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)
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 π (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 βLastβ 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 β part 1 (Allen Huffman)
Drawing a maze level on the CoCo β part 2
Drawing a maze level on the CoCo β part 3
Drawing a maze level on the CoCo β part 4
Drawing a maze level on the CoCo β 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 π₯ (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." π (Paul Shoemaker)
Here's a virtual disk with my simple Halloween / Great Pumpkin demo should anyone wish to see it in person. π
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 β part 1 (Allen Huffman)
Exploring 1984 OS-9 on a 64K TRS-80 Color Computer β part 2
Exploring 1984 OS-9 on a 64K TRS-80 Color Computer β 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?" π" -- 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)
Links
Tandy Assembly
"Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!
CoCo mailing list
TRS-80 / Color Computer Facebook Group
Glenside Color Computer Club
TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
The DRAGON Archive
Videos of/by The CoCo Crew Hosts
2022 Trvia Contest
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