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I am now between jobs, literally. Just left my current job to move to Morgan Creek Productions on the Warner Bros. lot. Morgan Creek made Chill Factor and the animated King and I this year, but they are most famous for Ace Ventura, Major League, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and Last of the Mohecans.
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I deeply appreciate all the Teknosurf clicking which is going on - the site is almost self supporting, so please keep it up. I did get asked, however, to ask whoever out there is on CERFnet (with a fixed IP address) to please stop clicking hundreds of times. Only the first click per day for each IP address counts, and while people with dial-up accounts can click with each new login, they are getting upset that this individual is stacking the odds. I do appreciate every click, but they are getting mad. Please click every (or every new dialup login), but only once.
Will Collier emailed me with something interesting. In 1978 he paid $199 for a 16K upgrade to his Model I. Today, a 128MB SIMM is around $200. However, the same 128MB SIMM would have cost $1.6Million back in 1978!
Dave Keil has updated his Model I and III/IV emulators to v5.4 ... get them from the Emulator page.
Dave Keil has updated his Model I and III/IV emulators to v5.41 ... get them from the Emulator page.
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David Keil has been working on hardware emulation of RS hard disks. Version 5.50 will have some of the following features:
David Keil has also finished RS232 support for v5.5. Now the emulator can use a standard PC serial port. It can access another PC or a real TRS-80 via RS232 and xfer files (for those without 5.25" drives).
Scott Adams' email address and web page have been updated.
Added Change DiskDisk Utility v1.0 (/CMD) - Irwin B. Burton (1993) to the Model 4 Page.
Tim Mann has released xtrs version 4.0, a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P emulator for Unix and the X Window System, from his TRS-80 Web page or from the Emulator page
Version 4.0 adds emulation of the Orchesta-85 and Orchestra-90 sound synthesizers, emulation of the TimeDate80 and other battery-backed clocks, a -scale option to make the window larger, support for Level I cassette storage in .CAS files, and a pile of bug fixes.
For those of you living in a cave for the past few years, xtrs is a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P emulator for Unix and the X Window System. It includes lower case, the real time clock, the Model 4 hi-res graphics option, mouse support, sound and music support (requires OSS), cassette support, 5" and 8" floppy disk drives, and even hard disk drives. Unlike many Model I emulators, xtrs supports double sided, double density floppies, emulating both the Percom and Radio Shack Doubler. The emulated floppy and hard disk file formats are compatible with the popular MSDOS-based emulators by Jeff Vavasour, Matthew Reed, and David Keil, and (if you choose a capable enough file format), all features of the original TRS-80 floppy disk controller are emulated. Under Linux, physical floppy disk drives are also supported. Physical cassettes can even be read and written (when the phase of the moon is right).
Added a new link to a LNW-80 Page.
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For those of you who are willing to help, if 25 of you sign up by 5/15/00 and take 50 free spins, I can win a Palm!. Sign up here and Thanks!
For those of you who may have had some download trouble, I had mistakenly deleted what I thought was a useless directory, and the scripts linked off it. The directory is back, and Lord Praetor Satanus of Acheron (who found the problem to begin with, and who hosts one of the mirrors) has re-written my 4K scripts to 400 bytes and removed the dependency. Thanks Lord.
David Keil is still at it. His proposed v6.0 emulator will have
David Keil is thinking about writing a LNW-80 emulator! He now has the ROM and DOCs needed, but wants to get v6.0 of the TRS-80 emulator out first.
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Model III
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New files - Another successful single density conversion!!!:
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Lord Praetor Satanus of Acheron a/k/a Lord Spambraticus of Borg a/k/a Lord Satanus Emperor of Acheron has done it again. Lord has created a CGI script which randomly selects a mirror. This means there is no need for the [1/2/3] links following each file. This also means that the size of the download pages are DRAMATICALLY (50%) reduced. Only the Model I pages have been updated, though.
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Version 4.1 adds emulation of the Radio Shack hard disk controller hardware. With this emulation, all drivers for the original hardware should work, including the TRSDOS6/LS-DOS/LDOS drivers RSHARD (tested) and TRSHD (tested), the Montezuma CP/M drivers (tested), drivers for other operating systems (untested), and the Model 4P boot ROM (tested). Hard disk images using the new emulation are interchangeable with other emulators and with xtrs's old hard drive emulation. The old emulation (an xtrs-specific driver just for TRSDOS6/LS-DOS/LDOS) still works, too. Version 4.1 of xtrs also includes several bug fixes and minor improvements in other areas; see the included ChangeLog log for details. xtrs is a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P emulator for Unix and the X Window System. It includes lower case, the real time clock, the Model 4 hi-res graphics option, mouse support, sound and music support (requires OSS), cassette support, 5" and 8" floppy disk drives, and even hard disk drives. Unlike many Model I emulators, xtrs supports double sided, double density floppies, emulating both the Percom and Radio Shack Doubler. The emulated floppy and hard disk file formats are compatible with the popular MSDOS-based emulators by Jeff Vavasour, Matthew Reed, and David Keil, and (if you choose a capable enough file format), all features of the original TRS-80 floppy disk controller are emulated. Under Linux, physical floppy disk drives are also supported. Physical cassettes can even be read and written, with luck. The user interface is a bit spartan, but it gets the job done.
