Author Archives: nowhereman999

Introducing Advanced Text Screen Scrolling Solutions for CoCo BASIC Programmers I’m excited to present a versatile tool designed specifically for BASIC programmers working with the CoCo platform. This software facilitates efficient scrolling in both the conventional 32×16 text window and … Continue reading →

Since CoCo’s don’t have dedicated hardware sprites, I started writing my own library to handle this task. So in the future I won’t have to re-write this code again and again. I recently started reverse engineering the Amiga version of … Continue reading →

I upgraded my CoCo 3 with a 2 Meg upgrade kit from Cloud9 that I picked up at CoCoFest this year. Mark Marlette makes fantastic hardware for the CoCo 3 and has been doing it forever. If you want great … Continue reading →

Back in 2017, Ed Snider released a cool video and audio player for the CoCoSDC on a CoCo 1. I thought it was wicked and at that time I remember fighting with the CoCoSDC to try and get some of … Continue reading →

Hello, I came across a website https://codegolf.stackexchange.com where people ask others to write programs in any programming language they wish and to make the program as short as possible. I thought this would be a cool 6809 programming exercise since … Continue reading →

Hello, it’s been quite awhile since my last blog post, I got tired/burnt out of working on ROBOTRON and I’ve also been doing a lot of home renovations and other life events have kept me from my CoCo hobby. I … Continue reading →

Last week on the CoCo discord assembly channel Simon Jonassen posted some code to draw and animate 128 pixels that drew a radar or fan blade type animation on the CoCo 3 screen using some very optimized 6809 assembly code. … Continue reading →

I’ve been asked for an update on the progress of Robotron and since I made some excellent progress today I thought I’d make a video and show it on YouTube. I’ve got most of the sprites converted to compiled sprites … Continue reading →