Mickey's Alpine Adventure - TRS-80 Color Computer Educational Software
9Recently I was gifted a Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer (Model 1) from a friend. The system came with a few cartridges and one program on cassette tape, Mickey's Alpine Adventure. This program has no direct hardware capture on YouTube, so I decided to try and run it.
The tape has a program on each side, Short Vowels one side and Long Vowels on the other. I have not cut out loading times or noises so you can get as full a period-accurate an experience as possible.
The cassette deck is a Radio Shack CTR-121. This deck is not exactly contemporary with any CoCo but it has everything the CoCo needs to load programs. These programs need the REM(ote) jack connected because it starts and stops the tape during the quiz sections.
To run this program it is important to type the initial command CLOADM, not CLOAD, or you will get an error message. This program is loading machine language code, not BASIC language code. When the program finishes its initial load, you type in EXEC
My CoCo 1 has no composite mod installed, so I had to capture this from its RF output using my VCR as a demodulator.
All audio is coming from the cassette, which the CoCo can redirect to the RF modulator. The audio interleaves data and prerecorded audio on its tracks. What you are missing in the audio department is the frequent clicking of the relay inside the CoCo.
A person of appropriate age answered all but one of the questions in the Long Vowel section.
Timestamps to bypass the initial cassette loads:
01:12 - Short Vowels
21:38 - Long Vowels