The next TRS-80 Trash Talk live show is Saturday, April 24, 2021 AT 6:00PM Pacific Daylight Time!
You can watch on the TRS-80 Trash Talk channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXkGugvdCkpkMDylVQb9gfg.
If you want to participate in the live zoom session, reach out to trs80trashtalk at gmail dot com for information.
While I have NO connection to this at all, just wanted to let whoever might be interested know about an estate sale in San Diego which seems to show a Model 4, among other things.
Quentin Barnes has released v4.7 of the Catweasel Tools originally written by Tim Mann.
Changelog:
- Added -C option to cw2dmk for controlling detection of incompatibly formatted sides of a floppy disk. If side 1 is formatted with 512-byte sectors and side 0 is formatted with any other sector size, it’ll assume side 1 was factory-formatted and skip it. Detection of other incompatible combinations may be added in a future release. Use “-C 0” to disable the detection.
- Added new interactive menu. When enabled with -Mi and the interrupt key is pressed (typically ^C), cw2dmk will enter a menu with options. Also, -Me will enable dropping into the menu when the error limit for a track exceeds the number set by -x.
- Deprecated cw2dmk’s -b option introduced in 4.6.0. It had too many shortcomings with CP/M disks. Replaced with -C.
You can download from Github..
The next TRS-80 Trash Talk live show is Saturday, March 27, 2021 AT 5:00PM Eastern Daylight Time / 2:00PM Pacific Daylight Time!
You can watch on the TRS-80 Trash Talk channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXkGugvdCkpkMDylVQb9gfg.
If you want to participate in the live zoom session, reach out to trs80trashtalk at gmail dot com for information.
Tandy Assembly is planning on having their annual get-together on October 1-3 of this year!
Details and information can be found at http://www.tandyassembly.com/.
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Dusty has released the March 2021 issue of the TRS8Bit newsletter. Here’s what he had to say:
The start of our 15th year of publication, has some of the most interesting news and ideas that 40 years ago, would, to many, have seemed like science fiction! Dave Veary shows us his upgraded CoCo. Michael Wessel gives the M1 a voice with Talker/80. E.T. Fonehume shows a surprise feature with the old game of Put & Take and has a ‘Flying Saucer’ to show us. Andy has an adventure with a FreHD and a Model 4P. Mr. Threeplates has addition ROM’s for the Model 1. Ian Mavric sets out the details for the 2021 Competition (see the competition page for full details). He also starts building the Mk2 ‘Supermicro’ and looks at problems and solutions with type II HDA memory.
Harold Finch, once again, stretches your mind. Pascal Holdry needs assistance with various projects. Lawrence Kesteloot shows recent developments on his website. A CGA to VGA item on Ebay might be of interest? Don Bannister has a mystery item, from the day, which he hopes someone can identify. There’s a new feature entitled ‘Assembly Bytes Back’ for you Z80 assembly programers. There’s a quick look at articles, published in the day and finally, there are some Ebay bargain from the last 3 months.
It can be downloaded from his web site.
In a feat I find to be quite novel and impressive, Jürgen Büssert has developed a program which will read data from a cassette (or WAV) and write a Model bootable disk. This will allow people with no boot disk, but who have an expansion interface, disk drive, and cassette cable, to create a boot disk! His package includes NEWDOS/80 v2.0, TRSDOS v2.3, LDOS, and MultiDOS v1.6S
You can find his web page explaining operation at Here.
Thank you, Jürgen!
P.S. If you have a Model I and need boot disks, you can so always request them here.
The TRS8Bit has now been added to the Magazine Table of Contents search page.
The TRS8Bit Magazine Page has been updated to show the table of contents for each issue, instead of just a cover photo.