CoCoCrew Episode 49

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:44)
  • Tandy Assembly is ~3 months away...
  • CoCoFEST! is 10 months away
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:07:45)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, tunein, and Spotify.
  • 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
    
    
  • Southern-Fried Gaming Expo: July 12-14, 2019
  • KansasFest 2019: July 15–21, 2019
  • CCAG Cleveland's Classic Console & Arcade Gaming Show: July 20, 2019
  • VCF West: August 3-4, 2019
  • VCF Midwest 14: September 14-15, 2019
  • Tandy Assembly: September 27-29, 2019
  • Portland Retro Gaming Expo: October 18-20, 2019
  • 29th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 18-19, 2020
• News (0:27:52)
  
  • Pyramid 2000 [COCO] TRS-80 Color Computer Text Adventure Let's Play - Full Solution (Noriko Miyagami)
  • “The illustrious @bigbangtheory_cbs Writer’s Room, where (at least) 278 stories have been imagined and built by the incredible minds of…” (Johnny Galecki on Instagram)
  • Nintendo pulls Switch eShop game after dev reveals he sneaked in basic code editor "Easter egg" (Wesley Yin-Poole @ Eurogamer)
  • Working on Telengard for MC-10 (Jim Gerrie)
  • Coco PSG Mini Game Test - Tank Out (Matchy)
  • This model uses a game master cartridge hard wired to plug directly back into the cassette port for easy basic programming support. (Sheldon MacDonald)
    
    
  • BIG NEWS, EVERYONE! THE R.M.S. REALLY EXISTS! (Fedor Steeman)
  • Rogue-like on Apple II: Raycasting a line of sight (Christophe Meneboeuf)
  • Old Code and Benchmarks and BASIC09 (James Jones)
  • Zork And The Z-Machine: Bringing The Mainframe To 8-bit Home Computers (Maya Posch @ Hackaday)
  • Now you can use Modern Bluetooth Controllers with your retro computer (Paulo @ Vintage Is The New Old)
  • Google Drive link w/ MC-10 software as WAVs (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • Gunstar Blog Chapter 16 - The Aliens take flight! (Nick Marentes)
  • Pitting 8-Bit Chess Games Against Modern Foes (Lewin Day @ Hackaday)
  • Color Computer MAME Bezel Artwork (Tim Lindner)
  • Yes, You Can Write an Awesome Game in Just 10 Lines of Basic (Stephen Cass @ IEEE Spectrum)
  • In the Woods Update (Jim Gerrie)
  • Vectrex Programming with Forth - Part 3 - It's Alive! (Phillip Eaton)
    Vectrex Programming with Forth - Part 4 - Porting a Game - 2048
    
    
  • CarMaze (Jim Gerrie)
  • Listening to my work-in-progess game for the very first time through a real GMC! :) (Steve Bamford)
  • Setup for a toolchain for ColorBasic, Notepad++ and Xroar (Andre Ballista)
  • CoCo 3 HSCREEN 2 image converter (Marc Sulfridge)
  • Thought maybe I could crank out a game or two for my Vectrex during the summer, and get busy finishing up 'Return to Rom' in the fall / winter. (Jon Day)
  • [Coco] AGD converted games: Pack #27 (2nd extra pack) (Kees van Oss & Pere Serrat)
    [Coco] AGD converted games - pack #28 (third extra pack)
    [Coco] AGD converted games - Pack #29 (4th extra pack)
    [Coco] AGD converted games - Pack #30
    [Coco] AGD converted games - Pack #31
    [Coco] AGD converted games - Pack #32
    
    
  • Elevator Action Final Release (Jim Gerrie)
  • 1980s Plotter Plays Flappy Bird (Al Williams @ Hackaday)
  • Atari Star Wars arcade from Arcade1Up (Jeff Vavasour)
  • Self-modifying code on 65xx (Garth Wilson)
  • Feature: Longplays – a guide to preserving gaming history (Alec Foster @ Vintage Is The New Old)
  • Okay new contest rules for "TYPE-IN MANIA 2019." (Jim Gerrie)
• Feedback (1:19:28)
  • "Been listening to episode 47. I've restored close to 50 CoCo 1, 2 & 3's back to operational status (including a rusty flood survivor). Not once has the problem been a bad capacitor. Due to the age of these boards, the more you apply heat to them, the greater your chances to damage that motherboard." -- Brian Blake
  • "Thank you for all the work you put into every podcast, I always look forward to hearing about what's new. You guys are the best!" -- Dan Loyle
  • "I got a lot out of your talk on xxd and tac. It even works for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Keep on keeping on." -- John Mark Mobley
  • "The value in the tech segment isn’t the immediate interest or utility, it’s that you’re taking the time to talk through such things and it’s going to be there for posterity..." -- Steve Stroh
• Host Discussion -- Ways to contribute to community (other than hardware design or coding)?
• Interview w/ M. David Johnson (1:44:40)
• Neil's Corner -- Deluxe RS232 Pak reproduction, etc (2:12:31)
• Parting Thoughts (2:18:14)

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