Sep 1, 2017

Now You're Printing With Power!

Dust off that Tandy 1000, it is time to print with Mario and his friends (and enemies).
This program was available in 1991 from HI Tech Expressions. It is a Mario themed 
clip art program and comes on two 5.25 floppy disks. Sadly, I do not have a computer
that can run this program for the true experience, but was able to find a digital copy
from https://archive.org








































Instructions, graphics sheet and a quickstart guide are also included which I have not pictured here.

I was able to open it using DOSbox, found at:  https://www.dosbox.com.


I decided to try and make a banner, since that was the coolest in the early 90s. 






There are a surprising amount of tweaks that can be made.


































Was able to preview, but unable to print since I was running it virtually.
That may be a project for another day. 



Aug 7, 2017

1984 Quaker Oats Mr. T Cereal

Cereal box with art and characters from the Ruby Spears cartoon, in
which Mr. T, his gymnastic team, fan boy Spike and his dog Dozer drive
around in their bus and solve mysteries.
Premiums that came with the cereal included mini adventure 
books with red decoder lenses that allowed you to see scrambled
panels, and three different sets of stickers. (Two of three pictured.)
Below are scans of the adventure books, secret panels have been
adjusted with the latest technology so that they can be read.
 


Jul 25, 2017

E.T. Speaks, Fan Club Record, 1982

Pac-Man and The Ghost Diggers, Book and Record, 1983

Bonus points are awarded if you trace the mazes on the computer screen with your finger.