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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Big liberation, part 1: Software | Posted by: Anonymous Freak on 2008-03-31 19:13:54
Today I picked up two decent size boxes of software. Some loose disks (including incomplete sets,) some full boxed (Kings Quest 5!) Mostly DOS/Windows, but some Mac, and even a couple Commodore 64! Mostly 3.5", but some of the DOS/Windows (plus, obviously the C64) on 5.25".
Haven't done a full cataloging, but plenty of Sierra games (The Black Cauldron, woo!) and lots of programming tools (an old Borland Pascal for DOS.) A boxed copy of Word Perfect 4, and a couple boxed copies of MS-DOS and Windows.
Tomorrow I'll be going back for the hardware, which is said to include at least two compact Macs from "earlier than 1989", plus some Mac II-series, and some Quadras and early Power Macs.
And this was a true 'liberation', as all of it was quite literally headed for the dumpster. (If I had arrived half an hour later, the disks would have already been in the dumpster.) He also has a few things that he wants money for, like a set of three HP 110 notebooks, and a boxed copy of Windows 1.0!
| Posted by: aphetica on 2008-03-31 20:24:29
I used to love the King's Quest games. I enjoyed 6 a lot more than 5 though.
Did they make the Incredible Machine also?
Until now, I hadn't realized they were released for Mac... I'll have to try and find a copy now. 😀
| Posted by: Anonymous Freak on 2008-03-31 20:30:29
heh. Yeah, not too much Mac software, and most of it is either incomplete (one disk each of Microsoft Word 3 and Microsoft Excel 2; neither one the main program disk,) or very esoteric (Some random shareware accounting software, for example.)
I did find a few Apple IIgs games, though. (Too bad I don't have a IIgs!)
And the real oddball is CP/M for an Amstrad PCW, on a funky rectangular-cased 3" disk.
| Posted by: slomacuser on 2008-03-31 23:15:50
I am interested in boxed Windows packages [🙂] ]'>
| Posted by: Quadraman on 2008-04-01 06:22:35
You won't find any way to use that Amstrad disc without an Amstrad computer. The 3" floppy format is not compatible with 3.5" drives. Amstrad used those drives in the late model Spectrums, as well.
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