I loved The Rainbow magazine so much. I used to ride my bicycle down to the bookstore to buy it along with Hot CoCo and Color Computer Magazine. They even had Dragon User! It was so exciting when new issues came out.
I love collecting all the old magazines. It is nice to be able to find most of them on the Color Computer Archive (for the CoCo related ones), but there is something about the physical magazine that a PDF can't replace.
And to think, I typed in all of my games out of magazines on the CoCo 1 chiclet keyboard (a challenge in itself!) and saved onto a tape drive. Never dreamed something like this would ever exist in the future!
You are going to love it! It is the best SD card solution I have found for any of my retro computers. To save a a real headache (if you have not done so yet) make sure your SD card is formatted to FAT32 or less.
The Magazine scans are available in a different section of the Color Computer Archive, if you click on the Archive tab at the top of the screen the drop down menu has Magazines under the Documents heading.
Can you just imagine if we had hardware like this back in the day. Being able to store all your software on a piece of kit the size of a fingernail. Kids these days have no idea how lucky they are 🤣
I would've upvoted this purely for the cat if we're honest, but this is incredibly useful. I've just got my CoCoSD and was trying to get the menu to work and downloaded some apps.. I'm most interested in NitrOS9 and compilers/assemblers at this stage (it's where my interests lie) so I warmly thank you for the shake-n-bake SD card solution. That's brilliant! Technical question. I also have a FD502 with a pair of double-side modified floppies from my older CoCo1 and 2 and use them on the CoCo 3. Is there a device that will let me get a CoCo SD and the FD502 and plug it into the machine and let me use them at the same time to copy data back and forth from FDD to SDCard? I've had a look at some of the multi-pack's out there and realised 1.5 things.. 1 I definitely don't know enough about this yet and what I've seen so far 'seems' to be an either-or switcher that only runs one device at a time, disabling the second (eg: CoCoSD enabled, FD502 disabled). Thank you for the video's ..have subscribed.
I know the multipak will let you use multiple things at once, I am unfortunately not familiar with using one as I have not got my hands on one yet. The CoCo Discord is a great source for all things CoCo with a lot of very helpful people on it. Here is the invite link: discord.gg/4J5nHXm My suggestion for people to seek out are Dave Ladd, he knows just about everything about CoCo Floppy Drives and L Curtis Boyle, he is the main author behind the current OS9 project NitrOS9 EOU.
@@CanadianRetroThings Wonderful. Thank you. I will have a look around to see if anyone has created a modern equiv for the multipack. Ah. I'm not a social networking person and tend to dislike anything more modern than Ham Radio or IRC. :) I've noticed a lot of the older crowd dislike these modern discord/mastodon/twitter/etc.
@@VK2FVAX The only person I know that makes a modern equivilent is the Zippsterzone. Although he rairly has any in stock. The other easiest thing to do is build a Y cable (something I keep planning on doing) which was comman back in the day, I believe you changed drive through pokes.
Hi, my Coco 1 is in it's original box for the last 20 years and I'd like to play with it again. I wonder how to connect the RF out to modern monitor/tv
@Luko007 on Amazon search for coax to rca adapter. You should be able to get a small cable end that will work. They are 1-2 dollars a piece (you usually have to order a package of them) This will work only if your monitor/TV has a coaxial connection. If it doesn't, a VCR has the coax connection and can then go to composite
Ted, what about doing a video involving command line loading (as if through another program) using VCC as the emulator? I mean, is it possible to command line load CASS, DSK, CCC files like : vcc.exe -cass whatever.cass? You can do this, to a degress with M.E.S.S. but i never heard if Jeff Vasour's emulator supported command line (as in from a dos prompt). How about it?
@@CanadianRetroThings Thanks! I am planning to get just an 8gb sd card then and since I got the 16kb coco 2 I am hoping it will run a lot of the games.
I just got the Coco SDC and copied that complete directory to the root of my SD card that is 8gb in FAT32 and I put it in the Coco 2 and turn it on, but all I get is the Color Basic 1.2. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
I found out why I think. Since my Coco2 is only 16kb and it says in the Coco SDC guide "When using a CoCo 1 or 2 a minimum of 32K RAM is required to perform an installation of SDC-DOS and 64K RAM is required to install the MCU firmware". So I need to find another Coco 1 or 2 because the 3 is expensive with at least 64kb.
I think you also need Extended BASIC. If you are a member of the Color Computer Discord, there are channels where people can help you upgrade the computer you have. That should be cheaper than finding another CoCo
In Canada Retro Rewind sells them around CND $92.00 and in the US The Zipster Zone sells them for about US $75.00. I know Retro Rewind currently has a few in stock, not sure about The Zipster Zone.
