www.oldcomputers.co.za

Facbook group

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:35:25 +0200

I have added a face book group called old computers and games consoles in South Africa. If you collect or enjoy the items seen on this website please feel free to join the face book group.

Site updates

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:29:28 +0200

Just to let everyone out there know that the site updates have stopped, in case you had not noticed :-) ,as the website is being redesigned. Hopefully the new website will be up and running during the course of September... this year. All new items are currently being added to the updated website and a final migration of the existing data has also started.

Once again thanks for supporting and viewing the website.

Tim

Hopeville

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:31:27 +0200

During the later half of 2008 oldcomputers.co.za was approached to provide a number of old computers for a TV series called Hopeville. At total of 9 computers where on loan for the production.

IBM 5150 PC with 5153 monitor and 84 key keyboard

IBM PS/2 System 30 (the monitor does not belong to oldcomputers.co.za)

Many thanks to Karel Flint for the pictures taken on set.

Hopeville is due to start on the 24th of February 2009 on SABC2 at 19:30 so take a look and see if you can spot any other old computers from the site.

For more information on Hopeville goto http://www.curious.co.za/pages/news%20articles/2008/2008news7.html

Space Quest Classic Collection under Linux

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:45:07 +0200

Recently I purchased the Space Quest Classic Collection and decided to try and see which versions where supplied on the CD. I also wanted to play them using DosBox under Linux. Once I had mounted the CD I assumed that the files for the various Space Quest games were stored in data1.cab based on the size of the .cab file. To extract the contents install unshield, this can be done via apt on Ubuntu, and then run the following command:

unshield x data1.cab

This will extract several files and directories. The ones we are interested in are the files1 through files6 directories since these correspond to the Space Quest series. files1 is Space Quest 1 and so on. Use DosBox , also available via apt, and mount the directory containing the files1 to files7 directory. If you are unsure of how to do this check the DosBox help files. Hope this helps. Althought I have not tried I assume that the same would be true for the other Classic Collections, Leisure Suit Larry, Kings and Police Quest.