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

[Daniel Pearson]

Yeh, they still have those at some schools :-|

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Caston" <caston at arach.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Slightly OT.. 5 1/4 Drives


> /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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