Viruses on the IBM 5155 Portable Personal Computer

Not much to say about this one. Seems like Ping Pong, Techno, and Cascade are my go to guys everytime I get a "new" vintage computer and need to test it out. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[Ukiby]

OK that drain virus is the cutest thing

[danooct]

I've played cello for ten years, piano for five, and written 8-bit music for 4. "p8ms01bbb8bbb8bbo2" is not any musical notation I've ever seen.

[theterdbomb]

I love these older viruses that actually had some thought in them, not just; "Oh look a hard drive! WIPE WIPE WIPE!"

[therealhardrock]

Apparently the "drain" program was a joke that someone pulled on some office auditors when a window had been left open and rain got inside.

[Cactusman]

windows/osx viruses: we took your personal information and formatted your entire hard drive enjoy paying for some yacht for a dude in botswana loser
dos viruses: hears some neat graphical effects and some cool little digital ants

[HeyLaserLips]

That Drain virus made the best use of an internal speaker I've ever heard. It almost sounded as good as a SID chip. xD

[Bwser]

Viruses back then: Cool effects, jokes, screen manipulation
Viruses today: ARRGH GIVE ME ALL YOUR MONEY TO GET YOUR FILES BACK

[brdane]

We just witnessed two viruses duel each other. Cascade vs. Techno... Techno merges victorious!

[EssneceGFX]

Who else could just sit here and listen to him typing and talking for like an hour or so? There's just something about the way the keyboard clicks that makes me feel nostalgia or something. ^-^

[DementedAbsolution]

... I kinda like these viruses because they're not your typical 'wipe everything' type. Like these are creative and fun to look at, maybe a lil bit scary to experience because you're gonna get surprised and worry about what is going on with your computer. Though I don't know, haha

[Brandonator]

Techno attempts to fill up the screen and then it becomes a war between techno and cascade in which techno is stopped by cascade creating walls of text to attempt to prevent techno from destroying cascades beautiful creation of flames of text but then techno resumes in its deadly path annihilating all of the walls of Amber text protecting the beautiful flames at the bottom but then cascade kicks it up a notch by locking in techno between two walls of Amber flames of text that keeps techno stopped for quite a while until the one H remaining at the top of the screen refuses to fall causing a hole to appear in the wall so techno can escape and be free from this sandwich of Amber flames of text so then techno gets to the bottom of the screen and destroys the precious flames of text that were kept safe for quite a while by cascade, and then the text is taken over by techno which makes a massive techno box appear and then cascade gives up and goes away.

[WCBROW]

When you said it's spinning the disk I imagined a floppy disk spinning in the drive.

[purrfectpwd]

TSL (The Software Labs) had a disk in their catalog called "Just for Laughs". That's where I got drain, or something very similar, back in the '90s. There were several joke/prank programs on that disk, but it was all harmless as you say.

[silentaswang]

5:23 - This amuses me for some reason.

[Zizumia]

I bet back when this computer came out, "comm" would have made the user shit themselves xD
They're all like "I just got this technology! I don't want to go to prison over it!!"

[gamercode]

The days when virus makers usually wanted to have fun and not hurt anybody.

[Cascade-tfck]

The Comm virus was also a real DOS joke program called TheGag

[FairPlay]

The WILLTELL program was more than likely displaying the music data itself on-screen, and was _probably_ written in some form of BASIC?
Though the DRAIN program is just genius.
The CASCADE virus interfering with TECHNO is also great.

[KeanuX]

That moment when you realize this Computer inspired Fallout's terminals

[branislavakoncarevic]

"i like doing directory listings"
Danooct1, June 2012