CoCoCrew Episode 47

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:43)
  • CoCoFEST! is here!
  • Tandy Assembly is ~5 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Visit from Mark Marlette! (0:09:18)
• Announcements (0:40:18)
  • 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
    
    
  • pyDriveWire v0.5 - CoCoFest 2019 Release (Michael R. Furman)
  • CocoPi3 has been released (CocoFEST 2019 Release Edition) (Ron Klein)
  • Asimov Awards (Diego Barizo)
    
    
  • 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 (0:54:56)
  
  • Demonstration of BBC Micro:bit connected to serial port of TRS-80/Tandy Color Computer 2 (Brendan Donahe)
  • Manic Miner for RetroChallenge (Jim Gerrie)
  • Reverse engineering an Atari 2600 game (John Aycock)
  • Optimizing C array lookups for the 6502 (Steven Hugg)
  • I have updated my guide on how to write optimized and portable C code for *all* vintage 8-bit systems (Fabrizio Caruso)
  • Spotted an interesting game project in the homebrew section of Retro Gamer magazine. (Steve Bamford)
    
    
  • What are your preferred AGD converted games for 6809 machines? (Pere Serrat)
  • SIM8800 - An Altair Emulator for Apple II (Charles Mangin)
  • 6809 and OS-9 emulator in Java (Soren Roug)
  • My daughter is taking "perfect pre-orders" for the following items... (Jim Brain)
  • The classic 8-bit isometric games that tried to break the mould: Head over heels through the years. (Graeme Mason @ eurogamer.net)
  • With only 377 bytes, ChesSkelet might have broken the World Record for smallest chess program ever made! (Paulo Garcia)
    
    
  • Legendary MAD magazine artist MORT DRUCKER turns 90 today....Happy Birthday, Mort. Love this picture. What, me worry? (Tweet from Alan Alda)
  • Hey Guys, does anyone have a copy of the instructions for Phill Harvey-Smith MMC card i put mine somewhere safe and now i cant find them.. (Andy Fox)
  • Who Still Buys Wite-Out, and Why? (David Graham @ The Atlantic)
  • The MiniITX Retro System (Brian Benchoff @ Hackaday)
  • Prince Of Persia Code Review (Fabien Sanglard)
  • A stepping stone to a SuperSAM project (Ed Snider)
    
    
  • New CC RS232 Pak is nearly ready! (Ian Maveric)
  • I have pushed the most recent updates I had made to the Tiled map converter before taking ill. (Chet Simpson)
  • 23 Hidden Levels In NES Games Most Players Still Haven’t Found (Jeremy Schmidt)
  • Designing Custom LCDs To Repair Retrocomputers (Brian Benchoff @ Hackaday)
  • Creating 8-bit Games With The Multi Platform Arcade Game Designer (Lewin Day @ Hackaday)
  • The Day I Uncovered THE SECRET of Missle Command (The Video Game Critic)
    
    
  • Dragon32 Trash to Treasure | When Wales made a Micro Computer (pt1) (RetroManCave @ YouTube)
    Dragon32 Trash to Treasure | Repairing the Dragon (pt2) (RetroManCave @ YouTube)
  • PONG: making a game with 74 series logic chips (Mike Barela @ Adafruit)
  • Let’s Talk About Capacitor Failure (Blake Patterson)
  • MShell 1.0.3w (Bill Pierce)
  • The Ghosts of Windows 3.1 (Ernie Smith)
  • Has anyone ever seen a home-built TRS-80 clone? (accidental-poet @ reddit)
• Feedback (1:46:47)
  • "Episode 41: Thanks for another great show. My “Adventure Tour of Castles” video is a very early snapshot of project, which is indeed a remake of Atari Adventure. Here is a link to the Alpha version: https://youtu.be/B4YwJXFR5YU" -- Jim Gerrie
  • "I got all excited until I read the date stamp on the post. Well done." -- Paul Thayer
• Host Discussion -- Who qualifies to be a creator (i.e. writer, developer, designer, programmer, composer, etc)? (1:51:52)
• Tech Segment -- Intro to xxd (2:07:45)
• Interview w/ Greg Zumwalt (2:32:08)
• Neil's Corner -- review of Mind-Roll (3:03:09)
• Parting Thoughts (3:07:05)

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