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I have always had a dream to setup a BBS running on a color computer 3. Does anyone know what the best software would be for that? The other question I have is because dial-up BBS’s are kind of by the waste side due to the internet. Is it possible to setup it up running on Telenet or something along those lines?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Neil

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am i missing something? or is this hard drive file corrupted? i do recall a while back i found a working hard drive image that i used until my windows pc failed, but thus far have been unable to locate the same file on the net.

any help would be appreciated.

This post was submitted by drakahn.

Here is Don Pan with component:

Here is Mega Bug with composite:

And here is Mega Bug with component:

Any help, suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thomas

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Thanks much.

This post was submitted by blakespot.

I recently won a job lot on ebay and buried in the box was this.

http://imgur.com/a/LdJmP#0

I have been trying to find out more about it as I had no clue as to what it was. So far the most valid explanation is part of a CoCo development kit.
Does anyone know any more about it? I have asked in a couple of places and am fairly sure it is a CoCo dev cart but know nothing more than that…

If this is the wrong section apologies but I don’t really know where it should go….

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a couple of month ago I was dreaming of a coco 3 rendering texture mapping in realtime. And finally I think I did it: If everything goes well I will post a DSK so you can try it out. Here is a screenshot attached, showing MESS emulation running.
The demo has a predefined path and no user control. It features high precision texture mapping with perspective correct, mip-mapping and distance shading. The floor and ceiling are texture mapped too using perspective correction but I had to trade texture resolution for speed, so basically it is more-or-less a sort of infinite carpet.
It runs at about 5 frames per second, and works on a plain 128KB coco 3. I have tested it with floppy (MESS,VCC) and DrivePak (real coco).

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This post was submitted by remz.

http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/coco_game_list.html

This post was submitted by RetroRick1974.

http://www.commodore128.org/index.php?topic=4040.0

I can do a similar thing for the Coco, which would give a relatively cheap (around $100 for the whole system) and high quality solution. Do you think there would be much interest in this kind of device from the Coco community?

This post was submitted by Richard42.

I am a CoCo enthusiast from way back.  I recently bought Roger’s CocoNET Drive Pak with 2GB MicroSD card.  I have installed CoCoPAK 1.0.52 on a windows XP laptop to transfer disk images.  I want to create another RSDOS partition to load up more images on the 2GB card, but every time I try, the software tells me “Card Full”.  I know that it’s not a write-protect problem, because I can overwrite existing segments in the DOS partition.  I also believe that there should be free space on this card, because the last partition is around position 0×320000.  Assuming the units for these positions are 256-byte sectors, then only 800MB is being used on this card.  Has anyone added a new RSDOS partition to the stock card image?  Can someone suggest how I can do this?

Thanks,

Richard

I am trying to be able export and import files from my windows XP to my coco & from the coco to the Windows XP but its not working.

I am using TRS-80 COLOUR COMPUTER 3 EMULATOR Ver. 1.6B (C) 1993-97 Jeff Vavasour to try and put the get3rom.bas on to a rsdos 3 1/2 floppy disk. The system is real old and I am not using a USB floppy drive.

Its showing the file get3rom.bas but its not copying the file over to the floppy disk. I was wondering if could provide with some instructions on how to do it this or recommend a better import and export utility?

Thanks
Phil Taylor

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I am looking for the rsdos utility that will allow me to arc and unarc a file. If someone have a copy of it, can you please email me a copy to phil.taylor[at]bbs.cyberchatnet.com. It should be freeware.

Thanks
Phil

The bbs is http://bbs.cyberchatnet.com or you can telnet to bbs.cyberchatnet.com 23.

This post was submitted by ptaylor2.

I tried to reply to this post, but i think im too late:

http://www.coco3.com/community/2008/04/gates-of-delirium-2

I played that game when i was around 15 and i solved it by luck i guess because i had no clue what i was doing, i had the game without docs by a friend and had to discover all by myself.

I really enjoyed playing that game and solved it by the fourth try.
It well over 20 years ago so i will try to remember the best i can. I agree the dungeon to the south with invisible stuff is a major turn off, its almost impossible to solve it. At the second attempt to ther game, i was going good but teleported into a squeletton in the small island and the game was over, it took me too much time to get there and the world was ”overpopulated” so it had to happen i guess.

