The Latest Hardware Revival

Putting away my Tandy Color Computer 3 after playing some games on “real hardware” didn’t quite deflect my attention back to other “old computers” with more elegant (Macintosh) emulators. I glanced again through the most impressive archive of Color Computer disk images I know of, and this time I noticed a “GIF Viewer.” That got my mind moving. As with most of the other computers of its time, I know the “CoCo 3” had its own unique image formats, but it had been on sale in Radio Shack stores when the GIF format had been introduced on CompuServe (and getting the viewer running in an emulator revealed a startup screen dated to then rather than “later,” with what I recognized as an ID number from that online service.) The format might now most bring to mind quick-and-dirty silent animations (and winking debates about “soft G or hard G?”), but the possibility of “linking then and now” did seem there.
( Links in the chain )