The first shot of those gold-labelled floppies gave me a delicious shock of nostalgia. I owned at least one of these and played the crap out of it, but I've no idea which one(s).
@Shiqna1 Thank you, that's the idea! The PC experience is something that is almost completely ignored on TH-cam and the like and it really is something somewhat mystical. Glad to hear you're enjoying and appreciating this, I really didn't know how this type of video would go over.
@rhiannon650 I'm in my mid-20s now. First home PC was a low-end 486 and we had that until 1997, so for software I kept digging backwards in time. I also used Apple IIs in school, and early IBM clones (with green/amber monochrome displays and 5-10MB hard disks) at my mom's workplace which I was at all the time. And I was also at my Uncle's a lot, and he had a spanking new Pentium, so I saw games like FS5 and Out of this World then. So I "grew up" with this stuff but it wasn't necessarily "new".
I remember when we were kids, me and my friend would go to yard sale and buy old computers and old disks and spend entire days on end going through each one. Those were good days!
The Keypunch software titles were the last new software I could buy for the PCjr. A toy store here had a bunch of the titles for 1- 2 dollars each, they were trying to get rid of in the late 80s.
I think the 24/7 text in Rockets' title screen may have had a BBS phone number at one point, but Keypunch removed it. That stuff was way before my time, but I remember seeing similar screens in some DOS games I have in my shareware CDs.
@tombert256 I've never gotten it to work properly in DosBox, due to the very specific tweaking of CGA that the game takes advantage of. It comes close, but the screen is stretched bizarrely, the graphics are garbled and like any game dependent on a PC/XT setup it's hard to get the speed correct even with cycle adjustment. In fact, it won't even run on an EGA/VGA card with CGA compatibility, due to the same reasons!
@Foxhack There's a decent chance that's what it was, good thinking. It'd be no surprise, considering the massive amounts of text Keypunch seemed to remove/replace in these games.
This video is totally different from every other kind of video in my video feed. XD I had fun watching it, though. I'm always learning new stuff when you do these vids.
It accepts Nooooo and Yessss because of the way the variables are set and handled.. It checks for No and Yes and the extra letters simply are not seen. It is likely the code is set to read for Y and N which means you could use any words starting with these letters. You could use Yoda for Yes and Nipple for No likely. You could write an entire paragraph and it would accept it if the first letter matched what it was looking for. If you checked a number of games of the era you would find the same thing. I would love to see a review of some of the random gaming utility programs of the time. Stuff like SimCGA and PKZip.
@shorty1k It's very much worth it, if only just to experience that awesome tweaked 16-color CGA mode. Also check out Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom for later PCs! It's the spiritual successor to Round 42 and is also crazy fun.
These were the classic boot-leg games of old... Magazines would have clones of popular games like Wizards of Wor called 'Crossroads' instead. I also bought a pack of 700 5.25" disks for the IBM. I haven't tried any of them yet, and most are packed in nitro bags in stacks of about 50-75.
I used to play Round 42 on my IBM PCjr back in the day. I think I downloaded it from a BBS somewhere. In fact, I probably still have the disk, but the PCjr is long gone.
Oddly, I seem to recall liking the games on 'Real Life Adventure'. I found Bridge Contractor to actually be a fun text adventure. My brother loved playing Big Rig. (both of us were fairly young at the time, no idea how'd they hold up to adult views)
I've been trying to find those floppies for a while in my parent's garage for the Apple 2e... just so I could play them again. I wonder if there are any soft copies? I had one with Sea Hunt, J-walker, and Galactic Blasters. I also had one with Rod's Revenge as well too... very fun to play, but I cannot for the life of me find them at all!!!
I planned many games like this on my Tandy 1000 SX, the machine really was 99.99% compatible at the software level. It would have been harder to find a program that it did not run, that titles that it could run.
7p-7a, 24h weekends? Sounds like the hours for a BBS System a SysOp setup... Might have been more on that screen that advertised the system. Maybe the game was made by a SysOp? XD Who knows. Fun stuff, though.
+fountainhead for a second i thought it was reference to Camp Lazlo :P theres a character in the show that has that accent as well. also it seems like there was an ep that had them running from bees
It's amazing all those things still work. Try leaving a current computer in an old basement for 23 years and then putting a CD and getting the CD, the CD-rom reader, and the entire computer to work! Bet the reader won't even open!!!
I never got into DOS when i was younger(the first computer i ever used was running windows 98 and so it ran solely on Cds and didn't need me to go through the dos prompt) and i have recently downloaded dosbox in order to play daggerfall but i dont know how to get to the game without having to reinstall it again and again. do you know what i need to do to launch it without reinstalling?