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The cleaning continues, 178 files off, 63 on (net loss of 115 duplicate files):
The cleaning continues, 105 files off, 35 on (net loss of 70 duplicate files):
The cleaning continues, 30 files off, 8 on (and 4 renamed only to move them around the database):
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The cleaning continues ...
The cleaning continues ... 135 files off, 50 on
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Tim Mann's disks have been partially sorted ... here's the first batch. Remember, you may only use Tim Mann's Emulator (UNIX) or Dave Keil's Emulator to run DMK disks.
The cleaning continues, 85 files off, 53 on. Actually, this wasn't so much a cleaning as a consolidation. Many files were fixed rather than being merged.
I have modified the HTML generator again, to sort without case (already done), spaces or dashes. This has consolidated all of the titles.
The cleaning continues, 128 files off, 74 on. Again, this wasn't so much a cleaning as a consolidation. Many files were fixed rather than being merged (i.e., Lazy Writer).
New DMK Software In -- Super Utility for Model IV (.DMK) - Kim Watt
The cleaning continues, but is too hard to describe. Most of this was filename cleanup. Anything beginning with an M is probably a new file - that's where I was concentrating when I found the kluge of file descriptions sorted by "Mod 1: xxxxxx" which needed to be fixed.
In actuality, we lost 10 Model 3 Files and 30 Model I Files
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New DMK Software In:
The Cleaning Continues. This one is a bit deceptive, because I pulled a bunch of patches/fixes out of the various directories. They belong on the patch page and will ultimately need to be sorted and put there. In the interim, and including those files, 161 off and 53 on:
The Cleaning Continues. 53 off and 16 on:
The Cleaning Continues. 69 off and 31 on:
There was a problem with the July 5 files, but I have fixed that now.
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Wade Fincher has released WinTRS-80 v2.0! Get it from the Emulator Page. NEW FEATURES INCLUDE:
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The Cleaning Continues. 116 off and 44 on:
The Cleaning Continues. A disappointing turnout, though:
The Cleaning Continues. Approximately 60 off (99 off 39, about, on):
As many of you have noticed, we are in a transition period. Actually, we were - but I am announcing it now that the transition is over. The archive has been virtually entirely moved over to the ender.com server of Lord Apollyon. I would like to thank Steve McCoy for his 4+ years of providing server space for the TRS-80 archive on the simology.com site, for putting up with the issues which had arisen due to excessive downloading, and all the rest. Steve has a heart of gold and I am indebted to him for his having provided server space for all these years.
Please report all broken links to me, as those are probably things that didn't get transitioned properly.
The Cleaning Continues. Approximately 70 off:
The Cleaning Continues. Approximately 55 off (130 off, 75 on - but this was also a renaming session for CLOAD covers):
The Cleaning Continues. 140 files removed (322 off, 182 on):
The Cleaning Continues. 61 files removed (121 off, 60 on):
The Cleaning Continues. Approximately 144 files removed:
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Thomas Ally has donated a new piece of software to the archive: Assembly Language Tutorial v1.0 for Model I (.CAS) - Tandy (1983)
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Thomas Ally has gratiously authored a "How to Transfer To/From Tape" instruction set found on the Transferring FAQ page.
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Thomas Ally has donated more pieces of Cassette software to the archive:
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Dave Keil released v6.0 of his Model I and Model III/4 emulators.
You may think nothing is going up ... I am working like a dog... I am getting the Model 4 files ready for uniformity (a full library CRC-32 run for dupes), Making a ROMDOCTOR file for ORCH-90 files, and continuing to mash thru the Model I/III groups. The updates were the problem, so I stopped. There is PLENTY going on ...
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I have added some new DMK format software from Dave Keil's Site:
The shrinking project is coming to a close ...
Added the following thanks to Thomas Ally:
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Added the following thanks to Knut Roll-Lund:
As you may recall, I have been trying to do 4 projects simulatenously (Remove the dupes from the Model I and III libraries, TOSEC the ORCH's, TOSEC the Model 4 files, Go through the unsorted files). Rather than continue all 4, I focused on #1, which I am pleased to say is almost done. I am on my third pass (each pass has renaming of files, which shifts them around, which then shows them to possibly be duplicates) and almost done with it. My next project will probably be to finish the ORCH TOSEC, as I am about 700 files into the 3,500.
I am almost done with my third pass ...
As part of the overhaul (which is almost done, I promise), I have moved the DMK software into their appropriate model directories. It made no sense to me to have them separated out. I probably only have one more pass to do.
For people looking for parts or TRS-80's for the cost of shipping ... head on over to the Sale/Trade page.
Here's the drill. I finally finished the duplicate removal (or as much as I will probably do). Rather than be hasty, though, I think I ensure uniformity on the filecomments if I take another day or two. I started last night using little quickbasic programs to parse to tell me if I am missing the model number, or the file type, etc. but I did not finish. I can also try to push through the unsorted. Let's say that I intend to rerelease the library on Monday, and I will make large zips (at least for a few weeks).
I am done! I have gone as far as I am gonna go with the cleaning of the archive. It is time to get back to the addition of new files.
By the time this is posted, all files should be online and the download pages updated. I intend to resume separately announcing new files as of this point.
Below you will find the long-awaited "archive in large zips", approximately 10MB each (I would recommend using Getright to download them.
The files will not be updated ... they represent the archive only as of today (but there will be updates in the news)
Most importantly, I would URGE downloaders to not merely apply the contents of these files over their current collection. If you do so, I can guarantee that you will have somewhere between 2 and 4 duplicates of EACH file, and a simple CRC test (or file size test) will NOT show that.
Finally - please order through the site for amazon, buy.com, etc. ...
Without further ado: [DELETED - See 10/27/00 News]
Well that mirror lasted a whole day! The Tapscott mirror is no more - not so much due to the archives, but bandwidth problems from his ISP. His current lower-than-expected bandwidth is being reduced more by the archive and he has asked that we shut it down until he changes ISP's. I am looking for alternate arrangements.
OK, here are the new links ... [SEE OCTOBER 31, 2000]
Howard Lee (who has made some major contributions to the site) has pointed out to me that the archives below do not contain "S" files. I will take care of that on monday. Sorry for the inconvenience.
The "S" files are now up ... see October 27 for the links. ... Are you clicking the banner?
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Added the Text disassembly's of Scott Adams Adventures
Large zip files are available for download.
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Nele Abels-Ludwig of Germany had done the above conversions ... here's what he had to say:
Brian Howarth's Mysterious Adventures:
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Since the Howarth data files are very closely related to the Scott Adams data files, it took me very few modifications to get them running with the standard adventure interpreter ADVENTUR/CMD, which can be found on many .DSK files containing Scott Adams Adventures.
I had to do three modifications:
I have quickly tried out every adventure and they seem to run perfectly well. I haven't played them through yet, so if anybody should have problems, I would be grateful if they contacted me at my momentary email-address (abels@stud-mailer.uni-marburg.de)
Cheers and happy adventuring,
Nele
Jeff Zugale pointed out that a file which was in the archive in 1998 was no longer in the archive by July 99. Through some research I have recovered two copies of Star Clash by Hayden Books.
I have redone some of the patches, augmenting them from my unsorted directory. I have added a how to make Super Utility+ into a /CMD file, and updated the BRUN, SCRIPSIT 1, TRSDOS v1.2, TRSDOS v1.3, DOSPLUS v3.4, SuperScripsit for III ...
I have removed the link to TRS-80 AGAIN on the main page. Pete Bumgardner has shut down the site. I would like to thank Pete for all his hard work in keeping the TRS-80 alive and wish him the best.
Scott Adams has updated his copyright information.
He also has just written a new adventure! You can order it from his web site.
Did you know there is also a Palm Pilot executor for his adventures?
Added LNW-80 and SYSTEM 80 ROMS to the Emulator page. Neither works with any of the emulators.
Dave Keil has updated his Model I and Model 3/4 emulators to v6.01. Get them from the Emulator page.
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Tim Mann had pointed out that my LNW-80 and SYSTEM 80 ROMS were bad. I have reposted them and they both work in, at least, Matt Reed's and Tim Mann's emulators. Go to the Emulator page.
Added the walk-though to QuestProbe I: The Hulk to the Adventures page.
Added Jeff Vavasour's Web Site (yes, he finally has one!) to the emulator page ...
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I am trying to get the ORCH files into TOSEC format, and have created a spreadsheet. If any of you out there are willing to help, please let me know. It entails using any text viewer (I use LIST in DOS) to see the name of the song, the author, the transcriber, the year, and the specific orch model used (based on the first few lines of ASCII text) and typing those into a spreadsheet. I have done almost 900 by now, but there are 3000!
Dave Keil has released v6.02 of his Model I and Model III emulators. They are available on the emulator page. Among the fixes are:
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At further urging (thank you Sven for the final shove, and Eric D. for the first push), I have also created a paypal account. I used contest@trs-80.com as the email.
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Dave Keil has released v6.1 of his Model I emulator and his Model III/IV emulator, and v1.0 of his COCO II Emulator. They can be found on the Emulator page. Great work Dave.
The next casualty is the message board. I got this today ...
Dear InsideTheWeb message board owner, Since January 1997, InsideTheWeb has provided free message boards to online communities. Our goal has always been to offer an easy-to-use and technically superior format for threaded discussions. Though we have hit a few bumps along the way, we feel we have succeeded in that ideal. As some of you may know, internet advertising revenues have fallen to extremely low levels over the past several months. Supporting a community service such as InsideTheWeb is impossible without a secure source of funding and we are being forced to close our doors. While there are certainly other means of generating income, we do not have the ability to address them without sustaining significant losses in the foreseeable future. Therefore, as of March 5th, we will be shutting down all InsideTheWeb message boards. Because you have worked hard to build your message board, we have provided you with a feature in the control center that will allow you to save your board's contents to your local computer. To access this feature, simply login from http://www.InsideTheWeb.com, select "Download Board Data" from the drop down list, and click "Go!". Next, just click each button for the type of data you wish to save. We sincerely appreciate your patronage and support and hope that you will be able to find another forum that can meet your needs. We have thoroughly enjoyed talking with many of you over the years and wish you the very best. It is people like you that made InsideTheWeb the best message board community on the internet! Thank you! Regards, InsideTheWeb Customer Service
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I was strolling through the net (one day ...), and I came upon a discontinued Model I emulator. It is source code only, written in Acorn Desktop C. It is available on the emulator page.
