Trixter's Abandonware -- Example Listing

Here's some sample entries (these entries are not part of my official lists, just examples):

Trixter's _Example Abandonware List
Title	Graphics	Sound	Cracked?	Boots?	Runs on:	Comments
California Games	c,e,t,h	p	y	n	all	Has special "more-color" mode if you have a 4.77 MHz cpu and a CGA card
Thexder	c,e,t	p,t	?	n	all	The EGA support uses 640x200x16 if you have 256K on your EGA card. Looks very nice; emulates about 64 different colors.
Defender of the Crown	c,e,t	p,t	y	y	8086,286
Test Drive	c,e,t	p	y	n	all
Pitstop II	c	p	y	y	8086	Copied off the original diskette; rare

More info than you expected, huh? Here's the legend, which explains everything:

Title -- The title (duh). If this is a link, then click/select the link to retrieve the file.
Graphics -- Graphics modes guaranteed to be supported; for example, if a game is listed as supporting cga and ega, then you'll get pictures with up to 4 colors in CGA, and up to 16 colors in EGA.

c = CGA
C = CGA composite/TV output (160x200x16 colors on standard CGA card); many Tandy computers have this
e = EGA
h = HGA (Hercules monochrome graphics (720x348x2 for those who don't remember)
t = TGA (Tandy/PCjr graphics; usually means 160x200x16 or 320x200x16)
v = VGA (Also includes MCGA games, and games that use a custom VGA palette in 16-color mode)
X = undefinable, rare, or tweaked mode; for example, the 160x100x16 graphics in Round 42, or the AT&T PC 6300 640x400 mode support in The Colony

p = Internal PC speaker (included with all PCs--duh ;-)
P = Enhanced Internal PC speaker (multi-channel music or digitized sound; no additional hardware needed)
a = Adlib (and Sound Blaster) FM music/sound
A = Quality Adlib music; a real treat if you have an Adlib or Sound Blaster
s = Sound Blaster digitzed sound support
t = Tandy/PCjr internal 3-voice sound chip
X = Other misc. sound support, like the Roland MT-32, gmidi, generic mpu401, Covox Speech thing, CMS Game Blaster, etc., etc...

y = Yes (or was never copy-protected in the first place)
n = No; you'll have to try to crack it yourself or find a crack/patch somewhere
? = Either 1. I can't remember, or 2. It's an odd disk format that diskcopy can't duplicate, but teledisk might be able to, or 3. It's protected, but works anyway (?) or some other oddity. Use at own risk.

Boots? -- Is the game self-booting and/or on a bootable disk? If so, you'll need to make sure you can boot off the 5.25" drive. (And remember, dir a: on a bootable disk is supposed to give you an error. ;-)
Runs on: -- This is a speed rating; denotes the CPU(s) the game was designed to run on. If there's a + in the list (for example, "286+"), then that means the game will run fine on that CPU and higher. If it was designed for an 8086 and you have a Pentium, make sure you slow down your computer somehow... slowdown utilities are in my Utilities List.

8086 = a 4.77 MHz 8088 (original IBM PC) or 7.16 MHz 8086 or NEC V20
286 = 80286 or NEC V30
386, 486, 586, etc.
all = runs fine on all machines (rare for really old action/arcade games, but some do exist)

Comments -- A description of the game, or any additional comments that I feel are relevant
Extras -- Additional things related to the game--the original contents of the box, manual, screenshots, etc., etc

This site framework document (/abandonware/example_list.shtml) is part of Trixter's Abandonware. Comments? Email me.