Re: apple 2e games

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com>]

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"kadiope" <laurenkdowney@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Nov 5, 7:47 pm, "Bryan Parkoff" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
>> "kadiope" <laurenkdow...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> > 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.
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>> >> 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.
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>> > 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.
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>>     Yes, I have seen 8" floppy drive for Apple II many years ago.  I 
>> don't
>> know the data size.  I have no idea what type of format like GCR.  It 
>> looks
>> like it has non-Disk II controller card for 8" floppy drive.  I have 
>> never
>> touched to use it, but I only observed it at elementary, middle, and high
>> school.  It appears to be very few 8" floppy disks.
>>
>> Bryan Parkoff
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> You know, I think schmidtd might have been right in that the games are
> actually on 5.25'' floppy disks.

    I agree.

Bryan Parkoff