The CoCo Nation Show

248 - Scott Griepentrog

CoCoTALK! Episode 248 - Scott Griepentrog

Scott created a very cool SDG.NET a network CoCo BBS system from the 90's
He also edited the OSK'er publication, we'll learn about all these and so much more!
Also featuring Pedro Pena with an update on a USB CoCo keyboard adapter,
And Rick Adams' Wordle clone for the CoCo.

00:00:00 Into
00:01:25 Panel Introductions
00:05:04 Pedro Pena aka Rocky Hill talks about USB keyboard on the CoCo and more
00:28:37 Commercial Break
00:30:27 Special Guest Scott Griepentrog
03:01:40 Rick Adams' new Wordle on the CoCo
03:22:46 Commercial Break
03:29:26 CoCo Thoughts - GameON! results, new game of the week reveal
03:51:16 GameON! news
04:35:44 Newsy News
05:38:49 Updates & Acquisitions
05:43:19 Final Thoughts & Goodbyes

247 - Daggorath, Poker Squares, Petski Robots, oh my!

Mike Spencer will tell us all about the Dungeons of Daggorath website, the source code printout, assembling with LWAWSM, and more

Paul Shoemaker will update us the evolution and various versions of his hit game Poker Squares!

Lastly, in our GameON! news segment, L. Curtis Boyle, and Jay Searle give us a live demo and update on the CoCo 3 port of Dave Murray's (The 8-bit Guy) game Petski Robots as it's being ported to the CoCo 3.

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246 - Special Guest Randy Kindig

Today's special guest will be none other than Randy Kindig, vintage computing podcasting legend, and holder of the gold standard of vintage podcasting in general.

Host of The Floppy Days Podcast as well as the Antic Podcast and so much more!

00:00:00 -Start/Intro
00:01:45 -Start of the show!
00:02:00 -Panel Introductions
00:03:20 -Viewer Introductions
00:03:45 -Special Guest, Randy Kindig
01:59:54 -Commmercial break
02:01:02 -Thank you Patrons!
02:02:18 -Commercial Break
02:05:00 -Who's New on Discord? Join Here: Discord.CoCoTalk.Live
02:57:07 -CoCo Thoughts by Samuel Gimes
02:08:12 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things
02:11:05 -Game On! discussion
02:24:40 -Game On! Game for next week, With(out) Nick Marotta! But... Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things
02:27:22 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
02:27:45 -CoCo News} Leany Brothers- Several interesting followup bits from last weeks interview
02:32:42 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- Pooper!, and Robert Sieg's Full Screen Project machine language driver
02:35:53 -Game On! News} Pere Serrat and Kees van Oss- released AGD games pack #47, Papyrus, Quest for Elements, Ray's Reprisal, Restless Andre, Stripping Penelope
02:39:25 -Game On! News} Tim Thayer- rough draft of the background graphics for an upcoming game called Card Sharks
02:41:11 -Game On! News} Robert Sieg- BASIC MC-10 games that has converted to use his Full Screen project character display generator for higher res graphics, also shows using the Gameboy graphics editor for the graphics
02:47:17 -Game On! News} Aaron & Boat/The CoCoShow- Next episode to be recorded on Twitch Jan 23rd at 1pm (actually right now, as these time stamps are being made!)
02:48:18 -Game On! News} Nick Marentes- update for 13th Zero Hour Blog post
03:12:16 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:12:30 -Commercial Break
03:17:20 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle
**CoCo/General News**
03:17:50 -CoCo News} Pierre Serrazin- released version 0.1.74 of CMOC
03:18:44 -CoCo News} Simon Jonassen- release a video/audio demo, source code and BIN file for a 3 voice square wave music player for the Coco 3
03:21:00 -CoCo News} Bill Nobel- video update to his Teensy project, ROM is in place, MMU and video operational, and the quick video clip shows the Buggy Monitor
03:24:30 -CoCo News} retrorewind.ca- have HD6309E's in stock, and also offers the service of socketing the CPU and installing it
03:26:15 -CoCo News} Baptiste Hobbe- Atari style to Coco joystick converters that are for sale
03:27:31 -CoCo News} John Linville- video showing his Coco / Tandy 1000 joystick testing prototype in operation
03:30:40 -CoCo News} James Jones- video showing BASIC09 vs. DECB
03:33:13 -CoCo News} Pedro Pena- video showing him upgrading a 26-3134A Korean Coco 2 to 64K RAM and adding Extended BASIC
03:35:20 -CoCo News} Bill Pierce- has fixed some broken links, and developers can now access the last developers-only release of Drivewire 4.3.4e that was never officially released from his website
**MC-10 News**
03:40:00 -MC-10 News} Robert Sieg- screenshots of characters for Flipull updated with custom font characters
03:41:21 -MC-10 News} Ciaran Anscomb- update to XRoar this past week, now allowing XRoar to load ASCII BASIC files directly via a "quick type"
**Dragon News**
03:42:36 -Dragon News} Chris Hawkins/CRC (Chris's Retro Corner)- fixing a couple of the things - a key that didn't work, and the power button that only worked sometimes
03:43:30 -Dragon News} John Whitworth- another batch of the PSU Kits are available again from Dragonplus Electronics
03:44:50 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:45:00 -Project Updates and Acquisitions
03:45:15 -PUA} CoComan
03:51:30 -PUA} L Curtis Boyle
03:53:18 -Outtro
03:56:10 -Caboose/Final thoughts...
03:57:10 -Good Bye Everybody!

