CoCoCrew Episode 39

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:40)
  • Tandy Assembly is 2 months away...
  • CoCoFEST! is 8 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:07:41)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
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  • 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
    
    
  • RetroChallenge RC2018/09
    
    
  • 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
  • KansasFest 2019: July 15–21, 2019
• News (0:18:24)
  
  • SolChess (Jim Gerrie)
  • Meet the dev making his first DOS game -- in 2018 (Samuel Horti @ Gamasutra)
  • Boriel’s ZX-Basic Compiler (a libre and multiplatform ansi-basic cross-compiler) will be extended to 6502-based hardware (Paulo Silva)
  • Introducing BoysonTech Boomerang E2 with Guardian+ CPU protection board. (Richard Lorbieski)
  • Four slot MPI project (Ed Snider)
  • DriveWire Development - Updated (Nathan Byrd)
  • Guess who has a midi to mml converter :) (Sheldon MacDonald)
  • Tribute to Portal in development for the Commodore 64! (Alec Foster)
  • Learn 6502 Assembly (Fedor Steeman)
  • New Atari 800 Computer Handheld! (Ben Heck)
  • Incredible Atari 800XL Case Restoration (Tom Nardi @ Hackaday)
  • CoCo to Dragon (Rietveld Rietveld)
  • 280 disk ultimate SDC image for the Dragon32 (Rietveld Rietveld)
  • Loading and playing tape software from CD-R (Rietveld Rietveld)
  • Manipulating programs on a virtual Dragon disk (Rietveld Rietveld)
  • Mr. CoCo / DE10-Nano MiSTer Case (webmaster@www.cococommunity.net...Roger Taylor?)
  • So yesterday D. Bruce Moore was asking in the chat on CoCoTalk about converting midi to play back on the new MEGA mini MPI... (Ed Snider)
  • Dam Busters (Jim Gerrie)
  • A little CoCo BASIC gaming action (James Diffendaffer)
  • Reliving KansasFest 2018 (www.kansasfest.org)
  • Play Robot Odyssey – a 1984 Computer Game (Evil Mad Scientist @ AdaFruit)
  • Furious Felines 2, Save the cheese (Diego Barizo)
  • TRS-80 Color Computer Cartridge Signals (SCS, CTS, SLENB) (6809coder @ YouTube aka Michael Trevor Maydaniuk)
  • If you played Moon Patrol back in the day, check out Amphibia for the Color computer. (Ben Jimenez)
  • One Room Adventure (Jim Gerrie)
  • Lighthouse Adventure (Jim Gerrie)
  • Race Chase on the TRS-80 MC-10 (Jim Gerrie)
  • 18-year-old retro gaming ROM site EmuParadise effectively closes its doors (Cohen Coberly @ TECHSPOT)
  • This is one I've wanted to do for a long time, so I may as well design one too. (Ed Snider)
  • Teensy 2.0 code to allow for Coco keyboard to USB interface. (Ron Klein)
  • Christopher Hawk's article on his original CocoPi project some years back. (Ron Klein)
  • I have discovered a way to double buffer in BASIC on the Coco 3. (Paul Thayer)
  • OVCC project update. (Walter Zambotti)
  • Videos of/by The CoCo Crew Hosts (The CoCo Crew)
  • TRS 80 (Moletastic69)
• Feedback (1:05:06)
  • "Sometimes, carefully crafted criticism targeted at the right people can have a positive effect on projects and the community as a whole." -- Nick Marentes
  • "I think Boisy nailed it with his points in the discussion; I wholeheartedly agree with his approach." -- L. Curtis Boyle
• Host Discussion -- How much deference is due to fuzzy memories? (1:07:16)
• Tech Segment -- Using "headset" adapter with cassette port, etc (1:24:49)
• Interview -- Ron Klein (1:44:02)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Furious Felines 2 -- Save The Cheese (2:17:30)
• Parting Thoughts (2:21:04)

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