CoCoCrew Episode 85

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:42)
  • CoCoFEST! is ~10 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is 3 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (00:08:32)
  • 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 (00:18:47)
  
  • Hello! Some pictures of yesterday's Clube Color Rio annual meeting! (Daniel Campos)
  • "Smash Up!" a BASIC 10-Liner game (Jim Gerrie)
  • Stranger Things 2 and BASIC and Color BASIC (Allen Huffman)
  • I've posted .bin versions of my three cartridge games (FloodIt, Wumpus, 3d Monster Maze) along with the source code to itch.io at http://evancwright.itch.io/. (Evan Wright)
    
    
  • Building LEGO Prosthetic Arms (Guinness World Records)
  • The Evolution of The Golden Age of Arcade Games - A History of Pushing The Limits! (Sharopolis @ YouTube)
  • Genaille’s Rods: When Paint Sticks Do Math (Ryan Flowers @ Hackaday)
  • First coco test using the sega mouse on cococad in basic. (Sheldon MacDonald)
     Ok for those that have a psg,segamouse,mpi here is a video....
     coco cad using sega mouse.... run"runme"
    
    
  • I bought a CRT TV for a retro gaming setup – and it was an existential nightmare (Rhys Wood @ TechRadar)
  • Totally unexpected we received this Philips CD-i 180 (and 181) today. (HomeComputerMuseum)
  • I was persuaded by a question in the 6809/etc. group to start work on a translation of the Oh! FM article on the 63C09. (Joel Rees)
  • This is a disk of James Diffendaffer's Lorentz Attractor programme. (Michael Kline)
    
    
  • Did the label just fall off decades ago and a Radio Shack employee wearing an Avoid The Noid shirt just cobbled a label together to slap on it? (Thomas Farley)
  • I took the Altair version and converted it to uppercase using an online conversion tool (http://convertcase.net/) and it seemed to work OK on the CoCo 2 (Andrew Ayers)
  • My Wordle game for the Coco3 was a big hit at CocoFEST! (Rick Adams)
  • CoCoFest VLOG (The Taylor and Amy Show)
    
    
  • Thrift Store Find - TRS80 MC10 Unboxing (Angel's Workstation @ YouTube)
  • So, attendees of CoCoFEST 2022 might have noticed a rather odd display. (Roger Taylor)
  • NitrOS-9 Tools for the CoCoIOn Ethernet Card (Michael Furman)
  • High Score Netflix Series Official Trailer (Elias Michael @ YouTube)
    
    
  • TDP System 100 - The Color Computer's Cousin (Vintage Geek @ YouTube)
  • I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (John Whitworth)
  • New VCC release -- vcc2.1.0.6-beta (Bill Pierce)
  • “Heist” - You dirty little crook. Okay, wise guy - listen up. (Richard Kelly)
    
    
  • Hi everyone! I have recently added support for the 4-color mode of the CoCo 1/2 and Dragon 32/64 to my universal framework Cross-Lib: http://github.com/Fabrizio-Caruso/CROSS-LIB (Fabrizio Caruso)
  • Physical console games are quickly becoming a relatively niche market (Kyle Orland @ Ars Technica)
  • This is a podcast by aNACHRONiST and Smooth covering the BBS and underground scene. (Absinthe BBS @ Facebook)
  • Here is a small side project I am working on. (Paul Shoemaker)
     I have uploaded my latest game, Ghost Rush, to the files section here.
    
    
  • The collapse of complex software (Nolan Lawson)
  • No Refunds for Intellivision Amico Suckers (Sensible Person @ YouTube)
  • AGD converted games Pack#54 - mini-sprites (Pere Serrat)
     AGD converted games - Pack #55 - mini-rpites
     new converted AGD games - Pack #56
     new AGD converted Games - Pack #57
  • Finally I'm licensed to drive my Apple II ! (Angelo Coelho)
• Feedback (01:06:38)
  • "Others have no limits on what you add, because that was what a lot of hardware designers tried doing back then anyways (like adding hard +drives, MIDI cards, serial mice, etc) - it’s just much easier (and more powerful) these days because technology has advanced. But we were doing that back then, too." -- L. Curtis Boyle
  • "I want to hear you guys say it: is it also just as okay in your minds to *not* be a Purist?" -- Fred D. Provoncha
• Host Discussion -- Why do our host discussions stir people up? (01:16:51)
• Neil's Corner -- review of Ghost Rush (01:32:10)
• Parting Thoughts (01:35:20)

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