by admin | Mar 17, 2024 | Color Computer 2, Hardware
It Takes Two, CoCo 2 That Is! A while back, I wrote this series of articles for Retrogaming Times Monthly, hoping to get the CoCo more exposure. Then the magazine wemt thru changes… away. Hoever, based on my love of the TRS-80/Tandy Color Computer line,...
by admin | Mar 8, 2024 | Color Computer 1, Hardware
Not Hardly… Greetings retro fans! I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season. When we left off last month, we had just finished a discussion on the differences between the TRS-80 Z-80 based systems and the CoCo. Entire volumes could be written if we...
by admin | Mar 5, 2024 | Machine Language
Beginning with THE JULY 1988 ISSUE OF the RAINBOW, THE FIRST OF 13 ARTICLES TARGETED TO PEOPLE WHO WERE WANTING TO LEARN MACHINE LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING ON THE TANDY COLOR COMPUTER. THESE ARTICLES ALSO USED THE POPULAR EDTASM+ AS THE EDITOR. These articles were crafted...
by admin | Mar 5, 2024 | Hardware, Uncategorized
July 1983 Rainbow Magazine I HAVE SPENT THE BETTER PART OF A YEAR LOOKING FOR THIS. IN 1983 MY FATHER BUILT A ‘STAND’ FOR MY COCO 1. I THOUGHT THE ORIGINAL DESIGN FOR IT CAME FROM POPULAR MECHANICS. AFTER THUMBING THRU THE ISSUES OF ‘THE...
by admin | Mar 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
THIS SERIES OF FOUR ARTICLES FIRST APPEARED IN THE SEPTEMBER 1987 ISSUE OF THE RAINBOW MAGAZINE. IT’S A NICELY DONE TUTORIAL OF THE BASIC PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FOR THE COLOR COMPUTER SERIES. While it’s not an exhaustive master-class in coco basic, it is a...
