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Looking for old MacUser / Macuserware cover floppy disks

Posted by: joshc on 2023-12-11 00:34:49 I am looking for some old MacUser / "Macuserware" cover floppy disks. I haven't been able to find them on the Garden or anywhere else, and a search for "Macuserware" on Google doesn't return anything. Does anyone have any stashed away in a box that they could try to image and upload the files somewhere? Here's what the disks looked like...

Posted by: joshc on 2023-12-11 00:42:46 Some extra context / why I am looking for them in particular: On one of the "Games" disks (I cannot remember which number), there was a copy of "Rock Paper Scissors" which has not been archived anywhere - it was a very simple B&W rock paper scissors game that I used to play on my dad's SE in the 90s, and the game itself was probably from the late 80s. I haven't been able to find it since. It wouldn't surprise me if there's other software/games on these disks that hasn't been archived anywhere, so finding anyone who has them would be really great.

Posted by: Daxeria on 2023-12-12 05:29:18 No leads on MacUserware, but searching extant software compilations for rock/paper/scissors games c. 1989 turns up jan-ken-pon as well as two versions of Paper•Rock•Scissors with completely different graphics. Do any of those screenshots look familiar?

Posted by: joshc on 2023-12-12 05:36:13 Well ! https://macintoshgarden.org/games/paper-rock-scissors is the game I was looking for ! Thanks so much for this. Brings back a lot of memories. Played it many times on an SE in the 90s. Now I can play it again on my M1 Mac in mini vMac. 🙂

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