I think the best way to solve the game is create your character as the barbarian with maximum strenght and dexterity. Dont choose fancy magic user; the game is too hard and is based on fighting.
Only use bows (the first affodable and next the better one) for your caracter, zanzibar and sheenan i think. So when you fight, the three bow user stays close together in place and the others wait behind for hand to hand combat wich take time and you can protect theses caracters this way (gazer, merlin and ?).

Like Ricojack said, map the dungeons and then reload to go straight to the ladders or fountains. A small square for each level where you note in it the aproximate location of ladders for each level was enough. Instead of pay for curing and healing, return to the dungeons with the fountains this way you save money.

Before leaving the first world (when everybody is maxed and you got the best weapons), do youself a favor and clean every city and castles. I did kill everybody (yes i had some remorse, but…) the kings, the guards, then everybody around, pick the money and finally steal all you can in peace without being disturbed. Purchase ALOT of foods and torch and you are ready to go into the super dungeon. There is shrines at the second world, but i didnt saw the need for it, its kind of too late, they sould have been around in the first world, it would have been much easier and logical.

I remember it was a blast to play because it was a ”fast” game.
Later i purchased the excellent and beautiful game the seventh link but didnt have the time to solve it. I had big trouble in the dungeons, and it was really time consuming and didnt solve any of them and gets gradually discouraged.

Thanks

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Ric Tecilder Jedi Master
and R2Builder

http://www.facebook.com/Richard.D.Vollmer

http://www.facebook.com/Artoo.Ayseventeen

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This post was submitted by coconuisse.

Thanks in Advance
Bill Pierce

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“Commodore. It’s a name that aged gamers will never forget. And hopefully, it’s a name that even new-age gamers will recall and respect. Somehow or another, Commodore USA is still kicking, and they announced today that they’re now shipping production orders for the new Commodore 64 Extreme model (C64x-EX). The C64x Extreme is the most powerful Commodore computer ever produced, running at a whopping 3.3Ghz with Intel’s Turbo Boost Technology. Featuring a 2nd generation Sandy Bridge 2.2Ghz 64-bit Intel core i7 (Quad Core/Eight Threads CPU [i7-2720QM]) the C64x Extreme runs fast and cool while providing a massive amount of storage, RAM and I/O options. This includes a 2 TB Hard Drive, 8 Gigabytes of RAM, 2 USB 3.0 ports, 5 USB 2.0 ports, 1 e-SATA port, SPDIF, HDMI, DVI and VGA display connections, a slot loaded R/W DVD drive, built in Ethernet and Wireless.” http://hothardware.com/News/Commodore-USA-Puts-C64x-Extreme-On-Sale/

Official website: http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx

Recently I removed the Joomla based site for the reasons mentioned above. There’s a newer version now, based on a system called Noah’s Classifieds that is much easier to work with.

As always, if you folks choose to use this site to sell and trade your CoCo wares, I’m in no way responsible for the activities. I suggest that transactions are done with PayPal or other service.

The new CoCo Classifieds site.

Attached is the readout in a txt document that has a listing of the documents I have. I tried my best to remove duplicates but some may remain.

If you want a document that I have, please send me a PM. If the file is over 10mb I will have to upload it to my website or skydrive for you to download.

myPDFs.txt (83 KB)

This post was submitted by japreja1.

This post was submitted by dikonen.

Welcome to CoCoBoot

CoCoBoot, is a tiny Forth interpreter/compiler that is designed
as a flexible booting solution for the Tandy Color Computers 2 and 3.
It is small enough to fit into the boot sector of a standard Disk
Extended Color Basic type disk, and loaded via BASIC’s DOS
command. CoCoBoot also can be CLOADM’ed and LOADM’ed by the Color
Computer’s native BASIC, or burned on to a ROM.

Requirements:

A CoCo2 or CoCo3 with 32k RAM and Extended Color Basic ROM. Some sort
of disk drive is nice, but *not* absolutely required.

