CoCoCrew Episode 45

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:41)
  • CoCoFEST! is ~2 months away...
  • Tandy Assembly is ~7 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:06:56)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and tunein.
  • Available as video episodes on YouTube
  • Video episodes also available on the CoCoTV channel on Roku (sponsored by Roger Taylor)
  • 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
    
    
  • RetroChallenge 2019/03
    
    
  • 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
  • Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 7.0: April 27-28, 2019
  • VCF East: May 3-5, 2019
  • CoCoFEST! 2019: May 4-5, 2019
  • Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo: July 12-14, 2019
  • KansasFest 2019: July 15–21, 2019
  • VCF West: August 3-4, 2019
  • VCF Midwest 14: September 14-15, 2019
  • Tandy Assembly: September 28-29, 2019
  • Portland Retro Gaming Expo: October 18-20, 2019
• News (0:27:12)
  
  • AGD converted games: Pack #10 (Pere Serrat)
  • AGD converted games: Pack #11 (Pere Serrat)
  • AGD converted games: Pack #12 (Pere Serrat)
  • AGD converted games: Pack #13 (Pere Serrat)
  • AGD converted games: Pack #14 (Pere Serrat)
  • AGD converted games: Pack #15 (Pere Serrat)
  • AGD converted games: Pack #16 (Pere Serrat)
  • AGD converted games: Pack #17 (Pere Serrat)
  • AGD converted games: Pack #18 (Pere Serrat)
  • AGD production toolchain updated (Pere Serrat)
  • AGD converted games: Pack #19 (Pere Serrat)
    
    
  • Chopper for Basic 10 Liner Contest 2019 (Jim Gerrie)
  • Grid Factor Alpha (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • GunStar Development Blog: Chapter 09 - The Map Editor (Nick Marentes)
  • GunStar Development Blog: Chapter 10 - The Overlay Plane (Nick Marentes)
  • GunStar Development Blog: Chapter 11 - The GunStar (Nick Marentes)
  • GunStar Development Blog: Chapter 12 - Firing and the FBomb (Nick Marentes)
  • GunStar Development Blog: Chapter 13 - Scrap the Music (Nick Marentes)
  • GunStar Development Blog: Chapter 14 - Level 1 Background Graphics (Nick Marentes)
    
    
  • MML converter for GMC supports multiple voices (John Linville)
  • YM file conversion for the Game Master Cartridge (John Linville)
  • Game Master Cartridge Update V1.0 -> V2.0 (John Linville)
  • Egyptian Maths (Michael S. Schneider)
  • How to upgrade many models of the Coco to 64k (PDF) (Al Hartmann)
  • The Treasure of Kantu - Text Adventure Game (Ken Reighard)
    
    
  • Mega mini MPI dual USB serial port adapter (Ed Snider)
  • CoCo OPL composer update, event placing. (Ed Snider)
  • CoCo OPL tracker/composer update, semi tones added. Keying in sheet music. (Ed Snider)
  • CoCo opl composer playing legend of Zelda dungeon music. (Ed Snider)
  • I'm releasing my CoCo Chiptune Player. (Ed Snider)
  • Hardware MP3 decoder for the CoCo (Ed Snider)
    
    
  • A Look into the Yellowing and Deyellowing of ABS Plastics (David Flood)
  • Ways to play NES Light Gun Games on a Modern TV (Brad Smith)
  • Demo of a Dragon 32 and a TRS-80 Speech-Sound Pak 26-3144 (Tony Jewell)
  • I have uploaded archives for the Princeton CoCo ListServ for years 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996 to the CoCo Archive. (Chet Simpson)
  • Wishes for BASIC09 (James Jones)
  • The RSDOS/OS-9 Divide (James Jones)
    
    
  • The Retrogaming Times (The Retrogaming Times Staff)
  • Issue #3: "Retro Rick's P.G.D.M." (Richard Kelly)
  • I finally fixed my pink and green artifacting CoCo 2! (Nathaniel Lockhart)
  • Lightweight CocoFlash programming software for the Coco 1/2 (jimshortz @ GitHub)
  • Completed the preliminary version of 24 bit BMP to Semi-graphics mode. (Robert Sieg)
  • OMEN Kilo (kit) (OMEN Micro)
    
    
  • Retro Receiver for SEGA Genesis & Mega Drive (8BitDo)
  • CoCo SDC Extender (512kB RAM, 512kB ROM, YMF-262 Audio, RTC) (Jim Brain)
  • A German techno DJ is releasing his new album on a Sega Mega Drive cartridge (Wesley Yin-Poole)
  • Get your basic games on eeprom cart even easier! (Sheldon MacDonald)
  • Dungeon Crawl (Paul Shoemaker)
  • Asimov Awards return to CoCoFEST! (Diego Barizo)
• Feedback (1:24:39)
  • About Tanru and Nomad: those are references to the ST:TOS episode "The Changeling". In it, the crew finds Nomad, a probe from the Federation that has met and merged with Tanru, an alien probe made to destroy dangerous life forms in anticipation of its makers colonizing other worlds. (That's why people tended to call the first Star Trek movie "Where Nomad Has Gone Before".) -- James Jones
• Host Discussion -- Is eBay too "low class" for "serious" or "real" collectors? (1:31:04)
• Interview -- Bill Bernico (1:43:23)
• Tech Segment -- Sound eXchange (SoX) tool for manipulating audio data (2:17:21)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Fahrfall: Master Edition (2:37:13)
• Parting Thoughts (2:43:08)

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