1985 Tandy 1000 EX - 10 Minutes of Ultima 1

[rotaryphoton137]

It was called Akalabeth before the final revision, so fun! Someone stole my prompt!

[mistergrumpy11]

Damn son that thief raped you

[TheSchmuck2]

wowwww composite rainbow on the startup text!

[dogralle]

ein 2er dos, genial... und das spiel dazu...

[74brooklynboi]

Wow this brings back some good childhood memories. I had the same PC.

[OBSysteme]

ah... the tandy 100 was my first hook on computers, a friend had one, we played the hell out of the game until the disks would not run anymore. It was always funny back them that most people would not run on backups of their originals and keep the original safely packaged (magnetic media is super durable when properlyi stored). maybe blank disks were expensive in those days ?

[TadRaunch]

were you making those badass beats on purpose

[Utos0]

Holy shit, I remember when a thief came from behind, i was like, WTF IS THAT NOISE??? I turn around and a fucking thief is raping me... god I hate that!

[jcgamer107]

lol "strongbad.....no, mario....no"

[lumpypoptarts]

I hate running this on dosbox, No way to load :/ it was alot easier to steal blasters with a reset button on my old computer :)

[lumpypoptarts]

I hate running this on dosbox, No way to load :/ it was alot easier to steal blasters with a reset button on my old computer :)

[Th3ba1r0n]

lol Tandy xD

Weren't nothin like watching the load screen when u bought a game for these computers, cause you knew you were in for a treat.

x3 Long before nintendo

[ecoeccentric]

What I would love to see are videos of Ultima II and III using CGA composite. Unlike the Ultima I remake, which uses EGA/Tandy/PC jr 16-color CGA to display 16 colors on an RGB monitor, II/III use artifacting on CGA on a composite monitor to display more colors.

BTW, I'm working on a faithful remake of Ultima I in Java that runs on lots of PDAs/cellphones/smartphones/et­c (even Blu-Ray eventually).

[creepingnet]

@ecoeccentric I might have to try that, sounds like something to use my Netbook for on the big ol' Mitsubishi 20".

[ecoeccentric]

@creepingnet Yes, it runs on netbooks, (or any computer with a Java 1.4 or up VM) as well. If you want. I'll let you know when it's ready. Or maybe you'd like to playtest it? It's playable now, but not finished. Do you have Ultima II/III?

[someguyoketcetc]

Attack with rope?

[bigdrew565]

had a tandy 1000 ex. and i remember being able to hear some weird noises every time the screen refreshed. =0

[rej72380]

I sure wish GameTap has this particular RPG available in their catalogue, as it looks really good.

[suchiuomizu]

Your best bet for most of the series would be the "Ultima Collection" a single disk with 1-8.

It has been out of print for some time so eBay, Amazon or similar places may be your only chance of finding it and the prices can vary but you should be able to find a reasonable priced, at least if you wait assuming are currently available.

[ChickenLeg91]

I just hooked up our family's old Tandy 1000 EX after 5 years of inactivity and extreme conditions (considering the computer was put in a garage for three of those), and it STILL works.

[rodneyws1977]

What I think is more amazing is that you were using a Tandy 1000 EX 5 years ago. In 2004?!? Really?!?!?

[Ghengis1221]

The beginning is like a Terminator booting up.

[siskavard]

Those were the days! I was 5...

[czuket]

grand daddy of all rpg games

[DIMMUSAKURABA]

Not true. Look up Akalabeth. That game is basically Ultima 0 created by the same guy who made this. To my knowledge, thats the first ever traditional rpg. But, close, almost the grand daddy.

Also, has anybody uploaded the actual 1980 version of this game and not the remastered 1987 Origin Systems version? I'd really like to see that in action but seems everybody only has the Origin Systems version uploaded.

[Evilmonkey66699]

Mainly because the Orgin version was the most common, I don't think that very many people have the orginal Sierra online release at least thats who I belive it was who published it I know they published Ultima 2 as well as two forgotten Ultima's(can't remember the names)

[poopskinTheLiar]

Lemee guess, things have to have good graphics to be fun? you wouldn't know a adventure game if it slapped you on the face.

[poopskinTheLiar]

this was at HumBugged.

[Artiph]

Attack with rope?

[felicity4711]

I miss that old IBM screen font.

