CoCoCrew Episode 60

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:42)
  • CoCoFEST! is ?? months away
  • Tandy Assembly is 5 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:06:14)
  • 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
    
    
  • Dragon Meetup 2020: July 4-5, 2020 Venue is CURRENTLY CLOSED
  • Vintage Computer Festival Southeast: July 10-12, 2020 Canceled
  • KansasFest 2020: July 21-26, 2020 "Virtual KansasFest”: July 24-25, 2020
  • Tandy Assembly: Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2020
• News (0:15:39)
  
  • Some games in the Color Computer archive can now be played online with Ciaran's Xroar Online emulator! (Guillaume Major)
  • Coco3 light gun game, 'Iron Forest' (Rietveld Rietveld)
    Coco3 light gun game, 'Medieval Madness'
  • Copper Tape PCB Repair - Micro Tangent (Tech Tangents @ YouTube)
  • AM Radio to CoCo Cassette Port to Random Number Generator Software (John Mark Mobley)
  • The 80's arcade goodness of my latest #NerdStitch project is complete. (Glenda Adams)
  • well will you look at that! it's a Vectrex running on my oscilloscope! (TubeTimeUS @ Twitter)
    
    
  • Making PCBs With A Vinyl Cutter (Richard Baguley)
  • Autopatching coco1/2 games for the coco3 (Rietveld Rietveld)
    Autopatching coco1 / 2 games for the coco3 part 2
    RGB CC3 Patch Disk for the SDC
  • Why does PUNCHING Sonic 3D trigger a Secret Level Select? (GameHut @ YouTube)
  • Why build an entire computer on breadboards? (Ben Eater)
  • TNDLPT is a parallel port sound card that uses the SN76489 soundchip. (Serdashop)
  • Forget the Arduino and Pi, use your old PC! (SciCynical Inventing @ YouTube)
    
    
  • Announcement: pyDriveWire v0.5c - The Easy Install Edition (Michael Furman)
    Announcement: DwTerm v0.2 - ANSI Support Release
  • NitrOS-9 EOU (Ease of Use) Beta 5 released (L. Curtis Boyle)
  • I've adapted some Arduino sketches and created one to convert our old joysticks to USB. (Rick Bagwell)
  • GIME-X beta release (Ed Snider)
  • Episode 293: Dragonfear 2 on the Tandy Color Computer MC-10 (Jerry Young)
  • Al Alcorn, Creator of Pong, Explains How Early Home Computers Owe Their Color Graphics to This One Cheap, Sleazy Trick (Stephen Cass @ IEEE Spectrum)
    
    
  • Car Race Win (Jim Gerrie)
  • Rainbow Adventure (Jim Gerrie)
  • "Chairman of the Board" by Tim Hartnell (Jim Gerrie)
  • I put together a tool - 7800heat - that can be used for performance analysis of 7800 games (RevEng @ AtariAge)
  • Back in 2002, I bought Cloud-9’s OS-9 Level II ROM kit for a project that I didn’t end up finishing. (Christopher Hyzer)
  • INTELLIVISION ENTERTAINMENT ADDS RENOWNED GAME INDUSTRY VETERAN J ALLARD AS GLOBAL MANAGING DIRECTOR (Intellivision) AtariAge)
    
    
  • Mr. Dash SALT replacement voltage regulator tested in circuit. (Terry Trapp)
  • Adventures in embossing using 3D printed molds. (Chris Burke)
  • SuperBASIC: For the TRS-80 Color Computer (Jerry Stratton)
  • I am uploading here the source file for the DosPlus5.0 Extended (Pere Serrat)
  • I have created a library for 6809 assembly routines on GitHub. (Paul Thayer)
  • This my friends is an accomplishment 30+ years in the making. (Ed Mintonye III)
• Feedback (1:03:26)
  • "Great podcast. I really like the format. Having the summary notes is fantastic. I'm amazed you find the time every month to put this together." -- John Federico
  • "I love your show as a compact and concise download of coco knowledge." -- Terry Steen
  • "For some reason, don't ask me why as I can't explain the reason, the strange, idiosyncratic colors are just unusual enough that they are attractive to me in their own way." -- Adam Trionfo
  • "I got tired of John's dismissive attitude of other's projects and ambitions (and I know I'm not alone here). I ditched the Coco Crew over a year ago, no regrets. There are plenty of other podcasts out there where people are friendly and supportive. You dug your own grave John." -- Tony Cappellini
• This Month In CoCo History -- May, 1988 (1:11:57)
• Host Discussion -- Is "homebrew" a bad word? (1:14:48)
• Tech Segment -- CnoY (1:26:17)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Rampage (1:57:58)
• Parting Thoughts (2:01:01)

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