rasteriSep 13, 2024
First video in ages. Refurbishing an IBM 5150! - #retrocomputing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJz977qkqsc
Refurbishing a Rusty IBM 5150 (32K special)

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Show threadChrisJamSep 13, 2024

@rasteri Great video and super jealous, love to be able to tinker witha 5150 - maybe just for the Power Switch :) If you're interested in noodling with the Cassette interface, I made a tape conversion of the PC Booter game PC-MAN (half decent pac-man clone) that *I think* should work fine loading from Cassette/ROM BASIC:

https://github.com/moogway82/pcman_tape

I've tried it from MAME 5150 emulation and my own homebrew XTjr 8088 based machine with the IBM ROM BASIC added, but love to know if it worked on the OG PC...

GitHub - moogway82/pcman_tape: Cassette Tape version of PC Booter game PC-MAN

Cassette Tape version of PC Booter game PC-MAN. Contribute to moogway82/pcman_tape development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show threadrasteriSep 13, 2024
@mogwaay oh damn I wish I'd known about this a week ago! That's really sick mate, I'll 100% give it a go when I get back from holiday.
Show threadChrisJamSep 13, 2024
@rasteri I wish I'd known you were restoring a 5150 and wanted to play with the Cassette interface! 😋 I think it should work with almost a barebones, floppy less 64kb machine as the main spec, so could be fun to see how little PC you need to play pacman on 😁 Anyways fun for after your hols, hope youre having a good one!
Show threadrasteriSep 14, 2024
@mogwaay yeah one of the things I wanna do is see exactly how much you can do with a totally unexpanded 5150. I have a 16kb motherboard too actually...
Show threadChrisJam
@rasteri VW Westlife did a nice video loading all the known official tapes for PC, all 2 of them I think! Its what made me want to expand the library - that and to make PC users suffer like I did with loading games on my Speccy back in the day 😁
Sep 14, 2024 at 8:59amWeb