Tatung Computer Forum

Further to my earlier update, Adam Groome who is responsible for the Tatung Bytes Website - today retested every single disk on his own Einstein 256, in order to double check everything works. Upon completion of this mammoth task he has informed me that five of the disks I listed as having issues in ...

This is the same list of games already posted but now they are grouped by their issues in the 256 Emulator

Software attempts to load but then returns to the boot disk screen- some cycle round over and over again:-
Airwolf, Breakout, Comic Bakery, Deadzone, Deflect, Gronks, Hunchback, Kings Valley ...

I have now completed my testing of all software on the Einstein 256 emulator so this completes the original list
Mayhem - Attempts to load but then returns to the boot disk screen, then repeats over and over again

Nvaders - Attempts to load but then returns to the boot disk screen, then repeats ...

Further to the above issues regarding four TC-01 Software titles, where Mike had results differing to my own - I am please to say that we have managed to get together on this and have got to the bottom of any discrepancy between our results.

Without wishing to go into any great detail of what we ...

Whilst trying to find a definitive response to mikes posting - which quite rightly quotes the manuals statement about Einstein 256 Compatbility i found an excellent article in the September 1986 Einstein User Magazine which covers the launch of the Einstein 256 - it states

"According to boffins ...

Pernod - i will email you some technical information that you requested - All disks I sent you were supplied by the Tatung Bytes website and all I am informed were tested before uploading them - all of them have also been loaded by me in the TC-01 Emulator and all load perfectly in the TC-01 ...

Mike regarding your druid disk could you let me have a copy of your .dsk file the one I have definitely doesnt work and MAME software lists states its unsupported which means their version doesnt work either - so you may have a different version to everyone else - remember all of these issues are in ...

The following titles all seem to work very well in the Einstein TC-01 emulation but do not work in the Einstein 256 emulation - I own both of these original machines and I or others I am in contact with have tested these games on an original 256 machine and they work, so the fault is with the ...

Having spoken to a member of the M.A.M.E. team about the support for the Einstein Emulation in M.A.M.E. I was very pleased to find out that the person I contacted was in fact the one that worked on the Einstein 256 emulation (along with many other systems) after discussing various issues with him ...

If you would like to see more of what we are all doing please visit the Tatung Bytes website which was recently released - hope to hear from you Lee