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Revision as of 21:10, 8 October 2024
| PC Booter | |
| Developer | Various |
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| Publisher | Various |
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| Platforms | x86 |
| Released | 1981-present |
| Added to Museum |
See PC Booter category |
PC Booter is the common term for video games for IBM PC compatible computers that run on self-booting disks with custom operating systems rather than on the DOS variants by IBM, Digital Research, or Microsoft that were common on this platform.
These were typically used as a type of copy protection, and were available commercially from 1981 to 1991, after which the format became obsolete as games became larger.
Freeware games were released after the commercial use of the format, and developers of freeware continue to release PC Booter games to this day.
Use of the term
The term PC Booter refers specifically to games on IBM PC compatible computers, however other systems had games on self-booting disks as well.
PC Booter video games
Categories:
- Computers and consoles
- Computers and consoles designed by Magnavox
- Computers and consoles designed by Philips
- Computers and consoles designed in the United States of America
- Computers and consoles manufactured by Magnavox
- Computers and consoles manufactured by Philips
- Computers and consoles released in 1978
- Computers and consoles released in 1982
- Computers and consoles released in 1983
- Second-generation video game consoles