Disk Support

CoCoBoot has support for the standard Color Computer’s Floppy Drive
controller, DriveWire 4, Glenside IDE, SuperIDE and It’s associated
Flash ROM. In the future, additional devices may be supported.

Some interesting things one can use CoCoBoot for:

1. Raw copy DriveWire disks to real floppies, and vise-versa.
2. Copying boot sectors from one disk to another.
3. Install custom patches to BASIC.
4. Programming Forth.
5. Automatically compile and run Forth scripts at boot time.
6. Dabbling with your coco.
7. Fix a file system.
8. Boot your Machine!

https://sourceforge.net/projects/cocoboot/files/

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This post was submitted by drlehr.

I found this sight when I was researching some Electronic Book Games I have from when I was a kid. I have Maze Master (26-2541), The Number Factory (26-2543) and Word Wizard (26-2544) all complete and for sale. I have them listed on eBay. I hope this is ok to post this on here, just thought that one or two of you may be looking for something like this. Unfortunately, I do not know what they are currently worth, so I will not take offers on them. eBat listing starts 10/13/11 12PM PST and ends 10/18/11 12PM PST

Cheers,
Jeremy

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This post was submitted by coconuisse.

Anyway, I should be getting one in the mail pretty soon, I’ll do my own “testing.” Here’s a question: ignoring keymapping/etc, can I plug in a coco cartridge and expect it to load and execute, or will there be smoke and flames?

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This post was submitted by DanWebb314.

http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/nickma/GamesWorkshop/

I saw the original game progress a few yrs ago and I am glad Mark decided to finish it off as I can see it being a Classic in the coco 3 games archives.

laters

Briza

This post was submitted by briza.

I was just wondering if anyone knows how the progress is going for the “Virtual Floppy Controller” announced at CoCoFest 2011 by Steve Bjork?He put on a great presentation this past year at CoCoFest and I am planning on buying this device right away when it becomes available.

Also given said that I am available to help beta test it when it comes to that stage in development.

Thanks,
Neil

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This post was submitted by lucifershalo.

This post was submitted by Roger.

Thanks in advance.

This post was submitted by killersquirel.

I’m quite certain how to play it, but I’m writing a game review on this, and I’d like to be as thorough on the game as I can.

Thanks -

RetroRick.

This post was submitted by RetroRick1974.

Thanks, Wes

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This post was submitted by Charlie.

1.radio shack trs-80 mc-10 with the original cassete player and printer and ram module and power supply and finally the printer and cassete player manuals.

2. tandy 128k colour computer 3 all alone

3. sinclair 1500 all by itself no accesories like the tandy.

4. sinclair 100 with 4 games backgammon, the checkbook manager, conversational spanish, pinball. It also came with the manual and the ram expanison in the box.

My question is what is all this worth
PS. the tandy gets a green screen when i try to use it using the audio video cables (dont have rf adapter)
PPS. I only paid 10$ for all
thanks sincerely Josh

This post was submitted by jas330.

SRC01.txt (13 KB)

This post was submitted by drtyrell969.

Cheers

Steve

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This post was submitted by Roger.

Details at my website here.

This post was submitted by plainsteve.

It’s nice to see the site come back up and actually work. I was getting a bit worried there for a while. Anyway, I see the CoCo Man is still smiling in the upper left corner, so I KNOW I’m home!

Thank You Wes for keeping the front door open.

Roger Taylor

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This post was submitted by drtyrell969.

CoCo3.com has changed hands! Please accept our apologies for the site being down for a little while during the transition.

A big thank you to all those who have helped keep this site going in the past with their generous donations. We hope your generosity will continue to keep this site running for years to come.

Feedback and comments are encouraged, let us know what you would like to see added.

Welcome back.

Wes

This post was submitted by Admin.

I’ve never introduced myself formally in over 26 long years of being a strong CoCo user and programmer. My name is Roger Taylor. I’m 43 as of June 7; a dad of 2 great kids, and a good person All Around. Only a few have spoken with me on the phone in all these years. No CoCoNut has met me in person. I’m kind of a reserved guy.

