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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙

I don't really know much about this particular sphere of the world, but if there's anybody who has a hyperfixation with educational software from the 1980s, it would be here on Mastodon.

Friend of mine is clearing out her parent's house and has found several old 5¼" floppy educational games for the Apple II. They've still got their original boxes, but have definitely been "loved".

I am always paranoid about lost media and software preservation... are these something anybody would... want? Is it worth trying to find people who are into this?

#RetroComputing #RetroGaming #AppleII #SoftwearPreservation

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Stewart Russell 9h ago

@thevhswizard this is 100% what @a2_4am does, and they are in this thread already.

@thevhswizard in case it wasn't clear, I'm the one with the hyperfixation on 1980s educational software for the Apple II. I've preserved thousands of them in the past decade+. The answer is that there is absolutely no way to tell if those exact versions have been preserved without digitizing them, deprotecting them, and comparing the deprotected disk images against previously preserved versions. Which I am offering to do.

The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙9h ago

@a2_4am Perfect, exactly what I was hoping to find. I was doing a little looking through your post history and you do indeed appear to be the perfect candidate.

And that's also why I love Mastodon, I just knew SOMEBODY on here had to be into this sort of thing.

They're still gathering them all up, but if you send me an address they're willing to ship them all out to you once they're done gathering everything up

@thevhswizard PM'd you!

EduCoder 4h ago

@a2_4am @thevhswizard you folks are f***ing magnificent!

gloriouscow 7h ago

@thevhswizard @a2_4am hit me up if you find any gibson light pens

gloriouscow 9h ago

i'm not into apple II stuff personally but I guarantee you weirdos like me will want that. maybe even very much

gloriouscow 9h ago

@thevhswizard posted a link to an apple II archival group

lets see if there's anything here that is some holy grail of lost apple software lol

Kranston 9h ago

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@JennyFluff Not sure about educational games, but I know preserving old floppy data is your thing…

@airtower @thevhswizard yeah I'd archive those floppies. But if you are not in Europe, please ship them to a more local archivist.

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Weekly Reader

Wow that snapped me back 30+ years…

Patrick Loftus 🖖

@thevhswizard I had a very large collection of Atari 800xl 5.25” disks with all sorts of educational software in the late 80s and 90s. Unfortunately they’d all demagnetized when I tried to get it running again in the early 2000s.

Mario is missing, a geography game, was on an early PC.

Someone will want these especially if the disks are readable.

sb arms & legs 7h ago

@thevhswizard
I had a raft of the #StickyBear games on my first PC - an Apple II clone!