CoCoCrew Episode 86

Agenda

• Introduction (00:00:42)
  • CoCoFEST! is ~9 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is 2 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (00:08:25)
  • 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 West: Aug 6-7, 2022
  • VINTAGE COMPUTER FESTIVAL MIDWEST 17: Sep 10-11, 2022
  • Tandy Assembly: Sep 30 - Oct 2, 2022
  • Portland Retro Gaming Expo: Oct 14-16, 2022
  • Dragon MeetUp 2022: Oct 22-23, 2022
  • “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 22-23, 2023 (tentative?)
• News (00:18:29)
  
  • cocofs - A tool for interacting with TRS-80 Color Computer disk images (Jason Thorpe)
  • According to Appendix K in the "TRS-80 Color Basic" book by Bob Albrecht... (Fabian Rodriquez)
  • MEMSIZ - PEEK(39)*256+PEEK(40) (Allen Huffman)
  • Remember RadioShack? It’s now a crypto company with wild tweets. (Yiwen Lu @ The Washington Post)
    
    
  • NTP on the CoCo (Michael Furman)
     Demonstration of the CoCOIOn Ethernet Card on a CoCo 2
  • How Isometric Coordinates Work in 2D games (Jordan West @ YouTube)
  • How classic Sierra game graphics worked (and an attempt to upscale them) (eviltrout @ YouTube)
  • CP/M is really open-source now (Martin Maly)
    
    
  • Ok - completed the PCB layout for the CoCo2 keyboard. (Mike Rojas)
  • TRS-80 MC-10 + Raspberry Pi Pico + MT8808 wired USB keyboard adapter (Brendan Donahe)
  • This is a voice synthesizer project I built over 30 years ago. (Matt McCullar)
  • BREAKING NEWS!!!!! I just managed to make my first machinecode program on the MC-10... (Johan Koehlman)
     RELEASE OF SHOGUN: Simon Jonassen and Jim Gerrie tested it already, but now you all can play
    
    
  • Special coding in WAR (Robert Gault)
  • Testing a Pepper Board, a SALT replacement solution, on a CoCo 3 (Rocky Hill @ YouTube)
     Easy HDMI out for the Color Computer 1 and 2 with this adapter board. RGB to HDMI required.
  • Landerventure - World test (FUED @ YouTube)
  • Here is Ghost Rush v2.0 exclusively for the CoCo 3. (Paul Shoemaker)
     Here is Ghost Rush v2.0 for the CoCo 1, 2 and 3. This is the 4-color version.
     Version 2.1! I've added a second set of Spikes / Teeth / Who-Let-Curtis-Pull-This-IC.
    
    
  • TensorFlow Lite – On A Commodore 64 (Jenny List @ Hackaday)
  • Ask a collector lucky enough to have found official, licensed Atari 2600 cartridges from Turkey whether they work. They'll say no… or they'll lie. (AtariSpot @ Twitter)
  • Oscilloscope drawing for everyone (Alex Porto)
  • "Sheep Station" by Philip Coates 1985 (Jim Gerrie)
     "Star Command Sigma"
     "Draw Poker" by Jim Menick 1984
     Jiim Menick's "Draw Poker" (Update)
    
    
  • Why Are There So Many Programming Languages? (Doug Meil @ Communications of the ACM)
  • Multiplying and Dividing on the 6502 (Neil Parker)
  • Should we stop using retrocomputers to save them? Amiga 500 Data Transplant (Retro Recipes @ YouTube)
  • CoCoFEST! 2022 Survey, We Want to Hear From You! (Grant Leighty)
    
    
  • Middle of Nowhere C64 Color Computer Emulator (MrSQL @ AtariAge)
  • Old Websites Were Cooler, Actually (Aztrosist @ YouTube)
  • Ralph Serpas recently discovered a typo in BDS Software's Genesis 1-11 Quiz Game. (M. David Johnson)
  • ROBOTRON last update… (Glen Hewlett)
    
    
  • For anyone who may wish to increase the length of their *existing* DriveWire cable, I can confirm that these extender cables work like a dream. (Paul Shoemaker)
  • A2Stream simultaneously receives an .a2stream file from any HTTP server and plays it through the stock Apple II speaker circuit using pulse-width modulation at 22050Hz sample rate with ~5.17 bit resolution (Oliver Schmidt)
  • Building A Serial Bus To Save An Old Hard Drive (Bryan Cockfield @ Hackaday)
  • Beauty and the Beast – TRS8Bit Newsletter announces its 2022 programming contest for the TRS-80 family of computers (Paulo Garcia)
• Feedback (01:07:11)
  • "Another great episode! Thank you all for then hard work to put the show together every month!" -- Paulo Garcia
  • "Why is this even in question?" -- Steve Chapman (Haha! https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10227977065631282)
• This Month In CoCo History -- July 1986 (01:09:42)
• Host Discussion -- Who are our listeners? (01:11:48)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of The Wild West by Novasoft (01:20:51)
• Parting Thoughts (01:24:06)

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