Programs on the Downloadable Disk Images

Program Name

General Information

Found on this disk...

Adult Caloric Requirements

Calculate just how many calories you need! By Instant Software (1980).

Miscellaneous 1

Adventure Editor

An adventure editor by Bruce Hanson. You can edit the other adventures on this disk or build your own ones.

Adams 1

Adventure Loader

This allows you to select one of the Scott Adams Adventures.

Adams 1

Adventure Loader

This allows you to select one of the Bruce Hansen adventures. (1981)

Mysterious

Adventureland

Collect treasures in a number of interesting places.

Adams 1

Aeronauts, The

Fly a number of different planes in a number of different situations.

Flight Simulators

Aids Plus v 1.1

Aids Plus v 1.1 by Softrends (1984). A business database.

Aids Plus

Airmail Pilot

Be an airmail pilot flying across the USA.

Basic Games 2

Air Raid

Man an anti-aircraft gun. By Small Systems Software (date unknown)

More Arcade 6

Alien Armada

Basic Space Invaders Game. Copied by (not written by) Pegleg Software (1981).

More Arcade 5

Alien Shuffle

A logic game. By Martin Downey (1983).

Basic Games 3

Android Nim

This is a classic Nim game variation! By Leo Christopherson (1979).

Basic Games 2

Android Picture Gallary

Line up all the androids. M.K. Cook. 80 Micro, (1982)

Basic Games 1

Apple Panic

Avoid the enemy on a grid and dig holes they can fall down (then jump on them).

Favourites 2

Area of Octous

Gladitorial Role-playing fighting game. By Al Johnston (1981).

Basic Games 3

Argyle 88

Play politics on an interplanetary council.

Basic Games 3

Armoured Patrol

Shoot other tanks from your own

Favourites 2

ASpool

A printer spooler, which enables printer output to be buffered in memory before going to the printer

NEWDOS/80-2.0

Astronomy 1.0

Calculates a number of astronomical settings. By Frank Kosztelnik (date unknown).

Miscellaneous 1

Atlantian Odyssey, The

A (partly-graphical) journey through the lost city of Atlantis. By Teri Li and Mark Robinson (1980).

Adventures 1

Atlantic Ballon Crossing 3.3

A simulation of the Double Eagle II balloon crossing of the Atlantic. By Dean Powell, revised by G. Shanafelt (1991)

Basic Games 3

Alien Taxi

Land safely and pick up passengers.

Favourites 2

Arex

Try to paint as much as you can while walling off the enemy. By William Muk Koon Yet. Adventure International. Distributed by Molymerx (1982)

More Arcade 6

Arrow of Death (Pt. 1)

You find yourself in a courtyard with a dead messenger.!

Mysterious

Arrow of Death (Pt. 2)

The game continues on the fringe of desolation marshes.

Mysterious

Assault

Explore each area, and avoid hazards. The opening screen is graphic overload! By Dunlevy and Frayer (1982).

More Arcade 2

Asteroid

Classic game of Asteroids. By Mike Wall.

More Arcade 6

Astro Moth

A frantic space Invaders Variation. By Jeremy Gates, Australia (date unknown).

More Arcade 4

Asylum

Go completely bonkers trying to solve this graphic adventure game. By Med Systems (1981)

Adventures 5

Attack Force

Destroy space fighters on a grid

Favourites 1

Auto Directory

Allows you to select files with the cursor keys.

Memory+Diagnostic

Autoload

A DOS shell, which allows the selection of common functions with a single keypress. From Briggs Software, New Zealand.

Memory+Diagnostic

Awari

Very Simple logic game typed out of a book.

Basic Games 1

B1 Bomber

Cold War game. Play a plane to Russia and bomb some cities.

Basic Games 1

Babel Terror

Eat bables and stars while negotiating a maze. By Y Lempereur. Funsoft (1982)

More Arcade 3

Backgammon

A nice game of backgammon.

Favourites 1

Backgammon 1.01

Game of Backgammon. Norman J. Wazaney Jr. (1979)

Basic Games 1

Basements and Beasties

Text based adventure game. Author and date unknown. I have an idea this was typed in from a book of the same name.

Adventures 5

Basket

Play Pro-Basketball. This is a challenge for the graphics but they do it quite considering the limitations. By John Allen. Acorn Software (1981).

More Arcade 5

Barchart

Stores, retrieves and produces bar charts

Business Apps.

Barchart

Prints a bar graph on the lineprinter. Date and author unknown.

Miscellaneous 1

Battle for Normandy

D-Day, June 6th, 1944. By Tactical Design Group, Strategic Simulations (1982).

Strategy Games 2

Boskone Alert!

Space fighter game, where you have a scanning map so you can see what's coming. By Tom Thiel. Cosmic Software (1982)

More Arcade 7

Bates Horse Racing

Learn maths with this horse racing program. Author and date unknown.

Miscellaneous 1

Batter Up

A game of baseball by Karl Savon (1979)

Basic Games 2

Battle

A very simple game of battleship.

Basic Games 1

Battle of Shilo, The

The Union vrs the Confederates. By Tactical Design Group. Strategic Simulations.

Adventures 3

Battleships

A simple game of battleships. Author and date unknown.

Strategy Games 1

Bedlam

You wake up in an asylum. Author and date unknown

Adventures 1

Bingo

Can be used for bingo calling, or as a pure-luck competition between two players. Geoffrey Egel.

Basic Games 2

Biorhythms

Check your mood for the next few days

Eaca Demos

Bit Demo

A graphic demonstration of just what a byte is and how it relates to binary.

BASIC Toolkit

Black Hole 2.0, The

Space invaders but with a twist. The walls start to press in. By Y. Lempereur, Funsoft. (1982)

More Arcade 4

Black Jack

A simple (and not particularly good) game of blackjack. Author and date unknown.

Strategy Games 1

Blowfly

As a fly, climb up the window without being swatted. By C. Cranstone (1981).

