2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Dungeons of Daggorath, But Without Quite So Much Typing

What happened

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Dungeons of Daggorath, But Without Quite So Much Typing, according to Hackaday. People mod games all the time, but it’s not every day someone mods Dungeons of Daggorath for the TRS-80. [Nick Bild] did exactly that, adding joystick support and a couple DOOM -inspired monsters for good measure.

Dungeons of Daggorath was pretty unusual for its time. It portrayed a dungeon and its contents from a first-person perspective, and events progressed in real time.

Gameplay-wise, most commands entered by the player revolved around moving around and attacking monsters, and that was done with text commands like ATTACK RIGHT which could mercifully be shortened to A R . [Nick] downloaded the original source code and made several modifications.