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To figure out what Terminal (aka what Terminal control sequences) for an less known CP/M system is needed, I wrote a small terminal test program. It’s useful because sometimes you have to configure WordStar or other full screen editors for systems without build-in terminal emulation, means if you have such a system like a S-100 […]

Westwood Associates created this real gem in 1991,based on „Advanced Dungeons & Dragons“ game series. This game does not only offer beautiful VGA but also EGA graphics, I would say it is one of the best games for EGA PCs. I was looking for more games for my Siemens PG750, which can display EGA graphics, […]

That’s not vintage, but still interesting. If you visit Geoff’s site (see related link below), you will find infos about the ARM7-based Home Computer from Geoff Graham. It uses an SD-Card as a storage, and it needs a PC USB-keyboard and a VGA monitor. A nice case seems to be also existing: A detailed description […]

This is a demo of a Text Adventure Kit, a Map Editor and Generator for a Text Adventure, totally written in GWBASIC, running with DOS. But the generated Text Adventure BASIC source code will also run with CP/M and MBASIC, with DOS and GWBASIC, QBASIC or any QB compiler, with Linux and FreeBASIC, or with […]

We all know Wolfenstein 3D, the first VGA 3D shooter game for the PC from Apogee. The predecessor, Catacomb 3D. was created only a few month before, but still running with EGA video cards. Wolfenstein 3D was originally also developed to run with EGA, but they changed their mind and dropped support for EGA also […]

Recently I purchased a portable PC, a Siemens PG750, which was in fact used as a S5 PLC programmer. But regardless of it, it can be used also to play DOS games, at least EGA graphics compatible ones. This portable device has a Texas Instruments Graphics Adapter (TIGA) named Higraph I, based on a TMS34010 […]

While testing my Micromint SB180FX again, I was curios how I can transfer files from and to Micromint floppy disks. This is really an adventure, also because of ZRDOS (or ZSDOS, as some told me). Because there is no PIP nor COPY command for files, I was a bit helpless how I can transfer files […]

While surfing around and looking for a nice xmas demo, I found a 64KB DOS demo from an event named „The Party“ in 1996. It has a nice soundtrack and it has some action on the screen 😉 For a download possibility, see >here<.

This is really a classic computer game, famous or at least well known, but nowadays almost forgotten. ELITE was one of the first open world game for PCs and home computer. That means almost eternal game fun/game play, if you want. Published from Acornsoft in 1984 first, Ian Bell and David Braben created this space […]

Another test round. Tried it first with an emulated 486. Didn’t worked. Then, I choosed to emulate a Compaq Desktop 386, which was somewhat a success. You have to look for a SETUP disk first, because there is no „build in BIOS setup“. I still got a „memory mismatch“, because the setup program didn’t recognized […]