Adventure games from the past
09.09.2006 19:54
I just found this set of 5¼" floppies with shareware games on them. I remembered that my father bought a couple of these many years ago.
We had a 286 computer with monochrome graphics at home back then (our first Intel compatible). It was made by Mlacom, a Slovenian computer company that still exists (although I think they lost all good reputation by now).
These disks contain three games: Ranadinn was a graphical role-playing game (there's a screenshot on the cover) where you wandered around in forests, entered cities and usually died of hunger after playing 5 minutes. Spacewar was something similar to KSpaceduel. Then there was Hack, a predecessor of NetHack.
Apart from multiplayer Spacewar I don't remember playing these games a lot. That's interesting because Nethack is now the only game that I still occasionally play. It seems that I met my favorite Unix game long before I even knew what Unix and internet was.
I wonder if these disks can still be read. I don't have a 5¼" drive at hand so I can't try them out.
