IBM 386 PS/2 MODEL 55SX video 2

[VJPaleta]

WOW Thats my first computer! :D

(After Sinclair Spectrum Timex)

[MarkTheMorose]

Thanks for showing Chip's Challenge; I have it on my Atari Lynx, and someone gave me the Windows Entertainment Pack which had it on. It was inferior, as you say, but I hadn't seen the DOS version running before. I shall look into it to run in DOSBox under Linux. Is the IBM a PC you've had since 'back in the day'? By the way, can you lock the focus on your camcorder? ;)

[MarkTheMorose]

Thanks for showing Chip's Challenge; I have it on my Atari Lynx, and someone gave me the Windows Entertainment Pack which had it on. It was inferior, as you say, but I hadn't seen the DOS version running before. I shall look into it to run in DOSBox under Linux. Is the IBM a PC you've had since 'back in the day'?

[CoolDudeClem]

I like the way Dizzy 3 has spectum style music, I didn't hear the music when I ran it on my old win 98 pc, although the game itelf ran perfectly, but when I played it in Dosbox and heard it for the very first time i was like WTF!

[Dms12444]

What I don't get is why people of the modern era mock computers they never even saw. I'm 14 and sadly the only one at my school that even knows what a 386 is. And when I tell others about it they always call them worthless, crap, horrible, or any combination of those three. If only they would actually take the time to see these computers they would understand. But in the modern era people only care about hi definition graphics even though the story lines for 9/10'ths of the games out there suck.

[plasmavox]

woaaa! this games were so genius! I'd love to go back in time and play that old trashy stuff again...

[plasmavox]

wow! this is great! when i was maybe 6 or so i played leisure suit larry on something like this! I have have some photographs of it lol :D

[ceracecar]

Heh heh. I used to play Doom with only the PC speaker as sound effects on my machine. Doesn't that suck... :(

[JohannesDT]

You may be in the run for the "Most Boring Video on Youtube" award. Good Luck!

[Blaxxx2]

How is this boring again?

[cpmisalive]

Cool, did you smash it ? The last few seconds of the video alluded to its imminent demise ;)

[niconarne]

soo slow pc soooooooooooo old ossssss stupid gamessssssssssssss

[negativeeffect]

What are u 10? If it was not for these "old" pc's. You would not have the games you have now.

[Blaxxx2]

I really need to disable comments one of these days.

[GR8TM4N]

Do i see "Blood" there on the directory? Is it blood money? captain blood?

[cpmisalive]

Hopefully, its the FPS called "Blood" - a gory shooter from 1997 - I've got that on my 386sux - it's worth playing it just to shoot the zombies with the flare pistol and watch them run at you screaming, on fire ;)

[Blaxxx2]

Blood was great.

I have fond memories of dual wielding pistols and kicking heads around.

Good times.

[Jivemaster2005]

edit:

Just tested this game on my own 386, it seems this game has no soundcard support :P

[Jivemaster2005]

Man, I think I should donate a nice non PnP Soundblaster card to you...that beeper sound awful ;)

[rainxxxx]

i would of loved to of seen more of outrun

[blair032]

you should get crysis running on that thing

[HarryMatic]

Thank you very much for posting this.

[SonicTheJackrabbit]

Awesome PC, maybe you should put in a Sound Blaster 16 sound card and install Calmira on Windows 3.1. (Which is a freeware Windows 95 interface.)

[ballsandy]

Is that a Microchannel Creative Sound blaster card? Those things are damn hard to find.

[sjokoland1]

have your IBM  PS/2 MODEL 55SX a sound card?

[Schnitz1]

This makes me miss my IBM PS/1. Sierra's Quest-games with the SCSI-engine were played a lot on it.

The volume control for the beeper was very handy. Later computers miss that.

[paulisthebest3uk]

you had a volume control on your beeper? omg - you lucky devil - mine was really loud in those days

[Schnitz1]

yes, it was kind of integrated in the screen. The computer's power supply had to go through the screen, because the on-switch was on the screen as well. Another interesting thing was that there was a D:-drive that was a ROM with an IBM:s own OS on. You could install another OS on the C: and then select it as the boot-drive. I think it had DOS 3.3 as standard. A special computer in several ways.

[XmegaPresident]

I collect old PC's. I have a mint IBM PC XT 4.77MHz and hopefully getting a rare EGA card for it. It has a CGA video card in it. I also have a power supply on the way for my IBM Model 55/SX 80386 60MB HDD 2MB RAM. I am going to upgrade the RAM. I have high respect for older PCs. I am 26 and grew up with a Tandy 1000. Many of my generation has no clue of what made the AMD 64 X2's and Pentium Dual Cores possible.

[jakeharvey]

You can spot those people by the comments they leave. People that laugh at the specs on old computers piss me off.

[paulisthebest3uk]

well to be honest its about if youve been through that age or not - you can say somethiing has crap graphics or crap specifications easily if you didnt go through that age if you know what i mean

[RABBIDGamfan]

Watch "8088 Corruption" an then get back to me.

[paulisthebest3uk]

Isnt it crazy that a lot of people would use the pc internal beeper for their sound on the older pc's - sound cards were expensive in the day - i think thats something worth noting !

[witterquickly]

I remember my first PC... 486 with 4 MB memory, bought another 4MB for 80 quid and installed it meself, was like performing heart surgery :|

Hah the first time I quit out of windows into dos I thought I'd broken it... those were the days... autoexec.bat etc etc

[paulisthebest3uk]

apologies for picture quality - couldnt be helped sorry