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Seems to be true, but its hard to believe that the CoCo 1 hardware is inferior!

Attached below is a copy of Steve Woolham's CoCo BASIC Upgrade Patch v1.0. A small utility program which patches out the bugs in the Tandy CoCo Color BASIC 1.1 and Extended Color BASIC 1.0 ROMs. Also adds a very handy auto-repeating keys feature with "RKEYS" ON/OFF command which replaces the Extende...

Thanks Ken! I'm going to make a CoCo-to-PC Serial Cable. Why is the transfer rate slower on a CoCo 1 compared to a CoCo 2 (38,400 bps vs 57,600 bps)?

The diagram below (by Roger Taylor) shows the wiring for the CoCo-to-PC Serial Cable for use with CoCoNet and DriveWire servers. Are the links at pins 4-6 and 7-8 needed if using the cable only for the Drivewire 3/4 server?

A second (and best) option would be for you to CLOAD the BASIC program from your original cassete (with the poor quality recording) on your real Dragon, Save a fresh copy of the BASIC program to a good quality cassette tape with POKE144,2:CSAVE"IIHAM1", make a wave file recording from the fresh cass...

It seems that some bits of the BASIC program have gone missing during the recovery process. 17 PRINT:PRINT" A SALT/JACKSON MONEYMAKER GAME":PRINT@421,"FOR UP TO 6 PLAYERS";:FOR T=1 TO 3000:NEXT:CLS:PRINT@260,"IS THIS A NEW GAME(Y/N)?"; 18 ANS$=INKEY$:IF ANS$<>"Y" AND ANS$<>"N" THEN 18 ELSE IF ANS$="...

Well done, Rob!

Enter POKE25,6:NEW before loading the game. I have added X=RND(-TIMER) to improve gameplay, and removed the machine code routine which deleted the entire game if the reset button was pressed.

EDIT: Attachment removed. Updated version here.

Just found this on YouTube. This video shows how CoCOTLA works. It allows 4x faster loadings on the Tandy Color Computer from the cassette port. The loader works on XRoar emulator and in my CP 400 Color, a brazilian CoCo clone. The source code and the tools required can be found at Github: https://g...

Archive updated 19th Nov, 2012. I discovered that the CoCo Extended Color BASIC 1.0 ROM image included in the archive was corrupt. It was passed on to me by someone at the MESS forum several years ago. I have now replaced it with a fresh copy direct from one of my own CoCo 1 machines. I recommend us...

I think the cassettes were recorded on the same cassette recorder Probably they have, but they sound like they have been recorded from one cassette recorder to another which has produced poor quality recordings. It is possible that someone may be able to rescue one or both of the files, but fresh c...