Playing ORIGINAL TETRIS and other classic games on a Soviet PC. Computers of Chernobyl
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มิ.ย. 2024
- Following your requests, here for you a BONUS episode about ES1841 Soviet i8086 clone PC. The same as those used in the Chornobyl Zone in the end of the 80-s. We will play some classic games, try Soviet CP/M and software, and review some previously lost floppy disks. Don't forget to check previous episodes for a lot of amazing details!
What is in this episode:
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Will it pass the year 2000?
01:44 - Tetris! Tetris! Tetris!
04:50 - Thank you for your opinion
05:14 - Playing Alley Cat
07:06 - I got some cool floppy disks
07:49 - ES1841 Welcome Disk
10:44 - Mini music programs
11:16 - Trying a benchmark
12:37 - Soviet CP/M Clone - M86
14:20 - Text-M86 text editor
17:13 - BASIC-M86
18:53 - TELETEXT terminal app
20:21 - Accidentally I have a modem
20:56 - Playing Pacman!
23:25 - Outro
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My life is now complete. I have seen Pacman, Tetris and Alley Cat run on a Soviet era computer. I used to play these on a (gasp) Commodore 64 with datasette which took forever to load. Thanks for this most informative and enjoyable video! I hope you are all safe.
Thank you, dear friend! Maybe, consider joining us on Patreon, there is even more
Imagine the words ‘hello TH-cam’ on such a device, it’s creators would never have believed it at the time
THANK YOU FOR THE IDEA MWAHAHAHA
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange was called ASCII. Did the USSR use RuSCII? :) But really can you one day go over basic Soviet computing standards. What was the Soviet 8 bit character set?
That was an extended ASCII, that included cyrillic. My friend dumped me even a font from 1841 bios, so now I'm working on a TTF font :)
Will check.
RuSCII - what was quite funny! 😀
@@mortengreenhermansen4489 :)
Yes I remember. I paid a shop to copy the floppy disk of these games.
The good old years.
Just love the sound of those floppy drives! Brings back memories of my childhood on an old IBM PC. Lovely!
Glad you enjoyed it!
That modem reminded me of a joke: How do you know that the Soviets are eavesdropping on you? There's one more wardrobe in your flat.
Regarding the comments on your accent, just ignore them. Honestly, I like people talking with an accent, be it German, Italian, British, or Slavic :) Still, your accent is much better than Anton's from the горячая картошка sketch :)
Haha that was good! Thank you!
It reminds me of that Stierlitz joke about latest miniaturized soviet wiretap: ([when discovered] Why can't you get rid of this? - We tried, but nobody can lift it up.).
There is no such a thing like "Slavic" accent. If you take a Russian, a Pole, a Czech and a Croat, you will get quite different accents.
@@JanuszKrysztofiak you're completely right. I used the expression Slavic as a general term for the multiple accents of different native Slavic language speakers.
Alley Cat is the first computer game, that I ever played. I think this was 1986, when I was 8 years old, on an IBM compatible Robotron computer in the German Democratic Republic.
A lovely story...) Thank you!
Everyone speaking a language other than native tounge will of course sound a little off. You guys are excellent. You guys give us great content, we don't care about perfect pronunciation. Keep up the good work, we're doing our best supporting you from over here 💙💙💛💛
Thank you! Soon there will be videos again - we're settling technical issues.
There is no such thing like "perfect pronunciation"! Citizens of UK and USA have literally hundreds of dialects and accents. Ask them which is the best... I think Slavs have much better and clear English pronunciation that 75% of UK citizens.
Perfectly understandable and a lovely accent, nothing to complain about!
Who cares the pronunciation this channel is great I understand what he says. I think that this channel is very useful and educative. Greetings From Colombia South America.
OMG playing Tetris this version drive me crazy. I'm guilty, I'm a geek. Very nice video. Tetris "from Russia with fun". It was made in a Electronika 60 computer. Legend has it that it was made in a single day
FYI regarding Pac Man, when you eat the big dot and the ghosts change colors, you can then go after the ghosts and eat the ghosts. I enjoy watching your videos about USSR computer equipment.
Thank you for the hint!
First this channel has old soviet era computers and now also cats. I'm sold!
