TandyVision CDs

[acadiel]

Any idea what these are? They appear to have Windows files on them and a bunch of stuff I can't read.

https://imgur.com/a/5SXhY

TandyVision 2.0 -- TandyVision registered trademark of Tandy Corporation.
4/27/92
Copyright Notices
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Data (c) 1991, 1992 Tandy Corporation. All rights reserved.
Shell (c) 1991, 1992 R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
and Mammoth Micro Productions Inc.
All Rights Reserved
RTE (c) 1989-1991 Mammoth Micro Productions Inc.
DbVista (c) 1985-1989 Raima Corporation. All rights reserved.
Operating System (c) 1991 MicroSoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

 

[krebizfan]

Odd. TandyVision was the label given to a Radio Shack version of the Intellivision back in the early 80s. That would not use CDs though.

Based on the dates, it looks to be a prerelease disk for the very unsuccessful Tandy VIS which was an attempt to make a 286 Windows PC into a game console. Weird thing.

Maybe list the files?

 

[vwestlife]

It might be training material for Radio Shack employees. Companies would often call such training an "Information Network".

 

[dlightman]

This appears to be software for a catalog kiosk called "TandyVision Information Center" that ran on DOS 5 / Windows 3.0 MME. I vaguely remember one of these in our local Radio Shack.

If you build a minimal system running DOS 5, mount the ISO and run \UPDATE\UPDATE.BAT it will install the software on the HD. It then boots, loads CD/sound drivers and runs "win /s tshell" from the \VISION\BIN directory.

The Windows install is configured for a Carrol touch screen and Paradise VGA. I started playing around with it in VMWare Workstation but tshell wont load with the generic VGA driver. Switched to DOSBox and with machine=svga_paradise it looks like it could be made to work but I ran out of time for tonight

 

[acadiel]

Here are the .bin/.cue files if anyone wants them. Knock yourself out.

If anyone gets these running in DOSBOX or Wine, let me know

FYI, now located here:

Tandy Vision Multimedia Store Demos : Tandy Corporation : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

These are unknown demo CDs obtained from the Radio Shack Bankruptcy Auction. One is from April 1992 and one is from Fall 1992. These appear to have Windows...

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