That's great! I'll look forward to that possibility, new games are always welcome.
Fred Saberhagen is surely missed by me who has only read his words, and a new computer game in the Berserker universe sounds like a fine addition. I hope development and distribution are both somewhat easier now than they were then. Even finding the original games - for any platform - has become a challenge of its own. Documentation of the process can be really interesting reading too, regardless of whether the end result matches the initial vision. If you decide that it's something you're interested in trying I'm sure there will be readers here! In this vein, yesterday I was reading mass:werk/Norbert Landsteiner's writings about a Model T Maze War conversion and it was both entertaining and informative: https://www.masswerk.at/rc2016/01/ On Sat, May 20, 2023, 05:14 <lloydel...@comcast.net> wrote: > 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> *On Behalf Of *Russell > Flowers > *Sent:* Friday, May 19, 2023 10:15 AM > *To:* 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> wrote: > > Very interesting computer, using real expansión board 8 bits. > > > > El vie, 19 may 2023, 15:01, Stephen Adolph <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. > >
