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This splash screen is animated, quite nice for a database software -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9vGfz6DWw4

Heh, that's quite a nice animation for a database!

Someone remade the "Vitamin" game from Agat -- https://n800.itch.io/space-lagat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DwwKA1W-t8

I haven't read through all thirty-eight pages of this thread, so apologies if this has already been covered – but I made it to the Museum of Soviet Video Games in St Petersburg (Russia) in 2019.

I have a bunch of photographs if any of them might be helpful.

Sure, photos are always welcome.

Temporarily uploaded to https://www.retrogamesformac.com/svg.zip – will leave them there for a week.

ec1842 WIP. This is almost a PC AT clone, sans second DMA chip and plus other funkiness (a modified 8086 clone plus an external MMU to support running software for 80286). Quite nice font, too:

ProDOS is almost working on agat9 (crashes after reading disk directory):

Recording of sales demo (made in IBM Storyboard Plus) for a few Soviet computers (big iron and PC clones), originally shipped with ec1842, and dated June 1991:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruY_TuuNOVg

Most of remaining unemulated Soviet PC clones are not very interesting, but Istra-4816 is truly weird. It's not clear if it was designed as a PC clone from the start, or retrofitted later, but the finished product definitely runs DOS (and Prince of Persia).

It has three CPUs (two 8080 and one 8086), one 8080 does I/O emulation for the other two, another is described a 'supervisor' and may run its own OS (likely CP/M) concurrently with whatever is running on 8086. All three have shared access to RAM, but only IO cpu has access to ROM. Video hardware uses two 8275s and apparenty can mix text and graphics modes within scan line.

All in all, this is so weird that even with schematics (which are available) and ROMs (not yet) I'm not inclined to work on it