CoCoCrew Episode 95

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:42)
  • CoCoFEST! is ~12 months away
  • Tandy Assembly is ~5 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:05:00)
  • 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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  • 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
    
    
  • Indy Classic Computer and Video Game Expo: April 29-30, 2023
  • Boatfest 2023: June 23-25, 2023
  • Vintage computer festival southwest: June 23-25, 2023
  • Classic Game Fest: Jul 22-23, 2023
  • Southern-Fried Gaming Expo: July 28-30, 2023
• News (0:15:00)
  
  • Do It Yourself Game console (self-assembly of a simple console with a legendary microcontroller) (Jan Kowalski)
  • Yet another in my continuing series of modern PC files to use for your Coco. This time around - Text Screen Worksheets! (John Zizolfo)
  • Perform A Brain Transplant On A See-N-Say To Add Custom Sounds (Caleb Kraft @ Make)
  • Dropping by just to let you know that I've updated Basic Dignified. (Fred Rique)
    
    
  • XC=BASIC Cross-Compiler for C64: A Quick Look (8-Bit Show And Tell 2 @ YouTube)
  • I did enough with that Interface Age magazine prime benchmark that I wrote it up, (James Jones)
  • joysticks do CP400 (Mauricio Matte)
  • Ultracompact minimalistic 6809 Computer V2 (andreasjakob @ OSHWlab)
    
    
  • Alex Evans’ BASIC UTILS change everything – part 1 (Allen Huffman)
     Alex Evans’ BASIC UTILS change everything – part 2
     Alex Evans’ BASIC UTILS change everything – part 3
  • CoCo Ladder (Paul Shoemaker)
  • XRoar experimental CVBS branch (Ciaran Anscomb)
  • The Secret Life of Components series three (Tim Hunkin @ YouTube)
    
    
  • SCSI: The Disk Bus For Everything (Al Williams @ Hackaday)
  • My Motorola 6803/6303 Single Board Computer project (Bojan Kotnik)
  • Circuitry to change MC6847's colors? (Emerson Costa)
  • AI writes program in the most difficult programming language in the world (assembler + ChatGPT) ([Grand] IT Guy in action @ YouTube)
    
    
  • Old TV To RGB (Jenny List @ Hackaday)
  • Printing real headline news on the Commodore 64 with The Newsroom's Wire Service (Old Vintage Computer Research)
  • Just wanted to periodically show my progress on the Coco 3 arcade game that I am working on if anyone is interested. (Jim Mullis)
  • I've ported a classic "Creative Computing" game of CRIBBAGE, but I can't get anyone in my family who knows how to play, to play it for me (Jim Gerrie)
     "Citadelle: The Shield of Oran" Pierre Faure (1984)
     "Manticore" Jon Bradbury (1980)
     "Even Steven" by Paul Ruiterman (1985)
    
    
  • 9 Programming Life Lessons You Must Experience Yourself to Truly Understand (python.land)
  • SCART and the Color Computer, or... How NOT to make a cable! (La CoCo Strangiato @ YouTube)
  • UPDATE #2 ON MAX10 and Emulators. (Antonio Caballero)
     UPDATE #3 ON MAX10 and Emulators.
  • Tandy MC-10 Type-In Game - Breakthru (Davy's Retro Corner @ YouTube)
    
    
  • "1-Liner Bouncing Dot Demo" Version 2.00. (Richard Kelly)
  • The Intel 8086 (1978) was one of the first with division. Let's look at how it implemented division and why division is so hard. (Ken Shirriff)
  • The Origins and Development of AllDream. (Mike Kerry)
  • Write BASIC easier with Alex Evans Python scripts (Allen Huffman)
    
    
  • Restored Film: Epcot Educational Media: Living with Computers (RetroWDW @ YouTube)
  • FLEX Software Archive (Simon Wynn Consulting)
  • you will find 13 games from Inufuto in individual virtual files in links shown below (Pere Serrat)
  • I will check, but I believe CoCoFEST! 31 broke attendance records with the 130+ attendees. (Jim Brain)
• Host Discussion -- CoCoFEST! 2023 (0:52:50)
• This Month In CoCo History -- April 1987 (1:03:24)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Kung-Fu Dude (1:06:45)
• Parting Thoughts (1:09:05)

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