I have some questions. How much do a computer like that one costs? Where can i buy one? and... Where can I buy games and programs for it? What kind of software does it run? That monitor... what kind of input cable does it uses?
@eduardodc3 All together probably around $200. And the best place to look for one is eBay, but buying the parts separately is usually cheaper. Programs can be bought the same way, unless you haev a 5.25" floppy drive to transfer files to it just download games online. Dos 5.0 works best. And the input is a Monochrome or CGA plug. Different size than VGA. Hope that helps!
smartalex61, what do you say about you put games into rar archive and upload it somewhere? i've got motorola q9 with windows mobile. it has got freedos emulator. i started up Windows 3.0 and i would like some dos games!
@ZVONIMIR111 Oh cool! Yeah, maybe someday. I would give you links to where I got the games but it's been so long I have only a vague idea of where I go them from. But if I ever do put a .rar archive online I'll let you know. Is there any free way to do that do you know?
@smartalex61 if i don't find the games on abandonware site, try to do something. i watched your videos and read the description of cybermax 686 computer. try to transfer files with floppy disks from ibm pc xt. then download 7-zip, a free program and install it. it is even working with windows 3.x versions. then try to add it to an archive.
Does any1 remember the game where your a bunny or rabbit, and the map is covered in carrots, and you have to collect them all without boulders falling on you? what is the name of it. And does any1 remember the game where your a little green car and you are racing and you cannot hit the grass?
does anyone know what the game is called thats like a honey comb game i believe it was for this computer and i believe you either had to do spelling on it or math any help
@ca280491 Most of them I got from a website called "The Underdogs." Unfortunately that website has since been taken down, but there is another one called "Vetus Ware" that may be of help. It's really slow and only lets you download so many games per day, but it will have some of these games. The rest of them I just got from googling them, although they are at times hard to find.
@boost43534 They sure did! Many of the games that we play today derived from this era, such as Tetris and Frogger. Not only that, but it was also easy to create your own games using BASIC.
do any of these games support a sound blaster? I'm surprised you don't have one since the XT had eight slots, my 5150 PC only has 5. :( I don't have a soundblaster in mine yet but I want one. I bet if you had a sound card in the XT, the Tetris game would play the tetris theme song :)
The IBM logo in the beginning is awesome :) hey you should check out a program called Menu Maker, it is very hard to find, but it is public domain, open source. I will have to upload it to the internet at some point because I rarely can find it. It was included in the book The Fully Powered PC, by the editors of PC World. It allows you to make a color screen like that and load it quickly, using BLOAD and BSAVE. (although it is a compiled program). :)
@neutrino78x Hey thanks! That program would be very helpful. Originally this title screen was animated, but I had to take out the animation because it was just too slow.
@smartalex61 yeah as soon as I get the 5150 out of storage I will distribute that program...while it was on the PC World book, the author did put it in public domain. :) their idea in the book was that you would make a menu with Menu Maker that said, you know, " Lotus 1-2-3 => Alt-L" (in color with ext'd ascii) and you could have a macro program like Prokey run the appropriate batch file. the menus, the macro program, and command.com would all be in a ram disk. :) (or hard drive if you had one)
@VideoMajestic Yes, as long as you use the correct DIP Switch settings. Those instructions can be found online or with your EGA card's manual. If you use the wrong settings, you could damage your monitor. Some of the newer cards don't have DIP Switches though, they can automatically detect the monitor type.
im looking for this old game but i forgot whats its called it take splace in space andnd its this point and click game. its really unusuall but very creative if anyone can tell me what this game is called ill give u a cookie
@JeremyPassarelli A lot of them are from the "Home of the Underdogs" website (Google it). Some were really hard to find though, and I had to go through a lot to get them.
@smartalex61 these young computer noobs make me lol. PC XT.... task manager. lol. nice old machine though. i have a few 8088 beasts, but none of them are an original IBM like that.
@Vintagecomputer Yes, I had to restart the computer which is really annoying. I think the reason is because a lot of these games came on bootable floppy disks that you would just stick in the drive and turn on the computer, so you would never need to exit the game because you would just shut down the computer when you were done. But people have since made dos executable versions of these floppies that you can start while in dos, but there is no way to exit and go back to dos.
LMFAO... This sooo brings me back to elementary school!! I remember every friday they'd have the kids have a choice of going outside to play or go in the computer lab to play these games mentioned on here!! Nostalgia!
Oh man.....this video takes me back. I used to LOVE that cat game .....and the car driving game at 4:19 - I can't believe what I nerd I was even at such a young age.....and a girl at that!
hey yeah smartalex, I think I might have had one of the "newer" versions you're talking about from the late 80's. My dad got it when we were in Hong Kong, but it stopped working and he chucked it out, I begged him not to and even tried to hide it from him but he still did it. BOOO, congo bongo and frogger were the two games I played the most. I also had this other game with a bird bouncing around on an isometric triangle but can't remember the name of it, good times
I'm pretty sure that I got most of this computer from eBay. I didn't buy it all at once (because a complete set is hard to find) so I purchased all of the parts separately (Monitor, keyboard, printer, tower, hard drive, memory, graphics card, etc.). I probably spent around $210 for all of this.
