Help me figure out to do with this IBM 5150

[route20]

I just bought all this stuff at a flea market for $20, and know nothing about the 5150. Is there any chance of finding games worth playing? I know this was competing with the Apple II, and I have one of those and love it so maybe it got some ports? It's a bummer the two video cards it came with are both monochrome.







I'd like to hook it up to a monitor, because there is a box of disks marked "games" with mostly titles I haven't heard of, probably BASIC games or PD/shareware. Problem is it has one of those old style 9-pin pre-VGA monitor cables, and all I've got is VGA CRTs. Do people make adapters for this sort of thing?

EDIT: I've plugged it in and it gives the characteristic "beep" and searches for a disk, if I put in a DOS boot disk it sounds like it reads it and boots normally.

[TSTR]

Whoa, ancient!

Found this out of the UK, may be of some use: http://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/con ... A-Adapter/

[route20]

Whoa, ancient!

Found this out of the UK, may be of some use: http://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/con ... A-Adapter/

Whoa, awesome. Never knew the archi also uses that interface, that's perfect since I'm just starting to get into that system (which is a total pain in the US). I've managed to find some of the games I want but sourcing an a3000/10/20 seems next to impossible. For now I'm using ADFFS on a RPi, which allows me to play like five good games "natively" and with no controller support . /rant

e: Apparently it's not as easy as using an adapter for PC stuff, and some hardware like an XPC-4 is necessary.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Amazing find! I'm sure you can some great 5.25" floppy titles to play on that. I'd look for some of those ancient RPGs and whatnot.

[Anapan]

Nice find! This is the first thing I'd run on it!
http://www.oldskool.org/pc/8088_Corruption

I enjoyed playing IBM Cat (Alley Cat), Arcade Volleyball, Battle Chess, Chopper Commando, Commander Keen, Dig Dug, Digger, Jill of the Jungle, Kingdom of Kroz, Paganitzu, Prince of Persia, Sim City, Star Goose, Street Rod 1&2, Stunts, Tunneler The Amazing Spiderman, ZZT, and various text adventures.
I don't know for sure if JotJ will run but the rest of those games should run just fine on the system.

I was able to get CGA games running on Hercules monochrome (bright orange) by installing a TSR CGA emulator to get dithered 320x200 color/brightness simulation.

Might be difficult to get the games onto disks tho.