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2. List of self-booting IBM PC compatible games - Wikipedia

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   The phrase "IBM PC compatible self-booting disk" is sometimes shortened to "PC booter". Self-booting disks were common for other computers as well. These games were distributed on 5 + 1 ⁄ 4 " or, later, 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 ", floppy disks that booted directly, meaning once they were inserted in the drive and the computer was turned on, a minimal ...

3. Tandy Graphics Adapter - Wikipedia

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   With built-in joystick ports, 16-color graphics and multichannel sound, the Tandy 1000 was considered the best platform for IBM PC-compatible games before the VGA era, and the combination of its graphics and sound became a de facto standard, "Tandy compatible". [1] 28 of 66 games that Computer Gaming World tested in 1989 supported Tandy ...

4. BPM: Bullets Per Minute - Wikipedia

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   BPM: Bullets Per Minute is a roguelike rhythmic first-person shooter developed and published by Awe Interactive. The game incorporates elements from rhythm games and roguelikes . It was released for Microsoft Windows in September 2020, for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in October 2021, and for Nintendo Switch in September 2022.

5. Self-booting disk - Wikipedia

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   Video games were the type of application most commonly distributed using this technique. The term "PC booter" is sometimes used in reference to self-booting software for IBM PC compatibles . On other systems, like the Apple II and Atari 8-bit computers , almost all software is self-booting.

6. Executive Suite (video game) - Wikipedia

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   Executive Suite is a text-based business simulation game published in 1982 as a self-booting disk for IBM PC compatibles.It was developed by Armonk Corporation, a small software development company based in Newport Beach, California, and was published under their "Gray Flannel Fun" label. [3]

7. Styx (Windmill game) - Wikipedia

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   Styx is a video game released by Windmill Software in 1983 as a copy-protected, bootable 5.25" floppy disk for the IBM PC/XT.It is a clone of the 1981 arcade game Qix.In September 2004 the source code of the game became available "for historical interest" (with other Windmill Software games such as Digger).

8. Lombardi Software - Wikipedia

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   Lombardi Software created business process management (BPM) software and was founded in 1998. It was acquired by IBM in 2010 when it had 220 employees. Phil Gilbert , its president, has played a key role in IBM's efforts to focus product development on design.

9. Montezuma's Revenge (video game) - Wikipedia

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   Montezuma's Revenge is a platform game for the Atari 8-bit computers, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Apple II, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, IBM PC (as a self-booting disk), and ZX Spectrum (as Panama Joe). It was designed and programmed by Robert Jaeger and published by Parker Brothers in 1984.