As the creator and admin of coco3.com for over 10 years, I want to thank each and every single person who gave me a chance to be there when you had questions, requests, suggestions, donations, thanks, contributions, attacks, threats, disputes, kudos, and praises.

I’ve enjoyed EVERY SINGLE minute I’ve put into my CoCo hobby and business. Nobody will ever know how much sleep has been lost over the years making sure CoCo3.com had something for everybody. I worked my ass off for each and every single CoCoNut as if he was paying me by the hour. Through my marriage, through my child’s births, through my divorce, and through good and bad times, rich and poor, I can think back to any life situation and remember what I was working on for the CoCo at the time.

No matter what has been happening in my life, I have NEVER stopped putting time almost each day into my CoCo responsibilities. Even today I’m still dedicated to producing new content for the CoCo and Reasons to keep using it!

Although though I’m not going away, it’s time to pass CoCo3.com along to another CoCo expert who wants to keep the site going.

When godaddy finally removed the name from my account 30 minutes ago, I almost got a lump in my throat. She will be gone when they finalize the transfer. The site will probably be down for a bit during the migration process.

With the funds earned from the sale of the web site, I will complete my back orders much sooner and continue producing anything that is in demand.

One thing is for sure… I’m not going anywhere, and I’m full of surprises. So, with those words, I hereby hand over my job as CoCo3.com admin and owner to a fellow CoCoNut. The new owner will be known soon enough and perhaps he will make his own announcement if needed.

Your friend,
Roger Taylor

So, I’m looking to buy a Hi-Res Joystick adapter. I’m thinking the Tandy model would be preferable. I’m also considering getting a Color Mouse to use with it.

Incidentally, I already tried wiring up the PS/2 mouse adapter with two 16F505 microcontrollers that I got as free samples, but I think the PS/2 mice I have need a slightly higher voltage or more current than the joystick port provides, as when I’d plug in the mouse, the pointer would jitter once, then wouldn’t respond.

This post was submitted by jmetal88.

http://www.plainsteve.com/electronics/?p=17

This post was submitted by plainsteve.

I can boot the text-based NitrOS-9 Level 2 disk image from this drive without any problems, so I thought the problem might be the format of the disk image not matching the physical media, but I don’t know how to go about fixing that.

Any help?

This post was submitted by jmetal88.

The CoCoCoCo is a somewhat regular Skype conference where we talk about all things CoCo. Everyone is welcome to join. Sometimes we have guest speakers or do interviews with famous CoCo celebrities. Sometimes these are planned, sometimes they just happen.

Our general topic this week will be the recent CoCoFest, but pretty much anything goes.

If you would like to attend, and have not attended a past conference, please either send a Skype invitation to ‘spogbiper’ or email me your Skype username and I will invite you. Anyone who has ever attended before does not need to do this a second time.

This post was submitted by 6809er.

I had a thought for CoCoFest 2012. How about having it somewhere in Ontario, Canada. Or perhaps in Erie, PA USA. Reason I think it might be a good idea is to have it in a central location so we can get more people to attend. Such as lots of the Canadian CoCo users.

Just a thought thats all. I would also be happy to help organize and plan it.

-Neil

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This post was submitted by wrmckinney.

Does anyone know where I could get a copy, disk image or original? I’m really curious to try it out.

Thanks!

This post was submitted by jmetal88.

Anyone have these instructions?

Thanks . . .

Tony Lee

This post was submitted by keyboardman.

http://www.onlyonsaturdaynight.com/page1.html

There are other links there, just ignore them.

Paul T Barton
aka idezilla

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Anyone no where a manual can be found

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230627746523

This post was submitted by ironmill.

What books should I get? What specific magazines/issues would be helpful? What assembler should I use?

Also more importantly, Can you explain to someone who is a noob what are things I shouldn’t do (ie: I want to use the original coco 1/2 resolutions/colors but I also want it run on a CoCo 3 without problems.)

Need input ASAP as I’d like to have something to show at the next Rainbowfest.

Thanks!

This post was submitted by courtesi.

Perhaps I don’t have this configured right in MESS or perhaps this is one of the few titles where you really need a real analog coco stick?

I really want to get into this game but it’s so difficult!

