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Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
This episode of CoCoTALK! features:
Ken from Canadian Retro Things
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRkegwvhByytikbnnLMVMpA
Footage from the Adalaide Retro Meetup in Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPvyyXXwgeM&ab_channel=DavesTimeMachine
See a new pickup, the Motorla XOR develpment system
Hear about Chet Simpson's new Digger III game for the CoCo 3 release
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158595404992641
Possible visits from Rick Adams and an update on his latest release OmniStar
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158587884482641/
https://rickadams.itch.io/omnistar
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:02:46 Panel Introductions
00:08:17 Ken with Canadian Retro Things
00:36:31 GameON! challenge results
00:38:41 GameON! Discussion - Rally-SG
01:11:44 Next week's game announcment - Digger III
01:17:31 Rick Adams release of OmniStar
01:36:34 Ken Waters - Basic game he is creating
01:47:08 GameON! news
02:16:47 News from around the world
03:02:32 Project updates and acquisitions
03:30:21 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion
News stories for Episode #177, September 12, 2020 show:
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1) Pere Serrat has released a demo set of 10 WAV files
Refresher on the MSX2+:
2) Robert Sieg has both a video demonstrating his new MC-10 Solo Full screen emulator
Video:
Online emulator:
3) Noel's Retro Lab on YouTube put up a video about his latest batch of hardware & software
4) AC's 8-Bit Zone, as part of SepTandy 2020, shows off his giant Coco collection
A cable to hook his Coco 3 up to his Magnavox 85CM15 monitor:
5) Murilo Queiroz posted a link to Usborne books
6) Fred Rique posted a video showing some experiments he has been doing with mixed text and graphics scanline characters using Semi-graphics
7) John Linville posted a link to the "Virtual VCF Midwest 15" schedule
8) Xeox Gomazoa put up a small BASIC program that he wanted some contributions from other people to speed it up by repogramming it in ML
9) Raymond Jett posted how he patched his Sound/Speech pack to have a switch
10) Tony Jewell shared an ad from back in the day in the Dragon Facebook group - a "Turbo Datacorder"
11) LGR Blerbs put up a video this morning of him unboxing his "new stock" Tano Dragon:
Game On news:
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1) The Amigos have released their ARG Presents Coco episode
John Shawler's (BoatofCar) 1.5 hour Coco livestream
2) Jim Gerrie release an MC-10 conversion of LEM from Creative Computing
3) Simon Jonassen has put up a quick video of what looks to be a new game/game engine
4) Rick Adams has released his game Omnistar,
You can order it here:
https://rickadams.itch.io/omnistar
5) Ken over at Canadian Retro Things put up a gameplay video
6) Ken also put up a video of a video game in BASIC that is he is picking up again after 35 years
7) GigerPunk (Rob's Retro Rambles) has a video up of Cuthbert and the Golden Chalice on the Dragon 32:
Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:
https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/
Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:
Consider becoming a patron of the show:
https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow
Live interactive video streams:
https://www.youtube.com/steviestrow
https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive
https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/
https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive
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
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
We're back with episode 176 of CoCoTALK! where we talk CoCo every week. Unbiased non deprecating discussions about the people, projects, and community.
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:02:37 Panel Introductions
00:13:23 Who's new to Discord this week
00:14:39 New Fletcher commercial - courtesy of Alison DeNu
00:16:33 CoCo Thoughts
00:16:50 GameON! challenge results
00:19:29 GameON! Discussion - Canyon Climber
00:39:12 Next week's game announcement - Rally-SG
00:46:46 GameON! news
01:31:23 News from around the world
02:38:27 Project updates and acquisitions
02:53:41 Show discussion
03:25:27 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion
News stories for Episode #176, September 5, 2020 show:
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1) Todd Wallace (Lord Dragon) has released a video showing his new OS9/NitrOS9 utility
2) Charlie (charlie2020 on Discord) has released version 1.3 of some OS9/NitrOS9 utilities that he wrote in BASIC09:
http://jechar.ca/coco/Download/
3) "Mr. Lurchs Things" "SepTandy 2020" promotion between multiple YouTube pages. His upgrades include the 6309, SDC and 512K:
4) Also part of SeptTandy 2020 is TheRetroChannel
5) A 3rd "SepTandy" video is from Dinty's Hideaway
6) A 4th "SepTandy" video is from "Adrian's Digital Basement"
7) A reminder of David O'Connors naming contest for his Coco 3 in a Model III case project
8) Fran Purcell has a cool photo from the air of the Computer Plus facility in Littleton, Massachusetts circa 1981
9) Fred Rique has been experimenting with some animations done with Semi-graphics 24 mode
10) Coco Crew episode 63 was released, including an interview with Curtis Kaylor (who wrote the printer emulator we covered last week)
11) The Amigos are doing an "International Computer Club" Zoom call next Saturday (September 12) at 5 PM EST
https://www.twitch.tv/amigosretrogaming/
12) David O'Connor is also attending the Adelaide Retro Computing Group September Event next Friday
13) Glenside Color Computer Club is having a virtual picnic on September 19th - details to follow.
