[Coco] Coco mentioned in latest Triangulation podcast

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Very briefly (the podcast is about a new book on the history of Tetris), but it’s author (Dan Ackerman) mentions that his first computer was a TRS-80 Color Computer (around the 1:03:48 is the start of it).

https://www.twit.tv/shows/triangulation/episodes/273

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net

TRS-80 Color Computer Games website
http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/coco_game_list.html



> On Nov 13, 2016, at 8:57 PM, Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Bill Nobel
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> I do have to say though, that working with Roger Taylor I have learned a lot about hardware.  The register increments on both sides of the tfm can happen simultaneously.
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> Curtis,
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> While I have used that opcode, I've not timed it. In fact, it would be very hard to time those specific opcodes without including all the other opcodes required to get the two of interest to run. That being said, I just ran a test that would seem to indicate that speed of TFM r0,r1+ and TFM r0+,r1+ are essentially the same.
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> Here are the programs for the test using my EDTASM6309 to create the assembly code and run on a Coco3. My program SWREAD creates a new string function DATE$ that reads the hardware clock.
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> TEST
> 10 PCLEAR1:LOADM"TFM"
> 20 PRINT DATE$:EXEC:PRINT DATE$
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> 00100  ORG $E80
> 00110 * THIS IS A TEST OF THE TFM OPCODE
> .
> .
> .
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> 00210  RTS
> 00220  END START
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> Elapsed time the same as above, 7 seconds.
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> Does this answer your question? :)
> 
> Robert
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