October 19, 2015

Floppy Days 47 - Tandy CoCo, Part 3

1 hour 45 minutes

This episode is part 3 of a 3-part series on the Tandy Color Computer, also known as the CoCo. I have special guest hosts to help me again this month: John Linville and Neil Blanchard of the “CoCo Crew Podcast”. Join us as we discuss Coco magazines, books, software, modern upgrades, emulation, Web sites and much more.

I also go over my new acquisitions, tell you about upcoming vintage computer shows and cover some podcast feedback.

Finally, we also have audio segments from no less than 4 different CoCo fans who share with us their memories and thoughts about the Tandy Color Computer. Thank you to Michael Moore, Rick Adams, Jon Day, and Tony Cappellini for your contributions.

Note that Floppy Days now has a Facebook page where you can discuss the show or vintage computers in general. Search for “Floppy Days” on Facebook.

Links Mentioned in the Show:

Intro

Bill Degnan’s Historical Computers and Vintage Computer Restoration - http://www.vintagecomputer.net

“History of Commodore Computers” poster by Bill Degnan - http://vintagecomputer.net/poster_detail.cfm

New Acquisitions/What I’ve been Up To

Floppy Days Podcast Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1556099237981844/

Floppy Days Discussion Thread on AtariAge - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/238436-floppy-days-podcast-discussion-thread/

Upcoming Floppy Days Show Schedule - http://floppydays.libsyn.com/webpage/category/Upcoming%20Show%20Schedule

Intellivision Entertainment Computer System (ECS) - http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/games/credits/ecs.shtml

Upcoming Shows

AmiWest 2015 - http://www.amiwest.net/ Oct. 14-18, Sacramento, CA

Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire October 31, 2015, Evanston, IL

World of Commodore - http://www.tpug.ca/category/woc/ Dec. 4-6, 2015, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

VCF SE 4.0 - April 2nd and 3rd, 2016, Roswell, GA

Feedback

Bill Degnan’s GE television for vintage computers - http://vintagecomputer.net/ge/GE_Computer-Monitor-Television.jpg

George Phillips’ Doctor Who Video done on a TRS-80 4P - http://members.shaw.ca/gp2000/drwho.html

Vintage Computer Forum for the TRS-80 - http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/forumdisplay.php?46-Tandy-Radio-Shack

Magazines/Newsletters

Chromasette - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromasette

Compute! - http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/

Hot CoCo - http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Magazines/Hot%20CoCo%20(Searchable%20image)/

Micro 80 - http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/literature_magazines_micro-80_archive.htm

TRS-80 Microcomputer News - http://www.os9projects.com/MAGAZINES/MicroNews/MicroNews.html

80 Micro - https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine

The Color Computer News

The Color Computer Magazine - https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine

CoCo Nutz! Magazine - http://www.os9projects.com/MAGAZINES/NUTZ/Nutz.html

Rainbow Magazine - https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine

Books

book archive with a lot of the mentioned books - https://sites.google.com/a/aaronwolfe.com/cococoding/home/docs

Getting Started with Color BASIC (Tandy)

Going Ahead with Extended Color BASIC (Tandy)

TRS-80 Color Computer Assembly Language Programming by William Barden, Jr.

Color Computer Graphics by William Barden, Jr.

TRS-80 Color Computer Graphics by Don Inman

“Unravelled” series by Spectral Associates:

Color BASIC

Disk BASIC

Extended BASIC

Super Extended BASIC

The Complete Rainbow Guide to OS-9 by Dale L. Puckett and Peter Dibble

The Complete Rainbow Guide to OS-9 Level II by Dale L. Puckett and Peter Dibble

Tandy’s Little Wonder by F.G. Swygert - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Tandy's_Little_Wonder

“CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer” by Boisy G Pitre, Bill Loguidice - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466592478/?tag=flodaypod-20

Software

Dungeons of Daggorath - https://www.facebook.com/DungeonsOfDaggorathForum

Castle of Tharoggad - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Castle_of_Tharoggad

Downland - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Downland

Cave Walker - http://www.mobygames.com/game/cave-walker

Rescue on Fractalis! - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Rescue_on_Fractalus

