CoCoCrew Episode 69

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:41)
  • CoCoFEST! is ??? months away
  • Tandy Assembly is 7 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:07:34)
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  • Email addresses
    
    
    • show@cococrew.org
    • podcast@cococrew.org
    • feedback@cococrew.org
    
    
    • john@cococrew.org
    • neil@cococrew.org
    • mike@cococrew.org
    • boisy@cococrew.org
    
    
  • 10th Edition of BASIC 10 Liner Contest
    • Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 27, 2021, 6 p.m. CET
    • Award ceremony: Saturday, April 10, 2021 at NOMAM
    
    
  • ParserComp is a competition for text based games which use the text inpput & output parser system as the primary way of ‘controlling’ the game.
    • The ParserComp competition page on itch.io 10 (see links section below) will be available from April 1st, from this point onwards (through to submission cut-off) it will be possible to register.
    • May & June - Submission Window Open
    • July - Voting Window
    • August 1st - Results Announced
    
    
  • CoCoFEST! 2021: April 24-25, 2021 POSTPONED, date TBA
    • Please consider helping us select our 2021 date
  • KansasFest 2021: 16-Bit Virtual Edition: July 23-24, 2021
  • VCF West 2021: Aug 7-8, 2021
  • Southern-Fried Gaming Expo 2021: Aug 20-22, 2021
  • Tandy Assembly 2021: Oct 1-3, 2021
  • VCF East 2021 – Rescheduled!: Oct 8-10, 2021
• News (0:24:07)
  
  • Jim Gerrie shows up in the strangest places. (Allen Huffman)
  • This is an updated release of VCC 2.1.0c (Bill Pierce)
  • TRS80 MODEM I converted to wifi (Rietveld Rietveld)
  • i got my usb joystick adapter working with a tandy controller! (Sheldon MacDonald)
    
    
  • Simple two player game loosely based on the classic "Spacewar!" (Jim Gerrie)
    Pirate Adventure Update
    Speed Demon
    The Explorer
    Slap Shot Basic 10Liner Game
  • Read BASIC out loud (Jerry Stratton)
  • No, COBOL Is Not a Dead Language (Christine Hall @ Data Center Knowledge)
  • The untold Hackaday life of the guy who made FlightSim 1 for RadioShack's TRS-80 computer (Katie Wickens @ PC Gamer)
    
    
  • Detokenizers for Microsoft BASICs (Edmond Orignac)
  • To assist others who are trying to print out the Instructions for CC3 FAX, here is a Word doc formatted nicely. (Brian Schubring)
  • Zero Hour Development Blog Chapter 01 (Nick Marentes)
  • So far the primary test game for the KAOS Rendering Engine is a nifty game called Alter Ego (Chet Simpson)
    Alter Ego Checkpoint #1
    
    
  • I made a text reader for the MCX-32 and for my first test book the whole Bible. (Robert Sieg)
  • Adapter for Atari / C64 to Tandy Joystick (Cybernetic Systems @ Tindie)
  • New Coco3 game update (MrDave @ AtariAge)
  • Pigs can be taught how to use joysticks, experiment finds (Sara Spary and Ada Wood @ CNN)
    
    
  • Daniel Campos, together with a couple of his friends were able to find an LZ Color 64, a rare Brazilian coco 1 clone, down at a flea market. (Erico Patricio Monteiro)
  • The Inaudible Sounds That Make Movies Scarier - Cheddar Explains (Cheddar @ YouTube)
  • Looking Deeper into Hello World in C -- char Type and Characters and Strings (Joel Rees)
  • Gotek Games image (Rietveld Rietveld)
    
    
  • FlashPak (RETRO Innovations)
  • we now have a Template to recreate the Hires original box (Antonio Carlos Jimenez Ely)
  • I got some music macro language running in assembly! (Sheldon MacDonald)
  • Nostromo: Dispatching (Robert "Exile In Paradise" Murphey)
    
    
  • SDCX 1.25 cosmetic update! (Guillaume Major)
  • I’ve made the MICROCOLOR BASIC compiler public. (Greg Dionne)
  • I created a GitHub Actions demo here http://github.com/jamieleecho/hello-mc10 that illustrates how to use GitHub Actions to automatically... (Jamie Cho)
  • KAOS Rendering Engine Milestone #2 (Chet Simpson)
    For those that are interested in what type of functionality is being implemented in KAOS here's the 25 page overview.
    One of the tests I did recently showed some promising things for interfacing KAOS to C.
    
    
  • DriveWirelesly for the Color Computer (Chris Luckey)
  • This evening I released DriveWire 4 Server for macOS v1.2.1 to address some issues with the Sparkle updater. (Boisy Pitre)
  • There's an OS-9 Prolog interpreter from Metasoft in the archive. The documentation came in the form... (Joel Ewy)
  • Because I've only ever read enthusiastic articles about the PiTrex, I want to write something critical. (Tilo Tw)
• Feedback (1:05:22)
  • "Is this a group of Conan o'brien's fans or not?" -- David Rivera (http://www.facebook.com/groups/1606095809633762)
  • "I am developing a drop-in replacement for the Control program that is part of Multi-Vue for OS9 & NitrOS9. The Control program allows you to change all sorts of environmental settings for Multi-Vue. I felt the original Control program was a bit dated, so I'm writing a replacement." -- Frederick D Provoncha (http://www.facebook.com/groups/1606095809633762/permalink/2819760671600597/)
• This Month In CoCo History -- February 1984, Rainbow Check Plus (1:08:46)
• Host Discussion -- Is "full set" collecting a healthy obsession? Do you "Gotta catch em' all!"? (1:11:31)
• Interview w/ John Strong (1:25:52)
• Tech Segment -- Color PILOT (1:42:47)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Space Bandits by Jamie Cho (2:07:26)
• Parting Thoughts (2:10:32)

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