Sock Master has done it again. Some years back he announced that he had ported the original Donkey Kong code to run on the CoCo 3. This meant that the game played like the real arcade game. To my knowledge, nobody has done this before! Much to our recent surprise, Sock has released an alternate…
As of January 2016, Ed Snider (aka Zippster) was active with numerous awesome CoCo 1,2,3 hardware projects including but not limited to: CoCoSDC-based animations Enhanced RGB2VGA version (VGA for CoCo 3) VGA for the CoCo 1/2 Enhanced 6847 VDG upgrade Visit Ed’s web site to see what he’s up to and to obtain one of…
My interest in programming games began with the purchase of my first computer back in 1980, a Tandy TRS-80 Model 1. In 1984, I moved on to the Tandy Color Computer 2 and 1986, a Tandy Color Computer 3 which I still program today. Although predominantly a Tandy/Radio Shack computer enthusiast, I also followed many of the systems available at…
There have been rumours of a secret 256 color mode hidden within the GIME chip architecture of the Tandy Color Computer 3. This page reveals all the information that I have collected with the hope that one day the truth will be revealed. Introducing the GIME chip The GIME chip within the Color Computer 3…