CoCoCrew Episode 30

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:20)
  • Tandy Assembly is roughly 11 months away...
  • CoCoFEST! is only 5 months away!
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:09:55)
  • 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
    
    
  • Freeplay Florida 2017: November 17-19, 2017
  • World of Commodore: December 9-10, 2017
  • VCF Pacific-Northwest: February 10-11, 2018
  • Playthrough Gaming Convention 2018: February 17-18, 2018
  • The 27th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 21-22, 2018
  • KansasFest 2018: July 16-22, 2018
• News (0:23:03)
  
  • Binary Room for the MC 10 (Jim Gerrie)
  • MC-Clue (Jim Gerrie)
  • Dante's Run (Xevious-like game in Basic) (Jim Gerrie)
  • Making Belts With a 3D Printer (Chris Osborn)
  • New Game for the Dragon: TIBURON (SHARK) (Pere Serrat)
  • new Game for the Coco/Dragon: SHARK (Pere Serrat)
  • 6809 Microprocessor Kit (Wichit Sirichote)
  • CMOC C-like compiler now supports modular compilation and linking (Pierre Sarrazin)
  • RetroChallenge 2017/10: Gotcha (Jim Gerrie)
  • cocoflash Mass Flasher software suite (My Email)
  • Loss of Hewlett-Packard Archive a Wake-Up Call for Computer Historians (Tekla S. Perry / IEEE Spectrum)
  • America is running out of cassette tape (theweek.com)
  • Gold Hunt (Jim Gerrie)
  • Gold Hunt Update (Jim Gerrie)
  • 83,797 MIDI Files.......... (Joe Schutts)
  • CoCoTALK #32 - Forest of Doom Launch Party (D. Bruce Moore, etc.)
  • Congratulations to Paul Fiscarelli for being the first to complete the Forest of Doom! (D. Bruce Moore)
  • Timber Man is ready for preorder. (Paul Thayer)
  • Coco SDC Explorer 0.40 is now available! (Guillaume Major)
  • Baccarat (Jim Gerrie)
• Feedback (1:01:27)
  • "What would you recommend, in late 2017, for someone 100% new to the CoCo, as 'starter gear'? Should someone like me go nuts and go straight for a CoCo 3, or is a later 2 good enough? Are the first models still usable? There are a lot of modern peripherals available now. Should someone look for a flash memory based storage device, or go for and old disk drive or tape drive for that 'original feel?' My own personal interests are learning retro programming and possibly electronics tinkering, perhaps coming up with new peripherals if I learn enough." -- Robert Alpizar
• Host discussion -- How much effort to put into game packaging and "extras"? (1:08:11)
• Interview -- Brian Moriarty (1:25:25)
• Tech Segment -- Using Infocom Z-interpreter with Inform on CoCo (2:14:33)
• Neil's Corner -- Mr. Rietveld reviews of Sea Stalker; Neil reviews Forest of Doom (2:45:16)
• Parting Thoughts (2:51:30)

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