Tand-Em appears to want only the original Tandy 1000 ROM which is different than the Tandy 1000 HX or TX ROM. I have tried it before, but I got an error message related to the above when trying to launch.

Thanks for your insight, but what you describe is probably beyond my current level of experience. I will check back here from time to time to see if one of the developers has enough interest to include Tandy ROM in a future release. At least I have a direction, and a partial solution thanks to …

I looked up the other DeskMate thread only to find that it dealt with exactly the same subject over a year ago. One message mentioned that there may have been fonts in the Tandy ROM. The shell images look like they are looking for a font table at a certain memory location which is not there, hence …

WD, Thanks for your insight, as this makes a lot of sense. Tandy had a way of making various "premium" versions of DeskMate proprietary, and they kept doing this until the decline of the program around 1991 in favor of Windows 3.0/3.1. If you are correct, the question then becomes whether or not …

On the other hand, this is the only emulator that actually brings up the shell itself, which is a huge step forward. Please note that the few characters that you see in the shell image are not actually generated characters (F2, F3, etc), they are merely graphical elements incorporated into the shell …

Thanks very much for your interest and help. Please look at the image and see that the shell is intact, and that the ASCII text within is the problem (which I thought would have been the easy part!) :) Since I know how to navigate this program, I was even able to bring up a graphical image from …

DOSBox is a miracle. It is the best emulator I have found to handle the Tandy 3-voice sound and the "TGA"/ PCJr. graphics modes simultanuously. However, there is still a remaining issue. When attempting to launch the "Personal DeskMate 2" software that came with the 1000 HX, the text within the …