This is an impressively well-done action game for a 1984 computer game!

@marccaselle8108

Жыл бұрын

The game is alleycat

The mechanical keyboard clicks is music to my ears.

@LiviuDragon

2 жыл бұрын

typing on a clasic keyboard is ASMR and relaxing

@marccaselle8108

Жыл бұрын

Clickity clackity

I purchased one of these new back in 1984. It had a single floppy disk drive and a 10meg mfm hdd. Great computer. I had Lotus 123 and word installed. Used it for quoting construction jobs on site. Used to blow peoples minds that I had a "portable" computer and Epson dot matrix printer in the back of my work van.

ALLEYCAT!

I played Alley Cat at my frend's father's home looooong agooooo! Awesome moments! TNX!!!

Ooo, nice to see you got a DOS version for it that worked! Beautiful machine, and yes you can't help but wonder how much current tech will be around and working 30 years from now.

serious alleycat skills here!!

Holy shit you're a pro!

@DusteDdekay

5 жыл бұрын

I was lucky is what I was! :D

Don’t know when am I going to get to learn such Awesome programming. 🤔

I had an IBM XT computer and used it right up until the late 90s for university. The monitor was separate though. The amber screens were advertised as better than the green ones as they were supposedly better for the eyes. Good times.

That is actually quite a cool portable retro PC! Not to mention this PC was made only 1 year after the Compaq Portable launched.

Thanks for sharing. Nostalgia time.

Fun video and the amber screen is pretty cool tool

Great amber screen and keyboard!

LOVE the classic keyboard clicking :)

Great sounds of "booting up!

I had one of these back in the mid '90's. I put a combo 5 1/4 + 3 1/2 floppy drive in one bay and had two 100 Mb hds inside. I think it even had a 9600 baud modem. I finally upgraded it with a 486sx board, but the little monochrome screen was the limit to that project. I don't remember whatever happened to it.

@DusteDdekay

2 жыл бұрын

I not have a xtide card in it for hard-disk support, but I'm still thinking about replacing one of the floppy drives with a st-506

oh i'm back in 90's with by pc and the same game

@DusteDdekay

7 жыл бұрын

This, Sopwith, PC-Man (I think, pacman clone for DOS), 3-Demon were the first games I played in my own PC, it was an olivetti of sorts, same specs as this machine, except it had a harddisk installed :D

I had one of these when I worked for NSA, CIA, and the FDA. No, wait, I had one of these when I worked for RAND and Sandia corporations. No, wait, I had one of these when I worked at Rockwell. No, wait, I never had one of these or a discernable job. Great video, regardless.

@01:24 🧀That's one big hunk of cheese.🧀

Does that keyboard have buckling springs like the model m?

@DusteDdekay

9 жыл бұрын

Stephen Winfield Yes, it does indeed, and feels very similar to the model m as well. :)

Capacitive buckling spring Keyboard typing sound is niceeeeeeee.

Great that this as-new condition portable XT boots without issue, but why does it say copyright by Olivetti Inc?

@DusteDdekay

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, good question, that is because the particular dos boot disk that I use in this video is an Olivetti OEM disk

@andrewjenery1783

2 жыл бұрын

@@DusteDdekay Interesting. I knew about Olivetti PCs in the 80s but never knew they were vendors of dos boot disks.

Krásný stroj z osmdesátých let. Na dnesních pc bez 3d nefunguje ani člověče nezlob se nebo 2d skákačky udelane v Game Maker 8 a vyšším.

love it!

Hi, I have one of those. It boots fine, but there are some errors later. Do you have original software running on it? I;m bit concerned with just simply restating it with dos 2.1. Thanks :)

@DusteDdekay

9 жыл бұрын

bornverybad I don't have a harddrive in mine, I'm running DOS 3.30 on it. I actually do not know if this DOS was a special version for this computer, but I do not believe so.

@timmacplus

8 жыл бұрын

+DusteDs Stuff This computer came with 2.10. Inside it's just a standard XT with and inbuilt monochrome monitor. Don't need any special DOS versions.

@DusteDdekay

8 жыл бұрын

Great to have that confirmed. :)

Oh my, Alley Cat :) That was the very first computer game I saw. Played it on Robotron computer.

@DusteDdekay

2 жыл бұрын

That's very cool! I've only seen Robotron computers in museum, if nothing else, it's a super cool name and super futuristic designs! :)

@MacIn173

2 жыл бұрын

@@DusteDdekay I'm from exUSSR, so back in 80s Eastern Germany supplied portions of its computers (including Robotron branded ones). So that time it was IBM-PC compatible Robotron. Nothing super fancy in design, but for sure much nicer than standard IBM box. Another game Robotron made me familiar with back then was Digger.

