Found something wonderful – an emulator for Radio-86RK. That was my first computer. In the emulator, at the bottom, there are ‘Load & Run’ buttons where you can load games and programs with just a couple of clicks. Did anyone else have such a challenging childhood, what did you play?
Here’s a catalog of games with screenshots and “Start” buttons – in the JavaScript emulator.
Notice how much you can fit into 8 kilobytes (that’s a million times less memory than a typical modern laptop).
All the games were written in assembler or even directly in machine codes. If you press the letter V in the emulator, you can see a table, which I always had printed out. These are the processor’s instruction codes. It was loaded and saved through a cassette recorder connected to the computer.
From the games, I vividly remember Xonix, Volcano, PVO, KLAD, Chess.
What were your first games?
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