Border Zone on IS-DOS 1.0 using vezza-EP.com

Beyond Zork on IS-DOS 1.1a running vezza-E1.com

Back to porting my #Vezza #Infocom #Zmachine interpreter - this time for the #Enterprise128 - a 4MHz #z80 machine running IS-DOS, compatible with CP/M 2.2 and #MSXDOS. Download: gitlab.com/sijnstra1/ve... Screenshots are Border Zone and Beyond #Zork showing different IS-DOS capabilities.

Back to fun platforms to port my #Vezza #Infocom #Zmachine interpreter - this time it's the Enterprise 128. A 4MHz #z80 machine from the mid 80s, it has a great emulator, and a bespoke DOS known as IS-DOS, with a lot of compatibility with both CP/M 2.2 and […]

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A vintage Enterprise 128 home computer from the 1980s, featuring a dark grey casing with a built-in keyboard. The keyboard has black letter keys, blue function keys (F1-F8), and green control keys such as ESC, TAB, CTRL, and SHIFT. Red keys are used for PAUSE and STOP. A small joystick is integrated into the bottom-right corner of the keyboard. The logo in the top-right corner reads “ENTERPRISE ONE TWO EIGHT.” The computer is placed on a black surface.

The Enterprise 64 and 128: the best 8-bit computers you’ve never heard of.

More advanced in some ways than the Commodore 64, sleeker than the ZX Spectrum and yet it vanished into obscurity.

What went wrong?

#RetroComputing #Enterprise64 #Enterprise128 #80s