[Coco] Digg Story: Star Wars on a Radio Shack Color Computer (circa 1986)?

Brian Blake random.rodder at gmail.com
Tue May 18 21:47:37 EDT 2010


All I can say is DAMN!!!! That was very, very, VERY cool. Start Wars on a
CoCo... whodathunk it...?




On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> Oops! Fixed.
>
> Sent from my iPhone 3GS
>
>
> On May 18, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Sean <badfrog at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, that video is marked 'private', so I can't actually watch
> it.
> >
> > And I'm jealous, you actually registered on Digg 4 whole days before I
> > did.  (And almost 5 years ago!)
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
> wrote:
> >> Anyone want to "digg" this and see if we can get some attention?
> >>
> >> I wanted to share this story with you: http://digg.com/d31RToS?e
> >> ---
> >> "Star Wars on a Radio Shack Color Computer (circa 1986)?"
> >> John Linville, a retro hobbyist, has created a full motion video player
> (with sound!) for the old Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer 3 (circa
> 1986). Although the resolution isn't great (it looks like web video from the
> mid 1990s), it's amazing a 1.89mhz 8-bit processor with NO real graphics
> hardware (just a bitmap screen) could do it at all.
> >> +1 person dugg this story.
> >>
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