CoCoCrew Episode 62

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:38)
  • 40 years of Tandy (TRS-80) Color Computer!!
  • CoCoFEST! is ?? months away (Glenside picnic in September? Something with VCF Midwest?)
  • Tandy Assembly is 3 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:08:18)
  • 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
    
    
  • VCF Midwest: September 12-13, 2020 CANCELED
  • Tandy Assembly: Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2020
  • CoCoFEST! 2021: April 24-25, 2021
• News (0:15:50)
  
  • Shift-Break-Reset: Recollections from the CoCo 1 days (Arthur Flexser)
  • Quick RadioShack MC10 tape and CW demo (Ingmar Meins)
  • Sega Prepares Console Comeback, And They’re About to Get Wrecked (Max Moeller @ CCN)
  • LCD Module 4 Bit Mode with 6522 VIA (Robin Harris)
    
    
  • Follow up on my Vectrex Joystick repair. (David Galloway)
  • Setting up an MC-10 with an MCX-128 and Emcee to load software (Steve Strowbridge)
  • Here is the Timberman source code (minus the resource files)... (Paul Thayer)
  • I just couldn't stop with the cas to basic script I coded yesterday. (Julian Brown)
    
    
  • The Grand Staff, Clefs and Middle C - Music Skills 101 (Alun Cadwaladr)
  • Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive (Timothy B. Lee @ Ars Technica)
  • Reconstructing a lost NES game from 30-year-old source code disks (Rich Whitehouse)
  • If you bought a CRT monitor, TV 13+ years ago, hold on a little longer... (Shaun Nichols @ The Register)
    
    
  • I have a feeling this is going to keep getting better. 😄 (Ed Snider)
  • A TRS-80 Color Computer (Dragon) commercial quality action/fight game (Erico Patricio Monteiro)
  • Recently I was surprised to discover that in BASIC09 you can assign things other than "atomic" types. (James Jones)
  • The Bytes Brothers Brent and Barry solve their neighborhood mysteries... (David Youd)
    
    
  • XRoar Windows packaging - good? bad? (Ciaran Anscomb)
  • XRoar 0.36 released (Ciaran Anscomb)
  • A working chiptunes player for OS-9! (Todd Wallace)
  • MC-10 8K Internal Mod (Ed Snider)
    
    
  • I'm working on porting Fargoal from VIC to MC-10. (Jim Gerrie)
    Sword of Fargoal/Gammaquest II
  • BoysonTech is proud to announce to be another source for the CoCo SDC*. (Richard Lorbieski)
  • "3D Monster Maze" a brand new game cartridge for your CoCo! (Neil Blanchard)
    "Bomb Threat" a game cartridge for your CoCo!
  • Dunjunz & Dragons: Wait, there's more! (Ciaran Anscomb)
    
    
  • The Best Easy Way to Capture Analog Video (it's a little weird) (Technology Connections @ YouTube)
  • Designing 3D Printed Enclosures For KiCad PCBs (Tom Nardi @ Hackaday)
  • Reversi in SuperBASIC on the Color Computer (Jerry Stratton)
    Convert PCBASIC code to TRS-80 Extended Color BASIC
  • Rally-SG is based on the arcade game Rally-X from Namco. (Nick Marentes)
    
    
  • Another CP-450 recovered. Working perfectly after a general cleaning [...] (Luciano Scharf)
  • Adding a serial interface - MC6850 ACIA (Robin Harris)
  • Is C still a high level language? (Swastik Baranwal)
  • On the closing of Living Computers: Museum+Labs (Josh Dersch)
• Feedback (1:03:17)
  • "There really should be a paypal donation and/or patreon link to let folks give back for the show." -- Robert Murphey
  • Listener Question of the Month -- When do you prefer to use an emulator?
• Host Discussion -- "It belongs in a museum!" -- does it? (http://twitter.com/48kRAM/status/1266392409337929731?s=09) (1:10:47)
• Interview w/ Fran Purcell (1:23:34)
• Tech Segment -- pseudo-random numbers w/ LFSRs (2:17:15)
• This Month In CoCo History -- July 1986 (2:35:26)
• Neil's Corner -- The Gamester (2:38:29)
• Parting Thoughts (2:44:37)

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