airsoftmodels Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Hello. I am the proud owner of a COCO3. Just wanted to introduce myself before I start going through the Forum. Can you recommend any old books that I should read. I might read them on archive.org so if you know of anything to start with I would appreciate it. My efforts to pick up a multicart or SD Card based drive have left me at a dead end. Nothing seems to be in current production? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 I suggest you start here: http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 There are several other resources you could check out. There is a discord server dedicated to the CoCo, facebook pages, the Color Computer Mailing List, CoCoTalk weekly live talk show, the CoCo Crew Podcast, etc... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibus Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 (edited) The SD card based drive to get is a CocoSDC. Looks like Ed is showing a couple available on his website here: https://thezippsterzone.com/buy/ More good stuff can be found here: Cloud 9 Edited June 22, 2019 by Calibus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 Other hardware resources: https://boysontech.com/ http://www.go4retro.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulon Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Some more links for you: https://archive.org/search.php?query=tandy+color+computer+3&page=2 http://os9projects.com/CD_Archive/TUTORIAL/COCO/LITTLEWONDER/Cocobook-TLW2.pdf http://users.axess.com/twilight/sock/ http://www.cloud9tech.com/ http://archive.worldofdragon.org/archive/index.php?dir= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 Hi airsoftmodels: I'm a long time Apple ][ and Commodore C64 user, and I am still fairly new to the Color Computer... I got my first one in the Fall of 2012... All the the above links are a great starting point, plus I would recommend, http://imacoconut.com/, as an aggregator to all the above links plus a few others.. Like Emulators and other Hardware Vendors.. Just to give a bit of background, the Tandy CoCo is built on the Motorola 6809, ( MC6809 ), and has a BASIC that was developed by Micro-Soft, and is quite similar to the 6502 BASIC found in the Commodore C64 and Apple ]['s APPLESOFT. In fact the the Hidden Easter Egg is still located in the ROMs : https://www.pagetable.com/?p=43 Also, if you don't mind De-Soldering your CPU, there is an Upgraded CPU from Hitachi, called the 6309, ( HD6309 ), that runs identically in Emulation Mode, and when switched to Native Mode will run your code faster, at the same Clock Speeds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6809 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_6309 I "hang out" on the TRS-80 Discord Server, quite a bit, so if you want to ask a lot of question, of me or some other CoCoNuts, come join us...... https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm ( Disclaimer: I'm an Admin on the TRS-80 Discord Server, so I'm probable biased... ) MarkO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulon Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 The two zip archives at the bottom of this page ought to give you a good start: http://www.blitter.com/~nebulous/coco.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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