After 1,000,000 million requests from people, I am pleased to bring SPACE WARP online. We all have Dave Keil to thank for this, who had it on one of his disks.
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REALLY New Files (Files which are genuinely new, and have not been in the archive prior to this posting)
New Versions (Non-exact-duplicate additional copies of existing files already in the archive)
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Well ... after 2 1/2 years I finally broke down and decided to replace my Dell XPS R450. I have ordered:
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Jim Veneskey has donated "U.S.S. Defiance" by Warren L. Green (1981) to the Model 1 Archive. THANKS!
Jonathan Berman has pointed out that Jeff Vavasour updated his Model I emulator to revision "F", fixing the speed problem and the rs-232 causing crashes problem.
For those of you not familiar with the GOODxxx tools, an individual named COWERING has written command line tools which rename roms/programs based upon their crc's. This is very useful for sorting out a messy colleciton. You may have seen discussions about the TOSEC databases for Model 1, 3, 4, and ORCH, but Cowering has written a GOOD utility for the COCO! Get it on the emulator page.
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Serge Lachance has released his Model I Emulator called Ti-RS-80 ... here's what he says:
I've been working on my emulator lately and I got a new version. It is still not supporting disk units, but has a nice windows interface, a very nice debugger with a one-line assembler. The window is resizable. The speed evaluation is based on the real timing of each Z80 instructions and is updated every second or less. It supports the original TRS-80 keyboard mapping or the windows keyboard settings mapping. It can work with or without ROM image. If there's a file "RomImage.mem" in the same directory as the emulator, it is loading it and using it. It can work in screen saver mode with an extension of ".SCR" or as an executable with an extension of ".EXE" In screen saver mode, the little preview screen works in the screen properties window.
MESS Beta 13 has been released ... it has modified the Dragon drivers.
Knut Roll-Lund has pre-released X/CMD, a transfer utility for David Keil's emulator, has been kinda released. It is a GUI type file transfer program between the emulator and DOS. Get it on the emulator page under transfers.
Cowering has updated his GOODCOCO utility to v92.
I have acquired the full set of GOODCoCo v9992 ROMS. You can find them available for download on the CoCo page.
Click here to go enter to win a Playstation II
Knut Roll-Lund has released X/CMD, a transfer utility for David Keil's emulator v6.1. It is a GUI type file transfer program between the emulator and DOS. Get it on the emulator page under transfers.
Tim Mann has released XTRS v4.5! - You can get it from the emulator page.
Another affiliate program has dumped the site ... Borders.com has removed TRS-80.com from its affiliate program due to non-use. The link has been removed. To try to make up for it, I have added ebay.
Tim Mann has released XTRS v4.5a (Minor Update) - You can get it from the emulator page.
Malcom Ramey has donated ZBASIC v3.0 for the Model 4, ZBASIC v3.1 for the Model 4, and ZBASIC v3.03 for CPM for the Model 4. THANK YOU!
Serge Lachance has updated his Model I Emulator in Screen Saver
Although I don't normally post this, please note the for sale/trade page. There is a charity in Coventry, Rhode Island that needs to dispose of a number of Model III's and IV's. If you would like to make a donation for one (and cover shipping, of course; as they would prefer pick-up), please email Maureen O'Gorman.
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Wow - 2 New DOS's in 1 week. Mark McDonald has donated a DMK image of NewDos/80 v3.0 for the Model 3. Yes, you heard right. Documentation files are NDV3SPEC/PT1 and /PT2. THANKS MARK!
Tim Mann has just release v2.0 of his CatWeasel utilities. Here's his general description:
Background: The Catweasel ISA floppy disk controller is an add-in card for the PC ISA bus. It uses specialized hardware, not a standard floppy disk controller chip, and it can be programmed to read and write just about any disk format. I've written a pair of programs for the Catweasel called cw2dmk and dmk2cw. dmk2cw is new in release 2.0 of the package. cw2dmk can use a Catweasel ISA to read several kinds of floppy disk, some of which ordinary PC controllers have trouble with, and save them in the DMK disk image format. DMK is a format used by the Unix TRS-80 emulator xtrs and by David Keil's TRS-80 emulator for MS-DOS. cw2dmk does not just read TRS-80 disks. It can make an exact image of any disk written using a Western Digital 177x/179x floppy disk controller, a PC-style NEC765-compatible controller, or a Digital Equipment Corporation RX02 controller. dmk2cw uses a Catweasel ISA to write any DMK image back to a real floppy disk. It can handle the same kinds of disks as cw2dmk. Currently no tools other than TRS-80 emulators and dmk2cw can use disk images in DMK format, but perhaps more tools will be written in the future. The ability to read disks with cw2dmk and write out copies with dmk2cw already provides a useful way of archiving disks from old machines and making physical copies when needed. A likely future direction for cw2dmk/dmk2cw is to be able to write/read JV1 and JV3 disk images (these are other common TRS-80 emulator formats) or raw arrays of sectors, in cases where the disk can be represented in one of those formats. The programs are free software, released under the GPL. You can download the source code and executables for both Linux and MS-DOS from my TRS-80 resources page, http://www.tim-mann.org/trs80resources.html. The MS-DOS version also runs on Windows 95. Even those who prefer to build their own sampling hardware instead of buying a Catweasel may find the source code of some use.
