TRS8BIT – Vol 18, No. 3
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In this 100 page edition of all things Tandy, Ian Mavric updates us with the latest news of TA24, he details information on Type2 HDA’s for the Model 2 family and reviews the Tandy model 1200. TRS-80 BASIC floating points are described in another detailed article by Jim Adams. Pascal Holdry shows his latest work for the 68000 computer boards. ‘At The Ready Prompt’ is back with 2 very neat ways of checking for odd or even. George Phillips ‘Tunes-up’ the Co-Co randomising ability. ‘The Way We Were’ looks at the Exatron Stringy Floppy for the TRS-80. There’s details of some of the recent U.K. Ebay bargains. ‘Where Are They Now’ highlights a prolific contributor to Tandy section of Softside magazine, James Garon. (Sorry about the photo though!). There’s time for a bit of fun, checking a maze. E.T. Fonehume checks-out check digits, using a one-liner of course! There’s a quick surf around the net. Mark Casteleijn steps through his adventures with the FreHD and TRSVID. Vince Otten explains how to error trap ROM calls from TRSDOS 2.3 And finally, just a reminder, time is running fast to get you competition entries in.
A new upgrade to George and Peter Phillips’s TRS-80 emulator. trs80gp (version 2.5.4) will be available shortly. Full details of all the options are available from their website. This really is THE best TRS-80 emulator on the planet. It even has, just for the U.K., Aculab Floppy Tape emulation. Just as ‘in the day’ but, of course, without any media problems! You can also use the upgraded version of Level 2 BASIC, “TWOHAF” (Level 2.5), using the AFT as well as ordinary cassette BASIC.