MrDave

My vote is for the coco computer.. there is a strong community with a weekly youtube show.. weekly game challenge, you can find coco stuff all over the place..even Ebay prices can be reasonable.. its a fun and easy machine to hack. 2nd is the msx ! I knew nothing of these systems untill recently and there are many models of machines great colorfull games ( but the carts are pricey ! )

This little machine is fun for games..

I just got into the msx computers in 2020 very capable machines.,, i really love the casio mx 10 and my panasonic msx a1. The games are really fun and 8 look foward to doing some sprite graphics.

Well i used a composite - vga converter from amazon for 20$ ..there must be lots of vga monitors around.. this can be done under 50$ !

A coco 'raid' wouldn't that be efficient lol

Having a usb port on my retro machine was so handy i put in a second one ! Lol

This came with a to i bought so what does it do ? Is it for joysticks?

Unfortunately that country can't ship to canada at the moment..any other ideas ?

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Hmm im having trouble finding somewhere to purchase the avg cart etc.. maybe im overtired lol

Hi just got my first atari. A 800xl Whats a good sd card reader that would allow me to run games and programs from the cart slot or expansion port ?

We're playing Downland as our weekly game challenge on cocotalk if anyone wants to join just take a photo of your score / game and you can enter before friday 22 may 2020 I will remind people of your awesome mario version again..lol

Im still having fun hacking the vga colors using a binary counter counting the hsync pulses.. This is a pretty clear monochrome image on my coco2

You should really check all the capacitors as that effects the voltages.

Having open vga wires ( r g b ) its easy to manipulate them..this is still a monochrome ( black and white )signal leaving my coco2

Het guys i figured out a cool hack to get your vintage computer to use a vga monitor.. I took out the rf circuit out of my coco2 and was able to restore the video using the luminance (y) wire coming off the vdg , and using a inexpensive composite to vgs converter (<25$ ) on amazon my computer now has adjustable color ! And a much clearer picture than rf !

Due to a small accident with the 1372 video signal chip i had to revert back to the (y) signal on the vdg now its run thru a vga converter so i can at least choose a color

Thats what the Coco3 did to the coco2 ..same cpu ..just helped unleash its potential.. Alot back then was a $$$ factor.. the ti994a had 16k on the video side and only 256 bytes on the cpu side.. it was a $$$ limitation.. Im sure the designers might of liked 64k each side .. But your correct in implying a speak and spell with a 64bit arm processor could do great things too..😁

Old - new - new - old ..lol Here is a demo of my coco2 with its usbcontroller running a korg volca fm ( which run vintage yamaha dx7 sounds)

The coco3 was a computer with alot of potential !

Most def someone who likes to solder and experiment.. making all the address and data lines available. Could of run anything ! But probably diffrent things from time to time. Neat If you have a logic probe see what beepscand when !

Another small example

If you are intrested to try easy ml subroutines check out my video showing how to use ml in basic..

I finally got my coco to use wifi printer.. it sends data thru the serial port to my built in raspberry pi and i use a python subroutine to print

http://www.nickmarentes.com/ProjectArchive/gunstar.html Here's the link to this game. I really enjoyed the scrolling effect thru space with the background moving at a diffrent rate than the foreground..great colors too.. really shows off the coco3's abilities !