CoCoCrew Episode 73

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:19)
  • Tandy Assembly is 3 months away...
  • CoCoFEST! is 4 months away!
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:10:00)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
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  • Available as video episodes on YouTube
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  • 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
    
    
  • 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 Southeast 8.0 — 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
  • VCF East 2022 Dates: Apr 29-30, May 1
• News (0:25:21)
  
  • NitrOS-9 EOU 6.1.0 has been released! (L. Curtis Boyle)
  • I've made a few aesthetic changes to Computing Now! Poker: (Jim Gerrie)
  • 80 Column Mode on Color Computer 3 via Assembly Language (John Laury)
  • Increase num of blocks used for levels and objects #7 (Jamie Cho)
  • Full Motion, Double High-Res Video Playback on the Apple IIe (Blake Patterson)
    
    
  • I have modified the DosPlus5.0 extended so that it is compatible with Ed Snider's mega-mini-MPI (4 slots) (Pere Serrat)
  • It's Still Emulation: Saving Video Game History Before It's Too Late (GDC @ YouTube)
  • How Pitfall Builds its World (Jack Evoniuk)
  • I was wondering whether there are thoughts, plans to implement MCX-32SD functionality into any of the MC-10 Emulators? (Darren Ottery)
  • Maxit (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • BASIC tokenization examined (Jerry Stratton)
  • Bitwise COMPARISON test: i tried the following 6 programs on different variants of Microsoft BASIC:...Not surprisingly not all bitwise operations were the same. Even when using the same core dialect:Microsoft BASIC. (Jeff Wood)
  • P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A. (Jim Gerrie)
     An Iron Curtain Adventure: Miroslav Fídler's P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A (Jim Gerrie)
     1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A. (Aaron A. Reed)
  • RetroMagazine World #07-EN (English edition) is OUT now! (David La Monaca)
  • i thought i would post the code for my 2 voice inherent sawtooth player (Simon Jonassen)
     for the sake of John Laury (runs on coco1,2,3)
    
    
  • WORLDGEO (Jim Gerrie)
  • Screen Edit (SCRNEDIT) is my Text / SG editing tool for the MCX32-SD. (Darren Ottery)
  • A few hours spent re-working the DMSX2+ board - hopefully VERY close to a production board now (John Whitworth)
     Next version of Dragon MSX 2+ boards committed to fabrication.
  • Macrotune is a Music Macro Language (MML) editor. Easily create "retro" style music for an app, game or just for fun! (PoseMotion @ itch.io)
  • Coloric (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • It is, thus, with regret that we accept Terry’s resignation for health reasons. (Glenside Color Computer Club)
  • Chapter 5 of Zero Hour game development blog (Nick Marentes)
     Chapter 6 of Zero Hour game development blog
     Chapter 7 of Zero Hour game development blog
  • Want to dig in a little more on Tandy/Radio Shack's archive of their employee newsletter, "The Intercom". (Todd Ellzey)
  • "Brick Out (T&D Software)". It's *not* what you think ... except it sort of is. (Richard Kelly)
  • Roberta and Ken Williams announce their first game in over 20 years (Chris Moyse @ Destructoid)
    
    
  • I've just added the Play now! feature to games and educational software in the Cassettes section. (Guillaume Major)
  • Apple Monitor Found in Landfill - Restored - Part 1 (The 8-bit Guy @ YouTube)
     Landfill Monitor Restoration - Part 2
  • An Update to a 37-Year-Old Digital Protocol Could Profoundly Change the Way Music Sounds (Dan Kopf @ Quartz)
  • My new game controller 🙂 (Nik Brisevac)
  • Play Zork and more on the MC-10 with MCX32-SD (Darren Atkinson)
• Feedback (1:13:33)
  • "Thanks for covering my video on CoCoMAX!!" -- Ron Delvaux
  • "Woohhoo amen" -- Jim Gerrie (in response to I count 107 days until Tandy Assembly -- can I get an "woohoo"? Or maybe an "amen"?)
• Host Discussion -- CoCoMANIA! @ Tandy Assembly (1:15:44)
• Tech Segment -- CoCo 1 vs 2 detection (1:23:26)
• This Month In CoCo History -- June 1989 (1:40:53)
• Interview w/ Torsten Dittel (1:44:59)
• Neil's Corner -- eBay rant re: "managed payments" (2:47:42)
• Parting Thoughts (2:51:18)

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