Floppy Days 47 - Tandy CoCo, Part 3

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