This has about driven me crazy in the past week but I’m just now writing about it because I found the solution. To save typing I thought it would be great to use the sdltrs EXPORT utility they provide on their included utility/dsk, to export the TRS-80 Super Star Trek Basic program to Linux to …
Monthly Archives: January 2022
Super Star Trek in QB64
Tested my port with QB64 and it compiles fine. I was surprised for some reason. The executable is much larger than with FreeBasic. If you use the $CONSOLE:ONLY compiler option at the top of the program it becomes smaller but still much larger than the FreeBasic executable. With this option it behaves more like the …
Super Star Trek in FreeBasic
I’m converting the 1979 TRS-80 Level II Basic Super Star Trek program to run in FreeBasic using the Quick Basic option switch. This is a compiled Basic. So a tad faster than the emulated TRS-80. OK…mankind will not be better off for my efforts, but it’s a project and something to keep me off the …
Other TRS-80 emulators and tools
Well this site seems to have good information. They have a different emulator called trs80gp that runs on Linux. Also some interesting information here and here on copying a physical TRS-80 cassette tape to a virtual cassette or .cas file. I’d really like to retrieve a Yahtzee game I wrote. If I remember correctly I …
TRS-80 Star Trek (1979) source
I know I keep going on about Star Trek…actually Super Star Trek. But it holds an important spot in my memory for my early days with computers. It somehow means more to me that I can play the 1979 version than some newer improved versions. Anyhow it appears (I spot checked a few random line …
TRS-80 emulator (sdltrs) notes
These Notes consolidate the important points!
To look at!
A new topic for my log. Every morning I look at the current RSS feeds and often read about things that I want to learn more about. Same is true regarding podcasts…except hear about. Anywho I often forget to go back and research. So I figure if I enter them in my log file then …
TRSDOS emulator file name weirdness
While trying to load a binary file into TRSDOS, I kept getting FILE SPEC REQUIRED. Down below it now says WHAT? But at 1st and repeatedly said FILE SPEC REQUIRED. I guess it got tired of telling me the same thing. BTW. I was just testing the LOAD. You actually just type the name program/CMD…not …
Revisit TRS-80 emulation (sdltrs) Pt 2/2
First things first. In some of the examples below WordPress has changed my simple double quotes to fancy double quotes. Even though I define the block as code. So you can’t simply copy&paste as I intended. I’m purposefully being wordy because my previous notes were too sparse. With my notes it’s taken me a day …
Revisit TRS-80 emulation (sdltrs) Pt 1/2
With my mom and last parent passing last year, I was feeling nostalgic about the wonderful gift they bought me in 1979. I couldn’t have asked for better parents. I haven’t played with this in a 2.5 years… July 5th 2019. Those notes are for xtrs, but sdltrs which was ported from xtrs, is the …