CoCoCrew Episode 76

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:42)
  • Tandy Assembly is ~1 year away...
  • CoCoFEST! is 1 month away
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:05:32)
  • 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
    
    
  • VCF East 2021: 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
  • “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!: May 14-15, 2022 (tentative)
  • Southern-Fried Gaming Expo: July 15-17, 2022
• News (0:13:11)
  
  • Space Bar Bandit (Jim Gerrie)
  • Solder Bridges Aid Desoldering (Al Williams @ Hackaday)
  • An extensive book about soundchips which is set to be released by Fusion Retro Book. (Joerg Droege @ VintageIsTheNewOld)
     PRE-ORDER : The Little Book of Sound Chips - VOLUME 1
  • The Print Shop Club (Melody and April Ayres-Griffiths)
    
    
  • The Making of Nox Archaist (Paulo @ VintageIsTheNewOld)
  • Just for fun, the 100 door problem on several different systems (Michael Doornbos)
  • Representing Images in Memory (Scott W. Harden)
  • Use your MSX as an USB keyboard (konamiman @ msx.org)
    
    
  • Euchre for Two by Victor Raybaud (Jim Gerrie)
  • Perfboard Resizing (Adafruit)
  • You Can Run Doom on a Chip From a $15 Ikea Smart Lamp (Michael Kan @ pcmag.com)
  • Booting up os9 ease of use on what I believe is the only USB-A powered Coco 3. (Timothy Halloran)
    
    
  • The Wizardry and Ultima Sequels (Jimmy Maher)
  • Bringing A Ruined Game Boy Cart Back To Life With Tons Of Soldering (Lewin Day @ Hackaday)
  • Zero Hour Blog Chapter 10 - Machine Press and Slot Machine levels (Nick Marentes)
  • A library of 6809 assembly routines for the Coco 3. (Paul Thayer)
    
    
  • Complete Walkthough of "Sunrise Over Bethselamine" (Jim Gerrie)
  • I built my own graphics card (jdh @ YouTube)
  • Atari 64: Commodore 64 BASIC & KERNAL Running On Atari 1200XL (8-Bit Show And Tell @ YouTube)
  • Applecorn is a ProDOS application for the Apple //e Enhanced which provides an environment for Acorn BBC Microcomputer language ROMs to run. (Bobbi Webber-Manners)
    
    
  • MULTICS Gets A New Release… 52 Years After Launch (Jenny List @ Hackaday)
  • Meet an alien and see what it looks like! From 1984's 'Computer Space Games' publication. (Deborah Maxwell)
  • I hope to announce soon the hardware we will be selling... (Fabian Rodriguez)
  • Dev's Game Finally Works After Fixing 40-Year-Old Typo (Mike Fahey @ Kotaku)
    
    
  • Sorcellerie/Sorcery by Rafi Deryeghiyan (Jim Gerrie)
  • This thing can backup and emulate MFM/ST-506 hard drives for your retro computers (Adrian's Digital Basement @ YouTube)
  • Here's a fun question. Can you use real colors to create artifact shades of grey on a composite monitor? (John Kowalski)
  • Can People Still Play the Same Games as They Get Older? (Jon Bailes @ Wired)
    
    
  • To explain this, I'll need to explain how CRTs work... (Ken Shirriff)
  • Color BASIC's secret Microsoft easter egg #SepTandy (Allen Huffman)
  • "XRoar CoCo 3 support: it won't burn your house down now!" (Ciaran Anscomb)
  • Announcing Squanchy BASIC for the Color Computer. (Tim Lindner)
• This Month In CoCo History -- September 1987 (0:56:16)
• Feedback (0:59:10)
  • "You guys inspired me to do some CoCo Stuff...Please find a possible news item for your next show." -- Matt Massie
  • "The DragonDOS "data pump" routines could be re-coded so that they don't use the CART interrupt. The routines could employ status polling rather than SYNC with the interrupt. It's tricky because polling the FDC status register will often prevent NMI from breaking out of the loop, but it's doable with some clever code." -- Darren Atkinson
  • "It's awfully tempting to say that many, if not most, advances to the state of the art in the community distort the hobby." -- James Jones
  • "The state of the art of the community doesn't advance itself. It requires active participation and effort to learn, experiment, document, mentor, learn, and ultimately move things forward. But passive waiting is not being the agent of change." -- Robert Murphey
  • "I think my favorite part of the host discussion topic (Advancing the State of the Art) was the difference of opinion, and even the modification of opinion, during the discussion itself." -- L. Curtis Boyle
• Host Discussion -- How much 'finish' does one expect from a "developer kit"? (1:06:09)
• Tech Segment -- Adding a BASIC command to CoCo running RSDOS (1:22:20)
• Neil's Corner -- USB Power for CoCo2 (1:42:00)
• Parting Thoughts (1:46:25)

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