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There are a few ways to test operation of a Color Computer. This may be useful when buying or selling a CoCo, when taking out old equipment from storage or simply to test your daily driver.
Simple screen sharing over LAN using a RaspberryPi or display computer connected to a projector or TV.
Dramatisation of the race for home computer supremacy in the 1980s, documenting the lengthy rivalry between Clive Sinclair (Alexander Armstrong) and Chris Curry (Martin Freeman).
Bryan Sparks, President of #DRDOS, clarified the license of CP/M: "Let this paragraph represent a right to use, distribute, modify, enhance, and otherwise make available in a nonexclusive manner CP/M and its derivatives. [...]"
In this video, we'll see how to use a Wombat ADB to USB and vice versae converter. We'll see also how to configure and how to upgrade the firmware. I discovered this device from BMOW (Big Mess O' Wires) website. Of course I'm not affiliated and I'm just a customer who provide feedback on it.
An as yet unnamed project which aims to bring a pre-emptive multi-tasking graphical operating system to the 8-bit Atari.
A collection of past and current Apple II FTP sites. ftp.apple.asimov.net is synced daily.
A definitive book about the first half-century of interactive fiction.
Use your old Apple or NeXT ADB keyboard on a USB system. Mini-DIN 4 to micro-USB.
Yet another javascript emulator, this time for the legendary ahem MC-10 microcomputer by Tandy Corp!
Purely the result of one persons sentimental journey into his childhood days of PEEK'ing and POKE'ing. Source is available on #GitHub.
In Stranger Things season two episode eight (“The Mind Flayer”), there is a need for them to restart a computer system. Radio Shack Bob says someone needs to know BASIC to do this. (Oh, really, writers?) This leads to a scene where Bob gets the system going by … typing in a #BASIC program.
Do you want to share the links you discover? Shaarli is a minimalist link sharing service that you can install on your own server. It is designed to be personal (single-user), fast and handy.
#DynoSprite is a sophisticated, object oriented game engine for the #Tandy #ColorComputer 3, written in #6809 assembly language. The build system runs on a modern computer to compile, assemble, and package a final disk image which can be loaded into an emulator or copied onto a physical disk for running on a real #CoCo 3. The resulting CoCo program requires a 512K Coco 3 with a disk system (either 5 1/4" floppy drive, or CoCo SDC card, or CoCoNET ROM Pak, or similar.
Le fléché québécois est une forme de tissage aux doigts évolué, raffiné et complexe. Unique au monde, cette technique a été inventée par les Canadiens-Français dans la deuxième moitié du XVIIIe siècle et transmise de génération en génération jusqu’à nos jours. Ce livre cherche à développer chez les apprentis flécherands une meilleure compréhension de la technique du fléché, en décortiquant ses bases, ses pièges et ses possibilités.
Before smartphones and iPads, before the Internet or the personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone system.
Exploding The Phone is their story.
The TCI Library is maintained by Telephone Collectors International, a non-profit organization, as a public service. It supports our goal of helping to preserve the history of telephony -- particularly fragile paper documents that may otherwise be lost to posterity.
The VTDA purpose is to archive vintage technology, digitally. That means scanning manuals, advertising, boxes and circuit boards as well as recovering data from magnetic, optical and other forms of media. The main focus is on computing, telephony and radio, but sometimes other things catch our eye.
BitSavers is an extensive personal archive of retrocomputing related PDFs, magazines, software, and books - more than 143000 files including over 7 million text pages in various digital formats. The archive is curated by Al Kossow of the CHM - Computer History Museum in MountainView, California.
LogiCall is an Executive Level Synonym Execution Program and integrated software ensemble that enhances the speed and operating ease of your Color Computer 3. LogiCall permits you to move from drive to drive, move into and out of your word processor, database, spreadsheet, terminal program and other programs using just a few logical keystrokes. LogiCall displays pictures and word processor files on the screen without using graphics or word processor applications.