[Coco] CoCo Questions

[Joel Ewy]

As has been mentioned already, coco3.com is great, but you might also
check out coco25.com, particularly the Wiki site at: 
http://www.coco25.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page.  Allen Huffman runs it,
or at least administers the Wiki.  Email him for an account so you can
edit Wiki entries.  It doesn't look like there's any information up
there yet about the Speech and Sound Pak or Orchestra 90CC (which may be
the sound cartridges you are thinking of), but adding this information
to the Wiki is a good way to keep it alive.  I added an entry for the
DS-69 Digisector a few months ago.  I have an Orch 90CC, but haven't
ever done a whole lot with it.  Maybe I'll look into it a little and
type up a Wiki entry.

JCE

Dan Olson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to the list, I've recently gotten interested in the CoCo again
> and haven't had any luck finding much useful information on the 'net
> so I hope I'm in the right place.  I've been thinking about trying my
> hand at building my own cartridge, but I hate to tear apart one of my
> good ones, as I have so few...and it looks like there's a screw under
> the label. Does anyone have one in the junk pile that they'd be
> willing to part with? I've also been wondering, on a 64k machine, I
> know that part of the memory has to get mapped out in order to use the
> BASIC ROM, can BASIC actually make use of the full 64k of memory
> (without pokes and peeks) or is the ROM always mapped in instead of
> RAM?  Also, I've seen some mention of sound cartridges and other
> things that plug into the cartridge slot (aside from the more common
> MPI, disk, RS-232) but have seen little more than that. Is there a
> more complete list somewhere?  For that matter, any pointers to web
> sites with technical info would be great too.  Sorry about all the
> questions (jumping all over the place) for a first-e-mail, hopefully
> someone out there can point me in the right direction!  Thanks.
>
>     Dan
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