[plug] Slightly OT.. 5 1/4 Drives

[Chris Caston]

/me shakes his head. The only kids games I ever played were on the Acorn
(also known as BBC) computers.

Those things didn't even have HD's, instead using only floppies and some
kinda build-in read-only MOS system.

About the most useful thing on them was the BASIC interpretor which was
the only thing that kept us 6 year olds occupied (; 

regards,

Chris

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 21:22, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> They're some really old educational games, have sentimental/nostalgic
> value - ABC Fun Keys, Balloon Speller, Funnels & Buckets, Googal Math Games,
> Kindermath, School Mom, Clock Game, and Tell Time.
> 
> Also, for anyone who has any old games that run too fast on their PC - you
> can use a great opensource program called DOSBox
> (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/) in either Linux OR Windows to play them.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Caston" <caston at arach.net.au>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 9:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [plug] Slightly OT.. 5 1/4 Drives
> 
> 
> > Yeah those were the days.
> >
> > I remember buying space quest III and getting two sets of disks both 5
> > 1/4" and 3.5". Due to only having a 5 1/4 drive at the time (I threw it
> > out about 6 months ago your too late ;-) I gave the 3.5" disks to a
> > friend so he could play it.
> >
> > So what is the game(s) that you can't find and on and old school ftp
> > site or find a freeware or open source replacement?
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Chris
> > On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 20:07, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> > > Hi Guys,
> > > I've just found a few old games that I *really* used to love playing
> when I
> > > was quite young, only problem is they're on 5 1/4" disks.. does anyone
> have
> > > a computer that can read these, and if so can we get them onto some 3.5"
> > > disks?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Daniel
> > >
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