Playing Czorian Siege on the IBM PC

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The following is footage of Czorian Siege, produced for the IBM PC by Computer Applications Limited in 1983. It is not a complete playthrough, but rather just enough gameplay to serve as a reference for how the game performs on the original hardware it was developed for.
This footage was recorded from an IBM PC (8088 CPU running at 4.77MHz) with a ("new-style") CGA card. The audio was tapped from the PC speaker and the video was recorded from the CGA composite output. The result was post-processed from 30i to 60p; all source frames are intact.
Personal notes: This game, coupled with Dunzhin, is one of the first two games to produce speech on the IBM PC. They predate Castle Wolfenstein on the PC by at least a year.
If the game seems like it aligns to an 80x25 grid in graphics mode, you're correct -- the exact same game is playable on a monochrome screen using 80x25 text characters. If you boot it on a dual-monitor system, it asks you which version you want to play.

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  • @InspiredChaos
    @InspiredChaos2 жыл бұрын

    Wow, this is a pretty sophisticated shooter for PC in '83!

  • @thepirategamerboy12
    @thepirategamerboy122 жыл бұрын

    I just tried this game out myself and I find it interesting how on a faster computer the game itself runs pretty much perfectly, but the speech samples are all ridiculously sped up.

  • @JimLeonard

    @JimLeonard

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's because they were timed via software loop, which itself was timed on the first 4.77 MHz PCs. Anything faster and the speech is sped up as it has no limiter.

  • @thepirategamerboy12
    @thepirategamerboy122 жыл бұрын

    It'd be cool if you could capture Round 42 sometime. Imo, that's one of the best earlier IBM PC games.

  • @JimLeonard

    @JimLeonard

    2 жыл бұрын

    Check my channel, I think I did already?

  • @thepirategamerboy12

    @thepirategamerboy12

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JimLeonard I just searched it and I don't see a video of the game.

  • @JimLeonard

    @JimLeonard

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thepirategamerboy12 sorry, for some reason I thought you had written flightmare. I agree round 42 should get a decent treatment on original hardware. I will put it on the list of the videos I do for my main channel "The Oldskool PC", go subscribe there to see it when it is ready.

  • @thepirategamerboy12

    @thepirategamerboy12

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JimLeonard I've been subscribed there for a little while, so that's nice to hear!

  • @StusGameReviews
    @StusGameReviews2 жыл бұрын

    Is this an original disk?

  • @thepirategamerboy12

    @thepirategamerboy12

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think he's using the dump from Total DOS Collection, the serial number is exactly the same.

  • @JimLeonard

    @JimLeonard

    2 жыл бұрын

    As I am one of the curators of TDC... yes :-)

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