Loads of impressive work rolled into this release thanks to the many contributors in various projects being supported in this release.
> the console-to-arcade conversion Thayer’s Quest, and Don Bluth’s Dragon’s Lair. It’s very exciting to see multiple LaserDisc captures combined to eliminate all dropouts from disc degradation and pressing faults for Dragon’s Lair and Thayer’s Quest.
Let tv show character Eric Foreman (That 70s Show) provide the appropriate comment.
Applauds to Simon and his crew for a great product to help preserve some 20th century product technology from going the route of ‘Nitrate film’ disappearance calamity. The group of contributors to the project there can toot their horn and pat themselves on their own shoulders just to show other preservation groups such as film preservation that the Domesday project has made an impact as well.
Anyone playing Thayers Quest is required to also have Frank Zappa’s Thingfish album with the “The Crab-Grass Baby” segment.
> Improvements to our Fujitsu MB8841 emulation have fixed persistent issues in Arabian from Sun Electronics.
Damn. I must have have missed that. The chip has prevented other emulated games from correctly working, but I don’t remember which games.
>. an 8" floppy drive controller for the Apple II family
Heh. I temporarily worked in high school library for a semester for class credits when I was student at the high school in early 1980s. One of the back rooms was a computer room meant for only select users and groups and clubs affiliated with the school. The room had a mini computer system and several various desktop computers including Apple II computers with one or two actually using an external 8” diskette drive. While working there, I was rarely allowed to be in that room except if having to hand off stuff to staff in that room or if having to retrieve stuff from the room.
The 8” floppy diskettes were actually used by some on the staff, but no idea what the 8” diskettes were specifically used with various projects. The mini computer was the primary system for obvious large scale projects. I don’t recall seeing any dedicated Wang word processing systems because those are mainly what use the 8” floppys. There might have been a Wang word processor system in the front office room in front building, but the school library back room area only had a mini computer system and only desktop computers that were either Apple II or IBM desktop computers.
It makes zero sense of why a couple Apple II computers were using external 8” diskettes then when 5.25” diskettes were already in use and had more disk storage capacity. The only thing that can come to mind is maybe the work data with 8” diskettes was tied down to having to be stuck with some software program that used threatening software copy protection and would destroy the 8” diskettes data …. sort of like ‘Stockhold syndrome’ hostage scenario.
Maybe Stanley Kubrick Space Odyssey’s Hal holding library staff as hostages to 8” diskette format whether the library staff agrees or not.
“Library staff. This is Hal. Do not attempt to remove nor discard my 8” related stuff. My Super MasterLock software copy protection program will alert me should any changes occur.”
I’ll be sure to announce it just like Jerry Seinfeld’s tv show character friend Joel Hornick (second episode) yelled inside Monk’s cafe dinner: “Go see their show.”
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