CoCoCrew Episode 18

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:29)
  • CoCoFEST! is five months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:08:44)
  • 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
    • mike@cococrew.org
    
    
  • World of Commodore 2016: December 3-4, 2016
  • VCF East XII: March 31 - April 2, 2017 (No more tent!)
  • The 26th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST: April 22-23, 2017
  • Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo 2017: June 9-11, 2017
  • KansasFest 2017: July 18-23, 2017
  • Coleco Expo: August 5-6, 2017
    
    
  • CoCoFEST! 2017 promos (Mike Rowen)
• News (0:25:02)
  
  • Pop*Star Pilot Development Blog #34 -- Dispatch! (Nick Marentes)
  • The CoCo 3-D Rat Maze! (Richard Kelly)
  • The German Tank Problem and estimating the number of color computers made (John Guin)
  • Testing a DREM hard drive emulator on the Tandy 6000 restoration. (TRS-80 Trash Talk)
  • This Guy Built the 8-Bit Game He Dreamed of as a Kid, and It’s Glorious (Los Angeles Magazine)
  • New mini-MPI boards are FINALLY under way... (Ed Snider)
  • FORTH in Model 100 BASIC update (Ron Hale-Evans)
  • TRS-80 Coco FD502 disk controller repro (Ian Maveric)
  • 64 col clarification (Robert Hermanek)
  • So, thinking of a sound cart for the CoCo1/2/3 to possibly go along with some of the stuff that Simon is developing... (Ed Snider)
  • Demo of multi-voice audio player (Simon Jonassen)
  • Floating-point arithmetic from a CMOC program (Pierre Sarrazin)
  • 1979 Computer Chess Tournament (Lloyd Alexandre)
  • Podcast player for CoCo2/3 (Brett Gordon)
  • CoCo MIDI case now available for ordering! (John Strong)
  • Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System (IEEE Spectrum)
  • 7 classic arcade games that can still teach developers lessons today (Gamasutra)
  • Want to Make a PCB? The Pantum Knows... (Al Williams, Hackaday)
  • Killing time by playing blackbeard on my blackberry passport (Joe Joe)
  • 80x24 "WordPak" on dragon-nx32 (Tormod Volden)
  • 32-bit Easter Eggs – BASIC hidden in the ESP32 processor (Vintage Is The New Old)
  • Is there any sort of project going on relating to creating some sort of GUI for the coco SDC? (Dave Regan)
  • Coco SDC Explorer 0.21 (Guillaume Major)
  • Case for Glenside IDE controller (John Strong)
  • Joe Grubbs injured in hit and run accident (bike vs. car) (WRAL TV)
  • Raleigh cyclist injured in hit-and-run ‘unbelievably grateful’ to be alive (WNCN TV)
  • Another monumental thing in my life. I have survived another challenge. (Ron Delvaux)
  • Port of Valley from Grundy Newbrain (Jim Gerrie)
  • Checkout the Newbrain User Group (Colin Appleby)
  • A video dedicated to the CoCo Crew Podcast and community at large (Steve Strowbridge)
  • Unboxing and first power on of Tandy TRS-80 MC-10 European edition. (Bart van den Akker)
  • Color4th ? (Stephen Pereira)
  • CocoFPGA in the NitrOS9 Repository (Bill Pierce)
  • Old Days (XKCD)
  • MC-10 Composite Video (and sound) RF modulator replacements (Ed Snider)
  • gcc-explorer with gcc6809 and CMOC (Tormod Volden)
  • Who is the main preservationist on the scene? (Asger Bonnevie)
  • Why the pricing for CoCo 1 and MC10 going for $300?! Are Iranian agents buying them again? (Carlos Camacho)
  • Compromising a Linux desktop using... 6502 processor opcodes on the NES?! (Chris Evans / scarybeasts)
  • CocoFLASH Sale URL (Jim Brain)
  • CocoFLASH technical documentation (Jim Brain)
  • New joystick for Commodore & Atari (Felipe Antoniosi)
  • R.I.P. to the Joomla version of the Tandy CoCo website. (Brian Blake)
• Feedback (1:56:33)
  • "Brett's link to my DoD disassembly in the show notes isn't quite correct. The proper link should be: http://dod.projects.l-w.ca/ The 'hg' link there is the unmodified DoD disassembly. The 'hg-lw' link is the extended version. Both are 'hg' repositories." -- William Astle
  • "Episode 17 was fantastic! I am also excited that things are moving forward with the fest in Ohio. Much closer to Virginia than Illinois. Keep up the great work." -- William Carlin
• Host discussion -- Why can't we just dump every game onto a cartridge? (2:03:51)
• Tech Segment -- PCLEAR/PMODE/SCREEN/COLOR/etc explained (2:14:46)
• Interview w/ Simon Jonassen (2:37:09)
• Games Corner -- Pop*Star Pilot review by Mark McDougall (3:24:10)
• Parting Thoughts (3:32:29)

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