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May 14th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , , ,

How it all started
On the TRS-80 mailing list I subscribe there was a discussion about an old (from 1977!) game I used to play on my TRS-80 Model I called Space Warp. This game was originally called "Time Trek", based on the popular television series Star Trek. When Tandy/Radio Shack released this game commercially, [...]

September 26th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

Mark Grebe released sdltrs, a new emulator for the TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4p for Macintosh, Windows and Linux. It is based on xtrs, but uses the portable sdl library. It has on-screen options to change disks, cassettes, etc.
Packages for Slackware 13.0 are available on my site:

sdltrs-1_0_0-i486-2_nhh.tgz (32-bits)
sdltrs-1_0_0-x86_64-2_nhh.tgz (64-bits)

As always, have fun!

September 5th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , , |

My first professional work with computers was done on a Tandy / Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I. I still have that machine but have not powered it up for at least ten years, since I do not have a working monitor anymore.But thanks to the various emulators that are available, I can still run the [...]