Re: Leisure Suit Larry - Yes seriously!
Posted: Sun, 18Dec09 03:46
We used a portable cassette deck for the Nascom and the Video Genie and as it happens I uncovered some Kansas City game cassettes only a day or two ago together with a Level 9 version of Colossal Adventure (the original mainframe text adventure with a whole extra end section added). According to the cassette label it's 32K at 1200 baud!
The Enterprise initially required a cassette deck until a floppy disk interface became available and the Enterprise's EXOS rom was supplemented by IS-DOS, a CP/M and, to a large extent, MSDOS compatible system. It was a pity that Amstrad's CPC computers came onto the market at the same time, because they stole the slot at Curry's that Intelligent Software had been negotiating about for the Enterprise which had, arguably, by far the best software and expansion design -- it was designed with expansion in mind unlike the CPC, which was designed with Alan Sugar's bank balance in mind. Amstrad as good as killed one of the better computers of the '80s, like VHS killed Betamax, the better format.
The Enterprise initially required a cassette deck until a floppy disk interface became available and the Enterprise's EXOS rom was supplemented by IS-DOS, a CP/M and, to a large extent, MSDOS compatible system. It was a pity that Amstrad's CPC computers came onto the market at the same time, because they stole the slot at Curry's that Intelligent Software had been negotiating about for the Enterprise which had, arguably, by far the best software and expansion design -- it was designed with expansion in mind unlike the CPC, which was designed with Alan Sugar's bank balance in mind. Amstrad as good as killed one of the better computers of the '80s, like VHS killed Betamax, the better format.