At 11:27 AM 1/6/98 -0600, you wrote:
Again, there must be a market for better emulation /
slowdown software.
There should be a way to put the Pentium in an 8008 compatibility mode. :-)
The games would run fine, if they weren't clock dependent. There are a
handful of programmers that actually had the forethought to think of those
blazing fast 386 and 486 systems of the future. :)
Maybe the net and micropayments will help. Or in this
case, a web site
with do-it-yourself downloading of $10 bundles of 20 old games might
satify both the developers and the funding of the site. Shareware is
a *sure* way to gather no cash, especially with a dusty product like this.
I thought about that too, but I'm not sure it would catch on.
Apropo the other thread about today's tendency to
throw out 486s...
as-is, they still run yesterday's games, word processors, educational
apps, etc. for schools, libraries, senior centers, day care centers, etc.
It's such a shame this stuff isn't being reused. A 486/33 with
8 megs and Linux makes a perfectly acceptable firewall.
I bet there's some sort of surplus/tax writeoff thingamajig at work here...
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