CoCoCrew Episode 43

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:40)
  • Tandy Assembly is ~10 months away...
  • CoCoFEST! is 4 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:15:18)
  • 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
    
    
  • Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2019: March 23-24, 2019
  • Playthrough Gaming Convention 2019: March 30-31, 2019
  • Midwest Gaming Classic 2019: April 12-14, 2019
  • CoCoFEST! 2019: May 4-5, 2019
  • KansasFest 2019: July 15–21, 2019
• News (0:26:12)
  
  • Hippo Teeth (Diego Barizo)
  • Sixty Frames per Second or Bust (Jeremy Spiller)
  • Using a wireless ps2 keyboard with the cloud9 ps2 KB adapter (Rietveld Rietveld)
  • I'm going to go ahead and sell my 2MB CoCo 3 case badge rather than waiting to launch my ECommerce store. (Carlos Camacho)
  • Home » Apparel » Short Sleeve T-Shirts (Radio Shack)
  • CoCo Development Shell V1.0 Beta (Chet Simpson)
  • ovcc update (Walter Zambotti)
  • Hippo Teeth (Jim Gerrie)
  • A bracket to hold a Raspberry Pi 2/3 under a CoCo keyboard (Scott Kelly)
  • CMOC 0.1.56 compiler is out: Dragon support, keyboard/joystick library (Pierre Sarrazin)
  • Things Every Hacker Once Knew (Eric S. Raymond)
  • Robotron 2084 Disassembly (Chris Lomont)
  • Orient Express By David Ahl (Jim Gerrie)
  • NitrOS-9 EOU Beta 2 has been released. (L. Curtis Boyle)
  • Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection—then puts all of it on eBay (Sam Machkovech @ Ars Technica)
  • The Mad Computer Program (Jim Gerrie)
  • Z80 Model 4 vs 6809 Coco Retro Speed Challenge (Michael Maydaniuk)
  • The Witching Hour (Jim Gerrie)
  • Taking my MEGA-Mini for a spin... (Jason Downs)
  • About eight months ago, Johan Berntsson and I were talking about writing an Inform-game for the Commodore 64, and releasing it commercially, Infocom-style... (Fredrik Ramsberg)
  • What ever happened to the PS/2 mouse adapter? Or the Ethernet NIC? (Jason Downs)
  • I ported it to the VZ-200, I ported it to Dragon 32 - so here it is for the CoCo - Blitz. (Matt Voss)
  • DIY "Game Genie" for Atari 2600 using FPGA (element14 @ YouTube)
  • Updated version of Digger III with a blind fix to allow it to work on 2mb machines (Chet Simpson)
  • Chip on Breadboard - 6809 Microprocessor doing SEX (Julian Ilett)
  • A Visual Defragmenter for the Commodore 64 (Michael Steil)
  • Retro Rick's P.G.D.M. Issue #1 (Richard Kelly)
  • The source files are based on the contents of the Unravelled series as published by Spectral Associates as updated by Walter K. Zydhek. (William Astle)
  • Digger 3 demo RGB display (Rietveld Rietveld)
  • So what do you guys think? Bad drive? (Jason Downs)
• Feedback (1:08:45)
  • "Liked the extended talk about the stack. Maybe something else to mention is how it grows, whether it is upwards or downwards in memory. (If this was mentioned, oops, I've got retention problems!)" -- Salvador Garcia
  • "I enjoy catching up on the news of the CoCo Community monthly. I think I've said before that I think the monthly format is the 'right' frequency, at least for me. My favorite segment is the news - I always enjoy hearing all those tidbits." -- Steve Stroh
• Host Discussion -- 2018 Year in Review (1:12:25)
• Community Roundtable -- December 2018 (1:50:20)
• Tech Segment -- CoCo keyboard scan (2:27:10)
• Neil's Corner -- Word processors (2:45:10)
• Parting Thoughts (2:49:51)

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