The CoCo Nation Show

Episode 86 of CoCoTALK! will feature a very special appearance of Frank Hogg from Frank Hogg laboratories, maker and providers of many fine Color Computer products, and will be hosted the internet's own Grant Leighty and co-hosted by Mr. Mullet himself, L. Curtis Boyle, as well as both the regular, and irregular members of our Color Computer Community!

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CoCoTALK! Episode 85 will be the OS-9® episode! We'll talk about Ease of Use beta 2 and speak with Allan Batteiger, General Manager of Microware, the creators and owners of OS-9, which, is still very much alive and well today.

Microware LP
http://www.microware.com/

Microware OS-9® Community Edition
ftp://www.wb5qng.org/OS9/OS-9_CE/

NitrOS-9 EoU
http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/nitros9.html

Beta 2 Videos
http://youtu.be/bAZzlOWvYBo

http://youtu.be/NJVIWGsQF9I

00:00:00 Opening
00:01:32 Around the Room
00:11:42 Allan Batteiger, GM of Microware, Owner of OS-9®
01:48:27 Break
01:52:20 NitrOS-9 Ease of Use ( EoU ), Beta 2
01:53:08 NitrOS-9 EoU, L. Curtis Boyle
02:07:00 NitrOS-9 EoU, Beta 2, Live Demo
03:10:24 CoCo News ( CoCoCREW! POD Cast, et. al. )
03:25:27 Around the Room ( Closing )

For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:
https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/

Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:
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CoCoTALK! Episode 84 finds us on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, we already had a Thanksgiving evening episode, so you'd think we wouldn't have anything else to talk about, but, somehow, we managed.

Lots of news, some tech segments with Curtis and Nick and more!

 

CoCoTALK! Episode 83 hosted by the Internet's own Grant Leighty!

CoCoTALK!
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CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live

Regular segments:
Panel introduction, review of how our week in the retro hobby transpired.

Feed back review:
We go over previous episodes, how many views have they received, what's our current podcast download count, who sent us comments, email feed back, all those and more will be discussed and shared.

Community activity reviews:
Review of news and postings from the Facebook group and the Color Computer mailing list.

Question of the week:
Grant Leighty will bring us a question of the week occasionally for us to discuss.

TechTALK!
L. Curtis Boyle and David Ladd provide us with some more depth on technical discussions

CoreDUMP! Nick Marentes will host technical discussions about software development, and hopefully not only raise questions, but provide answers for our CoCo devs

Ron's Garage!
Ron Delvaux offers us a peek into the past by showing of his impressive retro computing collection, each week we'll see some new items and talk about them.

Why did They/Tandy do that?
We'll ask the hard hitting questions of why things were (or weren't) done that could have possibly changed the course of history (hey that sounds like a great premise for a series!)

Interviews, News, Reviews, and more!

CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer.

Timber Man update & source code release
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156739505092641/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156743847887641/

Zenix/Crystal City source code release
https://github.com/gosub-com/Coco
Zenix history:
https://gosub.com/Coco/History/

Scott Kelly is designing replacement parts for Deluxe joysticks, and uploaded a test file/schematic for the vertical arm (on Facebook)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156734681957641/

Hugo's new game update - sprite compiler demo, and sample tiles:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156748166077641/

Jacob made it to level 5 in Pop Star Pilot - one of the few.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156745638032641/
(Scroll down to get the level 5 video)

Chet Simpson
Sample output from the tileset compiler with updated optimizing code generator enabled. Still need to throw in clr, inc, and dec alternatives for optimizing register loads but that'll work itself out :)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2180759841943673&set=gm.10156739128822641&type=3&theater&ifg=1

Cambridge Centre for Computing History using Dragons and SGEdit to promote upcoming Christmas Quiz night
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/49983/Quiz-Night-and-Christmas-Fundraiser-2018-1st-December/

 

For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live

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