COMX-35 · The Worm

The Dutch-loved 1983 home computer, emulated cycle by cycle in your browser.

COLOR TV
PROGRAM SOUND
COMX-35 home computer with built-in joystick

How to play

  1. WILT U GELUID (J/N)?: "Do you want sound?" Press J (ja) or N (nee).
  2. GEWENSTE GRAAD?: Choose a difficulty from 1 to 9, then press Enter (CR).
  3. Steer the worm with the ← ↑ → ↓ keys, or click the joystick on the photo. Eat the little figures and avoid the walls and your own tail. BOTSING!! means crash.

The Program list holds 200 COMX games from the era, most of them Dutch: the COMX-35 was especially popular in the Netherlands. Turn the PROGRAM knob on the TV to flip through them. Most games ask "Wilt u instructies (J/N)?" ("Do you want instructions?") first.

You can also type on the photo of the keyboard. The COMX shows lower-case keys as capitals; Esc stops a BASIC program and Backspace is DEL.