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Sunday Jun 27, 2021
Sunday Jun 27, 2021
Today we feature Stefan Vogt @8bit_era to talk about his new Infocom style game Hibernated 1 that's available for a multitude of 8-bit systems including the Dragon and CoCo.
https://8bitgames.itch.io/hibernated1
The original live stream had a few glitches and ended up being in 3 parts, this is the spliced version.
Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live
Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live
Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live
To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com
Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:
https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/
Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:
http://8bit256.com
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Sunday Jun 20, 2021
Sunday Jun 20, 2021
CoCoTALK! episode 217 - Aaron Newcomb from @retrohackshack
Today we're joined by a very special guest, Aaron Newcomb from @retrohackshack
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN_u47_wJuhh249H9E8sjtw
Aaron has done a lot of videos on RGB-to-HDMI conversions, and recently did one for the CoCo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm2eo4BEna4
We'll hear all about Aaron's background, his hack shack channel, and more.
We'll also have GameON! results, some assembly discussions, news, and more!
00:00:00 - Start
00:03:00 - Start of the show!
00:03:15 - Viewer Introductions
00:03:42 - Panel Introductions
00:06:00 - Aaron Newcomb of Retro Hack Shack
01:05:00 - Hello to new Panelist
01:06:22 - Who's new to the CoCoDiscord
01:09:15 - Stefan Vogt, Live on CoCoTalk! on 6/26!
01:11:15 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes
01:12:20 - Everyone is speechless by Samuel Gimes!
01:13:55 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta!
01:16:25 - Game On! discussion
01:31:40 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta!
01:35:35 - Assembly Basics with George Jensen
02:33:33 - End of Line for... Assembly Basics with George Jensen
02:33:45 - Commercial Break
02:37:25 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
02:37:50 - Game On! News} The Coco Show- released the next episode of The Coco Show, spotlighting the Missile Command clone, Polaris
02:47:50 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- released Frogs, a port of the game by People's Computer Company magazine by Mac Oglesby from 1974! Its not Frogger, It is a puzzle game
02:50:12 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- gameplay videos on the Dragon, Shaolin Master Plus and Tangle Wood
02:57:24 - Game On! News} Richard Kelly- Coco 1/2 game from issue #110 of the old T&D Software magazine, called Mazey
02:58:45 - Game On! News} RetroMantra/YT- comparison video of various versions of Zaxxon
03:05:08 - End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:05:10 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle
**CoCo/General News**
03:05:32 - CoCo News} Glen Hewlett- demonstration of smooth, non-flickering sprite animations, it does NOT require double buffering at all
03:11:52 - CoCo News} Jim Brain @ Retro Innovations- FlashPak now for sale in his store
03:18:18 - CoCo News} Canadian Retro Things- video showing his first usage and installation of NitrOS-9/EOU
03:21:58 - CoCo News} Robert Sieg- first assembly language program test on the Alice 32
03:23:33 - CoCo News} Rocky Hill/YT- video showing two projects into one: Putting a Coco 2 display onto a iMac G3 DV screen
**MC-10 News**
None :(
**Dragon News**
None :(
03:27:10 - End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:27:22 - Project Updates and Aquisitions
03:28:08 - PUA} Brian Wiesler
03:40:15 - Closing Credits
03:43:10 - Final thoughts
03:44:08 - Thank you to all you wonderful people!
03:45:00 - David Ladd is here! we can start the show!
03:47:27 - Goodbye everybody!
03:47:38 - The end of Line.
Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live
Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live
Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live
To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com
Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:
https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/
Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:
http://8bit256.com
Consider becoming a patron of the show:
https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow
Sunday Jun 13, 2021
Sunday Jun 13, 2021
We're going very BASIC, pun intended with our assembly series by George J, and we're starting an hour earlier so you can recover sooner.
The original Steve Bjork ASM series and his slides covering all of the CPU instructions can be found at http://cocotalk.live/6809asm/
00:00:00 - Start
00:02:42 - Start of the show!
00:02:54 - Panel Introductions
00:05:38 - Viewer Introductions
00:06:24 - Who's new to the CoCoDiscord
00:10:00 - Stefan Vogt, coming in two weeks! (6/26)
00:13:20 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes
00:14:35 - Thoughts on Samuel Gimes
00:15:05 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta!
00:16:55 - Game On! discussion
00:28:40 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta!
00:31:10 - Assembly Basics with George Jensen
01:17:15 - End of Line for... Assembly Basics with George Jensen
01:09:15 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
01:10:02 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie released several other 10 line BASIC games, including Pac-Rat and Jumping Jack
01:13:40 - Game On! News} Stefan Vogt- will be our special guest on June 26th to discuss his new game, Hibernated 1: Director's Cut
01:22:48 - Game On! News} The Laird's Lair/YT- 4 way comparison video of Demon Attack on the Atari 8 bit, Coco 1/2, Commodore 64 and TI/99-4A
01:28:15 - Game On! News} Watercooler Films/YT- video/review of Poltergeist on the Coco, with their own backstory
01:32:52 - Game On! News} Aaron@ Amigos Retro Gaming/YT- live stream of various consoles and computers on a MiSTer, including the Coco playing Rick Adam's Temple of ROM
01:35:02 - Game On! News} Richard Kelly/FB- uploaded a BASIC brick out style game from T&D Software to the CoCo FB group download section
01:36:05 - Game On! News} Guillaume Major/CCA- has made an update to the Color Computer Archive that now lets you run over 900 Coco 1/2 programs in your browser, using XRoar Online Emu
01:37:57 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon/YT- posted more new Dragon 32 gameplay videos
01:40:20 - Game On! News} Nick Marentes- new blog update on his game in development, Zero Hour... which NEEDS release so we can play it!!!
