The CoCo Nation Show

Episode 204 - Legends of Alcarron update

CoCoTALK! Episode 204  - Legends of Alcarron update

00:00:00 - Start
00:00:25 - Intro
00:02:37 - Start of the show!
00:03:00 - Panel Introductions
00:05:55 - Special Guest Star- Jay Searle!
00:47:18 - Special Hello to Steve Bjork's return!
00:51:54 - Commercial Break
00:54:43 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes
00:56:15 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta!
00:58:00 - Game On! discussion
01:08:20 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta!

01:13:00 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
01:13:10 - Game On! News} Erico Patricio Monteiro- More updates in graphics on his fighting game
01:16:55 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- Acey Duecey 10 Liner game,update of his port of Tim Hartnell's Chess
01:19:54 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- Added more long play videos, including a 3 part full play of BackTrack
01:21:35 - Game On! News} The Laird's Lair YT channel- Series of comparison video of several systems with Berserk
01:26:55 - Game On! News} David F. Gisbert- Dragon Facebook Group poll on most beloved games for Dragon
01:29:25 - End of Line for Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
01:29:28 - Definition of Syzygy, a name considered for the company that became Atari
01:30:15 - Commercial Break, with the wonderful Fletcher!
01:33:22 - Project updates and acquisitions
01:33:50 - PUA} The CoComan, Jason Reighard
01:36:10 - PUA} R. Allen Murphy
01:36:56 - PUA} Sloopy Malibu
01:40:15 - PUA} Nick Merentes
01:52:00 - PUA} Brian Wiesler (this is a short one... no, really!!!)
01:58:25 - PUA} Brian Schubring
02:05:00 - PUA} Ron Delvaux, Presented by L. Curtis Boyle
02:07:00 - Commercial Break
02:10:05 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle

**CoCo/General News**
02:10:25 - CoCo News} TJBChris/YT- booting OS-9 Level 2 from *cassette*
02:17:32 - CoCo News} Simon Jonassen- submission to the lovebyte sizecoding contest/256 bytes max program size category
02:18:54 - CoCo News} Roger Voss/Coco FB group- Reasons people love the CoCo
02:30:38 - CoCo News} Mike Rowen of the The Coco Crew podcast/YT- "Retro Printing for Fun and Profit" Multi-part video series
02:32:55 - CoCo News} Boisy Pitre- new website devoted to his Ghidorah networking project for CoCo
02:38:05 - CoCo News} Fabian Rodriguez/TRS-80 Color Computer FB group- fixed his Coco 3, and discussion of repair and hacking of CoCo's
02:39:54 - CoCo News} Doug Masten/github- released a updated 6809/6309 decompressor for the ZX0 (de)compression format
02:: - CoCo News} Bill Pierce- VCC 2.1.0d is due out in April
02:42:54 - CoCo News} 6809/6309/6800 Assembly FB group- 6809's place in music history with synthesizers
02:44:08 - CoCo News} GlensideCCC meeting- A new animal based mascot for the CoCoFests
02:50:05 - CoCo News} GlensideCCC meeting- CoCoFest is moved to November, and talk of a virtual event at the end of April
02:55:00 - CoCo News} Aaron Ishmael- Request for information on software titles listed in a 1985 Radio Shack catalog

**MC-10 News**
02:59:42 - MC-10 News} Robert Sieg- update to his 24 bit BMP to MC-10 128x96x4 graphics converter
03:01:24 - MC-10 News} Jim McClellan- TP-10 thermal printer

**Dragon News**
03:02:24 - Dragon News} David F. Gisbert- Dragon 200 setup - including MMC card adaptor
03:04:06 - Dragon News} Matt Kaye- Selling Dragon 32 exact replica replacement stickers
03:05:12 - Dragon News} Philippe Hennebert- Utility for 'disconnecting' the floppy controller for loading cassette software
03:07:58 - End of Line for News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:08:00 - PUA} Ron Delvaux- More information on his new console game system and the IC inside it
03:13:45 - Closing Credits/Outtro
03:16:00 - Final Thoughts/CoCoTalk Caboose!
03:18:00 - Steve, your welcome for doing the time stamps :) 
03:18:15 - Goodbye Everybody!

