T H I S S I T E N O L O N G E R U N D E R C O N S T R U C T I O N
This is an archive of Paul's site, provided at Paul's request.
Color Computer 3, RGB monitor, Edtasm+ and my dual eprom programmer.
Dig out that old Radio Shack/Tandy Colour Computer that has probably been gathering dust in the basement. Emulate your CoCo on your PC and run all of your favorite CoCo software. Connect your CoCo to your PC and use it as a powerful peripheral device. Build an adapter that plugs in to the CoCo's cartridge slot, and connect to the real world. Build your own program pak, and use your CoCo as a dedicated controller. Mainly hardware projects, and RS-DOS, Edtasm assembly items on this page. Please note that this site is under construction. Loading more here once in a while. Last update Sep 4, 2002.
On site links:
Emulators
Power
Pak Hardware Communication
System
Pic's Edtasm Buy and
Sell Future Projects
6809
Projects
Off site links:
Ultimate Colour
Computer Site T3
Emulator David Keil's CoCo
Emulator CoCo 2/3 Emulator
MESS
Emulator Return of CoCo
Emulator Mac Users
Emulator CoCo Faq
Items are tested using a 16K CoCo1, 32K CoCo1, a pair of 64K CoCo2's, 128K CoCo3, 512K CoCo3, FD 501 and FD 502 Disk Drives, 26-3024 and 26-3124 Multi-paks. Recently sold off all my 486 stuff, so emulation is run on Pentium and higher systems.
I recently built a new PC and found that my new mainboard/video/chipset is compatible with Jeff Vavasour's Ver 1.6 CoCo2 emulator. Previously on my old system, I only had success with Jeff's emulator when running in MS-DOS mode only. My new machine runs this emulator in a DOS box in Windows ME with no problems. I use this emulator with Disk Edtasm, at full emulator speed, alot faster than doing it on the old CoCo, especially when you factor in disk and printer speed.
The newest CoCo emulator by David Keil looks like it will be the emulator of choice as it supports physical 5 1/4" drives and emulates hardware such as the Multi-pak interface, while running in Windows. I am running this in a K6-3 450 based PC with a 360K drive installed .Currently supporting CoCo1 and 2 . Transfers to and from the 5 1/4 floppy flawlessy in my system. I have already sent my $15 away for this one. I will be adding information on this emulator in the near future.
T3 by Paul Burgin is running fine, but emulates only an Extended Basic machine.. Russ Le Blang's emulator for disk system emulation works okay but it is unable to access a physical 5 1/4" drive. I have not tried the MESS emulator, but it has had many updates recently.
Due to the multitude of all hardware configurations, not all items may work with your particular system.
Disclaimer: The information presented here is as is, without warranty. Use at your own risk!
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in Kamloops, B.C. CANADA