Basic Games 2

Boa

A two player "snake" game. Avoid colliding.

Basic Games 2

Bombardment

Fire Missiles at an enemy opponent. By Creative Computing

Basic Games 3

Bookworm

Prints loads of worms on the lineprinter. Date and author unknown.

Miscellaneous 1

Bounceoids

Kind of like astroids. Move and shoot at bouncing objects. Published by The Cornsoft Group (1982). Not so good IMO.

More Arcade 2

Burglar's Adventure

Another Bruce G. Hansen adventure

Adams 2

C-Fetch v 0.2

Finds files on a cassette. Instant Software (1979)

Disk Utilities

Calculator

A calculator showing reverse polish notation. Author and date unknown.

Miscellaneous 1

Calender

Calendar utility program. By Jeff Paewai.

Miscellaneous 1

Cartoon

An mildly amusing screen saver. By Brian F. Eggers (date unknown).

Miscellaneous 1

Caterpillar

Shoot the falling caterpillars. Soft Sector Marketing. (1982).

More Arcade 2

Cathouse

A text-based adventure game. Author and date unknown.

Adventures 5

Cavern Quest

Mine your way through an asteroid. By Barry Diller (1982).

More Arcade 2

Celestial Music Demo

Produces random chords of spacey music. (it was groovy in it's time!). Date and author unknown.

Music

Chain Build

Assists in constructing a jcl file which can be used with the CHAIN command.

NEWDOS/80-2.0

Checkers

A game of checkers. Author and date unknown.

Strategy Games 2

Chess

A game of chess. Author and date unknown.

Strategy Games 1

Chi square test

Calculates Chi Square. Date and author unknown.

Miscellaneous 1

Chicken

Substitute a chicken for a frog and you have this variation of Frogger. By J. Weaver Jrn. Factory Programming (1982).

More Arcade 2

CIA Adventure

This one is typed out of a book. By Hugh Lampert. Date unknown.

Adventures 1

Circus

Out of gas, and the only thing visible is a circus tent in the middle of a field...

Mysterious

City of Knossos, The

Escape from the Minotaur's labyrinth. By Simon Smith. Med System Software (1981)

Adventures 5

Clash

Fantasy jousting. The graphics are really pushing the boundaries so a lot of imagination is needed! By Bill Dunlevy (1983).

More Arcade 1

Compare

A command-line utility program to compare either two specified files, or to compare all equally-named files on two different drives. A B.E.ware product (1982)

Disk Utilities

Computer Monopoly

A game of monopoly by David Goben (1984)

Basic Games 3

Connecting Dots

Computer version of paper game connect the dots. By Charles E. Wooster (1981).

Basic Games 3

Convoy

You are the captain of a North Atlantic convoy during WW2. By Softside (1981).

Strategy Games 1

Convoy

Protect the convoy from air attack. By Philip Mackenzie and Jeff Sorenson. Published by Trend Software (1983).

More Arcade 1

CopyCat v1.06

A disk back-up utility by Omnisoft Research (1983). May only support single density and 40 tracks.

Disk Utilities

Cosmic Fighter

A variation on Space Invaders. By Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu (1980).

More Arcade 1

Cost Analysis

Simple BASIC Program that must have been written for the System-80 rather than the TRS-80 as one of the prompts refers to "New Line" rather than "Return".

Business Apps.

Count, The

Too long in the Count's castle is bound to be draining. Try to survive and kill the vampire.

Adams 1

Craps

A very simple game of Craps.

Basic Games 1

Crazy 8s

Card game simulation. Tom Dwyer and Margot Critchfield.

Basic Games 3

Crazy Painter

Ever had pets walk on a deck you've been painting? If so, this game's for you.

Favourites 2

Critical Path

Determine the critical path for any planning process. Author and date unknown.

Miscellaneous 1

Crush, Crumble and Chomp

The movie monster game from Epxy (1981)

Crush

Cryptograms

Lets you play with cryptograms. By Rik Pierce.

Basic Games 3

Cutthroats

You are given a map by an old shipmate before he is murdered. A rich Infocom interactive fiction game (1984).

Adventures 6

Cyborg

Negotiate passageways. Shoot things (you know the drill by now). By Bill Dunlevy and Douglas Frayer. Distributed by Computer Shack. (1982)

More Arcade 3

DR's Turbo Ram Spooler

Gives you a printer spooler in memory. By Dementia Software, 1983

Memory+Diagnostic

Death Dreadnaught

A space adventure. By The Programmer's Guild (1980).

Adventures 2

Debug v1.02

A machine language monitor by E.R.Paay (1982).

Assemblers

Defense Command

Protect your fuel cells from marauding hordes.

Favourites 2

Demon Seed

Yet another "Invaders" game. Contains chords! By Jeff Sorensen and Philip MacKenzie. Treno Software (1982)

More Arcade 4

Diagnostics

Check out your system with this diagnostic program

Dick Smith

Digout

Dig your way out and through avoiding all hazards. By John Crane, Computer Shack (1983).

More Arcade 6

Directory Check

Shows extra information on files like size etc.

NEWDOS/80-2.0

Directory Sorter

Reads the directory, sorts the entries then re-writes the directory back onto the disk in sorted order. Warning, this doesn't give you a prompt...it just does it when run! Date and author unknown.

Disk Utilities

Disassembler 3.0, Apparat

"Disassembles" raw Z80 instructions. In other words shows it as assembly code for ROM, RAM or a file on the disk. This is part of NewDos/80 v2 program, and so is also on the NEWDOS disk.

Assemblers

DiskDex

Facilitates a number of common file management functions in NewDos/80 v2 like sort the directory, search for files, selectively delete files and alter the PDRIVE parameters. By Bob Wissner, date unknown

Disk Utilities

Disk Drive Timer

Checks the speed of disk drives. By Paul A. Rogers (1979).

Miscellaneous 1

Disk Change

Changes a few cosmetic NewDos/80 v2 things like the banner, prompt, name, date and BASIC prompt.

Memory+Diagnostic

Disk Head Clean

Cleans the disk heads

Disk Utilities

Disk Map

Allows NewDos/80 v2.0 disks to be mapped. It reads the directory showing what sectors files are located on, free space and the disk name and date. Originally published in 80-micro and modified by Barry Briggs, New Zealand (1982). Works with NewDos/80 v2 only. Quite good!

Disk Utilities

Disk Timer 2.2

A disk timer program by Carey Tyler Schug

Disk Utilities

DisnData - Z80 Disassembler 1.2

Another Z80 disassembler by C.W.Medlock, Pro/Am software (1983)

Assemblers

Dodge

Very Simple but fun. Avoid the hazards while in free-fall.

BASIC Toolkit

Domain of the Djinn

Date and author unknown. Needs Instructions.

Adventures 2

Dominoes 2.1

A game of dominoes. By Peter Kirsch (1980).

Basic Games 3

Donut Dilemma

Kind of Donkey Kong with bouncing donuts! By Nickolas Marentes (1984). Quite good.

More Arcade 6

Dos Address Finder

Finds all those important DOS hooks (addresses). Useful for programmers

BASIC Toolkit

Drag Race

Just what it says but instruments only! By Chris Freund.

Basic Games 3

Dragon Quest

You start in a castle with a king. Author and date unknown.

Adventures 2

Dual voice music synthesiser

Build a tune. 80 Micro Magazine (1982). Needs instructions!

Music

Duel-N-Droids

Dress up as an android and duel the computer. By Leo Christopherson (1980)

More Arcade 7

Duncan's Multiple Range Test

This a statistics program I wrote. It's not perfect, but it's nearly there (1982).

Miscellaneous 1

Dungeon of Htam

Text based adventure game by Howard Berenbon. From the book "Mostly Basic" (either I or II)

Adventures 4

Dynaterm 3.1

By A.S. Vincent (date unknown)

Communications

ED50 Calculation

Linear regression program modified to determine an ED 50

Miscellaneous 1

EDAS 4.1b

An assembler editor by Misosys. Attached manual is for the 4.3 version. This is not the complete EDAS package but just the main editor/assembler program.

Assemblers

Edtasm

Editor/Assembler. Disk-based version of Tandy's Editor/Assember. For programming in assembly language.

NEWDOS/80-2.0

Editor Assembler Plus

Microsoft's editor/assembler. Allows programming in assembly code. Disk Version 1.01 for TRSDOS (so I'm not sure if it will write to these disks, but as they conform to the TRSDOS standard, it should)

Assemblers

Electric Pencil v 1.0

The original Electric Pencil by Michael Shrayer (1979). This early version was very simple, with about the same functionality of Scripsit v 1.0.

Word Processing

Electric Webster

A popular spell checker which made quality wordprocessing possible with these 32 or 48k machines.

Spell Checker

Elements, The

Get to know the Periodic Table. By David Balaic (1981).

Miscellaneous 1

Eliminator

Shoot ships - Fast and furious in a horizontal-scroll world.

Favourites 3

Eliza

A early artificial intelligence program. Date and author unknown.

Miscellaneous 1

Engine Driver

Control the trains and avoid collisions. By Bob Burton, Molimerx Software (1982). Needs to be loaded with "run".

More Arcade 5

Engineer

Construct a bridge to the right specifications. By David J. Bohlke (1979).

Basic Games 3

Enigma -
The Code Machine v 2.0

A simulation of an enigma machine. By E. Huggins (1983).

Strategy Games 2

Entrapment

Enclose your opponent and force him to hit the wall. By Robert C. Hall (1978).

Basic Games 3

Error Finder

Loads then jumps to BASIC. Can use x=usr(0) to trace data. Version 2.2 by Mike Brotherton.

BASIC Toolkit

Escape from Colditz

Just what it says! By P. Knott (1982).

Adventures 3

Escape from Pulsar 7

Your space freighter has an unwelcome passenger with an appetite

Mysterious

Escape from Traam

You crash on a strange planet. By Jyym Pearson (1980)

Adventures 1

Even Wins

A very simple game of Even Wins

Basic Games 1

Exterminate

Graphic and ASCII-character based tunnell-and-shoot game. By JMG Software International (1982).

More Arcade 4

Farvar Legacy, The

You've just inherited a castle...but is there more? By Jyym Pearson, Med Systems Software (1981).

Adventures 1

Fast Gammon

A game of blackgammon. Date and author unknown

Strategy Games 1

Faster

A TSR program designed to speed up basic programs. By Prosoft, 1981

Memory+Diagnostic

Feasibility Experiment

You are the subject of a feasibility experiment, being conducted by space beings looking for the ultimate warrior. Is it you?

Mysterious

FED - File Editor v1.0.1a

Allows you to edit files on a disk at the byte level. Great for patching. Galactic Software. (1981).

Disk Utilities

File Utility Program

Compares or lists files and directories. For NewDos/80 v2 only. By Arne. Programmed in ZBASIC. (1985)

Disk Utilities

Flash Cards

Throws up flash cards in different languages

Miscellaneous 2

Flexi Diet, The

A diet program which serves up menus. Instant Software (1980).

Miscellaneous 1

Flight Simulator

Fly an LTC21 (instruments only). By Scott L. Richmond, date unknown.

Flight Simulators

Flight Simulator 2

An "out the window - pilot's view" simulator. Does the best it can with the crude graphics available. By Sublogic, date unknown.

Flight Simulators

Forbidden Planet Pt 1.

Your space cruiser is malfunctioning. A talking adventure by Fantastic Software. By William Demas. Voice by Dick Barker (1981).

