booter

Plural: booters

Noun

• A program or process that boots.
• A game that is launched by booting directly from the floppy disk containing the game program, rather than starting the program from within the computer's standardized operating system.
• The floppy disk used to launch a game in such a manner.
• A person who plays association football.
• The experience of stepping in a deep puddle and having one's foot become completely engulfed in water.

Examples

• "To allow full use of the system's limited resources and prevent users from making pirated copies of the game, the first version of Microsoft Flight Simulator was a booter, rather than being run from within DOS."

Synonyms

soaker