Jeopardy Deluxe Edition from 1994...

[Kevin Prather]

Perhaps you're right.

Although if I could get a copy of the game through other means, perhaps email or something, could I put it on floppy discs and transfer it to my Tandy 1000 to play? Or does it need Windows to run?

[OntarioQuizzer]

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Mar 5 2005, 02:34 PM\']I wonder if Ken Jennings had any J! computer games when he was younger, did what you did and thought "Gee...if I ever get on the actual show, I could do this...."

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The Jennings clan did one better.

Ken, his father, and his brother Nathan, at one point,  actually *programmed* their own Jeopardy game...

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 03:30 PM\']Perhaps you're right.

Although if I could get a copy of the game through other means, perhaps email or something, could I put it on floppy discs and transfer it to my Tandy 1000 to play? Or does it need Windows to run?

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You didn't read a damned word I said.

[Kevin Prather]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 03:41 PM\'][quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 03:30 PM\']Perhaps you're right.

Although if I could get a copy of the game through other means, perhaps email or something, could I put it on floppy discs and transfer it to my Tandy 1000 to play? Or does it need Windows to run?

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You didn't read a damned word I said.

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I sure did. You said I will fail if I try to download the game through Telnet, and if I eventually do get the game, I will fail if I try to run the game on this computer. Unless you can prove that I misread your post, my question stands. I'll read it a few more times to make sure, but I'm pretty sure I understood every word you said.

[dzinkin]

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 09:01 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 03:41 PM\']You didn't read a damned word I said.

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I sure did. You said I will fail if I try to download the game through Telnet, and if I eventually do get the game, I will fail if I try to run the game on this computer. Unless you can prove that I misread your post, my question stands.

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I quote from Chris's post (emphasis mine):

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 02:44 AM\']Unless you are willing to dig up a full-blown terminal program that supports both Telnet AND the aforementioned file transfer protocols (as opposed to FTP), figure out to use it, and then find a copy of Windows 3.1 to stage a box with so you can run the damn thing once you get it, I will humbly suggest that this little operation is well out of your league.

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You then asked in the post immediately following his:

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 6 2005, 05:30 PM\']Or does it need Windows to run?

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So yes, you misread his post.

[Kevin Prather]

Ah, I missed that. Thank you, David.

Actually, I didn't miss it. I just questioned it because the previous Sharedata Jeopardy's didn't require Windows. At 1994, I thought perhaps it wouldn't be necessary. I'm probably wrong about that.

[pyl85]

There are plenty of emulators out there that can create a DOS/Windows 3x environment that old programs will happily run in. Check out DOS-box. I don't think they provide an OS, though. Something like DR-DOS or another M$-DOS compatible system should get you going. You can probably find old copies of Windows 3x on the net if you look hard enough. O, if you can dig out an old Windows 95/98 CD and install it on this "virtual machine" it might work. I don't think I had any problems with Win 3x program compatibilty in Win 9x. Also, IRC is amazing for finding old stuff.

What made this version so "deluxe" in the first place? I got the 1993 DOS version (I think it had a blue box) for my birthday, and the screenshots looked the same as the deluxe version (red box?) that appeared a year later. Actually, was the only difference the ability to support modem play? I didn't have a modem then, so I didn't care ;-)

-Greg