CoCoCrew Episode 27

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:19)
  • CoCoFEST! is 8 months away...
  • Tandy Assembly is only ~1 month away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:12:09)
  • 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
    
    
  • VCF MidWest 12: September 9-10, 2017
  • ATARI Party East 2017: September 9, 2017
  • Tandy Assembly: October 7-8, 2017
  • Freeplay Florida 2017: November 17-19, 2017
  • World of Commodore: December 2-3, 2017
  • VCF Pacific-Northwest: February 10-11, 2018
  • The 27th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 21-22, 2018
  • KansasFest 2018: July 16-22, 2018
• News (0:28:17)
  
  • Caves of the Unwashed Heathen Map Maker (Jim Gerrie)
  • Flash Carts Could Be Slowly Killing Your Retro Consoles (Damien McFerran)
  • Shanghai source available for download (Rick Adams)
  • Black CoCo joystick button replacement (Carlos Camacho)
  • Want to try 2 layer flex PCB? (OSHPark)
  • Save The Machine Preservation Group (fire) (Facebook)
  • Update Android loader for Dragon (v101-220717) (Chris Poacher)
  • The Search For Sherlock Holmes (Jim Gerrie)
  • Pharaoh's Curse (Jim Gerrie)
  • The Pixel Art Tutorial (Pixel Joint Forum)
  • 3d-printed option ROM carriers (for Model 100) (Brian White)
  • Radio Shack Brand Will Reportedly Live On (TWICE Staff)
  • Gunstar Development Blog - Chapter 4 is up (Nick Marentes)
  • Colour movies with audio on the CoCo 1, using the artifact colours (Glen Hewlett)
  • Rainboard BBS running on emulated CoCo2 (Robert Allen Murphey)
  • Grasp Prolog Programming with Free Books (OSSBlog)
  • The Sound Illusion That Helps Make the Movie Dunkirk So Intense (Adafruit)
  • Game Collecting: When is Enough Enough? (Andrew Park)
  • Java ported to Commodore 64 (Allen Huffman)
  • MAME FDC Issue that can cause corruption (David Ladd)
  • The "Coleco Expo" was a complete train wreck... (Colecovision Fan)
  • The future of CoCoTALK! (Steve Strowbridge)
  • Orchestra 90 for Dragon works on an MPI (Pere Serrat)
  • EmuDisk rebuild now supports JVC, VDK, DMK, OS9 (raw), and VHD images; RSDOS, OS9, DragonDos formats (Walter Zydhek)
  • Maps for each level of Madness and the Minotaur (Stephen St. John)
  • Rotating 3D wireframe graphics (Simon Jonassen)
  • Prosecutors: 6 charged with making fake Pac-Man games in Santa Clara (San Franciso Chronicle)
  • PHP script that reads a PNG image pixel by pixel and generates Atari Basic code (John Von Neumann)
  • CMOC C-like compiler now supports float under Color Basic (Pierre Sarrazin)
  • PBJ WordPak...special mission: to make a clone available to anyone. (Felipe Antoniosi)
  • Physical floppies to SDC copy glitch (Darren Atkinson)
• Feedback (1:41:59)
  • "If Machine Code is seen as a stumbling block then don't do it. If Machine Code is seen as a foundation to build on then do it." -- John Mark Mobley
  • "John talks about returning 30+ years later to code we tried to do as kids and finally making it work. That is exactly what my Forest of Doom game is all about." -- D. Bruce Moore
  • "Re: Self modifying code - you are absolutely correct that is most often (always?) used to speed up code...It is more complex to follow, though, if you aren't fully aware of which parts of the code you are self-modifying." -- L. Curtis Boyle
• Host discussion -- Value of Hitachi 63x09 in CoCo 1/2 or Dragon (1:49:50)
• Interview -- Glen Hewlett (2:00:41)
• Tech Segment -- Load/run BASIC programs from ROM cartridge! (2:49:49)
• Host discussion -- Are museums the best place for vintage machines? (3:13:10)
• Neil's Corner -- Pac Man Transcode (3:23:08)
• Parting Thoughts (3:29:14)

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