Today 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.
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/07/12/marooned-playable-for-the-first-time/
Been loving necroware's board for converting MDA/CGA/EGA to VGA! Quick to solder, compact, and has worked like a champ on everything I've tried: Tandy 1000, Laser 128, C128DCR, etc.
All the Adventures reaches a TRS-80 game with code that suggest an author enamored with Scott Adams. He tries to copy, but with a much different method, leading to bizarre side effects.
Also, a near brush with "moon logic" and keys coming out of a bathtub faucet.
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/07/09/herrick-venture-1-escape-1983/
DracoDS -- Tandy Color Computer (CoCo 2) and Dragon 32/64 emulator for #NintendoDS gbatemp.net/threads/drac... #retrodev #retrogaming #homebrew #ndsdev #emudev #emulation #retrocomputing #tandy
Man lernt dich nie aus ...wusste bis heute nicht das #Tandy auch #Disketten unter ihren Namen vertrieben hat ...
Aber made in China sagt für die Zeit schon viel, oder wann gab es solche Disketten?
I 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
https://www.ebay.com/itm/197473626636
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).
Brought this #Tandy #ColorComputer 2 back to life. The service guide was super helpful. First change the power transistor, hoping it was that, but it was the power regulator SALT chip. Thankfully, found it on eBay from the UK. #RetroComputing
If you haven't visited the webpage in awhile (and you haven't), I've done a lot of updating. I'm collecting all my posts, projects, stories, links, etc of the last 25 years and posting them. I'm working backwards right now and am about to start 2014. I figure a couple months and they were all be there.
I am suddenly tempted to install a 3.5" HDD, two 3.5" FDDs, and a 5.25" FDD in this thing and set it up as a low capacity file server.
I'd committed to putting one 3.5" FDD, one 3.5" HDD, and a CD-ROM in the #Tandy 2500XL and figured that while I had the chassis open I'd swap out the WD card a previous owner had installed for an Etherlink III, my preferred NIC. I popped the ISA-side chassis door off of its hinge so I could get easier access to the retaining screws for the cards, but what's this I found?
Why, it appears to be a mounting point for a 3.5" hard drive, meaning I can actually install *4* drives.
Trying to decide what drives I want for the #Tandy 2500XL - we have one onboard FDD connector, one onboard IDE port, two 3.5" bays, and a 5.25" bay. The case is made such that the 3.5" bays can only support FDDs and HDDs. The obvious 286 configuration is one each of a 3.5" FDD, 5.25" FDD, and a 3.5" HDD, but this thing is from the 90s so I was thinking perhaps subbing in a CD-ROM, or maybe even doing two 3.5" FDDs, a CD-ROM, and sacrificing an ISA slot for a CF card.
n 6th grade, my middle school had one of these. It was the first computer I programmed. It had 4k RAM and BASIC.
O blog “Abort, Retry, Fail” fala tudo sobre a Tandy (com e sem Radio Shack)
What a delight this thing is to open! A quarter-turn of the two captive screws, and (as long as it isn't locked) the chassis swings open, easily exposing the machine's innards.
If we wanted to upgrade, we have three 16-bit ISA slots, an IDE connect, a 287 socket, and space for up to 16MB of RAM. The chassis will support two 3.5" devices and one 5.25" half-height device, though the plastic case is molded such that both 3.5" devices must be FDDs.
Well, I guess no reason to let my failing roof be an impediment to at least do some show-and-tell with the Tandy 2500XL.
Yesterday's Wordle. I know that it's a proper name, but dang it, to me it can also be used as an adjective or maybe even a verb sometimes.
I'm off now to go do some tandying on my most tandiest of Tandy computers. K thx bye.
What an interesting listing. It says it's for an Atari 1050 disk drive and box but the disk drive clearly says its a Tandy FD-500.
They had a disk drive and a box and just assumed that they went together?
#JDOS does not work on my #CoCo3 it should but doesn't. I am going to try and change that! #RetroComputer #Tandy https://youtu.be/FqGSoMhNEhc
