Old 5.25" floppy disks can they still be read?

[Archman]

Just a quick question regarding some old 5.25" floppy disks I found doing some Spring Cleaning. They have got some good old games on them, like Bruce Lee, Choplifter, and Load Runner... now these were off of an Apple Computer that a friend made copies for me of when I was a little kid.

Is there anyway to get the games off and onto a PC now a days?

Can I find something to read the 5.25" floppy disks?

I really really loved Load Runner, that was the coolest game when I was 7

thanks people

 

[Demo24]

find an old apple

 

[montag451]

BUT beware that once you do spend 100 hours trying to find out how to get your games off, and spend $100 doing it, then, you'll get home with this pristine disk of data, load it up, and......................................


What da feck is that block doing chasing the other block?
Where are the graphics?
I remember choplifter, but, i managed to find some old games I used to play, and for 5 seconds it was very funny. Then they got deleted.

 

[Ze Mad Doktor]

I'm sure you could find a 5.25 drive on ebay dirt cheap. Then you will probably have to use a DOS emulator like DOSbox or something to get them running.

On the old games sucking thing that is only partly true. I recently found a copy of Betrayal at Krondor and am on the second to last chapter now despite the graphics. What it lacks there it makes up for in depth. I also have begun playing Star Control 2 which is a pretty good one too. I guess these games are newer than 5.25 though. They were probably 3.5inchers hehe

 

[Ze Mad Doktor]

Oh and the 5.25 drive should hook up to your floppy cable just fine.

 

[ShadowBlade]

some of them require an interface similar to a very small pci bus which connects to a normal atapi connection
ill mail you one for free if the drive you find needs one and doesnt have one

 

[Zepper]

I think there was a utility for reading Apple disks on PCs (probably a DOS utility so you'll need to run it from a DOS session or boot from a DOS diskette - may be a Win util out there ). And of course you'll need a 5.25" floppy drive and a cable adapter or an old cable made to use both types of drives (5" drives used an edge-card connector unless you got a very late one).

. Of course it depends on how they were stored. If not protected from humidity, fungus can grow of them and the data will be gone...

.bh.