CoCoCrew Episode 61

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:42)
  • CoCoFEST! is ?? months away (Glenside picnic in September? Something with VCF Midwest?)
  • Tandy Assembly is 4 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:08:03)
  • 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
  • KansasFest 2020: July 21-26, 2020 "Virtual KansasFest”: July 24-25, 2020
  • VCF West: August 1, 2020
  • VCF Midwest: September 12-13, 2020
  • Tandy Assembly: Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2020
• News (0:18:03)
  
  • New version of Coco SDC Explorer (SDCX) (Guillaume Major)
  • MINES PLUS for TRS-80 MC-10 (Fabrizio Caruso)
  • Here’s why “baking” damaged reel-to-reel tapes renders them playable again (Jennifer Ouellette @ Ars Technica)
  • OS9 shell on a real CMS 9619! (Eric Poch)
  • [Coco] Announcement : Nitros-9 C compiler tool cross chain for Linux (Walter Zambotti)
  • Quick update on the SALT replacement front. (Terry Trapp)
  • Typing Attack - found my old game in the June 1985 issue of Australia Coco/Mico magazine (Darren Ottery)
  • An idiot's guide to PyDriveWire, DWterm, and Telnet BBSing (ogStevieStrow)
    
    
  • "At some point you need to shoot the developers and ship the product." -- Temple of ROM II (Rick Adams)
  • Done the finishing touches to my wifi-enabled Dragon (Tony Jewell)
  • [Coco] CMOC 0.1.65 for Windows (without Cygwin) (Tormod Volden)
  • 6522 Versatile Interface Adapter (Nigel Cleaver)
  • How to Read a Floppy Disk on a Modern PC or Mac (Benj Edwards)
  • [Coco] C compiler self-hosting on NitrOS9 again! (Jeff Teunissen)
  • MM/1 Computer 256 Color Display and Strange Color Artifacts (Joel Ewy)
  • A couple of GIME-X related videos (Ed Snider)
    
    
  • [Coco] CoCo tutorials YouTube play list (OgStevieStrow)
  • [Coco] YA-DOS-0.5a (and up) compatible HDD image (Ron Klein)
  • Billy Mitchell takes his Donkey Kong high-score cheating case to court (Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica)
  • A C compiler for the 6800/6803/6303 processors (Alan Cox)
  • I just finished up a handy tool for LWASM and MAME called LST2CMT that lets you put your source code in the MAME debugger for easier troubleshooting. (Eric Canales)
  • The game Foggys Quest that I have been using to test the port of the AGD engine for the video chip V9958 is already finished (Pere Serrat)
  • Mahjong Beta (Jim Gerrie)
  • Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC (Rich Turner)
    
    
  • Scapegoating COBOL? (Mar Hicks)
  • What makes a system "Retro" - open discussion (c0op3r @ AtariAge)
  • Interesting new programme from the archive. "Music Sheet Paper for the DMP-105. (Michael Kline)
  • Dragon Mass Storage devices comparison (bluearcus @ archive.worldofdragon.org)
  • Tektronix explains analog video color, 1979 (atwaterpub @ YouTube)
  • The best Right to Repair testimony in Maryland came from a 16 year old. (Louis Rossmann)
  • Living Computers: Museum + Labs is closing for now (info@livingcomputers.org)
  • Circle the Date: CMoA to (re)Open Friday, June 5th (info@computermuseumofamerica.org)
• Feedback (1:05:40)
  • "Tandy Assembly needs to happen - hoping all of the stars line up for that." -- Robert Murphey
  • "Is it possible some americans just don't know how to understand the accents of other bits of america?" -- Ciaran Anscomb
• Host Discussion -- What CoCo software did you use the most? (1:11:57)
• Interview w/ Simon Jonassen and Paul Fiscarelli (1:23:25)
• This Month In CoCo History -- June 1983 (1:55:57)
• Neil's Corner -- 3D Monster Maze (1:57:10)
• Parting Thoughts (1:59:55)

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