J Searle and Brett Gordon are working on an online multi-player game for the CoCo.  Today Jay will join us and give us a live demo of how it's coming along!

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Episode 203 - Superior Programming

This week we get to meet a new member of the CoCo community, Henry, we cover GameON! results from Zazzon, hear news, and then talk about development environments, including a sneak peek at Eric Canales' 6dev09 tool.

00:00:00 - Start
00:00:08 - Intro
00:02:45 - Start of the show!
00:02:50 - Live audience/Chat shout-outs
00:03:08 - Best part of the show!
00:02:00 - Start of the show 203b!
00:03:40 - Panel Introductions
00:06:00 - Spotlight on Henry NoNick 
00:14:15 - Panel Introductions, continues...
00:14:35 - More Live audience/Chat shout-outs
00:16:00 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes
00:20:15 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta!
00:22:32 - Game On! discussion
00:35:50 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta!
00:39:30 - Commercial Break
00:42:54 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
00:43:15 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- Third World War, 10 Liner game, update of The Caves of the Unwashed Heathen
00:46:38 - Game On! News} Erico Patricio Monteiro- updates on a fighting game he is working on
00:47:08 - Game On! News} LRU's Outrageous Gaming Project- Added more long play videos
00:48:00 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- Added videos for Screaming Abdabs (14 levels), Boris the Bold, The King, Demon Seed, Shaft
00:50:18 - Game On! News} Rob's Retro Rambles- "MacDougal's Last Stand" for the Dragon 32
00:55:28 - Game On! News} FRGCB Dude- Compares Hungry Horace and Horace Goes Skiing on 3 systems
01:05:55 - Game On! News} Melanie Swalwell- Releasing the book "Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality"
01:16:00 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle

**Dragon News**
01:16:16 - Dragon News} Ivan Rodellas Garcia- Reposted a older video of unboxing a new Tano Dragon

**CoCo/General News**
01:21:42 - CoCo News} Fred Provoncha- update of iCal data into NitrOS-9 
01:22:30 - CoCo News} Ken of Canadian Retro Things- review and demo of the Switch-A-Roo cable
01:35:25 - CoCo News} Simon Jonassen- Demo of smooth scrolling/flipping text
01:36:35 - CoCo News} Todd Wallace- text mode library for the Coco 3 in BASIC
01:39:05 - CoCo News} Retroralhas- Brazilian CoCo clone Codimex CD-6809
01:47:25 - CoCo News} Fabian Rodriguez- More updating/fixing/cleaning up the CocoPedia Wikim and requests for others to contribute
01:48:00 - CoCo News} Lou Ottens- who was the inventor of the compact cassette tape, passed away
01:49:50 - CoCo News} Michael J. Knudsen- author of Ultimuse III, has passed away
01:56:50 - End of Line for News, with L. Curtis Boyle
01:59:45 - Commercial Break
02:03:15 - Return from Commercial Break
02:03:25 - Questions from Ron Delvaux
02:05:03 - Asparagus has been called!
02:05:08 - Project updates and acquisitions
02:05:20 - PUA} Brian Schubring
02:07:02 - PUA} Mikey
02:10:20 - PUA} Eric Canales
02:29:15 - PUA} HenryNoNick
02:40:40 - Panel discussion of various editors and IDE's...
02:51:30 - End of Line for CocoTalk!
02:51:43 - Closing Credits/Outtro
02:54:34 - Final Thoughts/CoCoTalk Caboose!
02:58:15 - The best part of the show is next!
02:58:24 - Goodbye Everybody!

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Episode 202 - Sharing the love of the CoCo

We're back with another amazing episode of CoCoTALK! everyone's favorite CoCo talk show, we love the CoCo, we love taking about the CoCo and sharing that love, come join us!