The older ones like this are, they last forever and are not easily damaged, however IBM no longer makes PC's. Their late 80's and 90's PS/2's and Aptiva's I don't think were as good (more powerful than this obviously, but not that reliable). The only thing that usually doesn't last on these are the Hard Drives.
Oh yeah, I've played that game before. I could never really figure it out though. I'll try to get a video up soon, I've had some other requests as well.
The music in Space Racer, which I've never even played sounds better than what the typical PC speaker could produce, does that machine have a sound card in it? Did Nintendo officially produce and licence a third party company to produce Donkey Kong for Dos, or was that a homebrew thing?
The PC has no sound card, but some programmers were crafty enough to get the regular PC Speaker to create sounds other than beeps. As for Donkey Kong, I'm not sure but I'd guess that Nintendo licensed the game for IBM.
Awesome video! I used to have one of these when I was 6 and stay up all night playing Donkey Kong. I think the princess was my first love! Hehehehe. I would get so frustrated sometimes though, and start gnashing my teeth when I died. Damn that hairy ape!
Anyone know about the AT? I have one. No monitor though. Does it's port look like a serial port??? Mine turns on, I here the HDD, then it checks the 5 1/4 floppy and then the 3 1/2 one. Then it does 2 rapid beeps. Is this normal?
Yes! Those two beeps mean that you have a happy and healthy working computer. If you're really interested you could get a monitor for it from eBay, I could help you pick out the right one as well if you'd like.
It depends on what type of graphics card it has. If the 9 pin monitor port is on the same card as the 25 pin printer port, then it's a monochrome graphics card, you'd need an IBM 5151 monitor (~$50). If you have that dual monitor and printer port card ALONG with another 9 pin monitor port on another card, then your PC uses either a CGA or EGA graphics card. So those are used with an IBM 5153 (~$80) or an IBM 5154 (~$200) monitor.
P.S., I forgot to mention that an IBM 5153 CGA monitor can be used with an EGA port in case you can't find a decently priced IBM 5154 EGA monitor, since they are rare and expensive. I have an IBM 5153 CGA monitor with an EGA graphics card for that reason. Also there is the rare possibility that your computer has a 15 pin VGA port, which in that case you could use any modern VGA monitor. (Which is probably the monitor you're using right now if you're on a desktop computer, unless you have DVI).
Nah, there are always tons of XT's on eBay. Original IBM PC's with 160kb floppy drives are very rare though, and are often sold for thousands. The monitors on the other hand are relatively rare. Monochrom IBM 5151's aren't that hard to find, but CGA color IBM 5153's (which I have) are harder to find, and EGA color IBM 5154's are even harder to find and pretty expensive.
"Unicomp, which now owns the rights to the design, now sells the keyboards. Recently, the keyboards have made a comeback amongst writers and computer techs.[1] Unicomp has had difficulty making them profitable; because they rarely break, and at US$70.00, the chain retailers will not stock them."
Well, most of the IBM Floppy Drive Controllers that came with the computer that are normally used with 5.25" 360KB floppy drives can be used with 720 KB 3.5" drives. As for 1.44 MB 3.5" drives that's a different story, you'd need to install a new floppy drive controller.
P.S. - In case you didn't know, a floppy drive controller is the peripheral card the controls the floppy drives, all modern computers have that card built into the motherboard.
Hey, that's great! XT class machines were before my time, so most of the programs on it were from the internet. Some great sites are dosgames, dosgamesarchive, oldschooldos, abandonia, and Astoria
Yeah, I miss them too. Schools always tend to be full of obsolete computers, too bad they just trash them instead of giving them away. Actually one of the Science rooms at my schools is full of old IBM PS/2's from the late 1980's, and the teacher just says "why get rid of them if they still work?" I completely agree with that!
Yeah! We still have a few Mac OS computers that are fully functional with basic HTML websites, and one of my teachers during grade school kept them for the sake of nostalgia. We enjoyed finding old games on the internet and playing them off of floppy disks. :D
My woodshop teacher keeps most of the old 95/98/DOS? (haven't tested all of them) computers, Mainly due to the automated lathes being pretty old. He says if i can help get the lathes hooked up to a few of them, he'll give me 1 or 2 :D
hi. unfortuantly not the viglin was dumped about 8 years ago :( i still have the apple in the atic and an old ibm one with the green text screen but my big desktop ibm was also dumped .
Yeah, I admit that I'm too much of a pack rat, but then that way I never regret throwing things out! Have you ever thought of taking those computers out and booting them up? It's amazing how some of those things can boot up now just as smoothly as they did in the 1980's. Too bad none of my newer Dell computers have lasted more than 3 years.
yeah older ones seem to load up alot faster :) i have my gaming computer which is on everyday. i havent really thought about it though just left them up there maybe one day will take them down :)
It's cool that you have some of the official Atarisoft games for the PC. They really did the best version. I only ever had cheap imitations like "Pack-Man", "Digger", and "Hopper" (instead of the real Pac-Man, Dig Dug, and Frogger).
