ScuzzBlog: Diaries October 2021
Entry 14th October 2021: ZORK I - 5.25" Give me a break.
ZORK I - 5.25" Give me a break.
I will keep this short and not so sweet. The year is 2021 and the
truth of the matter is that the Commodore 64 existed a very long
time ago. It may appear to some that in rejuvenating the older
kit you are going back in time, but quite seriously the age of
the discs cannot be reversed, even with 'Retrobriting'. Best you
can do is get newer versions recently created, or use some form
of emulation drive and disc.
And the point. Leave it out! It is not worth risking your drive
or your discs to keep using these older 5.25" discs. They are well
past their sell by date and should be stored somewhere safe and
kept for future generations to restore, when they have developed
more effective technology. Once the discs have been damaged it
just makes it harder to repair.
Most of these games are on the internet in one form or another.
I could go one step further and suggest the old 'breadbin' and
similar age kit should now be glass cased and mothballed. The
kit is just getting so old. In the future there are going to be
way better ways to restore these old machines without all the
hacking and scraping that goes on for the benefit of YouTube.
I broke my own rule today and played ZOOL-I. It was truly as bad
as I always remembered it to be. Time has moved on and although
there may be a fascination for older games, they really are not
that stimulating. Saving the disks and hardware is way more an
important challenge. So next time you see a 5.25" just say 'NO'.
One last thing and this relates to copied disks you may have.
These things are pretty lethal. They can not only render your
drive inoperable, but also knock out you alignment and make the
reading of other disks impossible. Never use an old copied disk
unless you have an effective disc head cleaner at your disposal.
Better still never use them. After all the years they will just
gunge up your read heads and create some real problems.
Here are a few of my 5.25" discs that I refuse to use now.
1351 Mouse Utility Disk
1942 [ copy ]
4 x 4 Offroad Racer [ copy ]
5th Gear+7/Ikari [ copy ]
6 Program Games Commodore 64 - Commodore
64'er Sponderheft Nr 57 - Markt&Technik
64'er Sponderheft Nr 60 - Markt&Technik
Advanced OCP Art Studio - Rainbird
Adventure Files [ copy ]
Apache Strike - Activision
Arctic Fox - Electronic Arts
Artist [ The ] Valueware - Frame It and Sprite Builder
Avalon I
Avalon II
Avalon III
Avalon IV
Avalon VIII
Avalon IX
BASIC 8 plus chip
Battle for Mormandy [ copy ]
Beach Head [ copy ]
BeeLine [ copy ]
Biathlon [ copy ]
Big KO [ the ] - Sharedata
Bobby Bearing [ copy ]
Boulderdash I [ copy ]
Boulderdash II [ copy ]
Boulderdash III [ copy ]
Buggy Boy [ copy ]
CADMaster [ copy ]
California Games [ copy ]
Captain Power - Box Office
CG Smith - PET Disk
Chips Challenge - Epyx
ChopLifter [ copy ]
Claw [ copy ]
Commodore 64 Assembly Language - Glentop
Commodore 128 Graphic Expander
Commodore 128 - The Very First
Commodore VIC-1541 Test/Demo
Commodore 1541 test/Demo
Commodore 1551/1541 Test/Demo Diskette
Commodore 1570 TEST/DEMO
Commodore 1571 TEST/DEMO
Commodore 1764 RAM Expansion Utility
Commodore 20131LP Test/Demo
Commodore model 1551 test/demo
commodore Spiele ZPM3v10 CP/M
Commodore Disk User - Vol 1 No 5
CP/M 128 System Disk Version 3.0
CP/M Archiver
CP/M Blue
CP/M Dbase
CP/M Fast
CP/M - Nu-118
CP/M Plus - Pascal
CP/M Wordstar
CP/M Zork
Death Sword - Epyx
Desktop [ KCS ]
Disk Revealed - Supersoft
Donkey Kong [ copy ]
