The New Tandy 2000: “Simply Incredible”

I was lucky enough to teach where we always had the lat­est com­puter stuff. Every­one was falling over them­selves to fund com­puter cen­ters. I made extra cash in uni­ver­sity typ­ing up papes for 3 dol­lars a page. I have mad mutant typ­ing skills and with a sim­ple word pro­gram I could pump out the pages in record time. It’s too bad that there comes a time when we have to leave old com­put­ers behind. I still miss the chess pro­gram I had on my old Apple 2e.

The Tandy 2000 is an incred­i­ble com­puter. I wrote sev­eral dozen com­puter board games on between 20–25 years ago. It had the best com­puter graph­ics out at the time. My games looked almost inden­ti­cal to the real board games. Bill Gates devel­oped the first ver­sion of Win­dows 1.0 for the Tandy 2000.

None of my games were ever pub­lished. The games we only played by my friends and fam­ily. The games were writen as a hobby of mine. I’ll list some of the games from off the top of my head. Some of the games were bought new at the time. Some were old games I got from yard sales and flea mar­kets. Some games came from game books like “Board and table games from many civ­i­liza­tions”. I wrote many of the pop­u­lar games and some you might never heard of. Alot of them I never heard of them till I found them. Here’s list of just some of them: Yahtzee, Con­nect Four, Strat­ego, Bat­tle Ship, Oth­ello, Pente, Check­ers, Chi­nese Check­ers, Go, Shogi, Black Box, Round Four, Qubic, Score Four, Chase, Steppe, Crosse, Over­board, Exit, Input, King’s Court, Rubic’s Magic Strat­egy Game, Strata 5, Vis-a-vis, Trip­ples, Inside Moves, Chi­nese Chess, Domain, Dom­i­na­tion, Can’t Stop, Maneu­ver, Saxon, Four Sight, Sabatoge, I stored my Com­put­ers away in the attic of my sum­mer house for sev­eral years. Through being sub­ject to extreme sum­mer heat and extreme cold as the house is win­ter­ized every year, the computer’s power sup­plies went up. I’m try­ing get them fixed or replaced, don’t much money do either. I have print­outs I made of some of the games list­ing. They were all stored on my HD which got destroyed. After I repair my com­put­ers, I’ll have retype them back in.

It’s been sev­eral years since I’ve seen and played them. My wife helped me type some of them in when I was writ­ing them. I miss play­ing my games and I want to have them back. Some day maybe I’ll be able to post them. I won­der if there’s any work­ing Tandy 2000s still out there. I don’t think there is an emu­later for the Tandy 2000. I orig­i­nally wrote about a dozen of the games on a TRS-80 model 4. Then when I pur­chased the Tandy 2000, I no longer wrote on the model 4. I love vin­tage TRS-80 com­put­ers, I own a model I, III, 4, 4P, 12, 200, 2000 and a MC-10.

Under the sec­tion for Sega games, you listed Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace. I remem­ber when those two games came out in the arcades in the mid 80’s. They costed $.50 to play, when all of the rest of the games were $.25. Dragon’s Lair came out first. Those games did not use com­puter graph­ics for their ana­ma­tion. There were devel­oped just like ana­mated Dis­ney movie was made. Then recorded onto a 12″ laser disc. There’s a laser disc player inside the arcade game machine and the movie is played. The machine looks for the cor­rect input at the cor­rect tim­ing and as long as it recieves the cor­rect input, the movies con­tin­ues to play unin­ter­ruped. Once it sees an incor­rect input, the player is redi­rected to another ana­ma­tion sequence where the player losses a life in that sec­tion of the game. Just a lit­tle game info I tought you might be inter­ested in. I posted here because I didn’t know how to post in the other section.

I still have a CD of Dragon’s Lair for PC ver­sion and I still have the 486 CPU com­puter I used to play it on. I think it was a Win­dows ’95 game. I used to play both games in the arcade and spent a lot of quar­ters play­ing them. I don’t remem­ber Road Blaster. I bought a used Wii con­sole for my wife for Christ­mas last year. My boss game the game “Deal or No Deal” which we play once in a while. Before that the last con­sole games we played was on the orig­i­nal Nin­tendo game sys­tem and Tetris was our favorite game. We haven’t owned any other game con­sole since then. I play PC games on my HP com­puter. I used to play games like Doom and Heretic on my 486 com­puter. On my HP with Win­dows XP, I play games like Luxar and puz­zle games.