CoCoCrew Episode 23

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:42)
  • CoCoFEST! is here!
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:08:43)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and tunein.
  • Member of The Throwback Network
  • 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
    
    
  • 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
• News (0:23:23)
  
  • RIP Glen Van den Biggelaar (Facebook)
  • Getting Started with the Uzebox Video Game Console (part 1) (Matt Pandina)
  • Getting Started with the Uzebox Video Game Console (part 2) (Matt Pandina)
  • Usborne Release More 1980s Computer Books (Jenny List @ Hackaday)
  • Secret colours of the Commodore 64 (Aaron Bell)
  • Caves of the Unwashed Heathen for the TRS-80 MC-10 (Jim Gerrie)
  • Caves Update (Jim Gerrie)
  • Doing It With Fewer Bytes Than Bill Gates (Jenny List @ Hackaday)
  • Photos of CP-450 Caretaker (Victor Trucco)
  • ATARI 8bit with Rapidus & U1MB running ZX Spectrum Games (Nir Dary)
  • How to Make ‘Pew! Pew!’ Laser Sounds with a Synth (Myles Avery)
  • Basic Image Editing With GIMP In Linux (Unknown @ linuxandubuntu.com)
  • 2017/03/27 - Updated the site with a new darker theme (Guillaume Major)
  • Starting assembling my RE-FD502 kit (Gregory Mcgill)
  • Zilog z80 to Motorola 6809 Transcode – Part 020 – Sound ideas (Glen Hewlett)
  • "Tetrapak" is a Tetris clone for the Tandy Color Computer, and it works on all three of the CoCos. (Richard Kelly)
• Feedback (0:56:53)
  • "I've always pronounced it Ni-tros-nine and haven't ever really heard Ni-Tro-Es-Nine before." -- Michael Furman
  • "Oh, and you folks missed a neat little program I did that recreates the classic hand held football game from the late 70s. (https://youtu.be/XPTTn9Lpjtw)" -- Jim Gerrie
  • "Concerning the documentary on the arcade game Nibbler - we have a Coco clone of it (from Tom Mix Software’s 'cheap' division, Novasoft) called 'Buzzworm'. There is another game called 'Rat Attack' from T&D Software that is loosely based on it as well." -- L. Curtis Boyle
• Host discussion -- VCF East, CoCoFEST!, machine learning, etc. (1:05:38)
• Tech Segment -- Game coding vs design (1:47:53)
• The CoCo Group (2:04:16)
• CoCoFEST! Thoughts (2:10:08)
• Parting Thoughts (2:18:45)

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