Some very interesting changes to the computer timeline there. MICKEY especially- which seems similar to the BBC Micro we had in the UK, just slightly less programmable.
Wonder if Elite plays on the MICKEY?
I don't think there would be an official port, but there would almost have to be several study-hall efforts. Remember,
Lode Runner,
Karateka, and
The Last Ninja originally began as after-hours efforts in high school and college Apple II computer labs. The MICKEY has better specs than, say, a IIgs, other than max pixel resolution, and trades blows with the 256/640 and CoCo 3/4 for less money and a surprisingly large peripheral and expansion card ecosystem.
And for the record, I imagined the mouse ears on the monitor to house independent stereo-capable speakers. Between DOC and the Phillips SAA1099s, that's quite a formidable sound system potentially at students' fingers. Between this,
Mayhem, which doubles as an interactive sound tutorial starring Dr. Teeth and company, and any number of potential sound card startups (and MICKEY's overall hardware and port architecture is
very well documented) and it wouldn't be inconceivable for an entire generation of chiptune musicians and sound engineers to have cut their teeth on MICKEY.
I basically designed the Late Eighties computer lab computer I would have wanted to have used back then as a Junior High and High School student, assuming the constraints of the technology and economics of the day to make it semi-realistic.
the colourful keyboard reminded me of this:
en.wikipedia.org
Replace the joystick with eight arrow keys and a Home in the center, add a number pad, color the turquoise keys white, the gray elements black, and replace the keycaps with Commodore 64-shaped keys with lock lights in the leftmost column of keys, and it wouldn't be too far off.
a OS called GOOF (graphical object oriented filesystem)
Well, we can call the Kernal and OS Sensu-strictu MAGIC, and the GUI GOOF. Keeps the connection to the name of the Graphics Chip intact.