UVL: Platform/Operating System Limitation
Other (objects, etc.) theme
333
games
30platforms
Temporarily used in cases where a game is listed in a completely unrelated platform until it is decided how the platform should be handled.
Notable people involved: Scott Adams and Brian Howarth
PDP1 1974-01-01
LIN 2003
LIN 1998-01-06
LIN 1992
DOS 1982
UNIX 1994? *
PDP1 1984-06
LIN 2003
LIN 2010
WWW 2013-01-13
UNIX ? *
LIN 2002
Some times the game is unique. Sometimes the game exists on both the platform its listed in, and on the platform its tagged with. Please these note relationships specify in the description.
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Games by year
The first UVL: Platform/Operating System Limitation video game was released in 1974.
Scientific Research Inst., Hewlett-Packard and Personal Programming Center published most of these games.
Platforms
Most common companies
Child groups
Amstrad NC100 Notepad | Portable Z80-based portable computer with 64KB RAM released by Amstrad in 1992, predecessor of the NC200. | 1994 / 2000 | 12 games | |
Amstrad NC200 Notebook | Portable Z80-based portable computer with 128KB RAM released by Amstrad in 1993, successor of the NC100. | 1993 / 2000 | 14 games | |
Apple I | Games for the original Apple Computer, retroactively named the Apple I (Apple 1). | 1976 / 2012 | 30 games | |
AROS | AROS is a non-propriety implementation of the AmigaOS 3.1 APIs. Source-compatible not binary-compatible; designed so AmigaOS code will compile on it. | 2005 / 2014 | 2 games | |
Data General Eclipse MV computer platforms | A multitasking computer with virtual memory designed to outdo the PDP-11. | 2 games | ||
Data General Nova minicomputer | DG made this 16-bit single rack-mount machine in 1969. Replaced same year by SuperNova. It automated tasks for the 1st CAT scan machine and played STAR TREK. Influenced designs of Xerox Alto & Apple I. | 1 game | ||
DECSYSTEM-20 platform | This was a DEC PDP-10, 36-bit mainframe that ran the TOPS-20 OS. | 1 game | ||
GCOS | Later renamed GECOS (the [b]G[/b]eneral [b]E[/b]lectric [b]C[/b]omprehensive [b]O[/b]perating [b]S[/b]upervisor) A multithreaded OS originally by General Electric that was designed for mainframes & batch processing. Remains in use through emulation for | 1 game | ||
GE-600 | 17 games | |||
Heath H-89 Platform | Games run on the Zenith/Heath H-8/H-89 Platform. | 1978 / 1982 | 17 games | |
Hewlett-Packard HP-19C | A series of programmable hand-held scientific calculators. | 1974 / 1979 | 6 games | |
Hewlett-Packard 20-series Programmable Calculators | The "20-series" were based on a common architecture and ACT chip (CPU) and media format. | |||
Hewlett-Packard HP-25 Programmable calculator | A cost reduced variant of the HP-65 lacking removable media and subroutines. | 1976 / 1979 | 14 games | |
Hewlett-Packard HP-29C | A series of programmable hand-held scientific calculators. | 1974 / 1979 | 6 games | |
Hewlett-Packard HP-50g Graphic Calculator | A graphic calculator by Hewlett-Packard. | 1 game | ||
Hewlett-Packard HP-55 Programmable calculator | A low cost alternative to the HP-65. While lacking many of the HP-65 features, it also added many inexpensive features that few calculators have. | 1975 / 1977 | 2 games | |
Hewlett-Packard HP-65 | A series of programmable hand-held scientific calculators. | 1974 / 1977 | 18 games | |
Hewlett-Packard HP-67 | A series of programmable hand-held scientific calculators. | 1974 / 1979 | 54 games | |
Hewlett-Packard HP-97 | A series of programmable desktop scientific calculators. | 1975 / 1979 | 48 games | |
Honeywell 6000 computer platform | 1972 / 1977 | 18 games | ||
HP 1000 & 2000 platform series | Games run on early HP 2000 series computers later renamed 1000 series. | 1970 / 1978 | 21 games | |
HP 2000 minicomputer platform | Games run on early HP 2000 series computers. 2000A 2000B 2000C 2000C' 2000E 2000F 2000F-200 2000Access 2000System 2116A 2115A 2114A 2100A 2000F 2100S | 1970 / 1981 | 11 games | |
HP 3000/e3000 platform series | Games for the e3000 platform. Manufactured 1973-2001, officially supported until 2008. Supported for 35 years! There has to be many games. | 1982 / 1987 | 15 games | |
IBM 1130 platform | Games for the IBM 1130 platform. Manufactured 1965-02-11 to 1972. Used for much longer. | 1 game | ||
IRIX operating system | Games for SGI's IRIX OS. | 1979 / 2006 | 37 games | |
Matra Alice compatible | These games will run on the Matra Alice series; clone of Tandy TRS-80 MC-10. | 1984 / 1986 | 39 games | |
MorphOS/Quark | An operating system for PowerPC based hardware. Designed for maximum compatibility with all Amiga applications. | 1998 / 2014 | 6 games | |
MOS KIM-1 platform | Games for the KIM-1 platform. | 1977 / 1979 | 23 games | |
NIMROD platform | This computer was designed to play NIM, that's all it did. | 1 game | ||
Novell NetWare | Began as a disk sharing system and became a type of network operation system. | 1 game | ||
OpenVMS operating system | Games for OpenVMS. | 1993 / 1997 | 7 games | |
Pandora | A Linux based portable game console & UMPC developed by former distributors & community members of the GP32 & GP2X handhelds. | 2003 / 2015 | 22 games | |
PDP-10 platform | 1970 / 1980 | 24 games | ||
PDP-11 platform | 1973 / 1984 | 27 games | ||
PDP-11-45 platfrom | 1 game | |||
PDP-7 platform | 1 game | |||
Pegasos Platform | Runs on computers based on the Pegasos I or Pegasos II motherboard. This MB is a quasi-amiga clone that also does MacOS, Linux & a variety of PPC OSes | 2 games | ||
Qnx operating system | QNX/Q-nix is a POSIX compliant, unix-like operating system. | 1994 / 2013 | 7 games | |
RISC OS operating system | Famous for fewest & least harmful viruses of any OS & no spyware ever. | 1992 / 2005 | 11 games | |
Scientific Data Systems Sigma 7 minicomputer | SDS released this 32-bit machine with 128 kWords (512K) on memory in 1966. It played STAR TREK. Retired in 1970 when Xerox bought SDS. | 1971 / 1977 | 20 games | |
Sequent Symmetry platform | A series of multiprocessing computers by Sequent Computer Systems Inc. | 1 game | ||
SkyOS operating system | proprietary | 1 game | ||
Syllable OS | A fork from the former AtheOS. | 1999 / 2006 | 2 games | |
Tangerine Microtan 65 | 1979 single-board microcomputer KIT with 6502 CPU. Used a rack mount system for up to 7 expansions. Precursor to the Oric. | 1 game | ||
Timex Sinclair TS 1000 & TS 1500 | The Timex Sinclair 1000 & 1500 were ZX81 variants sold by Timex in partnership with Sinclair Research. Some games were specifically designed for the TS 1000 series. | 1981 / 1983 | 4 games | |
Windows Phone 7 | A Windows CE-based OS for mobile phones. | 2006 / 2013 | 10 games | |
Windows Phone 8 | A Windows NT-based OS for mobile phones. | 2 games |