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SockMaster's CoCo 3 and CM-8 monitor.

Due to vandalism, this Wiki is now locked to prevent automated new user signups. IF YOU WANT AN ACCOUNT SO YOU CAN EDIT PAGES, please send e-mail to wiki@cocopedia.com and let me know what you want for a username. A temporary password (which you can change) will be e-mailed to you.

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Welcome to the experimental CoCo Wiki! Help me fill this thing up with information on all things CoCo. You have to have an account to edit/create pages. If you are unfamiliar with how Wikis work, I'll have a short tutorial posted later. -- Allen

We will come up with a template format to use for the various pages. We can base it on other things that Wikipedia has done, and include a photo and table for filling in information (name, release date, system requirements, etc.). This should be fun. For now, you can just create and edit pages and put raw information there, and we'll have editors start formatting later when we figure out what the format needs to be.

Site Sections

• Articles - New articles written specifically for the CoCo Wiki.
  • Datasheets - Manufacturer's Datasheets for all sorts of Integrated Circuits.
  • FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions on CoCo topics.
  • Timeline - Color Computer historic timeline.
• Companies - Past, present, and... future?
• Conventions - Rainbowfests, Color Expos, CoCoFESTs and more.
• Emulators - The next best thing to the real thing? How to run Color Computer software on modern PCs, Macs and Linux machines. And more.
• Hardware - Disk controllers, speech paks, MIDI interfaces.
  • Color Computer 1 - Detailed information on the CoCo 1
  • Color Computer 2 - Detailed information on the CoCo 2
  • Deluxe Color Computer - Detailed information on the canceled Deluxe Color Computer
  • Color Computer 3 - Detailed information on the CoCo 3
  • CoCo Relatives - Color Computer clones, spin-offs, and descendants, such as the MM/1 and TC-9 Tomcat.
• Internet Resources - Other places to talk CoCo on the internet.
  • CoCo Links - Collection of the known CoCo related websites.
• People - Who's who (or who was) in the CoCo Community.
• Publications - Rainbow, Hot CoCo, UpTime, Color Computer, and others.
• Software - Games, utilities, and tigers. Oh my!
  • Cross Development
  • Programming - Programming Languages and Utilities.

CoCo and retro computing events

• February 17-18: Vintage Computer Festival SoCal (Southern California)
  • CoPiCo: "WiFi and More for the Tandy Color Computer." - Thomas Shanks
  • TReaSures of the 80s! Hands-on with various CoCos and a "one-of-a-kind heavily modified MC-10." - J. Rollins
• April 12-14: Vintage Computer Festival East
• May 4-5: The 32nd Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!
• June 23-25: Vintage Computer Festival Southwest
  • Speakers:
    • Boisy Pitre: "Porting OS-9 to the Foenix F256"
    • TJBChris: "The Big 8 Tandy Systems"
  • Exhibitors:
    • "TandyShowcase.com"
    • "Modern Usability Enhancements for Tandy Color Computer: USB Joystick/Keyboard for MC-10 and VGA for CoCo 1/2"
    • "OS-9 and the Foenix F256 Jr."
    • "Something Tandy"
    • "Tandy Assembly"
• September 27-29: Tandy Assembly 2024
  • Tech Track: John Strong on "Interfacing with the Color Computer"
  • Speaker: Rick Adams: "CoCo War Stories"
  • Exhibitors
    • Ian Mavric from The Right Stuff, source of the FreHD
    • Robert Hardin showing "Sounds of Tandy" with CoCo 3 DAC and the Orchestra (but is it the CoCo-specific Orchestra 90-CC?)
    • Mark Marlette from Cloud-9
    • RETRO Innovations
    • Mark Pacan with PortaCoCo
    • Paul Fiscarelli with WynDec retro computer solutions
    • Paulo Garcia from ViTNO Shop selling dust covers and showing a CP-400 (one of the Brazilian CoCo clones)
    • Michael Hill from Tech Dungeon, selling CoCo cartridge holders, Tandy-branded and Radio Shack-branded monitor shelves, and excellent Sanwa-style CoCo arcade joysticks sold at Etsy and eBay
    • Tim Halloran showing a USB-powered CoCo 3 (and Model I)
    • Brendan Donahe from CoCoVGA and Pikey-10 for the MC-10 [1], etc.
    • Elizabeth Hayes - "Pretty in Pink" (a pink CoCo?)
    • Dayton Computer Museum
  • Sponsors:
    • Boisy Pitre and others
  • and more

For more events, and info on past events, see Conventions

Special Projects

Visit the new Special Projects section. This should be used for items that do not fit in to any of the main categories.

Special Pages

• See a list of registered users so far. (Tim Lindner was the first to sign up!)
• Need to reset your password?

...let's get building!