![]() I decided to archive all three properly, and it was when I got to Mental Blocks that I ran into something I’d never seen before: The manual for Mental Blocks claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. The two games I got were Mental Blocks and Harrier7, so they join my third Avantage title Frightmare. For me, this was like finding actual gold nuggets in a collection of Pyrite. This means there are no copies of these games floating around on Abandonware sites. When I got home, however, I found two additional Avantage (Accolade’s budget publishing title) titles that have not yet been released “into the wild”. ![]() (You can take that statement to mean anything you want - whatever you think of, you’re probably right.) At the 2008 ECCC this past Saturday, a vendor wanted to offload his entire PC stock on me for $5, which I happily accepted since there was at least one title in there ( Martian Memorandum) worth that much. Demoscene Digital Video Entertainment Family Gaming Home Ownership Lifehacks MindCandy MobyGames Podcast Programming Sociology Software Piracy Technology Uncategorized Vintage Computing Weight LossĪs an IBM PC historian, one aspect of my hobby is archiving gaming software. ![]()
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