CoCoCrew Episode 33

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:44)
  • Tandy Assembly is roughly 8 months away...
  • CoCoFEST! is only 2 months away!
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:11:07)
  • 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
    
    
  • BASIC 10 Liner Contest
    
    
  • CoCoFEST! 2018 -- Call for Vendors/Exhbitors (and Attendees too!)
  • CoCoFEST! 2018 -- Call for Presentations!
    
  • Call for Papers for the 27th Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!
    
    
  • The 27th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 21-22, 2018
  • VCF Southeast 2018: April 21-22, 2018
  • Pittsburgh Retro Gaming Expo: April 21-22, 2018
  • 4º Encontro Clube Color Rio: April 28, 2018
  • VCF East 2018: May 18-20, 2018
  • KansasFest 2018: July 16-22, 2018
• News (0:25:24)
  
  • Announcing the BoysonTech Joystick CoCo Atari Adapter (Richard Lorbieski)
  • Anyone remember the maze program...? (Boisy Pitre)
  • Make BASIC Fast Again, part 1 (Allen Huffman)
  • Make BASIC Fast Again, part 2 (Allen Huffman)
  • Make BASIC Fast Again, part 3 (Allen Huffman)
  • A new CoCoVGA FPGA release is available! (Brendan Donahe)
  • CBasic3 vs MLBasic 2 (D. Bruce Moore)
  • Forest of Doom for the MC-10 (Update) (Jim Gerrie)
  • Arcade Machine Conversion to the CoCo Overview (Glen Hewlett)
  • head games on cc3 at 60fps (Simon Jonassen)
  • Report: 80’s kids started programming at an earlier age than today’s millennials (Matthew Hughes via The Next Web)
  • Wefax Demonstration (Ron Delvaux)
  • Know Your Video Waveform (Jenny List via Hackaday)
  • Defender Conversion for the CoCo 3 – Part 4 – Two out of Three Attract Screens are converted (Glen Hewlett)
  • Defender Conversion for the CoCo 3 – Part 5 – Another cool 6809 coding trick they used (Glen Hewlett)
  • This Is What 'Super Mario' Looks Like at 380,000 Frames Per Second (Matthew Gault via Motherboard)
  • Using Lasagna to Make Cost-Saving Molds (Bryan Cockfield via Hackaday)
  • Big Trak Gets a New Brain (Al Williams via Hackaday)
  • The MOOH - Memory expansion for your Dragon (Tormod Volden)
  • Race Driver by Colin Carter (Jim Gerrie)
  • GMC Demo2 (Mike Rowen)
  • Twin Galaxies' Dragster Dispute Concludes With Banning Of Todd Rogers (Twin Galaxies Editorial Staff)
  • Solitair (MrJDiffend)
  • WiFi CoCo, using items from Amazon (Allen Huffman)
  • Alien Attack (Jim Gerrie)
  • 2018 BASIC 10-Liners Contest (Jim Gerrie)
  • Performing a simple sound tap to add an audio out jack to a CoCo2 (Ed Snider)
  • BASIC09 Control Structures (James Jones)
  • minimodem - general-purpose software audio FSK modem for GNU/Linux systems (Kamal Mustafa)
  • UI event model progress (Hugo Dufort)
  • This is how physical CoCos will be able to play along with the WiFi stuff. (Allen Huffman)
  • Telnet to RS-DOS successful (Allen Huffman)
  • Dragon 32 disk loading using Tandy COCO disk cart (JaysVintageJunk)
  • Mechacoco over on Yahoo created a KeyPoll M/L routine that allows sensing multiple keys being pressed at once. (Jim Gerrie)
  • Airstrip (Jim Gerrie)
  • I feel the need to share this text from one of the discoverer's of Retrobrite. (Javier A. Rivera)
  • The ‘King of Kong’ could be stripped of his high score (Robert LeFebvre via Engadget)
  • ICT GameJam follow-up. (With code!) (Joel Ewy)
• Feedback (1:27:51)
  • 'The Last “Coco Crew” podcast included a really annoying EAS simulation. That for a number of reasons is just stupid and not funny. Podcast good. EAS simulation is bad...
    Annoyance factor high. Especially for those that work in broadcasting. Why ruin an otherwise stellar podcast?' -- Dave Fulton
  • 'Hello Professor Moriarty, Yesterday on the drive home I was listening to the CoCoCrew podcast and your interview...was played.' -- Carlos Camacho
• Host discussion -- Do teams make better games? (1:32:01)
• Interview -- Joel Ewy (1:46:32)
• Tech Segment -- Infocom Z interpreter source code recovery (2:25:43)
• OS-9 Corner -- Introduction to modules (2:50:49)
• Neil's Corner -- Internet BBSing (2:55:21)
• Parting Thoughts (3:08:12)

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