Bryan Eggers (of Software Affair or ORCH-80/85/90 fame) informed me of a new re-surfacing. After getting permission, I am proud to announce that Larry Alexander is alive, kicking, and hosting a web site called http://www.alexandermusic.com. Full contact info on the ORCH-80 Page.
New files:
Model I
Tim Mann has updated his CatWeasel DSK transfer program to v2.1.
New files:
Model I
Model III
Tim Mann has released XTRS v4.6.
Tim Mann has released XTRS v4.7.
New files:
Model I
Thomas Ally has donated Tape Editor/Assembler v1.1 (CAS) - Tandy (1981).
James Jacobs has donated UBoat for the Model I.
New files:
Model I
Jim Veneskey has donated Talking Adventure I: Forbidden Planet I for Model I (DMK) - William Demas (1981). He used Tim Mann's CATWEASEL utilies and duplicated the entire protected self-booting disk. What this means is that you can actually read all the hidden messages which were put on the diskette in unused sectors, such as adventure announcements, hints, requests for programmer's to submit their programs for consideration, etc.
The GoodCoco v0.999.3 COCO ROM set is complete!
James Brusewitz was kind enough to donate a missing LDOS version. He has provided LDOS v5.1.3/R for the Model I to the archive. He did a sector for sector dump, and has noted that the Radio Shack source disks were shipped with a deleted file, which had been designed to support double sided drives. The sector-by-sector copy has allowed this to remain intact as well. Note that these are DMK images.
Bill Hogue (of Big Five Software fame) has put up a website: http://www.bigfivesoftware.com. It is quite interesting.
Tim Mann has been busy - he has released v2.4 of his CatWeasel Utilities and v4.8 of his xtrs TRS-80 Emulator.
I have read up on this Earthlink transition. Nowhere in their faq does it make mention of what happens to the domain name. I will probably trigger the transition in the evening of Sunday, September 30th, so look for down time. They have a temporary mirror of the site at http://wfp46003.temp.w1.com, so if www.trs-80.com is down, try that.
I believe the site has already been transitioned. If this shows up, it has been, since I am only uploading this update to the new server.
The downloads are not working - the darn Earthlink cgi bin must be different than the Netcom one. We are looking into it..
This is never going to end at this rate. If ANYONE reading this has successfully gotten PERL redirect scripts to run on an Earthlink server, please email me. LSOB (see below news) seems to be having email difficulties (all my emails to him bounce, regardless of from where I send them), so I cannot communicate with him in resolution of this issue.
George Phillips has solved the PERL problem, and all downloads are now functional. Rob and George - Thank you!
I have been beefing up the POCKET COMPUTER sections including the main page (adding 6 pocket computers) and the pocket computer page. PLEASE help fill in any missing information!
Neil Morrison has created a web site dedicated to COCO Documentation ---> http://members.tripod.com/coco_docs/index.htm.
Model 102 available on the sale/trade page for the cost of packing and shipping. It is a complete system weighing 35 pounds, so don't think you will be walking away with it for $20 ... but its definitely a good move for someone with an eye for the system.
New files (Thanks to Michel Brahhammer):
Model I
Juergen Buchmueller has written a TRS-80 Emulator in Java.
Excellent News. I am constantly being asked "I have a TRS-80 and want to sell it." You know what, we have a company that has been in business a long time that buys these things. If you are in the market for a TRS-80, you can buy it from them (they work on them when they get them) without the risk of those EBAY people who ship broken merchandise and empty boxes (can you tell my feelings about EBAY?). Anyway, mosey on over to DCS Industries. Their site is Internet Explorer only though, Netscape doesn't seem to work.
I understand that ender.com is down for a little while for maintenance and will be back in a few days, and that is where the files are hosted. Everyone will need to be patient, particularly since I am getting married in 2 days, and Ender.com is located in Australia where I would have no control over it anyway. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Just got back from my honeymoon to be greated by 7893478432 emails telling me the files are still not working. Since those people obviously do not read the news I guess this post will not help them. Anyway, Lord Spambraticus is on his way back to Australia and has advised me that the downloads will be restored by Monday the 26th. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Still no word on the downloads. If anyone out there has about 200MB of space they would like to pony up as a mirror, your emails would be welcome. All I would need is FTP access in and the URL of the files stored in whatever directory I was given. I can probably have downloads working within a day of that. Meanwhile, I am sure Rob continues to work on the current problem.
