http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68221 <pre> Hi guys, I just aquired a Coco 1 (grey) Cat 278-300A., CCR-81 Cassette Recorder, X-Pad and a few carts and tapes. The Coco powers up fine. Extendended Color Basic 1.0 PRINTMEM reports 24871 Since this is an "F" board and the "F" boards were the first Coco 1s actually "meant" to be upgraded to 64k, I assume it is 64k. The warrenty seal has been removed and replaced by a Radio Shack Service Center seal, so I would think it had to be upgraded by Radio Shack or the seal would be broken. What I would like to know, and I know it's been discussed many times before, is if there is a PEEK/POKE or short routine to test for 64k? I plan to hook it up to a drive and run OS-9 Level 1 and that will surely fail if it's 32k. But if there's a quick way, that would save me a lot of trouble Here a link to some pics of the Coco 1 and accessories I recieved https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/temp-pics Bill Pierce My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 &amp; 3 https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/ Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/ Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page E-Mail: ooogalapasooo-YDxpq3io04c&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> Bill Pierce 2013-05-21T22:12:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68215 <pre>We do not have on any archive, I think Planetarium http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=151048073320&amp;ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123#ht_500wt_1192 Battle of Gettysburg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-software-for-Tandy-Radio-Shack-Color-Computer-CoCo-Gettysburg/161029419690?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&amp;_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D11%26meid%3D7806682226934408933%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D1005%26rk%3D4%26sd%3D151038002850%26 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Making CoCoDskUtil V 1.X.X, Scan magazines and organize maltedmedia http://cococoding.com/cocodskutil/ Thank Aaron Wolfe http://www.tandycoco.com Thank Brian Blake and Stephen Fischer My personal blog: http://www.luis45ccs.blogspot.com, Excuse my English, I use google translator, my language is Spanish, I'm Spanish but I live in Venezuela --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> Luis Fernández 2013-05-21T12:14:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68207 <pre>Okay so my uncle gave me a COCO 2 computer, he had no idea if it worked or not, when i turned it on it worked, i noticed there was some commands written on the machine, like sound, the strange thing is that when i turned it on then it said Extended Color Basic, not sure which version, it also said Copyright Microsoft, if it said anything else i do not remember, and when i used the sound command it played beeps based on the DURATION and FREQUENCY i specified, then a few days later when i turned it on it now says Color Basic 1.2 (C) 1982 TANDY and sound no longer works. -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> Matthew 2013-05-21T02:00:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68202 <pre>My hardware sale on friday went so well, that I am spending the day doing the boxing and shipping from it. I have also decided to do another sale today on the hardware for those that missed it and wanted to get in on today's (well actually tomorrow's-because of the holiday) mail run. All hardware prices have been reduced between $5 and $50 and everything is under $60 -INCLUDING shipping to the USA and Canada. This ends at midnight (MNT) tonight http://store.amigalounge.com/g43.html Please- no Trolls LOL -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> Glen VanDenBiggelaar 2013-05-20T15:58:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68197 <pre>http://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-art-collectibles-Tandy-Colour- Computer-W0QQAdIdZ481538264 Contains rare to find ROM Pak Dragonfire2 Regards, Torsten -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> Torsten Dittel 2013-05-20T10:53:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68192 <pre>[ I tried sending this before, but I think from the wrong account. Sorry if this is a dup. ] I put together a little board to help me with my hardware development, and I thought that it might help others as well. It's essentially a stripped down version of my ROM/device emulator - just the buffer chips and a pin header breaking out all of the needed stuff. The header is compatible with the GPIO header for the Terasic DE1 FPGA dev board, but obviously it can be used with anything, both 3.3v and 5v, provided that it can supply the board with 3.3v. Take a look at the video to see a quick demo using the FPGA as a ROM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttf82tPXUko. Overkill, but you get the idea. When I have a few minutes I'm going to put the board layout and schematic up on the web. I also intend to sell populated board for those of you who don't like to do fine pitch SMD soldering. Haven't finalized a price yet, but I believe it will be around $35. If you're interested, send me a note. I'm still working on the ROM board, but I'm playing around with some options to make it cheaper and more flexible. -Matt -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> Matthew D Stock 2013-05-19T23:25:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68186 <pre>Could this be useful in a "v2" of Roy's adapter? This RGB to VGA adapter was designed upon an Altera FPGA for use with a BBC Micro (PAL) and has been released as open source. https://github.com/makestuff/rgb2vga NATIVE DIGITAL RGB TO VGA CONVERTER This code accepts a pixel clock, R, G, B, HS and VS from an old computer and generates a VGA signal suitable for display on a modern monitor. The main caveat is that monitors to be used with PAL machines must be able to deal with a 50.000Hz vsync (many do, some do not). &lt;...