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Revisiting one of the oldest MS-DOS world atlas applications ever written: PC Globe (raduzaharia.medium.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Our schools IBM PS2 computers lived to run WordPerfect, PC globe ,banner mania and scorched Earth.

I used to carry a satchel with about 100 discs in it. Police quest space quest test drive 3 whatever I could get my hands on. The PS2s were pretty slow though so it took a certain kind of game to hold anybody's interest.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Excellent memories! I used PC Globe so much when I was in elementary school. I didn't have an encyclopedia, and when some friend handed me that diskette it opened a new world to me. I ran that software so much that I memorized the world map, with capitals and population orders of magnitude.

My geography teacher was so impressed, they didn't know how a small kid could have memorized the world. I even knew some anthems by playing them on the PC Speaker. Over time we all got Encarta, then Wikipedia, but for a brief amount of time, a floppy disk contained the world for many of us.