2 years later, but for future reference, the UESPs have a ready to play distribution listed, complete with patches: en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Files Edit: They also have guides to running it on DOSBox, if you want to go by hand.
WOW! Now you don't see this type of video often on TH-cam! Fascinating!
I played the Round 42 on some Chinese dudes computer back in the 80’s.
Omg those computer sounds take me right back to when I was a kid and messing about with my dad's computer. So many great memories.
No new LGR videos yet? No problem, I watch the oldies while I wait for the new. This video its a beauty
This makes me feel for my Vic-20 and Gorf......Wish I were at home now to play it.....I miss it......
The first shot of those gold-labelled floppies gave me a delicious shock of nostalgia. I owned at least one of these and played the crap out of it, but I've no idea which one(s).
@Shiqna1 Thank you, that's the idea! The PC experience is something that is almost completely ignored on TH-cam and the like and it really is something somewhat mystical. Glad to hear you're enjoying and appreciating this, I really didn't know how this type of video would go over.
dat fan noise!!
+1 if you thought is was gonna be punch card games
+Shelby I actually thought it was going to be type-in games from a book...
That's what I thought actual keypunch games
@rhiannon650 I'm in my mid-20s now. First home PC was a low-end 486 and we had that until 1997, so for software I kept digging backwards in time. I also used Apple IIs in school, and early IBM clones (with green/amber monochrome displays and 5-10MB hard disks) at my mom's workplace which I was at all the time. And I was also at my Uncle's a lot, and he had a spanking new Pentium, so I saw games like FS5 and Out of this World then. So I "grew up" with this stuff but it wasn't necessarily "new".
@psyjax I did some reading up on it after making this video and you're right. It's apparently a somewhat more involved variant of Rogue and *Hack.
I remember when we were kids, me and my friend would go to yard sale and buy old computers and old disks and spend entire days on end going through each one. Those were good days!
I love the sound of that keyboard and disk noises.
The Keypunch software titles were the last new software I could buy for the PCjr. A toy store here had a bunch of the titles for 1- 2 dollars each, they were trying to get rid of in the late 80s.
I think the 24/7 text in Rockets' title screen may have had a BBS phone number at one point, but Keypunch removed it. That stuff was way before my time, but I remember seeing similar screens in some DOS games I have in my shareware CDs.
"Hello caller, are you sane? Are you a sane person?"
"Yes Lazlow, Killer Bees!"
That's really groovy! :) The sound of the diskette drive really brings back memories.
@tombert256 I've never gotten it to work properly in DosBox, due to the very specific tweaking of CGA that the game takes advantage of. It comes close, but the screen is stretched bizarrely, the graphics are garbled and like any game dependent on a PC/XT setup it's hard to get the speed correct even with cycle adjustment. In fact, it won't even run on an EGA/VGA card with CGA compatibility, due to the same reasons!
I love the sound of a floppy drive :)
@Foxhack There's a decent chance that's what it was, good thinking. It'd be no surprise, considering the massive amounts of text Keypunch seemed to remove/replace in these games.
This video is totally different from every other kind of video in my video feed. XD I had fun watching it, though. I'm always learning new stuff when you do these vids.
@DookNookim3 That helps significantly! Then just taking the cycles down to ~650 for me and it's pretty close to the original.
It accepts Nooooo and Yessss because of the way the variables are set and handled.. It checks for No and Yes and the extra letters simply are not seen. It is likely the code is set to read for Y and N which means you could use any words starting with these letters. You could use Yoda for Yes and Nipple for No likely. You could write an entire paragraph and it would accept it if the first letter matched what it was looking for. If you checked a number of games of the era you would find the same thing.
I would love to see a review of some of the random gaming utility programs of the time. Stuff like SimCGA and PKZip.
lcase$(left$(x$,1)="y"))
@uzimonkey Hmm, it's certainly a possibility! I'll have to see if I can dig out the 1541 drives and get things going sometime.
@LKRaider Hehe, I actually did that when I wasn't recording, I will show that next time
@shorty1k It's very much worth it, if only just to experience that awesome tweaked 16-color CGA mode. Also check out Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom for later PCs! It's the spiritual successor to Round 42 and is also crazy fun.
These were the classic boot-leg games of old... Magazines would have clones of popular games like Wizards of Wor called 'Crossroads' instead. I also bought a pack of 700 5.25" disks for the IBM. I haven't tried any of them yet, and most are packed in nitro bags in stacks of about 50-75.
man I love that sound, *GRIND* *BEEP* *GRIND*
@kazimann Balls yeah. In fact, many early PCs have been known to achieve liftoff after prolonged use.
