Wow! The #DOS games of #1987 really turned a corner! Digitized sound, colourful graphics, gameplay keeping up with the other contemporary machines of the time. This was the year when people started to notice that the boring beige box in the corner could actually be a serious games contender. From 1987 there was no stopping it!
Games like Sid Meier's Pirates!, Defender of the crown, #Thexder, #Arkanoid and the #LucasArts premiere, Maniac Mansion showed off what the PC could do. Have a look at this trip down memory lane and see the top ten DOS games of 1987!
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The IBM PC launched in 1981. Until its release, many people hadn't programmed for the Intel 8086 architecture, so there weren't many games to go on day one, for IBM's 'business machine'. But that didn't stop a few fledgling games companies starting up and beginning what became a multi-billion dollar industry in PC games. This is the year where it all began.
First in a ten-part series, find out about the beginnings of gaming on the PC.
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Check out the website at http://www.linuxnewbieguide.org for more information and helpful guides.
Here is a video tutorial specifically covering how to install software in Linux. It talks about the differences between installing software on Windows and Mac OS X to Linux making a point of showing that there is no more laborious trawling the web to find that essential download, or hunting your ever growing CDROM library to get that software installed. On a slightly more advanced topic, part two of the video discusses briefly what software repositories are, and touches on the subtle differences between Debian based Linux Distributions versus Red Hat Linux based distributions.
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Sysops ANaCHRoNiST and MeaTLoTioN from two BBSes talk about what the sense of community is all about when you're on a Bulletin Board System #BBS !
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Before their timeless classic, "Digger", Windmill Software came out with "Attack on Altair" for MS-DOS. It is in CGA text-mode beauty so you need to set DOSBOX to be CGA/Tandy display, and you'll also need to ensure that the cycles are set to be that of an original IBM 4.77MHz PC if you are playing in DOSBOX!
Cursor keys move the ship up and down, and F1 fires (yes, F1!).
Text review paraphrased from Bard of Blasphemy at My Abandonware:
"The game consists of enemy missiles coming at the player relatively slowly and and are easy to dodge and shoot to begin with. The cavern narrows in places making the game more difficult. Just when you think you're getting the hang of the challenge a new type of missile emerges that attacks at twice the speed. Then, it gets even worse. The next enemy is hard to describe. They rapidly bounce in place from the floor to ceiling and, when shot, explode in both directions with a randomly spreading shockwave that cannot be dodged. Sometimes the ship is hit, other times, not. The best bet is to avoid shooting them and try to weave through. These things always gave me the most trouble because the enemy missiles will occasionally crash into them also causing the explosion. As if this wasn't bad enough, it is not long after the "bouncers" that new enemies appear. More missiles, but this time, attacking from behind. The only option is to dodge and shoot them as they pass. The final wave consists of the faster missiles also attacking from behind.
A progress bar at the bottom offers huge motivation to play and replay. Is anything at the end? As it turns out, there is. This is one of few games that I can think of from the early era of PC games with an actual boss-battle. It's a large eye-of-sauron type structure that shoots an instant-death laser. Shoot the thing in the eye and reap that sweet karma and the envy of all your friends."
You can download The game from "MyAbandonware" from here:
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/attack-on-altair-1v#download
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I had no idea whether an XT-clone rated at 10MHz NEC V20 CPU with an 8087 co-processor, or an XT machine with a 6MHz Intel 80286 CPU and an 80287 co-processor would be faster.
In this quicky video, I consider the logic behind saying that because 10 is a good bit bigger a number than 6, that's better? Surely an 80287 would be better than an 8087? Right??? Well, the results may surprise you.
Of course, the results are all 100% scientific. Legit scienciefied. The final benchmark which concludes everything is the old 'Which one loads up Leisure Suit Larry 3' test. Y'all know that one, right? ;)
Sorry about the horrific flashing of the CGA monitor. Unfortunately there is nothing I can do about that ;(
0:00 Introduction
1:20 Which one switches on faster?
2:54 Running Check-it to benchmark
3:25 Full benchmark
4:04 Benchmark begins
4:16 XT/286 results
4:27 XT/10MHz results
4:50 Comparison
5:22 Run leisure suit larry to find out which is really faster ;)
5:44 The winner is announced!
6:00 Take it away, Al Lowe!
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I was so excited to become the proud owner of a BBC Micro Model B a few weeks back that I didn't bother to check the notoriously 'flaky' RIFA capacitors in the power supply. That and I'm lazy and I'm really bad at electronics. But the inevitable happened, the RIFA caps blew and I had to replace them.
This is a step-by-step video on how to replace the caps for a beginner (by a beginner!).
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Music by Epidemic Sound:
Spirit - Purple Dive
Into Hiding - Marten Moses
Keep Them for Me Until It's Over - Marten Moses
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Hello fans! Here's a quick look at what has been happening both on the channel in 2023, as well as in my personal life, and why the video releases have been a little....spotty! There's also some good things headed our way for 2024. I have a whole list of great videos to get stuck into, but here's a personal video from me to you in the meantime!
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