Old Gamer Rediscovers Bard's Tale

I'm a hoarder here... I discovered that I still have 3 5.25" floppies with the original Bard's Tale on it. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, I have it on three different hard drives, why do I need it on floppies?

I spent the night putting all of my game CDs in a binder, discarding old CD cases, and making sure I have copies of all of my activation codes. The lone exception is my new copy of Sacred Gold, which I have in with my game documentation bucket. (See, for a while, I was buying cat litter in huge plastic buckets... these buckets work good for storage.) Pat and I might have to infect introduce someone to that game. I also copied all of my old 3.5 floppies to hard drive... just in case, you know, I need a copy of MS-DOS 6.22, or Windows 3.1 again.

(I might. Bard's Tale sucks if you have a mouse. You can't type the spell codes in, and if your mages have a lot of spells - and they're supposed to! - it takes forever to scroll to the right one. And on Virtual PC, I can probably load up a DOS box without any problems. And may I mention that it can be a bad idea for a gamer/packrat to go through his collection?)

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