The CoCo Nation

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 305, March 18 2023 Collected by L. Curtis Boyle Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform) 1) La Coco Strangiato put up a video building an external drivebay to connect both a Gotek and a 3.5″ floppy drive to his Coco 3(it also has a demo of his Color Fog program):https://youtu.be/Aa4BXwQKIzE…

Collected by L. Curtis Boyle Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)——————————-1) Allen Huffman dig a blog post deep diving into how tokenized lines arestored in BASIC and how much memory they take. He even includes a BASICsubroutine that can report on the BASIC program it is merged with. Thereis also a sequel blog hinted at at the…

Collected by L. Curtis Boyle Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)——————————-1) TRS-80 Retro Programming posted the second part of his Base 10 to Base 5,based on comments and source supplied by a viewer that was done for CommodoreBASIC:https://youtu.be/fT9da7lBSfAHe also posted an update to his much faster version of Tales of Suburbia, whichalso includes improved graphics:https://youtu.be/s3I0RFVaOFIAnd a further updated…