Category: TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo)
In a previous article I discussed the Radio Shack Color Computer’s lesser known text mode screen colors. Below you can see the normal, normal reversed, alternate and alternate reversed color modes: During a recent discussion with CoCo FPGA programmer Roger Taylor, he mentioned something I was unaware of. He has spent years working on an FPGA recreation of the various…
Scene World Podcast Episode #121 – Chris Abbott – The Little Books Of SoundchipsWe’re happy to have Chris Abbott in our new podcast episode, a british chiptune musician and true master of the C64 SID chip. Right now he is working on an extensive book about soundchips which is set to be released by Fusion Retro Book. The interview starts…
Chapters: 01 , 02 , 03, 04. The story so far: graphic performance is great! We have a notion of memory consumption and the base game idea direction, meaning, we have a designed player moving about. How does one start a game development? In my case and in general, by doing sketches, then mock ups for the target system, then I code the basic…
The Double-Do competition winners were announced in the December issue of the TRS8Bit Newsletter. The competition had so many entries that the organizers decided to expand the categories and awards from two to six! The winners were spread in three different categories. The Monochrome category for software developed for the Model I/III/4, the Coloured category, for programs created for the…
Updates: 2020-11-03 – Updated color from “pink” to “amber” per MiaM in the comments. What is the background color? Red? Maroon? I’m a guy, so I only see one shade of white, but going in to the paint store proves I am wrong. Recently, Robin from 8-Bit Show and Tell posted some YouTube videos covering easter eggs in various Radio…
Almost by accident, yesterday I came across Digger III: The Saint’s Ascension, a new game released for the CoCo3 with 512K RAM. Heavily inspired (clone?) on Lode Runner, Digger III is a platform game where you have to run across each level collecting gold and avoiding the enemies. After you collect all gold, a door will open, and you need…
My only participation in game development contests happened a few years ago in the BASIC 10-liner, where I managed to a very low score – the game wasn’t that good, to be honest. Despite that, this is one of the topics that most interest me. The interest comes from reasons. One is my thinking to try again to participate in…
Chapters: 01 , 02 , 03. If you have seen my other project devlogs, you probably noticed I pull a lot inspiration from that title´s primeval computer. Yes it was were I self learned to do computer games, mostly with the aid of books and magazines from those times. After finishing The Outhouse game, which mimics the COCO´s semigraphics 4…
A month ago I published on YouTube a video showing my vintage computer collection from when I was living in my old place (the video was shot in Nov/Dec 2019) and my main point when posting it was to raise the discussion about the differences to be a collector or simply accumulating old computers just for the sake of it….
Steve Strowbridge has published today on his YouTube channel, the Original Gamer, a two-part video teaching how to emulate the TRS-80 Color Computer using MAME, the multi-purpose emulation framework. Although MAME is very powerful, it is not necessarily easy to set up for a specific machine if you are used to it, so Steve’s tutorials come to fill that gap…
