CoCoCrew Episode 74

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:42)
  • Tandy Assembly is 2 months away...
  • CoCoFEST! is 3 months away!
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:07:20)
  • 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
    
    
  • CoCo Call For Papers
    
    
  • 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 (0:22:55)
  
  • Mission Improbable: Operation Alpha (Jim Gerrie)
  • Here's a full implementation of Michael Myer's 8-bit card deck that I wrote in assembly language (Paul Shoemaker)
  • Activision, Atari, Absolute: How Video Game Companies Once Gamed the Alphabet for an Inside Joke (Garry Kitchen)
  • What is MML ? (Woolyss)
  • CC6303: Tandy MC-10 target (Alan Cox)
    
    
  • Defender (Jim Gerrie)
  • PunyInform, a new library for writing text adventures for old computers (Fredrik Ramsberg)
  • Hibernated 1 - Director's Cut - TRS-80 Color Computer (Stefan Vogt)
  • Learning ZIL and ZILF - Episode 1 - Downloading and installing ZILF (Adam Sommerfield)
  • NitrOS9 EOU: Setting It Up and Running It On VCC and CoCoSDC (Ken Waters)
    
    
  • Another Basic 10Liner: Pac-Rat (Jim Gerrie)
  • Software Hidden in Records (Nostalgia Nerd @ YouTube)
  • BASIC programs for small computers : things to do in 4K or less (Mark Dusko)
  • Zero Hour: Chapter 08 - Robots, Lifts and the Countdown Timer (Nick Marentes)
  • "Mazey" - a CoCo 1/2/3 game. (Richard Kelley)
    
    
  • "Retro Rick's Maze-making Algorithm" version 3.99 Alpha. (Richard Kelley)
     Want to know how exactly this algorithm is written?
  • The Teletext Salvagers: How VHS is bringing teletext back from the dead (James O'Malley)
  • VEXTREME PCB TEST - ENIG vs. HASL vs. HARD GOLD!! (Brett Walach)
  • How “The Print Shop” Turned People into Banner Wizards in the 1980s (Benj Edwards)
  • Jumping Jack (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • CoCo~123 Summer 2021 newsletter now available (Steve Strowbridge)
  • tiara - The Internet Archive Research Assistant (Kay Savetz)
  • I should be ordering the final gold immersed Dragon MSX 2+ boards very soon. (John Whitworth)
     I am about to change the name of the Dragon MSX2+ board to reflect it's cross-platform (Dragon & Coco) intentions.
  • VCC 2.1.0d Release (Bill Pierce)
     We are experiencing a bug with the latest VCC release (2.1.0d)
     I just posted a bug fix release for VCC 2.1.0d.
  • Frogs By Mac Oglesby (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • i will be doing a full boot menu and will make it easy to install and erase files off of the psg. (Sheldon MacDonald)
  • Castlequest exhumed! (Arthur O'Dwyer)
     Making Castlequest compilable
     Castlequest (1980) By Michael S. Holtzman and Mark Kershenblatt.
  • RetroMagazine World #8 – Eng – June 2021 (Flavio Soldani)
  • Today I learned about Karateka’s 37-year-old easter egg (Allison Johnson @ The Verge)
  • Port of "Blastar" by Elon Musk (Jim Gerrie)
• This Month In CoCo History -- July 1985 (0:59:05)
• Feedback (1:18:29)
  • "I enjoy the news and the tech segments...I have many childhood memories in front of the Coco. Great work, really appreciate you guys!" -- Matt Massie
  • "Hello, first time giving feedback. First off I really enjoyed..." -- Brian Wieseler
• Host Discussion -- When does someone being "wrong on the Internet" require you to intervene? (1:23:43)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Bouncy Ball (1:37:22)
• Parting Thoughts (1:40:39)

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