Early 1980s IBM PC Public Domain/Shareware Games
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Early 1980s IBM PC Public Domain/Shareware Games
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This video demonstrates some shareware and public domain titles for the IBM PC (and compatibles) from my personal 5.25" floppy disk collection from the late 1980s. The PC in this video is a Commodore PC 10-S (Siemens 8088 running at 4.77MHz and 640kB of memory) + monochrome monitor (the IBM 5151).
00:00 Bootup
00:21 R.J.Grafe's 1983 "Centipede"
03:15 Sheng-Chung's 1983 "Pango"
05:04 Vince Bly's "Bricks"
06:25 "TIC-TAC-TOE"
07:53 Columbia Data Products, Inc's "Space Commanders"
09:46 Wally Wasinger's 1986 "Night Fire"
12:04 Williams Electronics/Atari 1982/1983 "Joust"
13:48 "Global Thermonuclear War!"
15:06 Max Headroom demo
15:39 John D.Price and PC Research, Inc. 1983/1984 "3-Demon"
19:15 "Pyramid-Power"
20:22 "PC Golf"
23:01 Peter Adams' 1984 "Flightmare"
28:17 Elven Software Company's 1986 "Round 42"
33:09 Dave Baskin's "Bouncing Babies"
36:06 Pinball
37:28 Don Phillip Gibson's 1985 MS-DOS adaption of "Monopoly"
40:40 Bill Seiler's 1985 "Spacewar"
For more information about displaying color graphics on a text-only monochrome monitor: • Color Graphics on a Monochrome Monitor (AT...
The ATI Graphics Solution REV 3 ISA card supports various graphics modes including IBM compatible 320x200 - 4 colors, IBM compatible 640x200 - B/W, Plantronics compatible 320x200 - 16 colors, Plantronics compatible 640x200 - 4 colors, Hercules compatible 720x348 - Mono.graphics and AGA Graphics 640x200 - 16 colors. The PC and the card is configured for Emulation and Monitor Type is Monochrome.
The IBM 5151 monochrome display monitor is designed for use with the IBM MDA adapter. It supports a screen refresh of 50Hz with 350 vertical lines and 720 horizontal lines at TTL-compatible frequency of 18.432 kHz. In short, it was designed to display sharp, high resolution text characters only.