CoCoCrew Episode 80

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:42)
  • CoCoFEST! is 3 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is 8 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:07:21)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, and tunein.
  • Available as video episodes on YouTube
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  • 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: Apr 22-24, 2022
  • Midwest Gaming Classic: Apr 29 – May 1, 2022
  • “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!: May 14-15, 2022
  • Southern-Fried Gaming Expo: July 15-17, 2022
  • KansasFest: July 19-24, 2022
  • VCF West: Aug 6-7, 2022
  • Tandy Assembly: Sep 30 - Oct 2, 2022
• News (0:17:26)
  
  • Puzzle/Board game by Mac Oglesby. Converted from Commodore PET source to TRS-80 MC-10. (Jim Gerrie)
  • You've dealt with it in ECB yourself, no doubt - that dreaded "Press Y if the screen is blue, N if it's red" code. (Richard Kelly)
  • Testing the Daquiri board Rev 1.1.0. A replacement for the SC77526P custom chip. (Rocky Hill)
  • The CoCo’s lesser-known screen color. (Allen Huffman)
     The CoCo’s lesser-known screen color, revisited.
    
    
  • L. Curtis Boyle has found a new MC-10 game. Anyone else know about this? (Jim Gerrie)
     Oh my, there's even more, thanks for letting me know L. Curtis Boyle!
  • Growing Up Gamer in the Kingdom of Daventry (Jamie Lendino @ PCMag.com )
  • 10 Ways Sierra On-Line Changed Video Gaming Forever (Derek Draven @ THEGAMER)
  • Behind the Scenes w/ SIERRA On-Line's Al Lowe (Leisure Suit Larry, King's Quest, etc) (MetalJesusRocks @ YouTube)
    
    
  • "Peeper" by David Wilkins (Jim Gerrie)
  • Retro Collectors are Uncovering Hoards of Old Data (Matthew Hughes @ Wired)
  • CoCo new AGD converted games Pack#42 (Pere Serrat)
     new AGD converted games - Pack #43
     AGD converted games - Pack #44
     AGD converted games - Pack #45
     AGD converted games - Pack #46
     new AGD converted games - Pack #47
  • Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos (Ken Shirriff)
    
    
  • Logger by Brian Jaikens 1984 (Jim Gerrie)
  • Programming in 1987 Versus Today (Curtis Poe)
  • The high cost of software in the 1980s… (Rob Griffiths)
  • Tandy Radio Shack Computer Cassette Recorder (TRS CCR) (VOIDSTAR)
    
    
  • "Blockdown" live video footage running on real CoCo Hardware! (Neil Blanchard)
  • Star Swoop for the Dragon. It uses semigrapic mode 8 and has nice graphics and animations...I've patched it to run with Disk Basic and the Coco keyboard layout (Guillaume Major)
  • Replacement Membrane Project Update (Mike Rojas)
  • Why Do Retro Games Look Better on Old TVs? (Jake Peterson @ lifehacker)
    
    
  • Apple Integer BASIC Chess (Jim Gerrie)
     Apple Integer BASIC Chess Program: Part 2
  • Old-school computing: when your lab PC is ancient (Anna Nowogrodzki @ nature)
  • 10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans (Stephen Cass @ IEEE Spectrum)
  • 54 years ago, a computer programmer fixed a massive bug — and created an existential crisis (Sarah Wells @ INVERSE)
    
    
  • MC-10 MCX Full Screen Project Gameboy editor usage plus tidbits. (Robert Sieg)
     In regard to the Full Screen Project.
  • Based on a game for the Sinclair ZX81 by Dr. Beep, this version is in Micro Color BASIC for the TRS-80 MC-10. (Jim Gerrie)
     This is a version of my 10-Liner BASIC game POOPER running under Robert's Sieg's Full Screen Project.
  • BASIC09 Part 1: Some Of What Is Possible (Canadian Retro Things @ YouTube)
     Basic09 Part 2: Commands For The System And Edit Modes
  • We start with the "eight queens" problem: how many ways can you arrange eight queens on a chessboard so that none attack any of the others? (James Jones)
     The second BASIC09 vs. Color BASIC video looks at what Rosetta Code calls the "Count the Coins" problem.
     Here's source for BASIC09 code that does what the program on p.432 of Hal Chamberlin's _Musical Applications of Microcomputers_ does...
    
    
  • I've been helping out adding support for my platform to a programming system called Turbo Rascal Syntax Error (Jason Oakley)
     Turbo Rascal Is The Retro Pascal Compiler We Always Wanted (Lewin Day @ Hackaday)
  • Convert old IBM PCjr Joysticks to TANDY CoCo Deluxe || 6847T1 VDG lowercase text || 64k RAM upgrade (AC's 8-bit Zone @ YouTube)
  • Supersprite YM player (very simple (for now)) - runs on coco MPI with supersprite board in slot #1 (Simon Jonassen)
     ok, finally getting a handle on the VDP on the supersprite board
  • Galactic Hitchhiker (Jim Gerrie)
• This Month In CoCo History -- January 1984 (0:59:25)
• Feedback (1:02:34)
  • "It would be nice if the person were to at least ask the original author out of courtesy." -- James Diffendaffer
  • "The few situations that I ended up grumpy about were when I mentioned it to someone, and they ended up doing it, apparently recognizing that it was a good idea. As a result, I try not to talk about what I'm working on at any given time, aside from a small group of trusted folks." -- Greg Miller
  • "I really like Mike’s commercial he did for the CoCo-Cooler. That commercial inspired me to start looking for one to add to my collection." -- Brian Wieseler
• Host Discussion -- CoCo Market Projections (1:08:27)
• Tech Segment -- Joystick Tester (1:23:36)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Soviet Bloc (1:42:52)
• Parting Thoughts (1:46:05)

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