Yeah, we got our first computer in 1994 so most of the games that I played on that are way too new to play on the IBM PC/XT. These I just downloaded from the internet. But I do agree that they are good clones.
Yeah.. It came with a Monochrome card, and I figured why not get an EGA instead of CGA. EGA is backwards compatible, and you can still use the CGA monitor with it.
All of them were downloaded from another computer and transferred onto this one using the 5.25" floppy drive. The hard drive that came with the computer was broken, and they new one that's in there now was so messed up when I got it that I had to format it. So I started off on a fresh empty HD, but new of a lot of old games that I could put on it.
Well, after much trial and error you get what you want. Never expect to get these things working on the first try, and it can get frustrating at times. The first IBM PC XT that I bought off of eBay would power on and then do absolutely nothing, just like my broken PS/2 (which I have a video of). Then I got this one, but had to wait about 4 months before finding a decently priced CGA monitor. Then of course the first EGA card that I got didn't work, nor did most of the games before adding RAM.
wow seems like a lot of work to get these old machines to do what you want. ive been thinking about buying and ibm 5150 or 5160 sometime in the future when i have some extra money laying around. is ebay a good place to get an old computer like this?
I do think that eBay is a good place to get old computers, but just make sure you read the description to make sure they say whether it works or not. When they say they're not sure if it works, it usually means they tested it and it didn't work, and they don't want you to know that. Also it never hurts to look on Craigslist, that's where I got my Apple PowerMac 5500/225, the only thing is that you have to go get the item yourself.
OK thank you very much. sorry for so many questions but i want to know as much as possible before buying one. but i see that you run windows on this computer too. is it possible to get spy ware and viruses?
Hey, no problem, I like helping people with computer questions. Also it's highly doubtful that one could get a Windows virus on this computer, especially since hardly any programs were written for Windows 1.01 and the computer isn't connected to the internet. But it is possible to get a DOS virus, although I've never gotten one before, probably because I usually never accept pirated diskettes.
Well since nobody uses Diskettes, especially 5.25" diskettes, anymore I think it would be harder to find one with a virus. But I just recommend downloading all of the games onto your main computer and copying them to a diskette yourself.
Well, while servicing one of the woodshop teacher's computers, i found a floppy with the Stoned virus on it XD Too bad the Norton version the computer had deleted it, it'd have been nice to have a specimen.
What version of DOS shows that IBM logo?
cnc95fan 1 week ago
Ah, I remember those old days with my turbo XT clone, CGA graphics and all. Thanks for the video, brings back memories.
msdos622wasfun 2 months ago
@msdos622wasfun Of course!
smartalex61 1 month ago
4.77 MHz :) now even my calculator has more HZ :)))
spyRG 2 months ago
haha q goma d jueguitos ^^
andyalexflito 6 months ago
Huuu !!!! cuanta nostalgia ...saludos
klaudio060 6 months ago
wow. 4.77 MHZ ? i think the GBA is much faster XD
Glee0nFox 7 months ago
I have some questions. How much do a computer like that one costs? Where can i buy one? and... Where can I buy games and programs for it? What kind of software does it run? That monitor... what kind of input cable does it uses?
eduardodc3 7 months ago
@eduardodc3 All together probably around $200. And the best place to look for one is eBay, but buying the parts separately is usually cheaper. Programs can be bought the same way, unless you haev a 5.25" floppy drive to transfer files to it just download games online. Dos 5.0 works best. And the input is a Monochrome or CGA plug. Different size than VGA. Hope that helps!
smartalex61 7 months ago
@smartalex61 Thanks for the answer!!!! AWESOME!!!
Great video... I realy liked it! Those old computers are realy cool!
eduardodc3 7 months ago
that was the version of frogger I used to play in the 90s. Fucking nostalgic. It wasnt the version of dig dug though
ratchet5 8 months ago
I remember playing many of these games on my grandpas old XT back in the 80's.
Have fond memories of Centipede, The Ancient Art of War, MS Decathlon and Kings Quest 1.
Trukkerkeps 8 months ago
Wow! alot of those games had some really nice visuals for the PC, now I want one just to play them!
JoeyJoeJoe5000 1 year ago
smartalex61, what do you say about you put games into rar archive and upload it somewhere? i've got motorola q9 with windows mobile. it has got freedos emulator. i started up Windows 3.0 and i would like some dos games!
ZVONIMIR111 1 year ago
@ZVONIMIR111 Oh cool! Yeah, maybe someday. I would give you links to where I got the games but it's been so long I have only a vague idea of where I go them from. But if I ever do put a .rar archive online I'll let you know. Is there any free way to do that do you know?
smartalex61 1 year ago
@smartalex61 free way to upload it can be mediafire, no need for account, all through the ip adress, i think.
