CoCoCrew Episode 8

Agenda

• Introduction (00:01:29)
  • CoCoFEST! three months away
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (00:09:11)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play
  • Member of The Throwback Network
  • Listed on the Game-by-Game Podcast Information Hub
  • Hosted at Cyber Ears
  • Email addresses
    • show@cococrew.org
    • podcast@cococrew.org
    • feedback@cococrew.org
    
    
    • john@cococrew.org
    • neil@cococrew.org
    
    
  • Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 2016: April 2-3, 2016
  • Walsall Games Mart: April 9, 2016
  • Vintage Computer Festival East XI: April 15-17, 2016
  • The 25th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 23-24, 2016
    
    
  • Retrochallenge Team CoCo
    • Brett Gordon, Drivewire artillery game
    • Jim Gerrie, various BASIC game ports
    • Adam Green, ARM-based cartridge for CoCo
    • John Linville, MC-10 port of Xmas Rush
• News (00:17:41)
  
  • Original Gamer Stevie Strow reviews Xmas Rush (Stevie Strow)
  • TRS-80 64K Color Computer - Holiday Music Week III (Rogelio Perea)
  • Rochester brings Freescale 68K, Intel 80C186/88 MCUs back to life (James Jones)
  • Orchestra Master v1.1 for HDB-DOS and the DrivePak (Guillaume Major)
  • The spinx512 board for FUZIX (Tormod Volden)
  • MIST FPGA computer (Lothartek)
  • A Teensy Logic Analyzer For A 6502 (Hackaday)
  • Another MC-10 port -- the puzzle game "Fruit Panic" (Jim Gerrie)
  • MShell File Manager v1.0.3o update (Bill Pierce)
  • Bouncy Ball game in development (Lee Patterson)
  • Bouncy Ball rendering converted to assembly (Lee Patterson)
  • Help me play: In Quest of the Star Lord (TRS-80 Color Computer) (drhoads08 on YouTube)
  • MM/1 remake?? (Ed Snider)
  • Another batch of Dragon/CoCo Multicarts (Roland Schwaiger)
  • Coco related photos (L. Curtis Boyle)
  • BMP to Semigraphics 24 Converter (Chris Martin)
  • Introducing the ME2700 EPROM & EEPROM Programmer (Martin Eberhard)
  • VCC Color Computer 3 Emulator w/Becker Port v 2.0.1b (final) (Bill Pierce)
  • CoCo on a Chip becoming a CoCo3 (Roger Taylor)
  • CoCo Supercomputer Idea (Kip Koon)
  • My Basic, Basic09 and C source all up on GitHub now (Jim Gerrie)
  • MCX-128 boards available (Ed Snider)
  • California, Bay Area residents -- Marty Goodman is looking to reduce his CoCo collection (Tim Lindner)
  • Progress on new CoCo Game (Brett Gordon)
  • New release of LogiCoCo (Bob Swoger)
  • BASIC program for an MC10 to do a CSAVEM (Barry Nelson)
  • Makeshift case for MCX-128 (Jim Gerrie)
  • The next installment of the Pop*star Pilot Game Development blog is up! (Nick Marentes)
• Feedback (01:20:42)
  • "Been listening to the new podcast. There's also a lot of CoCo 2 info here: http://www.tandycoco.com/coco2.shtml" -- Brian Blake
  • "I got back into the CoCo world last February and it is nice to learn more about the CoCo's history and technical aspects." -- Michael Brant
  • "'robcfg' is Roberto Carlos Fernandez Gerhardt from Spain, a very active and capable Dragon user on the Dragon Archive." (more) -- Roland Schwaiger
  • "I'm hoping to make Bouncy Ball available as +shareware, and have been thinking about price for the registered copy." -- Lee Patterson
• Host discussion -- CoCoFEST! logistics (01:31:00)
• Tech segment -- MC-10 overview (01:56:16)
• Games Corner -- Fahrfall (02:43:02)
• Parting Thoughts (02:46:54)

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