Last night I uploaded some more rescued Microzine disks

Microzine #23, #29, and #30 are now available. Right here.

Microzine #40 has read errors and I don't know whether I will be able to recover it. It depends on how many sectors are bad. (there may be duplicate files on each of the four sides)

Some more Microzine disks to save...

Out of this lot, 29, 30, and 34 are done, although I did get some trouble with 34, disk 2, side A. Trying to do a disk archive produced I/O errors so I tried to do a file archive instead (since not all of the disk will be used by files) and all the files copied over successfully *phew*. So I'd say there's a 95% chance that this disk was fully recovered since I think Scholastic gave up on copy protection once they switched to a ProDOS model.

UPDATE: Looks like all the drama about the bad sectors on disk 34 was for nothing because I just realized that Chip had already sent me Microzine 34 and I already successfully saved it. Oh well, it was still exciting seeing the files copy successfully :)

Seventeen Microzine games saved

Thanks to a few friends who have sent me 5.25" floppies in the mail, I have now recovered seventeen Microzine games. It's surprising how readable the floppies were considering they are 25 years old! Some of my personal favorites were Microzine #9 (the Big Nap) and Microzine #8 (Zazoo Come Home). I played these relentlessly when I was in 6th grade. Great memories.

The disk images are downloadable here.

You can play these using an Apple 2 emulator such as AppleWin or KEGS.

Microzine!

Back in the mid-80's, Scholastic software used to release software called Microzine that included a choose-your-own-adventure (aka Twistaplot) type game along with some other educational software for elementary school kids. I loved these games and I decided I wanted to play them again. Unfortunately, they were impossible to find on the internet... until now!



I have hooked up the old family Apple //gs and have begun extracting the images off of these old floppy disks so they can be enjoyed in modern emulators.