CoCoCrew Episode 14

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:28)
  • CoCoFEST! is nine months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:07:53)
  • 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
    
    
  • 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
  • Vintage Computer Festival Europa: November 19-20, 2016
  • The 26th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST: April 22-23, 2017
• News (0:19:48)
  
  • Waldorf Astoria New York to Close for Three Years (Betsy Blumenthal)
  • Super Espectro firmware update available (Mark Marlette)
  • Found another Youtuber who plays a lot of CoCo games. Without commentary, though... (Fedor Steeman)
  • From PS4 to 1.44 MB floppy: Porting Retro City Rampage to MS-DOS (Brian Provinciano)
  • 16 Ways Tech Was Way Better in the 1980s (Avram Piltch)
  • Terminal Madness (A 1980 Documentary About Personal Computers) (Lanny Fisher)
  • Replacement plotter gears now available for Commodore 1520, Atari 1020, Tandy CGP-115, etc (Paul Rickards)
  • PopStar Pilot works! [CoCo3FPGA] (Nick Marentes)
  • Pop-star Pilot Blog -- Chapter 29 (Nick Marentes)
  • How many people, who use a NTSC CoCo3, run using a composite color monitor? (Nick Marentes)
  • 4-voice music tracker for CoCo (Simon Jonassen)
  • 1981 Radio Shack computer catalog (Chris Wild)
  • How to install the VCC Color Computer Emulator (Stevie Strowbridge)
  • Fuzix gets a bitmap viewer (Brett Gordon)
  • Getting Started with TRS-80 Color BASIC (Ron VanScherpe)
  • Atari -> Tandy joystick adapter in a D-9 shell (Jayeson Lee-Steere)
  • Turtle Graphics Basic program "terraspin.bas" converted to MC-10 (Jim Gerrie)
  • Demo of EARS voice recognition for the CoCo (Mike Rowen)
  • miniFLASH demo (Mike Rowen)
  • Smallest BASIC Computer? (Elliot Williams)
  • Trash Talk Episode 7 - CoCo Crew Crossover (Peter Cetinski & Ian Maveric)
  • Kreative Korp has now added...a complete set of CoCo fonts (John Berry)
  • Codimex copy of J&M floppy controller (Daniel Campos)
  • Prototype of 7+ button joystick (John Strong)
  • I have written a small assembly language program... (Barry Nelson)
  • Demo of CoCo Flash cartridge (hardware by Jim Brain) (Barry Nelson)
  • PacoOtaktay's Retro Corner (David Ladd)
  • xdaliclock for the Tandy/TRS-80 Color Computer (Jamie Cho)
  • Dorsett Educational Systems cassettes for TRS-80 Color Computer (Kevin Savetz)
  • Recovered video of Bomb Threat (Rick Adams)
  • Project sneak peak (Darren Atkinson)
  • An inside look at producing the COCOVGA (Ed Snider)
  • More sneak peeks (Jim Brain)
• Feedback (1:26:01)
  • "Great interview in episode 13. Enjoyed the tech segment and the review of Shanghai!" -- Mike Rowen
  • "It’s been a tradition to sell stuff at fests/trade shows cheaper from way before even Rainbowfests (Comdex, etc.). I think it helps encourage people to make it out..." -- L. Curtis Boyle
  • "Don't have to pack merchandise back home.Need to cover expenses.Don't have to pack them to the post office.Encourage people to come to the cocofest." -- John Strong
  • "Thanks for all the work you've put into the podcast and other sketchy ventures. Some of them might work out." -- Aaron Wolfe
  • "Dragon users that...bought a CoCo-SDC...are not very happy to have their disk collection doubled...and that’s why I made the upgrade in my DosPlus50 extender." -- Pere Serrat
  • "Maybe you could pre-announce what games will be covered next episode(s) so listeners could have a month to find the game and play along." -- Kevin Braun
• Host discussion -- Are paper magazines worth keeping? (1:32:04)
• Game segment -- Discussion of Follow CoCo! (1:48:05)
• Tech segment w/ Mike Rowen -- Tandy ribbons still available (2:09:05)
• Parting Thoughts (2:11:58)

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