Episode 171 - celebrating 40 years of CoCo!

Happy 40th birthday Colour Computer! We celebrate the 4 decades of fun and enjoyment you have brought us today on CoCoTALK! Special guest host and streamer Rob Innnnman, with Nick Marotta covering GameON! and L. Curtis Boyle bringing us this weeks' retro news and full panel of middle ages retro enthusiasts, join us for a very special episode of CoCoTALK! today!

 

00:02:57 Panel Introductions

00:25:23 CoCo Happy Birthday Talk - Sharing stories

00:49:37 From then to now - Happy Birthday CoCo3 video

00:50:30 More CoCoTalk

01:38:37 CoCo Thoughts - Big Bomb Threat

01:44:39 GameON! challenge results

02:05:29 CoCo Thoughts - Big Bomb Threat - encore

02:01:42 Next week's game announcement - CASHMAN

02:12:40 GameON! news

02:41:21 News from around the retro world

03:33:41 Project updates and acquisitions

03:51:44 L. Curtis Boyle models a 1986 Rainbow Fest T shirt

03:58:31 CoCo Caboose

 

Game On news:

1) Jim Gerrie Missile Command

 https://youtu.be/y7n8G1A5jdo

Cave Raid

 https://youtu.be/IcwDACyL_LM

Red Alert, from the TRS-80 Space Adventures book:

 https://youtu.be/_BO-0wfsWJY

Puzzle game

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/3054995854627216/

2) Erico Monteiro semigraphics fighting game:

 https://vintageisthenewold.com/a-trs-80-color-computer-commercial-quality-action-fight-game-in-basic-part-1/

 Work In Progress #2

 https://youtu.be/uN7jC96MTPg

3) Marlin Lee Color Outhouse video:

 https://youtu.be/Wug2v9MQTwk?t=16

4) Paul Shoemaker Poker Squares Coco 3 game

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158489105042641/

5) Chet Simpson more Digger III

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158481075232641/

6) Aaron of Amigos Pac Dude Monster Maze

 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/696799665

7) Bill Sexton 5 line Fruit Slot on his Coco 3

 https://youtu.be/g-R23a9kdTc

8) FrodoNL, wrapped the score in Bomb Threat

 https://youtu.be/w_GvpEDbIrw?t=9317

9) Simonwgb 3&1/2 hour stream of playing Dragon 32 games in XRoar:

 https://youtu.be/HcFVHi-hMTE

another 1&1/2 hours:

 https://youtu.be/aQcJwkRO2AU

10) Gigerpunk plays Beyond the Cimeeon Moon:

 https://youtu.be/iVfemgShyOY

 

News stories

Brian Wieseler "Hands-On BASIC" https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158484133002641/

David O'Connor Realistic Pocketvision mini-TV

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158488345052641/

1) Canadian Retro Things (Ken) received his CocoSDC

 https://youtu.be/f82Jp_IEQTo

2) Ed Snider "HalfMeg Coco"

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158490074937641/

 http://store.go4retro.com/tandy/tandy-color-computer-coco-3-512kb-sram-pcb/?fbclid=IwAR2HNW6JKGQy8tSyj57Wzo24K33Ndwohdj8YRxeGmm9JE1HiIk2cov8oJr8

3) BoystonTech add on board for the Sound Speech Pak.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158485229962641/

4) Virtual VCF-West presentations

 http://vcfed.org/wp/vcf-west-event-schedule/

5) Thomas Winkler  his RE-FD502-KIT

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158488441527641/

6) Terry Steege spreadsheet of "all known Coco and TDP-100 cartridges"

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158486679817641/

7) CocoCrew episode is out (#62) interview with Fran Purcell

 http://cococrew.org/cococrew-podcast-62.html

8) Andrew Ayers with the old Armatron form the Coco:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158484902337641/

Hot Coco about the Armatron:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158484897777641/

9) Paul Shoemaker "TRS-80 Extended Color Basic"

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158480718012641/

10) James Jones a book to help teach users BASIC09,

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158476611857641/

11) Christopher Zepka retrobrighting project

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158475931042641/

12) John Whitworth his test setup

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2683441655248820/

13) Si Owen very rare Dragon MSX

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2683066768619642/

Info on it:

 https://www.msx.org/wiki/Dragon_MSX-64?fbclid=IwAR2bsTSNX7Egdxv_-Dlc07_YSTfsmsjRQkiJVCMH7OJpYsNS2dI1OY6HOGk

14) ChibiAkumas Hello World program in 6809 assembly on the Dragon or Coco:

 https://youtu.be/qZlOOAkaQzU

15) Re.Enthused history of the Dragon

 https://youtu.be/g9nzvpTASrI

16) Newsmakers Tech 1990 Radio Shack catalog

 https://youtu.be/QvoR96iBtL8?t=2604

 

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