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Saw that you've been looking for this for a few years, so I decided to take a crack at it. I was able to get it working. I obtained disk images for SideKick pl
by jhomedall 6y ago
Saw that you've been looking for this for a few years, so I decided to take a crack at it. I was able to get it working.
I obtained disk images for SideKick plus from https://winworldpc.com/product/sidekick/plus https://winworldpc.com/product/sidekick/plus. Using 86Box as an emulator (Window-only, unfortunately. PCem or DosBox might work OK as Windows alternatives), I then:
1. Installed MS-DOS
2. Installed SideKick Plus
3. Ran 'install' from 'c:\skplus'
4. Added a new configuration with Vogon Poetry enabled. Called it 'skplus2.com'.
5. Ran 'skplus2.com'
6. Hit ctrl-alt
7. Selected 'Vogon Poetry'
I've put together an preconfigured 86Box installation that you can just unzip and run. To actually start the game, run 86Box.exe, then 'cd c:\skplus', then 'skplus2' (note the '2'). Then press ctrl-alt once or twice.
Video demonstration: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AvBLRLPXTc9ihVPL0VMtzexUmw8k?e=cVtKxj https://1drv.ms/v/s!AvBLRLPXTc9ihVPL0VMtzexUmw8k?e=cVtKxj
Preconfigured 86Box installation: https://jmn.link/sidekick-vogon-poetry.zip https://jmn.link/sidekick-vogon-poetry.zip
- SeanDav 6y agoAwesome! Thanks so much for this! I will take a look just as soon as I can.
- Hallucinaut 6y agoThis is really excellent, what a nice thing to do. Also interesting for others of us; I'd not heard of 86box before