That impact was manifested in the Tandy 1000.
#Tandy deskmate software Pc
Even though the machine was only on the market for 18 months, it still had a substantial impact on PC gaming. It was a weird product released by a company that had little prior experience marketing to the consumer market.
#Tandy deskmate software upgrade
Too expensive, compatibility issues and its upgrade woes doomed it to failure in the marketplace. was not a greatly successful home computer. Originally, I was going to place this article in my Unique PC Hardware and Game Support, but I decided it deserved its separate article. I could not find a special Tandy Freeware/Abandonware Site on the Internet and Disk-Originals are rare and expensive and have the risk, that they will not run anymore, because the disks could be damaged over the long time 🙁 According to the follwing artice, it seems that I need a special Version to get Tandy support. I found "boulder-Dash" and "Superboulder-Dash" but both seem to use only CGA an Beeper. Thx! It is really hard to find the special Tandy Versions of a Game. Due to recent experience though, I'll suggest that you'll need to have the VSYNC IRQ5 jumper in place for a number of these. There are certainly more than a few "must-plays," but Prince of Persia is worth checking-out on the RL, and supports the PSSJ DAC besides.Īlso, the ability to drop the RL down to 4.77MHz allows many of the earlier, speed-sensitive PC and Tandy titles to play at a proper rate. I'm not sure where your interests lie, but the list is fairly large, and includes titles by Accolade, Brøderbund, Electronic Arts, LucasArts, MicroProse, Origin, Sierra, The Learning Company, and everything in-between. Other games, such as Interplay's "Star Trek: 25th Anniversary," support the ETGA graphics mode, but will not even start on the RL, presumably due to the use of a CPU check or 286 opcodes.Ĭoncerning what will work though, I mentioned on the Vintage Computer forum that the RL should handle most games produced through 1990 reasonably well. Sierra's SCI1 titles fall into this category. There are a number of games that offer support for the RL's 320x200 and 640x200 16-color graphics modes, 3-voice sound/music, and even Tandy DAC playback, but are otherwise unplayable on the RL due to the inadequacy of its CPU. It is also possible to do "Bootingdisks" with Dos 3.x on it, but I can use the Build-in Dos in ROM to save space on the Disk. I think it is possible, that some Dosgames can be "ripped", so only the files for the Tandyversion are on the "Compact-Disk". When I manage to do something in assembler a nice "stutterfree scrollingtext" and an "3voice-tune" would be really nice,īut I do not think that I can do this. The structure behind should be something like that: This should be easily done by using "choice".
Then showing an ACSII-Made Floppydisk (something like the Disk that is displayed when monster-bash (apogee) asks for Disk2) with a menu e.g.:
Therefore I will take a 720KB-Disk with "config.sys/autoexec.bat" (booting from Dos in ROM and Activating looking for config.sys/autoexec.bat in Disk A:) I am planing some kind of "compact-disk-catalog" for my Tandy.
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