Podcasts about tandy's underdog computer

This episode is part 3 of a 3-part series on the Tandy Color Computer, also known as the CoCo.  I have special guest hosts to help me again this month: John Linville and Neil Blanchard of the “CoCo Crew Podcast”.  Join us as we discuss Coco magazines, books, software, modern upgrades, emulation, Web sites and much more.  I also go over my new acquisitions, tell you about upcoming vintage computer shows and cover some podcast feedback. Finally, we also have audio segments from no less than 4 different CoCo fans who share with us their memories and thoughts about the Tandy Color Computer.  Thank you to Michael Moore, Rick Adams, Jon Day, and Tony Cappellini for your contributions. Note that Floppy Days now has a Facebook page where you can discuss the show or vintage computers in general.  Search for “Floppy Days” on Facebook. Links Mentioned in the Show: Intro Bill Degnan’s Historical Computers and Vintage Computer Restoration - http://www.vintagecomputer.net “History of Commodore Computers” poster by Bill Degnan - http://vintagecomputer.net/poster_detail.cfm New Acquisitions/What I’ve been Up To Floppy Days Podcast Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1556099237981844/ Floppy Days Discussion Thread on AtariAge - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/238436-floppy-days-podcast-discussion-thread/ Upcoming Floppy Days Show Schedule - http://floppydays.libsyn.com/webpage/category/Upcoming%20Show%20Schedule Intellivision Entertainment Computer System (ECS) - http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/games/credits/ecs.shtml Upcoming Shows AmiWest 2015 - http://www.amiwest.net/ Oct. 14-18, Sacramento, CA Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire October 31, 2015, Evanston, IL World of Commodore - http://www.tpug.ca/category/woc/ Dec. 4-6, 2015, Toronto, Ontario, Canada VCF SE 4.0 - April 2nd and 3rd, 2016, Roswell, GA Feedback Bill Degnan’s GE television for vintage computers - http://vintagecomputer.net/ge/GE_Computer-Monitor-Television.jpg George Phillips’ Doctor Who Video done on a TRS-80 4P - http://members.shaw.ca/gp2000/drwho.html Vintage Computer Forum for the TRS-80 - http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/forumdisplay.php?46-Tandy-Radio-Shack Magazines/Newsletters Chromasette - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromasette Compute! - http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/   Hot CoCo - http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Magazines/Hot%20CoCo%20(Searchable%20image)/ Micro 80 - http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/literature_magazines_micro-80_archive.htm TRS-80 Microcomputer News - http://www.os9projects.com/MAGAZINES/MicroNews/MicroNews.html 80 Micro - https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine The Color Computer News The Color Computer Magazine - https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine CoCo Nutz! Magazine - http://www.os9projects.com/MAGAZINES/NUTZ/Nutz.html Rainbow Magazine - https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine Books book archive with a lot of the mentioned books - https://sites.google.com/a/aaronwolfe.com/cococoding/home/docs Getting Started with Color BASIC (Tandy) Going Ahead with Extended Color BASIC (Tandy) TRS-80 Color Computer Assembly Language Programming by William Barden, Jr. Color Computer Graphics by William Barden, Jr. TRS-80 Color Computer Graphics by Don Inman “Unravelled” series by Spectral Associates: Color BASIC Disk BASIC Extended BASIC Super Extended BASIC The Complete Rainbow Guide to OS-9 by Dale L. Puckett and Peter Dibble The Complete Rainbow Guide to OS-9 Level II by Dale L. Puckett and Peter Dibble Tandy’s Little Wonder by F.G. Swygert - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Tandy's_Little_Wonder “CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer” by Boisy G Pitre, Bill Loguidice - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466592478/?tag=flodaypod-20 Software Dungeons of Daggorath - https://www.facebook.com/DungeonsOfDaggorathForum Castle of Tharoggad - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Castle_of_Tharoggad Downland - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Downland Cave Walker - http://www.mobygames.com/game/cave-walker Rescue on