SURPRISE! The TZXDuino Works With The Tandy Color Computer, Too
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Hello, friends,
I've got just a little BONUS content for you today. Can we use the TZXDuino Nano that I just built with computers other than Sinclair, Amstrad and MSX ?
As it turns out, YES! Lets see it in action on a Tandy Color Computer 3.
This is a short one, so don't blink or you'll miss it.
Hope you enjoy the video!
Thank you for watching
Todd
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Thanks for the bonus video and information. Thanks for sharing
You bet
I sent you an email at the retrointeldiy gmail address regarding the TZXDuino pcb.
Taking 4 minutes to load Super Pitfall reminds me why I switched to disk drives as soon as I could afford one. (And the CocoSDC in modern times). :-) Also, you may have RGB/Composite selected wrong, judging by the colors. (Or that could be tint controls too, I guess).
But it is cool that the TZXDuino is so useful amongst so many platforms!
It's most likely the config on the RGBtoHDMI that I've got wrong. I never could get it quite right. And yes, tape loading does take forever, but there's something nostalgic even about that. I do have a CocoSDC, though, so I don't NEED to sit around waiting for a virtual tape file to load. Thanks for the view and the comment!
Great video Todd! Looks like a very versatile device/firmware, nice :) Cheers!
Yep. Thanks, Josip!
The "proprietary" cassette DIN is actually a standard MIDI plug, fyi.
I shouldn't have used the word "proprietary", meaning "its mine and you can't use it". The word "custom" would have been better. I was referring to the pinout, or what pin carries what signal, not the actual physical configuration of the port. That's just a standard 180° 5-pin DIN, which is used in many applications, including, but not limited to MIDI. Tandy just had their own custom layout for the signals on the DIN, that was, as far as I know, not used by any other manufacturer for their cassette interface.
@@YARC-1981 yeah, I don't think any brands had shared cassette ports.
Actually an interesting point since the Atari joystick connector was so widely adopted... you'd think they'd learn the benefits of "economics of scale".
Anyway, my intent was to stress that the physical parts are commonly available, and it's really easy to make a CoCo cassette cable... an old midi cable can be given a new life!