This is a 'Special Edition for Tandy 1000' as stated on the box. It really isn't compatible with IBM-PC. But there is a hacked version available on the web that will work under DOS. There is also a real DOS version. The disks I have say Version 1.1
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So is this particular entry mislabeled for DOS instead of Tandy or what?
Lots of different architectures were made by Tandy.
[list]Tandy 1000 & 2000 were PC clones with 8080, 8088, 8086, 80186, 80286, or 80386 CPUs. More accurately, it was a PCjr clone and while it was 100% compatible with the PCjr it lacked the cartridge port and full compatibility with other IBM-PCs. Most developers, if they bothered with Tandy 1000 compatibility, would make a selectable mode for their program to run on it. In particular, these programs often asked the user to select "Tandy Sound" and "Tandy Graphics.". Some actually fully ported their software and sold the packages separately or (rarely) included both disks in the box. Robot Odyssey: Special Edition was ported to the Tandy 1000 and sold separately. They Tandy 1000 and King Quest game (Developed for the PCjr) helped make each other successful. It was an unheard of game until the Tandy 1000 was released and then IBM abandoned the PCjr leaving no other way to play the original King's Quest. Despite later IBM clones having the ability to play it, only the Tandy 1000 would allow the full 16 color graphics to display properly. UVL does not have a Tandy 1000 platform.
Tandy GRID were PC clones
Tandy TRS-80 had a Z80 CPU. There were Model I, Model III, Model 4, Gate Array 4D, Model 4P, Model 4D in this series. Not compatible with the 1000. UVL has a TRS-80 platform. Robot Odyssey: Special Edition unrelated and not compatible in any way whatsoever and should not go in this platform (but there might have been a TRS-80 version, not ruling out the possibility) UPDATE: IF there is a TRS-80 version (note that is a big "if"), then it is specific to the Model 4 or 4D. The only reason this would exist is due to the 1984 presence of so many TRS-80s in schools and probably used the "Robot Odyssey I: Problem Solving Game" title variant like the Commodore 64 version.
Tandy Color Computer (Tandy CoCo). UVL has a Tandy Coco platform. Had a 6809 CPU, it was not compatible with the TRS-80 or 1000 models. However, the company confusingly called it the "Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer". Others avoid calling it this because it is so confusing. They dropped the "TRS-80" from the label of the CoCo 2, 3, and 4 models. Robot Odyssey: Special Edition unrelated and not compatible in any way whatsoever and should not go in this platform (but there might have been a TRS-80 version, not ruling out the possibility)
Tandy Zoomer. A hand held IBM-PC clone with an NEC V20 CPU (Intel 8088 clone). It beat the Apple Newton to market as the first fully functional PDA, it also beat the newton for worst hand writing recognition, slowest performance, and worst market flop. UVL does not have a Tandy Zoomer platform.. UVL now has have a Tandy Zoomer platform
Tandyvision/Tandyvision One Computer. Tandy sold authorized clones of the Intellivision plus keyboards and cassette decks for it. They marketed it as a Entertainment Computer System. They however did not make or repackage games for it. Sears made the Sears Super Video Arcade, another authorized clone, but also made and repackages games under their own brand. By the time Mattel Aquarius was released, Tandy was no longer selling the Tandyvision but their Tandyvision One computer (keyboard and drive added) was fully software Aquarius compatible. UVL has a Both the Intellivision and Aquarius platforms and Tandyvision games should go there.
Tandy-12. A series of augmented reality games. They could be classified as board games. Simular to Stop Theif, there was an electronic computer with 12 multicolored, numbered, lighted buttons (an oversized keypad of sorts, it also served as a display) and 5 normal buttons and a switch. This unit was programmable and was pared with traditional game elements of each game.
Some external hardware was interchangeable between the different Tandy computers. Such as keyboards, mice, and joysticks. There may be other Tandy machines out there. I expect most of them are clones of something else. Tandy corporation most likely investigated cloning all their competitors platforms, including Sinclare,Commodore, and Apple ][, They may have done an MSX compatible as well.
The Dragon 32, Dragon 64, Micro-SEP, Micro Color Computer (6503 CPU), MC-10 (6503 CPU), Tomcat TC-9, Tomcat TC-70 (68070 CPU), Delmar System IV (6800 CPU), Peripheral Technology PT68K-4 (6800 CPU), MM/1 (68070 CPU), AT306 (68306 CPU), and Sysdata Tcolor (6503 CPU) computers were vaguely Coco clones. They are so different I don't think they should be considered the same platform.
