CoCoCrew Episode 50

Agenda

Introduction (0:00:43)
- Tandy Assembly is ~2 months away...
- CoCoFEST! is 9 months away
- Recent/current projects
- eBay (or other) acquisitions
Announcements (0:06:34)
- 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
- 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 (0:18:22)
- From Manic Miner to Jet Set Willy: The Story and Games of Matthew Smith (Kim Justice @ YouTube)
- Learning ZIL (Alex Proudfoot)
- NitrOS-9 is now running on the Sardis Technologies ST-2900 computer! (David Wiens)
- AGD converted games: Pack #33 (Bearsden Primary School) (Kees van Oss & Pere Serrat)
  AGD converted games - Pack #34 (Bearsden School Part 2)
  AGD converted games - Pack #35 (Bearsden P6 part 3)
  AGD converted games - Pack #36 (Bearsden P6 part 4)
  converted AGD games - BIGPacks v2.4 released
- Super Mario Kart at 25: Dissecting a revolutionary game design (Jon Irwin @ Gamasutra)
- Abusing A CPU’s Adders To Optimize Bit Counting (Al Williams @ Hackaday)
- Secret Mission [COCO] TRS-80 Color Computer - Scott Adams Grand Adventure #3 - Full Solution (Noriko Miyagami)
- Running Ruby On The Apple II (Colin Fulton & Peter Quines)
- About XRoar Online (Ciaran Anscomb)
- TheC64 – Full-size model with a working keyboard can be in your hands in December 2019! (Paulo @ Vintage Is The New Old)
- TRS-80 Color Computer software development - Atom Editor (Ron Klein)
  Initial commit of files needed to set up the Atom development environment (shown in my previous video)
- Copy Protection In The 80s, Showcased By Classic Game Dungeon Master (Donald Papp @ Hackaday)
- Filling the Screen with Text (James Jones)
- CheckrVZ Win (Jim Gerrie)
- Coup D'Etat (Jim Gerrie)
- Chapter 17 - Killing Aliens (Nick Marentes @ GunStar Blog)
  Chapter 18 - Collision Detection
- I would like to share a VSCode extension I built for working with 6x09 files (Blair Leduc)
  Another look the VSCode extension: here is what errors look like after assembling with lwasm
  Version 0.3.0 of 6x09 Assembly extension for VS Code is now available.
- We need programmers, graphics designers, game designers, story developers, music/ sound effects designers. (Paul Thayer)
- The ultimate Forth Benchmark (Charlie Root)
- New Game for the Coco 1, 2, and 3. Nightmare Highway (Ken Reighard)
- Simple Text Mode Drawing Tool For My CoCo3 (Todd Wallace)
- CoCo Pic Editor - A quick update and link to download. (Jason Pittman)
- I've scanned and cleaned a couple of original sets [of Dragon 32 circuit diagrams]. (Richard Harding)
- The world's worst video card? (Ben Eater)
  World's worst video card? The exciting conclusion
- EEVblog #1229 - Mailbag (Dave Jones)
- Pop*Star Pilot (Version 1.1 Update)! (Nick Marentes)
- Corpses from Hebdogiciel 42 (Jim Gerrie)
- OPL3 sound success! (Todd Wallace)
- Zelda NES screen transitions are undefined behaviour (Thom Holwerda)
- Themes for the 2020 "Last" CoCoFEST! (John W. Linville)
Host Discussion -- Do "standards" matter in the CoCo world? (1:05:42)
This Month in CoCo History -- DISKMASTER by Hemphill Electronics (1:23:47)
Tech Segment -- Cassette-based programs that break on disk-based systems (1:25:16)
Neil's Corner -- Review of Manic Miner (1:46:19)
Parting Thoughts (1:49:38)

Links

"Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!
CoCo mailing list
TRS-80 / Color Computer Facebook Group
Glenside Color Computer Club