CoCoCrew Episode 48

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:38)
  • CoCoFEST! is 11 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is ~4 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:07:36)
  • 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
    
    
  • 5º Encontro Clube Color Rio: June 1, 2019
  • Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo: July 12-14, 2019
  • CCAG Cleveland's Classic Console & Arcade Gaming Show: July 20, 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 (0:18:48)
  
  • CF83 Forth and KJV (M. David Johnson)
  • Full Motion Video And 3D Graphics Make This Genesis Demo Pop (Lewin Day @ Hackaday)
  • Tucoplexing: A New Charliplex for Buttons and Switches (Kerry Scharfglass @ Hackaday)
  • I have designed and can 3D print cases to protect your (CoCoVGA) button board (Brendan Donahe)
  • AGDx - Adding 1 Bit Music to the Menu (MrTravisHighrise @ YouTube)
  • Don't learn to program in 2019 (Python Programmer @ YouTube)
    
    
  • This new Lego kit will help teach kids the basics of programming (Rosalie Chan @ Business Insider)
  • "FlyCatch" AKA "Frog!" (Jim Gerrie)
  • I now have a poker program in BASIC09, text only, heavily inspired by what I believe is Jim Gerrie's port of a Color BASIC poker program to BASIC09 (James Jones)
  • Let There Be Lies - Quake's source code sorcery (CompChomp @ YouTube)
  • Happy to send [a Philharmonic12 (my Symphony12 replica)] to someone with '09 ASM skillz who can write a some test assembly utils to test the unit. (Jim Brain)
  • Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • QB64 v1.3 out now! (QB64 Team)
  • New Text Adventure "Assignment 45". (Jim Gerrie)
  • Crash! Can You Survive? (Jim Gerrie)
  • As we move along with the GIME-X project, it's time to incorporate a few improvements into the design. (Ed Snider)
  • I threw together a quick repos of my python 3 scripts for working with C10 files. (Neil Cherry)
  • Announcement: pyDriveWire v0.5 - CoCoFest 2019 Release (Michael R. Furman)
    
    
  • RetroShield 6809 Operation (Erturk Kocalar)
  • Atari non transparent keyboard stickers (WWW.4KEYBOARD.COM)
  • progress report on my os9/decb disk utility. showing off simultaneous FDC and CocoSDC operation. (Todd Wallace)
  • The Retro Search is a specialised search engine indexing TRS-80 resources across the internet. (Kevin Parker)
  • Another game master cartridge demo.... trying something new. (Sheldon MacDonald)
  • AGD converted games. New releases (Pere Serrat)
    
    
  • Migrating Color BASIC Code to BASIC09 (James Jones)
  • Nintendo Takes Down Commodore 64 Port of Super Mario Bros (Bill Toulas @ TechNadu)
  • WorldGov (Jim Gerrie)
  • Did a vigilante ROM leaker go too far to “preserve” a lost Atari ROM? (Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica)
  • A Chandelier Guaranteed To Make Some Retro Game Hardware Collectors Wince (Jenny List @ Hackaday)
  • GAME MENU:For playing CoCo 1&2 PMODE3 games on a CoCo3 with enhanced color and higher clock speed (Nick Marentes)
• Feedback (1:07:10)
  • 'Spread your wings but try not to ruffle anyone else's feathers' is hypocritical... -- Anonymous
  • "In reference to Drivewire and the dragon, Tormod has some pretty nice products. http://tormod.me/products.html He has drivewire cables and a drivewire stand alone server." -- Mike Brant
• Host Discussion -- How to approach a project? (1:11:53)
• Interview w/ Becky Fox Matthews (1:25:56)
• Tech Segment -- 6803 vs 6809 Assembly (2:01:00)
• This Month In CoCo History -- The Disk Master (2:24:50)
• Neil's Corner -- Knight Lore (review by Mark McDougall) (2:26:20)
• Parting Thoughts (2:34:00)

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