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MrCopilot<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TIL</a> of another project that will live in the back of my head until just the right moment and go: "Yes, I DO need that TRS-80 you have for sale"Being on this side of the pond, never even heard of the Dragon until 5 minutes ago.& Now, already done the preliminary research.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091126225659/http://www.onastick.clara.co.uk/cococnv.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20091126225659/http://www.onastick.clara.co.uk/cococnv.htm</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trs80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trs80</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Dragon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dragon</a>

SocketwenchAfter committing some battery compartment sins to the <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/vintageComputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintageComputers</a> gods, the <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/trs80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trs80</a> Model 100 now has a LiPo, USB-C and alternate solar input.

Craig GroeschelWho remembers "invert and telephone"? <a href="http://www.trs-80.org/deathmaze-5000/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://www.trs-80.org/deathmaze-5000/</a><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/TRS80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TRS80</a>

FozzTexxIt is done. That transparent transfer tape is TERRIBLE. Barely any sticky. <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/WouldNotRecommend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WouldNotRecommend</a>. If I were to do it again I think I’d make white be the bottom-most layer and put a white border around the whole thing. <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/maker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#maker</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/TRS80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TRS80</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/CoCo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CoCo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/RadioShack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RadioShack</a>

Leaded SolderNew blog post! I'm tired of my TRS-80 Colour Computer needing an old school RF connection to get video out. How about crudely jamming in a composite mod from an *entirely different* obscure computer? That'll work. <a href="https://retrochat.online/tags/coco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coco</a> <a href="https://retrochat.online/tags/trs80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trs80</a> <a href="https://retrochat.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/07/15/tandy-trs80-coco-composite-mod-aquarius.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/07/15/tandy-trs80-coco-composite-mod-aquarius.html</a>

Jason DyerToday for All the Adventures I have a most unusual post as a game by Kim Watt (likely from 1980) was left in a non-functional state by the author and now is fixed and playable for the first time.<a href="https://bluerenga.blog/2025/07/12/marooned-playable-for-the-first-time/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bluerenga.blog/2025/07/12/marooned-playable-for-the-first-time/</a><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/adventuregame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#adventuregame</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/videogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#videogames</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/textadventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#textadventure</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/interactivefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interactivefiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/trs80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trs80</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/tandy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tandy</a>

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄I'm not really *planning* on doing any TRS-80 stuff, but found a few books that look interesting:Seems like the most practical book, but the scan is annoying 2-page layout, I'm making a new cbz of it right now: <a href="https://archive.org/details/TRS-80_Assembly_Language_1981_Prentice_Hall/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/TRS-80_Assembly_Language_1981_Prentice_Hall/mode/2up</a><a href="https://archive.org/details/Assembly_Language_Subroutines_1982_Prentice_Hall/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/Assembly_Language_Subroutines_1982_Prentice_Hall/mode/2up</a><a href="https://archive.org/details/TRS-80_Assembly_Language_Programming_1980_Radio_Shack/page/n7/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/TRS-80_Assembly_Language_Programming_1980_Radio_Shack/page/n7/mode/2up</a>And some BASIC: <a href="https://archive.org/details/TRS-80_Programs_1980_Tom_Rugg/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/TRS-80_Programs_1980_Tom_Rugg/mode/2up</a><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/trs80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trs80</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a>

FozzTexxThe detachable keyboard on the XEGS let me put another keyboard on the stack! I was afraid I was going to have to go build some custom shelving. <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/FujiNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FujiNet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Atari</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/A8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#A8</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/AppleII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AppleII</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/TRS80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TRS80</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Commodore</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/C128" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#C128</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/C64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#C64</a>

FozzTexxTesting so many different <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/FujiNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FujiNet</a> versions it’s starting to look like a music studio or crazy electric music organ with keyboards stacked on keyboards. Not enough room for the <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Atari</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/A8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#A8</a>! Yet! <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/AppleII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AppleII</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/TRS80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TRS80</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Commodore</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/C128" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#C128</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/C64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#C64</a>

µPIS BASIC from the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Enterprise128" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enterprise128</a> is the foremost advanced <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BASIC</a> dialects for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/8Bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#8Bit</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HomeComputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HomeComputers</a>. But it is very(!) slow. The "Creative Computing Benchmark" took nearly 5 minutes to run (comparable to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SinclairZXSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SinclairZXSpectrum</a> and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TRS80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TRS80</a> Model 100) but produced excellent results: "accuracy" is quite good (comparable with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BBCMicro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BBCMicro</a>) and "random" is the best of all computers measured in the contest from 1984:

