CoCoCrew Episode 13

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:10)
  • CoCoFEST! is ten months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:12:43)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play
  • Member of The Throwback Network
  • Listed on the Game-by-Game Podcast Information Hub
  • Hosted at Cyber Ears
  • Email addresses
    • show@cococrew.org
    • podcast@cococrew.org
    • feedback@cococrew.org
    
    
    • john@cococrew.org
    • neil@cococrew.org
    
    
  • KansasFest 2016: July 19-24, 2016
  • Atari Party 2016: July 30, 2016
  • Vintage Computer Festival West XI: August 6-7, 2016
  • Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 11: September 10-11, 2016
  • Portland Retro Gaming Expo: October 21-23, 2016
  • The 26th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST: April 22-23, 2017
• News (0:22:42)
  
  • The Video Game Homebrew Crash of 2016 (Andrew Davie)
  • The long legacy of the floppy disk (BBC News)
  • An update on the TRSticks Tandy joystick to USB Adapter (Jayeson Lee-Steere)
  • Coco used for audiology - hearing testing (Jim Cox)
  • Return to ROM (Jon Day)
  • Atari 800 XL in your pocket (Nir Dary)
  • Bouncy Ball 2 progress report (Lee Patterson)
  • COCOVGA CPU upgrade board (Ed Snider)
  • Writing a Game in Assembly for an Old Computer Taught Me Lessons Relevant Today (Matt Lacey)
  • Sega Lets Modders Get Freaky With Its Classic Games (Nathan Grayson)
  • Computer scientists quantify just how hard Super Mario Bros. is (George Janczuk)
  • Cocovid player LIVES! (Ron Klein)
  • COCOVGA lowercase support (Brendan Donahe)
  • Latest Development Blog Chapter for Pop*Star Pilot (Nick Marentes)
  • DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (Rogelio Perea)
  • Apple-1 sold for $60,300 (eBay)
  • DosPlus5.0Extender now creates true VDK files (Pere Serrat)
  • Orchestra90 converted to Dragon 64 (Pere Serrat)
  • Retro Tinker: SEGA Genesis Joypad Adapter for CoCo3 (John Linville)
  • USB-C and Lightning headphones aren't great news for everyone (Thom Holwerda)
  • The Story of Tandy – 10 years after the TRS-80 Model 1 (Paulo Garcia)
  • Doing Linux Sysadmin Tasks From Your 8-Bitter (Chris Osborn)
  • TRS-80 Color Computer Diecom Light Gun interface (eBay)
  • Kong Island (Steve Bamford)
  • IP packets on my coco (Brett Gordon)
• Feedback (1:16:01)
  • "I listened to your podcast while reorganizing my CoCo stuff." -- Mike Rowen
  • "I especially enjoyed Tim Lindner's inventive Speech/Sound Pak segment." -- Steve Bamford
  • "Are there any plug and play printers for the Color Computer that we can readily get supplies for?" -- Mahlon Garis
• Interview -- Wes Kussmaul (1:20:05)
• Host discussion -- Should there be special deals available to CoCoFEST! attendees? (2:23:02)
• Tech segment -- SEGA Joypad Adapter for CoCo3 (2:34:40)
• Games Corner -- Shanghai (2:55:05)
• Parting Thoughts (2:57:55)

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