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WTT: 10 5 year old 360K floppies for IBM PC Space War port and slowdown program

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Gang,

I've got some Athena 360K floppies that are about four and a half years old and should work just fine. I'd like to get the version of the original Space War that runs on the IBM PC 5150 with a CGA monitor, and one of the programs that slows it down so I'd have a chance to win or draw when playing against the computer. I have an EGA monitor, too, so if there's a version out there that can render the game in that better resolution, that would be great.

The way I envision this working is, I send you a box of floppies with an extra, and you install the programs on the extra and send it back to me. I can send a priority mail stamp and address label and a piece of cardboard so the disk doesn't get bent. That way, all you have to do is take the disk with the programs, stamp, address label, and cardboard to the post office, assemble them with a free priority mail envelope, and stick it in the bin.

If the programs are too big to fit on one floppy, please let me know and I can send two extras.

Any takers?

Thanks,
Sean
 
Shadow Lord said:
Is there a particular reason you need it on disk? Or will a zip file do?

BTW: Nice thread on it here.
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Thanks for the compliment :) I wish I could have gotten somebody to do it. Remote-player Space War woulda been awesome. I regret that I'm like some of the old Bohemians in that I have big ideas and therefore am not much use to anybody…Joeseph Campbell said that :) The other ones were the ones that fell down dancing and that's why they weren't much use to anybody.

About the zip file: I don't have a PC connected to the internet, so I don't have a way to get the file from my computer to my 5150 without spending a lot of money. So that's why I was hoping somebody would take pity on me and provide those two programs. There is a media conversion company that says they can change just about anything to anything, but I can see a reason that they might refuse to do this one.

I was just thinking about Erik's non-book. It could become a 22nd century version of the film "A Christmas Story", which came from the book "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash".

Thanks,
Sean
 
Just PM an address if you would like me to send you 5 1/4 or 3.5 version for shipping only.

The original PC doesn't need a slow down. What kind of computer are you running it on?

Later,
dabone
 
If dabone can't get it to you let me know and I can send it to you on a 5 1/4 as well... I unfortunately don't have any slow down programs as I have actual slow computers ;)
 
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