Tag: TRS-80 Programming

Wordle is everywhere, except on TRS-80’s. The TRS8BIT 2022 competition aims to change that. It has two tracks called Beauty and the Beast. Beauty entrants will make their own version of Wordle for the TRS-80. They’ll be judged on how fun and pretty they are. It doesn’t need to support the full dictionary so you can concentrate on looks. Use…

Glen Hewlett has published throughout the month of November five articles explaining how to setup and use interrupts on the TRS-80 Color Computer. He starts his blog talking about his motivation and objectives: Recently I was working on my MIDI to CoCo converter program and I wanted to output the data with an option that would include the player that…

Updated on 1/5/2018 with more details on getting the XRoar emulator going (ROMs, xroar.conf file). See also: part 2 and part 3. In 1980, programming on a then-new Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer (“CoCo”) initially meant using Microsoft COLOR BASIC 1.0 with a glorious 4K of memory. More advanced programmers might have chosen to learn 6809 assembly language. With a…