CoCoCrew Episode 58

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:38)
  • CoCoFEST! is was 1 month away
  • Tandy Assembly is 7 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:09:46)
  • 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
    
    
  • CoCoFEST! Challenge:Ends Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 11:59 PM CDT CANCELLED
    
    
  • Midwest Gaming Classic: April 3-5, 2020 CANCELLED
  • 29th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 18-19, 2020 POSTPONED (date pending)
  • Vintage Computer Festival East: April 24-26, 2020 POSTPONED until October 10-12, 2020
  • Dragon Meetup 2020: July 4-5, 2020
  • Vintage Computer Festival Southeast: July 10-12, 2020
  • KansasFest 2020: July 21-26, 2020 Registration delayed until April 30
  • Portland Retro Gaming Expo: Aug 14-16, 2020 CANCELLED
  • Tandy Assembly: Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2020
• News (0:23:09)
  
  • Deluxe Joystick Long Arm 3D printable STL (Scott Kelly)
    Deluxe Joystick Short Arm 3D printable STL
  • So I posted to the Deluxe Joystick page on the CoCopedia... (Robert Allen Murphey)
  • Now you can browse the entire archive and click "Play Now" on supported files to play the game in Xroar Online. (Simon Hardy)
  • Dragon 32 Upper RAM (Memory) Repair MkII Boards (Dragon Data Archive @ YouTube)
  • Secret of Flagstone Manor Adventure (Jim Gerrie)
  • TRS-80 MC-10 256x192 graphics screen demo. (Gerardus1970 @ YouTube)
    
    
  • NTSC/Composite With Standard Logic - Vertical Timing Section - (JCM-1 Episode 12) (Joe's Computer Museum @ YouTube)
    NTSC/Composite With Standard Logic - Pixel Timing Section - (JCM-1 Episode 13) (Joe's Computer Museum @ YouTube)
  • Rock Hopper (Alpha) (Jim Gerrie)
  • Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain (Samantha Cole @ Vice)
  • Downland for TRS-80 CoCo recreated on Nintendo Switch in Super Mario Maker 2 (Downland1983 @ AtariAge)
  • Open BETA for CoCoGROW!! (Jay Searle)
  • Direct Memory Access Possibilities on the TANDY Color Computer (Jim Brain)
    
    
  • Just to let you all know I have put the dissassembled, re-assembleable and commented source for the Dragon 32 & 64 ROMS online... (Prime @ World Of Dragon)
  • TRS-80 MC-10 Bouncing Ball Demo (Jim Gerrie)
  • Kicking off my project for the CocoFest contest (Scott Wendt)
  • Hacking "Astro Battle" ("Space Invaders") on the Bally Arcade/Astrocade (Adam Trionfo)
  • VHS tapes are back in vogue as everything old is new again (Daniel Arkin)
  • After almost 40 years of service, this Apple ll is still punching out patterns at a wool blanket factory! (opalextra @ reddit)
    
    
  • Z80 Computer Is Both Arduino And Shield (Erin Pinheiro @ Hackaday)
  • The Z79Forth reference board now is a regular slave USB device (Francois Laagel)
  • Color BASIC optimization challenge – scaling (Allen Huffman)
  • The Time Machine/De Tijdmachine (Jim Gerrie)
  • Here's a link to XRoar's site for debugger information (Ron Klein)
  • Linux Kernel's Floppy Disk Code Is Seeing Improvements In 2020 (Michael Larabel @ Phoronix)
    
    
  • Just in case anyone is wondering, the Asimov Awards are NOT canceled (Diego Barizo)
  • Darren Ottery's Frog Master game from the 80's (Brian Palmer)
  • Thanks @RetroGamer_Mag We agreed to supply you our Console Cards & you copy the idea & create a tatty version! Nice thing to do to a charity! (@computerhistorymuseum on Twitter)
  • Kicking Bishop Brennan (Ciaran Anscomb)
  • Just received a new revision back on the little CoCo2 clone board I've been fiddling with. (Ed Snider)
  • CocoPi3 - Getting online to a BSS (Ron Klein)
• Feedback (1:07:30)
  • "During my brief foray into optimizing older games for the 6309, there were a few that I was able to optimize noticeably even for the 6809, and in the case of games written by Dave Dies, one could actually follow his progression in optimized 6809 coding as his career progressed, and he used more advanced techniques (his first games he did as a teenager in high school), which I found historically fascinating..." -- L. Curtis Boyle
  • "I've listened to the last episode of @CoCoCrewPodcast and I can say without any doubt, it is one of the best so far. Very informative, full of good content, great interview. Nice job!" -- @VintageNewOld on Twitter
  • "John, please take note that even as you are trying to work through extreme disappointment - that you encouraged people to take the time and learn something CoCo related." -- Robert Allen Murphey
  • "If you really think that canceling CoCoFEST! 2020 is an overreaction... look at the demographics of the CoCoFEST! attendees and look at what happened (and will continue to happen for weeks yet) in Italy - very similar demographics." -- Steve Stroh
• Host Discussion -- Social distancing... (1:15:01)
• Interview w/ Carl England (1:34:50)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of GunStar (2:06:02)
• Parting Thoughts (2:12:07)

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