CoCoCrew Episode 68

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:41)
  • CoCoFEST! is 2 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is 7 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:10:00)
  • 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
    
    
  • Vintage Computer Festival East 2021: April 9, 10 & 11, 2021
  • CoCoFEST! 2021: April 24-25, 2021
  • Vintage Computer Festival West 2021: August 7 & 8, 2021
  • Tandy Assembly 2021: Oct 1-3, 2021
• News (0:19:04)
  
  • Color Code (Jim Gerrie)
  • How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive (Josh Giesbrecht @ The Atlantic)
  • A Portable Serial Terminal That Should Be From The 1970s (Jenny List @ Hackaday)
  • Making a HICOLOR2 image for the Tandy Color Computer 3 (Ron Delvaux)
    
    
  • What commands can be eliminated from BASIC and it can still be called BASIC? (Jeff Wood)
  • Glenside Updates (Jim Brain)
  • Why I chose QBasic at work to develop drafting solutions. (Jovan Trujillo)
  • Adaptação do joystick QuickShot para o Color. (Luciano Scharf)
    
    
  • "Creation" By Clive Gifford (Jim Gerrie)
  • MCX32-SD File Browser Update V1.1 (Darren Ottery)
    Update to version 1.2 of my MCX32-SD file browser for the MCX32-SD and Emcee server. (Darren Ottery)
  • Real Audio Pac for the Tandy Color Computer (Nick Marentes)
  • Benchmarking the CoCo keyboard – part 1 (Allen Huffman)
    Benchmarking the CoCo keyboard – part 2
    Benchmarking the CoCo keyboard – part 3
    Benchmarking the CoCo keyboard – part 4
    Benchmarking the CoCo keyboard – part 5
    Benchmarking the CoCo keyboard – part 6
    Benchmarking the CoCo keyboard – part 7
    
    
  • Can we fix bad chips ... in the oven? (Adrian's Digital Basement @ YouTube)
  • Introducing the MaxDuino ULTIMATE from YouMakeRobots.com - Unboxing & Overview (Chris's Retro Corner @ YouTube)
  • CoCo~123 Newsletters (Glenside Color Computer Club)
  • MCX32-SD Server DIR patch (Daren Atkinson)
    
    
  • adding functions to asm... what? (Sheldon MacDonald)
    update 2 of my functions progress in asm 6809
  • SDCX 1.10 is now available! (Guillaume Major)
    SDCX 1.20 is now available!
  • CoCo~123 Volume 40 Issue 3 now ready! (Steve Strowbridge)
  • I just wrote an RPN calculator for the CoCo. It uses the Motorola 6839 floating point ROM. (Tim Lindner)
    
    
  • Pipelined 6809 microprocessor IP (Kevin Phillipson)
  • We're all at the mercy of this decades-old programming language, but we’ve been thinking about it all wrong (Joel Khalili @ techradar)
  • Why Music Theory Has NO RULES (And How To Learn It) (MusicTheoryForGuitar @ YouTube)
  • Exploring Atari VCS/2600 Adventure – part 1 (Allen Huffman)
    Exploring Atari VCS/2600 Adventure – part 2
    Exploring Atari VCS/2600 Adventure – part 3
    Exploring Atari VCS/2600 Adventure – part 4
    
    
  • AHHA "Another Haunted House Adventure" (Jim Gerrie)
  • Happy New Year We're celebrating with a new release for: !!!! VCC 2.1.0c !!!! (Bill Pierce)
  • Bill Nobel and I are proud to announce the initial release of NitrOS-9 Ease of Use (EOU) Beta 6. (L. Curtis Boyle)
  • A new, cheap and good solution for CoCo 3 RGB to HDMI solution is coming Up. (Thomas Winkler)
    
    
  • Six Common Mistakes Made When Recapping Vintage Electronics (Blueglow Electronics @ YouTube)
  • Dungeons of Dagorath - on a Vectrex (Vide Malban @ YouTube)
  • I've patched the sound routine in Sierra's Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) so you can skip the music by pressing the spacebar key. (Guillaume Major)
  • Adafruit interviews Tai Lopez, new owner of RadioShack! (Adafruit Industries)
• Feedback (1:04:10)
  • "Really enjoyed the Chipmunks CoCo Crew jingle. Nostalgic, clever, fun! And the show was good too... 😄" -- David Kroeker
  • "Double-Dabble can be used as the basis for converting binary numbers into ASCII." -- George Phillips
  • "Good show. Excellent interview with Chris." -- Blake Douglas
  • "Another great show guys!" -- Robert Allen Murphey
• This Month In CoCo History -- January 1993 (01:06:02)
• Host Discussion -- Does "ease of use" matter for hobbyists? (1:08:54)
• Tech Segment -- Software Development w/ CoCoPi (1:23:17)
• Neil's Corner -- CoCoSDC Explorer (1:29:31)
• Parting Thoughts (1:34:35)

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