Adventures 1

Fortran 80 v 3.4

This is the best known implementation of Fortran for the TRS-80 world. Written by Microsoft and distributed by Tandy (1979)

Note: the manual is for version 3.2

Fortran

Fortress

Defend yourself from a 360 degree attack. Soft Sector Marketing (1981).

More Arcade 6

Frog Race

A Frogger clone. By Alan Morrison (1982).

More Arcade 7

Frogger

Cross the road and try to avoid getting squashed.

Favourites 2

Frogs

Try to catch flies as they come close. By William Demas

Basic Games 1

Fun House

Fun houses can be creepy affairs. This one is no different!

Adams 1

Fury

A space shooting game similar to Nova to some extent. By Doug Frayer (1982).

More Arcade 1

Galactic Firebird

Space Invaders, but with lots of movement. By Mike Chalk, Kansas Software (1982).

More Arcade 5

Galactic Trader 3.0

A space trading game.

Basic Games 1

Galactic Revolution

Another space trading game by Douglas Carlston

Strategy Games 2

Galaxy Invasion

Big Five's answer to Space Invaders. By Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu. Big Five Software (1980).

More Arcade 1

Galaxy Invasion Plus

Space Invaders - type game with voices. Looks like Big Five Software version but no credits given. I wonder if it's a hack?

More Arcade 2

Gamma Word

A Text-based adventure, using the Bruce Hansen adventure system. Mega Venture III By Sirius Cybernetics and Big Oric Software (1984).

Adventures 5

Gauntlet

Kill Aliens on a grid. Similar to Big Five's Attack Force. By Kyle Hoyt and Brock Alston (1983). Features a tune produced by Cornsoft's Microchord. It's about as good as music gets on these machines.

More Arcade 1

General Database

Another one of mine, which uses a lot of the same code as the one above. A generic database program. (1984). I actually submitted this to Micro-80 but by that time it had all been done before, and the System-80 use was fading fast.

Business Apps.

General Ledger

A third effort of mine. A generic ledger program.

Business Apps.

GetROM
ROMHex

These are Jeff Vavasour utilities which helped obtain the System 80 ROM. I think getrom/bas read the ROM in decimal and romhex/bas read it, then convereted it to hex.

Miscellaneous 2

Ghost Hunter

A variation of Pacman. Not as good as Scarfman. By Dubios and Mcnamara Software.

More Arcade 2

Ghost Town

Just you and tumbleweeds. Or is it...?

Adams 2

Golden Baton

You start in a dense SPOOKY forest...

Mysterious

Golden Voyage, The

The king lies near death in the royal palace. You have only three days to bring back the elixer to rejuvenate him. Can you find it in time?

Adams 2

Golf

Have a game of golf at the TRS-80 country club. Instant Software (1979).

Basic Games 2

Graphics

EACA Video Genie Logo Screen Saver

Eaca Demos

Graphic 90's Animation BASIC

This is Animation Basic (ABASIC), with a preloader patch for NEWDOS/80 v 2.0. ABASIC was part of Graphic-90, an animation package produced by TANDY for the '80s machines.

BASIC Toolkit

Gravitron

Kind of a cross between Lunar Lander and Penetrator. By Dennis Lo (1983).

More Arcade 4

GRBasic

Med System's GRbasic, which adds a number of graphic commands to disk BASIC. (Thanks to Al Tracker for supplying the manual)

BASIC Toolkit

Gymnasium Adventure

By John R. Olsen. CLOAD Software (1983).

Adventures 3

Ham Burger Sam

A variation on Donkey Kong/Apple Panic By Dubois and MacNamara. Displayed Video (date unknown)

More Arcade 6

Heating Energy Audit

Computes heating fuel requirements for a defined heating season. By A.A. Leshane (1980).

Miscellaneous 1

Hellfire Warrior

The sequel to Apshai. Four more dungeons to explore!

This is the one I actually started on, in its cassette manifestation.

DunjonQuest

Help

Gives a brief explanation of NewDos/80 commands.

NEWDOS/80-2.0

Hex to Decimal Converter

Converts hex to decimal and vice versa - very useful!

Business Apps.

HiLo

A simple game of Hi-Lo

Basic Games 1

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Famous Infocom adventure based on the Douglas Adams Book.

Adventures 4

Home Accountant

My own programming effort. I wrote this both to teach myself BASIC and organise our own home finances. (1983)

Business Apps.

Hoppy

An inferior version of Frogger. As a frog, cross roads, rivers and other hazards. By Dubois and Mcnamara Software. (1981).

More Arcade 2

Horse Race

A simple way to bet on the horses without loosing your shirt!

Basic Games 1

House of Seven Gables, The

You are outside a mysterious house...? By Greg Hassett. Date unknown.

Adventures 1

Household Accounts for Disk v. 4.0

A Micro-80 program (1982). This was from the same folk who sold the magazine.

Business Apps.

Hustle

Collect targets, grow the snake but don't reverse or hit your tail. Simple but good. By Peter Trefonas (1979).

Basic Games 2

Iago

Iago strategy board game. Date and author unknown.

Strategy Games 1

Inside Track

Attend a race meeting! By Ray Wilkinson. Distributed by Molymerx.

Basic Games 1

Institute, The

Visit the Institute. By Jyym Pearson, Med Systems Software (1981).

Adventures 1

Interdictor Pilot

Pilot a space fighter. By Lawrence Marshall, Sole distributor Molimerx (1983).

More Arcade 2

Interrupt

TSR run-time interrupt routine

Memory+Diagnostic

IQ Test

Test your IQ! By Instant Software (1980).

Miscellaneous 1

Jovian

More deep space arcade action with some fairly complicated controls. By Bill Dunlevy and Douglas Frayer. Radio Shack. (1982).

More Arcade 4

Jumbo

Fly a 747 on instruments. By Frank Avery and John Taylor. Molimerx (1982).

