Oct 19, 2015
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:
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- 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 - Coco@maltedmedia.com , 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