Fractalis! - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Rescue_on_Fractalus Koronis Rift - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Koronis_Rift FahrFall - https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_coco_fahrfall Editor/Assembler - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/EDTASM%2B Logo - http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/Programming/TRS-80%20Color%20Logo%20(Tandy).pdf Super Logo - http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Programming/Super%20Logo%20(Tandy).zip eForth - http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Programming/eFORTH%20(Frank%20Hogg%20Laboratory).zip Color File - https://archive.org/details/Color_File_1981_Tandy Color Scripsit - http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/Applications/Color%20Scripsit%20(Tandy).pdf Spectaculator - https://archive.org/details/coco2cart_Spectaculator_1983_26-3104_Tandy Robot Odyssey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Odyssey Deskmate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptiEv_Sh-NI Ads Isaac Asimov - “Get an out of this world deal on my favorite color computer” - http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/300/retro-scan-of-the-week-isaac-asimovs-favorite-color-computer User Groups and Shows RainbowFest - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEnPg1qPegI Glenside CoCo Club - http://www.glensideccc.com/ Last Chicago CoCoFest - April 23 & 24, 2016, Lombard, IL - http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/index.shtml Modern Upgrades Triad 512K RAM Upgrade - http://www.cloud9tech.com/ CoCo SDC - http://cocosdc.blogspot.com/ 6309 upgrade - http://richg42.blogspot.com/2014/02/coco-3-upgrades-hitachi-6309-cpu-512kb.html NitrOS9 - http://sourceforge.net/projects/nitros9/ Donkey Kong modified for the 6309 and 512K (Sock Master) - http://users.axess.com/twilight/sock/dk/ PS/2 keyboard adapter - http://www.cloud9tech.com/ mini-Flash - 4 16K banks of Flash - http://www.cloud9tech.com/ CoCo3FPGA - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CoCo3FPGA/info Connectivity to Modern Computers Drivewire - https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/ Emulation MESS (Mac/Windows) - Multi-Emulator Super System - http://www.mess.org/ Jeff Vavasour’s CoCo 2 and CoCo 3 emulators (DOS) - http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/trs80.html#coco3 XROAR (Dragon and CoCo 1/2) - http://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/ VCC (Windows) - http://www.coco4.com/vcc/index.shtml by Joseph Forgione VCC at SourceForge - http://sourceforge.net/projects/vcce/ Version 2.0 8/26/15 Mocha - http://www.haplessgenius.com/mocha/mocha_original.html Community Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/ Mailing List - Coco@maltedmedia.com , https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco AtariAge CoCo Forum - http://atariage.com/forums/forum/174-tandy-computers/ Forum at tandycoco.com - http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/index.php The CoCo Crew Podcast - http://cococrew.org/ Coordinated CoCo Conference - http://www.coco4.com/podcasts/cococo.shtml Google+ (with links to YouTube videos) - https://plus.google.com/+Tandycoco6809/videos Current Web Sites TandyCoCo.com - http://www.tandycoco.com/ The TRS-80/Tandy Color Computer COCO SuperSite! - http://www.coco3.com/community/ CoCoCoding Website (Aaron Wolfe) - https://sites.google.com/a/aaronwolfe.com/cococoding/home/ The NitrOS9 Project - http://sourceforge.net/projects/nitros9/   OpenCoCo.net - http://opencoco.net/gf/ A set of Coco 1/2/3 web pages by L. Curtis Boyle - http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/index.html CoCo4 Website (Steve Bjork) - http://www.coco4.com/index.shtml CoCo/OS9 Archive - http://os9projects.com/index.html Cocopedia - http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Tandy Color Computer Games - http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/coco_game_list.html Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 Revived Site - http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/ TRS-80 Color Computer Archive - http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/ TOSEC (The Old School Emulation Center) software collection at archive.org - https://archive.org/details/Tandy_TRS80_Color_Computer_TOSEC_2012_04_23 CoCo Central - http://coco-central.com/ Sock Master -  http://users.axess.com/twilight/sock/ Cloud9 - http://www.cloud9tech.com/ Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer

