Antiquing, and Yahtzee does history!
Been playing around with the IBM Model 25, I transposed a few numbers, and it actually has a 20MB hard drive, not a 50MB hard drive. It also came with IBM PC-Dos 4.00, which had some interesting bugs, particularly when working with the last 5MB of the hard drive.
So, I had some fun with MS-DOS kermit and a null model cable and backup up the entire thing. I also made a boot diskette with the necessary tools to reload it with PC-DOS/MS-DOS 4.00 if I wanted to.
So I hunted down a set of 720k 3.5" install images for MS-DOS 5.00, which I know works well on the Model 30 and Model 25, and installed that instead. It made quite a difference in the overall responsiveness and behavior. I then preceded to use Kermit to transfer a copy of the original Civilization over to the machine. While changing between internal game modes can be a little slow, it does run the game quite well now that it's on MS-DOS 5. Under DOS4, it would blow hard drive read errors on a regular basis, or refuse to change between game modes.
On another note, this is a very good video explaining what the heck Great Britain and the United Kingdom really are. Towards the end, it seems more like Yahtzee of the Escapist is doing the lesson.
So, I had some fun with MS-DOS kermit and a null model cable and backup up the entire thing. I also made a boot diskette with the necessary tools to reload it with PC-DOS/MS-DOS 4.00 if I wanted to.
So I hunted down a set of 720k 3.5" install images for MS-DOS 5.00, which I know works well on the Model 30 and Model 25, and installed that instead. It made quite a difference in the overall responsiveness and behavior. I then preceded to use Kermit to transfer a copy of the original Civilization over to the machine. While changing between internal game modes can be a little slow, it does run the game quite well now that it's on MS-DOS 5. Under DOS4, it would blow hard drive read errors on a regular basis, or refuse to change between game modes.
On another note, this is a very good video explaining what the heck Great Britain and the United Kingdom really are. Towards the end, it seems more like Yahtzee of the Escapist is doing the lesson.