Flight Simulators

Jungle Boy

Play at being Tarzan. Good try but graphics are not really up to it. Dubios and Mcnamara Software. Distributed by Displayed Video (date unknown..possibly 1983).

More Arcade 2

Kaleidoscope

Kind of screen saver. By "The Wizard"

Miscellaneous 1

Keno

Play the lottery game Keno. Some Bloke (1982)

Miscellaneous 1

Killer Beetle

A poor-man's Robot Attack. Chase creatures through a 2-D maze. By Dubois and MacNamara Software (1981)

More Arcade 6

Killer copter

Using a helicopter, defend your base from the invading hordes. Quite tricky! By Joe Mooney and Bob Black (date unknown)

More Arcade 7

Killer Gorilla

Donkey-Kong clone.

Favourites 3

Kizmet

By Steven Talmage.

Basic Games 3

Klondike

This is a card game. Author unknown

More Arcade 6

Kungfu

Free Syndi from a dungeon. Author and date unknown.

Adventures 3

Laser Defense

Cold war game. Defend American from Soviet Missiles. By Simon Smith. Med Systems Software (1982).

More Arcade 6

Lazywrite v 3.4a

A fully featured word processor. This is about as good as they got for the TRS-80 line of machines.

From Alphabit Communications, (1983?)

Note: Manual is version 3.5

Word Processing

Leaper

As the name suggests, this is a Frogger-type game. By John Deregnaucourt. Cedar Software Company. (date unknow).

More Arcade 4

Leather Goddess of Phobos

by Infocom (1986)

Leather Goddess

Lazy Days

Australian Adventure. Starts in Manley Harbour

Adventures 2

Level 1 BASIC

Tandy Level 1 BASIC. The original Model 1 BASIC

BASIC Toolkit

Linear Regression

Calculates a linear regression. Author and date unknown.

Miscellaneous 1

LMOFFSET

Convert a tape machine language program to disk and vice versa

NEWDOS/80-2.0

Local Call for Death

Interactive adventure game. A crime story. By Robert Lafore. Adventure International (1980).

Local Call for Dealth

Logic Trainer

Baffled by all that logic stuff at the chip level. This trainer will sharpen you up. By Russ Starkey (1982).

Miscellaneous 1

Lost on the Great Barrier Reef

Text-based adventure. Copied by David Bates. Published in 80 Micro (1983)

Adventures 4

Lowercase Converter

Will convert text in a BASIC program from upper case to lower case. It needs to be merged into the BASIC program, then run from it's line number. Instructions are in the program

BASIC Toolkit

Lucifer's Realm

You wake up on a hospital bed, close the death. Where are you and what's going to happen? By Jyym Pearson. Med Systems (1982).

Adventures 5

Lunar Lander

You think Neil Armstrong had it easy? See how you go!

Favourites 3

Lying Chimps

A card game. Author and date unknown.

Strategy Games 2

Macro-80 Assembler v 3.4

A Fortran 80-related program by Microsoft. This is essentially an assembler, but it seems to share much of the same code as Fortran-80, and is mentioned in the Fortran manual several times.

Fortran

Mad Mines

Explode mines and destroy aliens. Yet another "Invaders" game with a kind of limbo barrier? By John Lempereur, Funsoft Inc. (1982)

More Arcade 5

Madam Rosa meets E-Z

Misadventure Number 7. Softcorn Software (1982)

Adventures 3

Magic Cube Solver

Ever wanted to know how to Solve Rubic's cube. Here's how.

Basic Games 2

Martian Patrol

Patrol the martian surface and defend against attacks. By Rick Maurice (1982).

More Arcade 6

Master Mind

A game of Master Mind. Author and date unknown.

Strategy Games 1

Maze3D

Constructs a Maze from a first-person perspective

Basic Games 1

Maze Encounter

Builds a maze then you have to escape from it.

Basic Games 3

Maze Escape

Generates a maze to escape from. By J.R. Lewis (1980).

Strategy Games 2

Maze Search

Search through the maze in the allocated time.

Basic Games 3

Meltdown v3.7

Control a nuclear reactor. By Michael Winter (1979).

Basic Games 3

Men Away

Unload passengers from your crippled airline into a canyon. Contains a canyon editor. By Greg Pryor (date unknown)

More Arcade 6

Menu Creator v 3.8

Creates a title page with a menu for use in BASIC programs. By A Hopper

BASIC Toolkit

Meteor Mission 2

Save the Astronauts and dodge the drifting meteors.

Favourites 1

Microhex

A hex to decimal converter by Charlie Bartlett (1980). Also converts decimal numbers to LSB and MSB for POKE routines.

BASIC Toolkit

Micro-Management

Cassette-based stock database program. By Charlie Bartlett (1980).

Miscellaneous 1

Mind Reader, The

Plays the classic magician's trick of deduction by elimination.

Basic Games 2

Miner

Tunnel under the bank and get the loot. By Phillip Case (1980).

Basic Games 3

Miner's Adventure

Not a Scott Adams game but one by Bruce G. Hansen

Adams 2

Missile Attack

Protect your city from missiles in this cold-war scenario. This game is a rare in that it accomodates the differences in PMC-80 (System 80) and TRS-80 hardware regarding sound.

Favourites 2

Mission Impossible

Good morning Mr Phelps. You must track down and disarm a suicide bomber before the nuclear power plant goes up!

Adams 1

Morgoth

Weave your way through tunnels avoiding hazards. By Cosmic Software (1982).

More Arcade 4

Morse Code Decoder

Decode morse code. Author and date unknown.

Miscellaneous 1

Multiple Regression

Multiple regression calculator. By T.R. Jones (1980).

Miscellaneous 1

Murgle

A very simple adventure game. By Grahame Moad.

Basic Games 2

Music-80 version 3.1

Also allows you to construct a tune. Date and author unknown. Needs instructions!

Music

Mutant Attack

Space Invaders-type game. Poor. By Tandy (1981).

