Category: TRS-80
Subreddit RetroBattlestations is promoting another BASIC Month. This time around, the idea is to run the BASIC program Terraspin, a Turtle graphics type program created for the contest. The contestants will have to type in the program on any retro computer that runs BASIC and post take a picture of it running. The rules state very clearly that screen only or emulators are…
Radio Shack has sold the TRS-80 Model I expansion in order to give the computer extended memory and floppy drives. Matthew Reed from TRS-80.org has published an article showing us that Radio Shack’s was not the only option to expand the Model I. You can learn more about it reading this interesting article. Link: TRS-80.org
Bill Pierce announced on the CoCo maillist that he has updated the VCC Starter Kits with newer versions of the emulator and Drivewire.The “VCC Starter Kits” are a single install of VCC (CoCo3 emulator), HDBDOS, NitrOS9, and DriveWire4, completely set up and ready to run. The kit is perfect for those who want a quick start with the VCC emulator…
John W. Linville, from the CoCo Crew podcast, has published an article showing his design of an adapter that allows you to use SEGA Genesis (or Megadrive) with the CoCo3. Also, he mention that a dual-joypad version of this adapter was produced and built by his podcasting partner Neil Blanchard. You can watch a quick demo in the video below…
The 2016 BASIC 10-liners contest is a staggering success with 89 games in 4 categories. The number of entries and the quality of the programs shows that BASIC is still a viable language for many usages, and fun to program. Your very own Vintage is The New Old had an entry called “Typing Hero” for the MSX, and it did…
It was published today a video presentation from the Game Developer Conference 2012 featuring our beloved TRS-80 and its iconic games. The presentation is about game design where Jim McGinley shows many classic TRS-80 games like Dancing Demon and Outhouse, and how some of them had a fantastic design considering how limited is the machine’s resolution. He has some interesting views…
(Article by Daniel Campos, translated by Paulo Garcia) I believe this article doesn’t bring a lot of new information for those who follow my articles because I’d been promising an article talking about the computer that originates the history of the CoCo clones in Brazil for almost a year. The history The CD-6809 was the first CoCo clone produced in Brazil…
Retrospekt website has published an interview with John Kavanagh, the guy behind the Kickstarter campaign that aim to bring a magazine all about 8-bit machines. The article starts with “John Kavanagh is no stranger when it comes to online magazine publishing. Having produced CPC Oxygen magazine for the Amstrad community, he has a strong passion for vintage computers, particularly those…
There is a new game for iOS devices that is all about knowing your retro computers. ‘Retro PC Mania’ tests your knowledge with three game modes: Identify the model looking at the pictures Tell the brand name of the machine displayed Try to select the year of introduction of a computer The game doesn’t have the most incredible graphics but…
TRS-80 Trash Talk is the new podcast about the TRS-80 line of computers. We are happy to see that the second episode came out already, showing commitment by the hosts! Trash Talkers Peter Cetinski Randy Kindig Peter Bartlett Ian Mavric The episode brings news, talks about VCF East and South East and much more. Link: TRS-80 Trash Talk