00:00:00 - Start
00:02:00 - Intro
00:02:28 - Start of the show!
00:02:30 - Best part of the show!
00:03:00 - Live audience/Chat shout-outs
00:03:50 - Panel Introductions
00:05:25 - Happy Birthday Sarah!
00:06:48 - Panel Introductions, continues...
00:12:00 - Project updates and acquisitions
00:12:38 - PUA} Terry Steege
00:15:15 - PUA} Brian Wieseler
00:23:40 - PUA} FrodoNL
00:26:30 - PUA} Brian Schubring
00:31:55 - PUA} Sloopy Malibu
00:33:25 - PUA} Rick Ulland (***Spoiler: no pics of neighbor... ***)
00:40:24 - Boatofcar, welcome!
00:41:05 - Brian Wieseler, Keyboard demo
00:42:30 - Stevie- Thank you to several people, like the awesome R. Allen Murphy, the great Alison DeNu... and some other random person...
00:46:38 - Commercial Break
00:49:53 - Who is new to the CoCo Discord!
00:51:32 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes
00:53:53 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta!
00:55:49 - Game On! discussion
01:10:38 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta!
01:16:18 - Steve continuing further off-topic, aka Coleco Talk! (a new show coming sometime, maybe, in the future!) 
01:18:05 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
01:18:37 - Game On! News} Sheldon MacDonald- New game teaser, Treasure Island for CoCoVGA 
01:26:37 - Game On! News} Richard N.- Spacewar! version 2
01:31:30 - Game On! News} The Pixel Gaiden podcast- Episode 53 release
01:33:32 - Game On! News} Paul Thayer- Demo of 'spotlight effect'
01:34:25 - Game On! News} LRU's Outragous gaming project- Videos of various games: Spidercide, Caverns of Chaos, Kung Fu: The Master, Breakout, Downland, Jet Boot Colin, Desperado Dan
01:35:22 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- 2 Long play game videos
01:36:43 - Game On! News} Darren Ottery- New MC-10 game:DropShip
01:40:15 - Commercial Break: Daz&Day Cover of Blue Monday by New Order
01:47:10 - Return from Commercial Break
01:48:25 - Snoozy Newsy
01:48:44 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle
**CoCo/General News**
01:49:26 - CoCo News} pahandav- Blog post on his NitrOS-9 install video 
01:50:10 - Happy Birthday to Ron Delvaux's Mother!
01:50:22 - CoCo News} "Radio Shack(R)" via Ron Delvaux- T-Shirts with the CoCo name
01:51:08 - CoCo News} Jon Guidry- Link of photos from Tandy Electronics of Australia
01:54:22 - CoCo News} Robert Gault- released disk image for a program to create text/graphics windows from CLI of NitrOS-9
01:55:07 - CoCo News} Terry Trapp- Update on his P2/CoCoBlender hardware project
02:01:22 - CoCo News} Fabian Rodriguez- updating/fixing/cleaning up the CocoPedia Wiki
02:06:10 - CoCo News} Retrotralhas- released a video of 'Color 64' South American CoCo clone
02:11:00 - CoCo News} Eric Canales- Glenside Color Computer Club is accepting donations of CoCo related items or monetary donations via PayPal
02:12:38 - CoCo News} Ed Snider- Released a teaser video of his awesome new pick and place machine (yes, I am most jealous!)
**Dragon News**
02:24:43 - Dragon News} John Whitworth- Lower case kits for Dragons' series of computers
02:27:05 - End of Line for News, with L. Curtis Boyle
02:27:50 - An actual Commercial Break
02:31:30 - End of Line for CocoTalk!
02:32:00 - CoCoTalk Caboose!
02:32:44 - Happy birthday to Grant Leighty
02:32:30 - More Caboose!
02:48:07 - Closing Credits/Outtro
02:50:32 - Final Thoughts
02:53:57 - The good part of the show is next!

Episode 201 - Special Guest & Lots of News!

This week we feature special guest Joanne Donaldson and lots of news!

