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Roger Taylor | 1 Jul 2004 19:30
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Re: Re: BASIC program contest

At 08:51 AM 6/30/2004, you wrote:
>My submission would be in basic:
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>1  PRINT "It is dark."
>2  PRINT "You were eaten by a grue."
>2  END

Priceless!!!  I'm in tears.  Looks like you could win this contest. :)

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Stephen Blunt | 1 Jul 2004 22:02

Completion of Software preservation

I have backed up all my tapes and all my working disks. The only commercial
disks that completely died were the Cook Book (2 sided disk) ver 1.00 and my
copy of Disk Edtasm. Shamus and had some read errors but the game seems to
work fine. I know there is a multitude of copies of Disk Edtasm and Shamus
about but I haven't seen the Cook book program anywhere. Does anyone know
where I could get a copy?

Stephen Blunt

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Neil Morrison | 1 Jul 2004 22:03

Re: Completion of Software preservation


I believe I have a copy. ISTR it was buggy as shipped.

Neil

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I have backed up all my tapes and all my working disks. The only commercial
disks that completely died were the Cook Book (2 sided disk) ver 1.00 and my
copy of Disk Edtasm. Shamus and had some read errors but the game seems to
work fine. I know there is a multitude of copies of Disk Edtasm and Shamus
about but I haven't seen the Cook book program anywhere. Does anyone know
where I could get a copy?

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smostrom | 1 Jul 2004 22:09
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Re: Completion of Software preservation


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From: Stephen Blunt <sblunt@...>
Date: Thursday, July 1, 2004 3:02 pm
Subject: [Coco] Completion of Software preservation

> I have backed up all my tapes and all my working disks. The only 
> commercialdisks that completely died were the Cook Book (2 sided 
> disk) ver 1.00 and my
> copy of Disk Edtasm. Shamus and had some read errors but the game 
> seems to
> work fine. I know there is a multitude of copies of Disk Edtasm 
> and Shamus
> about but I haven't seen the Cook book program anywhere. Does 
> anyone know
> where I could get a copy?
> 
> Stephen Blunt
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Sorry, this is one I've never heard of before.  Was it a Tandy issued program?

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Stephen Blunt | 1 Jul 2004 22:20

RE: Completion of Software preservation

I think so. I will have to look tonight. The disks certainly came on a Tandy
Branded Floppy. I think is was cat #26-3257. I bought it when Tandy was
discontinuing the coco line and I picked it up for $5 or $10 in Australia. I
made a backup of the original when I first got it, but those backups are
riddled with read errors too. I also lost my copy of skramble. I haven't
found a coco tape version of that. Only dragon images or Pak files. Call my a
stickler but I like to have it in the original format that I owned it.

On another note: I never did finish Cave Walker (mercifully I backed that up
with no errors). It was my favorite game of all and came close ONCE to
finishing it. Does anyone managed to finish it?

> > I have backed up all my tapes and all my working disks. The only
> > commercial disks that completely died were the Cook Book (2 sided 
> > disk) ver 1.00 and my
> > copy of Disk Edtasm. Shamus and had some read errors but the game 
> > seems to
> > work fine. I know there is a multitude of copies of Disk Edtasm 
> > and Shamus
> > about but I haven't seen the Cook book program anywhere. Does 
> > anyone know
> > where I could get a copy?
> > 
> > Stephen Blunt
> > 
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> Sorry, this is one I've never heard of before.  Was it a 
> Tandy issued program?
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Fedor Steeman | 1 Jul 2004 23:05
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Re: Artifact purple/green wasRe: CoCo Monitor

In fact, PAL had its own odd effects with the CoCo's B&W stripes
alltogether. I wonder if anyone has attempted to make a PAL mode in a (CoCo)
emulator showing its artifacts? It is actually what I grew up with, not knowing
any better, and it would be nice to be able to see this again in an
emulator system. If I had the skills, I would probably go in and build it
into MESS myself, just for fun!

Cheers,
Fedor

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From: "John Kowalski" <sock@...>
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Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Artifact purple/green wasRe: CoCo Monitor

> At 10:24 PM 27/06/2004 -0500, CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
wrote:
> >Some of the emulators have an artifact mode, but now I wonder:  How far
> >do they go?  Do they just simply do the "odd is red, even is blue" or
> >vise versa colors, or did they actually try to emulate all the
> >artifacting in NTSC?  That would let our PAL friends see them.
> >
> > Allen
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> Most emulators just do red,blue,white and black.
> MESS and Mocha, on the other hand simulate complex artifacting.
>
> What I did was hook up a CoCo to my PC's ATI All-In-Wonder video input,
and
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Torsten Dittel | 2 Jul 2004 09:23

Re: Completion of Software preservation

> I think is was cat #26-3257.

Thats true. I have this disk too. I remember I had a manual but I
haven't found it yet.

Regards,
Torsten

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Torsten Dittel | 3 Jul 2004 11:08

Anything wrong with my news client? It's quite quiet..


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jimcox | 3 Jul 2004 17:43

Re: Anything wrong with my news client? It's quite quiet..

On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 11:08:24 +0200
  Torsten Dittel <Torsten@...> wrote:
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Torsten:

Your last two postings have made it through.  Most likley, 
people are off celibrating the 4th of July weekend. 
 Hopefully everyone comes back with all their fingers :)

Jim

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Dennis Bathory-Kitsz | 3 Jul 2004 18:51

Re: Data Gatherer

At 08:09 AM 6/30/04 -0500, smostrom@... wrote:
>was your Data Gatherer system in the mid-80's a 
>result of one of your hardware articles, or was it 
>something you needed for yourself and decided 
>to market?  How did it work?  How successful was 
>it as far as sales?  It looks as if it was a stand-alone
>computer, but worked with a Coco?

It was something I wanted to build for interactive musical purposes, and
didn't have the chance to do so until a company came to us to design a
power regulation and monitoring interface that used the CoCo as a central
device. Their system included a CoCo, 5-inch color monitor, thermal
printer, Data Gatherer, input isolation boards, and bunches of shielding..

The DG was an A/D D/A board, 12 bits, using successive approximation in
machine language for the A/D conversion. There was a realtime clock as well.

We sold it for about $300 (as I recall ... been a while), and they bought
perhaps 30 completed units. I wrote up the article for UnderColor in
multiple parts, and offered the Data Gatherer kits through Green Mountain
Micro. We might have sold one or two.

It wasn't a standalone computer. It was set up like a ROM pack, with the
DGOS taking over and configuring the CoCo system at boot. I later included
a battery backup system for data. Not sure if it made it to the final
design, or was an add-on.

I believe I still have about a dozen boards, but no parts -- and the D/A
converter is probably hard to find.
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