CoCoCrew Episode 90

Agenda

• Introduction (00:00:42)
  • CoCoFEST! is ~5 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is ~10 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (00:04:58)
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  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
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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
    
    
  • Midwest Gaming Classic: Mar 31 - Apr 2, 2023
  • VCF East: Apr 14-16, 2023
  • Classic Game Fest: Jul 22-23, 2023
  • Southern-Fried Gaming Expo: July 28-30, 2023
  • The 31st Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 22-23, 2023
• News (00:17:30)
  
  • 19 years is enough? Or not? (Dennis Bathory-Kitsz)
  • The Pepper board, a replacement circuit for the SALT chip. (Rocky Hill)
  • Here are some ringtones I made from beloved Tandy Color Computer games. (Montana Quiring)
  • new AGD converted games pack #58 (Pere Serrat)
     New AGD converted games - Pack #59
     New AGD games converted - Pack #60
     AGD converted games - BIGPACKS v3.1
    
    
  • Old 6809 Computer Lives Again On Breadboards (Al Williams @ Hackaday)
  • Redditor discovers legendary 1956 computer in grandparents’ basement (Benj Edwards @ Ars Technica)
     Build a shelf-size vintage computer museum made of paper
  • What happened to Tandy computers (Dave Farquhar)
  • Carl England must be stopped. (Allen Huffman)
    
    
  • Incredibly weird story about repairing an old phone (phone Narcyz 270 produced by Telkom RWT) ([Grand] IT Guy in action @ YouTube)
  • Bringing up VTL-2 on the CoCo (Very Tiny Language) (Joel Rees)
  • Here are a few images of my latest ongoing basic game for the coco, it is a lander type game and it has some adventure and strategy elements thrown in. (Erico Patricio Monteiro)
  • Just a little update to my CoCo 3 BASIC patch. In addition to using the hardware multiply to speed up math, it enables 6309 native mode if you have one. (James Diffendaffer)
     Brownian Tree in BASIC
     Fedora 3D Plot Update
     Another 3D Plot
     Make Your Own Maurer Rose Patterns
     Here is a cas file with the CoCo 1&2 version, complete with 6309 native mode control if you have one.
    
    
  • BControl C library now supports reading joysticks under OS-9 (Pierre Sarrazin)
     decbfile C library provides driver usable from assembly language program
  • Is It Worth Putting A 6309 In A CoCo 1 or 2? #septandy (Canadian Retro Things @ YouTube)
     Proof It Is Worth Putting A 6309 In A CoCo 1 or 2
  • New text adventure for the MC-10 (Jim Gerrie)
     "Pirate Island" by David Meny (1985)
     "Computer Backgammon" by Scott Adams (1978)
     How to Pilot a Tie Fighter on a TRS-80 MC-10
     Color Backgammon Jeff Vavasour 2000
     "Mosquito" by Mr. Slump 1985
     "SUKS" by Ron Davis
     "Reverse" by Ramon Zamora (1978)
     Rally-X Programmed in 8-bit BASIC
  • Are CRT TVs Worth It for Retro Gaming? (Retro Bird @ YouTube)
    
    
  • MikeyN6IL's DEV VLOG $05: CoCo Debugging with NoICE (Michael Furman)
     MikeyN6IL's VLOG $06: Black Magic of RS-232
  • Made a little TRS-80 MC-10 minesweeper game as part of my @retrochallenge endurance challenge. (Eric Poch)
     MC-10 Cassette Server is Online!
  • Space Pirate Kumiko: Implementing a UI Scene State (Live for #Septandy) (Chet Simpson)
     Space Pirate Kumiko: Updating the Asset Loader to Reduce Memory Usage
     Space Pirate Kumiko: Cleaning up the VCC Debugger!
     Space Pirate Kumiko: Cleaning up the VCC Debugger! Part 2
     Space Pirate Kumiko: Cleaning up the VCC Debugger! Part 3
     Space Pirate Kumiko: Fixing the Main Update Pipeline Before It Blows Up! (Part 1)
     HyperTech Gaming: Refactoring the VCC Codebase - Part Two
     HyperTech Gaming: Refactoring the VCC Codebase - Part Two and a HALF!
  • Tips for CoCo fans in PAL territories trying to find CoCo 1/2 games that don’t depend on artifact colors. It’s nice to play games that aren’t black and white. (Jamie Dee)
    
    
  • The Simple Math of Music Theory (Why These Notes - Adventures in Music Theory @ YouTube)
  • RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language (Liam Proven @ The Register)
  • One Of The Worst Keyboards Ever, Now An Arduino Peripheral (Jenny List @ Hackaday)
  • Announcing the release of "VCC v2.1.0.7 Tandy Color Computer 3 Emulator. (Bill Pierce)
    
    
  • PicoMite: Running BASIC on a Raspberry Pi Pico (ExplainingComputers @ YouTube)
  • Teletype ASR33 Emulator - with sound (33asr @ YouTube)
  • CoCo~123 “end of” Summer newsletter is ready for your reading pleasure! (Grant Bloedow)
  • Anime fans go old-school, record new Urusei Yatsura anime on Beta and period-appropriate media (Casey Baseel @ soranews24.com)
    
    
  • LET'S PLAY Arcade Games On The TRS-80 Color Computer 3 (Retro Hack Shack @ YouTube)
  • "Easy Directory V2 (beta)". It's ... another update? (Richard Kelly)
  • the BOrchestra-180 sound card which provides 4 fully (256 byte) buffered audio channels with basic mixer support. (Chet Simpson)
     First run of playing a single channel on the BOrchestra-180 proof of concept program pak in VCC.
  • Well I think this one is finished (aside from some mounting holes). It's again going to be a Dragon and CoCo device, so I need to think of a name for it. (John Whitworth)
     OK - SuperBoB it is. Superbob is trademarked by an Austrian telecoms company, but not for computer boards etc.
• This Month In CoCo History -- November 1986 (01:04:28)
• Tech Segment -- Using "HCF" to reverse engineer a 6809-based PCB (01:06:35)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of CoCoBan (01:17:14)
• Parting Thoughts (01:20:04)

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