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<\/p>\nIt is the year 2025.<\/p>\n
I am playing Mike Mayfield’s original 1972 Star Trek<\/i> game in a TRS-80 Color Computer 3 (released 1986) emulator on my Linux Mint Debian Edition machine.<\/p>\n
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I did not have a CoCo 3. I wanted a CoCo 3. I had a CoCo 2, and I loved it.<\/p>\n
My first computer was a Timex-Sinclair 1000, and around 1983 or 1984, Radio Shack did a trade-in offer, where people could trade the T-S 1000 toward a newer, better computer, the TRS-80 Color Computer 2. With a real keyboard! And color! Neither of which the T-S 1000 had.<\/p>\n
At times over the years, I’ve regretted that we got rid of the T-S 1000.<\/p>\n
I’ve had a Color Computer emulator on my Windows machines since about 1997. I had — actually, still have — T3, which emulated the CoCo 2. My Shire Reckoning plug-in for WordPress<\/a> was originally written in Extended Color Basic for the CoCo 2 in T3. I think I’ve posted the source code for it in the past. It’s not the greatest thing in the world, but it does what it needs to do. I even ported it to VBA for either Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel. Excel, I think. I’ll have to go back and look at my macros for work.<\/p>\n Recently — meaning, within the last six, eight months — I took a look at XRoar<\/a>, and I tinker with it from time to time. There’s an archive of games for the MC-10, the CoCo’s little cousin, on archive.org, and I worked out how to load a program using MC-10 emulation and extract the BASIC source code so I can then load it in the CoCo 2 or CoCo 3 emulation modes as an ASCII file.<\/p>\n Which is how I have Mayfield’s Star Trek<\/i> game, keyed in for the MC-10, running on a CoCo 3.<\/p>\n I have had a photocopy of David H. Ahl’s Super Star Trek<\/i> source code from Creative Computing<\/i>, and I always wanted to key that into the CoCo 2, but it was a long<\/i> program, and it would have been a lot<\/i> of work. I think I have that now as a text file, though I also have the really cool fan game that melds Super Star Trek<\/i> to Interplay’s 25th-Anniversary<\/i> interface<\/a>…<\/p>\n Twelve year-old me would be ecstatic in ways you cannot imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is the year 2025. I am playing Mike Mayfield’s original 1972 Star Trek game in a TRS-80 Color Computer 3 (released 1986) emulator on my Linux Mint Debian Edition machine. I did not have a CoCo 3. I wanted a CoCo 3. I had a CoCo 2, and I loved it. My first computerContinue reading “Boldly Going Where No CoCo Has Gone Before”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[5198,5199,5201,5200,4089,5197],"class_list":["post-34337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-color-computer-2","tag-color-computer-3","tag-david-ahl","tag-mike-mayfield","tag-star-trek","tag-trs-80","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}