On 3 February 2014 14:54, Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
Now that I seem to finally have a working XT clone,
does anyone have
suggestions for interesting (and available!) contemporary software to run on
it? It'd be nice to load it up with a few games and productivity apps of
the era.
It's only got 512K of RAM (although I may have an expansion board
somewhere), but it does have a 10MHz 8088 (well, if I can work out how to
kick it into high-speed mode) and I've got a VGA card in there right now.
I'm not sure if anyone is maintaining a software repository for early x86
PCs (and maybe what is out there will target '286 and above anyway)?
http://vetusware.com/
A lot of the old classics are there. I'd assemble a portfolio of the
SOTA from when that machine was current: probably 1-2-3 r2,
WordPerfect 4.2, maybe classic WordStar, dBase III for the sheer
masochism of it, etc. :?)
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