Software Imperative PCW titles (Flipper, Rocket, ForeWord)

[JTN]

I remember all Software Imperative's programs looking very slick in reviews of the time, but I never got my hands on any of them. I don't see much discussion of them since, and I haven't come across any of them in the online archives yet. Any love for them?

   
• Flipper reviews: original version, Flipper 2, Flipper 3
• ForeWord review: 8000 Plus #48, Sep 1990, p12
• Rocket review: PCW Plus #64 Jan 1992, p10 (oddly, none of the later issues seem conveniently available online, but here's a cover)
• Flipper 3 / ForeWord ad

I see Flipper 3 listed on the PCW Wiki, so I guess it may be queued in their magnificent collection and may show up at some point?

My local computer museum apparently has the physical discs of Flipper 3 and ForeWord.

(This appears to be what the author, Andy Wilton, is up to these days.)

[JohnElliott]

I've got what looks like a copy of Flipper 3, though I don't know how complete it is. It seems to consist of a collection of files:

The files are:

   
• FLIP3.SYS
• FWMATRIX.SYS
• NEWFWOS.SYS
• README.ASC
• README.LOC

plus what I suspect are dumps of the boot tracks from two disk images:

   
• FLIPBOOT.8
• FLIPBOOT.9

[jevicac]

Hi JTN, we have several versions of flipper. The problem is that some version needs a CF2DD drive to get its dsk image, but the drive fails on the PC. As soon as we can verify the bug and make the dsk images, we will upload them to the PCWwiki. Cheers

[pollito]

Hi JTN, we have several versions of flipper. The problem is that some version needs a CF2DD drive to get its dsk image, but the drive fails on the PC. As soon as we can verify the bug and make the dsk images, we will upload them to the PCWwiki. Cheers

I know this is an old thread, but I am just wondering if any progress has been made on this? I would love to try Flipper out on my PCWs.

[jevicac]

Good evening, I have been away from PCW for a while, my scanner broke and I have not been able to do anything else because of work.

[pollito]

Good evening, I have been away from PCW for a while, my scanner broke and I have not been able to do anything else because of work.

I appreciate that properly archiving software takes a lot of time (and that it isn't possible without a scanner!), but please would you made the Flipper DSK images available somewhere when you have time?