This cat is employed! (C)
can it run crisis? No need, This computer is crisis! Dude I was laughing out loud for that one
:))))
Alley Cat! I used to play it on МС6105 monitor. And it was really atmospheric! But when I saw it on МС6106 I understood that colour is not always good)
Haha
Absolutely unable to use composite displays... eyes drop out:)
@@ChernobylFamily МС6106 was not composite - it saw RGB. But CGA colours were... weird
@@fixitalex ah... right...had it once and long time ago, do not remember already
I fully expected a Russian computer to play a superior version of Tetris. I was not disappointed!!!! Great video.
Your accent doesn’t detract from these videos in the least. Rather, the opposite. The narrator of a video about Russian computers having a mild Russian accent (while speaking English) fits perfectly.
These are great videos. Very informative.
Thank you. Just to clarify, this is NOT a russian computer, it is a Belrusian computer designed and assembled in Belarus. I am not russian at all and do not use russian except for swearing. Actually, this video is more than a year old; what I observed during this time: russons and russia -speaking people are the only who care about accent and allways dissatisfied/rude/angry and always demand that I speak russian (which, once more, is not a language I know that good). I am quite tired of people who do not understand the difference.
your english accent can't be worse than my italian-english-macaroni pronunciation, so take it easy and don't care about them LOL
I do)) i just make fun:)
thank you for doing this, i really enjoy your videos, i am from slovakia, born in 1974 so i can relate to this a bit :) great work
Thank you..) well, we are also from Slovakia... partly :)))
My goodness, that introduction to the computer is quite excellent. I would have been very grateful for such an introductory guide when I received my first DOS PC back in the day.
One of the things that impressed me (as a PC owner) about old Macintoshes was that they came with a guided tour like this.
Thank you for sharing.
You are so welcome! Really, that guide is so cute, and so informative. Even for kids that would fit the task.
I do find it interesting that they put so much effort into making it friendly and approachable.
My impression was that these machines would have been very expensive, aimed at organisations, government, science, and medicine.
Much like the original IBM PC, cheaper than a mainframe but still not something for the home user.
So why create such a lovely little tutorial, I wonder?
@@excessionary tha's true, it was always advertised as a professional machine (PPEVM, not just PEVM). Might be a demonstration of capabilities. Might be just soneones wish. Might be a user case for e.g. schools (some commenters said in the past ESes of this type have been used sometimes in computer classes)
Ah yes, of course, schools would make a lot of sense!
A centrally controlled economy might mean that educational institutions didn't have to pay the 'real' cost of the computers.
And VERY satisfying to have both the guide and the computer it went with.
"Слово и Дело" на нем запустить бы и показать англоговорящим всю мощь данного редактора. У меня знакомый американец, когда увидел "Слово и Дело" на ДОС-е, тихонько промолвил: "Если бы я знал об этой софтине, - то мог бы сэкономить и не покупал бы себе i486 в 1990-м для Windows 3.11 c MS Word-ом на борту".
A very true story! Will try!
Fascinating video! I grew up with computers like this from the western side. I don't know if you have any desire to revisit this series, but I would love to see you try to play the original 1984 game "Elite" on this vintage platform.
We continue this series, but without any fancy introduction dances. We had this game back in the day - actually, collected many different to try. :) but thank you for a suggestion!
Hope you and yours are well. Recently discovered your channel and really love it -- so unique and informative.
Thank you! We are ok so far. Get ready for a new video today!
Love your content, keep the up good work!!
Thank you! We will!
this is exactly why Chernobyl happened to many employees playing tetris
...))))
very interesting, i have seen a few videos, i have not heard of some of these computers. definitely earned a subscription!
thank you!
Congratulations! I love everything they do and the effort! I subscribed to your channel! And how good are those machines. I hope they continue!
Thank you! Well, a new tech episode will be out this weekend!
So amazing video!.. I remember that noise in the disk reader. We had to wait for hours to get a copy of these disks at Buenos Aires.
Very cool!
Around 7:05 we see Norton Commander. You have good taste. :)
Thank you! Well, that's Volkov Commander, an ASM-rewritten functional clone, which looks identical, but way more compact and faster. A standard Norton would be slow on this machine.
@@ChernobylFamily No surprise there. :) NC has managed to span platforms as well as the decades (it's my go-to FM on Linux).
In Soviet Union, Radioactive Tetris plays you!
Kind of.
Excelente los videos. Ya soy nuevo suscriptor. Saludos desde Argentina.
Thank you!!!
