For the past few years I have had this idea in my head of what I wanted to do with the TS 1000 and now I finally have the time I am going to use it as a time machine.
Starting next month I am going to look at one issue a month of Compute! (US computer magazine from the 80's) starting with November of 1981 and I am going to translate any basic programs or games they had in the magazine articles to run on a stock 16k TS 1000, just as if I was 16 again. Compute! magazine used to have versions of every game or utility listing they had for a number of systems, Apple ][, Atari 400/800, Commodore 64 & Vic 20, TRS-80 Model 1 (3) and Texas Instruments 99/4a. Towards the end of 83 they had a few TS 1000 listings but the market was changing and they started dropping smaller systems and only doing systems with 64kb or more ram and disc drives.
I will use an emulator because I do not feel like digging in the closet for all the parts but that is irrelevant. I'll use EO and save them as P files. I'll be sure to not use any special graphics modes or additional hardware, only what was available at the local K-Mart when I purchased my first computer, TS 1000, TS1016 and a tape deck.
It should be a nice trip down memory lane and as I complete each I'll post them here or somewhere along with the relevant article form the magazine.
Bill H
P.S. I am sure someone somewhere already did a lot of conversions of the programs - I am not going to look. They didn't have the internet in 1981 and I didn't have a modem for the Ts 1000 to connect to Compuserve or Dow Jones (old school - pre AOL) so I wouldn't have been able to look then, so I can't look now
