* On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 08:54:05AM -0600, 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.
I used an XT in college, and I still remember my standard productivity
stack pretty well. Here's what I had on mine:
- MS-DOS 3.3
- WordPerfect 5.1
- A shareware clone of Lotus 1-2-3 called "As Easy As" (get it?)
- DataPerfect - a surprisingly nice and simple database system
- Telix - telecomm software with a crazy C-like scripting language
I was on the first experimental campus-wide ethernet deployment, so I
was blessed with a leased 3c503 8-bit ethernet card. We used Crynwr's
DOS Packet drivers, and DOS Trumpet for the applications. Trumpet
included Telnet, NNTP, FTP, Gopher, POP, and IRC clients - very full
featured for the time. Amazingly, both the Crynwr drivers and DOS
Trumpet still seem to be available with a quick Google search. Neat!
So, get your XT up on the net and report back to us! :)
-Seth