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Zork... the TRS80 and which version to use?

  • 04-07-2004 10:40am
    #1
    hamster
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    Hi All,

    I have been recently interested in the old TRS-80. I found an emulator TRSF-80 made by Ron Fries and is freeware. It is dos based but works in XP. I found this when I was looking for Scott Adam's interactive fiction.

    I'm wondering if anyone here is into TRS-80 emulators or had a real one? I'm looking for a good windows based emulator if anyone has a good one to recommend?

    Interestingly, I have roms for model 3 and model 4 (and model4p). Also have "level1" and "level2" (not sure about the level types?) but no rom for model 1. These are useful for another shareware emulator by Matthew Reed (http://www.trs-80.com/cgi-bin/downemu.cgi?trs32-setup-1.0.exe)

    I can not load disks on it on the shareware one. Nothing happens when I mount 3 .dsk files on it and soft reset. eg for drive0: BOOT.DSK drive1: ADVENT1.DSK and drive2: ADVENT2.DSK
    On the freeware version, the boot disk boots Scott's Adam Advent's disks. I have tried commands such as CLOAD but maybe some other setting is involved for the shareware one (ie the emulated drive whirring is constantly on - indicating a continous read - even when no image is inserted). Maybe another emulator?

    - .cmd files, these load no problem from the shareware version. Graphically like the ZX81. Tried one called lunar.cmd and worked.

    - .ba files. Not entirely sure how to load these. Several game files are available in this format. Maybe these are basic files and loaded like basic. Sure would like to know how to use these?

    Anyone interested in this old machine? Another reason is Zork. I'd love to try it out on the first portable computer it was released for. I have tried it out on the Apple IIe (AppleWin emulator) which is nice (and is slightly different to the later versions). There are a few PDP-11 and PDP-10 simulators out there where you could try Zork in it's pre-commercial form.... but I have tried these yet (most unfinished gzipped linux versions).


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