No no - please do not change your accent! I really like it - it fits so good to the topic you are presenting. Perfect english would make these videos wrong somehow. 🙂
Thank you :) BTW, this Saturday we will hopefully upload a really epic hardware video)
Ahhh.... Tetris is my favorite game of all time, still.
Yesss
Very nice video!
I am very happy you liked it!
Я на такой машинке гонял в оригинальный SimCity 1989 30 лет назад. Ток мониторчик был монохромным
Cool!
Thank you for the very interesting content on your channel! Btw. do you know the game Perestroika (as well known as Gorbi or Toppler) from 1990 for MS Dos? 🙂 It would be era accurate for this computer as well 😃
Thank you! You are welcome to join us on Patreon for full versions and bonuses. Yes, I even tried to play it on this computer, just did not include it...)
Alley cat was one of the first games I played. and tetris is my favorite, do you play blockout? tetris ind the third dimension. Greetings from Mexico
Greetings from Ukraine! Yes, tried Blockout back in school times;)
Your accent is fine. Perfectly understandable and cohesive! Lmao
Thank you!
Were there any simulators or control programs for running the RBMK-1000s? Would love to see anything that was used at the power plant.
Yes, there is a training simulator of rbmk, and we have it, and even more, we will run it. Two things needed: 1) need to finally get a math coprocessor, as would love to run it not in DosBox 2) need a consultation from the ChNPP, because that app is not a game, so many things there are very, very complex.
@@ChernobylFamily In 1988 there was a Kazakh family who lived in Tucson Az, USA who ran a PC store. They also had many other questionable enterprises going there. One of their specialties was exporting '286 ISA motherboards with '287 math co-processors to the USSR. They said the '287s were always sold for a very high price once they arrived in the USSR, and the '286 motherboard and CPU were used as business/enterprise machines. I'll look thru my chip collection and see if I still have a 80287. If I find one, I'll send it to you.
@@AndrewTubbiolo super mega thank you! Old coprocessors here are really rare. Surprisingly.
@@ChernobylFamily I think math coprocessors of that vintage are relatively rare in the west also. I think most applications got no benefit from them, so not much demand combined with being expensive, meant there weren't so many sold when new. I think that started to change with the i80486, the 486DX CPUs having math coprocessor built-in, and then Pentiums, which all had math-coprocessing built in. So more people started to have PCs with math coprocessors, giving incentive to software authors to take advantage of them.
That text editor was really advanced, until MS-DOS 5.0 was released in 1991 *Edlin* was the only "text editor" shipped with MS-DOS.
A small sample of Edlin in use: th-cam.com/video/fHiRLnE0YCk/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for the link!
Yes, it strikes me as a more user-friendly version of Unix vi editor. 🙂
That Apple , remember me crvena jabuka
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Circus music is always necessary
It's not true, your English is really improved from the first videos. However what you are doing is a really huge work, congratulations!
Thank you! In reality, I do not ind that comments at all, they make me smile a lot because these russian haters are so predictable and pure in their miserability...)
Morning Alex.
Hey :)
You should have tried a demo called "area5150" it was released a month ago, and it does neat things with the cga card.
Will check that! Super thanks!
By the way keyboard is not compatible. It has it's own soviet controller. But it works the similar way. So I hope if you have a logic analyser you can design a cross-controller by reversing.
Sounds like a plan!
Спасибо большое за контент! Свист, на самом деле, от дисплея зверский)) Интересно, он изначально так свистел или это от возраста лучевой трубки зависит? Потому как в детстве, просиживая часами за точно таким же аппаратом я его походу не замечал...
Я думаю, конденсаторы умирают. Но пока не могу эффективно отфильтровать при монтаже((
@@ChernobylFamily та... ради такого контента и воспоминаний могу и потерпеть))
To be fair, one hasn't really played Tetris until they've played it on a Soviet computer
Technically you are very correct :)))
That is a quality version of Pac Man 😊
Consul 262.9 keyboard would be a considerable improvement to your setup. It speaks AT protocol, but I don't know if ES1841 even uses an AT keyboard.
Here it is XT. Well, sounds interesting anyway! It would be cool to find ES1845 ( = military version) keyboard, as it is gorgeous, but that is a unicorn.
@@ChernobylFamily I guess the internal controller in those keyboards is a knockoff i8048 (КР1850ВЕ48). My 262.9 had been populated with MHB8048. Those were popular keyboard controllers in those days.
