CoCoCrew Episode 46

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:43)
  • CoCoFEST! is ~1 months away...
  • Tandy Assembly is ~6 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:08:24)
  • 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
  • 5º Encontro Clube Color Rio: June 1, 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 (0:27:11)
  
  • This is the contents of the six games pack #20 (Pere Serrat)
  • AGD converted games. Pack #21 (Pere Serrat)
  • AGD converted games: Pack #22 (Pere Serrat)
  • AGD converted games: Pack #23 (Pere Serrat)
  • AGD converted games: Pack #24 (Pere Serrat)
  • AGD converted games: Pack #25 (LAST ONE) (Pere Serrat)
    
    
  • This typewriter repairman was told computers were king. Twenty years later, he’s still in business. (Matthew Ormseth @ LA Times)
  • The History of Elevator Action - arcade documentary (PatmanQC @ YouTube)
  • When Gamers Have Too Much Money, Super Mario Bros Game Sells for 100k+ (Carl Williams @ RETRO)
  • Tetris Player Reaches Level 33 Beating Former Level 29 Kill Screen (Carl Williams @ RETRO)
  • Man discovers 30 year old Apple computer still in working order (Amanda Jackson @ CNN)
  • Classic Video Game Sounds Explained by Experts (1972-1998) | Part 1 | WIRED (WIRED @ YouTube)
    
    
  • BASIC Engine (uli @ github.com)
  • COMING SOON: #PLATOTERM for the Web Browser! (Thomas Cherryhomes)
  • At first I thought I couldn’t do as much with the CoCo as I can do with a Commodore... (Mark Melanson)
  • "The Vespozian Affair" is a pretty cool little text adventure. (Jim Gerrie)
  • What is Prog8? (Irmen de Jong Revision)
  • Why 80s BASIC still matters! (Gary Plowman)
    
    
  • Why Almost Every Pac-Man Player Grabbed The Left Side Of The Machine (Chris Kohler @ Kotaku)
  • CPU 6502 Pascal Compiler/IDE/Debugger (Tito Hinostroza)
  • REVIEW: The CoCo SDC (and some other stuff...) (Joes Computer Museum @ YouTube)
  • coco 3 midi player (Sheldon MacDonald)
  • coco 3 midi player p2 (Sheldon MacDonald)
  • gamemasterdemo2 (Sheldon MacDonald)
    
    
  • SVG Rendering Comes To 8-bit Atari Computers (Tom Nardi @ Hackaday)
  • Finally finished my SmartWatch+ design for the 1000 HX and SX machines. (Derek Osborn)
  • Gunstar Blog Chapter 15 - The Alien Sprites (Nick Marentes)
  • someone I know in the Go game community wrote this in 6809 assembly... (Dennis Wheeler)
  • Jameco Reliapro ADU090150A2231 AC to AC Wall Adapter Transformer 9V @ 1500 mA Straight 2.5 mm Female Plug, Black (Amazon.com)
  • How Speech Synthesizers Work (The 8-bit Guy @ YouTube)
    
• Feedback (0:59:46)
  • "I find myself laughing or at least smiling at many of your ads, including (but not limited to) Retro-Fresh, Shock Trooper, the SuperFriends spoof, and the Schoolhouse Rock spoofs. Is there any chance you would be willing to sell/release a collection of just these?" -- Brendan Donahe
  • "[Episode 45] was one of my favorite episodes. Bill's interview was great - I could listen to him all day!" -- Vincent Tran
• This Month In CoCo History (1:02:43)
• Host Discussion -- CoCoFEST! preparation (travel, etc) (1:05:07)
• Community Roundtable -- March 2019 (1:21:40)
• Interview w/ David Wiens (1:44:37)
• Tech Segment -- Real-Time Clocks (RTC) (2:18:08)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Dungeon Crawl (2:49:30)
• Parting Thoughts (2:53:10)

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