Amy… “we’re about to be scarted on” made me laugh so hard I almost scarted!! 🤪😂 Another great episode ladies!! AND… nice T-Shirt Amy!!

Enjoyed the video. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Look forward to other future videos with it. Have fun.

Nice upgrades there!

Fantastic video. Really enjoyed watching the upgrade, and as always, the entertainment was second to none! Keep it up you two!

Hey Amy! This has got to be the greatest Tandy Color Computer RAM upgrade video you've ever done! Congratulations.

THE TAKLYO Firmware update required

Manic Miner does run black and white on a Coco (or Dragon) Space Marauder by Craig Stewart was actually sold by Tandy stores - but only in Australia. As you may have noticed, to shoot the asteroids you have to hit them pretty well dead center (there are some other keyboard commands for things like changing how your shots work)- but you can find complete instructions on the Color Computer Archive). It is a Coco 3 exclusive game, so you will see the better graphics that the Coco 3 offers (320x192 16 color in Space Marauder's case). Also - there was no standard for which joystick port each game used, so you may have to switch left and right joystick ports. One oddity that you will hit for Coco 3 games - the palettes between RGB and composite are different (which is why most Coco 3 specific games will ask which monitor type you have). But for RF and composite, the Coco 3 defaults to composite. If you want to play some of the older Coco 1/2 games (that don't use artifact colors) in RGB mode (for your SCART adapter), you will need to type RGB in BASIC first. As others have mentioned, you definitely should check out WIDTH 40 and WIDTH 80 commands in BASIC as well, especially with the SCART. You also now have the PALETTE command, which lets you change colors (even for old Coco 1/2 programs and the text screen). On the 32 column (Coco 1/2 style) screen, the text foreground is PALETTE 12,xx and the background is PALETTE 13,xx (where xx can be anything from 0 to 64 for both). For 40 and 80 columns, PALETTE 8,xx is the foreground and PALETTE 0,xx is the background. If you wanted white text on a black background (for example), you would replace xx with 63 (for white) and xx with 0 (for black). There are a few colors that are the same between composite and RGB; black and white are 2 of them, so this works in both modes. And of course, now that you have both a 512K Coco 3 and a CocoSDC - you can download the free NitrOS9 Ease of Use version 1.0.0 for the 6809, and give that a try (you *knew* that was coming, didn't you? lol).

I had one of those when I was a kid. I could never remember what it was called. Was a learning tool for me in my bedroom. Then Webtv came out, and that was all she wrote...haha. I miss the 90s.

"are we farming bitcoin" lol that would take a bit on the coco.

Welcome to the CoCo 3 Cult 😀

Nice! I cut my teeth on a CoCo2, a birthday present for my 5th birthday in early 1986. I did my first programming on that machine, called my first BBSes on that machine, had a printer, had all sorts of fun with it. I have a CoCo3 in my retro collection these days and love it. Glad I found your channel! :)

Saw the other day that you will be a VCF Southwest! I will be attending with a friend. We are huge retro computer fans.

Woohoo! RGB and 512K! now your living the best Tandy life you can be! :)

Awesome video as always! I'd highly recommend an OSSC or Retrotink 5x for SCART connections if you get other consoles/computers in the future that utilize RGB as it can line double up to 5 times and won't stretch out a 4:3 signal to 16:9.

I recommend you play some games that require 512k like the Glen Hewlett ports of Pac Man, Defender or Donkey Kong. Also, when you are playing coco 1 and 2 games that use artifacts, you need to switch-a-roo to composite if you want to see color. Love your videos!

I am envious of your CoCo 3 goodness :-D

I wish they still sold computers like that today new. I got my refurb CoCo 3 a while back and was using LW Tools to write assembly programs for it now and then while using Toolshed to make the disk images of the assembled programs. Good stuff! Though watching the joystick get plugged in while the computer was running made me flinch. I'm so used to shutting those off before plugging/unplugging things cause they really hammered that point home back in the 80s when I was a teenager.

“Super Extended Color Basic.” That was my nickname in high school; also my super power.

COCO FEST! I've been wanting to goto that.

There's something strangely satisfying listening to you two say "SCART." 🤣

1:29 Amy looks like she was about to scart whatever she was drinking all over the place. And at 6:27 Taylor was giving us the vibes of a bomb defusing scene from an 80s action film.

Nice that coco 3 Looking good that picture looks great-niece upgrade

You guys playing with RGB>Composite is so awsome. kkkk

If you want to really see the difference between composite and RGB, try 80 column mode with 'WIDTH 80'. Mind = blown.

Love the AT AT shirt.

The only problem with the Radio Shack Memory upgrade(I had one and I replaced it) is that it normally runs HOT. The Memory Upgrade that Cloud 9 sells offers the same memory capacity but it runs much cooler and adds longevity to the CoCo 3... Joe...

best comedy couple since laurel and hardy

MMM you ladies look to young to know about this early 's pc? Being 57 i had 2 coco's 1 4 K upgraded to 64, xpad, multiport. coco 3. with monitor. loved them both. first use of spreadsheets deskmate. wrote weather forecasting programs.

There is an easter egg on the CoCo3 on power up. Hold down the alt and ctrl keys while pushing the power button! 😊

Gobbler looks fun

5:41 "There is this little jail." But what did the transformer do to deserve the incarceration!

Good Point... I concede...

Very cool! Welcome to the CoCo 3 club. I got one a few months ago myself and also did the 512KB memory upgrade, however mine is one of the newer upgrades, but the same process to install. I do need to get one of those SCART cables and SCART to HDMI converters. Can you add a link to the one you are using please?

Since this is an 8 bit computer, it can't probably address the 512k all at once, so it does bank switching, and these increasing numbers could be the different banks being tested.

Manic Miner is in B&W because it was originally written for the Dragon 32 (basically a Welsh clone of the Coco 1) and it’s a conversion of the Sinclair Spectrum original and needed HiRes mode to achieve the same graphics layout etc. Fun fact, the Dragon 32 version has two extra levels over the Spectrum version, although to need to play through the previous 20 levels to see them, or apply the cheat code.

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With that keyboard, silent computing is not a feature of the Color Computer 3 😆

Scart, oooh yeah;)

Enjoyed the show, as usual. Know little about any of the CoCos, although a friend of mine from my first job was an avid Dragon-32 aficionado. Was it the CoCos that used OS-9 when the had floppies fitted?

very much like us europeans....scart goes into to everything, what a slag! XD

The only Coco games I've ever played were One on One (basketball) and some maze game where a magnifying glass follows a bug around, showing an enlarged view of the maze as you move. This was when the local Radio Shack used to have systems set up and on display. The maze game was interesting, even if it was just a ripoff of Pac-Man, but the enlarged view made it harder to know where the enemies were.

wtf? you two are funny and amazing :-) 2 nerdy women, yes!

CoCoMo3!

Congratulations on being SCARTed... I think.

Adjust the screen size in the monitor to 640x480 put 2 joysticks in ..most software uses the right joystick

The MiSTer's HDMI out for its cores are EVEN CLEARER. Just sayin'.

are you generation x?

Oh, I see for this one you are having fun, unlike all the other videos. I'm amazed at your decadence though - how much memory can anyone need. 4K does for most people right, 8K if you have a realy big program. Hundreds of K is just, like, wasteful

A modern version of this expansion board goes for $49, any idea what the original Tandy brand RAM board went for in the day?