Robin Gravel's Blog

I find games were the easiest to play on the PC way back before the 386 came about. Most of mine were on floppy disks (5.25 and 3.5) since my Tandy 1000 SL/2 never had a real harddrive. But that's fine, since they all expected to be run from floppies! Ah the days of Kings Quest 1.

 

I never found typing something at the dos prompt to be considered "hard to play" really. do a directory listing, run the exe/com, which would most of the time be the only one on the disk.

 

Then again I stopped playing PC games between the Tandy days and the 486's, and only played a couple games into the early Win95 days before dropping "state of the art" PC games altogether. Still don't bother with current PC games, and likely never will.

Hi Mord

 

Sorry for the delay, I'm very busy working in my games...

 

I remembered some games like Commander Blood where you need boost disks to play them. Some games need to add 'files=30 in config.sys, some games use different configurations or they won't work at all.

 

You'll get plenty of boost disks to play games.

 

Another thing, IBM PCs are easier to make compatible computers than others computers at the time.

 

It's a shame that this is legal to make pc compatibles or we will still find Atari St, Amiga or even commodore 64 in the stores today.

 

 

Robin Gravel