CoCoCrew Episode 63

Agenda

• Introduction (0:0:40)
  • CoCoFEST! is 8 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is 14 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:10:09)
  • 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
  • VCF East 2020 Virtual Hybrid Show: October 10-11, 2020
  • Tandy Assembly: Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2020 CANCELED
  • CoCoFEST! 2021: April 24-25, 2021
• News (0:17:15)
  
  • The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie (NDC Conferences @ YouTube)
  • On COBOL (Mike Loukides)
  • Nostromo: ASSEMBLING THE BLOCKS (Robert Allen Murphey)
  • Captain Kirk’s Favorite 80s Commodore Computer Returns For Retro Glory With THEVIC20 (Paul Lilly @ hothardware.com)
    
    
  • A short film about 8-BIT Computer Games... (Andy Remic)
  • "Touch Down" Usborne Computer Game (Jim Gerrie)
  • Dragon-MSX2+ music and effects in action! (Pere Serrat)
  • RetroMagazine World issue #01 English is here! (RetroMagazine World)
    
    
  • While recapping may not always be necessary... (Jonathan Felchlin)
  • PLASMA 2.0 Alpha 1 Released (David Schmenck)
  • Nintendo Super Mario Bros. video game sets record selling for $114,000. Do you have a sealed copy? (Kelly Tyko @ USA Today)
  • Percom SYstem MOnitor (PSYMON) 1.20B (Robert Allen Murphey)
    
    
  • Learn 6809 Assembly Coding Lesson 1 - For absolute beginners! (ChibiAkumas @ YouTube)
  • Unboxing the Color Computer and Micro Color Computer Family – Tandy Lab (Newsmakers Tech @ YouTube)
  • Digger III (Chet Simpson)
  • Update to Akalabet (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • I was asked to document the process to replace the Belts on the Tandy CCR-82 Computer Cassette Player. (Brian Schubring)
  • Charles Bartlett's Coco 3 card game "Ono" working on MC-10. (Jim Gerrie)
  • Old-school Disk Partitioning (Warner Losh)
  • Progress on OS-9 Level 2 using 4 KB block size (Søren Roug)
    
    
  • Another game scavenged from the Alice. (Jim Gerrie)
  • Missile Command by Andrew Black Dragon User 1983. (Jim Gerrie)
  • Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates (James Vincent @ The Verge)
  • Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google (Jon Corbet @ LWN)
    
    
  • This week @InternetArchive filed this response to the lawsuit brought against us by Hachette, John Wiley & Sons, & Penguin Random House (Internet Archive @ Twitter)
  • Why should I learn assembly language in 2020? (complete waste of time?) (Jacob Sorber @ YouTube)
  • Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks (Tom Warren @ The Verge)
  • How did Ghostbusters know your bank account balance?! (Retro Recipes @ YouTube)
    
    
  • Sample output from my TP-10 simulator program: 72 dpi and 600 dpi. (Curtis F. Kaylor)
  • Sneak peek on a new work in progress. (BoysonTech)
    The newest redesign.
  • Escape from Color BASIC: BASIC09 for Color BASIC Users (James Jones)
  • A TRS-80 Color Computer Commercial Quality Action/Fight Game in BASIC, part 1 (Erico Monteiro)
    A TRS-80 Color Computer Commercial Quality Action/Fight Game in BASIC, part 2
    A TRS-80 Color Computer Commercial Quality Action/Fight Game in BASIC, part 3
• This Month In CoCo History -- August, 1983 (0:57:05)
• Feedback (0:59:53)
  • "Thanks to the gang at the CoCo Crew Podcast for reaching out to interview me...it was a lot of fun, plus it was great dusting off some off my old brain cells! 😃" -- Fran Purcell
  • "Keep up the good work." -- Karl Von Winkle
  • "I use an emulator if I want to play a game which uses the keyboard as controller. I find it less creaky than the Coco keyboard." -- Hugo Dufort
  • "I use an emu when developing, as it's extremely easy to just assemble and test without having to transfer to floppy or SD or use drivewire..." -- Simon Jonassen
  • When do you prefer to use an emulator?
  • Listener Question of the Month -- Are you a Veteran, Alumni, Tourist, or Newbie?
• Host Discussion -- At what point do "core" upgrades distort the hobby? (1:07:05)
• Interview w/ Curtis Kaylor (1:23:18)
• Neil's Corner -- CoCo gaming sans upgrades (1:39:06)
• Parting Thoughts (1:42:57)

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