vga256 on Nostr: it took me 30 years to find this again. way back in 1993, my family's Amstrad XT gave ...
it took me 30 years to find this again.
way back in 1993, my family's Amstrad XT gave up the ghost, and my folks agreed to make the leap to a brand new IBM PS/1 486 SX-33
the machine was an ass-kicking $3000, and we didn't have the money for it. my parents took out a multi-year loan. my father tried his best to wheel and deal, and convinced the salesperson to throw in a Canon BJ-200e printer, and a bunch of CD-ROMs
for the first year we owned the machine, i did nothing but scour every single directory on the ten CDs that came with it.
i played a LOT of shareware Doom, King's Quest V and Stellar 7, and watched terrible postage stamp-sized videos on a CD called "Media Clips" and "Animation Festival".
i always thought these CDs were just bare discs that store had sitting around that the salesman threw in out of pity. when i'd search for them on ebay, i'd find just individual discs.
it wasn't until a few months ago that i discovered they were all part of a CD compilation called The Sirius Software 5ft10 Pack: a cheesy vinyl wallet of mostly shovelware!
i finally tracked a complete copy of it down a few weeks ago, and it just arrived. my entire childhood is in this six-foot vinyl sleeve 😻
#retroComputing #dosgaming #shareware
way back in 1993, my family's Amstrad XT gave up the ghost, and my folks agreed to make the leap to a brand new IBM PS/1 486 SX-33
the machine was an ass-kicking $3000, and we didn't have the money for it. my parents took out a multi-year loan. my father tried his best to wheel and deal, and convinced the salesperson to throw in a Canon BJ-200e printer, and a bunch of CD-ROMs
for the first year we owned the machine, i did nothing but scour every single directory on the ten CDs that came with it.
i played a LOT of shareware Doom, King's Quest V and Stellar 7, and watched terrible postage stamp-sized videos on a CD called "Media Clips" and "Animation Festival".
i always thought these CDs were just bare discs that store had sitting around that the salesman threw in out of pity. when i'd search for them on ebay, i'd find just individual discs.
it wasn't until a few months ago that i discovered they were all part of a CD compilation called The Sirius Software 5ft10 Pack: a cheesy vinyl wallet of mostly shovelware!
i finally tracked a complete copy of it down a few weeks ago, and it just arrived. my entire childhood is in this six-foot vinyl sleeve 😻
#retroComputing #dosgaming #shareware