#colorcomputer

The Radio Shack Color Computer was sort of a follow-up to the original TRS-80. It was designed more as a home computer to compete with the likes of the VIC-20 and Apple II originally. As the years went

Cover of the January 1984 issue of Color Computer Magazine The TRS-80 Color Computer seemed like the black sheep of the 8-bit world. School’s mostly used Apple IIs, Commodore produced the most successful

Cover of the November 1983 issue of Color Computer Magazine The Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer, also known as the Tandy Color Computer or the Coco was a series of mostly compatible home computers produced

Time Bandit is an interesting game and probably one that most people have never heard of. The most well known versions of the game were the Atari ST and Amiga versions released in 1985 and 1989 respectively.

The TRS-80 Color Computer always seemed like it was in its own isolated ecosystem with little coverage by multi-format magazines. However, it had a very long life and there were a couple of magazines that

While many games released for the TRS-80 Color Computer were mediocre and derivative, if not direct rip-offs of more popular games, Dungeons of Daggorath is an exception. This early role-playing game was

Radio Shack had a confusing array of similarly named, incompatible computers. The Color Computer was probably the most successful. There were a wide variety of games released for the Color Computer though

Despite nearly matching the longevity of the Commodore 64, Tandy's Color Computer line never really had the third party software support that the Commodore 64 and other 8-bit computers of the time had.

This ad, circa 1985, is for a game called Barbarossa for the TRS-80 Color Computer. This is a turn-based strategy game that covers the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. This game

Before modern CPUs and graphics cards, Radio Shack probably had the most confusing computer related names. Everything early on was a TRS-80 regardless of what it was compatible with. They started with

This is a good example of how ads would appear in magazines from smaller software developers in the early to mid 1980s. Above are three ads for the same game, Air Traffic Controller, all from 1985, from

Radio Shack's Color Computer never seemed to have as much third party support as the other major 8-bit computers of the day. I'm not sure exactly why since Radio Shack supported it for a very long time.

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The Color Computer eventually dropped the TRS-80 designation and computers in that line became to be colloquially known as the CoCo, CoCo 2 and CoCo 3. Here we have an ad for the original TRS-80 Color

There was a time when disk drives of any kind were a luxury item for computer owners. Many early home computer owners used cassettes to store and load data. In 1984 when this particular ad came out, the

Source: The above ad by Spectral Associates, a retailer for Color Computer upgrades, accessories and software, is from 1982. There were three Color Computer models throughout the year but in 1982 when

The Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer, also known as the Tandy Color Computer or simply the Coco was a line of home computers produced from 1980 until 1991. There weren't very many magazines that covered