1985 Tandy 1000 EX - 10 Minutes of Ultima 1

A composite output from an original IBM Compatible Tandy 1000 EX from 1985 running MS-DOS 2.11 and Richard Garriot's Classic game: Ultima I: The First Age Of Darkness.

Specifications
Tandy 1000 EX (1985)
-Proprietary All-In-One-Minus-Monitor Case
-640 Kilobytes of System Memory
-PC Jr. Enhanced Graphics
-3 Channel Internal Sound System
-300 Baud Proprietary Modem
-1 360K Floppy Drive

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Tandy
• 1000
• EX
• Ultima
• First
• Age
• Of
• Darkness
• Richard
• Garriott
• Vintage
• Computer
• Classic
• MS
• PC
• DOS
• Microsoft
• Radio
• Shack

[ecoeccentric]

What I would love to see are videos of Ultima II and III using CGA composite. Unlike the Ultima I remake, which uses EGA/Tandy/PC jr 16-color CGA to display 16 colors on an RGB monitor, II/III use artifacting on CGA on a composite monitor to display more colors.

BTW, I'm working on a faithful remake of Ultima I in Java that runs on lots of PDAs/cellphones/smartphones/et­c (even Blu-Ray eventually).

[creepingnet]

@ecoeccentric I might have to try that, sounds like something to use my Netbook for on the big ol' Mitsubishi 20".

[blicksflicks]

I hate to say it, but give it twenty-three more years, and all the games we have today will be just as hilarious and will pale beside the true life version of holographic computer games. That's right. Your living room because the world.

[creepingnet]

Might be funny, but also, think of the "retro" possibilities....it'd be like having the Holideck. I know I'd be going back to 1985 for sure.

[dynamoehummm]

Wow where'd you get that game? And how'd your make your monitor do that? I heard rumors of monitors that brown and yellow or Amber but that might be the brand. Pretty fancy pants. Green's good enough for me on my PORTABLE, yup fully lugable model 4P. You cheater using a script! Gotta go Bananarama tickets go on sale before me and my fox check out Red Dawn then straight to Defender 2 at the arcade. Party Animal!

[creepingnet]

WTF? Well, the graphical output is expanded CGA through composite to a DV input card, that's why the colors are all weird.

[czuket]

grand daddy of all rpg games

[poopskinTheLiar]

Lemee guess, things have to have good graphics to be fun? you wouldn't know a adventure game if it slapped you on the face.

[rotaryphoton137]

It was called Akalabeth before the final revision, so fun! Someone stole my prompt!

[mistergrumpy11]

Damn son that thief raped you

[TheSchmuck2]

wowwww composite rainbow on the startup text!

[dogralle]

ein 2er dos, genial... und das spiel dazu...

[74brooklynboi]

Wow this brings back some good childhood memories. I had the same PC.

[OBSysteme]

ah... the tandy 100 was my first hook on computers, a friend had one, we played the hell out of the game until the disks would not run anymore. It was always funny back them that most people would not run on backups of their originals and keep the original safely packaged (magnetic media is super durable when properlyi stored). maybe blank disks were expensive in those days ?

[TadRaunch]

were you making those badass beats on purpose

[Utos0]

Holy shit, I remember when a thief came from behind, i was like, WTF IS THAT NOISE??? I turn around and a fucking thief is raping me... god I hate that!

[jcgamer107]

lol "strongbad.....no, mario....no"