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This post was submitted by skideric.

Right now the driver reads and writes its data from/to the 1st 256 bytes of each 512 byte sector. The remaining 256 bytes are discarded when reading, and a value of $ff is written. When flash memory is erased a value of $ff is written into each memory location. Now if a bit is already set when it is erased, is there any “wear” on that bit? I think there is not. Can anyone confirm or refute this with any authority?

If there is never any wear on that 2nd half of the sector then it might be conceivable to make a 2GB card, being used as a 1GB card, last twice as long.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
HH

This post was submitted by hhos.

My first question is how do I get Multi-vue from its boot disk to the hard drive? For that matter, how do I get any programs that are bootable from their boot disks and onto the hard drive? I know I need to copy something – just not sure once. I knew how to do this 25 years ago!

Thanks!

This post was submitted by fresler.

I am just wondering if any of you CoCo nuts out there happen to have “The Rat Graphics Package” It came with a mouse and graphics software. It was made in Ontario, Canada from a company called “Diecom”. I believe his name was Dave Dies and Laurie Dies. That’s who owned the company.

It is a shot in the dark but if anyone happens to have this and wants to sell it I would be willing to pay a huge amount of money for it or a really big trade.

Thank you for reading my post.

-Neil (Another huge CoCo nut)

This post was submitted by djutc.

I have seen this same “spill” on a second coco3 which seems to work fine (but only with light testing so far).

The cap reads about the correct value (~5400 uF).

Is this dark stuff electrolyte, adhesive, or something else?

If I need to replace the caps, is there a good brand, or grade I should choose?

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So as far as I can tell my serial interrupt doesn’t fire. Does anyone know how the serial interrupt is supposed to trigger? I assumed a new irq would be generated for each state change on the rs232 port, meaning for each bit, regardless of whether it is a start/data/stop bit. I understand doing it this way rules out any massively fast baud rates, but I think at double cpu speed it should be possible to capture 38400 on down…

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Thanks!
Floyd

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Background
My introduction to personal computing was in the 80’s with the venerable old Color Computer. One of the most intriguing games for the CoCo was a game called The Interbank Incident by Spectral Associates. It was a huge disk-based graphical adventure game that was completely driven with a point-and-click graphical user interface, something very new and unique for its time. I vividly remember this game and spent many hours of my youth playing it. I never did finish it, I’ve never found anyone anywhere who has beaten it, nor am I sure it even can be beaten. I’m starting this guide in the hope that others who are interested will contribute to a comprehensive walkthrough/solution. I’ve even made a partial map of all the locations I was able to get to on an Excel spreadsheet (just email me at nickbasargekar@yahoo.com if you want it).

My original disks and hardware are long gone. One evening, I was googling around randomly and stumbled into the wonderful world of CoCo emulation which brought back a wave of nostalgia for this little 8-bit machine and this game.

If you don’t have the original hardware, I personally recommend playing the game with the M.E.S.S. emulator. With the CoCo high-speed poke and the game installed on a .vhd hard disk image, the game load times are blazingly fast compared to what I remember on the original CoCo. The game also worked with the Tandy Speech/Sound Cartridge (you can read more about this device at http://tlindner.macmess.org/?page_id=96_). I remember this used to provide synthesized voices and some nice ambient sounds when playing the game. Unfortunately, this gizmo is also long gone, and its functionality is not reproduced in any emulator. There are some threads floating around about someone having attempted to write a driver that emulates it (check out http://www.coco3.com/community/2008/12/does-a-rom-image-of-he-tandy-speech-pak-exist) but that’s about it.

The Game
Ok, if you haven’t already, you are going to want to read through the game manual (you can find it at http://os9projects.com/CD_Archive/MANUALS/TANDY_OS9/GAMES/INTERBANK/Interbank.pdf). It contains the back-story to the game as well as instructions on how to use the point-and-click interface. I won’t repeat all that information here.

One of the things that makes this game so challenging is that locations of various objects and the clues you will need are very randomized each time you play a new game. I still wonder if the game sometimes starts in an unbeatable state because of a particular necessary items spawning in unreachable locations or catch-22 situations.

