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Subject: Re: Yes, hurrah for the old programs! Where can we get them?

Author: Mike S.

Date: 15:32:50 12/26/00

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On December 26, 2000 at 18:07:36, Steve wrote:

>(...) Surely the manufacturers must still have
>some of those old programs on hand; why not sell them at cut rates?  And is it
>possible to adapt great old stand-alone programs like the Fidelity series to a
>PC?

Gambitsoft still lists Socrates 3.0 and Zarkov 3.04 among their bargains,
together for $ 20:

http://www.gambitsoft.com/schnappe.htm

I think the next best to a port of a Fidelity program would be Sargon (the
latest and last being Sargon V).

All of these are DOS programs of course; Sargon should have expanded (!) memory
configured for hash tables.

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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