[Coco] Re: War games T-shirt

[John Guin]

No TRS-80 wass used - IIRC, it was either an Altair machine with 8" drives 
(or Imsai).  In either event, the computer was nothing more than a bunch of 
pieces the film crew cobbled together and never was a "complete system."

Somewhat interesting note:  Matthew Broderick couldn't type, so they rigged 
a script to just send the next keystroke when he hit any key.

John

----Original Message Follows----
From: farna at att.net
Reply-To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: [Coco] Re: War games T-shirt
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 04:04:38 +0000

Saw this on e-bay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/WAR-GAMES-SHIRT-Vintage-COMPUTER-TRS-80-Punk-EMO-NEW_W0QQitemZ8756515420QQcategoryZ74947QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Kind of cool, but wasn't a grey case CoCo used in the movie, not a TRS-80 
Model I??

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 > Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:18:24 +0100
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 > Subject: [Coco] Re: question to the hardware gurus (Gene?)
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 > Thanks to all who replied. Bob, I should have looked into the LM1881's
 > data sheet before, stupid me. I'm using the Gennum GS4982 and I think it
 > will work fine without the lowpass filter (well, at least I'll try it
 > first without), especially because my composite video signal is b&w (no
 > color). The 12V power is already cleaned so I think just a 0.1µF to
 > ground will do fine. Best regards, Torsten.
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 > Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:37:20 -0500
 > From: Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>
 > Subject: Re: [Coco] [color computer] Just imagining...
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 > Reads like you were describing one of the current emulators. :)
 >
 > George Ramsower wrote:
 > > I was just wondering..
 > >
 > >  These new programmable chips are so fast and powerful today, it's just
 > > amazing!
 > >
 > >  Could a really fast one be able to(with good, tight coding) monitor 
the CPU
 > > in a coco, understand what it was trying to do(such as in RS-BASIC) and
 > > produce the info to (for example) run a graphics card? This wouldn't be 
an
 > > issue with software if we were running RS-Basic on a coco.
 > >  No COCO software required! The plug-in card with powerful chips could
 > > interpret and display what was intended for a TV without interfering 
with
 > > the COCO!
 > >
 > >
 > >   It seems that a certain group of instructions, in a particular order 
would
 > > be needed to operate the gime chip, for example.
 > >   If the CPLD or whatever the newest, fastest chips are available could
 > > monitor the instructions being processed, a routine could catch it and
 > > create whatever things need to happen.
 > >
 > >   This may be far-fetched to the point of impossible, but what do I 
know?  I
 > > only write basic09 programs on a stock coco.... good enough for me.
 > >
 > >   I'm sure in OS-9, a driver would be a great go-between.
 > >
 > >   OS-9 is MY thing.
 > >
 > >
 > >  George R
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