IBM PC 5150 Computer System Review – Lazy Game Reviews
Critique from the perspective of a casual collector of video games: is the 1st “Computer”, the IBM 5150, worth buying these days? A run-down of the history, pros and cons of the program and games, what to appear for and be aware of when getting, as properly as some of the other 8-bit computers and revisions in the 5150 lineage. MS-DOS has by no means been so fine. Paratrooper Alley Cat Pc-Man Pharaoh’s Tomb Wheel of Fortune Ikari Warriors Arkanoid Set the Hostages Free of charge Battlezone Galaxian Game footage recorded making use of CGA composite-out with a mic directed toward the Computer speaker! Lots a lot more info and troubleshooting at: www.ibm5150.net
Video Rating: 4 / five
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how many FLOPS was it?
what about cpm? Cpm was compatible across platforms. The reason Ibm took the market was that was the only company business big wigs trusted. Most people were exposed to pcs at work.
its 70 pounds now thats a good paper weight
@xxXCalculatorXxx Get the AT instead. Similar look, but with better specs, and it’s somewhat cheaper.
@phreakindee well you see, this is what I am trying to address to you.
if you really want DOSBox to emulate the computer’s noisy behavior, I think you should send an email to Sourceforge, or somebody involved with the project. I am a fanatic of DOS games myself.
@SamuraiClinton Whoa. Now this is a great idea. Seriously. Like how some emulators emulate the sound of the floppy drive being read? Implement this for a keyboard and you’ve got a win.
I think the keyboard click sound effects should be included with future versions of DOSBox.
One of these days, I think some gaming PC firms should make “retro-style” gaming PCs that borrow styling cues from the original 5150.
@RandomUploader90 It probably didn’t work anyways..
They do not go under £100 here in the UK.
I wanna be a kid again! I HATE COMPUTERS TODAY! Any git uses them today!
I have a working example of one of these I had given to me several years back though I didn’t have the CGA monitor but a commodore 1080 I had worked after I made a cable and you also can use an ISA VGA card as some will work in 8 bit mode.
But VGA cards are slow in XT class machines.
You also can find what’s called a Hercules card for the mono monitor.
As for a keyboard anything XT/AT switchable will work.
BTW the first computer to be cloned was the Altair in a standard called S-100.
Alley cat…. what a game
Long live Dig Dug! – 6:20
I was at a flea market once and a guy offered to sell me a working 5150 for three dollars with a keyboard and monitor. Me being a stupid teenager, and not really knowing what I would do with it, I turned it down. Probably not one of my better decisions. :/
that monitor looks like a badly made microwave
Also. LMFAO! @6:38 I used to have an old Apple II 1980′s Computer with a CRT Green Monitor that had 2 floppy disk drives. Along with a bulky printer. I had a small handful of games for it. One of which I remember being “Chess”. I’m more of a PC person though.
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LMFAO! @4:05
The clunky PC that started it all!
0:26 “This is the IBM 5150″ that moment was so dramatic, I had to check if the sealing whether it is ready to fall on me. 20 $ ? I’m gonna take a trip to America and seriously violate you for that! Great review btw…
The music sounds like Laserdance
Man your video make me laugh an drelax. I watch it evey night in bed before sleep. KEEP GOING!!!
@phreakindee I have something very similar. It has a hard drive (with an add on card controller of course). I would love to play around with it but 10 minutes into playing around with DOS the monitor started smoking and shooting sparks out of it. It wasn’t an original screen either, some samsung black and white (really black and orange) screen. It doesn’t have an ibm keyboard either. I’m considering getting both online because it is really cool to see such old equipment in action.
Well, this was helpful (sarcasm)
im not a jack ass u kw …. f*****g ass hole
hell we are not retards
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