Re: apple 2e games

[kadiope <laurenkdowney@gmail.com>]

On Nov 5, 1:15 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On Nov 5, 12:22 pm, laurenkdow...@gmail.com wrote:> I have a handful of (educational) computer games on 8'' floppy discs
>
> Surely, you mean 5-1/4" floppies? ;-)
>
> > Sadly, the Apple 2es are slowly dying and I'd like a way
> > to get the games off the 8'' floppies and onto a more modern medium.
>
> What games are they, exactly?  There are loads of archive sites out
> there, and maybe they've been digitized already.  If so, playing them
> on emulators via "modern" hardware is the way to go.

I think you must be right about the 5.25''. I thought what I have were
the "original" floppy so when I looked it up on Wikipedia and saw an
8'' disk in a drive it looked familiar. Anyway, these educational
games are called Latin Skills I & II. I'm most interested in Latin
Skills I which contains, "Mare Nostrum," which is a noun/ adjective
agreement game, "Cursus Honorum" and "Verb Factory" which test Latin
verb skills. They're definitely not main stream. The games were first
developed by Gerald R. Culley at the University of Delaware. Professor
Culley has since passed away and I've contacted the University of
Delaware but they don't have any forms of the games.
I'd love to be able to play them on an emulator but the difficulty
comes with getting the games off the floppies.