computergeek92 wrote:

here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRoMkKOpSvM

So, Hero's Quest, aka Quest for Glory? I'm pretty sure you don't need an 8088 to play that without compatibility or speed problems. Also, Sierra's games were highly exceptional at the time when it came to graphics.

And the sound of an XT booting up sounds so magical:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-RyvZxKufo

Aye, my first 286 made sounds like that.

Just what is that sound, anyway? If it's the fan spinning up, then what happened to fan technology such that current fans don't make that noise? Does anyone know?

I'm pretty sure it's the XT's hard drive. They sound like a jet. 😁

Watched this just the other day, features these old drives starting up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T22D4fB41lM&l … uG6WRgZcUcYdDzy

As for practical use? probably none. But if your interested in it keep it and sell it on when your done. Their money value is worth much more then practical value, especially one in original condition like this

This thread is just in time as I am also getting a 1989 XT clone 😁 , complete with original monitor/keyboard as pictured:

It's a "multitech acer 500+" , 4.77/8mhz V20 , 640kb ram, 2x360kb fdds and a cga/mda/hercules card. Monitor is some color (?) one that has option to change background to green/orange/blue (don't know what that means, is it a monochrome monitor with some option on the color you see?). Apparently it only has 2 free 8bit ISA slots , bummer... more info when I get the setup 😀

here is a Greek review from 1989:

what I plan to do is try CGA games in composite mode - with a second monitor attached as I don't see the machine's monitor supporting composite.... no idea how to do that atm , I assume xt games are 360kb booters?

keropi wrote:

I assume xt games are 360kb booters?

Only very early games are booters. Later games mostly assume you have MS-DOS and a HDD to install the games on.
Besides, if you get these games from Abandonware sites, they are usually pirated, and converted to MS-DOS-compatible files (often by hosting the disk image inside a DOS binary).

^ ah, thanks for the info , I don't know much about XT stuff 😀