JamesD Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 This seems like an opportunity to resurrect an old iPod Nanite to act as a cassette loading device. Is there a repo for MC-10 program audio files? Start here: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TRS80MC10Club/info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towmater Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 (edited) Thanks for the tip. This being my first trip to Yahoo in years, I was delighted to see the groups I had subscribed to in 1999, but then noticed they all had trickled down to 0-1 messages per month, though MC10 has kept up a pretty good pace. I will pop the question once I have the MC10 up and running again. Meanwhile, after finding I have a twitter account and a bunch of dodgy things linked to my Yahoo address, I set up a few email filters. Now anything with a vowel in it goes straight to the trash folder. I was intrigued to find that I've been applying for jobs driving a flatbed. It's clear now that someone out there is far cooler than me. Edited January 2, 2017 by towmater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 I've tried to track down some info on a coded game for this, and I have no idea why I remember the name of it some THIRTY YEARS later, but...it was called "Broken-Field Nightmare". I believe it ran off a cassette tape and that his Dad typed it in. It was a very simple game where you used the keys to navigate a two-pixel thing across a screen to the other side. We loved that damn thing! Years later I found out it was supposed to be a FOOTBALL game of sorts, lol...me don't know sports Does anybody remember that 'game'? Hot Coco, February 1984 -- from the Elmer's Arcade column, p. 17 http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Magazines/Hot%20CoCo%20(Searchable%20image)/Hot%20Coco%20Vol.%201%20No.%209%20-%20February%201984.pdf -- Due to a printing error, the listing was originally published in the January issue, but the accompanying article did not appear until the following month (wherein the game was reprinted) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarilovesyou Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Can't wait to read the above!...but my computer takes a shit while trying to open it for some reason...I'll need to try on my phone. Thanks, though!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormtrooper of Death Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 (edited) Wow, I never heard about the "Hot Coco" magazine. In the Netherlands I was only able to buy "Rainbow" magazine. Thanks for posting the link, JHD. And talking about the MC-10.... As a teen, my father bought me a MC-10 from the local Tandy (Radio Shack) store in Helmond (The Netherlands). I was the only kid that had an MC-10. Most other kids had a Commodore 64, MSX or Atari homecomputer. Lack of games made me program my own games and utilities on the MC-10. One year later I bought the 16K expansion pack at that same Tandy store. Now it was 20K of BASIC happiness for me. I converted many adventure games from other systems to the MC-10. Also a lot of games that were originally for the TRS-80 model III. Concerning utilities, i wrote my own wordprocessor (including save/load option), paint program, music editor/player and even SUPERBASIC (a basic interpreter that didnt use line numbers and had more powerfull commands). But after some years I got a bit depressed , because I couldnt share all my programs with other kids... so i swapped my MC-10 for an Atari 600XL computer.... Anyhow, the MC-10 was the one computer, that teached me how to program in BASIC. (I also had the Pinball game for the MC-10 on tape, and loved it when the vulcano would explode) I still use Atari 8bit computers and maybe I will buy a 2nd hand MC-10 if the time is right. greetings from Richard Vermeulen from the Netherlands. Edited February 23, 2017 by Stormtrooper of Death 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Concerning utilities, i wrote my own wordprocessor (including save/load option), paint program, music editor/player and even SUPERBASIC (a basic interpreter that didnt use line numbers and had more powerfull commands). Wow! I could barely stand to use a wordprocessor on the Coco, between the limited screen and the chicklet keyboard; I could not imagine trying to do any significant amount of writing on what passed for a keyboard on the MC-10. Did you write everything in BASIC, or did you use assembly language too? I do not recall having seen a commercial 6803 editor/assembler advertised anywhere in magazines, but I vaguely remember a simple monitor program (much like what the Apple II had built-in ROM). The inability to "share" software was frustrating; even the Coco was not directly compatible with the MC-10 (the cassette tape format was the same, but the encoding was different). My classmate and I were disappointed to discover this -- he wrote a great game on his MC-10 that would not work on my Coco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormtrooper of Death Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 (edited) jhd, i programmed everything in BASIC. even Superbasic was made with the MC-10 basic. so... Superbasic was very,very slow. If I was able to do assembly, then things would have be better for superbasic. I did use some POKE and PEEK instructions in my Basic programs. My paint program used the 64x48 res screen in green/black dots. and my paint program for the MC-10 was also able to save/load pictures that i made with it. It was rather simple. Moving the cursor , press space to plot/unplot. S for Save and L for load. Edited February 23, 2017 by Stormtrooper of Death Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linville Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Haven't read the thread above -- sorry if this has been mentioned already... There is an MC-10 version of Xmas Rush, available here: http://www.tuxdriver.com/download/xmasrush/ The MC-10 version is a little further down. Gameplay is awkward, due to placement of the arrow keys. Still, you might find it enjoyable... :-) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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