&gt; This will build a .svf file suitable for loading into an Altera EP2C5 FPGA (e.g http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/150835820710). Suitable level-shifting is required to protect the FPGA from any 5V signals. On the VGA side, a series 270R resistor on the R, G &amp; B lines is all that's needed. Chris McClelland 2013-05-10 -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> S Klammer 2013-05-19T12:28:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68181 <pre>Hi everybody, I am new on the list, although I have been peeking at the archives for some months already. I am a Dragon 32 user and have recently picked up some development after a few decades' long hiatus. = m6809 dev PPA = For those on Debian-based systems, you may find my m6809 PPA (personal package archive) convenient. It has the latest versions (or snapshots) of toolshed, lwtools and xroar. The packages are built on Ubuntu 10.04 which means they should install without problems on any Debian-derivative released in the last 3 years. The PPA page itself has instructions on how to add the PPA to your software sources so that you get automatic updates. https://launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/+archive/m6809 = toolshed updates = For those unfortunate Windows users, you can now find updated build instructions in the toolshed mercurial repository. Building should be straight forward on MingW systems, and I would welcome feedback on Cygwin systems. A little hint for anyone bandwidth-challenged: The above PPA contains a 1.1 MB orig.tar.gz which is a source snapshot without the 40 MB documentation and the overhead of a hg clone. makewav has received some updates, and can now read DECB headers, and also write .CAS files. hdbdos and dwdos can now be built with lwasm, while the deprecated mamou has been made more compatible with lwasm to ease the migration. Regards, Tormod -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> Tormod Volden 2013-05-19T10:24:56 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68178 <pre> Hi Guys, I finally finished the "User Group and Individual Collections OS9.vhd" Each collection is in it's own directory and each file archive is uncompressed to it's own directory The archive includes (OS9) OCN, Princeton, RTSI, CIS-OS9, and The Color Computer Disk Image Archive. These are all OS9 archives and searchable with any OS9 search utility. Stick this vhd into drivewire and have access to one of the largest single disk, uncompressed archive collections on the internet. It has taken me about 3 months of decompressing all the files from each archive and moving to proper directories. The one thing I didn't do, is set all the attributes. As most any OS-9 user knows, when you decompress a file, it's attributes are not set. So you will have to do this when you want to use a file. Here's the link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23059963/Stuff/User%20Group%20and%20Individual%20Collections%20OS9.vhd It will also be available from my website under the utilities page. This vhd rplaces the previous RTSI vhd I had up before as RTSI is included here. If the link doesn't work, try again later as it may still be uploading Enjoy :-) Bill Pierce My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 &amp; 3 https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/ Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/ Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page E-Mail: ooogalapasooo-YDxpq3io04c&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> Bill Pierce 2013-05-19T06:09:23 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68173 <pre>I think I know the answer to this, but thought I would toss it out to the group, totally off topic, but I am wondering what OS someone would recomment for a total computer newbie. I have built up an old Gateway PC and gave it to someone wanting a PC but no cash to get anything. Well I had put XP on it, but after about three day they had it totally hosed, with more spam/maleware you can shake a stick at. So I am at a delema, I want to help the person out, but I am leary about putting anything but windows on it since they want to "play games" did not get into detail on this, but really think I am stuck putting XP back on it. Any thoughts? I would love to just throw a simple linux distro on it and call it a day, but I fear that will just be too complicated in the end, especially with him wanting do some gaming on it. -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> Louis Ciotti 2013-05-19T02:52:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68172 <pre>Very silly. :-) I likes it! Willard </pre> Willard Goosey 2013-05-19T01:15:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68171 <pre>Sure took me some time! For those not in the know, EmCee is a DriveWire-like server for the MC-10, only it works with filesystem semantics instead of disk I/O semantics. You can use it if your MC-10 has an extension board by Darren Atkinson (Hi Darren!), or you can CLOAD a binary of it if you have a plain 16K memory expnsion by Tandy. I can read and write data files with OPEN #n, PRINT #n, and (LINE) INPUT #n! That was the last thing missing. Things are still far from complete, but now it's totally usable. What's still missing, that I can recall, is: - The only things that can me LOADM'ed are .C10 files. Hey, it's good enough to load Pac-Man. - No text translation for BASIC programs. They are saved as tokenized files, and only tokenized files can be LOAD'ed. - No screen saving. - No filename extension cooking. If a file is named MYPROG.BAS, then LOAD"MYPROG" won't work. - No filename case inverting. I believe I should, by default, show lowercase characters in UNIX as non-reverse video characters. - The base directory is always the current directory where the server was run from. That should be configurable. - Printing always goes to /tmp/emceeprint.DEVICENAME.txt -- that, too, should be configurable. - Speaking of which, there should be a configuration file. - And a proper SourceForge project, complete with makefile, license etc. (It is GPLv2+, it's in the source header.) For now, if you want