Coco Clones with unknown compatibility:
The Sampo Color Computer
Prologica CP400 Color
Varixx VC50
LZ Color64
Dynacom MX1600
Codimex CD6809
Microdigital TKS800
EDIT: Tandy did do an Apple ][ clone. It was an add in card for the Tandy 1000 that converted the T1k to an Apple ][ machine.
EDIT2: Nobody cloned Commodore except Commodore. The whole idea behind cloning is to assemble and sell 'the same system' cheaper that the original manufacture does (or the same price and offer other profitable services the original company does not or can't). Nobody could compete this way with Commodore due the vertical marketing (owning most of the process from mining silicon, shipping it, designing chips, manufacturing chips, designing the computers, building the computers, and finally shipping them to stores). When prices rose in any step of the process, commodore absorbed it in the other steps and didn't raise their shelf prices. Other companies had no choices except lose money or pass on the extra cost to their customers. I'll wager highly that there are no Tandy 64s. The 'Commodore Clones' are hobbyist upgrades or produced by companies that had legal rights to do so (1st party clones, Commodore clones by Commodore).
Update:
Other Tandys that are not TRS-80 I/III/4 compatible:
TRS-80 Model II (Just plain different)
TRS-80 MC-10 (The Matra Alice was based on this system. EDIT: MC-10, Alice, Alice 32, and Alice 90 are in the same family and not software compatible with Coco, nor TRS-80 Model 1/3/4, not any other Tandy machines)
TRS-80 Model 100 (a Kyotronic 85 clone)
TRS-80 Model 12 (later incarnation of the Model II)
TRS-80 Model 16 series (later incarnations of the Model 12)
Tandy 10 (a unique Intel 8080 based computer)
Tandy 200 (later incarnations of the Model 100)
Tandy 6000 (later incarnation of the Model 16)
Tandy Pocket Computer series (Casio Calculator clones)
TRS-80 Pocket Computer 1 / RS-80 Pocket Computer PC-1 (Sharp PC-1211 clone)
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Some external hardware was interchangeable between the different Tandy computers. Such as keyboards, mice, and joysticks. There may be other Tandy machines out there. I expect most of them are clones of something else. Tandy corporation most likely investigated cloning all their competitors platforms, including Sinclare,
The Dragon 32, Dragon 64, Micro-SEP, Micro Color Computer (6503 CPU), MC-10 (6503 CPU), Tomcat TC-9, Tomcat TC-70 (68070 CPU), Delmar System IV (6800 CPU), Peripheral Technology PT68K-4 (6800 CPU), MM/1 (68070 CPU), AT306 (68306 CPU), and Sysdata Tcolor (6503 CPU) computers were vaguely Coco clones. They are so different I don't think they should be considered the same platform.
Coco Clones with unknown compatibility:
The Sampo Color Computer
Prologica CP400 Color
Varixx VC50
LZ Color64
Dynacom MX1600
Codimex CD6809
Microdigital TKS800
EDIT: Tandy did do an Apple ][ clone. It was an add in card for the Tandy 1000 that converted the T1k to an Apple ][ machine.
EDIT2: Nobody cloned Commodore except Commodore. The whole idea behind cloning is to assemble and sell 'the same system' cheaper that the original manufacture does (or the same price and offer other profitable services the original company does not or can't). Nobody could compete this way with Commodore due the vertical marketing (owning most of the process from mining silicon, shipping it, designing chips, manufacturing chips, designing the computers, building the computers, and finally shipping them to stores). When prices rose in any step of the process, commodore absorbed it in the other steps and didn't raise their shelf prices. Other companies had no choices except lose money or pass on the extra cost to their customers. I'll wager highly that there are no Tandy 64s. The 'Commodore Clones' are hobbyist upgrades or produced by companies that had legal rights to do so (1st party clones, Commodore clones by Commodore).
Update:
Other Tandys that are not TRS-80 I/III/4 compatible:
TRS-80 Model II (Just plain different)
TRS-80 MC-10 (The Matra Alice was based on this system. EDIT: MC-10, Alice, Alice 32, and Alice 90 are in the same family and not software compatible with Coco, nor TRS-80 Model 1/3/4, not any other Tandy machines)
TRS-80 Model 100 (a Kyotronic 85 clone)
TRS-80 Model 12 (later incarnation of the Model II)
TRS-80 Model 16 series (later incarnations of the Model 12)
Tandy 10 (a unique Intel 8080 based computer)
Tandy 200 (later incarnations of the Model 100)
Tandy 6000 (later incarnation of the Model 16)
Tandy Pocket Computer series (Casio Calculator clones)
TRS-80 Pocket Computer 1 / RS-80 Pocket Computer PC-1 (Sharp PC-1211 clone)