Koronis Rift - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Koronis_Rift

FahrFall - https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_coco_fahrfall

Editor/Assembler - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/EDTASM%2B

Logo - http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/Programming/TRS-80%20Color%20Logo%20(Tandy).pdf

Super Logo - http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Programming/Super%20Logo%20(Tandy).zip

eForth - http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Programming/eFORTH%20(Frank%20Hogg%20Laboratory).zip

Color File - https://archive.org/details/Color_File_1981_Tandy

Color Scripsit - http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/Applications/Color%20Scripsit%20(Tandy).pdf

Spectaculator - https://archive.org/details/coco2cart_Spectaculator_1983_26-3104_Tandy

Robot Odyssey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Odyssey

Deskmate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptiEv_Sh-NI

Ads

Isaac Asimov - “Get an out of this world deal on my favorite color computer” - http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/300/retro-scan-of-the-week-isaac-asimovs-favorite-color-computer

User Groups and Shows

RainbowFest - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEnPg1qPegI

Glenside CoCo Club - http://www.glensideccc.com/

Last Chicago CoCoFest - April 23 & 24, 2016, Lombard, IL - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/index.shtml

Modern Upgrades

Triad 512K RAM Upgrade - http://www.cloud9tech.com/

CoCo SDC - http://cocosdc.blogspot.com/

6309 upgrade - http://richg42.blogspot.com/2014/02/coco-3-upgrades-hitachi-6309-cpu-512kb.html

NitrOS9 - http://sourceforge.net/projects/nitros9/

Donkey Kong modified for the 6309 and 512K (Sock Master) - http://users.axess.com/twilight/sock/dk/

PS/2 keyboard adapter - http://www.cloud9tech.com/

mini-Flash - 4 16K banks of Flash - http://www.cloud9tech.com/

CoCo3FPGA - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CoCo3FPGA/info

Connectivity to Modern Computers

Drivewire - https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/

Emulation

MESS (Mac/Windows) - Multi-Emulator Super System - http://www.mess.org/

Jeff Vavasour’s CoCo 2 and CoCo 3 emulators (DOS) - http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/trs80.html#coco3

XROAR (Dragon and CoCo 1/2) - http://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/

VCC (Windows) - http://www.coco4.com/vcc/index.shtml by Joseph Forgione

VCC at SourceForge - http://sourceforge.net/projects/vcce/ Version 2.0 8/26/15

Mocha - http://www.haplessgenius.com/mocha/mocha_original.html

Community

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/

Mailing List - [email protected] , https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco

AtariAge CoCo Forum - http://atariage.com/forums/forum/174-tandy-computers/

Forum at tandycoco.com - http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/index.php

The CoCo Crew Podcast - http://cococrew.org/

Coordinated CoCo Conference - http://www.coco4.com/podcasts/cococo.shtml

Google+ (with links to YouTube videos) - https://plus.google.com/+Tandycoco6809/videos

Current Web Sites

TandyCoCo.com - http://www.tandycoco.com/

The TRS-80/Tandy Color Computer COCO SuperSite! - http://www.coco3.com/community/

CoCoCoding Website (Aaron Wolfe) - https://sites.google.com/a/aaronwolfe.com/cococoding/home/

The NitrOS9 Project - http://sourceforge.net/projects/nitros9/

OpenCoCo.net - http://opencoco.net/gf/

A set of Coco 1/2/3 web pages by L. Curtis Boyle - http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/index.html

CoCo4 Website (Steve Bjork) - http://www.coco4.com/index.shtml

CoCo/OS9 Archive - http://os9projects.com/index.html

Cocopedia - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Tandy Color Computer Games - http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/coco_game_list.html

Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 Revived Site - http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/

TRS-80 Color Computer Archive - http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/

TOSEC (The Old School Emulation Center) software collection at archive.org - https://archive.org/details/Tandy_TRS80_Color_Computer_TOSEC_2012_04_23

CoCo Central - http://coco-central.com/

Sock Master - http://users.axess.com/twilight/sock/

Cloud9 - http://www.cloud9tech.com/

Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer

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