Space is being made available - two people offered (Thank you Alasdair and thank you Elmo). I will try to get the files up and running tomorrow. #-L in the Model 1 directory are back online now, though.
For those of you trying to buy TRS-80 equipment, give DCS Industries a try!
Yay - Ender.com (thank's Rob) is back online and www.trs-80.co.uk is also online as a mirror. The Scripts have been updated to randomly choose a mirror location to ease up on bandwidth. If you click on a file and it doesn't work, please tell me, but also please click on it again and it will pick up the other mirror. The UK mirror is not fully populated, but ender.com is. Thanks for the patience.
New files:
Model I
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I have borrowed the scanner from my company over the 4 day weekend. I have decided to scan as many TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletters as I can. They will be posted on the documentation page. The first 3 are now posted.
Wow - this is slow going. Anyway, Happy Holidays to all, and thanks for your visits!
The first 18 of the TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter are online. I am virtually positive that with the difficulty of this little project, they will never be all online. We'll see how it goes.
Two more of the TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter are online, rounding out the first 20 and rounding out 1980.
If one of your resolutions was to sell off your Model 3 or Model 4, seek no further. Karl Flores would like to buy up to 10 Model 3's or 4's. He lives in San Diego. Email him directly at thecomputerguy@myvzw.com.
The first three of the 1981 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter's are online. Their size (in pages) is starting to increase dramatically as Radio Shack has more models to support and more software to post fixes for. They seem to be heading toward 48 pages.
The April 1981 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter is online, along with a note about downloading the files.
The May 1981 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter is online.
The June and July 1981 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletters are online.
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The August 1981 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter is online.
The September and October 1981 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletters are online.
The November 1981 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter is online.
The December 1981 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter, and the 1981 index, are online.
Tim Mann, author of XTRS and the TRS-80/Catweasel utilities has done it again. In his latest version of the TRS-80/Catweasel weasel utilities (now at version v2.6) he has included a dmk2jv3 utility. This utility will convert a DMK image (regardles of whether it was created with a Catweasel) and turn it into a JV3 format file DSK image, with easy to understand Tim's site, or on the emulator page.
The January 1982 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter is online.
The March 1982 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter is online.
The April 1982 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter is online.
The May 1982 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter is online.
The June 1982 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter is online.
The July/August 1982 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter is online.
The September 1982 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter is online.
The October 1982 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter is online.
The November 1982 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter is online.
The December 1982 TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletter is online.
George Gallen, author of SuperTerm and SuperHost has emerged and has been added to the email page.
Neil Morrison has found a couple of new TRS-80 related links, which have been added to their respective pages. They are:
New files - Thanks to Pete Bumgardner:
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Thomas Ally has donated Robot: King of the Hill (Model III Cassette).
Thomas Ally has donated Escape from Atlantis for Model I (CAS) - Thomas Ally (1985) for the Model I.
Andre' LaMothe, an author, game programmer, and series editor for Premier Publishing "Game Development Series". He is interested in doing a book on "Retro Game Programming" to cover: Atari 800, Apple, Commodore, and TRS-80 programming. He anticipates that the book will be written by 4 authors, each having their own section, and on the CD will be emulators or links to them.
He is looking for people to help write the book. If you are interested - send him an email.
Neil Morrison has supplied a transcript of Steven Leninger (inventor of the TRS-80) speaking about the TRS-80 in September of 1977. It can be found on the TRS-80 Stories page.
The search pages have been updated as of today.
Pete Baumgardner has donated three new files to the archive:
Pete Baumgardner has scanned the ND80 Zaps into a PDF. I have proofed the new Newdos/80 Zaps page. Zaps through 41 are posted.
Jeff Vavasour has release his Coco III v1.60 emulator, including source code! They are available on the TRS-80 Emulator page.
CoCoZilla (Site 2) has moved to the no-ad location of http://home.wwdb.org/irgroup
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I have added a CLONES page to the site, inspired largely because of the amazingly detailed SYSTEM 80 site and LNW80 site.
Tim Mann has released v2.7 of the CW2DMK Utility. According to Tim (cut and paste alert) Version 2.7a of my Catweasel Floppy Read/Write Tools is now available at http://www.tim-mann.org/trs80resources.html. This release adds a program (jv2dmk) to convert JV1 and JV3 floppy disk images (the formats used by Jeff Vavasour's and Matthew Reed's emulators) to DMK format. This is mostly useful as an intermediate step if you want to write one of those floppy images to a real disk with the Catweasel hardware, but you can also use it just to convert between the different emulator formats, even if you don't have a Catweasel.
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All of the covers which I possess are now up. This means that I am missing the following 80 Micros (water damaged or otherwise):
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Thanks to Mike Stewart and Jim Battle, 4 of the missing 80 Microcomputing issues have been added. I believe I am now missing only 2! The covers page has, of course, been updated with the new covers.
It seems some kind gentleman has hacked my mirror and deleted all the files. It will take me some time to get them back uploaded, particularly since my work firewall is so strong. Hopefully all the files will be back up in a few days. The 80 Micros and other magazines are truly mirrored, so if you keep trying on each link, you will wind up on the German mirror.