to play with it, get it from the URL below... http://users.vialink.com.br/jcastro/emceed.c ...compile it under Linux with... gcc -Wall -o emceed emceed.c ...and run it with... ./emceed /dev/ttyS0 ...or whatever your RS-232 UNIX name is. Cheers! Juan -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> Juan Castro 2013-05-18T23:04:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68170 <pre>Well, at some point I had to make up my mind and release a "version 1.0"of "Furious Felines". I think that it is one of the best games I ever wrote. Not that I wrote that many decent games, but... I still think of it as a "release candidate", since I haven't actually played it in real hardware. Also, there are plenty of new features that will be added to future versions, but right now, it's playable, it looks good, and I believe that it's fun to play. You can get it from http://yaccs.info/PROGRAMAS/FELINES/felines.html , and of course, any feedback is more than welcome! Diego -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> Diego Barizo 2013-05-18T21:43:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68166 <pre>So I'm re-compiling cgfx7 as a test of cprep19b and have a (non-cprep) problem. One of the source files needs /dd/defs/mousedefs.a which isn't included in any source *I* have. Anybody have that? (BTW so far the only c_prep issue has been complaining about invalid string escapes which I have a hard time dis-agreeing with it on!) Willard </pre> Willard Goosey 2013-05-18T03:21:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68159 <pre>I slashed CoCo Hardware prices on my online store today, in an effort to get rid of a few things and make room for more. Please remember all my prices INCLUDE shipping to the USA and Canada. Prices are in USD and I only take paypal. http://store.amigalounge.com/g43.html -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> Glen VanDenBiggelaar 2013-05-17T19:57:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68154 <pre>Hello Coconuts, I have received a number of bug reports in recent days from users with old versions of the software. This leads me to believe either many people are not updating as new versions come out, or they are getting old versions from somewhere on the net. Please make sure you are up to date as step 1 if you have any problems. Nearly every update fixes some bugs and most recent reports are regarding problems already corrected. If you have at least version 4.3.3, you should be able to check for and apply any updates using the built in update tool. The current version is 4.3.3j. The software does not check on its own as I find that annoying, but maybe I need to have it do that. Also if you run a file repo and are hosting your own copy of DriveWire, please delete it and instead provide a link to the official site. You are doing your users a disservice by distributing out of date software. Thanks Aaron -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> Aaron Wolfe 2013-05-17T03:02:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68146 <pre> Does anyone know the proper syntax to change the "default" work directory from the startup script? If I do: chd /dd/xxx shell i=/w&amp; The new window will be in the xxx dir but the main window will revert back to /dd Thanks Bill Pierce My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 &amp; 3 https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/ Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/ Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page E-Mail: ooogalapasooo-YDxpq3io04c&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> Bill Pierce 2013-05-16T15:03:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68133 <pre>hi all i just found a bug and fixed: https://sites.google.com/site/tandycocoloco/minted </pre> Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus 2013-05-16T04:27:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68132 <pre> Hi guys, Ok, with several people asking about the OS9 C compiler, I decided to add a page to my site explaining my C compiler system. It's a bit different, but not much. Not only is it the C compiler I used for my DW4Man and Sound Chaser programs, but it is also the compiler Mike Knudsen used to compile Ultimuse 3. In fact, it was Mike that gave me the compiler. I've tried to describe it's usage as best I could as I am not a seasoned C programmer and my terminology may be lacking. But any one having run either of my programs has seen the extent of what it's capable of. Both DW4Man and Sound Chaser are large, multi file programs that use Mike Sweet's "CGFX.L" (cgfx7), Carl Krieder's "CLIB.L", Time Koonze's "Make", Mike Knudsen's RcM2 &amp; CnoY, and Zack Session's "window" library. On the provided disks and in the tutorial, I included the sources to Mike's "UBox3" as a sample for running the compiler. Please send any questions to me privately as I don't want to clog the list with a discussion of this compiler. Here it is: https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/mjk-c-compiler Enjoy Bill Pierce My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 &amp; 3 https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/ Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/ Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page E-Mail: ooogalapasooo-YDxpq3io04c&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> Bill Pierce 2013-05-16T04:18:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68124 <pre>Q) did you see any change at the Glenside web site? A) Yes, it starts up different. After 20 seconds it switches to a different website. John Mark Mobley -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> Melanie and John Mark Mobley 2013-05-16T02:27:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/68123 <pre>John, did you see any change at the Glenside web site? -- Coco mailing list Coco-uNHYcr1XS/wmlAP/+Wk3EA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco </pre> Clubbbs-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.org 2013-05-16T02:18:20 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco