CoCoCrew Episode 87

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:42)
  • CoCoFEST! is ~8 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is 1 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:07:09)
  • 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
    
    
  • 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, 2022
  • “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 22-23, 2023
  • 10th Annual SFGE: July 28-30, 2023
• News (0:17:53)
  
  • The Write Protect Problem (Tim Lindner)
  • The Modern Unfriendliness of 8-bit Keyboard Layouts (Nerdly Pleasures Blog)
  • The Little Lightgun That Could: Sinden Makes Good (Tom Nardi @ Hackaday)
  • Invaders09 game for OS-9 on GitHub -- updated by Jamie Cho (Allen Huffman)
    
    
  • Mechanical Keyboards Are Over, This Device Has Won (Jenny List @ Hackaday)
  • Over the last week or so I've been working on making the original Motorola floating point library for 6809 build with asm6809 (Jason Thorpe)
     An update on NFP09! I've been working on building a test suite for the library.
  • This Arduino Pen Plotter Is Built For Speed (Dan Maloney @ Hackaday)
  • Looks like we have another emulator. Doesn't appear to do semi-graphics 6 mode:( (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • High level overview of Space Pirate Kumiko game play (Chet Simpson)
  • I have figured out how to make a universal keyboard connector for all three Cocos (1,2,3). (Mike Rojas)
  • I have just built my game Cross Snake (written in C with my Cross-Lib framework for 200 different systems) for the CoCo in 4-color bitmap mode. (Fabrizio Caruso)
  • ok time to *fess up* as to what i'm planning to port to the mc10 next.... (Simon Jonassen)
    
    
  • Data Structures, 6809 Assembly Language, and You! (Chet Simpson)
  • Hey everyone, I wanted to make a post about a project of mine that can relate to the content of this group. (Will Pitts)
  • I've been working on an online DSK editor for the Coco. Currently, it only works with standard 35 track (161280 bytes) floppy images. (James Rye)
  • VDG study (July 2022) (Tim Lindner)
    
    
  • Cross Bomber is a mini-game and clone of Air Attack/Blitz. You must land your bomber plane in a ghost town and to do so you have to destroy all buildings. (Fabrizio Caruso)
  • Paul wrote it for the coco (6809) in six weeks. Simon ported it to the MC10 (6803) in about 3 days! And here I am trying to read be able to read this here 6803 dribble (alien code to me) (David Maunder)
  • This is a program for the Tandy / Radio-Shack TRS-80 Color Computer to perform RSA key generation, encryption, and decryption. (barberd @ github)
  • From the series "I drew because I could, but I don't know if I would..." (Victro Trucco)
    
    
  • 2023 CoCoFEST! Venue Considerations (Jim Brain)
  • My contribution to it is a Source Level Debugger with processor state and memory display. (Mike Rojas)
  • Wi-Fi to Parallel Port ASCII Art Dot-Matrix Printer (element14 @ YouTube)
  • Tandy RadioShack COCO 3 Extended Color Basic VS Raspberry Pi Pico MMBasic (Alderson Retro Computing @ YouTube)
    
    
  • New OS For Commodore 64 Adds Modern Features (Bryan Cockfield)
  • Static RAM board for the CoCo 2 model 26-3134 (Rocky Hill @ YouTube)
  • Elements of KAOS: Memory Allocators (Pilot) (Chet Simpson)
  • Well, I have put a lot of work into updating my file copying utility so that It can navigate SDC DOS. (Carl England)
    
    
  • Hackaday Prize 2022: Modern Plug-in Gives TRS-80 Its Voice Back (Robin Keary @ Hackaday)
  • Build Your Own Computer - Emulate RAM/ROM For A 6502 Using a Raspberry Pi Pico (Gary Explains @ YouTube)
  • A good portion of NES, SNES, and Genesis cartridges look like they were beaten to Hell and back. (dudeguy @ AtariAge)
  • Non-Musician Explains Music Theory | Bad Music Advice (Odd Time Clips @ YouTube)
• This Month In CoCo History -- August 1983 (0:59:13)
• Feedback (1:01:581)
  • "Big thanks to you and the rest of the CoCoCrew for an enjoyable and informative podcast." -- Tim Halloran
• Host Discussion -- Video of Game Play? (1:04:39)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Cross Snake (1:13:15)
• Parting Thoughts (1:16:15)

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