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Friendlyware was a collboration with IBM to provide a software bundle to make the IBM PC a much more useful tool, and to illustrate to PC buyers what this machine was capable of.

This set includes interesting information on computers in general, and on the IBM PC in specific. Then there is a collection of basic computer games that are adaptations of simple tabletop games and puzzle games popular in the day.

Finally, there is also a section on business tools that are also quite interesting.

Ah, I did figure out how to launch you draw it. You have to set it to both c: and hard drive, and then it works, and in a similar vein the sports teams predictor also needs to be set to c: and hard drive.

I guess this is because I am setting dosbox to mount the current directory as c:

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:55 GW-BASIC Install for sound
03:00 Friendlyware Review