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TRS-80 CoCo and Bedlam

I'm reading Steve Wozniak's autobiography iWoz at the moment and so I've been reminiscing about my early Apple II days. Back in May 2001 when reminiscence last happened in a big way, I spent the weekend writing an Apple II emulator in Python (see ApplePy) :-)

This time, I also started reminiscing about the computer I had before the Apple II, the first generation TRS-80 Color Computer. My strongest memory of the CoCo was using the EDASM ROM cartridge to learn 6809 assembly language programming.

But I also remember playing text adventure games, like Bedlam.

With a bit of Googling, I found a CoCo emulator Java Applet that includes Bedlam. I don't think I ever got the game out as a kid. But last night I completed it in about an hour. Funny how back then it seemed like such a "big" game. In fact, it had only 25 rooms and 5 objects.

Still a lot of fun.

Comments (1)

n[ate]vw on Nov. 1, 2006:

Fun find! Reminds me of the good times I had with my dad's Apple ///, and a large array of TRS-80 computers (including the CoCo2). Unfortunately, the languages available to a kid with no allowance and no Internet were limited to BASIC, LOGO, raw machine code (I didn't get real far) and Pascal if I had the patience to swap disks a dozen times each compile.