So far I have gotten RSC-03, RSC-04, RSC-05, and RSC-07 entered into the catalog search page. If anyone is in the mood to help, I would send you a PDF of a catalog, and would ask for an ASCII file in the format of ‘catalog number, price, page number’ for each item.
By putting this additional information into the catalog search page, you can see when products were added, when products were removed, and the prices in between.
if you are willing to help, please let me know.
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Pete Cetinski let me know about a new Model III emulator on the scene, written in typescript, by Lawrence Kesteloot. Mr. Kesteloot also has an older Model III emulator written in GO.
To see it in action, visit here.
Jason Weber has posted a step-by-step video for adding a JayCar Audio Amplifier inside a Model III so that the Model III has native sound.
TRS-80 Trash Talk will be having their next live episode on December 28th, from 9PM-11PM Eastern Standard Time.
At that time you can join on Zoom.US. Note: This requires the download of an executable file. Proceed at your own risk.
The podcast TRS-80 Trash Talk # 34 is out now.
“In this episode we cover some news, like the release of TRS-Box with TCP/IP support, the newest TRS8BIT newsletter and serial mouse support for the Model 4. Then we discuss a bunch of new acquisitions, including a MTI Mod III Plus hot rodded Model III and a Rochester Data Dynatyper. Finally, in the main segment, Pete interviews Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, the author of the fantastic “The Custom TRS-80″ book and all-around renaissance man.”
You can download or listen at http://www.trs80trashtalk.com/.
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I had a 4 hour lunch with Don French in Las Vegas. Hearing the story of the trials and tribulations he had to endure to get the TRS-80 made was amazing.
He says the accounts of his efforts in Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution are correct, should anyone be seeking to read about it. The accounts in Tandy’s Money Machine, less so.
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Dusty has released the December 2019 issue of the TRS8Bit newsletter on the download page of his web site.
Contents:
I am way late to the game on this one. George Philips has written and released a Windows executable file call TRLD which will convert between cas, hex, bas, and cmd.
According to his website:
trld reads one or more TRS-80 programs in .cmd, .cas, .hex or .bas format and saves them as a single .rom, .cmd, .cas or .hex file. As input it supports 250, 500 and 1500 baud .cas cassette image files as well as tokenized and ASCII .bas BASIC program files. Output can be in .cmd, .cas, .hex or .wav (audio file) format.
A precompiled binary for Windows is included along with the source code which can easily be compiled on Mac and Linux systesm. These program loading routines are the same ones used in my TRS-80 Model I/III/4 emulator.
trld is a command-line tool. It takes a list of files. The last one is the output file, the rest are loaded in sequence and combined together to form the output. The format of the input files is determined automatically. The output format is chosen depending on the file suffix. For example, to convert a cassette file to a .cmd (disk executable format) you would type:
trld original.cas original.cmd
With multiple input files the program start address is taken from the last file. For “.cas” output the name of the SYSTEM file is based on the first 6 letters of the output file name. With
trld file.cmd ..\converted\out.cas
The “..\converted\out.cas” file will be called “OUT” and that’s the name you must pass to the SYSTEM command. If you’re using Play CAS, it tells you the tape file’s name.
The utility can be downloaded from George’s website or on the TRS-80 Miscellaneous Utilities page.