Disk 04

Appearance

This disk is a deep green, not a pastel like the blue, like a rich, true green. This is kind of an odd color for a disk, compred to many of the others. Many of them are much lighter in color but this one is really saturated.

This might be exagerated because there's no white to break it up. It's label was never applied, there's not any residue suggesting that it had a label at one time and lost it, it just never had one. Instead, someone elected to write on it in sharpie so long ago that it is now difficult to make out, but appears to say, "O (or A)'s Stuff (or swff, but probably stuff). That first letter might be a J, actually. This is either my brother Jack's, or my Uncle Al's.

Contents

It's Jack's! These are gamesfactory files! From way way back in the day. To open these I'll have to see if The Games Factory is still a thing, and download it if it is. It's weird to me that so many could fit on a floppy disk.

Alright, so The Games Factory is still a thing, and not only that, it's free to download from ClickTeam! That means that once this is downloaded and installed, we should be able to open and maybe even play these!

This is going to be a journey. Because this is not opening. So I'm going to install this .dll file and see if that does anything.

Ok so that got the launch screen to come up, but then it crashes right after instead of loading the program.

Cool.

I don't know how to fix this. It won't even load... I'm going to go back to the ClickTeam website and get their newest software and see if it'll load on that.

Nope.

Maybe it's having a hard time reading it off the floppy. It does sound like it's dying. Let me put it in a folder on the computer and run it from there and see if that does anything.

Ok so this is probably my issue right here. These are the only files that transferred; the computer told me the rest were corrupt. Let's go ahead and try to open these and see if it does anything.

It did literally nothing. It seems that, unfortunetly, I am at a standstill. Unless anyone has any suggestions, these files are unopenable, and have been lost to time forever.