CoCoCrew Episode 57

Agenda

• Introduction (00:00:42)
  • CoCoFEST! is 2 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is 8 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (00:08:44)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, and tunein.
  • Available as video episodes on YouTube
  • 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
    
    
  • BASIC 10-Liner Contest:Ends Saturday, March 21, 2020, 6 PM CET
  • CoCoFEST! Challenge:Ends Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 11:59 PM CDT
  • CoCo Call For Papers 2020:Ends before Friday, April 10, 2020
    
    
  • 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
  • Dragon Meetup 2020: July 4-5, 2020
  • KansasFest 2020: July 21-26, 2020
  • Tandy Assembly: Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2020
• News (00:24:13)
  
  • The Gotek Floppy Drive Emulator in the IBM PC World (Nerdly Pleasures Blog)
  • Printing ASCII Art with an Arduino and a Vintage Printer (Emily's Electric Oddities on YouTube)
  • What To Know When Buying Chips That Haven’t Been Made For Three Decades (Erin Pinheiro)
  • Nightmare Park Game (Jim Gerrie)
  • A video blog update for "Project A" - my first-person RPG for the Dragon 32 and Color Computer (Ben Drakes)
  • REGISTER NOW for CoCoFEST! (Eric Canales)
    
    
  • Holiday weekend project: CDI portable (towmater @ AtariAge)
  • It looks like the Split Screen Assist Circuit is almost complete as far as the simulator is concerned. (Chet Simpson)
  • Maximum CoCo Drives (Jim Brain)
  • Making physical media from a. WAV file for the Dragon and Coco computers (Rietveld Rietveld)
  • VG6 converter for Windows (Ed Snider)
  • Just a quick note to let you all know that I have a small number of the new lower case daughterboards available. (John Whitworth)
    
    
  • Working on some games for Asimov Awards and CocoFest (Jim Gerrie)
  • Alien Invaders Basic 10-Liner Game (Jim Gerrie)
  • What Everyone Else Did With Eight Bits, The Germans Did With Only One (Jenny List @ Hackaday)
  • Commo Pad – Build your own tablet/mouse/joystick for your Commodore 64 (Jan Derogee)
  • NTSC/Composite With Standard Logic - Horizontal Timing Section - (JCM-1 Episode 11) (Joe's Computer Museum on YouTube)
  • With a single £40,000 donation, Mega65 is closer to become reality! (Paulo Garcia)
    
    
  • "The Best Of A Pakerski" (Richard Kelly)
  • Never thought I'd be doing TDD (Test Driven Development) for the CoCo. (Lee Perkins)
  • I'm proud to announce that the Cyclone CoCo 3 core has been ported to the third FPGA system now, the MiST. (Roger Taylor)
  • I designed these PCBs and am waiting for them to arrive (Joe Rounceville)
  • I built some replacement key models to print (Sheldon MacDonald)
  • I'm thinking about porting a couple of Basic programming tools I developed in Python for the MSX to the CoCo. (Fred Rique)
    
    
  • CoCo 3 - NitrOS-9 Bootfile Update/Control Car Gauges (Christopher Hyzer)
  • The Silverton Adventure (Jim Gerrie)
  • CoCo3 keyboard scanner (Robert Allen Murphey)
  • Dragon Pepper by Genesis Project - a new Dragon 32 demo (Sdw @ archive.worldofdragon.org)
  • Custom Waiter Radio Shack! Robbie junior adapted to the hacker rom project of hot coco magazine. (Luciano Sharf)
  • Playing Speed Racer straight from within the archive - now to build a nice front-end for that. (Simon Hardy)
• Feedback (1:04:52)
  • "So, please - avoid any malaise or burn out - those things are temporary. These podcasts are a fantastic resource for current and future CoConuts. And that is because of the personal effort you each put into it. That's what sold me on a podcast rather than just reading info... there's a personal aspect to the Crew that webpages can't capture." -- Robert Allen Murphey
  • "Nice job decoding why the heck I called the 16-color CoCoVGA mode VG6, John W. Linville." -- Brendan Donahe
  • "Announcing another download milestone -- 120,000!!" -- John W. Linville
• This Month In CoCo History -- February 1987 (1:10:57)
• Host Discussion -- How to restart a project after a long delay? (1:13:30)
• Interview w/ Phil Zwart (1:24:43)
• Neil's Corner -- Mark McDougall: Tech Talk on Knight Lore, Part 1 (2:07:42)
• Parting Thoughts (2:27:46)

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