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Big Blue Disk was a monthly disk magazine
Disk magazine

A disk magazine, colloquially known as a diskmag, and also known by the portmanteau magazette , is a magazine that is distributed in electronics form to be read using computers....
 that was published by Softdisk Publishing
Softdisk

Softdisk is a computer program and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Founded in 1981, its original products were disk magazines ....
 starting in 1986, getting its name from the nickname for IBM
IBM

International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" , is a multinational corporation computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, New York, United States....
, "Big Blue". It carried various games and applications for DOS
DOS

DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is a shorthand term for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me....
 as well as reviews and various extras. Some of them were freeware
Freeware

Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee. Freeware is different from shareware; the latter obliges the user to pay ....
 or shareware
Shareware

The term shareware, popularized by Bob Wallace, refers to copyrighted commercial software that is distributed without payment on a trial basis and is limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience....
, or demo versions of commercial programs, but other material was original to the disk magazine. When it began, it was published on 5 1/4" floppy diskettes, but it was later published on 3 1/2" disks and CD-ROM
CD-ROM

CD-ROM is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains Computer data storage accessible to, but not writable by, a computer. While the Compact Disc format was originally designed for music storage and playback, the 1985 Yellow Book standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of Binary file....
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Big Blue Disk was a monthly disk magazine
Disk magazine

A disk magazine, colloquially known as a diskmag, and also known by the portmanteau magazette , is a magazine that is distributed in electronics form to be read using computers....
 that was published by Softdisk Publishing
Softdisk

Softdisk is a computer program and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Founded in 1981, its original products were disk magazines ....
 starting in 1986, getting its name from the nickname for IBM
IBM

International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" , is a multinational corporation computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, New York, United States....
, "Big Blue". It carried various games and applications for DOS
DOS

DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is a shorthand term for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me....
 as well as reviews and various extras. Some of them were freeware
Freeware

Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee. Freeware is different from shareware; the latter obliges the user to pay ....
 or shareware
Shareware

The term shareware, popularized by Bob Wallace, refers to copyrighted commercial software that is distributed without payment on a trial basis and is limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience....
, or demo versions of commercial programs, but other material was original to the disk magazine. When it began, it was published on 5 1/4" floppy diskettes, but it was later published on 3 1/2" disks and CD-ROM
CD-ROM

CD-ROM is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains Computer data storage accessible to, but not writable by, a computer. While the Compact Disc format was originally designed for music storage and playback, the 1985 Yellow Book standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of Binary file....
s. Sometimes, but not always, the disks were actually blue as the title implied. Notably, it carried some games from Apogee, including Kingdom of Kroz
Kingdom of Kroz

The Kroz series is a series of video games created by Scott Miller . The first episode in the series, Kingdom of Kroz, was released in 1987 as Apogee Software's first game....
 and its sequels. It was later changed to On Disk Monthly in 1991 and then again renamed to Softdisk PC before ceasing publication in the mid-1990s. Softdisk for Windows was a spinoff publication for the Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces ....
 operating system which outlasted it by several years. Other short-lived spinoff publications included the business-oriented PC BusinessDisk and the recreational Gamer's Edge, the latter of which had on its original staff the people who soon founded id Software
Id Software

id Software is an American video game developer from Mesquite, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: game programmer John D....
. There was also briefly a separate version for users with CGA
Color Graphics Adapter

The Color Graphics Adapter , originally also called the Color/Graphics Adapter or IBM Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter, introduced in 1981, was International Business Machines's first color graphics card, and the first color computer display standard for the IBM PC....
 and EGA
Enhanced Graphics Adapter

The Enhanced Graphics Adapter is the IBM PC computer display standard specification located between Color Graphics Adapter and Video Graphics Array in terms of color and space resolution....
 graphics adapters, when the main publication (formerly compatible with CGA and even text-only MDA
Monochrome Display Adapter

The Monochrome Display Adapter introduced in 1981 was International Business Machines's standard video display card and computer display standard for the IBM PC....
 monochrome systems) moved to a graphical interface that required VGA graphics.