Also, certain characters have specific strengths and weaknesses. It seems that some are able to automatically get information from certain people or automatically able to access certain locations that other characters are not able to without performing certain actions. However, the game manual states that the game is winnable with any character.

In the game, you often get reoriented when moving from scene to scene so that going opposite the direction you came does not take you to the prior scene. When looking at my Excel map, bear in mind that the arrow indicates which direction you are facing in the scene.

For now, I’ll just outline the main things I was able to do in Seattle, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro as well as locations I wasn’t able to reach and stuff I wasn’t able to do.

Seattle
Stuff to do:
In the bookstore, you can buy a plumbing book which you can then give you Josephine at the Space Needle ticket counter for a clue.

You can give a sharp fisherman’s knife (randomly found in the game) to Mr. Cousteau at the fish counter inside Farmers Market in exchange for a useful item. You can also buy fish to eat from Mr. Cousteau.

You might need the metro transit to ride the ferry or the monorail depending on which character you are playing.

You need to buy a ticket from Josephine at the Space Needle ticket counter to go up to the Space Needle.

At the Seattle Center Monorail Terminal, you can find Angel Gartner. Her father, Hans Gartner, works at the Hoffbrau Haus in Munich. You can give him money in exchange for a bottle of scotch. You can give the bottle of scotch to Angel for a clue.

I have no idea how to get into the rustic old apartment building outside the Pike Place Market. Is there a way in? If you buy a drink from Achmed Bolli on the train from Paris to Munich, he might drop a key. This key unlocks the front door, but I still can’t get in. It could just be a glitch in the game.

To get past the guard shack into the Bremerton Naval Yard, you need to use a military hat which can be purchased at the Maison De in Paris.

In the Space Needle souvenir shop, I can’t get through the storage room door. There’s some kind of slot next to it which I don’t know what to do with.

Rio de Janeiro
You can use the poker chip (randomly found in the game) with the roulette table in the casino in Rio and win some money depending on which character you are playing.
In the cabin of the yacht, there’s a slot in the wall for something. I don’t know what to do with it. When I was a kid, I remember reading in The Rainbow Magazine that it was for a videotape. I’ve never encountered a videotape in the game.

I can’t get into the small apartment building next to the alley that leads to the beach.

Paris
In the lounge car of the train from Paris to Munich, you can find Achmed Bolli. If you buy a drink from him, he will drop something useful, hopefully the key to the baggage car. In the baggage car, you can find an invitation to a video game tournament. Give this to Achmed Bolli for a clue.

You might need the Eurail pass to ride the train from Paris to Munich depending on what character you are playing.

I can’t get into the storage room at the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Munich
At the Hoffbrau Haus, if you give Hans Gartner some money, he might give you a bottle of scotch. You can give it to his daughter, Angel Gartner, who works at the Seattle Center Monorail Terminal. She will then give you a clue.

At a city street in the older part of Munich, you can see a manhole cover. I suspect there is something that can be used to pry it off.

To get past the airforce base guard booth in Munich, you cannot have the gun in your possession. Read the newspaper while at the guard booth. You will then be able to enter the R&D hangar of the airforce base. A random object will also appear.

I don’t know what to do in the airforce base R&D hangar.

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This post was submitted by seanruss.

Question 1: Having a Nitr0S-9 or 0S-9 boot floppy disk, how do I install it onto the Coco3 hard drive? Or in terms of using the Vcc emulator, having a NitrOS-9 .DSK disk image, how do I install it onto a .VHD image file? For those with you with the real hardware, I’m assuming the procedure would be pretty much the same.

Allow me to elaborate on why I want to do this. Yes, I know I can simply use the pre-installed nitro9.vhd file from the Vcc website which already has a working Nitr0S-9/6309 Level 2 V3.2.8. The problem is some OS-9 programs don’t like running in that environment and only seem to want to run on the OS-9 contained on their own floppy disks. E.g. Interbank Incident seems to only want to run in it’s own OS-9 Level 1 V2.0. I’ve looked around and everyone else seems to have encountered the same problem. Does anyone know how to work around the problem of getting that program to work in Nitr0S-9 Level 2?

