CoCoCrew Episode 71

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:05)
  • Tandy Assembly is 5 months away!
  • CoCoFEST! is 7 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:05:11)
  • 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
    
    
  • Glenside Virtual Meeting Software Changes
    
    
  • BASIC 10Liners 2021 - The results
    
    
  • 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
      
      
    • Good Luck for ParserComp 2021 (Steve Meretzky)
    
    
  • KansasFest 2021: July 23-24, 2021
  • VCF West 2021: Aug 7-8, 2021
  • Southern-Fried Gaming Expo 2021: Aug 20-22, 2021
  • Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 16: September 11-12, 2021
  • Tandy Assembly 2021: Oct 1-3, 2021
  • VCF East 2021 – Rescheduled!: Oct 8-10, 2021
  • The Midwest Gaming Classic: Nov 5-7, 2021
  • “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!: Nov 6-7, 2021
• News (0:19:32)
  
  • Another David Ahl classic, "Acey Ducey," now for the MC-10 (Jim Gerrie)
  • zx0-6x09 is a Motorola 6809 and Hitachi 6309 decompressor for the ZX0 data compression format by Einar Saukas. (Doug Masten)
  • enjoy the mindwarp (Simon Jonassen)
  • Calculating the color palette of the VIC II (Philip 'Pepto' Timmermann)
  • LEO BRODIE FORTH 2020 ZOOM-7-2021 (Forth2020 @ YouTube)
    
    
  • This is how you exist and move on this game. (Erico Patricio Monteiro)
    Here is the Coco fight game I'm up to featured on brazillian retro magazine Jogos 80. Neat! 🙂
  • After Declaring Bankruptcy Twice, RadioShack Plots Its Comeback (Robert Klara @ Adweek)
  • I'm experimenting with an interesting way to animate an intro screen. (Paul Shoemaker)
  • I finally got around to see if I can connect two computers via modems; >>> without a telephone line. <<< Yes you can... (Michael Kline)
  • CoCo Midi - Episode 1 (Brian Schubring)
    CoCo Midi - Episode 2
    CoCo 3 - UltiMuse 3 - Beginning to use Ultimuse #1
    CoCo 3 - UltiMuse 3 - Beginning to use Ultimuse - Episode #2
    CoCo 3 - UltiMuse 3 - Beginning to use Ultimuse - Episode #3
    CoCo 3 - UltiMuse 3 - Entering a Score into Ultimuse - Episode #1
    CoCo 3 - UltiMuse 3 - Entering a Score into Ultimuse - Episode #2
    CoCo 3 - UltiMuse 3 - Entering a Score into Ultimuse - Episode #3
    CoCo 3 - UltiMuse 3 - Entering a Score into Ultimuse - Episode #4
    UltiMuse3 - EPISODE #5 - Hint & Tricks Cloning Parts
    
    
  • GIME-X video outputs (Ed Snider)
  • Ever look at the Color Computer 3 manual's sample programs? (Michael Pittsley)
  • Ready group right now it's going hehehe (Phil Antonio)
    CP400 has a message for you. Turn up the volume
  • Got my CoCo 3 512K board working. (Ciaran Anscomb)
  • Added a print feature to McDraw. (Jim McClellan)
    
    
  • Chapter 2 of Zero Hour game development blog (Nick Marentes)
    Chapter 3 of Zero Hour game development blog
    Chapter 4 of Zero Hour game development blog
  • Part 3 of my series on syncing online iCalendar or .ics files with a Coco (Frederick D. Provoncha)
  • I always wished my Raspberry Pi would have come with a 360K floppy drive... (Scott Baker)
  • Hi, thought I’d post a video play through of my game Dropship. (Darren Ottery)
  • Closeout! Compiled BASIC game (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • Spring is here and so is the latest issue of CoCo~123, the Glenside Color Computer Club's quarterly newsletter. (Glenside Color Computer Club)
  • What are the 8 bits in 8-bit computing? (Jerry Stratton)
  • This MC-10 MCX32 high resolution graphic editor is available to download. (Robert Sieg)
  • MCBasic Medley (Jim Gerrie)
  • Just finished porting V7/32V version of UNIX awk to Nitros9. (Walter Zambotti)
    
    
  • My little BASIC 10-liner game Mines+ for the TRS-80 MC-10 has obtained a 2nd rank in the annual 10-liner competition (PUR-120 category). (Fabrizio Caruso)
  • Treasure Island Defence has now started to roll out. (Sheldon MacDonald)
  • Thinking of having another arcade game contest, with a prize of one of my Type-in Mania mugs. (Jim Gerrie)
  • DIY ANALOG GLOW IN THE DARK ETCH-A-SKETCH FROM AN OLD XY PLOTTER (LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER @ YouTube)
  • I Rebuilt the Entire Internet... for Vintage Computers (Action Retro @ YouTube)
• Feedback (1:02:54)
  • "I have to admit… I laughed *way* too much listening to Mike’s Time-Life Mysterious Silicon ad." -- L. Curtis Boyle
  • "I’ve used Microsoft Excel for this as well. It sure beats using graph paper!" -- David Kroeker
  • "I've followed the "Retro Printing For Fun And Profit" series and not have my CoCo3 printing to my HP Color Laserjet from RS-DOS" -- Ed Orbea
• This Month In CoCo History -- April 1986 (1:06:01)
• Host Discussion -- This hobby has been my life for almost 40 years. It's starting to feel not fun anymore. Anyone relate? (1:09:28)
• Tech Segment -- ECB TIMER function (1:26:35)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Doubleback (1:38:59)
• Parting Thoughts (1:42:53)

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