Listen fellows...
I worked for two of the major hardware/software suppliers for the Radio Shack Color
Computers. I have 10 of them in the next room, as well as a Tano Dragon 64k.
A stock Color Computer or Color Computer 2 has no Composite output. It only has an RF
Modulator that tunes to channels 3 or 4 VHF (U.S. Models, I have no experience with other
versions).
You cannot GET a composite signal without cracking the case and soldering a few wires to a
simple circuit to clean up the signal. Several companies sold a tiny board with a few
components that provided composite video and standard audio for use with a regular
composite monitor (Mark Data Products, Dennis Bathory Kitsz, and a few others. I liked the
MDP product best as it used little spring loaded clips and was basically solderless.). You
can easily build one with parts in your junk box, or maybe $5 in parts from a local Radio
Shack.
I will track down the schematic and find a way to post it.
The next best solution is the idea of using a VHS Player to capture the RF signal and
convert it to Composite internally.
There are several Coco Emulators that one could just use on a PC and bypass the whole
thing. Jeff Vavasour's (?http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/trs80.html#coco2?) is supposed to
be one of the best.
I really like the Coco system, and I wish I had room to set one of mine up.
I co-wrote The Coco Greeting Card Designer, which was similar to the greeting card version
of Print Shop. I have the rights to sell the follow-on, The Coco Graphics Designer which
has all the different things with a Mac-like GUI frontend. I just need to make the manuals
up and duplicate the disks from my master copies.
I also have the rights to the Car Sign Designer on the IBM-PC (DOS), C-64, and Coco. I
have the disks, manuals, and car sign holders but need a working C-64 to test the disks. I
got a c64 AND 1541 in trade, but the 1541 doesn't work and I haven't fixed it
yet.
Al