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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 4/24/2010 1:32:19 PM

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 4/24/2010 2:18:46 PM

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 4/24/2010 3:35:18 PM

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 4/24/2010 3:57:30 PM

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 4/24/2010 7:53:21 PM

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ORIGINAL: MajFrankBurns

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ORIGINAL: Greybriar

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If it's just for Master of Magic, you could also wait a couple of weeks...it's already been guranteed to show up soon on Good Old Games.

I don't need it for Master of Magic--I have it on CD as well as on floppy (I got the CD version free with another game I bought from MicroProse) and MoM is working just fine for me with DOSBox. It's for the hundreds of other games I have on 5.25" floppies.

BTW I think it's great that GOG is releasing MoM. As dated as its graphics are, I believe many of today's gamers will appreciate the opportunity to play a classic such as it is.

I remember a package deal I bought a long long time ago had 4 cd's in it and the set contained: Master of Orion, Master of Magic, X-com Defender and X-com Terror. Now I tell you that was a classic set of great games if ever there was one and it was like $5.

4 CDs`? I�m surprised they don�t all fit on one. MoM and the X-COM games each came on floppy disks.

BTW, does everyone else here remember the glory days of getting a game on 6-8 floppy disks?

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 4/24/2010 9:16:15 PM

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.... MoM and the X-COM games each came on floppy disks.

BTW, does everyone else here remember the glory days of getting a game on 6-8 floppy disks?

I initially purchased Master of Magic on seven 3.5" floppies. Its CD version was later enclosed in the game box of another MicroProse title I purchased (I can't recall which one) as a promotional item. Apparently it had also been released on CD at some point, as the photo depicts in its description at TheLegacy.

Another MicroProse title I was very fond of is Darklands. It came on ten 3.5" floppies.

King's Quest V came on ten 5.25" floppies and King's Quest VI came on *gasp* eleven 5.25" floppies. Is it any wonder that Ken Williams was an early promoter of CDs?

Edit: Please note that the floppy disks mentioned above are of the High Density capacities of 1.2 and 1.44 megabytes each. The low density disks would have required several times as many per game.

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