Donating software?
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 3:26 pm
Hi,
Last year I had to clear out the house of an elderly relative - turns out he'd kept all my old Dragon 64 stuff from when I was little. (I didn't get it from new - my uncle was into computers and passed it on to me when it became obsolete).
I'd brought it back to our house, then realised we don't have a CRT screen to connect it to. Everything has been boxed up in a cupboard since then.
I haven't sorted through the hardware yet - from memory, there should be a disk drive, a light pen + software for it (I distinctly remember playing some sort of musical thing with it, and thought it was amazing that I could point the pen at the screen and make stuff happen as if by magic), disk drive, word processing software (Telewriter and Textstar), joystick and a bunch of random cables.
The box is all battered and there's a good chance the hardware no longer works. To be honest I doubt I could sell it for enough to even make it worthwhile sorting through it all, cleaning it up, taking pictures and putting it somewhere like ebay.
I was looking at the software spreadsheet and I have a few games that are listed in red or yellow. (I haven't finished sorting everything yet - just going through the first plastic box.) The titles are:
Cosmic Crusader (Blaby Computer Games)
Dungeon Raid (Microdeal / Tandy)
Moon Cresta (Incentive)
Backgammon (Microdeal)
Textstar (TSS)
And I have a word processor called Telewriter Dragon 32, which comes with a big ring binder of instructions, but I couldn't see that listed on the spreadsheet. The size and weight of the ring binder means posting it somewhere would probably cost a bit.
I have a few cartridges with games on but they're very dusty and battered (no boxes) and doubt they'll work.
Do you need these games donated? And would someone be able to cover the postage costs?
I have a few others (Wizard Wars, which was my favourite, Worlds of Flight) but they're all listed in green.
Last year I had to clear out the house of an elderly relative - turns out he'd kept all my old Dragon 64 stuff from when I was little. (I didn't get it from new - my uncle was into computers and passed it on to me when it became obsolete).
I'd brought it back to our house, then realised we don't have a CRT screen to connect it to. Everything has been boxed up in a cupboard since then.
I haven't sorted through the hardware yet - from memory, there should be a disk drive, a light pen + software for it (I distinctly remember playing some sort of musical thing with it, and thought it was amazing that I could point the pen at the screen and make stuff happen as if by magic), disk drive, word processing software (Telewriter and Textstar), joystick and a bunch of random cables.
The box is all battered and there's a good chance the hardware no longer works. To be honest I doubt I could sell it for enough to even make it worthwhile sorting through it all, cleaning it up, taking pictures and putting it somewhere like ebay.
I was looking at the software spreadsheet and I have a few games that are listed in red or yellow. (I haven't finished sorting everything yet - just going through the first plastic box.) The titles are:
Cosmic Crusader (Blaby Computer Games)
Dungeon Raid (Microdeal / Tandy)
Moon Cresta (Incentive)
Backgammon (Microdeal)
Textstar (TSS)
And I have a word processor called Telewriter Dragon 32, which comes with a big ring binder of instructions, but I couldn't see that listed on the spreadsheet. The size and weight of the ring binder means posting it somewhere would probably cost a bit.
I have a few cartridges with games on but they're very dusty and battered (no boxes) and doubt they'll work.
Do you need these games donated? And would someone be able to cover the postage costs?
I have a few others (Wizard Wars, which was my favourite, Worlds of Flight) but they're all listed in green.