ZVONIMIR111 1 year ago
@smartalex61 if i don't find the games on abandonware site, try to do something. i watched your videos and read the description of cybermax 686 computer. try to transfer files with floppy disks from ibm pc xt. then download 7-zip, a free program and install it. it is even working with windows 3.x versions. then try to add it to an archive.
ZVONIMIR111 1 year ago
@smartalex61 looks like i found half of these games! if i can't find one i will tell you.
ZVONIMIR111 1 year ago
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@Tobsn06 Do not type a wink!
KartSeven1 1 year ago
@Tobsn06 Do not type a wink!!!!
KartSeven1 1 year ago
Does any1 remember the game where your a bunny or rabbit, and the map is covered in carrots, and you have to collect them all without boulders falling on you? what is the name of it. And does any1 remember the game where your a little green car and you are racing and you cannot hit the grass?
MyXbox360Tutorials 1 year ago
@smartalex61 Loud...
KartSeven1 1 year ago
After this video, I regret selling my old 1989 schneider PC.
Now I'm searching for the old games, I used to play.
LaterMeansBrick 1 year ago
This really took me back to the good old DOS era. Lovely video! :)
I haven't played a lot of the games shown here but I'm pretty sure I'd love them. I had the Test Drive game and a few others.
eigenl 1 year ago
does anyone know what the game is called thats like a honey comb game i believe it was for this computer and i believe you either had to do spelling on it or math any help
asseertedwolf 1 year ago
@Tobsn06 I got mostly everything from eBay, but I had to get every component separately, including the graphics card and the ram.
smartalex61 1 year ago
@Tobsn06 Hey thanks! It's Dos 5.0, the only Dos version that'll run Windows 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x. Dos 6.22 won't do Windows 1.x.
smartalex61 1 year ago
that keyboard is awsome
MrGameboy1989 1 year ago
my uncle had one of these..
I would program in GWBasic, then QBasic. God I loved that machine.
kiyotewolf 1 year ago
@kiyotewolf Me too! Too bad it's so hard to learn how to program these days.
smartalex61 1 year ago
@smartalex61
I'm programming in FreeBasic for Windows now.
kiyotewolf 1 year ago
is there any way to download those games i really want toplay them om my computer :D
ca280491 1 year ago
@ca280491 Most of them I got from a website called "The Underdogs." Unfortunately that website has since been taken down, but there is another one called "Vetus Ware" that may be of help. It's really slow and only lets you download so many games per day, but it will have some of these games. The rest of them I just got from googling them, although they are at times hard to find.
smartalex61 1 year ago
@smartalex61 thanks :)
ca280491 1 year ago
@boost43534 They sure did! Many of the games that we play today derived from this era, such as Tetris and Frogger. Not only that, but it was also easy to create your own games using BASIC.
smartalex61 1 year ago
Hehe. I see Vlak. This is Czech freeware game :). I am from Czech republic.
spirocz 1 year ago 2
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pjksf 1 year ago
@spirocz this is also talking something about croatian
ZVONIMIR111 1 year ago
do any of these games support a sound blaster? I'm surprised you don't have one since the XT had eight slots, my 5150 PC only has 5. :( I don't have a soundblaster in mine yet but I want one. I bet if you had a sound card in the XT, the Tetris game would play the tetris theme song :)
neutrino78x 1 year ago
The IBM logo in the beginning is awesome :) hey you should check out a program called Menu Maker, it is very hard to find, but it is public domain, open source. I will have to upload it to the internet at some point because I rarely can find it. It was included in the book The Fully Powered PC, by the editors of PC World. It allows you to make a color screen like that and load it quickly, using BLOAD and BSAVE. (although it is a compiled program). :)
neutrino78x 1 year ago
@neutrino78x Hey thanks! That program would be very helpful. Originally this title screen was animated, but I had to take out the animation because it was just too slow.
smartalex61 1 year ago
@smartalex61 yeah as soon as I get the 5150 out of storage I will distribute that program...while it was on the PC World book, the author did put it in public domain. :) their idea in the book was that you would make a menu with Menu Maker that said, you know, " Lotus 1-2-3 => Alt-L" (in color with ext'd ascii) and you could have a macro program like Prokey run the appropriate batch file. the menus, the macro program, and command.com would all be in a ram disk. :) (or hard drive if you had one)
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KartSeven1 1 year ago
Ah, the memories...
c:\dir /p
c:\cd games
c:\cd pop
cd:\prince.exe
Samoutuomas 1 year ago
@Samoutuomas
C:\>cd games
C:\GAMES>cd pop
C:\GAMES\POP>prince
KartSeven1 1 year ago
@zirobertino Digger by Windmill software.
initvesa 1 year ago
I miss DOS games as a whole, but I miss CGA/EGA games a whole lot.
wysoft 1 year ago
@wysoft Amen!
smartalex61 1 year ago
some class old games there. i love old computer stuff.
parkeyx 1 year ago
2:56 SPEAK OF THE DEVIL. You had it too! xD xD Awesome
8BitManiac 1 year ago
Damn.. I remember using this in school and playing SimCity as well as Tetris on this thing. xD
8BitManiac 1 year ago
I have a CGA monitor, are you saying I can install a EGA card and use that monitor with it?