Doodle
Doodlebug [ copy ]
Dragon [ the ] copy
easy Calc - Commodore 64
Easy File - Commodore 64
EasyScript - Commodore 64
Easy Spell - Commodore 64
Easy Stock - Commodore 64
Easy Writer
Elven Warrior - Softgold
E-Motion - US Gold
Expense Manager
F-15 Strike Eagle [ copy ]
Falcon patrol [ copy ]
Fight Night [ copy ]
Filer [ The ] Laing Marketing
Fist II - Future Games 64
Flight Simulator II [ copy ]
Flying Sh.++/Flt
Frantic Freddie - AudioGenic
Free Spirit Software - News Maker 128
Free Spirit Software - Sketch Pad 128
Free Spirit Software - Spectrum 128
Future Finance - Commodore 64
Future Games 64 - Uchi Mata
Gamma Force - Infocom
Garbage [ copy ]
Gauntlet [ copy ]
Ghostbusters [ copy ]
GemPaint [ KCS ]
GemStart System Boot Disk
GeoFile
geoMakeBoot - Creative Micro Designs
GEOS Desktop 1.5 for the Commodore 64C
GEOS Disk 1 and 2
GEOS Fonts Disk I
GEOS Fonts Disk II
GEOS Fonts Disk III
Get off my Garden - Interceptor Micros
Ghost 'n' Goblins [ copy ]
Gianna Sisters [ copy ]
Grand Prix [ copy ]
Green Beret [ copy ]
GW BASIC Interpreter3.2
Hook - Ocean
Hopper [ copy ]
House on a Disk - Activision
Instant Recall - Supersoft
Javelin [ copy ]
Judge Dredd [ copy ]
Kaiser [ copy ]
Karate 2 [ copy ]
Karnov -
Kings of the Beach - Electronic Arts
Kings of the Beach Disk 2 - Electronic Arts
Kings of the Beach Disk 3 - Electronic Arts
Kings of the Beach Disk 4 - Electronic Arts
Kings of the Beach Disk 5 - Electronic Arts
Lancelot - Datasoft
Last V8 [ the ] - Mastertronic
Little Computer People Project - Avtivision
Leader Board [ copy ]
Madness - Future Games 64
Magic Madness - Future Games 64
Mini Office II - Database Software
Maniac Mansion [ copy ]
Master Ninja - Paragon
Master Ninja Disk II - Paragon
Match Point [ copy ]
Max Mag
Mercenary [ copy ]
Meteors [ copy ]
Microsoft Multiplan
Mission Elevator - Future Games 64
Monopoly [ copy ]
MS DOS 2088-1060
MS-DOS Parrot Diskette
MS DOS 3.2 Systems Disk - Use with KCS in Drive A
Office Mate - Gemini Merketing
On Court Tennis - Gamestar
One on One - Electronic Arts
One on One Disk II - Electronic Arts
PC Tools [ KCS ]
Petspeed 64 - Systems Software
Petspeed 128 - Systems Software
Poster Painter
President Elect - Nelson Hernandez
Raid over Moscow [ copy ]
Rambo [ copy ]
Raw Recruit - Mastertronic
Rolling Demo
Risk - Leisure Genius
Robin [ copy ]
Santa Paravia - Keypunch
Scrabble [ copy ]
Skatecrazy - Mastertronic
Skyfox - Electronic Arts
Skyfox Disk II - Electronic Arts
Sky Shark - Taito
Sky Shark Disk II - Taito
Solo Flight - Future Games 64
Space Academy - Encore
Spaceman Sid [ copy ]
SpeedBoat Race - Future Games 64
Spiele [ copy ]
Sprite Aid
Spy vs Spy I [ copy ]
Spy vs Spy II [ copy ]
Starball - Rainbow Arts
StarQuake [ copy ]
Starship [ copy ]
Stein Der Weisen - Kingsoft
Street Surfer
Strip Poker [ copy ]
Suicide Voyage - Future Games 64
Summer Games [ copy ]
Summer Challenge - Thunder Mountain
Summer Challenge Disk II - Thunder Mountain
Super G-Mann - Fuss Trainer 3
Supermonitor
SX-64 - Test Demo
Tasword 64 - Tasman Software
Tetris - Mirrorsoft
Tiger Hell [ copy ]
Total Eclipse - Spotlight
Uridium [ copy ]
Very Big Cave Adventure [ copy ]
Victory Road - SNK Corp
Victory Road Disk II - SNK Corp
W A R - Future Games 64
Wheelin Wallie - Interceptor Micros
Wizball [ copy ]
Wolfenstein - 64'er Nr 61
World Cup Soccer - ShareData
Writer [ The ] - Spinnaker
Yie are Kung Fu [ copy ]
Zak me Kracker [ copy ]
Zaxxon [ copy ]
Zoids - Future Games 64
Zork 1 - Commodore C64625
ZORK I - 5.25" Give me a break.
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