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Woo hoo - Collection Completed!! TRS-80 inbound

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And now FreHD is complete, next thing is to look at what's what now I have a time machine...

Here we are booted with a choice of hard disks/DOSes to select from:

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It looks and feels like DOS, but there are a lot of differences:

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For example, you use the KILL command to delete files and there are no drive letters, only drive numbers like :0 or :1 etc.

And yes, it has games!!!

Scramble:

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Donkey Kong:

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Galaxians:

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Pacman:

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And even Bezerk:

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And having worked out how to transfer files into the virtual disks (Theres a Windows app called TRSTools) I even had a mess around with the assembler editor:

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So there's quite a lot to unpack here :)

Very much enjoying it, and the keyboard is really nice on these old machines.
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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:D
Intro retro computers since before they were retro...
ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.
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Very nice job

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Tomswork wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 6:44 pm Very nice job

Tom
Thank you sir.
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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It’s nice to see those blocky graphics and the creativity programmers had to use to make games look good as well as play good.
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PhilC wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 7:28 pm It’s nice to see those blocky graphics and the creativity programmers had to use to make games look good as well as play good.
What's great is that all of the games are instantly recognisable, despite the blockiness, and they all play well for sure.

What was great is that some were written by Bill Hogue of Bounty Bob fame and Big Five Software, it pleased me no end to see that.

Some good stuff in just 48k.
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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rubber_jonnie wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 11:33 pm Some good stuff in just 48k.
Old good times...
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HigashiJun wrote: Sun Dec 10, 2023 3:08 am
rubber_jonnie wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 11:33 pm Some good stuff in just 48k.
Old good times...
For sure they were.

In the UK we had such a range of machines, it seemed like a new one appeared weekly.
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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Found this today:

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Fantastic game, and has sound so proved my audio upgrade 😁
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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Oh, that's a very close representation to the arcade version, within the limits, including the zooming in.
Intro retro computers since before they were retro...
ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.
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