CoCoCrew Episode 54

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:39)
  • CoCoFEST! is 5 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is ~11 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:11:26)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, 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
    
    
  • World of Commodore 2019: December 7, 2019
  • Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest: March 21-22, 2020
  • Midwest Gaming Classic: April 3-5, 2020
  • 29th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 18-19, 2020
  • Vintage Computer Festival East: April 24-26, 2020
  • KansasFest 2020: July 21-26, 2020
• News (0:23:10)
  
  • Game over: Atari VCS architect quits project, claims he hasn’t been paid for six months (Kieren McCarthy @ The Register)
  • I SPI (Chris Burke)
  • ASCIIDENT: Open-world sci-fi game with a design completely made by text characters (Andrey Fomin)
  • C64 Turbo Assembler 34-Year-Old Bug Found & Fixed (8-bit Show and Tell @ YouTube)
  • Qmidi studio music player for game master cartridge (Sheldon MacDonald)
  • Free GIMP course at uDemy (Salvador Garcia)
    
    
  • Summary of the main differences between the CoCo Orchestra90cc and the special version I made for the Dragon (Pere Serrat)
  • CoCoVGA release 0.91 is now available (Brendan Donahe)
  • 2,500 More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Archive (Jason Scott)
  • Understand what's changing in Yahoo Groups (yahoo!)
  • Looks like Jeff hit a home run with his Arcade1Up emulation of starwars (Henry Reitveld)
  • CoCo Discord Bot QRCode Encoder (Matchy)
    
    
  • Why my videos are now private (Octav1us @ YouTube)
  • US military will no longer use floppy disks to coordinate nuke launches (Steve Dent @ Engadget)
  • ChinnyVision - Ep 304 - New C64 and Vic20 Cartridge Games For Just £9.99? (ChinnyVision @ YouTube)
  • About to release the sources for the DragonMMC firmware on github (Phill Harvey-Smith)
  • Let's use the x10 command console for the Aquarius home computer (Henry Reitveld)
  • After 35 years the TRS-80 Color Computer will get a faithful port of the classic game ‘The Oregon Trail’ (Paulo @ VintageIsTheNewOld)
    
    
  • Tim Hartnell's "Stronghold of the Dwarven Lords" (Jim Gerrie)
  • Tandy Home Education news clip from KXAS-TV (The Portal to Texas History)
  • A C compiler for the 6803/6303 processors (but probably never the 6800) (Alan Cox)
  • Just a *little* something i've been tinkering with for a while (in the shadows) (Simon Jonassen)
  • This emulator implements a OS-9 Level I operating system with two terminals, a printer and a 6 GB harddisk (Søren Roug)
  • Quickie demo of my VGM player running in push mode (no IRQ) (Chet Simpson)
    
    
  • Anti-Microsoft Easter Egg Hidden In C64 BASIC? (8-bit Show and Tell @ YouTube)
  • Paint Duel (Jim Gerrie)
  • I will upload the 3D printer files for the Vectrex Cartridge Display... also known as Vleachers (Nathan Hulett)
  • Gunstar Blog Chapter 22 - Countdown to completion (Nick Marentes)
  • 6309 enhanced versions of the games Color Car Action, Touchstone and Gantelet (L. Curtis Boyle)
  • Drivewire to SD (CF or even HD image for emulators) mass DSK image transfer utility (Ron Klein)
• Feedback (1:15:53)
  • "Share your results of course (that's always interesting)...but not every $75 OSH Park order needs to be launched as a product here." -- Erik Gavriluk
  • "So why aren't there more games etc. (supporting new hardware) under development?...The real reason I think there aren't more games under development today is simple. They're a ton of work!" -- Steve Bamford
  • "You may be interested in a 1984 TV documentary about Imagine - the company that published [Leggit!]" -- Alastair @ archive.worldofdragon.org
• Host Discussion -- What makes a machine "retro"? (1:23:20)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Star Trader (1:37:57)
• Parting Thoughts (1:42:05)

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