Electronic Young Telegraph (EYT)
Feb 06
Today I went back 12 years. I spent a good ten minutes trawling out the loft some old, colourful floppy disks. Yes, I had found my large collection of Electronic Young Telegraph disks! (yay)
Firstly, I had to get the installer off without a floppy disk drive. Luckily, my sister has a floppy drive (God knows why!) so that was the first hurdle done with. Now, I would test Windows 7 compatibility capabilities to the limit by running a Windows 95 installer. I felt the installer instantly cry out “Where on earth am I? Ahhhh-” as it searched for ‘previous issues of EYT’. It then subsequently failed.
EYT main menu screen
I was not deterred. I tried it on my sister’s XP machine and it worked! EYT is back baby – educating kids old school style. I managed to install the Christmas edition. My main motivation for finding these disks is for inspiration. I want to make a small game over the weekend using Flex that’s simple and educational. I certainly enjoyed these games when I was a kid so why the hell not recreate them. I’ll let you know how it goes!
Comments
Zac
February 6, 2009 @ 10:05 pm
o shiit!
hahaha!
I had EYT too
only a couple of the floppies though. Wow, seems so long ago. I’d probably never have remembered EYT again in my entire life.
Rog
March 15, 2009 @ 4:38 pm
will it work in 7 with compatibility mode on?
katy
March 20, 2009 @ 10:09 pm
any chance of these babies appearing on the net?!?! would love to look at them again but cannot find the discs anywhere!
Dill
April 4, 2009 @ 12:30 am
I love the new design!
Sarah
August 17, 2009 @ 2:57 pm
Aww wow, i used to love those disks!
No idea where mine are though, would love to try them out again!
david
October 29, 2009 @ 4:27 am
yeah seriously this is pretty much the only information about EYT i can find online, serious nostalgia
Peter
January 8, 2010 @ 11:13 pm
My daughter had about 3yrs worth of EYT on her computer running XP upgraded from Win 98 till the hard drive failed. I had backed up all those floppies and CD’s to one CD and got rid of the floppies. But I can’t reinstall them because the install program needs a disk tag to go from disk 1 to 2 to 3, now lost. Any ideas?