VideoMajestic 1 year ago
@VideoMajestic Yes, as long as you use the correct DIP Switch settings. Those instructions can be found online or with your EGA card's manual. If you use the wrong settings, you could damage your monitor. Some of the newer cards don't have DIP Switches though, they can automatically detect the monitor type.
smartalex61 1 year ago
How did you get that large IBM on the screen under DOS?
VideoMajestic 1 year ago
@VideoMajestic I assume it's PC-DOS
phreakindee 1 year ago
@phreakindee Nope, MS-DOS 5. I use that version of DOS because it's compatible with all hardware and software designed for DOS.
smartalex61 1 year ago
@VideoMajestic I made a program in BASIC that does that.
smartalex61 1 year ago
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GrayWolfPaw 1 year ago
@didogazeto
no, but yes Czech. and the train is a Czech word :)
janalavavavava 1 year ago
Vlak-lol this is a czech word
vlak-train :-D
Donkey Kong and Pacman..sweet old times XD
janalavavavava 1 year ago
@janalavavavava
woot,you know bulgarian ?
didogazeto 1 year ago
What size is that monitor diagonal?
MixerVM 1 year ago
@MixerVM I believe it's a 13"
smartalex61 1 year ago
Alley Cat!!!!!!!!
Haven't seen this game in about 25 years ha ha!
fred9099 1 year ago
im looking for this old game but i forgot whats its called it take splace in space andnd its this point and click game. its really unusuall but very creative if anyone can tell me what this game is called ill give u a cookie
mindmonkey00 1 year ago
@mindmonkey00
Space Invaders!! :D
lilryanps3 1 year ago
@mindmonkey00 Point and klick-adventure? Perhaps Zak McKracken or Mission Supernova!?!
armorgeddon 5 months ago
Where can I get these games at?
JeremyPassarelli 1 year ago
@JeremyPassarelli A lot of them are from the "Home of the Underdogs" website (Google it). Some were really hard to find though, and I had to go through a lot to get them.
smartalex61 1 year ago
use: Ctrl+Alt+Delete and end task. use task manager.
chippers34 1 year ago
@chippers34 I wish! Task Manager is a Windows thing, it doesn't exist in DOS!
smartalex61 1 year ago 5
@smartalex61 these young computer noobs make me lol. PC XT.... task manager. lol. nice old machine though. i have a few 8088 beasts, but none of them are an original IBM like that.
kingcrimson234 1 year ago
@smartalex61
well,it restart computers.
didogazeto 1 year ago
Hi.
When you ran the game Alley Cat, you needed to restart the computer to run the next game?
Some games do not seem to have a combination of keys to exit.
Thanks.
Vintagecomputer 1 year ago
@Vintagecomputer Yes, I had to restart the computer which is really annoying. I think the reason is because a lot of these games came on bootable floppy disks that you would just stick in the drive and turn on the computer, so you would never need to exit the game because you would just shut down the computer when you were done. But people have since made dos executable versions of these floppies that you can start while in dos, but there is no way to exit and go back to dos.
smartalex61 1 year ago
Strange, I searched for Barbarian and reached to this video. it is cool, but didn't see Barbarian. you don't have Barbarian?
undocumentedspot 1 year ago
@undocumentedspot Nope, I don't. That is weird. I bet that happened because there is a "Barbarian" related video in the related videos section.
smartalex61 1 year ago
LMFAO... This sooo brings me back to elementary school!! I remember every friday they'd have the kids have a choice of going outside to play or go in the computer lab to play these games mentioned on here!! Nostalgia!
ATLien333 1 year ago
@ATLien333 Interesting, my old school always had Apple computers. Now its all cheap Dell's.
smartalex61 1 year ago
Excuse me, that makes mistakes, it may be a translator. It's a good video.I have got cd with DOS games.somebody wants to?
filipmur 1 year ago
FIrst game I ever played was called Gold Dust Island on the C64 back in 1984/85. I was 6 years old :-)
TeamKilday 1 year ago
Oh man.....this video takes me back. I used to LOVE that cat game .....and the car driving game at 4:19 - I can't believe what I nerd I was even at such a young age.....and a girl at that!