Game On news:
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1) Jim Gerrie has released a "complete remake" of his MC-10 port of the Scott Adams 1978 text adventure game called Adventureland
He also put up a video of his port of "Sirius Adventure"
2) Our own Stevie Strowbridge officially release his BASIC shoot em up Cosmic Aliens
3) Amigos show "ARG Presents" Sunday morning show (featuring The Interbank Incident and Rad Warrior)
4) SimonWGB on YouTube put up another Dragon 32 game stream (includes Frogger, Screaming Ab-Dabs, Caverns of Chaos). These are long plays.
https://youtu.be/CBPcWSJ6Cc0?t=235
5) "Cloudy Eggs" on YouTube did a comparison of the educational game
6) DaveJustDave on YouTube released an interview with Ken Williams (who, with his wife Roberta created Sierra),
Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:
https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams
Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:
Consider becoming a patron of the show:
https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow
Live interactive video streams:
https://youtube.com/ogsteviestrow
https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive
https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/
https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive
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
Sunday Aug 30, 2020
Sunday Aug 30, 2020
CoCoTALK! 175 is all about MIDI and MIDI on the CoCo. What is MIDI, how do I do MIDI on my Coco, what does it look like, what does it sound like, how hard is it? All these questions and more will be answered. We'll have live demonstrations and information from Rob Innman, Brian "The Music Man" Schubring, L. Curtis Boyle, and Darren Ottery, and Jim Brain, so tune and get MIDIfied!
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:02:35 Panel Introductions
00:08:29 CoCo Thoughts
00:10:15 GameON! challenge results
00:13:23 GameON! Discussion - Arkanoid
00:24:43 Next week's game announcment - Canyon Climber
00:31:42 Midi Maestro - commercial
00:32:22 Discussion - Midi Talk
02:44:26 News from around the world
03:02:49 GameON! news
03:31:14 Project updates and acquisitions
03:49:16 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion
Retro Innovations / Jim Brain is now fully shipping MIDI Maestro cards
http://www.go4retro.com/products/midi-maestro/
https://store.go4retro.com/tandy/midi-maestro/
Brian Schubring and Rob Inman showing use of these cards
#1: General introduction to MIDI on the Coco
#2: Playing Compacted Midi Files
News stories for Episode #175, August 29, 2020 show:
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1) Bill Pierce has released version 2.0.1f of VCC.
James Ross put up a comparison of the new composite colors from the older versions and the new one:
2) Bill Nobel has released his new SDC2 utility
He also has uploaded a short video showing it in action:
3) Phil Harvey-Smith has put some photos up for the custom cases he is doing
4) "The Digital Orphanage" YouTube page has him getting 11(!) Dragon 32 computers from the Museum of Computing in Swindon, UK
5) Robert Sieg has been experimenting with a program to dither colors on the MC-10
6) Ken (CanadianRetroThings) go his Coco 3 up and running
7) Keith (ChibiAkumas on YouTube) has his next Tandy Coco/Dragon assembly language tutorial up
8) Sheldon MacDonald has released his first beta release of his RSDOS Windows utility.
Game On news:
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1) Neil Blanchard has announced availability of his new "The Gamester" - a customizable, real arcade hardware based joystick
2) Denis Bisson put up a gameplay video of Pooyan under MAME.
3) A reminder from Ian Mavric that the 2020 Trash Talk game programming competition for 2020 has a deadline of November 30
Contest page:
4) John "Boatofcar" Shawler of the Amigos did a live Coco stream this past Thursday evening
5) Following Brett Gordon's progress on his networkable Coco 3 game
6) Chet Simpson made an announcement of the official release date for the much anticipated Digger III
7) Jim Gerrie has yet another update to his port of the 3D graphical adventure game Akalabeth
8) User Hloberg on the Atari Age forums has released a Mille Bornes card game (written in BASIC)
Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:
https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/
Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:
Consider becoming a patron of the show:
https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow
Live interactive video streams:
https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live
https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive
https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/
https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive
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
Sunday Aug 23, 2020
Sunday Aug 23, 2020
This was a game heavy show this week with the GameON! Results and discussions around playing Sea Dragon this past week, and hearing about a new multi-player game being designed by Bret Gordon, which looks amazing and will be quite fun to have an online multi player CoCo game to enjoy with friends.
- 00:02:43 Panel Introductions
- 00:09:59 CoCo Thoughts
- 00:11:41 GameON! challenge results
- 00:13:32 GameON! Discussion
- 00:33:44 Next week's game announcment - Arkanoid
- 00:35:46 Discussion with Brett Gordon - Multi player game
- 00:56:06 GameON! news
- 01:11:36 News from around the world
- 01:54:57 Project updates and acquisitions
- 02:47:09 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion - Staying with a project
News stories for Episode #174, August 22, 2020 show:
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1) Jim Gerrie has a couple of videos showing some Reverse video routines
ML routine by Anders Carlsson to invert video a CLS command
Port of General Accounting Program originally done by Larry Allen
2) Canadian Retro Things has an unboxing video up for his newly acquired Coco 3
3) Cyberhug Technologies is working on fixing his Coco 1
4) James Diffendaffer put up a speed comparison video between the original MC-10 BASIC ROMs and the current version of his optimized one:
5) Ed Snider just posted a video of his 8MB prototype board for the GIME-X:
Game On news:
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1) Chet Simpson convert some graphics from the Capcom CPS-1 platform version of Ghouls and Ghosts.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158533587722641/
2) Richard Kelly has uploaded a new version of the graphics game "Artillery!"
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158531573052641/
3) Jason Reighard Ghost Gobbler game from Spectral Associates
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158531109277641/
4) Erico Patricio Monteiro showed some possible SG-4 enhancements that could be done to Jim Gerrie's Pittman game:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158538984097641/
5) Jim Gerrie put up an MC-10 video of an original game he did called Halifax Tail Gunner:
6) LRU's outrageous gaming project has a playthrough to level 10 of Pegasus and the Phantom Riders
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKaIk2c7dGJ2uVLyvrGgh7Q/videos