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Dusty has released the December 2024 edition of TRS8BIT magazine.

In this edition, George Phillips announces the winner of the 2024 Competition. Egoitz Campo reports on the latest TRS-80 tournament. Ian Mavric reports on the 2024 Tandy Assembly, reviews the very rare Tandy 10 and wets our appetite with a preview of his work on the Tandy Model 1 reference numbers. Vince Otten has the penultimate edition of his ‘Software Tools in BASIC’. There’s a report on some of the Ebay ‘bargains’ since our last issue and E.T. Fonehume has a one-liner for checking if a number is PRIME. ‘The Way We Were’ takes us back-to-the-day. ‘Just for fun’ sets another maze for you to try and finally, there is the sad news of the death of T.E. Kurtz, a really forward thinker, who opened the world of computing to many, in a revolutionary way.

You can download it from http://www.fabsitesuk.com/tandy/trs8bit1804.pdf

Marcel Erz has done a complete breakdown of all TRS-80 Model I revisions.

You can read about it at https://www.patreon.com/posts/exploring-of-trs-117044053

Mike Gore has done an analysis of the changes to the Model I Rev D and Rev E boards and has written up a piece on how to modify those boards to the last revision, Rev G.

You can download it here

Jens Guenther has updated his Windows/Linux fork of the SDLTRS Emulator to v1.2.31

Changelog:

• Added TRS-80 Model III/4/4P NMI bug fix by Joshua Arnold
• Added Model III/4/4P memory mapped printer port to be read-only
• Added filter for supported file types in GUI file browser
• Added window border in fullscreen mode
• Added more shortcuts for command line options
• Fixed command line options for memory expansion cards
• Fixed TCS EG-64 Memory-Banking Adaptor
• Fixed TCS Genie IIs/SpeedMaster RAM 192 B memory card
• Fixed current date in LS-DOS for TRS-80 Model 4/4P
• Fixed Hard Disk Activity LED for SDL2
• Fixed Mouse cursor for selection in scaled SDL2 window
• Fixed some bugs and other improvements

You check it all out at https://gitlab.com/jengun/sdltrs

Quentin Barnes has updated his GreaseWeasel software to Alpha 8. Please do not be concerned with the “Alpha” designation – he is being cautious. This software is FAR superior to the software which comes with the Greaseweasel for reading TRS-80 Model I/III/4 disks.

You can download the software at https://github.com/qbarnes/gw2dmk/releases/tag/v0.0.1.alpha.8

If you have a collection of actual, hard copy, TRS-80 magazines or newsletters, please consider visiting the Missing TRS-80 Magazines Page and seeing if you have anything which is missing.

George and Peter Phillips have updated their awesome TRS80GP emulator to v2.5.4. TRS-80 Model I/III/4-related changes are:

New Features:

• Event stream (-event endpoint) allowing external programs to blink LEDs, etc.
• FreHD emulation supports DSK/DCT LDOS driver to mount read-only disk images.
• Hardware serial port access on linux and mac via -r /dev/tty/USB0 or such.

Bug Fixes:

• Cassette now starts if inserted while CLOAD or SYSTEM in progress.
• Control of delay before cassette auto-save via -csd or Cassette -> Save menu.
• Correct Model 3 and 4 memory mapped printer port to be read-only.
• Less awkward breakpoint GUI with a single window and addr1:addr2 for ranges.
• Minor .wav output correction as .wav files should be an even number of bytes.
• Printer window auto scrolls to bottom again on output.
• Printing on LDOS no longer reboots; emulator ignored printer interrupt disable.
• Replaced patched TRSDOS with proper Japanese TRSDOS.
• Show .wav files in cassette open dialog by default if supported.
• Stop quadradic slowdown as printer output grows.

You can download it at George’s web site or by clicking here.

If you have a collection of TRS-80 software, please consider visiting the Missing TRS-80 Software Page and seeing if you have anything which is missing.

The next TRS-80 Trash Talk live show is Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 6 PM PST

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 happening September 27th – 29th, 2024 in Springfield, Ohio

The big news this year is that TRS-80 creator team of Don French and Steve Leininger will be joining us for the first time and Steve will be giving a keynote speech with Q&A.
All the usual events will be back, like the Friday Tech Track classes, the Saturday afternoon auction and the Saturday evening trivia contest hosted by none other than Ian Mavric!

You can get more information at https://www.tandyassembly.com/