CoCoCrew Episode 22

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:11)
  • CoCoFEST! is one month away!
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:16:12)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and tunein.
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  • Listed on the Game-by-Game Podcast Information Hub
  • Show audio hosted at Cyber Ears
  • Email addresses
    
    
    • show@cococrew.org
    • podcast@cococrew.org
    • feedback@cococrew.org
    
    
    • john@cococrew.org
    • neil@cococrew.org
    • mike@cococrew.org
    
    
  • VCF East XII: March 31 - April 2, 2017
  • Midwest Gaming Classic: April 7-9, 2017
  • The 26th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST: April 22-23, 2017
  • VCF SouthEast 5.0: April 29-30, 2017
  • 3º Encontro Clube Color Rio: April 29, 2017
  • Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo 2017: June 9-11, 2017
  • KansasFest 2017: July 18-23, 2017
  • Commodore Vegas Expo v13.0: July 29-30, 2017
  • Coleco Expo: August 5-6, 2017
  • VCF West XII: August 5-6, 2017
    
    
  • CoCoFEST! 2017 promos (Mike Rowen)
• News (0:46:03)
  
  • CoCo Cross Development, part 2 (Allen Huffman)
  • CoCo Cross Development, part 3 (Allen Huffman)
  • *ALL RAM*, the cassette-based BBS from 1983. (Allen Huffman)
  • Maximum Memory in Color BASIC (Allen Huffman)
  • Interfacing assembly with BASIC via DEFUSR, part 5 (Allen Huffman)
  • Interfacing assembly with BASIC via DEFUSR, part 6 (Allen Huffman)
  • Optmizing Color BASIC, part 4 (Allen Huffman)
  • Optmizing Color BASIC, part 5 (Allen Huffman)
  • Optmizing Color BASIC, part 6 (Allen Huffman)
  • Optmizing Color BASIC, part 7 (Allen Huffman)
  • Optmizing Color BASIC, part 8 (Allen Huffman)
  • Optmizing Color BASIC, part 9 (Allen Huffman)
  • An effect of PAL versus NTSC… (Allen Huffman)
  • Building a Better BASIC Input (Allen Huffman)
  • Building a Better BASIC Input, revisited (Allen Huffman)
  • Color BASIC String Theory, part 1 (Allen Huffman)
  • Color BASIC String Theory, part 2 (Allen Huffman)
  • Introducing the Sir Sound CoCo Sound Card (Allen Huffman)
  • Sir Sound prototype, version 2. (Allen Huffman)
  • Watch 'Doom' Run on a TI-83 Graphing Calculator (Samantha Cole @ Motherboard)
  • The secret upgrade: How expansion chips in video game cartridges pushed performance (Benj Edwards @ PC World)
  • Great designs on our retro swap shop (Steve Strowbridge)
  • The first generation of CDs is already rotting and dying (Peter Kirn @ CDM)
  • Classic Tools Retrospective: John Romero talks about creating TEd, the tile editor that shipped over 30 games (David Lightbown @ Gamasutra)
  • Roulette from VZ200/300 (Jim Gerrie)
  • Another game (checkers) from the VZ200 (Jim Gerrie)
  • The Quest VZ (Jim Gerrie)
  • Coloroid (Jim Gerrie)
  • Curse of the Undead (Jim Gerrie)
  • Skid Row Adventure for MC 10 (Jim Gerrie)
  • Sokoban (Jim Gerrie)
  • Solo Poker (Jim Gerrie)
  • Solo Poker Update (Jim Gerrie)
  • Music player -- 4 voices with 50% cpu free (Simon Jonassen)
  • Understanding DMA (Al Williams @ Hackaday)
  • An Old 68000 SBC is New Again (Al Williams @ Hackaday)
  • BootPak is a partition browser for the MicroSD DrivePak (Guillaume Major)
  • RadioShack's Successor Preparing to File for Bankruptcy, Sources Say (Lauren Coleman-Lochner , Jodi Xu Klein , and Scott Moritz @ Bloomberg)
  • Video capturing vintage RF systems (Steve Strowbridge)
  • Handy idea for desoldering chips (Tim Fadden)
  • Glenside CoCo~123 Newsletter - Winter 2016 issue (John Mark Mobley)
  • Donkey Kong's failing liver: What the death of the CRT display technology means for classic arcade machines (Jeff Grubb @ VentureBeat)
  • Experiments With Your Computer [Quick Flick] (Nostalgia Nerd)
  • My Other Computer is a TRS-80 (Thomas E. Smith)
  • A postmortem look at the making of The Oregon Trail (Don Rawitsch)
  • CoCoVGA mode demo (Brendan Donahe)
  • The making of a game for the Dragon computers or yet another way to burn a load of time... (Stewart Orchard)
  • Teaching a Machine to Regurgitate (Boisy Pitre)
  • Baffle Bees (Hugo Dufort)
  • RC2017/04 Open for Entrants! (John W. Linville)
  • CoCo3 prototypes shipped to Erik Gavriluk (no boot ROMs, lots of "flying wires", some chips with pins out of socket and wires soldered to them) (Mark Marlette)
• Feedback (1:50:29)
  • "Chris did have some software that allowed you to use the B&B XT adaptor to work with things other than hard drives. He showed it working with a Logitech hand scanner at some of the Rainbowfests back in the late 1980’s/early 1990’s." -- L. Curtis Boyle
  • "I have a VIRGIN with RS-STICKER COCO 3, should I do the upgrade to this system or purchase another COCO3 and keep this one 'VIRGIN'?" -- Karl Von Winkle
• Host discussion -- when does copying a project cross the line? (1:56:41)
• Interview w/ Darren Grant (2:09:54)
• Games Corner -- Predator (3:01:36)
• Parting Thoughts (3:03:26)

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