CoCOTLA

[zephyr]

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://github.com/robsonfr/cocotla

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dRhRAXz7iU

[Dantyr]

The CoCOTLA is an implementation of OTLA made by Robson França here in Brazil. Bellow is a video made on the last "Videomagia" meeting (a retro-gaming event) showing a demonstration of the CoCOTLA loading Tut's Tomb on the CP400, another brazilian CoCo clone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo0TVptIMkM

Daniel

[zephyr]

The CoCOTLA is an implementation of OTLA made by Robson França here in Brazil. Bellow is a video made on the last "Videomagia" meeting (a retro-gaming event) showing a demonstration of the CoCOTLA loading Tut's Tomb on the CP400, another brazilian CoCo clone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo0TVptIMkM

Daniel

Thanks Daniel. Is this something that you personally use for loading all your games?

[Dantyr]

Actually I just use cassete to load all programs on the Dragon/CoCo.
The idea behind de OTLA is load cassete programs a lot faster than usual way. Actually CoCOTLA is capable of loading 4 times faster.

Here in Brazil, disk interfaces for the CoCo were not so readly available as on the other countries during the old times. So the majority of users here just worked with cassete by the time that the CoCo was a mainstream computer.

Daniel