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The March 1986 80 Microcomputing has been scanned and PDFd. A dejavu will be encoded within the next day or so.
I have upgraded the PayPal account, so it can now accept credit card donations.
The DejaVu copy of the 3/86 issue is now posted.
The February 1985 80 Microcomputing has been scanned and PDFd. A dejavu will be encoded next week. I have also posted a PAR file and a link to FSRAID in the download box, to verify the validity of the download.
New files thanks to Thomas Ally:
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New files courtesy of CC Morris:
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New file thanks to Larry Fosdick:
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The site has a mirror/host! Scott Michel has ponied up his box!! Thank you so much Scott!
Kevin Savetz has posted six of the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids comic books on his Classic Computer Magazine Archive ( http://www.atarimagazines.com/whizkids/).
Published sporadically from 1984 until 1991 and distributed for free at Radio Shack stores, the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids was a series of comic books that featured kids engaged in exciting adventures, information about the world of computers, and frequent mentions of Radio Shack products.
The site currently has the six complete Whiz Kids issues, and is are looking for collectors who have other issues.
Launched in 1996, the Classic Computer Magazine Archive offers full text from Antic, STart, Creative Computing, Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games, and Hi-Res magazines, as well as information from Compute! and Compute!'s Gazette.
New files thanks to Larry Fosdick:
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A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 62 (3/85). It is available on the 80 Micro page.Remember, it may take time for the German mirror to update, so if you get a file not found, please hit the back arrow and try again.
A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 63 (4/85). It is available on the 80 Micro page.Remember, it may take time for the German mirror to update, so if you get a file not found, please hit the back arrow and try again.
A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 66 (7/85). It is available on the 80 Micro page.Remember, it may take time for the German mirror to update, so if you get a file not found, please hit the back arrow and try again.
A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 67 (8/85). It is available on the 80 Micro page.Remember, it may take time for the German mirror to update, so if you get a file not found, please hit the back arrow and try again.
A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 64 (5/85). It is available on the 80 Micro page.Remember, it may take time for the German mirror to update, so if you get a file not found, please hit the back arrow and try again.
A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 65 (6/85). It is available on the 80 Micro page.Remember, it may take time for the German mirror to update, so if you get a file not found, please hit the back arrow and try again.
A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 60 (1/85). It is available on the 80 Micro page.Remember, it may take time for the German mirror to update, so if you get a file not found, please hit the back arrow and try again.
Guys and Gals, I am getting mighty tired of scanning 80 Micro's.
Today I finished scanning the December 1983 issue. It is 324 pages, although 418 scans were needed due to color pages.
The size breakdown is:
for a total of 1.65GB. It took 2 days to scan.
I managed to clean up the first 60 pages today.
Pages 1-49 have been edited down from 261MB to 26.1MB (still in TIFF format)
My procedure is to take all black and white pages, set the magic wand to 22, and click on a black area. I then expand to similar 3 times, and fill the mask with black. I then set the magic wand to 11, click on a white area, and expand to similar once. I then delete the masked areas. I then convert it to 8 bit color and save it as a TIFF. I then open the file. If it is all black, I load the edited file and try 10 colors, then 12, etc., until it is not corrupt. I then move on.
For color, it can be easier or harder. If it is a picture, I trim off the borders. If it is a colored page, I set the magic wand at 4 (very low) and click on the white. I erase the masked items. I then try to see what is the lowest number of colors I can pick which will not drastically distort the image. In cases of a 1 color page (i.e., black, white, and blue), I will try to fill all the blue with one color, and try 16 colors. Otherwise, It is usually 24-32 colors. A full page picture can be 128-192. Obviously, the latter produces large TIFFs.
... but all this is very time consuming, boring, and tiring.
I managed to clean up 61-105 today. Pages 50-99 have been edited down from 285MB to 25.4MB (still in TIFF format)
I managed to clean up 106-189 today. Pages 100-149 have been edited down from 258MB to 19.8MB (still in TIFF format)
I managed to clean up 190-315 today.
I managed to clean up the rest today, and noted that I did not scan page 260 --- since the scanner is at the office, this project will have to be put on hold until Tuesday :(
Pages 300-324 have been edited down from 158MB to 14.3MB (still in TIFF format)
The total is a drop from 1.65GB to 152MB.
The complete GoodCOCO v0.999.5 Set (72 Carts) is now on the CoCo page.
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Tim Mann has added support to his catweasel program v3.1 to let it read disks without using the index hole. This will be helpful to folks trying to read the backs of disks that were made in a flippy drive.
You still have to either get a drive that is willing to return data to the controller even if it sees no index pulses, or punch an extra hole in the jacket just so that the drive sees some index pulses, even though cw2dmk can do without them.
Tim found out that one of the drives he had lying around can be jumpered so that it will let you get read data even if there are no index holes seen. It's a Mitsubishi MF504C. On this (and other similar Mitsubishi drives, including MF504B and probably others), the trick is to remove the jumper marked RD.
Tim could not find a jumper for this on his Teac FD-55GFR drives.
COCO 2 with a DMP-105 printer and some game stuff, a joy stick, etc free to a good home. It also has a printer stand and monitor. It is near Phila. Pa. in Harleysville. Please contact Herb Carter.
