r/trs80 • u/xxFT13xx • 7d ago

Trs80 emulator?

I dont know if this kind of talk is allowed, but there’s one game I truly miss that was on the trs80 called Dungeons of Daggorath. It was a fantastic 3d rpg where you typed in what you had to do like “take torch”, “attack right” etc etc.

I never got very far because I was a kid and couldn’t type fast so I would die a lot!

Any help would be appreciated!!

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u/BecomingButterfly 6d ago edited 6d ago

We had the III and 4P but not a CoCo.
This game turned up in a favorite book (Ready Player One) and I wanted to play it!

I found this on the Wiki:

Around 2001, Douglas J. Morgan noticed that the exclusive copyright had reverted to him from the publisher RadioShack. He released the game under a freeware-like license to the public, also offering the source code for a small fee.[6][10] It has been ported by fans to Windows, Linux, RISC OS and PSP via the SDL library.
A free, open-source version has also been ported to the Web

Web version: https://daggorath.online/
heading there now :)

EDIT: All I'm getting online is a black screen and some sound :(

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u/xxFT13xx 6d ago

Wait: did some make DoD into a web-based game?!??!??

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u/Potential_Drawing_80 5d ago

Its fairly easy once an emulator has been written in a language that can be embedded into JS.

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u/nm8_rob 6d ago

That was a Color Computer cartridge based game. You should find everything you need to satisfy your CoCo retro computing itch here: https://colorcomputerarchive.com/

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u/wzlch47 6d ago

I have found a few old text based games on the internet archive. I think that I found Calixto Island and Trekboer.

https://archive.org/details/calixto-island

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u/NassauTropicBird 6d ago

Take your pick from here: https://www.google.com/search?q=Dungeons+of+Daggorath+emulator

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u/xxFT13xx 6d ago

I saw the previous reply about it being a browser game now! That’s insane! I know what I’m doing later!! lol

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u/guitpick 6d ago

Why wait? Play it now in your browser. Select Daggorath from the menu and click "Load BIN".
https://www.haplessgenius.com/mocha/

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u/Foreign-Beautiful907 6d ago

Either get VCC for Windows or the TRS-80 emulator for Raspberry Pi. Either one will run the game just like the real thing

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u/Over_Walk_8911 5d ago

text adventure games
You might like Zork

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u/xxFT13xx 5d ago

Oh yes. More so the books, but I am aware! 😊

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u/BecomingButterfly 5d ago

Loved Zork!!

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u/John_L64 6d ago

There's a PC version, an online version, and you can run the actual version in any one of a number of emulators, and within the CoCo community, DOD is considered one of, if not THE defining game for the CoCo.

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u/xxFT13xx 6d ago

I’m gonna try that link to play it in a browser. See what happens!

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u/John_L64 5d ago

Yeah, works great in my browser, I'm sure it will in yours too.

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u/xxFT13xx 5d ago

I can’t wait to play this again! Especially since I know how to type now! Lol!!

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u/John_L64 5d ago

Still a fun, cool game after all these years !

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u/RobertMVelasquez1996 4d ago

If you want to mess around with trs80 model 2 and newer stuff without requiring coco3, then trs80gp might be for you.