Re: A Tale of Two Apples

["Gary Sutton" <otter@oz.net>]

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.

--Otter