CoCoCrew Episode 38

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:42)
  • Tandy Assembly is 4 months away...
  • CoCoFEST! is ~10 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:09:28)
  • 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
    • boisy@cococrew.org
    
    
  • VCF West 2018: August 4-5, 2018
  • ACEC 2018 Vintage Computer And Video Game Swap Meet: August 25, 2018
  • VCFMW 2018: September 15-16, 2018
  • Portland Retro Gaming Expo: October 19-20, 2018
  • Chicago TI International World Faire 2018: November 10, 2018
  • Tandy Assembly 2018: November 10-11, 2018
  • World of Commodore 2018: December, 2018
  • CoCoFEST! 2019: May 4-5, 2019
• News (0:17:32)
  
  • Procedural Programming: It’s Back? It Never Went Away (Kevlin Henney)
  • Some pictures from the Dragon Meetup. (Phill Harvey-Smith)
  • CoCoVGA release 0.90 (Brendan Donahe)
  • Today, I dive into replacing the feet of a CoCo's case. (Carlos Camacho)
  • 2018/06/14 - Removed all William Barden Jr. books per author's request (TRS-80 Color Computer Archive)
  • Clear a Path (Jim Gerrie)
  • Why We Create | A look at the people who develop new games for retro video game consoles. (Jenovi @ YouTube)
  • Dragon Drive (Piotr Bugaj)
  • Arcade Game Designer (AGD) for the Coco (oss003 @ AtariAge)
  • BASIC microcomputer, based on Arduino (Andrey Skvortsov)
  • The Kolakoski Sequence in BASIC (Jim McClanahan, W4JBM)
  • So I had a few tapes of Dunjunz made up for the Cambridge meet and predictably enough I have some left over! (Ciaran Anscomb)
  • BBC releases computer history archive (www.bbc.com)
  • I've been updating and adding items to www.cocowares.com, so perhaps this is a good time to remind everyone that the site is out there. (Diego Barizo)
  • vef2png released (OS-9 image to PNG converter) (Travis Poppe)
  • A Commodore Guy's Impression of the CoCo 3 (rpiguy9907 @ AtariAge)
  • A Lightgun For LCDs – Thanks To Maths! (Lewin Day @ Hackaday)
  • ESP8266 Home Computer Hides Unexpected Gems (Kerry Scharfglass @ Hackaday)
  • In "Furious Felines 2", mice are so hungry that they will dig through the walls to get to the cheese! (Diego Barizo)
  • Massacring C Pointers (Geoff Wozniak)
  • Ladderman 2 - it's a simple platform/puzzle game with 25 levels in all. (Richard Kelly)
  • Apple II 4serjoy - Gaming through the serial port (Lukazi)
  • Brett has a great start to a Plato client for the Coco 3! (Ron Klein)
  • My Vcc project update. (Walter Zambotti)
  • Commodore 64 BASIC inside your USB Connector (Michael Steil)
  • Commodore 64 Carrier Build (CNC Project) (Ben Harris @ STEAM Junction)
  • SGEdit Remix, Version 2.2 (David Mitchell)
  • DELPHIterm Coco3 terminal program source (Rick Adams)
  • Retro Games as a Revivalist Movement (John Nelson Rose)
  • RadioShack’s comeback is taking shape (Lisa Fickenscher @ NY Post)
  • Mr.T - Be somebody or be somebody's fool (RIOT @ YouTube)
  • Gunstar Game Blog: Chapter 06 - Let there be music (Part 3) (Nick Marentes)
  • My real MX mechanical keyboard prototype is getting there, a few things to make better, and then sublimation print some keys... (Camillus Blockx)
• Feedback (1:06:02)
  • "My multi-media Coco product, The “Coco Forever" series was released in the Spring of 2018 with episodes available on http://cocoforever.gracenote.ca" -- D. Bruce Moore
  • "Finding the CoCo Crew podcast was the greatest thing ever. I’ve spent hundreds of dollars due to listening without a shadow of regret." -- Chad Johnson
• Host Discussion -- Are we CoCo reporters? Or CoCo commentators? (1:08:52)
• Tech Segment -- Project Enclosures (1:24:21)
• Neil's Corner -- Gnome Quest (1:57:48)
• Parting Thoughts (2:01:53)

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