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Naked Nightmare

Misadventure Number 5. Softcorn Software (1982)

Adventures 3

Nick's Disk Catalogue Program

Makes a disk catalogue. By Nick Gridley, 1985, for NewDos/80 v2

Disk Utilities

Night Rider

Car racing game. First-person perspective. By John B. Gannon (1983).

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Number Converter

A hexadecimal/decimal converter with a number of permutations

BASIC Toolkit

Oil Baron

Manage an oil trading business. By Paul L Knechtel (1980).

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Oil Tycoon

Manage an oil business.

Basic Games 1

Olympic Decathlon

Test your skill at many field events. By Timothy W. Smith (1981).

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Omni

When run, it adds functionality to the BASIC editor, allowing BASIC keywords to be inserted by holding SHIFT down and pressing a letter key.

BASIC Toolkit

OnmiTerm v 1.6

My favourite communication program. This also included utility files to encode binary files to ascii and vice versa for sending across 7-bit transmission protocols. Other utility files managed checksums for error checking.

By David J Lindbergh, (1983)

Note: Manual describes version 1.53 release 11

Communications

Opera

Plays some famous tunes using single tones. By Richard Taylor (date unknown)

Music

Orbit

See if you can blow up a romulan ship by calculating the correct angle and distance.

Basic Games 1

Outland

Similar to Stratos above except with a single laser. By William Nitschke. Cosmin Software (1982).

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Outhouse

Stop aliens stealing all the toilet paper (yes, it's true!) By J. Weever Jr. Soft Sector Marketing (1982).

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PC Board Drafters Aid v1.2

Just what it says. By Jim Clark, modified by R.N. Mudford (1984)

Miscellaneous 1

Panik

Kind of like Donkey Kong, but with a space theme. By William Demas. Fantastic Software (1982)

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Pascal 80

This was one of the best implementations of the language on this type of computer.

Easy to use, with a menu driven interface.

By Phels Gates, (1981). Distributed by New Classics Software.

Pascal

Penetrator

Penetrate the defenses, drop your bomb and then get the hell outta there!

Favourites 1

Penguin

As a penguin push the ice cubes around. Try to crush the bad guys. By Dubious and MacNamara (date unknown)

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Personal Bill Paying

A small program to keep track of those household bills. By Instant Software, (1979)

Business Apps.

Perseus and Andromeda

Search for the hidden secrets of myths and legends.

Mysterious

Pinball

Just what it says! By John Allen, Acorn Software (1980).

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Pirate Adventure

Ahrrr...me hearties! Board me ship and search the waves for treasure.

Adams 1

Planet Miners

A strategy game where you compete with other dynastys to claim planets. By Avalon Hill (1983).

Strategy Games 1

Poker

The card game Poker. Date and author unknown.

Strategy Games 2

Poker Pete

Your computer becomes a poker player. By Dave Gubser (1979).

Strategy Games 2

Pothole

Block up the potholes so people don't fall through. By Stephen Crockette

Basic Games 1

Printer Demo

Shows off font expressions (italics, bold etc.) in an epson printer.

Miscellaneous 1

Psycho 1.0

Draws patterns on the screen as determined by user parameters. Author and date unknown.

Miscellaneous 1

Pyramid of Doom

An Egyptian adventure pre-Indiana Jones

Adams 2

Quest for Fire 1.1

Test-based adventure game. By Anthony Wood, date unknown.

Adventures 4

Quest for the Key of Nightshade

Role-playing game, using some graphics. Author and date unknow.

Adventures 4

Radio Log

Basically a tailored database program, this 1982 offering allows logging of all those exotic contacts.

Dick Smith

Rally

Race around a maze, avoiding other cars. By J. Weever Jnr. Big Orc Software (date unknown).

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Rally Racer

Zoom through a maze-like course avoiding obstacles. By Tom Thiel and William Nitschke (1982).

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Rats Revenge

3-D Maze Game. Author Unknown

Basic Games 1

Read Utility

Helps read a text file.

NEWDOS/80-2.0

Real-time Lunar Lander

A simple lunar lander game.

Basic Games 1

Reality Ends

Move from universe to universe to destroy Baldir. By Med Systems (1980)

Adventures 5

Rearguard

Protect your back from enemy ships. Kind of like space-invaders in a horizontal scroll.

Favourites 3

Road Race

Very simple 2-D driving game.

Basic Games 2

Robot Attack

Seek and destroy the maurading robots.

Favourites 3

Rocket Attack

Save the power stations with your missile defenses.

Basic Games 2

Romulan Adventure

A Text-based adventure written using the Scott Adams adventure system. Mega Venture I. By Jim Veneskey (1984).

Adventures 5

Rubik

Simulation of Rubik's cube. Date and author unknown.

Strategy Games 1

Russian Roulette

A very simple game of Russian Roulette.

Basic Games 1

Santa Paravia and Fiumaccio

Be a ruler and make wise decisions. By Instant Software (1980).

Basic Games 3

Sargon 2.0a

Another chess game. Date and author unknown.

Strategy Games 1

Saturn Patrol

Another variation on space invaders. This time it's obvious they are coming from saturn (I mean..where else!) . By Bernhard and Bouwe Software (1982).

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Savage Island Part 1

You're a castaway.....

Adams 2

Savage Island Part 2

...but are you really who you think you are?

Adams 2

Scarfman

A Pac-Man clone.

Favourites 1

Screwy

Draws some interesting lines which appear 3-D. Author and date unknown.

Miscellaneous 1

Scripsit v 1.0

Tandy's Word Processor and the first one available on the TRS-80, Model 1. The original program came with an audio training package.

I've included a reference sheet, linked to the title opposite.

Word Processing

Sea Dragon

Penetrate the defenses, drop your bomb and then get the hell outta there!...but underwater!!

