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Computer Conflict: 1980: AppII A computer wargame consisting of two imaginary scenarios taking place in Russia during the Cold War. Computer Quarterback: 1981: AppII, ATR, C64 An American football simulation game. Conflict: Korea the First Year 1950-51: 1992: Ami, DOS A computer wargame focussing on the first year of the Korean War [11 ...
The VDP (all-in-one) computer had sold poorly and was not competitive with the Radio Shack TRS-80, Commodore PET, and Apple II computers. The 'IMSAI' trademark was acquired by Thomas "Todd" Fischer and Nancy Freitas (former early employees of IMS Associates), who continued manufacturing the computers under the IMSAI name as a division of ...
A cycle-accurate simulator is a computer program that simulates a microarchitecture on a cycle-by-cycle basis. In contrast an instruction set simulator simulates an instruction set architecture usually faster but not cycle-accurate to a specific implementation of this architecture; they are often used when emulating older hardware, where time precision is important for legacy reasons.
The Intel 80286 [4] (also marketed as the iAPX 286 [5] and often called Intel 286) is a 16-bit microprocessor that was introduced on February 1, 1982. It was the first 8086-based CPU with separate, non-multiplexed address and data buses and also the first with memory management and wide protection abilities.
Net Jet is a Windows PC-based game system introduced by Hasbro (under the Tiger Electronics brand) in 2007. [1] The game system is a controller that is somewhat similar in design to a PlayStation 2 gamepad. The Net Jet controller is plugged into the USB port in a computer and automatically started up. It downloaded games via a required Internet ...
TI-990 programmers panel. The TI-990 was a series of 16-bit minicomputers sold by Texas Instruments (TI) in the 1970s and 1980s. The TI-990 was a replacement for TI's earlier minicomputer systems, the TI-960 and the TI-980.
In DOS memory management, the upper memory area (UMA) is the memory between the addresses of 640 KB and 1024 KB (0xA0000–0xFFFFF) in an IBM PC or compatible. IBM reserved the uppermost 384 KB of the 8088 CPU 's 1024 KB address space for BIOS ROM , Video BIOS , Option ROMs , video RAM, RAM on peripherals, memory-mapped I/O , and obsoleted ROM ...
Peter Smith of Computer Games Strategy Plus stated "TigerShark looks good normally, but throw a 3Dfx accelerator card into your rig and it looks spectacular". [12] Peter Sharpe of PC Powerplay critiqued the system requirements for the game with other cards, stating "a stock standard Pentium 133 will move the frame rate along at an acceptable ...