Tag: TRS-80 News
Mostly inspired by Allen Huffman and his excellent series of articles about Cross development and Extended Color Basic (CoCo Cross Development part 1, part 2, and part 3), I decided to try coding in BASIC for the CoCo using a modern editor. Equipped with MAME as emulator and LWTools to create and modify disk images, using the decb utility, I create…
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…
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
Retrocomputaria blog brought to my attention this incredible complete site about CP/M software, Humongous CP/M Software Archives. With this name, you can guess they carry a large collection of software for the CP/M operating system, once dominant OS before the MS-DOS era. They also have software for the TRS-80, CP/M or not. The site is not really new, but since it…
TRS-80 is one of the most iconic retro-computers you can think of. The model I or III don’t have high-resolution of fancy sound chips. It doesn’t have even colors! With all these limitations, the TRS-80 computers are still a nice machine capable of many things that you can probably not even dreamed. To me, the TRS-80 Model I is by…
PC Magazine likes its slide shows, and sometimes they are really interesting. This one goes through the golden age of TRS-80. It shows only the main computers Tandy-Radio Shack had released since 1977 with the TRS-80 Model I. If you don’t know much about the TRS line, take a ride down the memory lane, following the link below. Link: PCMag
