Author: Ira

Ian has kindly provided a scan of the Quizmaster Manual!

Title: QuizMaster
Publisher: Logical Systems
Year: 1982
Size: 7,362,857
Pages: 18

L Curtis Boyle let me know that Canadian Retro Things posted a two part interview with Robert Kilgus. They write:

While at the 32nd Annual ‘Last’ Chicago CoCoFest I took a little side trip with L Curtis Boyle. We visited Robert Kilgus, a name you may recognize from a number of TRS-80 Model 1 and CoCo programs. We sat down with Robert, here is part one of the interview covering his early days, before doing anything for Tandy.

You can watch Part 1, entitled “The Early Years” here and Part 2, entitled “The TRS 80 Model 1 Years”, here.

While they were it, they secured permission from Robert to post his sofware and books, so you can download his book, Inside Microfiles, right here and all of Robert’s files have now been made downloadable via the Software Seach Page.

Ian has kindly provided a scan of the LS-LED manual!

Title: LS-LED
Year: 1983
Company/Author: Logical Systems Inc
Size: 6,678,177
Pages: 15

Quentin Barnes has updated the Catweasel Utilities to v4.10.1

New to this release are:

• Fix indefinite looping while guessing head stepping rate when encountering unusually formatted disks, often from copy protection.
• Fix bug with wraparound detection when the duplicate ID block gets cut off by the DMK buffer filling up. The fix is to stop decoding when the buffer fills up, so that we don’t detect such a header in the first place.

A ZIP file with the DOS, Linux, and Source Code can be downloaded here.

The main GITHUB can found at https://github.com/qbarnes/cw2dmk/.

Marcel Erz has just release a schematic to enable the connection of an original TRS-80 keyboard to a modern computer via USB which supports multiple TRS-80 models and various development boards for interfacing the keyboard with a system over USB.

You can find the GIT here

The next TRS-80 Trash Talk live show is Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 2:00PM Pacific Daylight Time / 5:00PM Eastern 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.

George and Peter Phillips have updated their awesome TRS80GP emulator to v2.5.3. Changes are:

New Features:

• Model I/III/4 now accept .wav files as cassette input.
• Add -pp/-ppx options to control printer window pop-up.
• Model I RS-232 sense switches (thanks to Tuc for hardware tests).
• Add loopback device to RS-232 choices (-r :loop on command line)
• Add -rx option to disable RS-232 on Model I,2,III,4,12,16.
• Semigraphics 6 modes will display alternate palette (Electric Crayon, MC-10, CoCo).
• Add “-im disksummary” and disksummary on drive exports to output a summary of drive structure just like the Disk Viewer window.

Bug Fixes:

• $37EA and $37EB are now memory mapped printer port alises on Model I.
• Model I/III/4 RS-232 receive bug fixed.
• CoCo BASIC ROM 1.0 printer output fixed.
• Text pasting works for CoCo 1.0 and 1.1 ROMs.
• Printer auto-turbo works for all models now.
• Model 4 software keyboard no longer missing ‘+’ character on keycap.
• trs80gp -m1 -dx no longer loads lower case driver by default; use -lld to do so.

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

Lawrence Kesteloot has updated his TRS80TOOL to v2.7.0. Release Notes:

• In the run command, if the mounted floppy is modified, the changes will be written to the underlying virtual floppy file. Specify the –write-protected option to mount the floppy write-protected.
• The dir command has a new –system option to show system files.

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

Thanks to eagle eyed David S, I am told that Jens Guenther has updated his Windows/Linux fork of the SDLTRS Emulator to v1.2.29

Changelog:

• Added 1024 KB memory support for TCS Genie IIIs.
• Added 512 KB memory support for TRS-80 Model I Selector.
• Added 2nd printer MMIO for TRS-80 Model III/4/4P.
• Added more shortcuts for command line options.
• Added SDL2 aspect ratio option in GUI.
• Added debugger command to change Z80 HALT action.
• Fixed TRS-80 Model 4 MMIO in map 0.
• Fixed redraw of HRG1B screen.
• Fixed IMPORT.COM utility for CP/M 3.0.
• Fixed debugger alternate register set assignment by Nick Andrew.

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

Steve H. has sent in a bunch of scans … Thank you, Steve!

Catalogs

Title: CLOAD Magazine
Publisher: CLOAD Magazine
Year: 19xx
Size: 709,924
Pages: 2

Title: Computer TEXTile Catalog
Publisher: Computer TEXTile
Year: 19xx
Size: 2,888,502
Pages: 6

Title: TRS Yellow Page
Publisher: Micro Architect
Year: 1978
Size: 2,581,055
Pages: 8
Notes: [78-11]

Magazines

Title: CLOAD Magazine 1978-08
Publisher: CLOAD Magazine Inc
Year: 1978
Size: 1,493,333
Pages: 4
Notes: [Set 2]

Title: Level One Magazine
Publisher: Level One Magazine
Year: 19xx
Size: 1,359,518
Pages: 4

Title: TRS-80 Computing
Issue: Vol 1 No 1
Publisher: Computer Information Exchange Inc
Year: 1978
Size: 16,654,542
Pages: 32

Service Manuals

Title: 16K RAM Expansion Service Manual Addendum
Publisher: Tandy
Year: 1978
Size: 758,978
Pages: 4
Notes: [26-1101]

Hardware Manuals

Title: Important Notice Regarding Model I Mini-Disk Drives
Publisher: Radio Shack
Year: 19xx
Size: 240,607
Pages: 1

Title: Model I Double Density System Start-Up
Publisher: Tandy
Year: 19xx
Size: 2,445,499
Pages: 2

Title: Oasis Systems Light Pen Users Manual
Publisher: Oasis Systems
Year: 1980
Size: 2,269,574
Pages: 11