Episode 226 - Special Guest Stewart Orchard

CoCoTALK! Episode 226 - Special Guest Stewart Orchard

Today's special guest interview is Stewart Orchard who has made many amazing games for the Dragon computer "back in the day" and his current project is the most excellent Return of the Beast ROTB join us!

00:00:00 -Start/Intro
00:03:00 -Start of the show!
00:03:30 -Panel Introductions
00:06:25 -Introducing Stu Orchard and Ciaran Anscomb
02:00:25 -Commercial Break
02:05:05 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta!
02:16:18 -Game On! discussion
02:26:30 -Game On! Game for next week, With(out) Nick Marotta!
02:35:15 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
02:35:35 -Game On! News} Glen Hewlett- released the transcode of the arcade Joust game to the Coco 3
02:46:28 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- released Theseus and the Monster for the Coco 1/2, as if all he does on the MC-10 isn't enough!
02:47:30 -Game On! News} Paul Shoemaker- video of 30 animated bird sprites
02:48:25 -Game On! News} Magic Micro Mission- Episodes of 1983 'Magic Micro Mission' Tv show
02:53:22 -Commercial Break?
02:54:33 -Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- Castle of Doom, Great Fish Van Scandal, Laser Zone, Lunar Rescue, Jupiter Patrol, Treasure Tomb, Attack, Evictor, Android Invaders, Convoy Attack, Bugged, Jumpjet, Shuttlezap and  Ciaran's Blockdown
03:01:48 -Game On! News} The Coco Show- Episode 23: Pitstop II
03:07:15 -Game On! News} Old School Games & Stories/YT- playthrough of Mega Bug
03:09:00 -Game On! News} Terrifying House of Obsession/YT- Dragon 32 unboxing
03:12:12 -General discussion about software packaging
03:27:50 -Game On! News} Rob's Retro Rambles- Copta Snatch video
03:34:50 -Game On! News} MrDave6309- video recording of VCC running his current test/demo
03:40:40 -Game On! News} Francesco Fiorentini- article (in Italian) for RetroMagazine World on RPG game "Valley of Death"
03:41:31 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:42:00 -Commercial Break
03:45:00 -Projecy Updates and Aquisitions
03:45:20 -PUA} Doug Bell
03:53:50 -PUA} Ron Delvaux
04:02:45 -PUA} Grant Leighty
04:06:50 -PUA} Nick Marenetes, learning about this new computer thing!
04:21:00 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle
**CoCo/General News**
04:21:25 -CoCo News} Turbo9/YT- new video about their pipelined 6809 processor core Masters project
04:23:10 -CoCo News} Sheldon MacDonald- update to his RSDosTool
04:27:17 -CoCo News} Danielle O'Connor- reported on the Adelaide Retro Computer Group
04:30:20 -CoCo News} John Kowalski (Sock Master)- experiments in graphics on the Coco 3
04:37:37 -CoCo News} Richard Kelly- working on a font editor
04:38:55 -CoCo News} John Linville- Released details on October RetroChallenge
04:40:20 -CoCo News} TJBChris/YT- tutorial on how to make a custom Program Pak
04:42:50 -CoCo News} Jose Antonio Vaca Bello- Restoration of his CoCo3
04:48:08 -CoCo News} Jim Brain (aka El Presidente Grande)- Looking for photos from previous CoCoFests
**MC-10 News**
04:49:36 -MC-10 News} Jim- fractal Mandelbrot set generator
**Dragon News**
04:53:20 -Dragon News} Tim Gilberts/MicroDeal@FB- Uploaded Microdeal Newletter #2
04:55:20 -Dragon News} Dragon Facebook group- Collecting a database of Dragon serial numbers
05:08:08 -Dragon News} Stevie- Did his awesome technical wizardry, and last weeks 4 part miniseries of DragonTalk, is now released in a single 6 hour 5 minute epic made for TV Movie!
05:09:18 -Dragon News} Tony Jewell- looking for input on having A Dragon meetup at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge
05:11:30 -Dragon News} John Whitworth- created a Facebook page for the hardware with User/Dev guide posted
05:12:25 -Dragon News} - top 20 home computer sales for 1983
05:27:48 -Dragon News} Noel's Retro Lab/YT- Mail Day - The Case of the Smelly Dragon
05:34:35 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle
05:34:45 -Outro/Closing credits
05:37:45 -Final Dragons...
05:38:50 -Goodbye Everybody!

Check out some of Stewart's games:
http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/rotabb.html
http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/rotb.html

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