00:00:00 - Start
00:00:20 - Intro
00:03:14 - Hello to our chat guests
00:05:03 - Panel Introductions
00:18:58 - More, Hello to our chat guests
00:20:12 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes
00:20:34 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta!
00:22:38 - Game On! discussion
00:36:10 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta!
00:38:25 - Nick Marentes- 512k Flash/MP3 Cart 
00:50:29 - Commercial Break
00:51:08 - I found Stevie! He wasnt kidnapped by Commodore users!
00:54:08 - Return from Commercial Break
00:55:00 - JoAnn Donaldson
01:31:10 - Commercial Break
01:34:40 - Intro (Game On! News/)News, with L. Curtis Boyle
01:35:20 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- Various
01:39:08 - Game On! News} Jamie Cho- Space Bandits
01:45:02 - Game On! News} Diego Barizo- Airwolf
01:48:10 - Game On! News} Retro Games Diversos- CoCo/Dragon emulator for Pocket-Go Miyoo
01:53:52 - Game On! News} LRU's Outragous gaming project- Videos of various games
01:56:40 - Game On! News} Guillaume Major- Operation:RECON game demo release
02:01:25 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle
**CoCo/General News**
02:01:35 - CoCo News} Daniel Campos- Rare CoCo1 clone
02:05:14 - CoCo News} Boisy Pitre- Released DriveWire4 Server for MacOS Version 1.2.1
02:05:40 - CoCo News} Ken @ Canadian Retro Things- Video of CoCo1 repair
02:07:52 - CoCo News} Erico Patricio Monteiro- low-res/semigraphics of various computers
02:09:28 - CoCo News} Sheldon MacDonald- Vector graphics demo
02:11:54 - CoCo News} Aaron Newcomb- video segment on TWiT's show FLOSS Weekly about open source RGB to HDMI
02:16:30 - CoCo News} Todd Wallace- Release of software to get live weather report on  CoCo
02:19:40 - CoCo News} Jayeson Lee-Steere- Revised design of his Omniboard
02:20:30 - CoCo News} Pierre Sarrazin- Released manual/reference for CMOC for BASIC programmers
02:21:20 - CoCo News} Amateur Tinkering- Video on connecting to telnet BBS's with CoCo1/VideoTex cart
02:26:25 - CoCo News} Richard Lorbieski- Recent weather in TX has made some temporary setbacks.
02:31:52 - CoCo News} Robert Gault- Disk image for creating Koch patterns
02:33:00 - CoCo News} Ron Lammardo- Posted a discussion on GShell by Mark Griffiths and Mark Siegal
02:36:15 - CoCo News} Frederick Provoncha- Test program to sync NitrOS-9 and iCal
02:39:30 - Commercial Break
02:42:42 - Return from Commercial Break
02:42:50 - Richard Lorbieski- Update about his situation, Texas, etc...
02:54:15 - CoCo News} Fabian Rodriguez- CoCo3 rescue
03:03:00 - CoCo News} Terry Trapp- CoCo Blender, a Parallax P2 add-on to the CoCo
03:04:55 - CoCo News} Brandon Tetreau- VCC cart launcher
03:07:05 - CoCo News} Michael P Yusko- What got you into the CoCo's?
03:07:48 - CoCo News} This Week in Retro(ft Neil of RMC and John of Amigos & The CoCo Show)- Ben Drakes CoCoVR info
03:13:18 - CoCo News} pahandav- Installing NitrOS-9 in an emulator
03:14:53 - CoCo News} The Coco Crew- Released episode 69
03:15:45 - CoCo News} Brian Weisler- Gotta Catch The All!
**Dragon News**
03:20:55 - Dragon News} Stewart Orchard- FPGA Blitter
03:23:34 - Dragon News} Andy Fox- CoCoVGA in a Dragon
03:24:12 - Dragon News} Jamie Murray- International edition of Dragn User
03:25:52 - Dragon News} Julian Brown- Javascript 6809 emulator
03:26:45 - Dragon News} Ciaran Anscomb- 128k ram upgrade for Dragon 64
03:29:00 - End of Line for News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:29:12 - JoAnn Donaldson, Picture from 1972 at NASA
03:33:50 - Commercial Break
03:37:05 - Return from break talk
03:37:20 - Project updates and acquisitions
03:37:30 - PUA} Sloopy Malibu
03:38:42 - PUA} Mark D Overlholser
03:39:30 - PUA} Brian Schubring
03:43:33 - PUA} Nick Marotta(, Nick Marotta, Niiiiicoooo MarooootttaAAHH!)
03:45:14 - PUA} R. Allen Murphy
03:46:22 - PUA} Rick Ulland
03:51:10 - PUA} Ron Delvaux
03:54:10 - PUA} Brian Wieseler
03:05:27 - PUA} Brian Wieseler
04:03:00 - End of Line for Project updates and acquisitions
04:03:55 - Closing Credits/Outtro

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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To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:
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Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:
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