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The World’s First Live and Interactive Talk Show featuring the Tandy Color Computer and it’s Hardware Cousins.
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Sunday Aug 09, 2020
Sunday Aug 09, 2020
We've always got a lot to talk about and a great show to be shared by all on CoCoTALK! each week, and this week is no exception, we're going to hear from Peter Cullen about his retro background, and see his official Tandy SCART CoCo, which is something most of us has probably never seen before.
That along with news, GameON!, some possible tech segments, show & tell and who knows what else, get ready for an action packed episode!
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:01:00 Panel Introductions
00:25:00 General discussion
00:25:30 Who is new to Discord
00:26:00 Peter Cullen showing a Tandy SCART CoCo
01:36:00 David O'Conner
02:20:00 CoCo Thoughts - CashMan
02:21:00 GameON! challenge results
02:31:30 Next week's game announcement - SPEEDRACER
02:34:00 GameON! news
02:47:00 News from around the retro world
03:18:00 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion
Game On news:
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1) Jim Gerrie posted a video of his port of Steve Wozniak's original Apple classic "Little Brick Out"
2) Chet Simpson has released the first public Beta of Digger III.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158495328987641/
3) Paul Thayer now has Timber Man available for paid download at itch.io:
Announcement:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158493670122641/
Download link ($5.00 USD) - includes the DSK image and full color PDF manual:
https://pthayer100.itch.io/timber-man
4) Paul Shoemaker put up a short video teaser of some graphics he is fiddling with for a possible upcoming game:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158492892777641/
5) "The New Retro Show" has an episode about "new games" for the Coco and MC-10:
6) Canadian Retro Things shows one of the Micro Adventure Books
News stories for Episode #172, August 8, 2020 show:
1) Keith has lesson 4 of his 6809 series up now - covering the stacks:
2) Carlos Martins Nabeto posted a cool link to some 1983-1987 news about Brazilian Coco clones (in Portuguese):
https://computadoresbrasileiros.wordpress.com/category/noticias/
English translation:
3) Jason Weber on Facebook is helping organize "SepTandy" for this year
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158503187087641/
4) Frederiic Griignon posted a Radio Shack catalog page for the Coco from Quebec
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158496708377641/
5) James Jones is still soliciting feedback on his Coco MS Basic to BASIC09
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158492811687641/
Direct link to the Google Doc so far: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DFWC0XAv6NENnqXc3AZGy_Gl6TcZDfPcHGAB34woQwg/edit
6) Timothy Halloran update on getting his Coco 3 running from purely USB power
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158491484982641/
7) Soren Roug has been typing in Dragon 128 drivers for OS-9
https://www.roug.org/retrocomputing/os/os9/dragon128
8) Carlos Camacho posted the covers from an OS-9 book called "The OS-9 Guru : 1
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2646468465616081/
9) Nigel Barnes posted in the Dragon Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2688555014737484/
11) I have also put up two videos to show increased speeds of scrolling in the forthcoming EOU Beta 6, These videos are all 6809 - 6309 versions are faster still. Also, these have the overhead of printing characters, etc. so it doesn't fully show the speed increase (which is around 14-15%).
80x25 hardware text:
640x200x4 graphics:
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