Hello, Great videos...I have a 128kB COCO-3 with an RBG screen and just purchased an SDC. I cannot get any of the Sierra games to load. They get to the point when I choose "R" for RGB and then it locks up and the game never starts. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Scott
I'm not sure about all of the Sierra games but I know at least some require 512k. If you don't have enough memory the game will lock up as you described.
Ahh...That had crossed my mind at one point...I bet that's it. Time to get a 512kB upgrade kit. Thanks for your help and quick reply.@@CanadianRetroThings
theres a cheat poke for the dragon 32 on donkey king (all green black and buff backgrounds) versions of the game - does any1 know the cheat for this game? was it poke 18888,3 then exec? i know the other one poke 12914,255 gives u 255 lives !!
You can download the master file and run the programs in VCC, but the SDC explorer program does not work. You have to manually mount each disk image to run them.
Currently the only place I know of that has them in stock is Retro Rewind, the only other supplier I know of is The Zippster Zone but they are out of stock right now.
I loved The Rainbow magazine so much. I used to ride my bicycle down to the bookstore to buy it along with Hot CoCo and Color Computer Magazine. They even had Dragon User! It was so exciting when new issues came out.
I love collecting all the old magazines. It is nice to be able to find most of them on the Color Computer Archive (for the CoCo related ones), but there is something about the physical magazine that a PDF can't replace.
And to think, I typed in all of my games out of magazines on the CoCo 1 chiclet keyboard (a challenge in itself!) and saved onto a tape drive. Never dreamed something like this would ever exist in the future!
It is a great piece of tech that makes using these old computers so much easier.
Aw Kitty! ❤Nice little device and a very convenient file!
It is, in my opinion, the best SD card reader for any of my old computers that I have come across.
Hi from Quebec, i just bought a coco 1, 2 and 3. I want this device thank you for your information!
Thanks even....
Thanks for sharing! When I get home, now I know it's time to update my CoCo SDC image. I would have had no idea otherwise!
An updated SDC image is a happy SDC image 😆
Thanks for sharing! I just got mine a week ago. Great timing
You are going to love it! It is the best SD card solution I have found for any of my retro computers. To save a a real headache (if you have not done so yet) make sure your SD card is formatted to FAT32 or less.
Great vudeo. Yhanks
The SDC is a must have for the CoCo
Great video again! Where are those magazines on the SD image? I couldnt find them. I mean the actual scans of the real pages
The Magazine scans are available in a different section of the Color Computer Archive, if you click on the Archive tab at the top of the screen the drop down menu has Magazines under the Documents heading.
Can you just imagine if we had hardware like this back in the day. Being able to store all your software on a piece of kit the size of a fingernail. Kids these days have no idea how lucky they are 🤣
And how easy it is to load everything up, no disk swapping, no endless wait times on cassette loads...they are so lucky!
I would've upvoted this purely for the cat if we're honest, but this is incredibly useful. I've just got my CoCoSD and was trying to get the menu to work and downloaded some apps.. I'm most interested in NitrOS9 and compilers/assemblers at this stage (it's where my interests lie) so I warmly thank you for the shake-n-bake SD card solution. That's brilliant! Technical question. I also have a FD502 with a pair of double-side modified floppies from my older CoCo1 and 2 and use them on the CoCo 3. Is there a device that will let me get a CoCo SD and the FD502 and plug it into the machine and let me use them at the same time to copy data back and forth from FDD to SDCard? I've had a look at some of the multi-pack's out there and realised 1.5 things.. 1 I definitely don't know enough about this yet and what I've seen so far 'seems' to be an either-or switcher that only runs one device at a time, disabling the second (eg: CoCoSD enabled, FD502 disabled). Thank you for the video's ..have subscribed.
I know the multipak will let you use multiple things at once, I am unfortunately not familiar with using one as I have not got my hands on one yet. The CoCo Discord is a great source for all things CoCo with a lot of very helpful people on it. Here is the invite link: discord.gg/4J5nHXm My suggestion for people to seek out are Dave Ladd, he knows just about everything about CoCo Floppy Drives and L Curtis Boyle, he is the main author behind the current OS9 project NitrOS9 EOU.
@@CanadianRetroThings Wonderful. Thank you. I will have a look around to see if anyone has created a modern equiv for the multipack. Ah. I'm not a social networking person and tend to dislike anything more modern than Ham Radio or IRC. :) I've noticed a lot of the older crowd dislike these modern discord/mastodon/twitter/etc.
