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 they have not started like normal programs on the command line, but after switching of the PC can boot from the previously inserted disk conducted and executed the software regardless of the actually installed on the computer operating system. Some games allowed for this a variant of an ordinary operating system such as PC -DOS, but in others the operating system was firmly established, and not launch separately.

Reasons for using a PC booter were a smooth start without further user action, reliability through standardized configuration and protection against changes.

Examples

  • Alley Cat (1984, IBM)
  • King's Quest (1984, Sierra On-Line)
  • Winter Games (1986, Epyx )
Booting Alley Cat (video game)
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