Early PC software, forked to 'Early PC Games'

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On Sat, 7 May 2005, Tony Duell wrote:

> I haev (somewhere) the same Microsoft Adventure (and so-labelled) for the
> TRS-80 moduel 1. It's a self-booting disk, with strange sector numbers so
> it's so-say copy protected. Hmm...

I have Adventure for a bunch of different platforms: Apple ][, TRS-80,
Commodore, PC, etc.

I like to brag about my original copy of Zork I on 8" for CP/M ;)

> I also rememeber a Microsoft Decathlon game for the Model 1. I have no
> idea if it was ever availble on the PC. It was great for ruining
> keyboards, though (for the 'running' events, you had to press 1 and 2
> alternately as quickly as possible...) I don't think I ever had that one,
> though, just saw it.

I used to love playing that on the APple ][.  Definitely was a keyboard
and joystick killer.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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