by admin | May 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Cooling a hot blooded TDP-100 With the heating issues this TDP was facing, I decided to go another route. Yes, the original design was cool (I thought, anyway) but was way over designed in some ways with a focus that wasn’t on the area that needed to be cooled....
by admin | May 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Cooling a hot blooded TDP-100 My TDP-100 isn’t really a TDP-100. It’s an ‘F’ board CoCo. I won an auction, the CoCo 1 was badly damaged in shipping; this gave me the opportunity to utilize a TDP-100 shell I bought from Tony Padroza a number of...
by admin | Feb 4, 2025 | Color Computer 1, Color Computer 2, Color Computer 3, Uncategorized
Donkey King or Kong? In the early 80’s, arcade games were all the rage, and having the best home port version often, and very sadly, lead to the belief that the system the ‘best’ version of a game was on was indeed, the best system. I distinctly...
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...
by admin | Mar 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
BELOW IS AN ARTICLE BRIZA POINTED ME TO, DEALING WITH ARTIFACTING ON A COCO3. WE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE INFORMATIVE CONSIDERING EVERYTHING GOING ON WITH THE ARTIFACT COLOR DISCUSSIONS… This is basically software artifacting, that has been known for a while, and not...
