CoCoCrew Episode 83

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:16)
  • CoCoFEST! is <1 month away
  • Tandy Assembly is 5 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:07:06)
  • Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, has died -- It’s pronounced ‘jif’ (The Verge)
    
    
  • 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
  • “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!: May 14-15, 2022
  • Boatfest Retro Computer Festival 2022: June 24-25, 2022
  • Southern-Fried Gaming Expo: July 15-17, 2022
  • KansasFest: July 19-24, 2022
  • Classic Game Fest: Jul 23-24, 2022
  • VCF West: Aug 6-7, 2022
  • Tandy Assembly: Sep 30 - Oct 2, 2022
  • Portland Retro Gaming Expo: Oct 14-16, 2022
• News (0:24:30)
  
  • how to make camera sensor using photo transistor at your home (Robotics Kanti @ YouTube)
  • PWM (PULSE WIDTH MODULATION) using COMPARATOR. (owel.codes @ Instagram)
  • "Monkey Shine v1.00" (Richard Kelly)
  • Still having fun with Keyboards. No nest of wires under this one 🙂 (Nik Brisevac)
    
    
  • Intel at 50: Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (Intel News Byte)
  • I've added the Play now! feature to the games and educational software of the Disks section in the archive. (Guillaume Major)
  • A short text based game I made many years ago. Based on character from scary movie. (Dan Larson)
  • A very belated third video in the BASIC09/Color BASIC comparison series. (James Jones)
    
    
  • Music theory basics: how to use motion to make a melody and bassline complement each other (Computer Music @ musicradar.com)
  • A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (Andrew Hudson)
  • “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C (Richard Jensen)
  • CoCo Midi Music using UltiMuse3 (Brian Schubring)
     For Some reason the Sheet music didn't upload
    
    
  • anyone ever done an AutoExec binary on the mc10 (cause i sure know i just have !!!!) (Simon Jonassen)
  • An open-source COBOL contender emerges (Liam Proven)
  • Video Games Could Be Serious Tools for Historical Research (MIT Technology Review)
  • Who knows how to generate a random maze now? This guy! (Rick Adams)
    
    
  • I'm writting a CoCo Joystick to USB converter made with an Aduino Leonardo. (Gustavo Schoenaker)
  • Making An Open Face Silicone Mold (Eric Strebel)
  • Tech’s cult of thinness needs to come to an end (Thom Holwerda)
  • The Punter C1 Protocol (Michael Steil)
    
    
  • Lately, I've been playing with extending DECB with a few more commands to make some of the enhanced features of CoCoVGA more readily accessible for users who have a 64k CoCo 1 or 2. (Brendan Donahe)
     I have made an early 0.1 beta release of the CoCoVGA BASIC Extension available
  • When the greatest archive of the ancient world, the Library of Alexandria, was destroyed, all its precious resources disappeared. (Jim Farber)
  • Russia's War In Ukraine Results In Bombing of Retro Computer Museum (Michael Kan)
  • I present my own clone of wordle for the coco1/2/3, in BASIC, which I started a couple of months ago, after wondering if it could be done. (Paul Ripke)
    
    
  • CoCoPS/2 and the Tandy Hi-Res adapter. (Mike Rayburn)
     CoCoPS/2 is almost a real product you can buy:)
  • Im very pleased to say that the sega genesis gamepads can all be used now on the cocopsg. (Sheldon MacDonald)
  • STOP Using JPEG? JPEG vs PNG in Depth! (PiXimperfect @ YouTube)
  • Last month I did the unthinkable and finally threw out that box of unloved cables that I've dragged with me through adulthood. (Lemuel Lyes)
    
    
  • 𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐎 𝐓𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟎𝟎-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐜𝐤… 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲. (Radio Shack)
  • Why the World’s Best Mathematicians Are Hoarding Chalk (Great Big Story @ YouTube)
  • Quick update on CoCo Freecell. (Paul Shoemaker)
  • Tandy Hi-Res Joystick Interface (Tim Lindner)
• News Addendum -- NSFW (1:10:30)
  • Space Pirate Kumiko: A Whole Lot of Balls!
  • Space Pirate Kumiko: Weekend Preview!
  • Space Pirate Kumiko: Weekend Update for Something NEW!
  • Space Pirate Kumiko: First run on a REAL Tandy Color Computer 3
  • Space Pirate Kumiko: Ten Days of Satisfaction!
  • Space Pirate Kumiko: Scripting, Keyframes, and Paths
  • Space Pirate Kumiko: New Scripts, Profiling, and VCC Enhancements
  • Space Pirate Kumiko: Bigger Graphics, Optimizations, and Better Scanlines!
• Feedback (1:17:08)
  • "I enjoy the show and appreciate the time and effort you're contributing to the community." -- Aaron Wolfe
  • "Good job guys! Just showd that consistent good quality pays off!" -- Brian Blake
  • "It's a good show and I look forward to new episodes dropping." -- Nick Marotta
  • "Let me know if your show has anything to do with my projects and i will tune in." -- Dave Veary (aka MrDave)
  • "I guess you don't understand how most listeners read between the lines of [episode 79] host discussion about why 'anyone' would do kickstarter to know you meant Mr Dave" -- Robert Murphey
  • "I get crazy emails as well. We are all doing good things, but the world..." -- Mark Marlette
  • "Thanks for the positive review of my game Zero Hour. It was a very well done and informative review. And I'm not saying that because it's my game, but I genuinely think it was a well done review and Neil's voice is good to listen to. Thanks." -- Nick Marentes
  • "I appreciate the kind words on some of my card game projects. I do enjoy writing card games. 🙂" -- Paul Shoemaker
• Host Discussion -- More/better Programming Languages (1:23:57)
• This Month In CoCo History -- April 1990 (1:45:11)
• Neil's Corner -- Shoemaker's card games (1:47:23)
• Parting Thoughts (1:50:14)

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