Mike's PCjr Page

I wasn't too sure about asking for something that may or may not be abandonware. Question: Why am I able to boot King's Quest and play it all day long, yet the other games I am unable to? I'm not a complete computer idiot despite my questions, but I was never a programmer so I have loads to learn. ...

I wanted to extend my thanks to everyone for their help, most especially Makeit2day. I received his DOS 2.1 disks this last weekend (As well as the DOS 3.3 I bought on ebay) and I've been playing Ultima 1 2 and 3 all weekend. I am very, very appreciative. I've also tried Bureaucracy, but it will not...

eBay is a good place to start, but you miss the point of having a PCjr specific forum - I'm sure that somebody here will volunteer to send you what you need. I've done it in the past before. If nobody steps forward then I'll do it, but I'm awfully busy lately so it's not going to be instantaneous. ...

Thank you guys so much for the help. I have been in touch with makeit2day and that member is actually sending me some floppies with what I (think) I need. On a separate note, I purchased a boatload of 5.25 floppies off of ebay last year for my C64. I'm not sure if they are compatible with the PCjr, ...

Now that I've looked for 3.3, I've found a few, but they are all fairly expensive. $25 for used floppies? And if they don't work, I'm stuck with them? Yuck!

Any IBM PC DOS 2.1 to DOS 3.3 will boot and run fine on the PCjr. PC DOS 5 can be patched to run, but it requires at least 256K. In the short term have somebody mail you some diskettes. Not just to boot with but also with some basic utilities on them, like a serial communications program, diskette ...

I recently bought a slew of older games locally and at least 3 of them, Ultima 1 through 3, will run on my PCJr. I do not, however, have a DOS boot disk to do this. Is there a way around booting from DOS or am I stuck? I cannot, for the life of me, find anyone with DOS 2.0 or 3.3, much less anyone w...

Although this is technically my second post, I'd still like to say hello. I find myself on these message boards quite often for the obscure and old things in life. This is no exception. I purchased my PCjr at a yard sale last summer while in the midst of a nostalgic period. My very first computer ex...