Extended color basic

[Blindseer42]

What were some of your first programs when programming the Tandy COCO. please give some examples. I'm still new to this dialect of BASIC, but i am a fast learner

[jhd]

 

Do you have access to the original manuals set? That is how I learned BASIC (and Extended BASIC) and there are lots of examples -- each builds upon the previous.

 

Some of the commands (e.g. string manipulation, math functions) are the same as in Level II on the TRS-80 series, so those texts would be of some value as a reference. 

 

I never really did much with the "high-resolution" graphics modes, so I cannot really comment about them.

 

While the original manuals do not seem to be there, many other reference books are available online: http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Books/

 

For the record, my one major Coco program was a Centipede-clone (cleverly called "Multipede") that used the text screen graphics. BASIC was aided by two different machine-language routines (both borrowed from other sources).  It was distributed to a few local BBSes, but I no longer have a copy.