PC booter
Many older IBM PC-compatible computer games from the beginning to the end of the 1980s were so-called PC booter . Such games were delivered on a directly bootable 5.25 ″ floppy disk . This means that they were not started via the command line like normal programs , but after switching on the PC a boot process was carried out from the previously inserted floppy disk and the software was executed independently of the operating system actually installed on the computer. For this purpose, some games contained a variant of a common operating system such as PC DOS , while in others the operating system was firmly anchored and could not be started separately.
Reasons for using a PC booter were a comfortable start without further user action, reliability through uniform configuration and protection against changes.
Examples
- Alley Cat (1984, IBM )
- King's Quest (1984, Sierra On-Line )
- Winter Games (1986, Epyx )
- James Bond: Goldfinger (1986, Mindscape )