CoCoCrew Episode 94

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:48)
  • CoCoFEST! is ~1 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is ~6 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:06:47)
  • 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 Anchor by Spotify
  • 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
  • Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo: April 29-30, 2023
  • Boatfest 2023: June 23-25, 2023
  • Classic Game Fest: Jul 22-23, 2023
  • Southern-Fried Gaming Expo: July 28-30, 2023
• News (0:19:42)
  
  • You Have a Real CoCo 1 or 2, Now What? Part 1 (Ken Waters)
     You Have a Real CoCo 1 or 2, Now What? Part 2
     You Have A Real Color Computer 3, Now What? A Beginner's Guide
  • CMOC 0.1.81 is out: Fixes for some C functions under OS-9 (Pierre Sarrazin)
  • pyDriveWire v0.6 Release Update — February 4, 2023 (Michael Furman)
     Announcement: pyDriveWire v0.6 – The “LAST” Python 2 Edition
     A new package pyDriveWire-v0.6-win-x64-1.zip has been uploaded to GitHub
  • CREATE VIDEO GAMES ON TRS-80 COCO! (Marco Spedaletti)
    
    
  • MM/1 Software Preservation Spreadsheet (Joel Ewy)
  • HB6809 Homebrew computer (Dave Collins)
  • SmallC68XX - Small C for the Motorola 68XX family under Linux (Neil Cherry)
  • Completed my 6809 calculator project, 16 bit addition and subtraction. 8 bit multiplication, division and square root. (Alexander Sidorenko)
    
    
  • Whipped this up as a next step in my disk formatting venture (see other post) - a flipper template. (John Zizolfo)
     OK, need some memory refreshing, or maybe educating. Started formatting all those disks I got in that auction. Two issues...
     Following in the footsteps of my flippie disk template, here's something else to print on the modern computer for use on the vintage one - diskette labels.
  • PicoROM emulates ROM chips to allow for rapid development of retro computer software. (Nick Bild)
  • Today, I added the CoCo3 to the list of officially supported systems in TRSE, and it is the first 6809 system that I've added. (Nicolaas Ervik Groeneboom)
     Couldn't sleep so I made another classic one. Added as a TRSE example file for the coco.
  • I'm finally close to finishing up the unit tests for the expression evaluator in the refactored version of KASM (The KAOS Assembler) (Chet Simpson)
    
    
  • Been trying to convert a Gin Rummy program to MC-10. I need someone who knows how to play the game to test it. (Jim Gerrie)
     Another BYTE program type-in meant to demonstrate simple AI techniques
     Hawkmen of Dindrin for the TRS-80 MC-10
     "Fall" from 20 Programmes Astucieux Pour Alice
     "Doctor Who Adventure" Jeremy Guggenhiem (1893)
     "Camel" Creative Computing (1979)
  • ugBasic – A BASIC compiler for Commodore, … and Atari, …and CoCo, … and … (Paulo Garcia)
  • FILES command and memory in CoCo Disk BASIC (Allen Huffman)
     WRITE versus PRINT in CoCo BASIC
     Color BASIC program line info dump program
     These lines are just too long (for Color BASIC)!
  • Playing MIDI files on my repacked Tandy Color Computer 3 and capturing the audio on my COLECO Adams Dynamite sound digitizer cart (Henry Rietveld)
    
    
  • Am9511 Arithmetic Processing Unit Cartridge Pak for the Color Computer (Don Barber)
  • PAL to NTSC conversion "complete" (For now) (John Parker)
  • I have just uploaded SDC Magic to the archive. (Carl England)
     Ouch! I found a flaw in SDCDOS when it comes to formatting SDF disks.
     I just uploaded CRUSH to the archive. CRUSH is a compression utility for BASIC programs.
     OOPS! I uploaded CRUSH to the archive and then discovered a major bug.
  • The TRS-80 MC-10 - In its Own Words (Kick Rock & Roll @ YouTube)
    
    
  • TRS-80 MC-10 Part 2: MCX32-SD Setup and Use (Verne's Misadventures @ YouTube)
  • Please stop doing this to old computers! (Tech Time Traveller @ YouTube)
  • Dial-A-ROM for Vintage Computers (soigeneris.com)
  • The 6502 Rotate Right Myth (TubeTimeUS @ YouTube)
    
    
  • COBOL: You’re thinking about it wrong (Thom Holwerda)
  • Too Cool For 8-bit Retro? Try 1-bit Gaming (Al Williams @ Hackaday)
  • CoCo3P In Depth (La CoCo Strangiato @ YouTube)
  • Computer Museum uses GreaseWeazle to help exonerate Maryland Man (cctalk@classiccmp.org)
    
    
  • TRS-80 MC-10 LAPTOP (The Taylor and Amy Show @ YouTube)
  • Parametric Press Unravels The JPEG Format (Dave Rowntree @ Hackaday)
  • Why the Floppy Disk Just Won’t Die (Jacopo Prisco)
  • The Saga of the Color Brown in the Early Years of the PC (Nerdly Pleasures)
• Feedback (1:00:29)
  • "I have been enjoying your host discussions. I like Mike’s point that things have always been retro. I image that 40 years from now the laptop I am using will be a collectors item to someone." -- Brian Wieseler
• Host Discussion -- Sharing Time at CoCoFEST! (1:02:16)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Space Marauder (1:13:34)
• Parting Thoughts (01:15:31)

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