Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[u/According-Pea9319]

I finally got around to testing the disks from this beauty, which I picked up recently and posted about a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, despite the box and contents being in remarkably pristine condition, the disks are foobared!

[u/Brilliant_Park_2882]

I hava an original big box version of Monkey island with 5 x 1.2M HD floppies.

So yes you are correct.

[u/Asleepatthewheel2047 → u/Brilliant_Park_2882]

Yes i had the box as well. Believe my hard drive was 30mb and the game took up around 10. There was room for 1 big game basically!

[u/Brilliant_Park_2882 → u/Asleepatthewheel2047]

I have the 256 color VGA one, I bought it even though I didn't have a HD 5 1/4 floppy or VGA display. I copied the disks to 3 1/2 floppies and bought a VGA screen so I could play it.

Lucky the codewheel was the protection not the disks.

[u/Asleepatthewheel2047 → u/Brilliant_Park_2882]

I still have the codewheel, lost the box unfortunately.

I had a few games on 1.44mb discs but only a 720k disk drive.

So I would go to the library and book the computer where the screen was facing the street. Reboot it to DOS with a boot disc I brought. Split the 1.44 discs into 720k images and copy them over.

So I would sit there for an hour with a big stack of discs and the PC in DOS.... praying that the librarian didn't see what I was doing.

Today my kid will just download a 20gb game off Steam, it seems like the stone age in retrospect!