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- From: 93jay@williams.edu (Jonathan Young)
- Subject: Re: Essential 95LX programs
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.094235.12752@williams.edu>
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- Organization: Williams College, Williamstown, MA
- References: <mjohnson-201192110638@129.197.97.65> <20326@acorn.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:42:35 GMT
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- >mjohnson@force.decnet.lockheed.com (Mark E. Johnson) writes:
- >
- >>I love to try new programs on my PC, however, and I'm anxious to do the
- >>same with the palmtop. I've downloaded the index of files at eddie.mit.edu;
- >>which programs are the best, which should I try first? I already know about
- >>95Buddy, and nothing can stop me from trying the games. But what else? (Not
- >>Freyja, since I think Memo is sufficient.)
- >
- >95Buddy first and foremost. This provides what the 95 would otherwise be
- >missing. If your into games then the Chess by Andy Glaister is a must, but
- >its a bit heavy on the batteries, so an AC adaptor is wise.
-
- [stuff deleted]
- >
- >The other thing that is a definate, is a serial cable or a RAM card to make
- >backups, certain pd games can corrupt your RAM disc, so be careful. The Andy
- >Glaister ones seem to be safe, but I'm still trying to get hold of him to
- >see if he ever finished a system manager compliant version.
-
- He did, I beta tested a suite of games for him which he is now
- marketing through Sparcom. Chess, Checkers Backgammon and Space
- Invaders all are sysmgr compliant except Space Invaders (which is an
- excellent game and draws a crowd like those first laptops.. "You can
- plan space invaders on that thing! Let me try! You practically have to
- fight people off with a stick." Invaders does disable the light sleep
- mode so it drains batteries pretty quickly.
-
- These games are commercial but pretty cheap and should be listed in
- the EDUCalc catalog.
-
- My favorite Shareware game has to be Klondike. I play this for hours
- on airplanes till my fingers go numb. I believe that it is on
- eddie.mit.edu but failing that the author's address is
- Ed Greenberg
- POB 28618
- San Jose, CA 95159
-
- >
- >>-Mark Johnson
- >>mjohnson@force.decnet.lockheed.com
- >
- >Enjoy
- >
- >Andy
-
- Jonathan Young
- Williams College
-
-