The next question is probably an RGB Dos question. When I configure the Vcc emulator’s FD-502 plugin to use RGB Dos (Cartridge->FD-502 config: RGB Dos selected), I seem to lose the ability to access floppy drives from within RGB Dos. E.g. DIR 0 won’t read floppy drive 0, there’s no way to run programs on the floppy disk image, etc. Is there an RGB Dos command I need to enable or map the floppy drives? Are the floppy drives simply remapped or something?

Any info is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

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BUSTOUT
DINO WAR
DOWNLAND
DUNGEONS OF DAGGORATH
MIND ROLL
POLARIS
POPCORN
PROJECT NEBULA
REACTOID
SHOOTING GALLERY
SLAY THE NEREIS
SPACE ASSAULT
SPRINGSTER
STARBLAZE

This post was submitted by lucifershalo.

1) How do I connect the CoCo3 to the CM-5? I see the square 9-pin RGB out under the coco3, is there an adapter/cable?

2) How do I get it upgraded to 512k? Part numbers? hax/trix?

Oh and, 3) What have I gotten myself into?

I had a model 1 when I was a teen in the late 70s, and a 1000sx in the late 80s, and miss playing those old games or sitting around pondering basic.

I still have to go through those boxes of stuff that came with the coco3, there is an external dual diskette drive, bunch-o-sofware, and a couple of peripherals. Ooo, I also got a 6000, might just be a parts box, but it seems I am starting my own tandy museum, hah…

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Does anybody have a simple graphics example using the c compiler under OS9? Just enough to set the 16 color graphics screen and plot a pixel would be great! Ohh, and without the cgfx library, please.

Thanks.

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Back in the old days, I recall my old man programming our CoCo2 out of a slim paperback volume, a collection of games. I remember distinctly the interior art — alongside the long BASIC programming were these black-and-white early 1900s style images. Dandies and people with bushy moustaches involved in all sorts of stuff — flying cars. One of the games, I believe, was Mu-Torere. Another one, I want to say, was Cribbage? The cover I think had a blue border around a yellow inner square with some cartoon computer and user…. I was six or eight years old at the time.

Any help identifying this book or the series of books would be greatly, greatly appreciated!

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I’m not all that familiar with hardware modification, but I took it upon myself to replace the 6809 with a 6309 on a pro-tector board. I thought all was going well.

I turned it on and was greeted with a black screen. Fiddling around with it, making sure the pro-tector board was in its socket, I got a screen full of brown and black garbage.

Is there any hope or have I destroyed my coco?

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MC1=0 MC0=X 16k internal 16k external
MC1=1 MC0=0 32k internal
MC1=1 MC0=1 32k external

Can anyone clarify this? When you want to treat all system memory as standard RAM right up to $7FFFF, what should be the proper setting for these bits? I do understand the use of the int vector areas, and being able to lock in FE00-FEFF, etc… just don’t know what is meant by “internal” vs “external” vs a combination of the two…

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The video playback shown is 128×192 in 16-colors. The video is updated 60 times per second, although obviously not every update covers an entire frame. The audio playback is at 11040HZ. Audio samples are 8-bits each, although the stock CoCo3 audio DAC is only 6-bits. Each minute of video requires roughly 2-2.5MB of storage.

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If you’d like to participate in the discussion or post your own numbers, please feel free to do so. I’d love for someone to either verify my numbers or show me where I may have made an error.

rodder

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This May 21 & 22, 2011 is when the CoCo community gets together and celebrate the color Computer!

See and buy new stuff for your CoCo.
Get great deals on old stuff. (I got a working CoCo 3 for $5).
Find out what users have been up to.
See demos first hand.

And best of all, just have a great time talking with others from the CoCo community.

Drive or fly out to 20th Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!
Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites
495 Airport Road
Elgin, Illinois 60123

You want to stay at the hotel because not everything happens on the show floor. There are great after parties in the bar and hotel rooms. Don’t forget the annual jam session on Saturday night.

Most people get there on Friday night to setup their tables and enjoy the the annual Fireside Chat.

Please visit glensideccc.com for more information on this great event.

