Comments on: 80-GRAFIX http://www.trs-80.org/80-grafix/ TRS-80.org is a source for information about the Radio Shack TRS-80 line of computers, hardware, and software, with articles, interviews, and more! Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:40:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mark McDougall http://www.trs-80.org/80-grafix/comment-page-1/#comment-23995 Mark McDougall Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:16:20 +0000 http://www.trs-80.org/80-grafix/#comment-23995 An Australian-based company, Orcim Systems, produced a clone called the PCG-80 that extended the capability to 256 programmable characters whilst remaining software-compatible with the 80-Grafix. My father had one installed in his Model I. There were a handful of games converted for it, mostly done by bedroom coders, including myself. I converted "Star Cresta" and "Jungle Raiders" - both games authored in Australia I believe. I've just finished adding support for the PCG-80 to my TRS-80 Model I FPGA implementation. I was looking around for other Model I hires enhancements to add when I found 80-Grafix here - of course being backwards compatible I don't need to do anything to support it! An Australian-based company, Orcim Systems, produced a clone called the PCG-80 that extended the capability to 256 programmable characters whilst remaining software-compatible with the 80-Grafix.

My father had one installed in his Model I. There were a handful of games converted for it, mostly done by bedroom coders, including myself. I converted “Star Cresta” and “Jungle Raiders” – both games authored in Australia I believe.

I’ve just finished adding support for the PCG-80 to my TRS-80 Model I FPGA implementation. I was looking around for other Model I hires enhancements to add when I found 80-Grafix here – of course being backwards compatible I don’t need to do anything to support it!

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