From 2f50329cc273f9e270ecbe967335d4ffff170558 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Parsons Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 15:14:11 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Adventures in Math blog post --- _posts/2017-06-15-adventures-in-archiving.md | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/_posts/2017-06-15-adventures-in-archiving.md b/_posts/2017-06-15-adventures-in-archiving.md index 82cb88d90..b7a822974 100644 --- a/_posts/2017-06-15-adventures-in-archiving.md +++ b/_posts/2017-06-15-adventures-in-archiving.md @@ -4,15 +4,16 @@ title: Adventures in Archiving date: 2017-06-15 22:00:00 permalink: /blog/2017/06/15/ machines: - - id: ibm5150 + - id: ibm5150-adventmath type: pcx86 config: /devices/pcx86/machine/5150/cga/64kb/machine.xml + resume: 1 autoMount: A: path: /disks/pcx86/dos/ibm/1.00/PCDOS100.json B: path: /apps/pcx86/1983/adventmath/ADVENTMATH100.json - autoType: 8-10-81\rb:\ra:basica castle\r + autoType: $date\rB:\rA:BASICA CASTLE\r --- In October 1983, IBM released a game called "Adventures in Math", which apparently tried to make mathematics as @@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ fact, I invite you to play it in BOTH places, and let me know what you think. A word of warning: this is NOT a great game. I find it interesting only as an example of the challenges we face archiving and emulating old software. -{% include machine.html id="ibm5150" %} +{% include machine.html id="ibm5150-adventmath" %} Hosting the software on the PCjs website was more tedious than I'd expected, but that wasn't due to technical issues. The biggest challenge was isolating and recreating the original distribution software. You can find all the gory