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ANSI art and webcomics, Part 1: Filling in the blanks

December 24, 2025 Break Into Chat

This is the first part of a multi-part series. Does ANSI art have a place in the history of webcomics? One of the first chroniclers of webcomics history thought so. In the first chapter of his 2006 book, “A History of Webcomics,” T Campbell tackled the “prehistory” of webcomics by …

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Did you ever register CoCo software?

December 15, 2025 Sub-Etha Software

In a Discord discussion with Wayne Campbell, the topic of software registrations came up. Did you ever register any CoCo stuff? Here is the one we sent out with our stuff… /) Sub-Etha Software Registration/Information Sheet ( Information aquired from this questionaire will be used for product registration, free …

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CoCo Disk BASIC disk structure – part 4

December 8, 2025 Sub-Etha Software

I did a thing. I wrote a BASIC program which will create 68 files named “0.TXT” to “67.TXT”. Each file is 2304 bytes so it takes up a full granule. (That is not really important. It just helps makes things obvious if you look at the disk with a hex …

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DS-69 digitizer revisited

December 4, 2025 Sub-Etha Software

The Micro Works Digisector DS-69 / DS-68B digitizers were really cool tech in the 1980s. Looking back, I got to play with video digitizers, the Super Voice speech synthesizer that could “sing”, and even the E.A.R.S. “electronic audio recognition system” for voice commands. All of this on my Radio Shack …

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CoCo Disk BASIC disk structure – part 3

December 1, 2025 Sub-Etha Software

See also: part 1, part 2 and part 3. A correction, and discovering the order RS-DOS writes things… A correction from part 2… This example program had “BIN” and “ASC” mixed up. 0 should represent BINary files, and 255 for ASCii files. I fixed it in line 920. (I will …

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Do you want to build a snow flake? Logiker 2025!

December 1, 2025 Sub-Etha Software

The 2025 edition of the Logiker programming challenge has been announced via a YouTube video: [embed]https://youtube.com/watch?v=OBVdrbAlULw&feature=oembed[/embed] This year’s pattern is a snowflake, and I am very curious to see the approaches people come up with in BASIC to do this. I have some ideas, but none …