Favourites 1

Sea Stalker

Kids interactive fiction from Infocom (1984)

Seastalker

Serpent

Kill sea serpents from your submarine. By W. Haywood (1981). Molimerx

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Sewers of Moscow

Misadventure Number 3. By Bob Krotts. Softcorn Software (1982)

Adventures 3

Sfinks 3.0

A chess game. Date and author unknown.

Strategy Games 1

Shifter Sifter

If you can figure this out, let me know. By Frank Parr and JMG Software (1984).

Basic Games 3

Silver

A pinball game. By Southern Cross Systems (1980)

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Sky Warrior

A wierd and primitive "Penetrator-type' game. By Roger Schrag (1981). Needs to be loaded with "run"

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Snake

Eat the targets as your snake grows

Basic Games 1

Snake Eggs

A dice-roll game. By Leo Christopherson (1978).

Basic Games 2

Sneak Thief

Kill or capture thieves and associates. By Soft Sector Marketing (1982).

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Solitair

A standard game of solitaire.

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Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle

This adventure speaks of castles and wizards. (walkthrough)

Adams 2

Sort

Sorts a text file.

Business Apps.

Space Castle

Destroy the Space Castle. By Charles Guy, The Cornsoft Group (1982)

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Space Intruders

Space Invaders clone. By Doug Kennedy. Adventure International (1980).

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Space War

Scroll over a landscape and shoot at oncoming craft. Quite a primitive game with no sound. By Norman Dobbs. (date unknown)

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Speak!

Seems to be a utility which allows you to add voice to your computer. Not sure how though? By William V. Neville (1981). Needs instructions.

Music

Spiral Title Framer

A BASIC subroutine for use in your own programs which draws a fast spiral to frame a title. You would merge this into to your own code.

BASIC Toolkit

Spook House

By Roger Jonathan Schrag (1982). A Model III auto-boot disk.

Spook House

Stake Your Claim

Claim the most squares in this grid game. By Rik Pierce

Basic Games 3

Star Cresta

A fairly primitive space invaders game. Cosmic Software (1982).

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Starfighter Simulator

SC-78503 Starfighter craft flight and combat simulator. Adventure International (1981).

Flight Simulators

Starfighter

Pilot a starfighter in first-person view.

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Starshoot

A variation on the game of life. By D Zwart.

Basic Games 2

Stargazing

Determine when celestial objects are visible. Author and date unknown.

Miscellaneous 1

Star Trek

Another game of Star Trek. By Microware.

Basic Games 2

Star Trek 2

Play the part of Captain Kirk.

Favourites 1

Star War

More Star Trek-type adventures

Eaca Demos

Statistics

Make a bar graph

Eaca Demos

Steeple Chase

Ride a horse in a Steeplechase. By C. Cranstone (1981)

Basic Games 1

Stellar Escort

First-person view. Protect your escort from all-comers. By Jeff Zinn. Distributed by Big Five Software (1982).

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Stellar Warp

Another variation on Space Invaders. By Tom Thiel, Cosmic Software (1982).

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Strange Odyssey

A space adventure. (now what happens if I press the red button?)

Adams 1

Stratos

Space invaders with duels lasers. By John Cominio (date unknown)

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Strike Force

Similar to, but not as good as, Eliminator. By William Tang, Beam Software (1982).

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Stronghold

Protect you city from stray nuclear debris while trying to destroy three other cities. By Ken Olson and Larry Chow, Computer Shack (1981)

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Super Hangman

A game of hangman. By Martin Downey (1981).

Strategy Games 1

Super Hero

Misadventure Number 6. Softcorn Software (1982)

Adventures 3

Super Mastermind

A game of Mastermind. See if you can guess the number and it's position.

Basic Games 2

Super Nova 1.2

Variation on the classic game "astroids". By Bill Hogue, Big Five Software (1980). Not so good as their other efforts IMO.

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Super Utility+ v.3

A utility for doing all kinds of things with memory, tape and disks. Kim Watt. Breeze/QSD Inc. (1983)

Disk Utilities

Super Zap

It allows you to change bytes on a disk directly i.e. "zap" the disk. It is used to perform updates. Every now and again Apparat would published the latest zaps and owners could update their disks. Use with extreme caution.

NEWDOS/80-2.0

Supreme Ruler

Manage a country or two. By JMG Software (1982)

Basic Games 1

Swamp War

Collect energy units and zap slizards.

Favourites 1

Swarming, The

Negotiate a maze packed with swarming creatures. By David P. Berude. Gamestar Software (1982).

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System Check

Displays System options for NewDos/80 v2 disks

Memory+Diagnostic

System Diagnostic

Menu-driven program which allows you to check out your system. by Howe Software (1982)

Memory+Diagnostic

TAIPAN

Make (and lose) a mint in this trading game.

Favourites 1

Tank Arcade

Tank duel game. By the Avalon Hill Game Company (1982).

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Tank Duel

Fight it out, tank to tank! By B.J. Gannon and P.J. Hyde (1981)

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Tally Master

A spreadsheet-type program by Prosoft (1983)

Business Apps.

Tasmon v2.12

A multi-featured memory utility. Edits and displays memory, and can write memory out to tape or disk. Note: this version locates itself at the top of the memory.

Memory+Diagnostic

Telcom II

By Bryan Mumford (1982)

Communications

Telengard

A Role-Playing Fantasy Dungeons Adventure Game. By Avalon Hill Game Co. (1982).

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Temple of Apshai

By Automated Simulations (1979).

So begins, the adventures of Brian Hammerhand...

DunjonQuest

Ten Little Indians

You start with a train journey to a strange country...

Mysterious

Tenpin

Tenpin Bowling. By John Allen. Acorn Software (1981)

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Threshold Zero

Destroy invading aliens in this Invaders-type game. By Bruce Hansen, (1982).

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Time Bandit

Visit a number of worlds. Collect things and avoid things. Quite good. By Bill Dunlevy and Harry Lafnear (1983)

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Time Machine

You start in a dense fog on the moors...