01:48:08 - End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
01:48:12 - Awkwqard silence...
01:48:30 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle
**CoCo/General News**
01:48:38 - CoCo News} Pedro/YT- testing replacing the 6821 PIA with a WDC modern replacement,and a Coco to HDMI using an open source design from Retro Hack Shack YT channel who is our special guest on the show next week!
01:59:10 - CoCo News} Amber's Vibe Corner/YT- short 6809 Coco assembly language example
02:02:10 - CoCo News} Nice Keyboard Alan/YT- Tandy Coco 3 system acquired from local goodwill... for only *$30.00*!
02:04:32 - CoCo News} Brenda Make- 3d printer files for CocoSDC case that is similar to a Tandy FD-501 disk controller
02:07:08 - CoCo News} Nik Brisevac/FB- photo of a new game controller for Coco, it includes a paddle and multiple buttons (and a homemade Coco 3 case, where the ALT/CTRL keys are reversed)
02:09:38 - CoCo News} Norm Lamoureux- posted up some pictures from a RainbowFest in the mid 1980's, includes pictures of people like Lonnie Falk, Coco Cat and Marty Goodman
02:11:22 - CoCo News} Danielle O'Connor/YT- posted a picture of he massive (audio) keyboard rig... Can you find the two Coco's in the image?
**MC-10 News**
02:12:48 - MC-10 News} Retrograming arcade/YT- showing using a TI computer cassette deck with an MC-10, along with some homebrew BASIC games that came with the MC-10
02:16:10 - MC-10 News} Dillon Teagan/FB- uploaded the instructions for using the built in Editor/Assembler on the Alice 32 and 90
**Dragon News**
02:18:08 - Dragon News} Tony Jewell/FB- pictures of a 256K RAM upgrade for the Dragon 64 based on Stewart Orchard's instructions
02:19:35 - Dragon News} Raspberry Pi Press- released an ad video for a book: The Computers that made Britain (The home computer revolution of the 1980s), which include the Dragon
02:22:20 - Dragon News} Tim Gilberts/FB- posted labelled photos and a brief history of Mettoy, the company which produced the Dragon
02:24:52 - End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle
02:25:42 - Commercial Break
02:29:10 - Return to the show!
02:29:40 - Project Updates and Aquisitions
02:30:10 - PUA} Rick Ulland
02:40:30 - PUA} Ron Delvaux
02:44:30 - Panel discussion on various topics
02:46:35 - Closing Credits
02:48:52 - Final thoughts
02:49:20 - Thank you to all you wonderful people!
02:51:12 - Goodbye everybody!
02:51:19 - The end of Line.
Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live
Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live
Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live
To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com
Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:
https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/
Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:
http://8bit256.com
Consider becoming a patron of the show:
https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
CoCoTALK! Episode 215 - AMS p2 - Temple of ROM wrap-up
00:00:00 - Start
00:00:10 - Start of the show!
00:02:48 - Panel Introductions
00:04:04 - Viewer Introductions
00:06:12 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes
00:07:25 - Thoughts on Samuel Gimes
00:08:00 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta!
00:11:12 - Game On! discussion with Rick Adams!
01:05:16 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta!
01:07:08 - Starting next week, the show will start 1 hour sooner!
(CoColight savings time!)
01:09:25 - Commercial Break
01:13:00 - New Assembly Language with George Jensen
02:52:35 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle
**CoCo/General News**
02:53:00 - CoCo News} Coco Crew- newest episode released, Topics:hexadecimal from Extended BASIC, review of Thexder
02:53:40 - CoCo News} Todd Wallace(Lord Dragon)- released video of his IRC client running on his Coco 3, under NitrOS-9
03:02:44 - CoCo News} Long Lost Tech/YouTube- Deskmate on a Coco 2
03:06:10 - CoCo News} Amber's Vibe Corner/YT- released a couple of videos using EDTASM+ to write quick assembly routines
**MC-10 News**
03:08:40 - MC-10 News} Robert Sieg- graphic experiments on the Alice 32
**Dragon News**
03:13:05 - Dragon News} John Whitworth- Updates on his Dragon MSX 2+ upgrade graphics/sound board
03:15:02 - Dragon News} Patrik Gahm/FB- announced "forNDATA sUMMER 2o21" happening today (June 5) in Sweden
03:20:10 - End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:20:20 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:20:38 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- ported games from the APF Imagination Machine "Mission Improbable: Operation Alpha" and a 10 line BASIC game called Defender (which is a Missile Command type game)
03:27:12 - Game On! News} Paul Shoemaker/FB- video on his new 16 color card deck design (using a 256x192 16 color mode)
03:28:35 - Game On! News} Stefan Vogt/TW- Coco is going to be added to the list of old machines that will be able to run a port of his text adventure game (currently already on 24 systems!) called Hibernated 1
03:29:54 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon/YT- more videos, including "The Sword and the Sorcerer"
03:33:10 - End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:33:20 - Get your next spouse from Amazon, no hassle returns!
03:33:45 - Panel discussion on various topics
03:37:55 - Panel's favorite part of the show
03:43:30 - Starting next week, the show will be at 1pm EDT (1 hour earlier!)
03:46:24 - Goodbye everybody!
03:46:28 - The end of Line.
We're starting 6809 assembly language tutorials with George J, and we'll discuss the results of playing Temple of ROM this week, and hear from it's creator, legendary game designer Rick Adams!
Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live
Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live
Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live
To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com
Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:
https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/
Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:
http://8bit256.com
Consider becoming a patron of the show:
https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow