@smartalex61 I returned to the shop today, and identified the IBM Eduquest - It's a Eduquest 40. There were 3 models of Eduquest (according to Walshcomptech) -- 30, 40 and 50.
Yeah, outrun was on just about every system. From most systems around the Commodore 64 era to Sega Genesis era. And of course now there are 3D hyped up versions of the game for PlayStation 2.
wow!! i have that same chips challenge game on my windows 98 pc! i remember using these when i was in elementry school good times playing solitare and Kids Writers Gold floppy :)
To play music through the PC-Speaker I used a program that plays midi's through the PC-Speaker. I can't remember it's name, so I'll get back to you on that.
The first one is some ASCII art that I made to look like this computer, and the second one is the MacGyver theme song (it's a midi file played through the PC-Speaker.)
This computer has an IDE hard drive. And unfortunately when I received this computer all it had was the bare bones of MS-DOS 6.2, everything else I installed myself. I probably changed the startup/shutdown sounds, but do you like the desktop background? I made that in Google Sketchup and rendered it in Kerkythea. P.S. - Unfortunately the sound isn't built in (besides the PC-Speaker). What I did was just hooked up an old pair of headphones and hid them behind the computer.
@DiskTwenty Yes, the slot for the CD-ROM drive is below the floppy drive. I've thought about putting one in, but I really wouldn't want to do it unless it matches the rest of the computer. (Which there are some that do, from IBM and rare though).
I found a IBM Eduquest (model unknown, equipped with MMX CD drive) at the shop that i mentioned previously, i'm gonna see if i can find summer employment there (and immediately pump parts of my paycheck not allocated to other fees back into the shop :p).
You describe the computer as being an IBM PS/2 aimed at education and school use. So my question is, does the computer have standard 16 bit ISA slots like a regular PC of the time period, or does it have MCA slots as the PS/2s did back then?
I remember using the speech function on Primary Editor Plus when I was a kid. I've been looking for it lately, but got nothing useful. Anyone got any leads?
This video reminds me host how shit PC were for games back then games consoles such as NES, SNES, Mega Drive, Master System and Atari were just so mych more capable, especially in terms of sound. The music to Out Run through the internal PC speaker sounds HORRIBLE, even the Atari2600 had better sound than that, game consoles really put PC gaming to shame back then. I've also seen a video of Out Run playing on a Tandy 1000 of sorts, the game music was much better, plus it has sound effects.
