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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:


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


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:


Donkey Kong:


Galaxians:


Pacman:



And even Bezerk:


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:


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

Very much enjoying it, and the keyboard is really nice on these old machines.

:D

Very nice job

Tom

Tomswork wrote: 09 Dec 2023 18:44 Very nice job

Tom

Thank you sir.

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.

PhilC wrote: 09 Dec 2023 19:28 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.

rubber_jonnie wrote: 09 Dec 2023 23:33 Some good stuff in just 48k.

Old good times...

HigashiJun wrote: 10 Dec 2023 03:08

rubber_jonnie wrote: 09 Dec 2023 23:33 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.

Found this today:


Fantastic game, and has sound so proved my audio upgrade 😁

Oh, that's a very close representation to the arcade version, within the limits, including the zooming in.