About
Boardello is a board game for the Tatung Einstein, written by Dave Collins and published by Bubble Bus Software in 1985. The inlay calls it “an exciting skilful board game for one or two players, requiring all your wits to ‘outmove’ the opposition.”
From the inlay: “Use all your skill and ability to play Boardello, an original board game which can be played by two players with the computer as referee, one player against the computer, or the computer against itself! Start part-way through a game, change places with the computer or just ask for help. The game has five different skill levels and a variable size board.”
It is played on a board of hexagonal cells. From the instruction leaflet: “The players make alternate moves and try to trap one or more of the opponent’s pieces between the piece played and a piece (or pieces) of the same colour already on the board. Any pieces so trapped change to pieces of the opposite colour.”
Running It
“Insert disk into Drive 0 and press RESET switch.” The disc boots straight into the game and plays a demonstration. Press M for the menu of options. The instruction leaflet is in the pictures on this page.
Files in the Package
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
BORDELLO_A_BOARDELLO.scp | raw flux capture of side A |
BORDELLO_A_BOARDELLO.mfi | MAME floppy image |
BORDELLO_A_BOARDELLO.dsk | sector image |
README.txt | details of the dump and checksums |
The Disc
Only tracks 0 to 8 of side A are formatted; the rest of the side, and all of side B, were never written. The game is a single 12,288-byte file whose name has the top bit set on every character, so it cannot be typed at the DOS prompt. The program is byte for byte the same as in the image this replaces, where it had been renamed BORDELLO.COM.
About this Dump
Dumped on 1 October 2026 from an original Bubble Bus disc with a Greaseweazle V4 and an original Einstein 3″ drive. All 90 sectors read with good checksums on the first pass, and it boots and plays in MAME.
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