[Gllug] vmware

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On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Rob Andrews gibbered:
> [Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:50:24PM +0100] Richard Cohen whispered thus:
>  > > Got it, and 2 & 3 ROMs. Much fun, but the native PC version was quite
>  > > fluffy. And came with Rainbow Islands (mind you, there's ROMs for that too).
>  > Assuming you're talking about a 'first generation' Bubble Bobble for the PC,
>  > and not a more recent 're-release', I'd be pretty suprised if you couldn't
>  > find it on an abandonware site somewhere, and run it under DOSemu.
> 
> It was a reworking, yes. IIRC, Bubble Bobble was a 1986 game, and hence a PC
> edition would most likely either be CGA or EGA.

On the `ancient games' front, I'm wondering if there's a Linux port of
Ian Bell's `Free Fall' for the BBC. I couldn't find one on his homepage
last I checked, except in Horizon format (which isn't very useful given
that as far as I know no BBC emulator for Linux can read that; am I
wrong?)

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