CoCoCrew Episode 42

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:39)
  • Tandy Assembly is ~12 months away...
  • CoCoFEST! is 5 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:06:45)
  • 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
    
    
  • 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 (0:15:14)
  
  • C&K F2UOA | Switches (DigiKey)
  • Quick video of the game I am working on called "Super Sac Race" (Chet Simpson)
  • VECTREX CONTROLLER PCB'S are ready for order! (Oliver Henry Jones)
  • The Season is Complete! You "binge” watchers can get the entire 10 episodes in a single download! (D. Bruce Moore)
  • For anyone else who might be interested there's a free application called `Tile Studio'... (Steve Bamford)
  • DIY Voice Synthesizer I built some 33 years ago for the CoCo (all Radio Shack parts.) (Jeff Gubash)
  • With all the talk of tools today I finally got motivated to start packing up some of the code I've written for Super Sac Race. (Chet Simpson)
  • Try BASIC Programs from a Micro Adventure Book (1-2 hours) (Jason Moore)
  • Fun projects for your Atari 8-bit home computers and video game consoles (Jason Moore)
  • Did you know that Digger supports up to 80 levels? Did you know I had a built in editor for level design and testing when I developed the game? (Chet Simpson)
  • The subject matter covers system architecture and interfaces of Odyssey 4 and proprietary information regarding Motorola's RMS (Raster Memory System) (theLogBook.com)
  • DevOps for a Commodore 64? (Tony Landi)
  • pyDriveWire v0.4 w/ EmCee support and DwTermMc10 (Michael Furman)
  • Radio Shack returns (Christopher Ginn @ The McDonough County Voice)
  • Flanders (Jim Gerrie)
  • Here's a mock-up of the original "Downland" first level with the tile set for the sequel I am writing... "Downland 2" (Paul Thayer)
  • Here's a simulation of the Roman Empire. (Jim Gerrie)
  • Romuald's Adventure (Jim Gerrie)
  • So here's a benchmark of my sprite compiler. (Hugo Dufort)
  • Open VCC update (Walter Zambotti)
  • Revised cocoflash menu (Rietveld Rietveld)
  • So I saw a YouTube video about a 30 day challenge. It was to make a game on the C64 written entirely in BASIC...Would that be a challenge this group would like? (Kevin Orbaker)
  • How To Design A 8-Bit Z80 Computer Pt 1 (Douglas Gabbard III)
  • If you want to get a text that you wrote with your vintage computer onto your modern PC or Mac (f.e. to Word) - you can use A 80's Apple II BBS Cloud Service! (Jeremy Apple)
  • Copyrighted ROM's (Rietveld Rietveld)
  • All The Sample Rates (Bradford Swanson)
  • Playing the oldest first-person shooter - "Phantom Slayer", released in 1982 for the TRS-80 Color Computer. It's still fun today! (Explore VR @ YouTube)
  • Dude Creates Awesome Lego Commodore 64, Now Vote For The Kit (Paul Lily @ HotHardware)
  • Radio-Shack CoCo 3 Christmas Demo for the TRS-80 CoCo (Highretrogamelord @ YouTube)
  • The Facebook "TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo)" now has 2,500 Members! (Stephen Fischer)
• Feedback (1:03:12)
  • "Hi CoCo Crew, Thanks for having Polar Attack in the news segment. The discussion was interesting too. I've written up a little article on my blog about my experiences in 10 line coding and porting them from MC10 to the Dragon and Tandy. Hope it is of some interest! :D" 10 Liners -- David Mitchell
  • "Re: “Going to far” (John mentions ARM, etc.) - I think this is where the Coco FPGA type products fall. There you are running basically hardware emulation at order of magnitude(s) faster than the original chip. Some people will choose this path, but not as many, I think. But if one is strict against some of these “more powerful” upgrades - does the CocoVGA, GIME-X, etc. fall under this umbrella as well?" -- L. Curtis Boyle
• Tandy Assembly Recap (1:07:56)
• Host Discussion -- Is a good story better than the hard facts? (1:22:02)
• Tech Segment -- What is a CPU stack? (1:37:18)
• Neil's Corner -- Frankie (2:10:54)
• Parting Thoughts (2:15:34)

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