I used to play Round 42 on my IBM PCjr back in the day. I think I downloaded it from a BBS somewhere. In fact, I probably still have the disk, but the PCjr is long gone.
Lol at "Paratrooper" on the disk and "Paratrouper" in the menu
some pretty cool stuff there
@ioctlvoid I wish I did, but no. Even a Rainbow 100 would be so cool. Someday, perhaps someday...
I loved Big Rig back in the day!
I can remember playing round 42 at a friends house when I was a kid.
I just love the sound of a floppy drive, sadly almost no one includes that in their videos :S
I love how mad the last enemy gets :D
this brings back some memories big time! :)
"Round 42" ... a game named because it has 42 rounds. Inventive name is inventive.
@gravitar96 Yeah, that has me seriously intrigued. "You had better run quickly before you are immobilized".... haha, what?
My brain is fried after that lol
also; I now have to hunt down a vintage ibm to play round 42..that game looks boss.
Oddly, I seem to recall liking the games on 'Real Life Adventure'. I found Bridge Contractor to actually be a fun text adventure. My brother loved playing Big Rig. (both of us were fairly young at the time, no idea how'd they hold up to adult views)
I've been trying to find those floppies for a while in my parent's garage for the Apple 2e... just so I could play them again. I wonder if there are any soft copies? I had one with Sea Hunt, J-walker, and Galactic Blasters. I also had one with Rod's Revenge as well too... very fun to play, but I cannot for the life of me find them at all!!!
6:50 for some of the worst PC sounds I've ever heard
Nah, they're some of the best sounds.
oooh... old pc noise. I love it :D
I planned many games like this on my Tandy 1000 SX, the machine really was 99.99% compatible at the software level. It would have been harder to find a program that it did not run, that titles that it could run.
I think it's that if the words "YES" or "NO" are in the command it'll recognize it.
how old are you phreakindee> just wondering whether you were around for the most part of the 80s to play these when they came out.
If I had any room in my house for a new PC, I'd have a 5150 set up to go on the internet.
they are not all supposed to be Moons , Hey Love your Videos , your a larger lazier Geek than I'lll ever be :) QC
i played this when i was a child on my keypro ibm 4,75mhz
@andlinux same here. so nostalgic!
@phreakindee NYC Adventure, huh...there's probably a level where you have to cross Queens Blvd. :P
Can't wait for Part 2! :D
P.S.: phreakindee is the REAL King of Queens! ;)
These Keypunch disks remind of pirate NES/Famicom multicarts that have the copyright removed, etc.
It will recognize even a Y or N, so you could type "Yhess" or "NwOP" and still it would recognize.
This is the same thing that I do with C64, I have TONS of disc that friends have given me.
There was a game called Real Life Adventure? You need to do that one.
This is like the least watched lgr video.
Minecraft waaaay before it even existed
cool story bro
seizures @ 6.50
7p-7a, 24h weekends? Sounds like the hours for a BBS System a SysOp setup... Might have been more on that screen that advertised the system. Maybe the game was made by a SysOp? XD Who knows. Fun stuff, though.
Can someone explain the "killer bees" reference Clint is making at 3:47?
GTA III OST Chatterbox FM - Killer Bees
Lazy Game Reviews Ah, THAT Lazlow, haha. I played more of Vice City than GTAIII so I didn't remember this.
+fountainhead for a second i thought it was reference to Camp Lazlo :P theres a character in the show that has that accent as well. also it seems like there was an ep that had them running from bees
@Shiqna1
Same here :).
It's amazing all those things still work.
Try leaving a current computer in an old basement for 23 years and then putting a CD and getting the CD, the CD-rom reader, and the entire computer to work!
Bet the reader won't even open!!!
Meh, I have 20+ year old CD-ROMs and they work fine. Electronics are pretty resilient.
holy crap it accepted NOOOOOOOO
o.O
4:41 space zombies
NOOOOOO / YEESSSSS #FTW
I never got into DOS when i was younger(the first computer i ever used was running windows 98 and so it ran solely on Cds and didn't need me to go through the dos prompt) and i have recently downloaded dosbox in order to play daggerfall but i dont know how to get to the game without having to reinstall it again and again. do you know what i need to do to launch it without reinstalling?
2 years later, but for future reference, the UESPs have a ready to play distribution listed, complete with patches:
en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Files
Edit:
They also have guides to running it on DOSBox, if you want to go by hand.
MS-DOS gamer's bar of entry: Can you withstand high-pitched whining and digital squeaks for prolonged periods of time? No? GTFO!