CoCoCrew Episode 41

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:40)
  • Tandy Assembly is almost here!
  • CoCoFEST! is 6 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:06:51)
  • 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
    • ron@cococrew.org
    
    
  • Chicago TI International World Faire 2018: November 10, 2018
  • Tandy Assembly 2018: November 10-11, 2018
  • World of Commodore 2018: December 1-2, 2018
  • Midwest Gaming Classic 2019: April 12-14, 2019
  • CoCoFEST! 2019: May 4-5, 2019
  • KansasFest 2019: July 15–21, 2019
• News (0:15:33)
  
  • Adventure: Tour of Castles (Jim Gerrie)
  • To restore or not to restore that is the question. (Brian Wieseler)
  • VIC-20 full motion video (Jan Derogee)
  • Here's a video sample of the intro for a game... (Paul Thayer)
  • OVCC Picture Gallery (Walter Zambotti)
  • CMOC 0.1.55 is out. New read/write DECB file library. (Pierre Sarrazin)
  • Long Branch Never: Episode 00 - Channel Introduction (Paul Fiscarelli)
  • Designing a 6809 SBC (David Wood)
  • Pong implemented in Color BASIC for the TRS-80 Color Computer I (Christopher Pedersen)
  • Script for converting 6800 to 6809 (Joel Rees)
  • An MC-10 program that plays the bar game Nim. (Ken Reighard)
  • Random: Fans Ask For A Philips CD-i Classic, Philips Says "We Will Try Our Best" (Ryan Craddock @ NintendoLife)
  • Next round of prototype PCBs for the GIME X project. (Ed Snider)
  • On using retro game artwork in commercial projects (Ste Pickford)
  • I started working on a basic interpreter on windows to help speedup basic coding on the coco 3,2,1. (Sheldon MacDonald)
  • Jeff Sinclair's Minigame Ports to MC-10 Playthrough (Jim Gerrie)
  • A UDP debugger + IP stack for the Tandy Color Computer (Brett Gordon)
  • For those who have a DragonDrive... here's a handy hint. (Mike Miller)
  • Polar Attack - Tandy MC10 game in 10 lines of BASIC (David Mitchell)
  • Bomb Jack Dissected (Andre Weissflog)
  • A new way to fix yellowed plastics indoors? (Adrian Black)
  • Emulate ZX Spectrum on emulated Commodore 64 on emulated DOS on emulated Windows on Linux (biuro@citihaus.pl -- maybe?)
  • Boot floppy for DOSBox for Jeff Vavasour's CoCo 3 emulator (Barry Nelson)
  • Recovering Data From A Vintage MFM Drive (Tom Nardi @ Hackaday)
  • GunStar Blog: Chapter 08 - The Graphics Engine (Part 2) (Nick Marentes)
  • My Wizardry clone is not vaporware, I swear. (Paul Shoemaker)
  • Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, dead at 65, family says (Nicole Darrah @ Fox News)
  • Degaussing Coil To Restore Gameplay Like It’s 1985 (Steven Dufresne @ Hackaday)
  • I finally bit the bullet and posted an initial version of OS-9 Community Edition (Alan Batteiger)
  • キルケの島 (Kiruke no Shima) WIP 2 (Steve Bamford)
• Feedback (1:14:16)
  • "I should mention that SolChess is a game that recreates a popular board game Solitaire Chess (and Phone app) which is a puzzle game that some folks might enjoy. My code should be easily ported to Coco." -- Jim Gerrie
  • "Apparently I'm a dragon. Your description of Smaug sounded just like me." -- Mark J. Blair
• Interview -- Michael Maydaniuk, 6809coder @ YouTube (1:17:25)
• Host Discussion -- Games requiring 6309 upgrade...good marketing? (1:48:02)
• Tech Segment -- MPI Slot Switching in Software (2:12:05)
• Neil's Corner -- Game review of Gold Runner 2000 by Chet Simpson (2:44:11)
• Parting Thoughts (2:48:29)

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