~Slideways~ Posted December 21, 2019 Author Share Posted December 21, 2019 Pretty keen on this one, the pc speaker sound effects are 1991 to me. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kicker Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 Is that ol Commander Keen? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Slideways~ Posted December 21, 2019 Author Share Posted December 21, 2019 7 hours ago, kicker said: Is that ol Commander Keen? Yep the first one, it stands up well as a platformer there are other ones from the time which are really clunky and bad controls etc. It was from id software so I guess they knew what they were doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Slideways~ Posted December 21, 2019 Author Share Posted December 21, 2019 Spent some time on the IBM 5155 ‘pc portable’, if almost 14kg is portable lol. The 2nd floppy drive seems to be shorting the power supply now, hoping it’s just another capacitor like the motherboard was. Unplugged the power from the FDD and it starts up again. I’ll order some and try replace any I find, can’t hurt since they are 35 years old. But the HDD wouldn’t read again... so took it apart and found the head stuck again. This time I put a tiny bit of crc on the sliding part. It’s been reading fine since. I wanted to try put some other games on it but neither FDD works, they are supposed to be 360kb ones and I only have 1.2mb ones that work. Tried an few plugged in sitting loose on the top but it won’t recognise them at all. There is no bios just jumpers and I don’t think it was ever meant to work with 1.2mb drives. So I took the HDD out which sits on its own ISA card, the short 8bit type. Tried fitting it into the 386 which just has the long 16bit ISA slots. It fouls on the frame of the card but it does JUST make contact on the pins. And it works on the 386 board! But no matter what I do with the bios it won’t read the original HDD. So I resorted to writing to Floppy disks to transfer a few games from the 486 to the 386 to the IBM HDD. This bios menu is amazing, someone thought this colour scheme was the perfect combination: Testing FDD drives: SOPWITH 2 on a amber monochrome tiny 9"monitor running on 1984's best 4.7mhz cpu: Hard to get a close up photo it looks much more crisp than this but the photo looks washed out and too bright: Turned the monitor brightness down to try but it makes it look wrong too: It runs well until you blow up a building then it slows down a bit... 4.7mhz mtherfkcer. Also put PACMAN on, surprisingly it works well even though it meant to be a vga game. The 5155 outputs Monochrome and CGA at the same time, I don't have a cable to try the CGA output. Would be cool to try Space Quest on this with CGA output. I did put SQ1 on the HDD but it says 256kb ram is not enough. There is an memory expansion card but its also shorting the power, so maybe I'll buy bulk capacitors and try my luck fixing the memory expansion and both FDD's. Tantalum Capacitors seem to be the main failure on these old IBM's. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ~Slideways~ Posted December 21, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 21, 2019 Oh yeah, pacman: 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajg193 Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 When our computer let out the blue smoke about 20 years ago 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h4nd Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 Ahem, @~Slideways~ Closing sale this week. https://twitter.com/CoalDominion/status/1282186196630638592 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Slideways~ Posted July 13, 2020 Author Share Posted July 13, 2020 Just now, h4nd said: Ahem, @~Slideways~ Closing sale this week. https://twitter.com/CoalDominion/status/1282186196630638592 Holy crap that's amazing! I think it's in Auckland? Probably pretty expensive though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EpochNZ Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 If I have one true weakness it isnt crap old cars, its crap old computers. I'm nearly in tears..... Someone get me that VT100 terminal please? edit: Oooo, and a Tangerine MacBook please... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris r Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 2 hours ago, ~Slideways~ said: Holy crap that's amazing! I think it's in Auckland? Probably pretty expensive though. Not closing down sale. Barry has decided to sell his hoard I got a couple of cheap trinkets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris r Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 http://www.graemetorckler.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MegaVintageSale?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share For the inventory. Pickup is onehunga. I'll be going back for another barry around one evening this week if anyone wants stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ul9601 Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 On 13/12/2019 at 12:54, HighLUX said: Used to love hooning this on the primary school computers I remember playing this about 15 years ago at work - always seem to live in the past, for some reason. Then we had some computers hooked up on private LAN and played CS 1.6 & CS:S during lunch time. Speaking of which, I had a go at CS:GO the other day as it's free to play, (I had to upgrade the graphics card first) it turned out that I can't handle the jandal any more... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Slideways~ Posted July 13, 2020 Author Share Posted July 13, 2020 14 hours ago, chris r said: http://www.graemetorckler.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MegaVintageSale?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share For the inventory. Pickup is onehunga. I'll be going back for another barry around one evening this week if anyone wants stuff I would have been keen on a IBM Model M keyboard but it sounds like they are all gone except the ones you can only use on a terminal (has all the function keys etc). Also would have been keen on an IBM XT or AT or something but again it sounds like they are too expensive. That guy on Twitter bought an XT for $400 and it doesn't work. It's more fun finding them cheap. ....hmmm maybe a cool old AT desktop case though... wonder how much they'd be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris r Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 29 minutes ago, ~Slideways~ said: I would have been keen on a IBM Model M keyboard but it sounds like they are all gone except the ones you can only use on a terminal (has all the function keys etc). Also would have been keen on an IBM XT or AT or something but again it sounds like they are too expensive. That guy on Twitter bought an XT for $400 and it doesn't work. It's more fun finding them cheap. ....hmmm maybe a cool old AT desktop case though... wonder how much they'd be? I'll ask will go back tonight The terminal model m can be used with a adapter Like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Slideways~ Posted July 14, 2020 Author Share Posted July 14, 2020 Just now, chris r said: I'll ask will go back tonight The terminal model m can be used with a adapter Like this Awesome thanks heaps, really interested to know. That adapter is pretty cool, didn't know they existed, shame it'd end up being $100 landed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Stu Posted July 14, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 14, 2020 Cool thread! I have this "laptop", it works, just need an operating system and games for many lols 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igor Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Cool historical artefact. Can it do anything useful? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Im not sure, I know it works but I don't have any dos discs for it. Havent sat down to search for anything yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris r Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 So I got a couple of keyboards from that sale. I've restrained myself and am only keeping 4 of them Will go back Saturday as it'll be the last days so can lowball on the other stuff I was eyeing up 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EpochNZ Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 And here it is, all the way from the Auckland mega sale. (much love to the man, the myth, the legend @chrisR for doing the legwork) 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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