Today for All the Adventures I have a most unusual post as a game by Kim Watt (likely from 1980) was left in a non-functional state by the author and now is fixed and playable for the first time.
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/07/12/marooned-playable-for-the-first-time/
does anyone that I’m connected to #repair old TRS-80 Color Computers (or is connected to anyone who does) & is based even vaguely anywhere near #Canberra? (or within plausible shipping distance)
I wish to exchange $$ for goods & services to put the #MagicBlueSmoke back into my beloved old #CoCo1… 
#boost4reach pls 
#RetroComputing
#RetroGaming
#TRS80
#TRS80CoCo
#ColorComputer
#Tandy
#TandyCoCo
Hacky Shack? The TRS-80 Model I Story - The 1970s saw a veritable goldrush to corner the home computer market, with Tandy’... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/08/hacky-shack-the-trs-80-model-i-story/ #retrocomputing #trs-80 #tandy
What do you *kids* remember?
#GoodMorning #Bonjour It's #ThrowbackThursday
Remember when AOL sent everyone a free Beer Coaster?
#TBT Red Storm Rising #Gaming #MicroProse #Tandy
Did you ever brag about owning a Tandy? 
Quelque part dans la #silicium collection, une tranche de vie :
"il est beau mon pong #tandy #Scoreboard 60-3060 de 1978 !"
"Mais mossieur, ce n'est pas un #pong, c'est un talkie-walkie !"
"Mais oui, suis-je bête ! Over !"
Desperately seeking suggestions for the best Solitaire or Mahjongg games on all retro systems. Preferably with screenshots.
LOGO still gets regular use at home on my #Tandy #ColorComputer workstations For serious stuff is DL Logo (under Microware's OS9) and for quick tests the Tandy offerings as ROM packs. An elegant language IMHO 
Succes! After replacing the faulty video memory chip, there is no more corruption on the screen.
Next up: to inspect the expension interface box and disk drives and hook them up.
Text adventures have long been associated with contests. But: before IFComp (still ongoing since 1995), and before the AGT contest (89-93), there was the Rainbow Book of Adventures.
I give a little detail about the start of the contest, and the tutorial game meant to assist authors in making their first adventure game.
Right, thanks to the Hakko, the faulty video memory chip is out, only to discover I am out of DIP-16 sockets...
I miss the original #Qbert game. Me & my brothers loved playing it together. I was really good at Qbert.
What were some of your fave video games from the #1980s ?
I loved #SegaGenesis & classic #Nintendo consoles. I had #ColecoVision, #Atari & old #RadioShack #Tandy computer games too.
New blog post! FujiNet is available on more platforms than ever before. I built the in-development CoCo1 version and tried out some of its cool new features! I'm lying, I mostly just played internet-multiplayer Yahtzee. #retrocomputing #tandy #esp32 #fujinet
Look what finally arrived in the mail! A bunch of (supposedly) 2102 1kbit SRAM chips for the TRS-80. I can finally replace that faulty video RAM chip and continue testing the expander and disk drives.
In case anyone was wondering, went with the Hakko FR-301 for #desoldering - not prohibitively expensive, portable. Here it is next to the #TRS80 model 1 mainboard, ready to be tested. I'm gonna have to wait for the replacement video chips I just ordered on ebay before I get to try it out. Let's hope I'll be getting actual genuine 2102 SRAM chips. Ordered from #Poland, not #China, so fingers crossed.
It blows my mind to think about how many hours of my life were spent with this combo right here.
The Tandy deluxe joystick internals. In case you're into that sort of thing.
