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title: IBM PC Application Demos
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permalink: /apps/pcx86/
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IBM PC Application Demos
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Below are selected [PCx86](/docs/about/pcx86/) demos of classic IBM PC applications. In many cases,
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we've had to create our own "Demo Disks", because copies of the original distribution disks are difficult
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to find, and in some cases (e.g., [Executive Suite](1982/esuite/)), the original disks were copy-protected,
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so we've been forced to use a "cracked" copy of the software instead.
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### 1981
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* [DONKEY.BAS](1981/donkey/)
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* [VisiCalc](1981/visicalc/)
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### 1982
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* [Executive Suite](1982/esuite/)
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* [RatBas v2.13](1982/ratbas/)
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### 1983
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* [Adventures in Math v1.00](1983/adventmath/)
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* [SuperCalc2 v1.00](/disks/pcx86/apps/other/sc2/1.00/)
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* [SuperCalc3 v1.00](/disks/pcx86/apps/other/sc3/1.00/)
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### 1985
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* [Rogue](1985/rogue/)
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### 1987
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* [ThinkTank v2.14](1987/thinktank/)
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### 1992
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* [The Dungeons of Moria v5.5](1992/moria/)
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A list of all the software available to PCx86 machines can be found in the [IBM PC Disk Library](/disks/pcx86/).
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---
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### Creating IBM PC Application Demos
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Demos in our [Application Archives](/apps/) combine
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[Software Application Manifests](/apps/#software-application-manifests) with
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[Machine Configurations](/devices/pcx86/machine/).
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We'll use the [VisiCalc Demo](1981/visicalc/) as an example. First, we choose a machine configuration.
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For VisiCalc, we chose a Model 5150 machine with a Monochrome Display, and then inserted a link to that machine
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in the demo's [manifest](1981/visicalc/manifest.xml):
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```xml
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<machine href="/devices/pcx86/machine/5150/mda/64kb/machine.xml"/>
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```
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Next, the [manifest](1981/visicalc/manifest.xml) requires a disk image containing the VisiCalc program
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(VC.COM). We used the [DiskDump](/modules/diskdump/) module to create that disk image:
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cd apps/pcx86/1981/visicalc
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node ../../../../modules/diskdump/bin/diskdump --path="archive/VC.COM;../README.md" --format=json --output=disk.json --manifest
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The DiskDump command created a disk image named "disk.json" containing two files ("VC.COM" from the "archive"
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subdirectory, and "README.md" from the "archive" parent directory) and automatically added that disk image to the demo's
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[manifest](1981/visicalc/manifest.xml):
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```xml
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<disk id="disk01" size="163840" chs="40:1:8" dir="archive/" href="/apps/pcx86/1981/visicalc/disk.json" md5="61494f998d5fb0e31e7b8bd99f1cc588" md5json="3ad82ed815725e6bd786f92a4714e84f">
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<file size="27520" time="1981-12-16 23:00:00" attr="0x20" md5="28997dfedb2440c6054d8be835be8634">VC.COM</file>
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<file dir="../">README.md</file>
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</disk>
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```
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Now that the manifest contains a disk image, we were able to add the manifest to our set of
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[Sample Disks](/disks/pcx86/samples.xml):
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```xml
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<manifest ref="/apps/pcx86/1981/visicalc/manifest.xml" disk="*"/>
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```
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Next, we started a version of our chosen machine that's also configured to use the Debugger, by loading
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the following **machine.xml** into a web browser (it's assumed the Node web server is already running on port 8088):
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http://localhost:8088/devices/pcx86/machine/5150/mda/64kb/debugger/machine.xml
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Then we booted DOS, loaded the VisiCalc disk, ran VisiCalc, pressed the Debugger's "Halt" button, pressed "Clear" to
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clear the Debugger's output window, and typed the following Debugger command:
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d state
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We copied-and-pasted the entire contents of the Debugger's output window into a file named "state.json", and then
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updated the <machine> entry in the [manifest](1981/visicalc/manifest.xml):
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```xml
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<machine href="/devices/pcx86/machine/5150/mda/64kb/machine.xml" state="/apps/pcx86/1981/visicalc/state.json"/>
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```
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It's important to use a state file *only* with the machine configuration it was created with; in this case, we're OK,
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because the only difference between the two chosen Model 5150 machines is the addition of the Debugger.
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