See you all there in just one month!

Steve

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Thanks,

CoCoFan

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Cheers,
Lan

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TABLE FCC /01234/

LDX #TABLE
LDA #2
LDA A,X

…will the CPU replace the value in A, after using the current value in A for the addressing mode? So in the above example, it would load the new value (character “2″ in table) from the address 2,x?

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Sean R.

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Thanks

Nico Komen

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Sean R.

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I have a CoCo1 (26-3003) and have a problem with the +5V power supply.
I can find a chematic drawing from the CoCo3, but the power supply seems to be different form the CoCo1.

Is there anyone who can help me getting a schematic drawing of the CoCo1 ?

Thanks

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1) a preamble block specifying a load address of $FFA2, and two bytes of data

2) data word $0001, which would cause LOADM to place this value in the MMU register $FFA2 for logical address $4000

3) a preamble block specifying a load address of $4000. and the length of the ML program

4) the ML program itself, which because of MMU switch above, goes into “lower” memory

5) a preamble block specifying load address $FFA2 (again), for two bytes:

6) this time the bytes would be the original values of the MMU registers (58 and 59), restoring MMU to original state

7) a postamble block, doesn’t really matter, don’t worry about an exec address.

If this would work it might allow a basic “loader” utility to load a bunch of ML programs into “lower” memory, followed by a master ML program that would, when executed, take over permanently and switch the MMU registers as necessary to access these support libraries.

Just a thought… ?

I want to play Shanghai 1.2 for OS9 (its not the activision version) located here:

ftp://os9archive.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09/GAMES/Shanghai_1_2.lzh

How do I get the contents of that LZH on to a floppy disk and then run in under Nitros9?

I do have a DOS PC I use to make coco floppy disks.

Maybe someone can put it in a DSK for me? Or tell me how?

Thanks!

I wanted to order a DriveWire cable and a rompak with HDB-DOS from cloud-9.

They do not have any more rompaks. So I purchased just HDB-DOS rom and I will use it in my FD502 controller.

However, I also want to use my FD501 controller hooked up to my dual floppys. I want to be able to select on the MPI ,  4 to use real floppy drives, or 3 to use HDB-DOS.

So last night I put both controllers in the MPI and was able to switch between them with no troubles and everything seemed to work great. Of course I don’t have the HDB-DOS yet in the FD502, just the RSDOS it came with.

So it seems to work fine but is there any issue with having 2 disk controllers in the MPI?

One with RSDOS on actual drives and the other with HDB-DOS.

Thanks!

…. repost:

Hi Guy’s, I am a UK resident who has a pristine (not in box) top of range CoCo 2 with lots of extras and software. It is no longer of any use to me so, if anyone is interested they can ‘make me an offer’ and I will give it my consideration. cheers and happy computing to all.

I’m wondering if someone could give me some technical advice, as to how saved date is encoded on a TS-80 datacassette. One of my old datacassettes has a damaged file that will not read – I captured it with an audio editing program which showed a dropout on the tape as the cause. This means that approximately 1/10th of a second of the file is missing. What I considered doing is rebuilding the file with the audio editor, since I can clearly see the data is recorded as a series of ones and zeros. Trouble is, I can’t figure out the pattern – it doesn’t seem to conform with standard binary code, and there seems to be a lot of added information. I’ve attached an image of what a brief section of the file looks like in an audio editor. What I need is for someone, with the right technical knowledge, to explain to me exactly what data is contained within these files and how it is represented by the ones and zeros. This way, I can rebuild the file or at least figure where to cut part of it without causing a read error (then I could add the missing lines to the program once loaded).

Thanks for any advice.

Pat

Cheers

Steve

EDIT: Uh, never mind! The “Disk Basic Unravelled” file right here on this site has everything I need in that regard. BUT I would still like to know about:

I found this cool CoCo utility called Snap, which allows me to examine every byte of every sector of every track on a 5.25″ floppy (I think) which is formatted for Disk Basic. The data is presented in both hexadecimal and ascii format. Has anyone else here used this? Is it possible there could be data on the diskette which this program does not see?

Thanks very much! – David

Thanks in advance!

David