Nope. The overwhelmingly vast majority of them aren't really worth anything anyway.
Nope. The overwhelmingly vast majority of them aren't really worth anything anyway.
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Well, to be fair the same can be said about console games. I think the main reason that there isn't a guide is that there's just so many of them and probably no realistic way to document them all let alone price them all.
Just the same one that deals with console games too.
http://videogames.pricecharting.com/
It doesn't include all PC games but the more popular/valuable ones are included. Some games just don't turn up often enough to get a feel for pricing.
I suppose I'm a collector. I only buy games that I know I like because I grew up playing them or that I've done enough research that I think I will like it. Thinking about starting buying the King's Quest series. I'll need to find a 5 1/2" floppy drive though.
That would be a pretty safe assumption.
Yes they are internal but i forgot that one of the 2 has a broken board. The other is tested and working, I also have a few unopened boxes of blank floppies.
I've recently just started collecting old pc/dos games. My first PC growing up was a Compaq with a P1 133mhz and 16mb ram. I did a lot of gaming on that. I'm a huge fan of Sierra games and all the early Westwood Studios games as well. I honestly never owned any of the Lucas games until years later when DOS BOX came out.
I've heard my fair share of people complain about the PC collecting "scene" being weak. Look at it this way though, growing up..other than myself...I only knew 2 other people with a computer AND that gamed on it...but everyone my age had either an SNES or a Genesis at the time...so of course its going to be weak compared to the console collecting group.
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It'd be pretty cool to have a 5 1/4" disk drive again, I haven't had one in like fifteen years now, but do still have some 5 1/4" disks... I wonder if I'd be able to use on on the computers I have. I imagine there's little chance it'd work on my newer computer (running Vista), but what about my P4 WinME machine? I don't know how I'd find out whether it could run one or not.
It just depends on what O/S you're running. I doubt you'd be able to find drivers for anything MS that isn't a DOS shell.
I vaguely recall that XP does in fact have explicit support for 5.25" drives, but I can't quite recall. Failing that, there's always things like the Catweasel, Kryoflux, or FC5025.
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It does work as late as at least Windows 7 Beta 1
Edit: your bios may not support it check first
I thought for sure that, given the fact that we have USB turntables, someone out there would have invented a USB 5.25" drive. I guess not, though - I see people doing experiments on that sort of thing, but no commercially-available unit. I'm kind of surprised.
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They were obsolete before Windows 3.1 came out. 3.5 units were in use until Vista, due to the old F6 Driver Disk thing. More likely than not the read/write assembly is a bigger problem than the interface, someone would have to make new drives or find a consistent supply of old ones. The result is a price tag that we wouldn't pay and they couldn't sell.
...compared to a USB turntable which isn't much more complicated than a turntable needle connected to a USB microphone.
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