CoCoCrew Episode 40

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:19)
  • Tandy Assembly is 1 month away...
  • CoCoFEST! is 7 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:11:44)
  • 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
    • ron@cococrew.org
    
    
  • 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 1-2, 2018
  • CoCoFEST! 2019: May 4-5, 2019
  • KansasFest 2019: July 15–21, 2019
• News (0:21:09)
  
  • Color Photos from a Black and White Camera (The 8-Bit Guy)
  • Torpedo Attack for MCX on the MC-10 (Jim Gerrie)
  • Python Resurrects Dot Matrix Printing (Al Williams @ Hackaday)
  • I have discovered a way to double buffer in BASIC on the Coco 3. (Paul Thayer)
  • Source Code for the Furby Toy from 1998 (Adafruit)
  • Vectrex Programming with Forth - Part 1 (Phillip Eaton)
  • Booting DW from floppy and Moving files between DW and the SDC (Rietveld Rietveld)
  • Do you find yourself drifting away from the scene? (Keatah @ AtariAge)
  • Biorhythm (Jim Gerrie)
  • MC-10 Emulator in JavaScript (Jim Gerrie)
  • Today I "officially" started my Tandy R&D memoir FB Group 'Mostly True Tales'. (Paul T. Schreiber)
  • 1986: Fred Harris went behind the scenes at Infocom (BBC Archive)
  • I created a little tool which has helped me repair two 8-bit "machines" so far - one Z80 and one 6502. (Frank Palazzolo)
  • We used EARS for our senior engineering project back in 1989 to have a locked door open only with voice recognition. (Mike Guzzi)
  • FORTH BOOKS (Peter Forth @ YouTube)
  • Learning BASIC Like It's 1983 (Sinclair Target)
  • MPI PAL upgrade (Ed Snider)
  • Here is an incomplete prototype for the initial screen. (Hugo Dufort)
  • Awari (Jim Gerrie)
  • Is the 6809 is flawed? (Dave Philipsen)
  • Alan Cox (of Linux fame) is porting PLATOTerm to FUZIX, and has it working quite well, already... Amazing! (IRATA Online @ Facebook)
  • I packaged the CM3, MGE, VEF and HRS image converters by Mathieu L Bouchard and Travis Poppe into a single Python package that you can download from GitHub. (Jamie Cho)
  • Here is a folder containing my 8 coco decoders written in Ruby (for any Linux/OSX terminal). (Matthieu Bouchard)
  • I designed a mechanical keyboard for the CoCo. (Ed Snider)
  • Working Atari Adventure for MC-10 (Jim Gerrie)
  • Making DOS and CP/M 5.25″ Boot Disks with Commodore 128 and 1571 Floppy Drive (Paul Rickards)
  • This is an ENIGMA to find the hiddens words adding one or more letter at a time... (Matteo Trevisan)
  • Learn how to fix stuck keys on your CoCo 2 and 3. (Carlos Camacho)
  • Chapter 07 - Title and Hi-Score screens (Nick Marentes)
  • Code and design repository for the 6809v2 SBC: To be released at VCFMW 13 (David Wood)
• Feedback (1:00:33)
  • "I think that John Linville recently mentioned some confusion about why everybody seems to re-invent almost the same wheels at around the same times. I can only speak for myself, but I think that my motivation for considering doing the same thing that others have already done is that I'm more interested in doing the development than in having the result. That might also partly explain why I start so many more projects than I finish: Figuring out how to do it is a lot of the fun for me, but actually doing it is just hard work! And I know that once I finish something I'll probably just use it once or twice and then put it on a shelf, anyway." -- Mark J. Blair
  • "Not sure if this was covered in a past episode, but I'd like to hear the hosts discuss the fine line between hoarding and collecting." -- Carlos Camacho
  • "Across all retro communities I reckon more projects are moth-balled than reach completion. Often people target the fun stuff first then lose motivation. Personally I prefer to tackle the most difficult tasks first which could decide the success or failure of the whole project. I mention all this as it might make for an interesting CoCo Crew Hosts Discussion?" -- Steve Bamford
• Host Discussion -- Hoarding vs. Collecting (1:06:21)
• Tech Segment -- Serial Busses for EEPROMs, etc (1:32:17)
• Community Roundtable -- Fall 2018 (2:03:55)
• Neil's Corner (3:26:58)
• Parting Thoughts (3:30:20)

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