Episodes
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Episode 173 - Crikey a new Nick Marentes game!
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Crikey! Nick Marentes is at it again! Earlier this year he released Gun Stah, and followed that up with Rally-SG, you'd think he'd be busy counting all his money and watching his Swiss bank accounts, but no, he's at it again with yet another new game for the Coco and we'll see the world premier of his current project in progress! That along with all the other usual boring stuff, Games, News, old guys, blah, blah, blah.
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
- 00:02:39 Panel Introductions
- 00:09:09 Simon Jonassen - Demo
- 00:35:50 Nightmare Highway song
- 00:40:24 Rick Adams - Bomb Threat talk
- 01:03:25 CoCo Thoughts
- 01:05:13 GameON! challenge results
- 01:33:50 Next week's game announcment - Sea Dragon
- 01:41:13 Nick Marentes - New game annoucement
- 01:02:05 GameON! news
- 02:43:28 News from around the world
- 03:31:55 Project updates and acquisitions
- 03:54:42 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion
News stories for Episode #173, August 15, 2020 show:
1) Boisy has released The Coco Collector Part 4
2) Keith (ChibiAkumas) on YouTube has another Dragon/Coco assembly language tutorial episode
3) Jim Gerrie has a video up for the Lissajous program from Creative Computing in 1979
4) Glen Dahlgren has put up an image of the dust jacket for the hardcover version of his novel coming out on August 16th:
5) Ralph Klein has released the CocoPI update - MAME 0.223 on both the Pi3 and the Pi4:
(I will only show one link on the show)
6) Boysontech has posted a picture of a new version of the design of a little satellite board that will allow a Sound/Speech pack to run at .895, 1.78 and 2.86 MHz.
7) Guillaume Major has released an update to the "complete Coco SDC image", which now has 600+ new disk images of applications, games, demos, educational, etc. compared to the previous version.
8) Curtis F. Kaylor showed some output from his TP-10 simulator program (TP-10 was the small thermal printed that Tandy sold):
9) James Tamer has uploaded Virtual MC-10 version 0.73i, which includes some bug fixes.
10) Another very young fella did a Coco 2 restoration on YouTube (channel: Jackson's_antiqueAdventures) retrobrighting it:
11) TJBChris has a new video on tricks you can do with the LOADM command:
12) A YouTube channel called hirudov2d did multiple videos of different Coco's (and a Dragon-64)
https://www.youtube.com/c/hirudov2d/videos
13) Glenside has their latest newsletter out
Game On news:
1) Marlin Lee has a video up showing New Burt, a Q-Bert clone from Mike Ro Productions:
2) Jim Gerrie has a video showing an update to Pitman
He also has a port to the MC-10 from an old Dragon 32 game from the book "More Programs for your Dragon 32" from 1984, called Joust
Also a game called Civil War, from Creative Computing:
Time Bomb
3) Paul Shoemaker shows some possible palettes that he is considering for a Wizardry clone that he is calling Sorcery,
4) Jerry Stratton has a text version of Hunt the Wumpus
5) Erico Monteiro has two new blogs up about his semi-graphics fighting game:
Part 2:
Part 3:
6) Erico playing Cashman on screens 40+
https://youtu.be/UAUHVGMlSMI?t=236
7) Stevie did a live stream demo of Rally-SG and the Digger III
8) Simonwgb did a 3 hour stream on Twitch playing about half a dozen Dragon 32 games:
https://youtu.be/eWaJi82Dmgo?t=114
9) Adam Haase has released a complete map and tips breakdowns of the huge Coco 3 RPG game, The Seventh Link.
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Sunday Aug 09, 2020
Episode 172 - Special Guest Peter & The SCART CoCo 2
Sunday Aug 09, 2020
Sunday Aug 09, 2020
We've always got a lot to talk about and a great show to be shared by all on CoCoTALK! each week, and this week is no exception, we're going to hear from Peter Cullen about his retro background, and see his official Tandy SCART CoCo, which is something most of us has probably never seen before.
That along with news, GameON!, some possible tech segments, show & tell and who knows what else, get ready for an action packed episode!
