[Coco] Remembering the Deluxe Color Computer....

[Allen Huffman]

Mike, we have the CoCo 3 prototype which showed a built in disk controller, but I don't know about sound and rs232. Eventually we will have it decoded and learn if any deluxe coco stuff was planned for the 3.

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On Jun 19, 2011, at 5:10 PM, mike delyea <mdelyea at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry if I am incorrect on this, but the coco2 COULD do 40 column text on a
> graphic screen (pmode4 I think).  Didn't Telewriter and some other software
> (screenmaster or something) do this?  I've been following the Deluxe coco
> thread with some interest.  I'm surprised the Deluxe coco had a serial port
> but this mod never made it to the coco3.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au>wrote:
> 
>> Here is part of an interview I did with Mark Seigel, project manager for
>> the Color Computer at Radio Shack back in the day:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> MARK> My biggest disappointment was the Deluxe Color Computer not coming to
>> market. It was a pretty cool next generation Color Computer 2 but Motorola
>> ran short of video/memory controllers and Tandy had a choice of where to put
>> them and they chose the cheaper Color Computer 2.
>> 
>> It had a GI sound chip, a real UART, 64K of memory (in Disk Basic, 32k was
>> used as a RAM drive). It had a 40 column display with a 320x200 mono
>> graphics mode, the Color Computer 3 keyboard and some cool new Disk Basic
>> commands.
>> 
>> NICK> How was the 40 column display and 320x200 mode generated? The
>> Motorola 6847 video chip used in the Color Computer couldn't produce this.
>> 
>> MARK> My recollection is fuzzy on this but I think we added an additional
>> video controller to the unit. But since it had to go out the RF it was
>> restricted to 40 columns.
>> 
>> MARK> Was it to have a restyled case?
>> 
>> It was a Color Computer 1 case with some work on the back and it was
>> painted black.
>> 
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