A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 70 (11/85). It is available on the 80 Micro page.
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A special plea for help from a site visitor ... if you can help, please do so ...
Model II TRSDos 4.02.05 Hard Drive Modification Kit - I NEED HELP !!
Needing information about the installation of a Model II Hard Drive Modification Kit.
I've just come across a NEW - UNUSED Card/IC Chip/ (1) Resistor and TRSDOS II Version 4.02.05
Needing information about the installation of this card: chip and placement of resistor.
Thanks!
Robert Frase
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A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 71 (12/85). It is available on the 80 Micro page.Remember, it may take time for the German mirror to update, so if you get a file not found, please hit the back arrow and try again.
A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 68 (09/85). It is available on the 80 Micro page.Remember, it may take time for the German mirror to update, so if you get a file not found, please hit the back arrow and try again.
A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 58 (11/84). It is available on the 80 Micro page.Remember, it may take time for the German mirror to update, so if you get a file not found, please hit the back arrow and try again.
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A menubar (left) entry has been added for message bases. Right now it contains my TRS-80 club and Neil's TRS-80 club, both on Yahoo. As I learn of more, I can add them to the list.
It dawned on me that I have FAQ button, but never actually thought about the emails I get which ask the same questions over and over -- I have started to update the faq.
I have started scanning another 80 Micro. Despite my feelings, I grabbed what may wind up being the largest 80 Micro printed. It is December 1982, and is a whopping 484 pages. Needless to say, don't hold your breath on the download --- but its in the works.
Kevin Cardinal has scanned the next issue in the TRS-80 Microcomputer Newsletters --- January 1985. The issue is posted, with my thanks.
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A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 35 (12/82). It is available on the 80 Micro page.Remember, it may take time for the German mirror to update, so if you get a file not found, please hit the back arrow and try again.
Michael Dreiger has surfaced and corrected my entry for Real Time Strategy Star Trek, which he wrote in 1979
A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 56 (09/84). It is available on the 80 Micro page.Remember, it may take time for the German mirror to update, so if you get a file not found, please hit the back arrow and try again.
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A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 69 (10/85). It is available on the 80 Micro page.Remember, it may take time for the German mirror to update, so if you get a file not found, please hit the back arrow and try again.
This rounds off 1985!
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A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 12 (12/80). It is available on the 80 Micro page.Remember, it may take time for the German mirror to update, so if you get a file not found, please hit the back arrow and try again.
A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 11 (11/80). It is available on the 80 Micro page.Remember, it may take time for the German mirror to update, so if you get a file not found, please hit the back arrow and try again.
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A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 10 (10/80). It is available on the 80 Micro page.Remember, it may take time for the German mirror to update, so if you get a file not found, please hit the back arrow and try again.
Phil Ereaut has posted a scan of a Stringy Floppy and a description of its operation. Click here for the link.
A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 9 (09/80). It is available on the 80 Micro page.
A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 6 (06/80). It is available on the 80 Micro page.
I continue to think about manuals. Today I received a few boxes of my stuff from back home in New York. Inside one of the boxes was all of my original manuals (e.g., Microchess, Datestones of Ryn, Basic/S, etc.) I am also trying to make uniform filename formats for these things that TOSEC will honor. I am still not sure if the hosts can handle manuals, though, nor can I provide any attribution to the source of the manuals, which may mean they will come down as soon as they go up if I receive a complaint from the person who scanned it. I guess I will worry about that once these get scanned in.
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A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 3 (03/80). It is available on the 80 Micro page.
A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 40 (05/83). It is available on the 80 Micro page.
RSC-5 has been scanned, uploaded, and posted to the catalogues page.
RSC-2 has been scanned, uploaded, and posted to the catalogues page.
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If anyone has 80 Micro issue # 31 (August, 1982) and a scanner, and is willing to email to me a scan of page 198 for me in 200 DPI grayscale (8.5 x 11 dimension), I should be able to post issue 31. If Monday rolls around and no one has done this, don't worry - I will rescan the page. The problem is that I am not at work, and have the other 403 pages scanned and cleaned, but cannot create the PDF or DJVU in advance during this holiday weekend without this missing page.
If you can scan it, please use as little compression as possible, and email it to me. Thanks!
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A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 31 (08/82). It is available on the 80 Micro page.
Larry Fosdick has assembled and provided for posting a how-to on making a Model I Hard Drive Adapter
A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 05 (05/80). It is available on the 80 Micro page.
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A new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 24 (12/81). It is available on the 80 Micro page.
Well, I believe the last 80 Micro that will get posted has been posted. The sheet feeder scanner I have used to scan the first pass on the 80 Micro's (all pages are scanned once on B & W settings, and then each is scanned individually with color settings for pages with any graphics on them) is virtually dead. The sheet feeder's gears now grind loudly, and many of the resulting scans cannot be used.
It was definitely a good run. I got 1/3 of the 80 Micro's scanned over the past year and a half.
Despite the dying scanner, a very small new 80 Micro has been scanned - Volume 87 (04/87). It is available on the 80 Micro page.