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HiMikey- do you respond to comments? I'm getting back into the Coco2 and am looking for a COCAVGA without much luck. I just bought a couple serial cards from the guy down under for $145 and 3 coco2's and 2 CCR-82's... My goal is to get at lease a couple Coco2's set up with cassette, expansion, RS-232, dial-up and ethernet. Ultimately get them set up with packet radio/TNC.. AL6O... Looking to get a network of ACTIVE Coco2 enthusiasts... Would be great to use KiCad to put all this stuff on a single board.. Perhaps replace the 6809 and some other chips with a $25 FPGA. would be awesome to have both Extended Color Basic/Edtasm with higher res graphics and more memory. Thoughts? Cheers to you, Charlie Bader

Nice :) Now if I just had a iPad :)

I'm not a Coco guy but you did an awesome overview of the exhibits. Haven't been to one since 2007.

We're (CoCoNation) are not that haertless that we don't care about other computers. We just care about the CoCo family more. :-D

Thanks for stopping by! (I had the Radio Shack/Tandy portables table)

15:42 I got one of these Hayes modems the coolest thing ever 😂

Hey that’s my Pac-Man booth!! 😁

Great video. Your raw footage is better than most peoples narrated videos.

Glad you were able to make it!!!

4:10 Oh, Track 17 is the directory track? Cool!

Do you have any plans to come to CoCoFest in Illinois this May 4? I'll be there...

WOW, Flex for the SWTPC 6800, this is something that I've archived the software for, and have several friends restoring SWTPC machines that will use the original version of FLEX. Before seeing your video, I NEVER considered that it was adopted/ported to the CoCo...VERY cool! This video now belongs on my SWTPC Playlist for this very reason!

This was fun to watch Mike, thanks. I vaguely remember Flex and FHL from Rainbow ads but never used it. I’ll be learning more now as these videos come out.

Um so what was under the yellow square? What a bizarre way to send chips in the mail.

Cool! I'm going to have to check out those FLEX discs on my CoCo 3 sometime soon!

I was a COCO guy from the first D board 4k units, but never used flex. I find it interesting that they chose an OS to use a video mode that took 6k of RAM and a lot more processing time/effort to draw the characters vs. just using the text mode built into the VDG.. Did it get used much? Was there a lot of graphical software for flex or a reason to justify this in hindsight?

That's actually pretty neat to watch! I'll have to try out Color Flex on my CoCo 3 at some point. 🙂

Very cool!

Very interesting! I may have missed it in the long video, but did you upload the fixed version of Flex to the Color Computer Archive, or was it to another site? I'm curious to see if I can try out Flex on my CoCo 3. 🙂

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Cool! Nice find anyway!

Nice chatting with you today, I'll check out your sdc commander project. Thanks for all your great work.

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Great program, especially for OS-9/NitrOS-9, because I can have the program running in a seperate window and can easily change disks. What I have noticed is; that the disk labelling of 1 and 2 for selections, gets a little bit confusing since actual drive numbers are 0 and 1. And 0 and 1 are shown as mounted drives. I would like to see uniformity in drive labels and selections. I also love that under OS-9/Nitros, that the program uses current screen size and color sets. It would be cool to have a 40 column width option for DECB. 80 column is sometimes difficult to read using composite video. Otherwise, fantastic program. Much gratitude for creating it.

Oh sweet!!!! Great job. It looks so nice :) Looks so quick too!!!

@MikeyN6IL , Oh the joys of deep diving into a project. :D Great job :)

You are welcome Mikey! Thank you for making content for us to watch!

Very cool! Hope more people will continue to subscribe to your channel

I saw your note on the Fufu list and stopped by to take a look. Very nice work and great code walkthrough to explain the adaptations as you make them. Much appreciated.

Great video! Thank you for sharing :) Got to love gitlab

Look At All That Green!!! Thats Sweet! Never seen his before, Imma have to do some reading this evening!

I had some production issues in this video. The screen capture quality wound up being rather poor and I didn’t have time to re-record the whole thing. So sorry about that. All details and links to go along with this video are in the video description.

Oooo! Great video Mikey! Keep them coming!

"Also... as well"? Oops.

Why was a specific OS dependent upon a specific "flavor" of floppy disk system?

"You could do fun things like creat[ing] operating systems! And the first real operating system to appear for the Color Computer, of course, was FLEX." Um, no, the first one was the OS that came built into the computer. We had to have been able to use it without home-level cross-dev. before the disk drives were ever available for it. You're not telling me that you had to find a machine to write an OS on and then port to the Tandy so it could even runt at all, before this disk system, are you?

"By 1982 this was the most 'BASIC' model you could get..." Of course, that's why it had _extended_ BASIC! "Extended" would certainly be more, wouldn't it? 😛 Nice pun!

Yes would love to see your script in operation as well.

Hmmmm OS-9/68K on the MM/1 the starting sector on each track is 0 Took me a while to remember that one :)

Oooooo! Nice video :) Loved the floppy talk. I myself would love more detailed disk information :)

Great video!!! Keep them coming!!!

Fantastic. Hopefully your future episodes will answer such questions as: 1. Where did FLEX come from? 2. What was it like to use?

This feature is great when you have the TSR loaded to allow LLIST and other like features from Color Basic or Disk Basic to go out DriveWire's printer support.

Great video @MikeyN6IL, I can't wait for you to show people setting up the multi system connection support! Like having a CoCo1, CoCo2, CoCo3, CoCo3FPGA, and the like all hooked up at once. Either via real RS-232C ports, USB to RS-232C, or even TCP connections where equipment might be connected to a device like the LANtronics boxes that connect a RS-232C to a Ethernet port for connecting to a network. :D

I could not get the XRoar config file to load the HD properly. But your instructions for command line work perfectly, so I'll just set it up that way. Thanks!!

Re: Supercomm - spacebar to switch between terminal types in the Terminal type window. Will also mention that the Supercomm manual is included in EOU in /dd/docs. :)

@MikeyN6IL, Thank you for sharing these features with us. Great having videos showing how to set things up to get people up and running faster. :)

That's darn cold!

Indeed after integration of all the MESS code one would almost forget this is possible with MAME! Thanks for sharing this.

Thank you for sharing Mikey! Great video :) Keep up the good work :) Can't wait to see what #DOScember video you put out next :D