CoCoCrew Episode 66

Agenda

• Introduction (00:00:42)
  • CoCoFEST! is 5 months away (????)
  • Tandy Assembly is 10 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (00:08:16)
  • 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
    
    
  • CoCoFEST! 2021: April 24-25, 2021 (????)
  • Tandy Assembly 2021: Oct 1-3, 2021
• News (00:16:35)
  
  • I uploaded the f9dasm compatible info files for Color Baseball, Buzzard Bait, and ASA to GitHub. (Chet Simpson)
  • These are the 4 8-bit artifact color palette files Jason Law shared with me circa 2009... (Joel Ewy)
  • Adventures in VCC #2 (Jim Rye)
  • Digger III: The Saint's Ascension (Chet Simpson)
    
    
  • When Music Theory Goes Too Far (Charles Berthoud @ YouTube)
  • My Tileset Workflow (Pixel Art & Gamedev Tutorial) (MortMort @ YouTube)
  • Lesson P9 - 16 color Bitmap Drawing on the TRS-80 CoCo 3 (ChibiAkumas @ YouTube)
  • CoCo-2 Repair Guide 1 - A Subscriber's Coco Garbled Video! TRS-80 Color Computer video fix (ACs 8-Bit Zone @ YouTube)
    
    
  • The first public release of the new, updated Technical Reference manual for NitrOS-9 Level II/EOU (up to and including features in the upcoming Beta 6) is now available on the EOU Documentation page (L. Curtis Boyle)
  • Pipes - For the Tandy Color Computers 1, 2, 3 and Dragon. (Nick Marentes)
  • CoCo 3 Video Poker by CoCoBros (Tim Thayer)
    CoCo 3 Video Poker download
  • welcome to *quadraped* spudz.... (Simon Jonassen)
    this is gonna sound *different* - as instead of using 4 SIN wavs, i chose to use 2 squares, 1 saw and 1 triangle
    
    
  • Procedurally Generated Retrocomputer Emulators (Matthew Carlson @ Hackaday)
  • Want disk drives with only a cable? | Drivewire 3 | Up to 4 virtual drives on your Coco 1, 2 or 3 (8bitsinthebasement @ YouTube)
  • Found something interesting...a project in an old hobbyist electronics magazine called "Modern Electronics" (Andrew Ayers)
  • Send a tweet with a short program to @Atari8BitBot or @AppleIIBot and your program will run on an emulated Atari 8-bit or Apple II computer. (Kay Savetz & Bill Kendrick)
    
    
  • What's on your CoCo "Bucket List"? (Robert Murphey)
  • On Simpson’s Rule: Inspired by the “INTEGRATE” program in TRS-80 Color Computer Programs (James Jones)
  • Working on a game Warren's World: The Lost Colony for the MC-10 (Jim Gerrie)
  • Guy finds Tandy 1000 monitor in the woods. CM5 with vintage moss (Eighty Eighty Eight @ YouTube)
    
    
  • New SD cartridge for the MC-10 (MCX-32 SD) (Ed Snider)
  • Latest CoCoBan VLOG (Paul Thayer)
  • Save Spock: Battle At Vulcan (Jim Gerrie)
  • Improving on QBasic's Random Number Generator (Chris Wellons)
    
    
  • Compressing BASIC DATA with Base-64 – part 1 (Allen Huffman)
    Compressing BASIC DATA with Base-64 – part 2
  • I made this Doodle Jump clone about a year ago and you can download it here: http://matchygames.itch.io/jumpy (Mat Chy)
  • I did a small update on rsdostool and i also wanted to showcase my new semi 8 graphics drawing tool that im working on. (Sheldon MacDonald)
  • Dragon Tools is a collection of tools for working with the Dragon family of 1980s home computers from a Windows environment. (Rolf Michelsen)
    
    
  • So, this month is a bit of “taking stock” of where I've been, where I am, and where I am going. (Robert Murphey)
  • It compiles! 'It' is a Pascal program from Motorola to translate 6809 assembly code to 68000, going by the name of 'trans09'. (Joel Ewy)
  • Key Debounce Delay POKEs (Jim Gerrie)
  • Retail entrepreneurs buy twice-bankrupt RadioShack with plans for online revival (Aisha Al-Muslim @ The Wall Street Journal)
• This Month In CoCo History -- November 1983 (1:01:52)
• Feedback (1:04:28)
  • "Not enough Jim Gerrie in your last episode. You missed:
    http://youtu.be/fahKNu1aoSk
    http://youtu.be/HYagCLlyu1w
    and you missed the bell on your last post about me. Seriously, though, good show. Nice to hear folks are visiting the Halibag in Trenton. Thanks for the coverage." -- Jim Gerrie
  • "I am hoping my next blog update to AX2 Nostromo will really make it clearer what I have been doing and where I am vs. where its going..." -- Robert Murphey
  • "Congrats, may you have 150k more of good times 🙂" -- Chris Luckey
  • "wow, very nice! Congratulations and keep them coming 🙂" -- Paulo Garcia
  • What is your prefered CoCo game controller?
    • "I only use the original analog hockey pucks. It’s a big part of the Color Computer experience for me." -- Peter Cetenski
    • "Gravis analog joystick is my go to controller on the CoCo. It has nice arcade style buttons which can each be configured independently as button 1 or 2. It also has self centering and free floating modes. My second favourite is the Deluxe joystick, as it was my favourite as a teenager." -- David Kroeker
    • "Depends on the game. In most cases I prefer the Deluxe Joystick (Two Button), then the original black joysticks." -- David Ladd
  • Listener Question of the Month -- What else should we be covering?
• Host Discussion -- How to deal with deadbeat sellers? (1:14:14)
• Interview w/ Joe Scinta (1:28:42)
• Tech Segment -- Binary Coded Decimal (1:56:45)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Jumpy (02:19:41)
• Parting Thoughts (02:22:22)

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