Those are indeed the games. We had several more that we were considering but our publisher (Jim Baen) decided to get out of the software gaming business and that more or less ended that. Fred and Joan Saberhagen continued to market them and their other games for a few years after. It was fun. I still stay in touch with Joan from time to time. Fred died of cancer in 2007.
I am currently working on a new game for the TRS-80 Model 100 that will reference the Berserkers (with Joan’s permission). It might be a few months, but when it is done, I will share it with this group. (Assuming I complete it.) Using REXCPM for external storage does provide some interesting ideas. When I wrote Wizard Wars, I was concerned about fitting into the available memory. I had only 64K of RAM and DOS and BASIC ate much of it. Wizard War consisted of 4 programs, an Intro, Main, Battle, and End. Most of the time the game would switch between the Main program and the Battle program and would use a data file for sharing data. I don’t own REXCPM (yet), but some very complex programs could do something similar and not be limited to the 29K or so that is available. Lloyd From: M100 <m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com> On Behalf Of Ben Wiley Sittler Sent: Friday, May 19, 2023 11:31 AM To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] interesting Nice! Are these perhaps Wizard War and Berserker Raids? Those seem like they could be fun on the m100 too if only storage space were available. Maybe with REXCPM it is? On Fri, May 19, 2023, 09:16 <lloydel...@comcast.net> wrote: I’m intrigued. The two games I worked on in the early 80s with Fred Saberhagen were developed on an original IBM PC that had a motherboard fully populated with 64K and later a memory board that added an additional 512K. I had 4 floppy drives connected to it but no hard drive. If I want to play these games anymore (and every few years I do), I fire up the DOS box emulator. It might be fun to run it on a machine dedicated to mimicking the capabilities of the old IBM PC. The novelty might wear off soon followed by some buyer’s remorse. But then again, it does sound cool. Lloyd From: M100 <m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com <mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com> > On Behalf Of Russell Flowers Sent: Friday, May 19, 2023 10:15 AM To: m...@bitchin100.com <mailto:m...@bitchin100.com> Subject: Re: [M100] interesting That is an unusual product. I wonder how it came to be? Hobbyist pulled the lever and went into production? Could they be just-in-time and/or built to order? On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 10:02 AM Paco <zx4e...@gmail.com <mailto:zx4e...@gmail.com> > wrote: Very interesting computer, using real expansión board 8 bits. El vie, 19 may 2023, 15:01, Stephen Adolph <twospru...@gmail.com <mailto:twospru...@gmail.com> > escribió: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005534146618.html Concept is neat but I think the execution was bad. Apparently the BIOS was modified and used without following the author's license. (FYI BIOS author requesting that no one purchase this until the license issue is resolved) Made me think of a 2nd generation M100 work alike.
