CoCoCrew Episode 88

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:42)
  • CoCoFEST! is ~7 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is ~12 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:04:27)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, and tunein.
  • Available as video episodes on YouTube
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  • 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
  • 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
  • The 31th Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 22-23, 2023
• News (00:12:55)
  
  • Retro computer meetup draws enthusiasts in Albuquerque (Scarlett Lisjak @ KOB)
  • Selfmade ROM module for Vectrex (Ingmars Retroblog)
  • asm68c Assembles M6800 and 6801 assembly language source code. (and Forth) (Joel Rees)
  • RIP Queen Elizabeth II (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • MC-10 A/V mod Board (danjovic @ Hackaday)
  • Tandy/Radio Shack MC-10 Assembly Language, pt 1 -- Getting VTL-2 (Very Tiny Language) Running (Joel Rees)
  • So we fixed that. We have figured out how to print the spacer as one piece and added a couple of enhancements. (Mike Rojas)
  • Little video called The 7 Minute Snake showing how I create the enemy paths in Kumiko so awesomely. (Chet Simpson)
    
    
  • We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business (Niek Hilkmann & Thomas Walskaar)
  • Many, many years ago, I was constantly discovering interesting things that could be done with the CoCo. (Carl England)
  • Richard Stallman Announces C Reference (Harry Fairhead)
  • C64 Theremin (Linus Akesson)
    
    
  • Color BASIC string abuse – part 1 (Allen Huffman)
     Color BASIC string abuse – part 2
  • Well, this is fun, I just wrote my very first DeskMate app 🙂 I did cheat and use sample code, but it's still pretty cool. (Chris Lenderman)
  • We gave this Halloween Witch Animatronic a Terrifying Makeover (Wicked Makers @ YouTube)
  • Space Pirate Kumiko: You're Gonna Love Muh Nutz! Just in time for #Septandy! (Chet Simpson)
    
    
  • CoCo ROM to RAM (64K test) – part 1 (Allen Huffman)
     CoCo ROM to RAM (64K test) – part 2
  • The mystery of MEMSIZ and why CoCo 3 BASIC has one more byte of it. (Allen Huffman)
  • #SepTandy VLOG $01: Recovering my CoCo Desktop Publishing Project (Mikey Furman)
  • #SepTandy VLOG $02: Why Mikey is not a Game Programmer (Mikey Furman)
    
    
  • CMOC 0.1.79 is out: Floating point under DragonDOS, --add-os9-stack-space added (Pierre Sarrazin)
  • Towards OS9 operating system on P2? (Christoph Eb)
  • Vector-graphics laser projector (Bruce Land)
  • #SepTandy 2022 - Tandy Coco 1 RF to Composite and audio mods with TinyComp for less than $20 (Rudy's Retro Intel @ YouTube)
    
    
  • Bringing back my childhood programs for the TRS-80 Color Computer (from memory!) (Paulo Garcia)
  • #SepTandy VLOG $03: DEV Update: DriveWire for the CoCoION Ethernet Card (Mikey Furman)
  • #SepTandy VLOG $04: Making a New Newsletter (Mikey Furman)
  • I am pleased to announce a new CoCo 1, 2, or 3 Game! Just when you thought it was safe to go back to sleep...ROBOT NIGHTMARE! (Ken Reighard)
    
    
  • The Original Oregon Trail Game (Jim Gerrie)
  • Tandy Joystick Teardown and Repair #SepTandy (Dan Hoover)
  • Space Pirate Kumiko: Full Test Stage Game Play for #Septandy! (Chet Simpson)
  • My New CoCo 3 Has Some Intermittent Problems #septandy (Ken Waters)
• Feedback (00:54:16)
  • "As suggestion, maybe a retrospect of what happened to you (related to the CoCo!) during all this time..." -- Paulo Garcia
  • "Go Coco Crew! 🙂" -- Shawn Kelly
• This Month In CoCo History -- September 1983 (00:52:46)
• Host Discussion -- "OS-9 -- too much too soon? Or too little too late?" (00:58:06)
• Neil's Corner -- Tandy Assembly Promo (01:20:05)
• Parting Thoughts (01:21:56)

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