TeamKilday 1 year ago
@TeamKilday Wow, that's impressive! I didn't learn how to use DOS until I was like 14.
smartalex61 1 year ago
Fantastic!
pietrora 1 year ago
Great stuff! I do the same on my 5150 - floppies only, so much slower! :-)
LoftBits 1 year ago
hey yeah smartalex, I think I might have had one of the "newer" versions you're talking about from the late 80's. My dad got it when we were in Hong Kong, but it stopped working and he chucked it out, I begged him not to and even tried to hide it from him but he still did it. BOOO, congo bongo and frogger were the two games I played the most. I also had this other game with a bird bouncing around on an isometric triangle but can't remember the name of it, good times
tomhoneyfield 2 years ago
Where can you buy PCs like this one? And how much does that cost?
smellytoilet1996 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure that I got most of this computer from eBay. I didn't buy it all at once (because a complete set is hard to find) so I purchased all of the parts separately (Monitor, keyboard, printer, tower, hard drive, memory, graphics card, etc.). I probably spent around $210 for all of this.
smartalex61 2 years ago
wow.I tought that would be a lot of money,but thank you
smellytoilet1996 2 years ago
Wow, you're fast at typing o_O
Anyway nice machine :-)
ZXRulezzz 2 years ago
are IBM computers good?
PrickIttwice 2 years ago
The older ones like this are, they last forever and are not easily damaged, however IBM no longer makes PC's. Their late 80's and 90's PS/2's and Aptiva's I don't think were as good (more powerful than this obviously, but not that reliable). The only thing that usually doesn't last on these are the Hard Drives.
smartalex61 2 years ago
I would be that most of them could, except for games requiring more memory and EGA graphics like Test Drive (which might have a CGA mode, not sure).
smartalex61 2 years ago
I used to play some of these xDD
XoXKyleXXX 2 years ago
i'd like to request Interplay's WASTELAND, the spiritual predecessor to one of my favorite DOS/9x (and beyond) game series, Fallout.
poopskinTheLiar 2 years ago
Oh yeah, I've played that game before. I could never really figure it out though. I'll try to get a video up soon, I've had some other requests as well.
smartalex61 2 years ago
These games own the shit outta crysis!
Aqwert76 2 years ago
The music in Space Racer, which I've never even played sounds better than what the typical PC speaker could produce, does that machine have a sound card in it? Did Nintendo officially produce and licence a third party company to produce Donkey Kong for Dos, or was that a homebrew thing?
Lachlant1984 2 years ago
The PC has no sound card, but some programmers were crafty enough to get the regular PC Speaker to create sounds other than beeps. As for Donkey Kong, I'm not sure but I'd guess that Nintendo licensed the game for IBM.
smartalex61 2 years ago
@alex
does that thing gots ega?
smeezekitty 2 years ago
Yup, hooked up to a CGA monitor.
smartalex61 2 years ago
Awesome video! I used to have one of these when I was 6 and stay up all night playing Donkey Kong. I think the princess was my first love! Hehehehe. I would get so frustrated sometimes though, and start gnashing my teeth when I died. Damn that hairy ape!
caesarmustafa 2 years ago
Yeah, who needs a 1024mb graphics card and 4gb or RAM to have fun?
smartalex61 2 years ago
Wasn't ''The Computer for the rest of us'' the slogan for the first Macintosh?
Picu97 2 years ago
Yes! Ha, your the first person to get that. I just thought it would be ironic to put that on there, although most people don't get it.
smartalex61 2 years ago
Reminds me of my years with the PS1 (still working!!). Such memorable games in those days (sigh).
Post some more!! ;-)
richardus1985 2 years ago
someone tell me the controls for donkey kong so i can play it on my pc
Robloxian182 2 years ago
I think you press the left control button to jump, and use the arrow keys to move around.
smartalex61 2 years ago
What is that top/down Pac Man styled game close to the end?
machinesbreathe 2 years ago
MadMix
smartalex61 2 years ago
Did you ever play "Bubble Ghost" at all?
Man that game was ace.
machinesbreathe 2 years ago
I have not, but I just looked it up on Wikipedia and will try it soon. Looks fun!
smartalex61 2 years ago
Oh my goodness, I used to play Popcorn until I fell asleep! This gets me so sentimental.
Anthonyg9 2 years ago
I meant preinstalled. Just a bunch of diner dash nonsense on it.
360guy0 2 years ago
Anyone know about the AT? I have one. No monitor though. Does it's port look like a serial port??? Mine turns on, I here the HDD, then it checks the 5 1/4 floppy and then the 3 1/2 one. Then it does 2 rapid beeps. Is this normal?
6364gg2 2 years ago
Yes! Those two beeps mean that you have a happy and healthy working computer. If you're really interested you could get a monitor for it from eBay, I could help you pick out the right one as well if you'd like.
smartalex61 2 years ago
How much does a monitor cost? What are the search terms?
6364gg2 2 years ago
It depends on what type of graphics card it has. If the 9 pin monitor port is on the same card as the 25 pin printer port, then it's a monochrome graphics card, you'd need an IBM 5151 monitor (~$50). If you have that dual monitor and printer port card ALONG with another 9 pin monitor port on another card, then your PC uses either a CGA or EGA graphics card. So those are used with an IBM 5153 (~$80) or an IBM 5154 (~$200) monitor.
smartalex61 2 years ago
P.S., I forgot to mention that an IBM 5153 CGA monitor can be used with an EGA port in case you can't find a decently priced IBM 5154 EGA monitor, since they are rare and expensive. I have an IBM 5153 CGA monitor with an EGA graphics card for that reason. Also there is the rare possibility that your computer has a 15 pin VGA port, which in that case you could use any modern VGA monitor. (Which is probably the monitor you're using right now if you're on a desktop computer, unless you have DVI).
smartalex61 2 years ago
these beat the games on my 07' laptop...