@@teslakovalaborator let me check tomorrow, I'll come back to you
At one point I had to rewind the Welcome disk part to make sure it didn't say БЛЯТЬ. It said БАИТ. I swear I used to be a good kid before the internet.
You made our day. Seriously.
@@ChernobylFamily I'm glad to hear that! :D I enjoy your work very much. :)
@@ocudagledam thank you!
Holy shit that modem is an Absolute Unit!
Please please show us what's inside it!
Absolutely sure YES! Just need to make a cable - let's run it as well!
Tetris!
Pacman!
i have , a cheap mobile phone called tara. it has duel sim, but has two games snake and tetris which i play all the time. :-)
And this is cool!
There must be an unlock code that would let you have full unlimited access to the program not just a time limited version.
Which one program you mean?
@@ChernobylFamily some programs are locked so that they will only work for 30 days or so and need an unlock key to disable the feature that stops the program from running after 30 days trial period.
your accent/english is fine! ignore the haters in the comments.
I work with people, they do not understand where they come :)))))
Хорошо
Дякуємо!
I'm surprised they didn't also complain that you look too much like Rasputin or something like that haha
Bhahahaa
Классные раритеты
Glad that you liked!
Try Czech game called Vlak.
Thanks!
🤩
:)
a youtuber called"veronica explains" put a commodore 64 on the internet. there are bulletin boards around that you could link that computer to.
May be. Will think about that!
@18:24 BASIC M86 = GWBASIC.
Thank you!
@@ChernobylFamily GW-BASIC was one of the first PC Basics that was not limited by the popular 16/8 bit architectures of the day like you'd find on a Z-80 or 6502 based machine. I first used it when I was 16 years old and it felt liberating.
@@AndrewTubbiolo thank you for insights. Never used BASIC, started with TP
@@ChernobylFamily I would imagine there was probably an assembly language and FORTRAN development environment available from the manufacturer or what ever enterprise supported them with software. If there was a FORTRAN development environment there might have been a punch tape reader machine as a peripheral for this series as a lot of FORTRAN was stored on punch tape. At least in the West. The two big FORTRAN versions in the West were FORTRAN 66 and 77.
@@AndrewTubbiolo For this machine was Fortran-M86 as well, but we dont have image of it
5:00 just ignore them. Only guys having bad accent can want to have fun on another guy's accent. Especially when you both have the same one. Concentrate on what you tell. Accent will go away just because you already practice the language.
Thank you!
Hi can i ask..This thing you check radio activity like if you enter Prypjat are they expensive in Russia/Ukraine?...in my country sweden they are so do you know if i can order one from well i dont know about Ukraine now because of the war but are not so expensive?.....sorry to ask this on your chanel..the reason i ask is that i live in a place in sweden where the dust cloud from chermobyl fall over 1986 and i want to find out if i can find any left over from that time...when i ask to rent one here they get so strange and like do not answer me....there are many more reason why i ask and want one reason i dont want to talk about here,,,Thank you for sharing your videos it is like travel Back in time and i had many computers in my life tiime....stil at my age work whit them but i like Mac most....if there is any thing i can help you whit or you search for you can ask and i will try to help you.i have so much original program back from the 80S 90S .When the war is over i will try to go to Prypjat a dream for me for a long time.....i think in maybe 20-50 years all building will be gone and that is so sad...Thanks from me and Sweden
I have no idea about Russia, as we are in Ukraine. The devices normally are not cheap, especially if they feature certain advanced functions. I advice to contact our largest producer of dosimeters which makes awesome stuff, they happily will assist you: ecotest.ua
@@ChernobylFamily Oh sorry i was confused where you where but thanks for your answer and again if you need something search for something ask me if you want to...Hope that the war will be over soon and i will not write here what i think about Putin and the war only i am angry....
@@ortodoxprotestant Well, we uave a flag in the channel name :) no worries and thank you for your support!
I forgott to ask but are the russian in Chernobyl( close to prypjat?...in my country we read about that the Russian army hold the nucklear plant?....i hope i dont offend by asking...take care there and i hope you can make many more videos...
Our army threw them away a year ago, but they left a massive destruction. We have two videos about this on our channel, check that.
CHORNOBYL MENU
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1: TETRIS
2: PAC-MAN
3: Thermomuclear meltdown.
Would you like to play a game?
Pacman please.
This guy looks like to have a НИИЭВМ logo on his body. Can you share your copy please?
