Shareware allowed budding developers to distribute their games affordably and reach a wider audience through copying and distributing floppy disks. The "Apogee model" of releasing games for free and ...

Without a valid ‘Play’ disk containing the special track and CPC.COM executable all one is instead left with is a request by the game to ‘insert your ORIGINAL disk 1’. Sierra’s King ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

The "floppy" emerged in around 1970 – so named because you could bend the original disks without breaking them. For about three decades, they were the main way people stored and backed up ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...

The BASIC source code and images for the game were stored on a single ProDOS formatted, soft-sectored 5.25″ floppy ... on the disk, and having some bits and pieces of the original volume listing ...