Laser 100-310

Type: Computer
Publisher: Video Technology
Firstly released in: Hong Kong
First release: Nov 1983
Release and compatibility details: Video Technology's Laser 100/110/200/210/310 products. All products have been released in 1983-1984 and were named under "VZ-[100-300]" names in Australia.

Success and unsuccess:

Most popular years: 1983-1984
Most popular countries: Australia, UK

Characteristics:

This 8-bit computer was not anything awesome, just one cheap 8-bit with few kBytes of RAM and quite good basic from Microsoft. Although, I have special memories for it, because it was my first computer ever and, surprisingly, longest owned one! I got it 4 years, and I did not ever own any computer such a long time. When you will consider that on this computer I had only one game and few basic-made ones, they were really hard-coding days :)

More info: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=155 or http://www.geocities.com/Baja/Dunes/6771/vz/

Games and music info:

Most common media for storing games: Cassette
Average packed game size: 5 kB

Emulation info:

VZEM - emulator of all Laser computers, runs under DOS and emulates almost all except joystick.
MESS - Emulates also Laser computers, I haven't tested it; it will sure be a lot slower than VZEM.

This emulation info was written on 16.December 2002. (This time is very important, because emulation info very depends on the time it was written - emulators can improve a lot after this time..).