The South Please I need software on 5 1/4" floppy disks

[abruno17]

I just bought a new Compaq Portable and all of y budget set aside went to other addons and the cf card reader I was going to buy off eBay was sold before I could buy it! So, I was hoping that someone could write me some games to 5 1/4" floppies just so I can get started. I would like a copy of Sim city classic for cga. The Secrect of Monkey Island for cga. And the first three leisure suit larry games for cga. If you're willing to help me, please either reply to this post or dm me and we can talk.

 

[GiGaBiTe]

You'll need to tell us which version of the Compaq Portable you have, because there were several.

If you have the original 1983 version, it has an 8088 @ 4.77 MHz and won't be able to run most of those games. It came with 360k disk drives, and no hard drive. The stock memory configuration was 128k, but you need 640k.

Sim City requires a 286 or 386 CPU. Monkey Island might run, but it'd be painfully slow. Not sure of the Leisure Suit Larry games, but I'd imagine they'd be painfully slow as well if they ran at all.

 

[Timo W.]

Also, these games are still under copyright. While you are free to download them somewhere for yourself, asking for pirated physical copies is against rule 5.

 

[abruno17]

You'll need to tell us which version of the Compaq Portable you have, because there were several.

If you have the original 1983 version, it has an 8088 @ 4.77 MHz and won't be able to run most of those games. It came with 360k disk drives, and no hard drive. The stock memory configuration was 128k, but you need 640k.

Sim City requires a 286 or 386 CPU. Monkey Island might run, but it'd be painfully slow. Not sure of the Leisure Suit Larry games, but I'd imagine they'd be painfully slow as well if they ran at all.

Then why I does both Sim City and Monkey Island have Tandy mode? The most a Tandy 1000 had was a 8086. Granted I think most Tandy 1000’s ram faster then 4.77mhz.

 

[NoPizzaTonite]

You'll need to tell us which version of the Compaq Portable you have, because there were several.

If you have the original 1983 version, it has an 8088 @ 4.77 MHz and won't be able to run most of those games. It came with 360k disk drives, and no hard drive. The stock memory configuration was 128k, but you need 640k.

Sim City requires a 286 or 386 CPU. Monkey Island might run, but it'd be painfully slow. Not sure of the Leisure Suit Larry games, but I'd imagine they'd be painfully slow as well if they ran at all.

First release for the PC should work on the Compaq portable
SimCity version 1-1.7 ran on on a 5150: 512KB RAM and a 5-1/4" floppy drive were the minimum requirements - the 5150 typical specs were 8087 at 4.77 MHz
The first Compaq Portable specs: Intel 8088, 4.77 MHz · 128 KB (expandable to 640 KB) - note: You will probably need the 640K for Sim City - also there was a monochrome version and a color version

Sim City 1.x here:

SimCity 1.x

SimCity is a strategy game in which you are the mayor of your own virtual city and you can control the aspects of it - from city planning of land use, development of infrastructure, zoning of schools, police and fire, and the problems that come with a city such as crime, education quality, etc...

winworldpc.com

 

[VERAULT]

hes right i remember playing simcity on my 5160 in cga mode back in the day. I think I played thst game more than any other back then. I dont have that old.copy anymore but I remember the setup having an option for monochrome (which is Herc i would guess?) cga or ega.

 

[GiGaBiTe]

Then why I does both Sim City and Monkey Island have Tandy mode? The most a Tandy 1000 had was a 8086. Granted I think most Tandy 1000’s ram faster then 4.77mhz.

There were quite literally hundreds of ports of Sim City to various platforms, I'm not familiar with all of them.

I just know that it has trouble running on really slow systems, and usually requires special conditions to run, like RAM expansions or higher density disk drives.