[Coco] Recreating the CoCo keyboard

Mark McDougall msmcdoug at iinet.net.au
Wed Oct 21 06:08:16 EDT 2020


On 21/10/2020 11:25 am, Allen Huffman wrote:

> When I first saw a photo of the CoCo 3 (Rainbow magazine, probably) I
> was excited that the arrow keys were finally “together.”
> 
> Then I got one and tried to use it to play games like Sea Dragon.

I was far more competent on the TRS-80 Model 1 keyboard with the 
separated arrow keys than I ever was on a PC keyboard with clustered 
arrows. I think the Model I game "Penetrator" is impossible on a 
clustered keyboard.

Regards,

-- 
Mark McDougall
<http://retroports.blogspot.com.au>


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