@@VK2FVAX The only person I know that makes a modern equivilent is the Zippsterzone. Although he rairly has any in stock. The other easiest thing to do is build a Y cable (something I keep planning on doing) which was comman back in the day, I believe you changed drive through pokes.
a few months ago some1 told me the poke, i cant recall what it was (something like poke 18888,3 it was????)
Hi, my Coco 1 is in it's original box for the last 20 years and I'd like to play with it again. I wonder how to connect the RF out to modern monitor/tv
@Luko007 on Amazon search for coax to rca adapter. You should be able to get a small cable end that will work. They are 1-2 dollars a piece (you usually have to order a package of them) This will work only if your monitor/TV has a coaxial connection. If it doesn't, a VCR has the coax connection and can then go to composite
Ted, what about doing a video involving command line loading (as if through another program) using VCC as the emulator? I mean, is it possible to command line load CASS, DSK, CCC files like : vcc.exe -cass whatever.cass? You can do this, to a degress with M.E.S.S. but i never heard if Jeff Vasour's emulator supported command line (as in from a dos prompt).
How about it?
I have not tried that, I will have to look into if it is possible.
was it poke 18888,3 ?? then exec??? thanks............
What's your favorite CoCo out of the 3?
The CoCo 2 was my first computer so it holds a special place in my heart but the CoCo 3 does the most so it is my daily use retro computer.
Just got a CoCo 2 with 16kb. Now I want to get this, but what size Sd card did you use and do you need to format it to FAT32 or NTSC?
It requires FAT32 (or FAT16 will work)
@@CanadianRetroThings Thanks! I am planning to get just an 8gb sd card then and since I got the 16kb coco 2 I am hoping it will run a lot of the games.
I just got the Coco SDC and copied that complete directory to the root of my SD card that is 8gb in FAT32 and I put it in the Coco 2 and turn it on, but all I get is the Color Basic 1.2. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
I found out why I think. Since my Coco2 is only 16kb and it says in the Coco SDC guide "When using a CoCo 1 or 2 a minimum of 32K RAM is required to perform
an installation of SDC-DOS and 64K RAM is required to install the MCU firmware". So I need to find another Coco 1 or 2 because the 3 is expensive with at least 64kb.
I think you also need Extended BASIC. If you are a member of the Color Computer Discord, there are channels where people can help you upgrade the computer you have. That should be cheaper than finding another CoCo
Hello, Is it possible to get the graber file for pcbway manufacturing? In my country I can't get an already assembled version. Greetings-
The files for making the SDC have not been publicly released so I do not have access to them.
Hey Ken
I sold my Coco 2's but still have a few 1's (never seen a 3).
I think I should get a SDC. Where did you get yours and how much
do they go for?
In Canada Retro Rewind sells them around CND $92.00 and in the US The Zipster Zone sells them for about US $75.00. I know Retro Rewind currently has a few in stock, not sure about The Zipster Zone.
Thanks Ken. Ordered!
Eric
Hello, Great videos...I have a 128kB COCO-3 with an RBG screen and just purchased an SDC. I cannot get any of the Sierra games to load. They get to the point when I choose "R" for RGB and then it locks up and the game never starts. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Scott
I'm not sure about all of the Sierra games but I know at least some require 512k. If you don't have enough memory the game will lock up as you described.
Ahh...That had crossed my mind at one point...I bet that's it. Time to get a 512kB upgrade kit. Thanks for your help and quick reply.@@CanadianRetroThings
theres a cheat poke for the dragon 32 on donkey king (all green black and buff backgrounds) versions of the game - does any1 know the cheat for this game? was it poke 18888,3 then exec? i know the other one poke 12914,255 gives u 255 lives !!
Space quest for coco3???
Yes! There are a bunch of Seirra games available in the archive colorcomputerarchive.com/
hello do u know the speed up poke cheat for the barrels screen on donkey king for the dragon 32 ?? thanks........
I do not know any of the POKEs for the Dragon 32. Sorry.
@@CanadianRetroThings okay but the coco is similar to the dragon 32 do u know the coco cheat codes ? for donkey king ? thanks
@@ms-ex8em The only speed up pokes I know are POKE 65495,0 for CoCo 1&2 and POKE 65497,0 for CoCo 3
ok but for donkey king theres a poke cheat for the barrels page screen any ideas what it is?? thanks..............@@CanadianRetroThings
it was something like poke 18888,3 or something similar thanks...........@@CanadianRetroThings
Is it possible to use this with the VCC emulator??
You can download the master file and run the programs in VCC, but the SDC explorer program does not work. You have to manually mount each disk image to run them.
Where can I buy a coco sdc ?
Currently the only place I know of that has them in stock is Retro Rewind, the only other supplier I know of is The Zippster Zone but they are out of stock right now.