The Hobbit for PC DOS

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The Hobbit

Online version of The Hobbit for PC DOS. The Hobbit is an illustrated text adventure based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, written in 1982 by Veronika Megler and Philip Mitchell at the Australian studio Beam Software and published by Melbourne House. The player takes the role of Bilbo Baggins, travelling with Gandalf and Thorin across Middle-earth towards the Lonely Mountain, where the dragon Smaug guards a hoard of treasure. It ran on the Inglish parser, which understood whole sentences and orders addressed to other characters, and on the Animaction system, which kept the world moving even while the player was not typing. It appeared first on the ZX Spectrum, reached most home computers of the day by 1987 and became one of the best selling games of the eighties.

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Released in

1982

Publisher

Melbourne House

Developer

Beam Software Pty., Ltd.

Platforms

ZX Spectrum (1982), BBC Micro, Oric-1, PC DOS, Apple II (1983), Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX (1985), Macintosh (1987)

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You can play The Hobbit online also in a versions for

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IBM PC with MS-DOS

Online emulated version of The Hobbit was originally developed for the IBM PC and compatible computers, with MS DOS - Microsoft Disk Operating System. It is an OS for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft and released in 1981 as PC DOS 1.0.
MS-DOS was targeted at Intel 8086 processors running on computer hardware using floppy disks to store and access not only the operating system, but application software and user data as well. Progressive version releases delivered support for other mass storage media in ever greater sizes and formats, along with added feature support for newer processors and rapidly evolving computer architectures. Ultimately, it was the key product in Microsoft's development from a programming language company to a diverse software development firm, providing the company with essential revenue and marketing resources. It was also the underlying basic operating system on which early versions of Windows ran as a GUI.