Awesome indeed! Who's up for adding the missing multi-player-over-TCP part ? ;-)
m ----- Original Message ----- From: Josh Malone To: Model 100 Discussion Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 4:47 PM Subject: Re: [M100] Retrochallenge 2016/01: Maze War for Olivetti M10 andNEC PC-8201A That is awesome. Must read this later. On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Russell Flowers <[email protected]> wrote: (Re-forwarding this because I forgot the subject line!) I just stumbled across this on Facebook. I haven't had much time to look at it, but it looks like it might be of interest. Retrochallenge 2016/01: Maze War for Olivetti M10 and NEC PC-8201A "I recently acquired two 1983 portable computers, namely an Olivetti M10 and a NEC PC-8201A. Both are siblings of the Kyocera KC-85 platform, comprising — in alphabetical order — Kyocera's own Kyotronic 85, the NEC PC-8201(A), the Olivetti M10, and, last but not least, the TRS-80 Model 100, with about 6 million sold the most popular of all. (1984 saw the addition of two further models featuring more initial RAM and refined ROMs, the NEC PC-8300 and the TRS-80 Model 102.) "These computers came with a nice version of Microsoft BASIC v.1, a LCD display featuring 8 rows at 40 characters and a graphics resolution of 240 × 64 pixels, and a nice implementation of serial communications via RS-232C (the NEC PC-8201 adds two more SIO interfaces). So we should be able to network the machines and have a decent game of Maze War running on them, preferably written as a single cross-platform program." http://www.masswerk.at/rc2016/01/
