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Little piece of history
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 3:15 am
by tassieboy
I was at my parents place the other night. My mother said she'd found an old computer game while going through some stuff.
Have a look what she brought out.
This is the original box and disks. It would be even cooler if we still had our original copy of KQ1.
Re: Little piece of history
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 3:27 am
by Collector
AGI or SCI? Don't forget, there is an
SHP installer for it.
Re: Little piece of history
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 9:31 pm
by tassieboy
SCI version. I haven't seen the AGI version.
I recently bought the 7 game collection anyway it's fine, but I don't have a machine with a disk drive anymore. Still it's nice to have the box and disks as a sourveneir.
Re: Little piece of history
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 10:47 pm
by Collector
I have a USB floppy drive. Now if I could only find a 5.25" USB drive.
Re: Little piece of history
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:47 am
by tassieboy
I would be impressed if you could find such a thing
Re: Little piece of history
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:59 am
by dotkel50
I don't think a 5.25 USB drive exists. Any electronics people out there wanna invent one? Luckily I had an old dead pc that had a working 5.25 that i pulled out and put into my old win98 pc.
Re: Little piece of history
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 5:50 am
by Collector
Well you could make one. I saw a link for an ISA to USB adapter. I think that the idea was to interface modern computers with old industrial equipment, so the adapter was pretty pricey. You could take an old IO card from an old 386 or so to use with the adapter and your old 5.25" floppy drive. Coming up with a case to stick it all in that you wouldn't mind having in your living room is another matter.
Re: Little piece of history
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:50 pm
by MusicallyInspired
Interesting.
Re: Little piece of history
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 1:24 am
by tassieboy
I was cleaning out my garage today and found even more history - dating all the way back to King's Quest I
Have a look
http://collingszone.wordpress.com/2011/ ... he-garage/
Re: Little piece of history
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 3:30 am
by Qbix
Nice. The old disks and booklets have a lot more charm than the dvd with pdf manual on it.
Re: Little piece of history
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 6:54 am
by oberonqa
Gah I wish I still kept in touch with my mom... she has a bunch of my stuff from when I was growing up, including the Tandy 1000 (AGI) version of King's Quest IV and Hero's Quest.
**cries**
Re: Little piece of history
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:29 am
by audiodane
oberonqa wrote:Gah I wish I still kept in touch with my mom... she has a bunch of my stuff from when I was growing up, including the Tandy 1000 (AGI) version of King's Quest IV and Hero's Quest.
**cries**
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say, "it's never too late to get back in touch with your mom."
(ducks for cover)
..dane
Re: Little piece of history
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:13 am
by oberonqa
audiodane wrote:oberonqa wrote:Gah I wish I still kept in touch with my mom... she has a bunch of my stuff from when I was growing up, including the Tandy 1000 (AGI) version of King's Quest IV and Hero's Quest.
**cries**
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say, "it's never too late to get back in touch with your mom."
(ducks for cover)
..dane
LOL!!! Not gonna happen I'm afraid. We're not on speaking terms and has been that way for.... 9 years now.
But no worries.... I'm not gonna shoot you for suggesting it.
Re: Little piece of history
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:53 am
by audiodane
wow, so sorry to hear that ...
and thanks for not shooting me.
..dane