Re: A Tale of Two Apples

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

Gary Sutton <otter@oz.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 08:53:22 -0700, 
> B.J. Major  <bjblackbear@ibm.net > wrote:
> 
> >
> >I didn't know the profession of real estate was "rare and obscure".
> >These are programs that were once used by hundreds of thousands of
> >offices all over the country.  They are titles I have first hand
> >
> 
> Hmmm...  Some of the titles he was talking about might have been 
> packages custom-designed for that particular entity, a common 
> alternative to outright purchasing off-the-shelf packages.
> 
> >experience and use with.  Also, there have been other messages posted
> >this week agreeing with me that not ALL old 5.25 software will run on
> >today's machines.  What has been your own experience will not always be
> >everyone else's experience.
> 
> I can cite one example at least.  I bought for about $1.50 an original
> Atarisoft Battlezone for the PC.  It was on a 5.25" disk and was 
> supposed to be self-booting.  There is no directory to be found on the
> disk and I have not found a way yet to either copy it to the hard 
> drive or to the 3.5" drive or to set up my system to boot from drive b:
> 
> I tried changing the CMOS to make drive a: a 5.25" drive and to boot 
> from drive a:, but everytime a: is accessed, it tries the 3.5" 
> thinking it is the 5.25".
> 
> There are other 5.25" format things that fall into this problem too, 
> such as F-15 Strike Eagle and any others that use copy protection.
> 
> Probably the best solution is to go ahead and spend $10 or less on an
> old XT with 5.25" drives just to play these old games.

Exactly.  That was my point in the first place.

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