Ouji Binbin no Monogatari
Story of Prince Binbin. Binbin has a couple of translations, neither of which especially make sense in context of the game so far, so you can figure out the title…
Anti-piracy Appeal
I went to load a game on my Sharp X1 Turbo Z, but I was greeted by this horse: The kanji character in yellow and red means “prohibited”, and it…
Shanghai
Growing up in America, I thought Mahjong was a game of picking up matching tiles. I had OS/2 and it included a game called Mahjong which was exactly that. But…
Sharp X1 Series Software
These are the disks included with my system, the Sharp X1 Turbo Z, and the Sharp X1 Turbo, which I don’t have but picked up anyway. It’s all compatible with…
First major problem
The ugly side of vintage computing is that they are problem-prone. When you figure PCs are designed to be replaced every two to ten years, it’s no surprise that these…