CoCoCrew Episode 92

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:42)
  • CoCoFEST! is ~3 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is ~8 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:05:02)
  • 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
    
    
  • VCF East: Apr 14-16, 2023
  • The 31st Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 22-23, 2023
  • Boatfest 2023: June 23-25, 2023
  • Classic Game Fest: Jul 22-23, 2023
  • Southern-Fried Gaming Expo: July 28-30, 2023
• News (0:14:13)
  
  • XRoar emulator and loading and saving to tape and disk (Allen Huffman)
  • DISKIMAG is a MW-BASIC (BASIC09) utility to create disk image files from RBF formatted floppy disks and write them back to real disks. (Joel Ewy)
  • 1988 video titles for a booth at the Houston Boat Show. 🙂 (Allen Huffman)
  • I have completed the development of Verbix, my latest game written with my universal framework Cross-Lib (Fabrizio Caruso)
    
    
  • A Straightforward Old-Fashioned DAC (Jenny List @ Hackaday)
  • Measuring the ROR Bug in the Early MOS 6502 (Michael Steil)
  • So I was curious how good the RAM is in my old 64KiB coco1, and wrote the attached. (Paul Ripke)
  • Retro Sound Chip With an Arduino - the SAA1099 (Jacob Field)
    
    
  • Hello all… Wondering if anyone remembers this game from the Rainbow August 1983 page 122. Treasures of the Enrakian empire. (Joe Semenk)
  • 10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages (Hillel Wayne)
  • I wasn't expecting this fault with this CoCo 1 motherboard (Adrian's Digital Basement @ YouTube)
  • The making of Yoshi's Island – How Nintendo delivered a sensational successor to Super Mario World (Nick Thorpe)
    
    
  • The Commodordion is an 8-bit accordion primarily made of C64s, floppy disks, and gaffer tape. (Linus Akesson)
  • The Welsh Development Agency (WDA) was heavily involved in the financing of Dragon Data, with DD even taking up residency in the WDA's Kenfig factory. (Richard Harding)
  • Minimal GIF Decoder (David Johnson-Davies)
  • Inside the GIF file format (Joshua Davies)
    
    
  • Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong — what’s next? (Heidi Ledford @ Nature)
  • Decoding DATA from AUDIO (Kansas City Standard) (Greg Strike @ YouTube)
  • can you hack the VDG on the mc10 to display the equivalent of SG12.....HECK YES (Simon Jonassen)
  • Joystick Demo on the MC-10 (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • I think I've got my DDOOM game port to a point where all the bugs are out, so I'm going to have another Type-In Mania contest. (Jim Gerrie)
  • Here is a star program I made today. (Robert Sieg)
  • New version 1.3 of my MCX32-SD File Browser. (Darren Ottery)
  • Have folks noticed that our online JAVAScript emulator has been buffed? (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • "The Surface State Job" (David Laws @ Computer History Museum)
  • Zork and the Case of the Mixed Up Barbarians (Paul Pfenning)
  • Sega Genesis at 30: the console that made the modern games industry (Keith Stuart @ The Guardian)
  • Remember The Pay Phone? This Man Is Bringing Them Back At No Cost (Cathy Free @ The Washington Post)
    
    
  • FNX6809 For F256 Jr. & F256K (c256foenix.com)
  • Is Cb the same note as B? (Adam Neely @ YouTube)
  • TJBChris' Tandy Time - Series Intro & Color Computer 3 (TJBChris @ YouTube)
  • What we can learn from vintage computing (Klint Finley @ The ReadME Project)
• The CoCo Group (0:56:50)
• Feedback (1:02:21)
  • "It was entertaining as usual. A lot of news, and I like that it is not necessarily restricted to the CoCo (paraphrasing John, "it is not for CoCo, but it could be")." -- Paulo Garcia
  • "I get pleasantly caught off guard when you guys mention a project of mine." -- Rocky Hill (aka Pedro Peña)
• This Month In CoCo History -- January 1984 (1:03:49)
• Tech segment -- CoCo Scrolling Engine? (1:05:06)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Destiny (1:20:09)
• Parting Thoughts (1:22:50)

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