/vr/ - Retro Games

This little guy is Victor, and he's cool if you like XT class machines.

Good evening! Do you recognize him? Yes, it's Victor V86p, the portable PC-XT clone by Victor. It run MS-DOS 4.0 and make full use of his i80c86 (a CMOS version of the 8086), 640kB of RAM and CGA compatible graphic chipset. He have a full-fledged mechanical keyboard and a monochrome 640*400 LCD display. No, his photo, but the one of the exact same model (it even have the same little FR sticker on the space key). I tried to run CP/M 86 from a floppy, but I failed miserably. I'll try Xenix next time.

What do I play on it? Zork and Rogue. I can also play NetHack when I connect it to my NetBSD machine, and yes, I tried Prince of Persia but the ghosting is so bad that you can't see your character moving. You can connect an external CGA monitor to solve this problem.

Zork is the only game I play on pic-related, along with Rogue.