https://floppydays.libsyn.com/
https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/
http://www.nextwithoutfor.org/
http://www.midwestcomputermuseum.com/cms/

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245 - A pair of CoCo Brother Game Developers

CoCoTALK! Episode 245 - A pair of CoCo Brother Game Developers

00:00:00 -Start/Intro
00:01:20 -Start of the show!
00:02:00 -Panel Introductions
00:04:40 -Viewer Introductions
00:05:30 -Special Guests, The CoCo (duex?) Brothers... Doug & Kevin Leany, and Paul & Tim Thayer
02:28:00 -WORLD PREMIER OF A NEW GAME!!! by Paul and Tim Thayer
02:47:30 -Thank you Patrons!
02:48:28 -Are you New on Discord? Join Here: Discord.CoCoTalk.Live
02:50:00 -Commercial Break
02:54:34 -The musical stylings (assault?) of Samuel Gimes!
02:55:55 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things
02:57:22 -Woohoo! I am SECOND! :)
02:58:34 -Game On! historical info and reviews
02:59:29 -Game On! Challenge LIVE report
03:04:04 -Wawa, the best place for your connivence!
03:08:08 -Game On! discussion
03:18:18 -Game On! Game for next week, With(out) Nick Marotta! But... Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things
03:20:20 -Game On! News interlude!
03:20:30 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:21:00 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- videos of his MC-19 implementation of Simple-5 Heuristic Chess, and "Galactic Hitchhiker" for the Compukit UK1010 computer
03:24:14 -Game On! News} Marlin Lee- Coco Game play videos, Android Attack, Rommel-3D, Time Patrol, and Fury
03:26:42 -Game On! News} Trey Tomes- WIP VDG text mode "Rogue Lite" game
03:28:00 -Game On! News} Paul Shoemaker- Dragon version of Poker Squares
03:29:24 -Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- rebooted his Dragon gameplay videos, and released new videos
03:33:53 -Game On! News} Pere Serrat & Kees van Oss- released AGD Games Pak #46
03:26:26 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:36:50 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle
**CoCo/General News**
03:37:07 -CoCo News} The Coco Collector-Boisy Pitre/YT- rundown on the "Coco 4" case
03:43:43 -CoCo News} John Linville- Joystick tester hardware
03:46:22 -CoCo News} Brian Wieseler- photos of Coco joysticks from CH Products
03:47:47 -CoCo News} Alfredo Santos- posted a picture that he got from the book "The MC6809 Cookbook", written in 1980 by Carl D. Warren
03:53:03 -CoCo News} James Jones- speed differences for the "Eight Queens Problem", programmed in both Coco3 BASIC and in BASIC09
03:55:50 -CoCo News} Steve Strowbridge (aka El Jeffe, the OG, our fearless leader!)- will be a guest on Retro Repair Roundup (episode #4)
**MC-10 News**
04:04:08 -MC-10 News} Robert Sieg- tips for using the MC-10 assembler, and with the MCX-128, updates his graphical font program, photos of the graphical font he is making
**Dragon News**
04:07:35 -Dragon News} Tony Jewell published an article in the print magazine called "PIXEL ADDICT"
04:09:29 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle
04:09:39 -Project Updates and Acquisitions
04:09:45 -PUA} Stevie "OG Gamer" Strow
04:13:13 -Tom Erik Gunderson asks a question!
04:13:38 -PUA} More! with Stevie "OG Gamer" Strow
04:20:30 -PUA} Terry Steege
04:24:14 -PUA} John "BoatOfCar" Shawler
04:28:18 -PUA} A hard working Rick Ulland!
04:29:00 -Grant Leighty, the man to blame for CoCoFest 2022!
04:33:50 -Outtro
04:35:56 -Caboose/Final thoughts...
04:36:20 -Good Bye Everybody!

Doug & Kevin Leany who developed games for the CoCo "back in the day"
And Paul & Tim Thayer who are making modern games for the CoCo.

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