360guy0 2 years ago
Is the IBM PC/XT hard to come by nowadays?
simonsko1 2 years ago
Nah, there are always tons of XT's on eBay. Original IBM PC's with 160kb floppy drives are very rare though, and are often sold for thousands. The monitors on the other hand are relatively rare. Monochrom IBM 5151's aren't that hard to find, but CGA color IBM 5153's (which I have) are harder to find, and EGA color IBM 5154's are even harder to find and pretty expensive.
smartalex61 2 years ago
OK! Thank you for the info!
simonsko1 2 years ago
I bought some old xt drives from a guy on ebay and one of the floppies is a 160k. Perhaps i should hold on to it :)
bassmanwright 2 years ago
I love that keyboard sound... they don' t build them like that anymore = |
theStarchitect 2 years ago
Well, actually, they do:
"Unicomp, which now owns the rights to the design, now sells the keyboards. Recently, the keyboards have made a comeback amongst writers and computer techs.[1] Unicomp has had difficulty making them profitable; because they rarely break, and at US$70.00, the chain retailers will not stock them."
poopskinTheLiar 2 years ago
Fun fact: you don't need DOSbox to run Alley Cat. Apparently, it adjusts itself to your processor's speed.
poopskinTheLiar 2 years ago
Is there any way to put a regular 3.5" floppy drive in one of those?
matkovicha 2 years ago
Well, most of the IBM Floppy Drive Controllers that came with the computer that are normally used with 5.25" 360KB floppy drives can be used with 720 KB 3.5" drives. As for 1.44 MB 3.5" drives that's a different story, you'd need to install a new floppy drive controller.
P.S. - In case you didn't know, a floppy drive controller is the peripheral card the controls the floppy drives, all modern computers have that card built into the motherboard.
smartalex61 2 years ago
i'll be getting my hands on a 5150/xt someday...maybe this christmas, maybe my birthday?
poopskinTheLiar 2 years ago
Hi Alex,
I just resurrected my old XT I grew up with, but discovered I have almost no vintage software for it, save WordPerfect 4.2 and some BBSs.
Do you know where I could get any of those games you demo'ed? I remember some of those...was a long time ago! They're especially hard to find now.
Thanks for sharing the video.
mk553 3 years ago
Hey, that's great! XT class machines were before my time, so most of the programs on it were from the internet. Some great sites are dosgames, dosgamesarchive, oldschooldos, abandonia, and Astoria
Theodor Lauppert's Homepage to name a few.
smartalex61 3 years ago
P.S. - Just in case you didn't notice, I did list the games in the video description to the right.
smartalex61 3 years ago
Ahah. I have Alley Cat on my Windows 98 machine. Awesome game.
theofficalmiga 3 years ago
I still have some 5 1/4 floppies with stoned and ping pong virus on them.. lol..
cageboyes 3 years ago
Ping Pong Virus? I just did some reading up on it and I'd never heard of it before (luckily I guess!). Pretty interesting though.
smartalex61 3 years ago
stoned virus was the thing...
theStarchitect 3 years ago
Baww, we had one of these at my school. It's a shame that they finally trashed it. I requested to buy it, even.
Classic computers... I miss them soooooo very much :(
DDRpwnerer 3 years ago
Yeah, I miss them too. Schools always tend to be full of obsolete computers, too bad they just trash them instead of giving them away. Actually one of the Science rooms at my schools is full of old IBM PS/2's from the late 1980's, and the teacher just says "why get rid of them if they still work?" I completely agree with that!
smartalex61 3 years ago
Yeah! We still have a few Mac OS computers that are fully functional with basic HTML websites, and one of my teachers during grade school kept them for the sake of nostalgia. We enjoyed finding old games on the internet and playing them off of floppy disks. :D
DDRpwnerer 3 years ago
My woodshop teacher keeps most of the old 95/98/DOS? (haven't tested all of them) computers, Mainly due to the automated lathes being pretty old. He says if i can help get the lathes hooked up to a few of them, he'll give me 1 or 2 :D
poopskinTheLiar 3 years ago
Thank you...very nostalgic
Oche76 3 years ago
Nice ;) i remember all the good old games i used to have on the old apple, viglin and ibm . great video. 5 stars :)
computertom90 3 years ago
Het thanks! Do you still have any of your old computers? I've never heard of Viglin before, was it an IBM clone?
smartalex61 3 years ago
hi. unfortuantly not the viglin was dumped about 8 years ago :( i still have the apple in the atic and an old ibm one with the green text screen but my big desktop ibm was also dumped .
