Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN JUNE 2017?

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From: rri... Ross Ridge
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 00:13

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Spalls Hurgenson  <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Fortunately, I had either imaged the original floppy disks or was able
>to transfer the files over from the GOG.com installations (although in
>a few cases I had to go out and re-purchase one of these classic
>games).

I thought I had most of my old MS-DOS games already installed in one
way or another, but your mentioning of Dragon Wars reminded me I didn't
have that game on my hard disk.  A quick check in my 5 1/4" floppy disk
case revealed that there were three other games I didn't have installed
either.  So I figured I better copy the disks now, before it's too late.
Assuming it's not too late already.

Suprisingly, despite the fact that the game disks and the 5 1/4"
drive are all at least 25 years now, I was able to copy all nine disks
without issue.  I was worried more about the drive than the disks though,
as floppy disks seem to be pretty resliant if all their doing is sitting
on shelf.

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