CoCoCrew Episode 89

Agenda

• Introduction (00:00:42)
  • CoCoFEST! is ~6 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is 11 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (00:00:42)
  • 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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  • 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 East: Apr 14-16, 2023
  • Southern-Fried Gaming Expo: July 28-30, 2023
  • Classic Game Fest: Jul 22-23, 2023
  • The 31st Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 22-23, 2023
• News (00:11:40)
  
  • Since we weren't able to ship these V. 3 boards, I still have a stack of them, and parts to build up at least a few. (Joel Ewy)
  • Adventures Getting VTL-2 (Very Tiny Language) Running on EXORsim (Joel Rees)
  • Inufuto is doing stuff for the Coco 3 now (Jim Gerrie)
  • Here's a small tech demo of Space Pirate Kumiko playable on a real CoCo 3 - none of that emulator only garbage here 😂 (Chet Simpson)
     Brand new playable demo with more patterns, burst shots, and more dynamic scripting
    
    
  • "Dark Castle" by Darin Andersen 1984 (Update) (Jim Gerrie)
  • Grant and I, on behalf of the GCCC board of directors, are pleased to confirm the location and date for the 2023 31st Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST! (Jim Brain)
  • Ok who is ready to restore some membrane keyboards? I have tested the membrane replacement in my Coco1/2/3 and now ready to begin shipping some boards. (Mike Rojas)
  • New academic book that includes the Vectrex. (Just Noah)
    
    
  • Stick shifts are dying. When they go, something bigger than driving will be lost. (Ian Bogost)
  • Working in assembly language is tedious and difficult, kinda like a sober prom date. (Chet Simpson)
  • Here are a couple of videos of stuff I am working on (or maybe just having fun with) in PMODE 1. (Paul Shoemaker)
  • GOTO, GOSUB, Stack Overflows and 6809 stack jumping. (Allen Huffman)
    
    
  • Here's a King's Quest slide show for your CoCo 3 with 512k. (Chet Simpson)
  • DEF FN for Fun and Profit (Allen Huffman)
  • Quickie visual comparison of the speed difference of loading uncompressed and compressed data with decompression occurring during load rather than as a post-load step. (Chet Simpson)
  • Color BASIC and 16-bits and AND and OR and NOT (Allen Huffman)
    
    
  • Okay, I have gotten a version of Very Tiny Language (VTL-2) running on the Color Computer. (Joel Rees)
  • Drawing a maze level on the CoCo – part 1 (Allen Huffman)
     Drawing a maze level on the CoCo – part 2
     Drawing a maze level on the CoCo – part 3
     Drawing a maze level on the CoCo – part 4
     Drawing a maze level on the CoCo – part 5
  • Just some quick post-weekend testing... (Chet Simpson)
  • My biggest customers -- and the place where mose of the money comes from -- are the industrial users. (Beau Hamilton)
    
    
  • Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium (Niek Hilkmann (Editor), Thomas Walskaar (Editor), Lori Emerso (Foreword))
  • Space Pirate Kumiko: Implementing UI Elements (Live for #Septandy) (Chet Simpson)
  • 5 Games You Must Try On The Colour Computer #SepTandy (Ken Waters)
  • Here's the atlas for the Cavern level in Super Pitfall for the CoCo 3. (Chet Simpson)
    
    
  • Machine Code Instructions (John Philip Jones)
  • My 1988 TIDYDISK program. (Allen Huffman)
  • Living dangerously 🔥 (some of you will figure it) (Hugo Dufort)
  • "I don't see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look around and there's not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see." 🙂 (Paul Shoemaker)
     Here's a virtual disk with my simple Halloween / Great Pumpkin demo should anyone wish to see it in person. 🙂
    
    
  • Pop-Up windows in Color BASIC? (Allen Huffman)
  • So, after a little more work (and another couple of hours of autorouting I have something much closer to the original D32 issue 2 board with a couple of small modifications. (Julian Brown)
  • Exploring 1984 OS-9 on a 64K TRS-80 Color Computer – part 1 (Allen Huffman)
     Exploring 1984 OS-9 on a 64K TRS-80 Color Computer – part 2
     Exploring 1984 OS-9 on a 64K TRS-80 Color Computer – part 3
  • The HDD Clicker (root42 @ YouTube)
• This Month In CoCo History -- October 1986 (00:42:22)
• Feedback (00:43:48)
  • "I liked the host discussion this month, but I couldn't help imagining the title "OS-9: Threat or Menace?" 🙂" -- James Jones
  • "I really enjoyed the host discussion on OS9...I enjoyed hearing the different perspective that everyone had." -- Brian Wieseler
• Interview -- Ian Mavric (00:46:14)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Space Pirate Kumiko (Demo) (01:14:57)
• Parting Thoughts (01:20:49)

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