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Working as a system administrator near Munich, Germany. Collector of retro games. Cartridges and floppy disks. NES, SNES, Game Boy, Amiga, IBM PC, ...

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dfx, to random German
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Anyone ever played "Megatron" back in the day? Massive 3D battle robots on MS-DOS! What more could a mortal want from life?

Oh well... I just uploaded the "Registered 7.0.0" floppy disk to archive.org. Have fun!

https://archive.org/details/megatron_de

#Retro #MSDOS #Floppy

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This is the demo intro of the original 1988 version of Maniac Mansion for IBM-PC, which was removed from any later releases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzgKiGLLCkM

dfx, to random German
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Well, here's something a bit different: I just added an old German audio cassette to archive.org. An audio adaptation of the Walt Disney movie "The Black Hole". One of my personal favourites from the 80s...

https://archive.org/details/das-schwarze-loch

#Retro #Disney #Casette #80s

dfx, to random German
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Preservation of old software and media is really important. It's urgent, too. Here's a floppy disk label from 1994. New, old stock. You can clearly see the paper and glue already decomposing. This will only get worse...

dfx, to random German
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No thinking about FPS, RTX or 4K. Just SimCity for Windows 3.1 using the medieval graphics theme... it just works!

#MSDOS #Win311 #SimCity #Retro

TCD, to random

The newest addition to the HOL manual collection is the English manual for SimAnt thanks to @dfx :) 188 pages of ant pun goodness for your reading pleasure right here: http://hol.abime.net/1927/manual
#Retrogaming #Amiga #MSDos #SimAnt

dfx,
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@TCD Looks really good for its compact file size! Good job! I will also keep your version in my archive. 🙂

TCD, to random

@dfx The ant puns in the English manual are great :D Too bad that they are missing for obvious reasons in the German version.

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@TCD Just out of curiousity... are you gonna put the English SimAnt manual on hol.abime.net or is anything wrong with my PDF?

dfx,
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@TCD Awesome... thanks for letting me know. I even uploaded only 300 dpi to archive.org. The 600 dpi version is over 1GB in size.

TCD, to random

@dfx Quick question about the SimAnt box you got from the US: Is there a Brøderbund sticker/print on it?

dfx,
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@TCD Yes, on the right side there's indeed a small Brøderbund sticker.

dfx, to random German
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Another late night scanning session for an old game's manual... it's a slow process, but it's honestly quite relaxing. About 180 pages for this one. #SimAnt #Manual

dfx,
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@jake4480 You can download the SimAnt manual and many other stuff from my Archive.org library.

https://archive.org/details/@dfxthomas

TCD, to random

Thanks to @dfx the German manual of SimAnt (176 pages!) is now available on HOL: https://hol.abime.net/1927/manual
#Retrogaming #Amiga #MSDos

dfx,
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@TCD Thanks for letting me know and ... "you're welcome" ... but just as a little bug report: You guys shrunk the PDF down from ~200MB to ~96MB. Whoever did this, somehow screwed up the dpi setting on several pages. Looks really annoying and does not happen on the original PDF.

dfx,
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@TCD Just fyi .. I just ordered an English version of SimAnt from eBay USA. As soon as it arrives, I will also scan the manual.

dfx,
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@TCD I just uploaded that SimAnt PDF manual to archive.org. It's from a US release for MS-DOS. I guess it will probably be the same for AMIGA. Have fun! 🙂

https://archive.org/details/simant_manual

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