This episode is part 2 of a 3-part series on the Tandy Color Computer, also known as the CoCo.  I have special guest hosts to help me this month: John Linville and Neil Blanchard of the “CoCo Crew Podcast”.  Join us as we discuss Coco tech specs, peripherals and pulling it out of the box.   I also go over my new acquisitions, a short overview of VCF Midwest 10 that occurred on August 29 & 30, tell you about upcoming vintage computer shows and cover some podcast feedback.   Links Mentioned in the Show:   Intro “CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer” by Boisy G Pitre, Bill Loguidice - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466592478/?tag=flodaypod-20 New Acquisitions Atlanta Historical Computing Society (AHCS) - http://atlhcs.org/ HP-85B - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_series_80 VCF Midwest 10 - http://vcfmw.org/ Peter Bartlett’s Model I System Expander (MISE) - http://bartlettlabs.com/ Ian Mavric’s FreHD Hard Drive Emulator - http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/trs80/emulator News - Upcoming Shows AmiWest 2015 - http://www.amiwest.net/ 10/14 - 10/18, 2015, Holiday Inn Express, Sacramento, CA Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire October 31, 2015, Evanston, IL World of Commodore - http://www.tpug.ca/category/woc/ 12/4 - 12/6, 2015 VCF SE 4.0 - April 2-3, 2016 Interview CoCo Crew Podcast - http://www.cyberears.com/index.php/Show/audio/6139

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Floppy Days, the show about home computers of the late 70’s through the 80’s.  The next machine up to cover on the timeline is the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer, affectionately known as the CoCo.  Since there’s SOO much information to cover about this interesting machine, it will be a multi-parter, with the first episode covering the history of the CoCo.  I was lucky enough to get one of the authors of THE CoCo history book, my good friend Boisy Pitre, to come on the show and co-host this with me.  We’re going to cover the history of the CoCo from before its inception, through its introduction, until its eventual cancellation.  Boisy provides a fantastic perspective on the life and career of this machine and I think you’ll enjoy it.   Before delving into the main part of the show, I’ll cover a little bit of news, new acquisitions and feedback. Links Mentioned in the Show:   New Acquisitions FreHD - http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/trs80/emulator BEST Electronics - http://www.best-electronics-ca.com/ News Uthernet II Order Page - http://www.a2retrosystems.com/order.htm Uthernet II FAQ - http://www.a2retrosystems.com/support.htm#faq Video from Terry Stewart on the Amstrad CPC 464 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOuPuE194fo&feature=em-subs_digest VCF Midwest 10 - August 29-30, 2015, Elk Grove Village, IL - http://vcfmw.org/ Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire October 31, 2015, Evanston, IL Feedback WinUAE - http://www.winuae.net/ picture of Brent Santin’s Vic-20 setup - http://sleepingelephant.com/denial/wiki/images/d/d4/VIC-20_80_column_setup.jpg VIC-20 information Wiki - http://sleepingelephant.com/denial/wiki/index.php?title=DenialWIKI_Home VIC-20 Mega-Cart - http://mega-cart.com Doug Crawford’s blog for vintage activities: https://abitoutofplace.wordpress.com/ Tomy Tutor Information - http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/tomy/ The Trash Compactor - http://www.trs-80.org/norcom-tc-iii/   Interview with Co-host Boisy Pitre CoCoRx  - https://github.com/boisy/CoCoRX “Swift for Beginners: Develop and Design” by Boisy Pitre - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0134044703/?tag=flodaypod-20 Twitter - @boisypitre Email - coco@toughmac.com “CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer” by Boisy G Pitre, Bill Loguidice - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466592478/?tag=flodaypod-20 Boisy’s Blog - http://latenightcoco.blogspot.com