Will upload on Patreon
Some version of Linux should let you the computer to the fullest.
Hm! Sounds interesting
Way faster than ПОИСК...
True
Nice work Alex, there's no problem with your accent. You might want to get a few more stains on your lab coat for maximum credibility! ;-)
Haha thank you! soon I will get them. Got from a friend a reactor model she got from ChNPP in ~1973. Need to renovate it, and this is a cleaning out of a lot of old paint, so... stains will come)))
@@ChernobylFamily Nothing will stop you then. Chernobyl Family could challenge CuriousMarc for the TH-cam computer restoration crown. It would be great to see the ES1841 connecting to a BBS, or making a forum posting (e.g. AtariAge or VCF).
@@decle well, we do not do it to challenge anyone, but just for fun:)
Networking is possible, but likely will require some hardware.
As for BBS, btw, this is planned but with a different device. Last Christmas we got a proper Minitel terminal from our close French friend, that thing has a communication port, so when the time will come, will try that:)
I responded (agreeing) to a comment here about your accent being fine and your english excellent. I'm catching up on your patreon posts, and as I read some of your translations of the 1988 report and other EXTREMELY scientifically complex documents, I realized - your mastery of technical/scientific english is INCREDIBLE. I think the vast majority of people with english as a 2nd language (and I'm guessing english is at least your 3rd language) would not be capable of such translation. I am in awe at your mastery of english. It seems you didn't take the criticism seriously (as you shouldn't), but your multi-lingualism is absolutely incredible. Those ruzzians that criticized you, I'm sure they couldn't understand those documents in their NATIVE ruzzian, never mind be able to translate them. What pathetic putler-fellators.
You make me shy :) well, the thing is: both me and Michaela speak 6 languages (most of them are different), and at home we speak English as we are too lazy to learn each other native ones. As for technical translations, well, here you are right, I do know terminology, because understanding Chernobyl is all about understanding the complex papers.
As for these people - we just laugh. Because that is their culture thing (and here it is pure statistics) - on internet a major part is rude.
SIX?!??!?!?! HOLY CRAP!
I'm subscribed to Anna from Ukraine's channel, and I think she listed off about that many... but she has a PHd in linguistics. And you and Michaela's primary shared language is english? Wow. I never would have expected that in Ukraine, or anywhere in eastern Europe for that matter.
Oh, and you should NOT be shy. Six languages is an incredible accomplishment. You should be proud of that.
@@jasonhaman4670 Trust us, we are slavic scientists
This one went over my head - I don't understand what you mean by that? (Possibly because I have no Slavic ancestry, and have never visited a Slavic country?)
The nuclear disaster wouldn’t appear if station workers didn’t play Tetris during their work 😮😂
Well, if we're not wrong, both Tetris and disaster sligtly do not fit in the timeline.
But can it run Fallout 4?
No, but it can run Fallout '86!
😐
Haha, well, it is hard to surprise anyone with a computer that can run F4, but we live in a time that we start to struggle to find computers that can run 8086 games natively ;)
What a shame, soviet comrades used western os. 😂
Can't live with this fact already nearly 40 years.
Now wait a minute.... it's an IBM computer in Russia? Isn't IBM American? Great vid though.
We are not in Russia, we are in Ukraine, and to be accurate, the computer is not Russian at all (Belarus & Ukraine). Check previous episodes, there is much about its history.
what is wrong, with your accent. it is much better than my ukraine by far. 👈👺👀👀
Haha, thank you!
Also infinitely better than my Ukrainian! And millions of times better than my very limited French, which I took for 4 years in high school.
And besides, a criticism coming from a ruzzian is a compliment! (Also took a semester of ruzzian in college way back in '94, back when they and us were supposed to be friends, and happiness ahead. I sure don't want it now - wish I could trade it in for a semester-worth's knowledge of Ukrainian.)
Love the videos, but your Pac Man skills are horrible.
I know)))))) but must say, on this keyboard it is REALLY hard to play fast things.
Alex, my friend it's Alfredo Casanova. I have not been able to send correspondence for some time now nor reach you. Please email me so that I can see what maybe is the issue? I've been frantic to hear from you guys
Hi Alfredo! We had issues with that e-mail, now fixed - will write asap!
i found some of this computers but they are all in russia, so i can't buy them
We gonna have for sale one at some point.
@@ChernobylFamily let me know when you guys get one
Sure