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any current or former TRS-80 Color Computer owners out there? My first computer was the Color Computer 2 I bought from Radio Shack. I'd like to get another, or even better a CoCo3, so I can use OS-9 (or nitros9). I've been playing around with that in xroar emulator.

#coco #coco2 #coco3 #trs-80 #trs80 #colorcomputer #tandy #dragon32 #dragon64 #os9 #os-9 #nitros9 #xroar

having some fun relearning TRS-80 Color Computer BASIC with xroar emulator running a Color Computer 3 rom. I didn't like the default green background and found a way to switch it. I saved the commands to do that as a .bas file and load that from my xroar.conf so that it switches the palette at startup.

The basic file:

10 WIDTH 80:PALETTE 8,63:PALETTE 0,0:CLS4:NEW

This gives me a dark grey background. I could have had black with CLS1, but I like the grey.

and the line in my config file under the "machine coco3" section:

run "/path/to/colors.bas"

Just getting started again with all this after last using a Color Computer 2 in the late 80's/early 90's.

#trs-80 #trs80 #coco3 #xroar