@KarmaMan82

2 жыл бұрын

Servus, wtf, waaaaass, Ihr hattet West-Spiele?

@MacIn173

2 жыл бұрын

@@KarmaMan82 what do you mean...?

@KarmaMan82

2 жыл бұрын

@@MacIn173 Robotron is a Eastern German Computer-Company from the DDR before 1990. Not everyone could get one of them and it was the time we were divided by the iron wall! I was just surprised how people from the East get western software before 1989 / 1990?! Btw. my Freedom-Day in Bavaria started with buying food at a gas-station without wearing a Mask!

Found one of those on the trash 25 years ago, in good working order. The only file on besides the OS was the previous owner writing down his grief after his child died in accident. It was creepy so I threw it out again. Kind of regret it.

I have played that game... but in color. I don't remember where or on what...

I have this computer. Haven't turned it on in over 20 years. Doubt I have any floppies around.

@DusteDdekay

3 жыл бұрын

You should take that old gal for a spin some day! :) When I got mine back around 2005, I emailed IBM and they sent me the floppy images for the DOS that the machine shipped with. Also, check the price these fetch on ebay now, it's kind of crazy, then again, it's history :)

ohhh hermoso este pc

nice

the screen's color reminds me of the user interface for power armor in fallout 4/76

@DusteDdekay

Жыл бұрын

And that user interface was indeed inspired by these early machines :)

nice i wish i had of of them :)

@DusteDdekay

9 жыл бұрын

My first computer was some "Olivetti" of same age, also with that amber screen, this was in the 90's of cause, and nobody wanted something like that, but I did play a lot of allycat, sopwith, 3deamons and pcman on that :) When I got this one, the PSU was blown, so I ripped it out and (to my regret today) threw it out, and just taped a newer AT psu in there.. Should have kept the old PSU case and made a proper mod.. I also have some full-height Seagate ST-225 mfm disks and ISA controller cards for them, I've been thinking about adding one harddisk, but that would mean pull one of the floppy drives out, and I'm just not sure.. Maybe it'd be cooler to have a in there. A "fun" fact, is that the graphics card in this machine has a RCA video output connector next to the EGA connector, so you could attach it (I guess?) to a TV.

Wat BORN IS It

THE FUTURE IS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@DusteDdekay

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I needed to get some 90's EDM stuck in my mind ^_^ kzread.info/dash/bejne/f3WatJSPqaXMk9Y.html

I used it back in 1990-91 when i was in college, very painful for my eyes

I ran MS Flight Simulator monochrome on one of these for a while. 3 fps lol.

I wanna trade my laptop for this!

My first computer was an IBM compatible similar to this one. The brand was Coredata and was greenscreen 8088 with dual 5 1/4. It ran good until I tried to add a 10 MB MFM drive which hosed the motherboard. The rest was upgrade history.

70s or 80s?

@DusteDdekay

2 жыл бұрын

1984

i have one of these :D (but the cmos battery died :( )

@DusteDdekay

3 жыл бұрын

Mine does not have a cmos battery or rtc

dang that screen is small

A 40 lb portable computer.

The luggible computer did not had the osborne effect.

@DusteDdekay

7 жыл бұрын

johneygd What was the osbourne effect ? :)

@johneygd

7 жыл бұрын

DusteDs Stuff well this was actualy a joke for peoples knowing sbout this but ,,, Since osborne sold their osborn 1 computer it was a huge succes,HOWEVER,once osborne announced their osborne 2 computer with the all the flaws fixed in 1983,many costumers & company's cancled or delayed their order of the osborne 1 computer in favor of the osborn 2 computer,but that osborne 2 computer never or atleast hardly hitted market too late, as a result many costumers and company's turned away from osborne and so osborne lost millions of dollars, and osborne went bankruptsy in 1985. This selfdestruction from osborn is thus also refered as the osborn effect on company's doing the same thing. Gizzmondo is another great example is this.

U.S. C.I.A.-C.S.I. JOSÉ ÉDGAR RODOLFO DÍAZ MARTÍNEZ.

Good but can it run crysis

@DusteDdekay

3 жыл бұрын

Do you not see the video? It plays alley cat and so, to qote Metallica: Nothing Else Matters! :D

Go home pewdiepie your not fooling anybody