CoCoCrew Episode 52

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:42)
  • CoCoFEST! is 7 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is ~12 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:06:50)
  • 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
    
    
  • Portland Retro Gaming Expo: October 18-20, 2019
  • World of Commodore 2019: December 7, 2019
  • 29th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 18-19, 2020
• News (0:14:57)
  
  • Bomb Squad (Jim Gerrie)
  • This week we sold our 100th CoCoVGA kit. (Brendan Donahe)
  • The Beauty of the COBOL Programming Language (Bob Reselman @ DevOps.com)
  • Here's a happy accident I discovered while probing around yesterday. (Andy's Arcade @ Facebook)
  • Vectrex Asteroids Controllers (Ten Pence Arcade podcast blog)
  • Sunsetting Mercurial support in Bitbucket (Denis Chan @ Bitbucket)
    
    
  • Advanced Lawn Mower Simulator (Jim Gerrie)
  • FUZIX turns 0.3 today (Brett Gordon)
  • This post is about a coding challenge for the 6502. (Carlos Camacho)
  • Given that the VZ has the same 6847, anyone feel they can do better than 27 bytes on the Z80? (Geronimus Vanden)
  • Keyboard PCB | Serial output | Alphabet Numbers Signs (Electronoobs @ YouTube)
  • GunStar Chapter 20 - The Weaponizer (Nick Marentes)
    
    
  • Usborne's "Haunted House" Text Adventure (Jim Gerrie)
  • The PC BIOS will be killed off by 2020 as Intel plans move to pure UEFI (Peter Bright @ Ars Technica)
  • Chet Simpson recently provided v4 of his database of messages dumped from the DELPHI Coco SIG to the Color Computer archive (Rick Adams)
  • Inferno (Dragon 32 Cassette 50 Game 33) (Pete Collins)
  • School Maze - Educational Games, Ideology, and Neoliberalism - UT (Umbrella Terms @ YouTube)
  • Experimenting image conversion techniques via Gimp. (Emerson Costa)
    
    
  • Rocket1 "Lunar Lander" (Jim Gerrie)
  • I wasn’t too hot on drilling my case to mount the (CoCoVGA) button board. So here is what I did. (Mike Rojas)
  • Music Albums on Game Cartridges (C64 & Megadrive) (Techmoan @ YouTube)
  • The Battleship Algorithm (Vsauce2 @ YouTube)
  • Oscilloscope Music - (Drawing with Sound) (SmarterEveryDay @ YouTube)
  • AGD converted games - Last pack (#37) (Pere Serrat)
    
    
  • Alpha Force (Jim Gerrie)
  • We played modern games on a CRT monitor - and the results are phenomenal (Richard Leadbetter @ Eurogamer)
  • I've just released firmware version 1.20 for the DragonMMC (Phill Harvey-Smith)
  • My homegrown wire-wrapped 64KB 6809/SAM/VDG (Henry 'Strick' Strickland)
  • CoCo 3: OS-9 Level II Multi-User and Security Overview (TJBChris @ YouTube)
  • One thing I really wanted to see was what the (GIME-X) extended video modes can do. (Ed Snider)
• This Month In CoCo History -- CoCo3 release announcment in Rainbow (0:59:17)
• Feedback (1:03:25)
  • "I just started listening to the podcast and have made it through the first 7 episodes. I never owned a CoCo back in the day (Atari guy) but now own a CoCo 1 and 2. I hope to try them out some day. I am really enjoying the podcast and look forward to the next 50 or so episodes. Thanks!!!" -- Jason Moore
  • "Great episode! Now that we know Brett spends 99% of his time outside and only codes when he's snowed in - I hope he gets a huge snow storm this winter (without losing power)! :)" -- Vincent Tran
• Host Discussion -- Is a "survivor" CoCo good enough? (1:06:12)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Bombs Away (1:23:44)
• Parting Thoughts (1:26:33)

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