Publishing rights in some countries were licensed by Softdisk to other companies, which released adapted versions including PC Disk Downunder in Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 and New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
, and El Usuario in Latin America
Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken....
.

Games

  • Battleship
  • Castle of Kroz
    Kingdom of Kroz

    The Kroz series is a series of video games created by Scott Miller . The first episode in the series, Kingdom of Kroz, was released in 1987 as Apogee Software's first game....
  • Catacomb
  • Caverns of Kroz
    Kingdom of Kroz

    The Kroz series is a series of video games created by Scott Miller . The first episode in the series, Kingdom of Kroz, was released in 1987 as Apogee Software's first game....
  • Chagunitzu
    Chagunitzu

    Chagunitzu is a tile-based game, Color Graphics Adapter/Enhanced Graphics Adapter computer and video games created by Keith Schuler and published by Softdisk in June, 1990 on Big Blue Disk #44....
  • Color War
  • Conflagration
  • Dark Designs
  • Dark Designs II
  • Dinosorceror
  • Dungeons of Kroz
    Kingdom of Kroz

    The Kroz series is a series of video games created by Scott Miller . The first episode in the series, Kingdom of Kroz, was released in 1987 as Apogee Software's first game....
  • Galactic Battle
  • Kingdom of Kroz
    Kingdom of Kroz

    The Kroz series is a series of video games created by Scott Miller . The first episode in the series, Kingdom of Kroz, was released in 1987 as Apogee Software's first game....
  • Legends of Murder
  • Legends of Murder II: Gray Haven
  • Magic Boxes
  • Murder in the Museum - An Infocom
    Infocom

    Infocom was a software company, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that produced numerous works of interactive fiction. They also produced one notable business application, a relational database called Cornerstone ....
    -style interactive fiction
    Interactive fiction

    Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, describes Computer software simulating environments in which players use text Command to control Player character and influence the environment....
     game with a murder mystery theme
  • Pyramids of Egypt
  • Relix
  • The Lost Crown of Queen Anne
    The Lost Crown of Queen Anne

    The Lost Crown of Queen Anne is a computer game written by Robert Wayne Atkins. It is available for the Commodore 64 and DOS. The game is part of the Classic Adventure Series....
  • Twilight Treasures
  • Willy the Worm
  • Zappa Roidz


Entertainment

  • Adventures of Alfredo
    Adventures of Alfredo

    Adventures of Alfredo, or Alfredo's Arduous Adventures was the original non-interactive computer animation series that featured a lovable trial-ridden stick-figure anti-hero named Alfredo....
    • Alfredo's Lost Cause, (Softdisk 36, Softdisk 96, Big Blue Disk 7)
    • Alfredo's Transport Troubles, (Softdisk 43, Big Blue Disk 8)
    • Alfredo's Laser Lament, (Softdisk 44, Big Blue Disk 9)
    • Alfredo's Digestive Dilemma, (Softdisk 45, Big Blue Disk 10)
    • Alfredo's Crushing Curiosity, (Softdisk 46, Big Blue Disk 11)
    • Alfredo's Whopping Wattage, (Softdisk 47, Big Blue Disk)
    • Alfredo's Fiery Fiasco, (Softdisk 48, Big Blue Disk)
    • Alfredo's Hulking Hubris, (Softdisk 49, Big Blue Disk)
    • Alfredo's Nuclear Nuisance, (Softdisk 51, Big Blue Disk 25)
    • Alfredo's Moriferous Mortality/Mentality, (Softdisk 53, Big Blue Disk 32)
    • Alfredo's Faulty Finale, (Softdisk 55, Big Blue Disk)
    • Alfredo's Miserable Moniker, (Softdisk 71, Softdisk 96, Big Blue Disk)
    • Alfredo's Stupendous Surprise, (Softdisk 98, Big Blue Disk)


Applications

  • Family Tree
  • PC Gourmet (Big Blue Disk 39)


Utilities

  • Conversion Tables
  • DOS Manager

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