Episode # 38 of the podcast TRS-80 Trash Talk is out now.

“In this episode we’re joined by guest host Patrick Bureau from Texas Tandy Restorations. Patrick leads us through the controversial topic of whether or not to repaint your TRS-80. We also discuss lots of TRS-80 news and several interesting acquisitions, including a TRS-80 voice control device known as the Scott Instruments VET-2. Finally, in our interview segment, Pete interviews the well known TRS-80 hacker Tim Mann.”

You can download or listen at http://www.trs80trashtalk.com/.

• A picture of the German keyboard has been added to the Model 4 ROM Page. Thank you Volker Kruckemeyer for the picture!
• A very light explanation as to the /CMD format has been added to the File Formats Page. They you Lawrence Kesteloot for the idea.
• Two more Cassette Utilities have been added to the Cassette Utilities page. Thank you Jens Guenther.
  • “Cass80” by Jürgen “pullmoll” Buchmüller
  • “wav2cas” by Anton Argirov:

• Added Lawrence Kesteloot’s online Model III Emulator Web Page to the emulator page.
• Added Lawrence Kesteloot’s online and standalone TRS-80 Cassette WAV Processor to the Virtual Tape Utilities page.
• Updated SDLTRS to v1.24 on the emulator page.

Lawrence Kesteloot has written an amazing web site which permits you to drag and drop WAV CAS or BAS files into the web page and it will attempt to clean up the WAV but also let you view the reconstructed BASIC code as ASCII (and CMD code as a disasembly) and show you the corresponding tape bits.

You can visit the site at https://lkesteloot.github.io/trs80-cassette-reader-js/

Thanks to the help of a lot of people in the community, with a special shout-out to George Philips and Ken Brookner, the Model III ROM Checksum and the Model 4 ROM checksum pages have been updated.

As previously asked, if you run TRSDOS 1.3’s MEMTEST on your Model III or 4 and have any of the following checksums, please Contact Me: 158C, 1591, 2764, 276A, 33CB, 38BC, 48AA, or 676A

Quentin noticed that a TRS-80 on a shelf in the “Muggles Studies” classroom of Jam City’s “Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery” a TRS-80.

We are trying to track down different versions of the Model III and Model 4 ROM’s. If you are willing, can everyone please run MEMTEST (which is found on every Model III TRSDOS disk) and see if your “ROM C” matches any of these checksums:

• Model III – Any of the following:
  • 158C (Likely only in the UK)
  • 1591
  • 2764
  • 676A
  • 276A
• Model 4 – Any of the following:
  • 48AA (Likely only in the UK)
  • 33CB
  • 38BC

If you have any of these, please Contact Me.

The next TRS-80 Trash Talk live show is November 28th at 2PM PST!

You can watch on the TRS-80 Trash Talk channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXkGugvdCkpkMDylVQb9gfg.

Robert Bosen who wrote 80 Space Raiders has given permission to make the software and manual downloadable to all. You can find all the links on the TRS-80 Search Page by searching the author box for bosen, and don’t forget to click the manual icon to download the manual.

The passwords are in a TXT file in the CMD archive

Robert has never stopped writing flight simulators, his most recent being Linux Air Combat, an open source combat flight simulator for Linux.

Thank you, Robert!

Just a reminder that if you have TRS-80 disks sitting around, please consider sending them over for reading. The data isn’t going to last forever, and the disks can be returned to you if you wish!