Excellent. This site that I linked to in the blog post above actually has great tutorials on how to use the various emulators and load stuff in: http://amigan.1emu.net/trs-80/ (check towards the bottom)
Thank you for this! I have never been able to successfully get anything running on a TRS-80 emulator, partially due to the fact that I forgot how to operate the thing. It will be fun to relive a major part of my childhood with some of the Model I classics, such as the Big Five, Automated Simulations, Adventure International, etc.
By the way, Bill, have you ever heard of "CLOAD" magazine? It was really big in the TRS-80 scene back then. It was a monthly(?) "magazine" that came on cassette for the TRS-80, and our school computer club subscribed to it. Every month or so, we'd get the new CLOAD cassette and play the games on it. There were a couple of games that stood out in my mind: CIA Adventure, and most of all, "EMPIRE!" "Empire" was a multiplayer variant of the "Hammurabi" simulation game, but included battles against human or computer opponents, and was so addictive, a football player in my high school was nearly kicked off the team because he skipped practice to play the game with me after school! I'd love to play Empire again; I suspect it will hold up again. It was sort of a precursor to "M.U.L.E." in my mind.
I'm sure there were many other greats, but hey, we're talking nearly 30 years ago, and my memory's a bit rusty.
Excellent. This site that I linked to in the blog post above actually has great tutorials on how to use the various emulators and load stuff in: http://amigan.1emu.net/trs-80/ (check towards the bottom)
Thank you for this! I have never been able to successfully get anything running on a TRS-80 emulator, partially due to the fact that I forgot how to operate the thing. It will be fun to relive a major part of my childhood with some of the Model I classics, such as the Big Five, Automated Simulations, Adventure International, etc.
By the way, Bill, have you ever heard of "CLOAD" magazine? It was really big in the TRS-80 scene back then. It was a monthly(?) "magazine" that came on cassette for the TRS-80, and our school computer club subscribed to it. Every month or so, we'd get the new CLOAD cassette and play the games on it. There were a couple of games that stood out in my mind: CIA Adventure, and most of all, "EMPIRE!" "Empire" was a multiplayer variant of the "Hammurabi" simulation game, but included battles against human or computer opponents, and was so addictive, a football player in my high school was nearly kicked off the team because he skipped practice to play the game with me after school! I'd love to play Empire again; I suspect it will hold up again. It was sort of a precursor to "M.U.L.E." in my mind.
I'm sure there were many other greats, but hey, we're talking nearly 30 years ago, and my memory's a bit rusty.
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