CoCoCrew Episode 59

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:20)
  • CoCoFEST! is ??? months away
  • Tandy Assembly is 6 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:10:01)
  • 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
    
    
  • Dragon Meetup 2020: July 4-5, 2020 Venue is CURRENTLY CLOSED
  • Vintage Computer Festival Southeast: July 10-12, 2020
  • KansasFest 2020: July 21-26, 2020 "Virtual KansasFest”, July 24-25, 2020
  • Tandy Assembly: Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2020
• News (0:19:45)
  
  • Pentominos (Jim Gerrie)
  • Position Independent Code (6502) on the Commodore VIC-20 (Lawrence Woodman)
  • Even 25 Years Later, the Iomega Zip Is Unforgettable (Benj Edwards)
  • I came across an interesting probability problem a few days ago... (Steve Ostrom)
  • Have created Coco and Dragon versions of the following text adventures (Jim Gerrie)
  • Here is my entry for the Basic #10liner Contest 2020: CovidBreaker (Davide Fichera)
  • Modified DW disk images to run with the Sidekick menu system (Rietveld Rietveld)
    
    
  • I wrote a little game for the Coco1/2/3 this week. Hope you enjoy it! (Alison DeNu)
  • Build This 8-Bit Home Computer With Just 5 Chips (Matt Sarnoff)
  • Tandy Color Computer 3 RND Function (John Mark Mobley)
  • The Devil's Whist (Jim Gerrie)
  • Infocom Tribute Jam (BlindHunter @ itch.io)
  • This just in: there’s a desperate need for hundreds of COBOL programmers in the state of New Jersey. (Kenneth Udut)
  • IBM will offer free COBOL training to address overloaded unemployment systems (Tom Maxwell @ Input)
    
    
  • The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993--Illustrated Edition (Jordan Mechner)
  • PC connected to the DB9 (ie Atari style) joystick of his NEC PC6001 Z80 machine...to send images to his 8bit computer (Carlos Camacho)
  • RetroChallenge April 2020: Mazies and Crazies (Jim Gerrie)
  • IF AND/OR THEN versus IF THEN IF (Allen Huffman)
  • asteroids.asm is a pretty good conversion for the 6809 (Graham Toal on "Vectrex Fans Unite!" FB page)
  • Heroes of the pandemic: Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of COVID-19 fight (Joe O'Connor @ National Post)
  • John Horton Conway, Creator Of Conway’s Game Of Life, Has Died (Mike Szczys)
    
    
  • So many broken things but now fixed. (Scott Wendt)
    “Buttoning” up the prototype
  • CoCo DMA: All Charged Up! (Jim Brain)
  • CoCoFEST! Challenge Consolation Gift (Jim Brain)
  • Thoughts? Does this look fun? (John Linville)
  • Random "happy hour", anyone? (John Linville)
  • Fahrfall music alternatives? (John Linville)
  • OK, time for CoCo Crew listeners to get a pandemic bonus... (John Linville)
• Feedback (1:05:46)
  • "[T]he bylaw change requestor asked the bylaws discussion be tabled until after the fest, just to free up discussion time. All that said, I can’t argue that the lack of fest agenda items itself is a miss." -- Jim Brain
  • "Greetings CoCoCrew! I'm trying something new for CoCoCrew feedback this month... let me know if its good, meh, or bad..." -- Robert Allen Murphey
• Host Discussion -- Are "collectors" different from the rest of us? (1:10:00)
• Tech Segment -- Using data BLOBs in assembly language (1:26:30)
• This Month In CoCo History -- April 1983 (1:50:17)
• Neil's Corner -- Mark McDougall: Tech Talk on Knight Lore, Part 1 (1:52:11)
• Interview w/ George Dorner (2:19:04)
• Parting Thoughts (2:41:34)

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