Closed Fallout Style Terminal Working Text Adventure Z-Machine System

[Gallandro]

70's Terminal evocation, runs the famous Z Machine text adventures from the old mainframe days.
Zork, Leather Goddess of Phobos etc from infocom and the z-machine days
£175
Self contained on one UK plug with Keyboard.
Sweet little CRT monitor and keyboard. (bowling pin for scale not for sale)
Sorry a few snaps are blurred. screen is crisp with no screen burn.






Working Video below :

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[sweetlilmre]

Can you give more detail on what this actually is? What's the black box on the back?

 

[Gallandro]

The black box contains the Mainframe terminal emulation to run n the monitor. It plays Z-Machine text adventure games like Zork form the 70's and 80's as if it were on an old mainframe. The monitor has a second input for full colour input also.

 

[KBQ]

It looks like a totally ordinary Video Monitor that any TV production company would have, but with a raspberry pi glued on the back.

 

[Half-Saint]

It looks like a totally ordinary Video Monitor that any TV production company would have, but with a raspberry pi glued on the back.

Only it's not a raspberry pi as a RPi doesn't come with a PS/2 port for keyboard.

 

[sweetlilmre]

Well it could be a pi in the box with a ps2 port connected to it....

 

[diskers]

Sorry to say that, but there weren't this type of terminals in the late 70's and early 80's nor even PS/2 connector that was used only from the late 80's (1987). But then Zork I was oudated... I don't want to
be harsh but even if it's, as you wrote only an evocation, it's really a poor made one But it's only my opinion and I said that as I said nothing.

 

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