[iabbervocium]

I miss it too. =P

[vidboss]

Unbeleivable, I used to work for Radio Shack. It's amazing how we have progressed in the computer age. My first computer was a Tandy 1000TX. When I bought it I thought I was hot shit for owning a pc. Now I look back and just laugh my ass off.

[blicksflicks]

I hate to say it, but give it twenty-three more years, and all the games we have today will be just as hilarious and will pale beside the true life version of holographic computer games. That's right. Your living room because the world.

[creepingnet]

Might be funny, but also, think of the "retro" possibilities....it'd be like having the Holideck. I know I'd be going back to 1985 for sure.

[blicksflicks]

Yeah, I know. It would, you know?

[rej72380]

When I was playing that particular game on the PC, part of the Ultima Collection from EA Games, I noticed one key negative with the game--You automatically die if you run out of food. Yep, times were tough back then in RPGLand.

[creepingnet]

Yeah, the trick in Ultima I, is to go into the dungeons and fight, for some reason, it gives you food and experience after you climb to the surface. I usually pick up a lot of food, minimal weapons and armor, and then trek to the nearest cave to fight monsters and gain EXP.

[Droyd21]

I never really knew this times but heck, who put pay for these kind of games, absolutely hilarious.

[creepingnet]

Actually, it was bleeding edge stuff back around 1981-1983, as computers were more considered a "tool" than a toy, as they normally cost up to several thousand dollars.

[blicksflicks]

You saying it's hilarious to pay for games like this just shows how young you are. It's no different than saying "Why did they buy this toasters?" This is how it all started, kid! Thank us older people for making the internet and computer gaming what it is today. We were the pioneers.

[Droyd21]

I only ment that there is a really funny side on all of this, it's not that I don't see they were revolutionary in a way.

I may be young according to your standards, but I'm sure it's not just my age causing me to smile each time I see the skeleton and/or bat. ;)

[blicksflicks]

lol Man, I feel sorry for all you people in your twenties. By the time you get thirty-six (my present age) there may not be an America anymore, and the American dollar is as good as gone. I'll still be here, but it won't be long before I hit the grave, man. lol

[Droyd21]

Lol, what did I do? I'm not saying your wrong about things change rather quickly, but just see the other side too. Some 1992 games still look fine to the human eye today and people still play Tetris.

And in my secondlast post I wasn't replying to your your views on the future (I hadn't noticed that comment as I posted) so there might be a missunderstanding.

[blicksflicks]

Tandyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! LOL

[Angryjolly]

please wait whilst thy game loads. please put down ye olde hard earned gold, and buy Tabula Rasa.

[octamethyl]

crazy. i remember this game well. ends up in a spaceship.  crazy.

[Intersonus903]

You could rule the world on 640k of RAM!

[dynamoehummm]

Wow where'd you get that game? And how'd your make your monitor do that? I heard rumors of monitors that brown and yellow or Amber but that might be the brand. Pretty fancy pants. Green's good enough for me on my PORTABLE, yup fully lugable model 4P. You cheater using a script! Gotta go Bananarama tickets go on sale before me and my fox check out Red Dawn then straight to Defender 2 at the arcade. Party Animal!

[creepingnet]

WTF? Well, the graphical output is expanded CGA through composite to a DV input card, that's why the colors are all weird.

[jensmertelmeyer]

hell, i was just playing it 10 minutes ago and I was at the same dungeon ^_^

Truly a game that should never be forgotten.

And ... the "sound". It's really freaking me out.

[Zerothis]

This is the ordinary DOS version is it not? There was no "Tandy 1000" version of this game?

[creepingnet]

Yep, ordinary DOS, there was no Tandy 1000 version, I just used the Tandy because it's the only PC I have with composite output for my DV card. Now someday I will have to try Ultima VI: The False Prophet on this thing though to show what that was like, can you say "Pace Maker with a bad battery?".

[miker124]

Lol old times. I thought XP was slow...

[monsteric1974]

Man even with virus's my computer is faster..the next time the kids are complaining I will sent them to this video...Thank you for that...

[creepingnet]

Darned right, even funnier is if you crank the volume you can hear the Floppy Drive reading, you think a hard drive bottleneck is bad, try floppies, lol.

[Blueslipstream]

How much AC (or whatever equivalent) did that thief have?

[gdement]

He (the player) didn't have a proper weapon armed, the game just kept asking "Attack thief - with rope?" He never did any damage because of that.

[creepingnet]

Yeah, this isn't one of my finer moments on youtube that's for sure.