CoCoCrew Episode 84

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:42)
  • CoCoFEST! is ~11 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is 4 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:06:46)
  • 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
    
    
  • 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
  • “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 22-23, 2023 (tentative?)
• News (0:18:12)
  
  • Here's a nice semi-graphic 24 Tetris clone for the Dragon that I've ported to the Coco. (Guillaume Major)
  • The disk contains the source code and programs that produce the two types of symmetrical patterns. This is for a CoCo3. (Robert Gault)
  • Here is the Coco Psg diagnostics that i wrote. (Sheldon MacDonald)
  • "Turing Tumult" David Lewis (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • These 2 Notes Trick Your Brain Into Hearing 4 (Charles Cornell)
  • Perfect Pitch, and why almost nobody is tone deaf. (Brad Harrison Music @ YouTube)
  • How Sheet Music Lies To You (12tone @ YouTube)
  • Should You Learn to Read Sheet Music? | Q+A (Adam Neely)
    
    
  • Reinventing the magic log wheel: How was this missed for 400 years? (Mathologer @ YouTube)
  • [Ken Shirriff] Takes A Bite Of The Apple-I (Al Williams @ Hackaday)
  • Magnetic Logic - Forgotten Technology (Jerri Ellsworth)
  • C: Everyone's favourite programming language isn't a programming language (Liam Proven @ theregister.com)
    
    
  • Why Reviving Shortwave is a Non-Starter (Daniel Robinson and Keith Perron @ RadioWorld)
  • Pi 400 Still widely available. Is it because it’s no good? (leepspvideo @ YouTube)
  • "Demon's Defiance" by Fred Scerbo (Jim Gerrie)
  • RC is the Extended basic program I began working on in the 80's - a simulation of running a radio station. (Jerry Crabtree)
    
    
  • I have now added MC-10 support into my Cross-Lib framework (Fabrizio Caruso)
  • DIY - Reproducing obsolete vintage connectors at home (Jeff Birt)
  • How Pac-Man Revolutionized Gaming (Noah Wardrip-Fruin)
  • Why Great Movies use the 60-30-10 Percent Color Rule (wolfcrow @ YouTube)
    
    
  • BASIC and Google’s 25 horses interview question (Allen Huffman)
  • After extensive testing, I believe the CoCo PS/2 is ready. (Mike Rayburn)
  • Super OS-9 running on a 1981 Commodore SuperPET (Commodore History @ YouTube)
  • Disgraced Gamer Billy Mitchell Accused of Extortion! (Karl Jobst @ YouTube)
    
    
  • How the C programming language has grown (Jim Hall @ opensource.com)
  • RAW vs Log vs LUTs vs Compression | A Primer (wolfcrow @ YouTube)
  • Pong In Hardware… Virtually (Al Williams @ Hackaday)
  • Why not Pentium III? (Thom Holwerda @ osnews.com)
    
    
  • The Biggest Myth In Education (adam mac @ YouTube)
  • CMOC 0.1.77 is out: Math functions added (Pierre Sarrazin)
  • Do E-Bay And Alcohol Mix? (CanadianRetroThings @ YouTube)
  • Volume: 41 Number 4 of the Glenside Color Computer newsletter CoCo~123 is now ready for your reading pleasure! (The CoCo~123 team)
• Feedback (0:51:55)
  • "LOTS of languages use LLVM as a back end. That could open up a lot of possibilities." -- James Jones (http://www.facebook.com/groups/1606095809633762/permalink/3171024276474233)
• Host Discussion -- Is it wrong to be a CoCo 'purist'? (0:56:46)
• CoCoFEST! 2023 Recap (1:05:04)
• Neil's Corner -- The Interbank Incident (1:43:26)
• Parting Thoughts (1:47:41)

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