and forth, between you and the computer opponent. (I think his name was Col. Chip something like that. It was a 90's game, I cant remember if it was from Windows 3. 11 or Windows 95. This is KILLING me!
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anyone remember that war game? you had to capture countries throughout the world and they would turn blue if you conquered them. you could leave a certain number of troops and bring a certain number with you. You took turns back and forth, between you and the computer opponent. (I think his name was Col. Chip something like that. It was a 90's game, I cant remember if it was from Windows 3. 11 or Windows 95. This is KILLING me!
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Mutt
Flightmare you controlled like you saw. In the instructions it mentions other keys for moving left and right, which you skipped over. It's got super finicky controls and even at the age of about 10 when my reaction speed was amazing I could only get up to around level -M- before being annihilated. I'd love to see a remake of it for android where the gameplay is actually fair.
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Flightmare you controlled like you saw. In the instructions it mentions other keys for moving left and right, which you skipped over. It's got super finicky controls and even at the age of about 10 when my reaction speed was amazing I could only get up to around level -M- before being annihilated. I'd love to see a remake of it for android where the gameplay is actually fair.
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christo930
-phreakindee copying them should restore them back to normal. I remember back in like 93, there was software that would read a sector of the disk into memory and then write it back to the disk, hard disk or floppy disks. I forget the name of the type of utility it was. Norton utilities or pc tools might have had one.
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-phreakindee copying them should restore them back to normal. I remember back in like 93, there was software that would read a sector of the disk into memory and then write it back to the disk, hard disk or floppy disks. I forget the name of the type of utility it was. Norton utilities or pc tools might have had one.
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VWestlife
In Pango you can also kick the outside walls, which will momentarily stop any bees along the wall, during which time you can just run over them to squash them. It's a fun game! Also if you say -no- to the color monitor question, it still displays in color, but uses the other palette (white/cyan/magenta.
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In Pango you can also kick the outside walls, which will momentarily stop any bees along the wall, during which time you can just run over them to squash them. It's a fun game! Also if you say -no- to the color monitor question, it still displays in color, but uses the other palette (white/cyan/magenta.
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smeckaldorf
i had a disk back in the day that was like 300+ dos games, from what i remember it had games like, kens labyrinth, Wallenstein 3d, i think the first version of doom and others like prince of Persia. i don't remember the name but i do remember the dos command to start it. C: \HRS
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i had a disk back in the day that was like 300+ dos games, from what i remember it had games like, kens labyrinth, Wallenstein 3d, i think the first version of doom and others like prince of Persia. i don't remember the name but i do remember the dos command to start it. C: \HRS
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potatoegirl31
OMG I so enjoy your -unedited- videos best! you make the snarkiest comments. my -introduction- to you was through your epic Keypunch Games vids, software so bad, it's AWESOME! MAKE MORE! XD with the exception of Minecraft, all the old 80s-early 90s stuff is best! 8-bit RULES
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OMG I so enjoy your -unedited- videos best! you make the snarkiest comments. my -introduction- to you was through your epic Keypunch Games vids, software so bad, it's AWESOME! MAKE MORE! XD with the exception of Minecraft, all the old 80s-early 90s stuff is best! 8-bit RULES
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