LGR - Playing Silpheed on an IBM 5150 PC
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Date: 2022-04-14
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naswinger
I like your passion for PC DOS gaming and the knowledge you accumulated about vintage PC tech. I did grow up in the era of Win 3. 11 and whatever the DOS version was back then, but I sure don't miss the messing around with getting sound or freeing that last kilobyte of base memory to run a game and squeeze in a mouse driver or something. DirectX sure helped a lot. your experiment with the IBM 5150 reminded me of that. and I wish I had a C64 back then.
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I like your passion for PC DOS gaming and the knowledge you accumulated about vintage PC tech. I did grow up in the era of Win 3. 11 and whatever the DOS version was back then, but I sure don't miss the messing around with getting sound or freeing that last kilobyte of base memory to run a game and squeeze in a mouse driver or something. DirectX sure helped a lot. your experiment with the IBM 5150 reminded me of that. and I wish I had a C64 back then.
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Dylan
Thats awesome that you can run that game on the original IBM pc, I wish i had one of those but to pricey and I have no space when I move out I having a computer room, going to have to share it with my gf for her arty crafty stuff but still! but speaking of her i have to go talk to her now, I'll finish watching this latter but I am surprised how the actually game seems to work quite good from what Is seen so far, besides the intro.
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Thats awesome that you can run that game on the original IBM pc, I wish i had one of those but to pricey and I have no space when I move out I having a computer room, going to have to share it with my gf for her arty crafty stuff but still! but speaking of her i have to go talk to her now, I'll finish watching this latter but I am surprised how the actually game seems to work quite good from what Is seen so far, besides the intro.
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Audiomancer
-ThomasGGebert What's funny is that I've tried running old games on my modern computer, and they run so fast that you die right away, and you have to use a utility to slow it down: ) That was with a windows game. I do have a question, and hopefully you or someone else can answer it. If you are running a DOS emulator of some kind on a modern computer, do you still have to use a slowdown utility?
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-ThomasGGebert What's funny is that I've tried running old games on my modern computer, and they run so fast that you die right away, and you have to use a utility to slow it down: ) That was with a windows game. I do have a question, and hopefully you or someone else can answer it. If you are running a DOS emulator of some kind on a modern computer, do you still have to use a slowdown utility?
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Rodney
This video illustrates why I don't miss the old DOS days. I love the games, but they play so much more easily on an emulator. I don't have to fiddle for disks, have the drive eat them, or reboot the computer every time I want to play another game with different settings. And. the computer goes the speed I want. Long live emulators!
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This video illustrates why I don't miss the old DOS days. I love the games, but they play so much more easily on an emulator. I don't have to fiddle for disks, have the drive eat them, or reboot the computer every time I want to play another game with different settings. And. the computer goes the speed I want. Long live emulators!
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Dylan
I finished watching your video awhile ago, and finally downloaded the game and started playing on my dos pc and its pretty good to bad I am not that great at it, but i'll get there, got my sound blaster 16 to pretend to be a adlib, oh! amazing idea for you, you should put the adlib in the IBM 5150 and play that game with sound!
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I finished watching your video awhile ago, and finally downloaded the game and started playing on my dos pc and its pretty good to bad I am not that great at it, but i'll get there, got my sound blaster 16 to pretend to be a adlib, oh! amazing idea for you, you should put the adlib in the IBM 5150 and play that game with sound!
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GamerMGO
So phreakindee, i saw this vid and thought this game looked pretty cool even under the limited capabilities of the 5150, so it made me want to play it, so i finally got a pc88 emu working on my psp and this game runs decently and i have to say, i wish i was running it physically because this game is really really fun.
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So phreakindee, i saw this vid and thought this game looked pretty cool even under the limited capabilities of the 5150, so it made me want to play it, so i finally got a pc88 emu working on my psp and this game runs decently and i have to say, i wish i was running it physically because this game is really really fun.
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Singular8ty
Random thought I had, LGR, if you happen to read this, since you like the sound of the IBM keyboard so much (and I don't blame you) do you use a CHERRY Blue based keyboard?
I personally do and I love it, only has 6KRO since it is USB not PS/2, but that's really enough for most circumstances.
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Random thought I had, LGR, if you happen to read this, since you like the sound of the IBM keyboard so much (and I don't blame you) do you use a CHERRY Blue based keyboard?
I personally do and I love it, only has 6KRO since it is USB not PS/2, but that's really enough for most circumstances.
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-NOQ-BOT-
Ahh the good old days.
The next time you guys curse and swear at the -uber-slow- loading time of some current-gen games, remember this: some DOS/Amiga/C64 games loaded so -fast-, that you could easily eat dinner or take a quick shower and it still would be only the main menu that was loaded.
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Ahh the good old days.
The next time you guys curse and swear at the -uber-slow- loading time of some current-gen games, remember this: some DOS/Amiga/C64 games loaded so -fast-, that you could easily eat dinner or take a quick shower and it still would be only the main menu that was loaded.
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Jan
This was one of my favorite games. And I played it on a Boss XT 8088. It was there with Game Star Hockey League, Donkey Kong, and Spy Hunter. Used that machine from 1984 to 1995, when I bought my own computer so I didn't have to share with the family. I upgraded to a 486 DX2 66 with Win 95.
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This was one of my favorite games. And I played it on a Boss XT 8088. It was there with Game Star Hockey League, Donkey Kong, and Spy Hunter. Used that machine from 1984 to 1995, when I bought my own computer so I didn't have to share with the family. I upgraded to a 486 DX2 66 with Win 95.
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niceandgames
OK, this is pretty wild! I wouldn't have guessed the old guy could run this game, but I'm proud of him for trying so hard and doing such a great job! And yes, I'm talking about your computer like it's a person. Nothing wrong with a little classic PC anthropomorphizing. :)
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OK, this is pretty wild! I wouldn't have guessed the old guy could run this game, but I'm proud of him for trying so hard and doing such a great job! And yes, I'm talking about your computer like it's a person. Nothing wrong with a little classic PC anthropomorphizing. :)
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