FozzTexxDon't have an official <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/FujiNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FujiNet</a> CoCo cartridge? No problem! Just use the official <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/FujiNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FujiNet</a> RS232 cartridge and a CoCoEPROMpak installed inside a <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/3DPrinted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#3DPrinted</a> CoCo cartridge instead!<a href="https://gitlab.com/NF6X_Retrocomputing/CoCoEPROMpak" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gitlab.com/NF6X_Retrocomputing/CoCoEPROMpak</a><a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/TRS80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TRS80</a> <a href="https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/tags/TRS80CoCo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TRS80CoCo</a>

Blake PattersonI just stumbled upon this upgrade I would have leapt at a few years back when I was building up my "new" Tandy 1000HX: Tandy 1000 EX/HX 3-in-1 V2 Adapter --- 640K RAM + 2x Serial + Parallel + XTIDE Upgrade by Rob Krenicki<a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/197473626636" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ebay.com/itm/197473626636</a>It looks like the creator of this device, who posted the project to GitHub, has made his last production run, sadly. Several are available still on eBay. It doesn't look like the RAM expansion has the DMA chip, but that really doesn't much matter. What a great unit. I upgraded my own 1000HX to this spec -- but did it the Hard way (note the capital H). <a href="https://github.com/rkrenicki/Tandy-EX-HX-3in1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/rkrenicki/Tandy-EX-HX-3in1</a><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Tandy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tandy</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Tandy1000" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tandy1000</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Tandy1000HX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tandy1000HX</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Tandy1000EX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tandy1000EX</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/XTIDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#XTIDE</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/modernretro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#modernretro</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/eBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#eBay</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/x86" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#x86</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/TRS80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TRS80</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RadioShack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RadioShack</a>

Willard GooseyThere's an ebay guy that sells scans of technical manuals. He had the PC4 Sevice Manual. So I got a copy.Not a lot to the manual, these things weren't really going to be repairable with 198X equipment.This manual also covers the matching cassette interface, though, and I was interested in that. Hoped the interface was just some caps and resistors, but nope there's a whole IO chip in there. Outputs Kansas City format tape!<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PocketComputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PocketComputer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TRS80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TRS80</a>

Jake in the desertMichael Wessel has created the MIDI/80, a soundcard and MIDI interface for the Radio Shack TRS-80 <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/06/01/its-midi-for-the-trs-80" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hackaday.com/2025/06/01/its-midi-for-the-trs-80</a><a href="https://c.im/tags/TRS80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TRS80</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MIDI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MIDI</a>

itgrrl :donor:does anyone that I’m connected to <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/repair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#repair</a> old TRS-80 Color Computers (or is connected to anyone who does) & is based even vaguely anywhere near <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Canberra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Canberra</a>? (or within plausible shipping distance)I wish to exchange $$ for goods & services to put the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MagicBlueSmoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MagicBlueSmoke</a> back into my beloved old <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CoCo1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CoCo1</a>… 😢 <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/boost4reach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#boost4reach</a> pls 🙏 <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroGaming</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TRS80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TRS80</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TRS80CoCo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TRS80CoCo</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ColorComputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ColorComputer</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Tandy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tandy</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TandyCoCo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TandyCoCo</a>

Paul :python: :django:Excellent. One of my <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TRS80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TRS80</a> games from 40 years ago, running on an emulated Model III, crashed TRS-80 BASIC!

vga256always liked the tandy trs-80 color computer cartridge boxes. they're small, elegant, and have uniquely colourful and weird cover artapparently the creator of this game - dale lear - re-released it for iOS: <a href="https://www.doublebackgame.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.doublebackgame.com</a><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/trs80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trs80</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retroComputing</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/retroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retroGaming</a>

Jack Yan (甄爵恩)Blimmin’ heck, a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TRS80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TRS80</a> in my feed!<a href="https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/114480120161707677" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/114480120161707677</a>

I see Dud people!<a href="https://mas.to/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/computing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computing</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TRS80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TRS80</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Ckj6wZ2dQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Ckj6wZ2dQ</a>

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄Also, the booklet that started it for me: <a href="https://archive.org/details/TRS80ModelIPreliminaryUsersManual/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/TRS80ModelIPreliminaryUsersManual/mode/2up</a> (actually I had just the summary card, not this whole manual) <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#basic</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/trs80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trs80</a>

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