Special Bonus episode!  Interview with Boisy Pitre and Bill Loguidice about their new book "CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer." Links: “CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy’s Underdog Computer” by Boisy Pitre and Bill Loguidice - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466592478/?tag=flodaypod-20 CoCo book Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/cocobook/

  On this episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit Podcast: an interview with Curt Vendel, Atari historian and co-author of “Atari, Inc: Business Is Fun” … and  an interview with Dennis Harkins, author of the APX program Message Display Program … and how a pack of bubble gum led to life with an Atari and a career in computers.   Links mentioned in this episode:   Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevins Book “Terrible Nerd”   New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge   What We’ve Been Up To "Compute's Atari Collection Volume 1" "CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer" by Boisy G Pitre and Bill Loguidice “Sophistication and Simplicity, The Life and Times of the Apple II Computer” by Steven Weyhrich KansasFest Kampfgruppe Vintage Computer Festival Southeast (VCFSE) 2.0 Intellivisionaries Podcast Movie Musical Madness Kevin's black metal 850 interface "A Mind Forever Voyaging - a history of storytelling in video games" Atari User Magazine Kevin's Atari 400/800 Posters   News VCF East 9.1 Atari Gamer Magazine Atari Gamer Promotion on YouTube 30th Anniversary Edition of Boulder Dash TapStar Interactive Terry Stewart (Tez) HD remake  of Atari 400 Video on YouTube Band Of Outsiders Atari Clothing Article Band of Outsiders Website Atari 800 mentioned on Colbert Report Video Atari 800 on Colbert Report Discussion on AtariAge Google and YouTube Atari Easter Eggs Learning Curve programming articles Learning Curve Discussion on AtariAge Nolan Bushnell interview NOMAM 2014 programming contest for 10 line games Bill Kendrick - Paddleship Entry for NOMAM Archive.org Computer Magazines Archive.org Computer Newsletters Archive.org Game Magazines Archive.org Manuals Archive.org The Business Case: Applications and Programs for the Home Office   Tips KDOS Atari Encyclopedia History of Atari Computers from CIO Magazine Bits of the Past store   Interview - Curt Vendel Atari Museum Atari History Book Website “Atari Inc.: Business is Fun (Volume I)” by Curt Vendel, Marty Goldberg at Amazon   Interview - Dennis Harkins Unedited Dennis Harkins Interview   Closing Taste My Beeper 1-bit GTIA Music Mash-up of the Beastie Boys and the music from Ballblazer  

On this episode of Antic, the Atari 8-bit Podcast: we delve into the mystery of floppy drives, talk with Paul Nurminen about his love of Atari, and rescue adventure games off of cassette tape.Links mentioned in this episode: Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevins Book “Terrible Nerd” New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Intro A8CAS atari.org Tape Preservation Project cassette discussion on atariage Altirra emulator Atari800Win-Plus emulator Adventure Creator War Games magazine research "CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer" by Boisy G Pitre and Bill Loguidice "Vintage Game Consoles: An Inside Look at Apple, Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, and the Greatest Gaming Platforms of All Time" by Bill Loguidice and Matt Barton "Vintage Games: An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario, and the Most Influential Games of All Time" by Bill Loguidice and Matt Barton Audio on a Record Atari800MacX emulator Vintage Computer Festival Southeast (VCFSE) 2.0 Vintage Computer Festivals ATR8000 Atlanta Science Festival SpartaDOS “Atari Roots” by Mark Andrews “Atari BASIC Source Book” by Bill Wilkinson “Sophistication and Simplicity, The Life and Times of the Apple II Computer” by Steven Weyhrich Atari Pool disks Intellivisionaries Podcast Paul Nurminen's Website with Atari programs B&C ComputerVisions News Atari Dump Hunt on hold More Atari Dump Atari Chapter 11 News VI for SpartaDOS Revival Mini Revival Survival! Kickstarter Homebrew Heroes Magazine New Fandal Site Atari Blast! update Incognito Board Incognito Board Third Run “30 Years Later, One Man Is Still Trying To Fix Video Games” article on Chris Crawford The!Cart New 7800 Stuff at archive.org Vintage Volts Podcast Atari Gamer Magazine Tips Running the Atari800 emulator on the Raspberry Pi   Atari BBS’s via telnet