computertom90 3 years ago
Yeah, I admit that I'm too much of a pack rat, but then that way I never regret throwing things out! Have you ever thought of taking those computers out and booting them up? It's amazing how some of those things can boot up now just as smoothly as they did in the 1980's. Too bad none of my newer Dell computers have lasted more than 3 years.
smartalex61 3 years ago
yeah older ones seem to load up alot faster :) i have my gaming computer which is on everyday. i havent really thought about it though just left them up there maybe one day will take them down :)
computertom90 3 years ago
It's cool that you have some of the official Atarisoft games for the PC. They really did the best version. I only ever had cheap imitations like "Pack-Man", "Digger", and "Hopper" (instead of the real Pac-Man, Dig Dug, and Frogger).
vwestlife 3 years ago
Yeah, we got our first computer in 1994 so most of the games that I played on that are way too new to play on the IBM PC/XT. These I just downloaded from the internet. But I do agree that they are good clones.
smartalex61 3 years ago
@vwestlife: in case of Dig Dug and Digger I have to say Digger isn't a cheap imitations, but way better than the original.
armorgeddon 5 months ago
Cheater, you have EGA card ;)
GroovyMango 3 years ago
Yeah.. It came with a Monochrome card, and I figured why not get an EGA instead of CGA. EGA is backwards compatible, and you can still use the CGA monitor with it.
smartalex61 3 years ago
@smartalex61: Is the CGA-monitor able to show all colors of EGA?
armorgeddon 5 months ago
echt irre dass ein 25 jahre alter pc schon so gute grafiken anzeigen kann...
Aqwert76 3 years ago
Yeah, EGA cards produce much better results than monochrome and CGA cards which were the only ones available when the IBM PC was released.
smartalex61 3 years ago
bitte DEUTSCH
Aqwert76 3 years ago
Ja, EGA-Karten wesentlich bessere Ergebnisse als Monochrom-und CGA-Karten, die als einzige zur Verfügung, wenn der IBM-PC veröffentlicht wurde.
smartalex61 3 years ago
now these are some good classic games. are those games on floppy disks or are they downloaded on the computer?
brandonkr 3 years ago
All of them were downloaded from another computer and transferred onto this one using the 5.25" floppy drive. The hard drive that came with the computer was broken, and they new one that's in there now was so messed up when I got it that I had to format it. So I started off on a fresh empty HD, but new of a lot of old games that I could put on it.
smartalex61 3 years ago
ok cool. you seem pretty good with these older computers.
brandonkr 3 years ago
Well, after much trial and error you get what you want. Never expect to get these things working on the first try, and it can get frustrating at times. The first IBM PC XT that I bought off of eBay would power on and then do absolutely nothing, just like my broken PS/2 (which I have a video of). Then I got this one, but had to wait about 4 months before finding a decently priced CGA monitor. Then of course the first EGA card that I got didn't work, nor did most of the games before adding RAM.
smartalex61 3 years ago
wow seems like a lot of work to get these old machines to do what you want. ive been thinking about buying and ibm 5150 or 5160 sometime in the future when i have some extra money laying around. is ebay a good place to get an old computer like this?
brandonkr 3 years ago
I do think that eBay is a good place to get old computers, but just make sure you read the description to make sure they say whether it works or not. When they say they're not sure if it works, it usually means they tested it and it didn't work, and they don't want you to know that. Also it never hurts to look on Craigslist, that's where I got my Apple PowerMac 5500/225, the only thing is that you have to go get the item yourself.
smartalex61 3 years ago
OK thank you very much. sorry for so many questions but i want to know as much as possible before buying one. but i see that you run windows on this computer too. is it possible to get spy ware and viruses?
brandonkr 3 years ago
Hey, no problem, I like helping people with computer questions. Also it's highly doubtful that one could get a Windows virus on this computer, especially since hardly any programs were written for Windows 1.01 and the computer isn't connected to the internet. But it is possible to get a DOS virus, although I've never gotten one before, probably because I usually never accept pirated diskettes.
smartalex61 3 years ago
OK thank you. how do you know if you have a pirated diskette? is it possible to remove a virus if you get one?
brandonkr 3 years ago
Well since nobody uses Diskettes, especially 5.25" diskettes, anymore I think it would be harder to find one with a virus. But I just recommend downloading all of the games onto your main computer and copying them to a diskette yourself.
smartalex61 3 years ago
ok cool thanks.
brandonkr 3 years ago
Well, while servicing one of the woodshop teacher's computers, i found a floppy with the Stoned virus on it XD Too bad the Norton version the computer had deleted it, it'd have been nice to have a specimen.
poopskinTheLiar 3 years ago
Yeah, apparently the Stoned Virus outnumbered the Ping Pong virus eventually.
smartalex61 3 years ago
i loved test drive probably because you used my favorite car xD and the graphics are amazing for that time period i faved xD
Furetgarcon 3 years ago
True
smartalex61 3 years ago