The CoCo Nation Show

Episode 220 - Markus Blumrich

CoCoTALK! episode 220 - Markus Blumrich

Today we'll speak with Markus Blumrich who hosted one of the original Color Computer "super sites" on the internet and hear some fun and fascinating stories from the CoCo glory days.

We'll also introduce a new segment from Game Designer Rick Adams: Raiders of the Lost CoCo where he'll go over some code samples from professional video games.

If we're lucky we'll also have some assembly from George J and who knows what else?
{Well, here is a list of what we have! -sloopy}
00:00:00 -Start
00:02:50 -Start of the show!
00:02:55 -Viewer Introductions
00:03:30 -Panel Introductions
00:06:55 -CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes
00:07:46 -Everyone loves Samuel Gimes!
00:08:40 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta!
00:10:25 -Game On! discussion
00:23:28 -Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta!
00:26:20 -Special Guest, Markus Blumrich
01:56:10 -Commercial Break
01:58:06 -Return to the Show!
01:58:30 -Raiders of the Lost CoCo w/ Rick Adams
02:14:14 -Asssembly with George J!
03:00:30 -Return to the Show!
03:01:20 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:01:48 -Game On! News} tanam 1972/YT- video about Gakken TV Boy (200X)
03:03:48 -Game On! News} Nick Marentes- part 8 of his Zero Hour blog
03:08:54 -Game On! News} The Amigos/YT- preview/no commentary video of Pitstop II
03:10:58 -Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon/YT- more gameplay videos Ft. Decathlon , Dragon 32 Invaders, Desperado Dan, Taskship, Sporting Decathlon), Fantasy Fight, Albert and the Monsters, Kriegspiel, Crazy Foota 3
03:29:42 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie/YT- another MC-10 game port - Blastar, originally written by 12 year old Elon Musk (yes, *that* Elon Musk!)
03:33:10 -Game On! News} MrDave6309- video showing what he has learned so far using hardware vertical scrolling on the Coco 3
03:43:30 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:44:00 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle
**CoCo/General News**
03:44:15 -CoCo News} Richard Kelly- PDF explains how his maze generating program works
03:48:25 -CoCo News} Pedro Pena/YT- has been experimenting with the RGBtoHDMI adaptors
03:53:20 -CoCo News} Michael Golden- Image of his heavily modified Coco 1 from back in the 1980's
04:05:45 -CoCo News} Nik Bresievac- Several hardware projects (keypad,CoCo1 SVideo,Joystick-KB mod)
04:08:32 -CoCo News} John Whitworth- Looking for suggestions for making an updated name for his MSX2+ board
04:10:10 -CoCo News} Jacob@Newsmaker Tech/YT- video of his favourite top 5 Tandy computers
04:16:15 -CoCo News} Sheldon MacDonald- update to his RS Dostool
04:17:42 -CoCo News} Deek- Requesting public review of his released DCC documentation
**MC-10 News**
None :(
**Dragon News**
None :(
04:20:10 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle
04:20:20 -Info for the upcoming ALL DRAGON SPECIAL!!!
04:30:40 -What has Brian Wiesler bought this week?!?
04:43:25 -End of Line for Brian Wiesler's 'Treasure Chest'
04:48:00 -Final Thoughts and Goodbye!
04:51:00 -Goodbye to our viewers!
04:52:20 -Goodbye everybody!
04:52:32 -The end of Line.

Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live
Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live
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Episode 219 - Happy 4th!

CoCoTALK! episode 219 - Happy 4th!

00:00:00 -Start
00:02:48 -Start of the show!
00:03:00 -Viewer Introductions
00:03:44 -Panel Introductions
00:05:35 -Happy Independence Day!
00:08:40 -Best of CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes
00:09:09 -Everyone is speechless by Samuel Gimes!
00:09:20 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta!
00:11:20 -Game On! discussion
00:32:00 -Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta!
00:36:15 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle
**CoCo/General News**
00:36:36 -CoCo News} TRS-80 Trash Talk live- Released current episode ft. Coco card that Bartlett labs is working on with several functionalities (SD hard drives, Ethernet, floppy controller, switch selectable booting of Coco 1,2,3 and HDBDOS, VGA out)
00:47:50 -CoCo News} The Coco Crew- Released episode 73
00:50:30 -CoCo News} Ron Klein- New version of the CocoPi is coming out soon, that will support RPI3/4/400
01:06:40 -CoCo News} Richard Kelly- released his latest "Retro Rick's Maze-making Algorithm" program
01:07:18 -CoCo News} Tony Jewell- Converting PAL-M CP-400 CoCo clone to run on NTSC, and has a 'modern' style keyboard
01:11:36 -CoCo News} Glenside Color Computer Club- Released their summer newsletter
01:28:55 -CoCo News} Bill Pierce/VCC Dev Crew- released VCC 2.1.0d
01:31:41 -CoCo News} David K/YT- video showing a Coco Koala Touchpad
01:41:00 -CoCo News} Michael Pittsley/YT full series of videos showing Dorsett Courseware's Personal Finance multi-media educational software
**MC-10 News**
01:45:45 -MC-10 News} Rocky Hill/YT- video showing MC-10 to HDMI using an RGB to HDMI converter
**Dragon News**
01:50:30 -Dragon News} Dragon Plus Electronics- updated dev history of the Dragon MSX 2+ board, and demo videos
01:58:45 -Dragon News} Bluearcus- Doc for modern storage solutions and details for real Dragon computers
02:01:15 -Dragon News} MAME Dev Team- Added support for both the MSX2+ board, and now the Multipak
02:03:00 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle
02:03:10 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
02:03:30 -Game On! News} Pedro Pena/YT- game play video of Nick Marentes recent semigraphics game Rally SG, On CoCo2 with RGBtoHDMI to use a iMac G3 as a monitor
02:10:10 -Game On! News} I only did it for the Calculator Watch/YT- video for the game Black Hole for the Dragon
02:13:42 -Game On! News} Documentary on First Person Shooters, is currently on Kickstarter, and has "Phantom Slayer" included
02:19:45 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- video for Beta of port of Walter Bright's 4X Ur game "Empire"
02:21:30 -Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- videos: Dragon Hawk, Return of the Ring, Lucifer's Kingdom 
02:29:10 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
02:29:30 -Tim Lidner- Demo and info on the new release of MAME with the MSX2+ board for the Dragon
02:49:00 -L. Curtis Boyle- Guests and other greatness coming to CoCoTalk! in the coming weeks
02:52:10 -Project Updates and Acquisitions
02:52:30 -PUA} Brian Wiesler
03:13:45 -PUA} L. Curtis Boyle
03:33:10 -Panel- discussion of cool CoCo things.
03:40:40 -PUA} Brian Wiesler, Part II!
03:49:30 -Final thoughts & Goodbye everybody!
03:53:25 -The end of Line.

Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live
Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live
Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  http://discord.cocotalk.live
To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com

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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Episode 218 - Stefan Vogt from Puddle Software

Today we feature Stefan Vogt @8bit_era to talk about his new Infocom style game Hibernated 1 that's available for a multitude of 8-bit systems including the Dragon and CoCo.

https://8bitgames.itch.io/hibernated1

The original live stream had a few glitches and ended up being in 3 parts, this is the spliced version.

Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live
Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live
Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  http://discord.cocotalk.live
To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com

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

Episode 217 - Aaron Newcomb from @retrohackshack

CoCoTALK! episode 217 - Aaron Newcomb from @retrohackshack
Today we're joined by a very special guest, Aaron Newcomb from @retrohackshack
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN_u47_wJuhh249H9E8sjtw
Aaron has done a lot of videos on RGB-to-HDMI conversions, and recently did one for the CoCo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm2eo4BEna4
We'll hear all about Aaron's background, his hack shack channel, and more.

We'll also have GameON! results, some assembly discussions, news, and more!

00:00:00 - Start
00:03:00 - Start of the show!
00:03:15 - Viewer Introductions
00:03:42 - Panel Introductions
00:06:00 - Aaron Newcomb of Retro Hack Shack
01:05:00 - Hello to new Panelist
01:06:22 - Who's new to the CoCoDiscord
01:09:15 - Stefan Vogt, Live on CoCoTalk! on 6/26!
01:11:15 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes
01:12:20 - Everyone is speechless by Samuel Gimes!
01:13:55 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta!
01:16:25 - Game On! discussion
01:31:40 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta!
01:35:35 - Assembly Basics with George Jensen
02:33:33 - End of Line for... Assembly Basics with George Jensen
02:33:45 - Commercial Break
02:37:25 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
02:37:50 - Game On! News} The Coco Show- released the next episode of The Coco Show, spotlighting the Missile Command clone, Polaris
02:47:50 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- released Frogs, a port of the game by People's Computer Company magazine by Mac Oglesby from 1974! Its not Frogger, It is a puzzle game
02:50:12 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- gameplay videos on the Dragon, Shaolin Master Plus and Tangle Wood
02:57:24 - Game On! News} Richard Kelly- Coco 1/2 game from issue #110 of the old T&D Software magazine, called Mazey
02:58:45 - Game On! News} RetroMantra/YT- comparison video of various versions of Zaxxon
03:05:08 - End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:05:10 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle
**CoCo/General News**
03:05:32 - CoCo News} Glen Hewlett- demonstration of smooth, non-flickering sprite animations, it does NOT require double buffering at all
03:11:52 - CoCo News} Jim Brain @ Retro Innovations- FlashPak now for sale in his store
03:18:18 - CoCo News} Canadian Retro Things- video showing his first usage and installation of NitrOS-9/EOU
03:21:58 - CoCo News} Robert Sieg- first assembly language program test on the Alice 32
03:23:33 - CoCo News} Rocky Hill/YT- video showing two projects into one: Putting a Coco 2 display onto a iMac G3 DV screen
**MC-10 News**
None :(
**Dragon News**
None :(
03:27:10 - End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:27:22 - Project Updates and Aquisitions
03:28:08 - PUA} Brian Wiesler
03:40:15 - Closing Credits
03:43:10 - Final thoughts
03:44:08 - Thank you to all you wonderful people!
03:45:00 - David Ladd is here! we can start the show!
03:47:27 - Goodbye everybody!
03:47:38 - The end of Line.

Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live
Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live
Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  http://discord.cocotalk.live
To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com

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