CoCoCrew Episode 65

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:20)
  • CoCoFEST! is 6 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is 11 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:08:02)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, and tunein.
  • Available as video episodes on YouTube
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  • 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
    
    
  • CoCoFEST! 2021: April 24-25, 2021
  • Tandy Assembly 2021: Oct 1-3, 2021
• News (0:14:00)
  
  • "Halifax Tail Gunner" game for the TRS-80 MC-10 (Jim Gerrie)
  • GIME-X with 8MB of RAM (Ed Snider)
  • Cosmic Aliens for the Color Computer 1,2,3 and Dragon is now available for free at http://cosmicaliens.com (Stevie Strow)
  • Why would you want a Cassette Deck for your PC? | Tech Nibble (RMC - The Cave)
    
    
  • General Accounting Program (GAP) for TRS-80 MC-10 (Jim Gerrie)
  • The Importance of Keyframes / Run Cycles (Video Game Animation Study @ YouTube)
  • How to Waterproof Electronics || Nail Polish, Silicone, Potting Compound (GreatScott! @ YouTube)
  • My First Basic BASIC Video Game: Part 1 (CanadianRetroThings @ YouTube)
    My First Basic BASIC Video Game: Part2
    
    
  • LEM Creative Computing 1976 - #SepTandy (Jim Gerrie)
  • TRS-80 Color Computer 3 - CocoBan Game Development Vlog Episode #2 (Paul Thayer)
    CoCoBan Development 10-18-2020
  • 3 PixelArt Techniques/Common Mistakes (Doubles, Jaggies & Outline) (Tutorial for Beginners) (MortMort @ YouTube)
  • Sampled sound 1980s style: from SN76489 square waves to samples (Chris Evans / scarybeasts)
    
    
  • Alpha version of a new game port of the classic Japanese game Heiankyo Alien (Jim Gerrie)
  • I'm finishing off my reverse engineering of the arcade game Defender. (Aaron Bottegal)
  • "Ladderman 2" (a.k.a. "Super Ladderman") - Version 0.9W. (Richard Kelly)
  • Welcome back to my stream-of-consciousness log of converting AX2 Uchu Yusosen Nostromo (Robert Allen Murphey)
    
    
  • How to choose the right capacitor type for a circuit?! || Film vs. Ceramic vs. Electrolytic (GreatScott! @ YouTube)
  • Repository of information from the development of the Star Spores assembly-language game for the TRS-80 Color Computer in 1983/84 (dshadoff @ GitHub)
  • 6809 ASM Lesson 5 - More Maths - Logical Ops, Bit shifts and more (ChibiAkumas @ YouTube)
    Lesson P8 - Sound on the Dragon / Tandy CoCo
  • A recent post in this group brought up the topic of floppy disk failure rates. (Joel Ewy)
    
    
  • Adventures in VCC #1 (JimRye @ YouTube)
    Adventures in VCC #2
  • OVCC 1.4.0 with Tandy Hi-res mouse/joystick support released (Walter Zambotti)
  • In the 80s Alps made a 4pen printer/plotter mech that everyone used. For Radio Shack it was the CGP-115 printer. (Jeff Birt)
  • MCX32-SD (Darren Atkinson)
    
    
  • Decoy Beta (Jim Gerrie)
  • New high-res switchbox available for pre order (Jason Reighard)
  • early psg player work in progress! (Sheldon MacDonald)
    i have the psg now playing percussion.
  • I made a test program to test the DRAM of COCO 2 that is not using RAM to run. (Denis Bisson)
    
    
  • Aliens Update (Jim Gerrie)
  • 2.1 Million of the Oldest Internet Posts Are Now Online for Anyone to Read (Samantha Cole @ Vice)
  • This disk...contains software to read a smartwatch while using a cocosdc in an mpi with the smartwatch in one of the mpi slots. (Robert Gault)
  • Can someone explain why the CoCo 1 destroys the CoCo 3 in speed? (Michael Pittsley)
• Feedback (0:54:42)
  • "I appreciate the gracious shoutout!" -- Rick Adams
  • "MAME does a good job of emulating hardware at hardware speed. OTOH, "MAME documentation" is sort of like [insert favorite oxymoron here], and the various ways different .ini files override one another kept me from getting it to run for some time." -- James Jones
  • "The Gamester sounds awesome and I am definitely saving up for one for Xmas..." -- Robert Allen Murphey
  • Listener Question of the Month -- What is your prefered CoCo game controller?
• Host Discussion -- Does CB/ECB/SECB and/or DECB count as an OS? (0:59:00)
• Tech Segment -- Stack Blasting (1:17:12)
• This Month In CoCo History -- October 1990 (1:44:21)
• Neil's Corner -- Reviews of Cosmic Aliens & Digger III (1:46:16)
• Parting Thoughts (1:51:02)

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