Answer by Cuvtixo for Why weren't bootable game disks ever common on the IBM PC?
Firstly, it's not true. There were many bootable games for DOS. The most popular answer here names a bootable DOS game, then goes on to explain why they might not be as popular(?)Perhaps your question...
View ArticleAnswer by K9spud for Why weren't bootable game disks ever common on the IBM PC?
Floppy disks were extremely unreliable. As a consumer, if I knew a game would only be usable by booting from it's own floppy disk, I'd be immediately turned off on buying that game because I know that...
View ArticleAnswer by Geoff Griswald for Why weren't bootable game disks ever common on...
Your question is backwards, the Amiga and Atari ST were really the only computers that had mainly bootable games on floppy, pretty much every other disk-based PC required you to boot into the OS first,...
View ArticleAnswer by Synetech for Why weren't bootable game disks ever common on the IBM...
There were three primary reasons:Space - PC games were at an awkward juncture in time where both the OS and the games had grown but floppy disks had not, so there was often too little space on the disk...
View ArticleAnswer by supercat for Why weren't bootable game disks ever common on the IBM...
Games that were designed to be run from floppy were usually self-booting, and often could only be run by booting from floppy. In many cases, the game code could be stored in ways that would not be...
View ArticleAnswer by manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact for Why weren't bootable game disks...
The IBM PC was NOT a Game MachinePlenty of people played plenty of games on IBM & compatible computers. But the IBM PC was designed as a business machine, not a game machine.This is most obvious...
View ArticleAnswer by Justme for Why weren't bootable game disks ever common on the IBM PC?
Well there were some PC booter titles (MobyGames lists 249), but most of these were quite early games, even before hard drives, XMS or EMS even existed. These were almost always self contained single...
View ArticleAnswer by wizzwizz4 for Why weren't bootable game disks ever common on the...
I'd like to question the premise, here.I understand that games in such a scenario would have to include a minimalistic operating system, but I guess a carefully tuned Linux kernel along with drivers...
View ArticleAnswer by user for Why weren't bootable game disks ever common on the IBM PC?
Bootable game disks do exist for the IBM PC. Conflict in Vietnam is an example of such a game. As can be seen on page 8 of the manual, the game boots directly without loading DOS first.The main reason...
View ArticleWhy weren't bootable game disks ever common on the IBM PC?
While for other platforms of that era (primarily, Amiga), putting a game on a bootable disk was quite a normal practice, this approach never taken off on IBM PC. Why not?I do remember people having...
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