CoCoCrew Episode 82

Agenda

• Introduction (00:01:07)
  • CoCoFEST! is ~1 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is 6 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (00:06:32)
  • John V. Roach, former Tandy CEO, TCU board chair and early PC pioneer, dead at 83
    
    
  • 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: Apr 22-24, 2022
  • Midwest Gaming Classic: Apr 29 – May 1, 2022
     Want to know what you're going to see at the biggest MGC ever?
  • “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 (00:19:32)
  
  • Here is the 16-color CoCo 3 version of my game Poker Squares. (Paul Shoemaker)
  • Hi everyone, I've written a simple game River Raid for the MC-10. (Darren Ottery)
     Little demo video of RiverRaid, no sound sorry....
  • I made a modest entrance to the program whose name, in its acronym, is even funny lolol ASSB (Mauricio Matte)
  • New two player board game similar to (but not the same as) the classic Atari ST "Laser Chess" (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • Basic Ideas of 8-bit Chiptune Sound Effects (Oboro Akaneya Music)
  • Analyzing Every Second of the Classic Dial-Up Modem Sound (Lynne Peskoe-Yang @ Popular Mechanics)
  • I thought I'd compare BASIC09 and Color BASIC on a sieve of Eratosthenes benchmark from BYTE magazine, and it may end up as a non-comparison.(James Jones)
  • This is a complete BASIC interpreter for Arduino, including I/O and other useful functions. (sl001 @ arduino.cc)
    
    
  • new AGD converted games - Pack #49 (Pere Serrat)
     new AGD converted games - Pack#50
     new AGD converted games - Pack #51
     new AGD converted games - Pack#52
     new AGD converted games - PACK #53
    
     AGD converted games - BIGPACKs v2.9 (297 games)
    
     SuperSprite-FM+ AGD converted games - Pack#01
     SuperSprite-FM+ AGD converted games - Pack#02
     SuperSprite-FM+ new AGD converted games
    
     AGD converted games - UPDATE for MireMare2
     AGD converted games - HiddenBlocks - MireMare2 v2
  • Here is a mock-up of a Freecell game for the CoCo 3 that I think will be my next project. (Paul Shoemaker)
     I can now shuffle and deal a deck of cards in assembly language
     I'm also working on this in 2022, because why should the CoCo 3 have all the fun?
     Testing out the cursor functionality on my current project, Freecell.
  • Sonic decides to visit the MC-10! (Robert Sieg)
  • The Invention of Battlezone (Paul Wallich)
    
    
  • Wordle written as a BASIC language program on a Tandy Color Computer 3. (Rick Adams)
     I just fixed some bugs in COCOdle (Wordle port for Coco3)
  • This is the NitrOS-9/EOU version of COCOdle, a Wordle clone that Rick wrote in BASIC (L. Curtis Boyle)
     Forgot to save a change - had the word "by" twice.
  • Versions of Wordle for the MC-10. Thanks Rick Adams! (Jim Gerrie)
  • The document was made in the style of a Creative Computing article. Wordle in BASIC. (Jim Lawless)
  • Following the Herd(le) (Darren Atkinson)
    
    
  • NEW $600 Limit on 1099K WalkThrough (VENMO, CASHAPP, ETSY, PAYPAL, EBAY) (AGC Solutions @ YouTube)
  • I used to hate Cathode Ray Tubes. (Matt Evans)
  • My listing is an exact transcription of Appendix E as found in the book. (David Wiens)
  • GORILLA.BAS: how to play the secret MS-DOS game from your childhood (Thom Holwerda)
    
    
  • Explore the 1987 GIME die images in ultra detail (Roger Taylor)
  • I've just uploaded the 5th update of the Coco SDC image. (Guillaume Major)
  • It’s my ritual: every time I enter a secondhand bookshop, I go straight to the Sciences section and search for old computer manuals. (Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti)
  • The OTHER Old School Gaming (Timothy S. Brannan)
    
    
  • NES 64: Commodore 64 KERNAL + BASIC port (calcwatch @ nesdev.com)
     It's the NES 64! Commodore 64 BASIC running in an NES Emulator
     NES 64: Playing.a C scale with the NES APU
  • What Is the Oldest Computer Program Still in Use? (Glenn Fleishman)
  • How To Arrange Chords into BEAUTIFUL 4-PART HARMONIES [Music Theory - Voice Leading] (Signals Music Studio @ YouTube)
  • How Data is Encoded and Stored on Floppy Disks (RobSmithDev @ YouTube)
    
    
  • My 1987 CoCo ASCII to Atari ATASCII converter (Allen Huffman)
  • "Memory Mirror v. 0.9". - A look into the innards of your computer's memory (Richard Kelly)
  • I've recompiled a bunch of my programs converted to be compiled using Greg Dionne's MCBASIC compiler. (Jim Gerrie)
  • Non Profit 501(c)(3) Status Official! (Jim Brain)
     GCCC Fall 2021 Newsletter out!
• Feedback (01:05:37)
  • "Just wanted to say thanks for featuring my GoTek video." -- TL Steege
  • "You state that the address decoding was incorrectly described by the schematic. As an emulator author this is indeed a source of concern." -- Tim Lindner
  • "Today, free schematic capture and layout tools can make one forget how difficult it was to produce a product back in the day." -- Mark Marlette
  • "I absolutely loved your discussion on the Glenside Color Computer Club." -- Eric Canales
  • "I found the host discussion this month very disappointing." -- Jim Brain
  • "I don't think there's anything 'impromptu' about a monthly podcast." -- Jeff Teunissen
  • "I am genuinely curious how to send critical feedback in a way that is relevant but not overly showy." -- Jim Brain
  • "It is always a blast listen to each episode!" -- Paulo Garcia
• Host Discussion -- Is the CoCo3 actually rare? (01:22:34)
• This Month In CoCo History -- March 1982 (1:34:56)
• Tech Segment -- MIDI Basics (01:37:44)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Zero Hour by Nick Marentes (01:59:08)
• Parting Thoughts (02:04:16)

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