[Coco] What's on your CoCo "Bucket List" ?
Robert "Exile In Paradise" Murphey
exile at weylan-yutani.com
Sun Nov 1 10:18:42 EST 2020
What's on your CoCo "Bucket List" ?
Here's a starter list for folks to consider, but I am 100% sure there
are many many more possibilities that could be added:
- [ ] ASSEMBLY: Learn 6809 Assembly
- [ ] ASSEMBLY: Type in a Rainbow assembly listing
- [ ] ASSEMBLY: Write 6309 assembly
- [ ] ASSEMBLY: Write an Assembly Game
- [ ] ASSEMBLY: Write an IRQ handler
- [ ] AUDIO: Analyze an Audio Spectrum with your CoCo
- [ ] AUDIO: Compose an Orch 90 music
- [ ] AUDIO: Play a chiptune on your CoCo3
- [ ] AUDIO: Play MIDI from your CoCo to a synthesizer
- [ ] AUDIO: Record MIDI to your CoCo from a synthesizer
- [ ] AUDIO: Stream a podcast on your CoCo3
- [ ] BASIC: Find all of the Microware easter eggs in Super Extended
BASIC
- [ ] BASIC: Find both Microsoft easter eggs in Color BASIC
- [ ] BASIC: Patch the BASIC ROM for a new feature
- [ ] BASIC: Type in a BASIC book listing
- [ ] BASIC: Type in a Rainbow BASIC listing
- [ ] BASIC: Work Through Getting Started with Color BASIC
- [ ] BASIC: Write a BASIC09 program
- [ ] BASIC: Write a BASIC Game
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Connect with the VideoTex cartridge
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Learn DriveWire
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Log in to a BBS from your CoCo
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Log in to a BBS from your CoCo This Century
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Login to OS-9 BBS
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Login to OS-9 over the Internet
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Network two or more CoCos together with serial
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Run a CoCo BBS
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Run a CoCo BBS using your own BBS program
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Run an OS-9 BBS
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Run an OS-9 BBS using your own BBS program
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Send or receive AX.25 packet radio with a CoCo
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Send or receive CompuServe messages with your
CoCo
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Send or receive Delphi messages with your CoCo
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Send or receive RTTY with a CoCo
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Send or receive UUCP messages with your CoCo
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Transfer a file using ASCII listing
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Transfer a file using ASCII open/close buffer
- [ ] COMMUNICATIONS: Upload or download an Orch 90 music file... from
Orch 90
- [ ] COMMUNITY: Appear on CoCoTalk
- [ ] COMMUNITY: Blog about the CoCo
- [ ] COMMUNITY: Contribute something new to the Color Computer Archive
- [ ] COMMUNITY: Contribute to the CoCopedia
- [ ] COMMUNITY: Demo a product at CoCoFEST!
- [ ] COMMUNITY: Finish CoCo Forever
- [ ] COMMUNITY: Get an article published in CoCo 123
- [ ] COMMUNITY: Get an article published in Rainbow
- [ ] COMMUNITY: Get interviewed by CoCoCrew
- [ ] COMMUNITY: Post to the mailing list
- [ ] COMMUNITY: Speak or present at CoCoFEST!
- [ ] COMMUNITY: Touch the Heron
- [ ] COMMUNITY: Upload a CoCo video to a streaming site
- [ ] COMMUNITY: Write a CoCo Book
- [ ] DARKSIDE: Copy a ROM cart to disk
- [ ] DARKSIDE: Crack a Disk
- [ ] DARKSIDE: Load an X-rated program
- [ ] DARKSIDE: Make the Speech Sound Cart swear
- [ ] DARKSIDE: "Train" a game
- [ ] DARKSIDE: "Phone Phreak" using your CoCo
- [ ] EMULATION: Setup a CoCoPi
- [ ] EMULATION: Setup MAME
- [ ] EMULATION: Setup OVCC
- [ ] EMULATION: Setup VCC
- [ ] EMULATION: Setup Xroar
- [ ] GAMES: Complete Digger III
- [ ] GAMES: Complete Robot Odyssey
- [ ] GAMES: Complete Zork
- [ ] GAMES: Defeat the real Wizard in Dungeons of Daggorath
- [ ] GAMES: Defeat the real Wizard in Dungeons of Daggorath without
the Shield Fix
- [ ] GAMES: Finish Forest of Doom
- [ ] GAMES: Finish PopStar Pilot
- [ ] GAMES: Get a high score published in Rainbow
- [ ] GAMES: Get a score on Nick Marotta's High Score Challenge
- [ ] GAMES: Get the secret message in Omnistar by hacking
- [ ] GAMES: Get the secret message in Omnistar without hacking - by
defeating Omnistar
- [ ] GAMES: Palette hack a game
- [ ] GAMES: Play a game with cassette audio sections
- [ ] GAMES: Save humanity in Gunstar
- [ ] GAMES: Write your name as a Temple of ROM level
- [ ] GAMES: Write your own Infocom file
- [ ] HARDWARE: Burn a CoCo EEPROM
- [ ] HARDWARE: "Case Mod" a CoCo
- [ ] HARDWARE: Flash a ROM to CoCoSDC
- [ ] HARDWARE: Get a CoCo1
- [ ] HARDWARE: Get a CoCo2
- [ ] HARDWARE: Get a CoCo3
- [ ] HARDWARE: Get a Dragon
- [ ] HARDWARE: Get an MC10
- [ ] HARDWARE: Make your own CoCo cartridge
- [ ] HARDWARE: Put the screws back into a CoCo
- [ ] HARDWARE: "Repack" a CoCo
- [ ] HARDWARE: Setup Matchbox CoCo
- [ ] HARDWARE: Setup Mister CoCo
- [ ] HARDWARE: Socket a chip in a CoCo
- [ ] HARDWARE: Take the screws out of a CoCo
- [ ] HARDWARE: Upgrade RAM in a CoCo
- [ ] HARDWARE: Upgrade to a 6309
- [ ] LIFE: Use a CoCo to complete a school assignment
- [ ] LIFE: Work for Tandy
- [ ] LIFE: Work in a Radio Shack
- [ ] OPERATING SYSTEMS: Find the shell easter egg in OS-9
- [ ] OPERATING SYSTEMS: Learn CP/M
- [ ] OPERATING SYSTEMS: Learn Flex
- [ ] OPERATING SYSTEMS: Learn Fuzix
- [ ] OPERATING SYSTEMS: Learn OS-9 L1
- [ ] OPERATING SYSTEMS: Learn OS-9 L2
- [ ] PROGRAMMING: Get an acceptance letter from Tandy
- [ ] PROGRAMMING: Get a rejection letter from Tandy
- [ ] PROGRAMMING: Write a Compiler
- [ ] PROGRAMMING: Write a CPU simulator
- [ ] PROGRAMMING: Write a Disassembler
- [ ] PROGRAMMING: Write a Monitor
- [ ] PROGRAMMING: Write an Assembler
- [ ] PROGRAMMING: Write an emulator
- [ ] VIDEO: Create a CoCo Max Picture
- [ ] VIDEO: Create a Color Max Picture
- [ ] VIDEO: Create an animation with your CoCo (such as page flipping)
- [ ] VIDEO: Program a custom character set on a CoCoVGA
- [ ] VIDEO: Stream a movie on your CoCo3
- [ ] VIDEO: View SSTV on a CoCo
- [ ] VIDEO: View Wefax on a CoCo
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Robert "Exile In Paradise" Murphey <exile at weylan-yutani.com>
Weylan-Yutani Corporation
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