Mysterious

Time Runner

Capture territory by painting over rectangles on s grid. By Y Lempereur. Funsoft (1982)

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Time Traveller

Jump through distance and time, fight wars and have adventures. By Krell Software (1980).

Adventures 5

Timer

Counts the seconds. A simple short piece of code.

Miscellaneous 1

Tiny Pascal v1.0

Tandy's version of Pascal. This is a Level 2 version designed originally to run off cassette. It's been converted so it can be loaded from disk. The auxiliary program run/cmd must be used to load it.

Limited, but one of the few examples available for cassette systems.

Pascal

Title unknown

A medley of tunes with visuals. Date and author unknown.

Music

Top Secret Adventure

A Text-based adventure, using the Bruce Hansen adventure system. Mega Venture II By Big Oric Software (1984).

Adventures 5

Totaliser

Manage a totaliser for horse racing. Author and date unknown.

Miscellaneous 1

Towers of Hanoi, The

The classic logic game. By Micheal Bryne.

Basic Games 2

Toxic Dumpsite

By Roger Jonathan Schrag (1982). A Model III auto-boot disk.

Toxic Dumpsite

Trakcess v1.3 (manual v1.95)

A disk viewer, copier and editor By Roxton Baker, (1980)

Disk Utilities

Troll Crusher

A Role-playing Dungeon-type Adventure game by Simon N. Goodwin (1981)

Adventures 5

TRS-80 Editor Assembler 1.1

Tandy's editor/assembler. Allows you to program in assembly code. Attached manual is version 1.2 for cassette but (apart from loading and saving) the commands should be the same.)

Assemblers

TRS-80 Opera Theatre

Turns your computer into an organ. Author and date unknown. Screen formatting is a little messed up on this one.

Music

Turbo 2000

A car racing game. Not bad! By Rick Maurice (1982).

Dick Smith

Typing Tutor

Microsoft's Typing Tutor (1979). A program that teaches you how to touch type. I wish I'd persisted with it!

Word Processing

Uboat

Locate and sink a uboat.

Basic Games 2

Ultratas

Ultramon and Tasmon combined!. By Barry Briggs (Ultramon manual)

Memory+Diagnostic

Unkill Utility

Recovers a killed file.

NEWDOS/80-2.0

Unoffset 1.1

Removes NEWDOS/80's LMOFFSET from machine code files of cassette origin. Very Useful! By Nick Andrew (1984)

Disk Utilities

V.C.

Organise your battle units. By Avalon Hill (1982)

Adventures 2

Variable Form

This prints out a form, which helps programmers keep track of what's in or needed for their program. Date and author unknown.

Miscellaneous 2

Vexus

Simple. Patrol Vexus tunnels. Destroy all aliens. By J. Weaver Jr. distributed by Soft Sector Marketing (1982).

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Visicalc v 1.20z

The spreadsheet program that at last got business to take microcomputers seriously.

The famous Visicalc. By Software Arts (1980)

Business Apps.

Vodoo Castle

Save Count Cristo from the curse!

Adams 1

Volcano Hunter

Retrieve treasure for a volcano. This game is attempts to emulate the "Mario Brothers-type" video games available on the more sophisticated home computers then available. For that reason it's worth a look. By David A Smith (1984).

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Voyage of the Valkerie

Looks like a complicated game.

Basic Games 1

Voyage Program, The

This is a 3-D maze adventure in BASIC. It takes a long time to initialise. About 6 minutes! By Avalon Hill.

Adventures 5

World Power

A world power war game. By Roger Earwaker (modified by P J Hyde and J S Worthington (1979).

Strategy Games 1

Warriors of Ras Vol 1. - Dunzhin

Explore a dungeon. By Randell Don Masteller, Med Systems Software (1982). Cassette version.

Adventures 2

Warriors of Ras Vol 2. - Kaiv

By Randell Don Masteller, Med Systems Software (1982). This time it's a cave.

Adventures 2

Warriors of Ras Vol 3. - Wylde

By Randell Don Masteller, Med Systems Software (1982). This time it's the Wild.

Adventures 2

War zone

A strategy board game. Date and author unknown.

Strategy Games 2

Waxworks

While visiting the waxworks you dozed off. Now you're locked in!

Mysterious

Weerd

Destroy attacking aliens (but weird aliens!!). Contains voices. By Authur A. Gleckler. Big Five Software (1982).

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Wet T Shirt Contest

Misadventure Number 2. Softcorn Software (1982)

Adventures 3

Wild West, The

Yee-ha! Hold up the train and steal the money. By C.J. Abrahams (1982).

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Wizard of Akyrz

Can you save the king's daughter from the evil wizard?

Mysterious

World Builder

Build planets to specification. By Jeff Paewai (date unknown)

Miscellaneous 1

Xenos

"Strange, beware...". This disk must be in drive 0. Type Xenos to start.

Xenos

Z80 - Disassembler

A disassembler coded in BASIC. This will show assembly code for sections of ROM and RAM

Assemblers

Z80 Disassembler 2.3

By Jake Commader, Instant Software (1980) (no instructions, sorry)

Assemblers

Zaxxon

Fly over a 3-D landscape avoiding obstacles and enemies. By Sega Enterprises (1983)

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ZBASIC 2.2 Compiler

A popular BASIC compiler available in three versions. Zxcdm48 supports double-precision real numbers and is suitable for 48k memory. (1982)

BASIC Toolkit

ZChess

A nice game of chess.

Favourites 2

Zodiac

Discover your oriental zodiac sign. A short, tiny program.

Basic Games 2

Zork 1

The famous Zork 1 by Infocom (1983)

Zork 1

Zork 2

The sequel to Zork by Infocom

Zork 2

Zork 3

Zork III (The Dungeon Master) by Infocom (1983)

Zork III

Zossed

Pilot your ship through space in a third person view (No instructions?)

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