MarkO

February 27, 2018

For anyone on the fence, don't be. There's a reason why these sell out. I used to use it in my Apple IIGS (ROM 01), but since I pared down to just an Apple IIe Platinum, I use it in that. Naturally, the remote is all but a requirement if you don't have a IIGS.

The only thing that disappoints me about it is a limitation of the Apple II itself, and it's that I can't have this and a physical disk card plugged in at the same time if I want full CFFA 3000 functionality (virtual disk and hard drive). That's not as big of a deal as it used to be, of course, since I got rid of all of my boxed software.

I have my CFFA3000 in Slot #7 in my ROM 01 ][gs, and it emulates a Hard Drive there, as well as Shadowing the 5.25" and 3.5" Disks into Slots #6 and #5...

If I deactivated the 5.25" Drives Shadowed into Slot #6, I could use the ][gs' internal Card to connect to a pair of 5.25" Drives....

If your just copying Disks, you can temporally install a Disk ][ Card into Slot #4 or #2 or #1...

MarkO

February 22, 2018

Machine Control

Player Piano Rolls - How its Made

MarkO

February 22, 2018

Here is a recent Interview with Chris Latham, author of Donkey King and Sailor Man for the Tandy Color Computer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TCXZVgrR7o

MarkO

February 22, 2018

New ZX-81/TS-1000 Keyboards can be found here:

http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/zx812.html

MarkO

February 21, 2018

Do you measure the Outside of the Threads or what??

MarkO

February 21, 2018

A Module for ADTPro would need to be Written to Access the Serial Port, but treat it like a Ethernet Connection...

MarkO

February 20, 2018

There is another Run being prepared by the Developer...

But there is also this Product, Lantronix UDS-10.

And the RS-232/Wi-Fi, with or without OLED.

MarkO

February 20, 2018

I tried 3 different searches and didn't find a similar topic... I hope it's not a dupe.

This would be Marc A. Golombeck's project...

MarkO

February 19, 2018

Simon shared a video of that on facebook, but I tried sharing video off of facebook and people just complain they don't do facebook and you can't watch the video without leaving this site, so I don't share anything from there anymore.

<< BIG SNIP >>

I agree about Facebook.. I prefer videos on YouTube too....

There is a YouTube Video of Simon's Demo, it's just not Publicly Available...

The above video is on YouTube..

MarkO

February 19, 2018

Not a Music Video per se, but a song with a Tandy CoCo :Revenge of the Nerds with a real Tandy Color Computer

MarkO

February 19, 2018

Uses the Yamaha V9958 Video Display Processor

https://sites.google.com/site/tandycocoloco/wordpak-2

And the message didn't go to the Tandy area as planned for some reason.

( Paging Albert!!! Please move to http://atariage.com/forums/forum/174-tandy-computers/.. )

This more fine work from, Luis Felipe Antoniosi

MarkO

February 19, 2018

I believe that Simon Jonassen is preparing something for a CoCoFEST demo..

This "clip" was shown on CoCoTALK! #47.

"a little coco3 madness"

( Disclaimer: I'm a regular Member of the CoCoTALK! Group, and might be a bit biased... )

MarkO

February 13, 2018

I don't suppose you could post a link to each of those could you?

If I saw them, I could tell you which one I have.

The only links I could find, I posted above...

There might be some photos on facebook...

MarkO

February 7, 2018

<< SNIP >>

A fellow is actually making these joystick adapters for the CoCo 3. I recently purchased one and it works great. I'll have to see if it works on the CoCo 2 as well.

Which Adapter did you Buy?? Neil's or Richard's???

MarkO

February 2, 2018

Ah Ah, looks like you're fully hyped-up Byte!

I will email the Disk to registered testers later today.

@Mark: You will be interested to hear that while making 8bit-Slicks, I organized it into separate cross-platform SDK and game code. I plan to release the SDK in mid-2018 for the benefit of the community.

I downloaded the UDP-Test disk and I now have the e-mail with the additional Links...

I would be curious to see your Protocol for the Game, specifically the Network Portion..

The rest of the SDK will be interesting too...

MarkO

February 1, 2018

I've registered too..

I have a big interest in Networked Games, with multiple systems of different manufactures and have been designing an infrastructure for doing that...

MarkO

January 31, 2018

BTW, I got an email today that Matthew, the maker of the F18A board, has them back in stock.

http://codehackcreate.com/store

I saw the KansasFest video and I've been waiting for him to get back in stock to make one!

I can't locate an e-mail to contact Matthew at his web site....

EDIT: I found a Contact Form...

MarkO

January 29, 2018

Wico produced an Atari/Commodore-compatible joystick adapter, didn't they?

Many CoCo games feel like they were really designed with digital control in mind, so this wouldn't be a bad thing to have, buy, or build.

<< SNIP >>

Yes, Wico made Digital Joysticks for the C64/C128 and Atari..

There are a few options available today for the Color Computer..

1) John W. Linville/Neil Blanchard's "SEGA Genesis Joypad Adapter for CoCo3".

2) Richard Lorebiesky's "Joystick CoCo Atari Adapter" ( Contact Info at https://boysontech.com/and https://www.facebook.com/boysontech )

3) Ed "Zippster" Snider's CoCoPSG with Two Atari/Sega Adapter Inputs.

MarkO

January 29, 2018

IIRC, Dragon 32s were only available in the UK..

Have you contacted any of the UK Dragon user about a spare Power Supply or Work Arounds???

There is a Facebook Group and a forum at World of Dragon...

MarkO

January 26, 2018

<<SNIP>>

This is the definitive answer:

http://www.applefritter.com/?q=content/disk-questionslot-selection#comment-72529

And this is why:

http://www.applefritter.com/?q=content/disk-questionslot-selection#comment-72528

<<SNIP>>

I see that myself and SpeedyG get a mention...

I would add the SpeedyG list, Slot #4 is also the Mouse Card Slot too..

MarkO

January 24, 2018

Thank You for continuing to support this Software...

MarkO

January 24, 2018

As a point of Clarification, Ed ( Zippster ) only Assembles and Ships the CoCoSDC..

The CoCoSDC was Designed by Darren Atkinson ( http://cocosdc.blogspot.com/), and Daren still does all the Firmware updates.

http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/CoCoSDC

MarkO

January 23, 2018

My Second Computer was an Apple ][e, which I got in NOV-1983.. My dad bought a Star Gemini 10, ( SG10 ) and I knew from High School that the Epson MX-80 would slow the computer down while printing, so I started looking for options...

I found the Microbuffer ][, and I "splurged" and got the one with 64K and both Parallel and Serial...

( This picture I found "On The 'Net" and looks to be just the Parallel Version )

practical-peripherals-apple-ii-compatibl

That made a huge difference in Printing and moving on to "other work"....

MarkO

January 16, 2018

I probably have a photo or three of my setup, BITD, but I would need to locate them...

I do have posted here in my Gallery, a Photo of when I first got my ][e...

MarkO

December 5, 2017

You are just unbelievable. Whether your signal travels through cellphone, tablet, or whatever else is really irrelevant. You are still using the same shitty wireless service.

<< BIG SNIP >

The ISPs in my area that offer this kind of service are using Point-to-Point Microwave with Fiber from the Towers to the ISP and then the Internet..

As an Individual User, you don't share the Bandwidth to the Tower, but do share it with all the other Point-to-Point Microwave Users to the ISP.

For areas not served with Coaxial Cable or Fiber, it's way better than DSL, or Cellular Systems..

MarkO

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