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:01:00 Panel Introductions
00:25:00 General discussion
00:25:30 Who is new to Discord
00:26:00 Peter Cullen showing a Tandy SCART CoCo
01:36:00 David O'Conner
02:20:00 CoCo Thoughts - CashMan
02:21:00 GameON! challenge results
02:31:30 Next week's game announcement - SPEEDRACER
02:34:00 GameON! news
02:47:00 News from around the retro world
03:18:00 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion
Game On news:
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1) Jim Gerrie posted a video of his port of Steve Wozniak's original Apple classic "Little Brick Out"
2) Chet Simpson has released the first public Beta of Digger III.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158495328987641/
3) Paul Thayer now has Timber Man available for paid download at itch.io:
Announcement:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158493670122641/
Download link ($5.00 USD) - includes the DSK image and full color PDF manual:
https://pthayer100.itch.io/timber-man
4) Paul Shoemaker put up a short video teaser of some graphics he is fiddling with for a possible upcoming game:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158492892777641/
5) "The New Retro Show" has an episode about "new games" for the Coco and MC-10:
6) Canadian Retro Things shows one of the Micro Adventure Books
News stories for Episode #172, August 8, 2020 show:
1) Keith has lesson 4 of his 6809 series up now - covering the stacks:
2) Carlos Martins Nabeto posted a cool link to some 1983-1987 news about Brazilian Coco clones (in Portuguese):
https://computadoresbrasileiros.wordpress.com/category/noticias/
English translation:
3) Jason Weber on Facebook is helping organize "SepTandy" for this year
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158503187087641/
4) Frederiic Griignon posted a Radio Shack catalog page for the Coco from Quebec
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158496708377641/
5) James Jones is still soliciting feedback on his Coco MS Basic to BASIC09
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158492811687641/
Direct link to the Google Doc so far: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DFWC0XAv6NENnqXc3AZGy_Gl6TcZDfPcHGAB34woQwg/edit
6) Timothy Halloran update on getting his Coco 3 running from purely USB power
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158491484982641/
7) Soren Roug has been typing in Dragon 128 drivers for OS-9
https://www.roug.org/retrocomputing/os/os9/dragon128
8) Carlos Camacho posted the covers from an OS-9 book called "The OS-9 Guru : 1
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2646468465616081/
9) Nigel Barnes posted in the Dragon Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2688555014737484/
11) I have also put up two videos to show increased speeds of scrolling in the forthcoming EOU Beta 6, These videos are all 6809 - 6309 versions are faster still. Also, these have the overhead of printing characters, etc. so it doesn't fully show the speed increase (which is around 14-15%).
80x25 hardware text:
640x200x4 graphics:
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Sunday Aug 02, 2020
Episode 171 - celebrating 40 years of CoCo!
Sunday Aug 02, 2020
Sunday Aug 02, 2020
Happy 40th birthday Colour Computer! We celebrate the 4 decades of fun and enjoyment you have brought us today on CoCoTALK! Special guest host and streamer Rob Innnnman, with Nick Marotta covering GameON! and L. Curtis Boyle bringing us this weeks' retro news and full panel of middle ages retro enthusiasts, join us for a very special episode of CoCoTALK! today!
00:02:57 Panel Introductions
00:25:23 CoCo Happy Birthday Talk - Sharing stories
00:49:37 From then to now - Happy Birthday CoCo3 video
00:50:30 More CoCoTalk
01:38:37 CoCo Thoughts - Big Bomb Threat
01:44:39 GameON! challenge results
02:05:29 CoCo Thoughts - Big Bomb Threat - encore
02:01:42 Next week's game announcement - CASHMAN
02:12:40 GameON! news
02:41:21 News from around the retro world
03:33:41 Project updates and acquisitions
03:51:44 L. Curtis Boyle models a 1986 Rainbow Fest T shirt
03:58:31 CoCo Caboose
Game On news:
1) Jim Gerrie Missile Command
Cave Raid
Red Alert, from the TRS-80 Space Adventures book:
Puzzle game
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/3054995854627216/
2) Erico Monteiro semigraphics fighting game:
Work In Progress #2
3) Marlin Lee Color Outhouse video:
https://youtu.be/Wug2v9MQTwk?t=16
4) Paul Shoemaker Poker Squares Coco 3 game
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158489105042641/
5) Chet Simpson more Digger III
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158481075232641/
6) Aaron of Amigos Pac Dude Monster Maze
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/696799665
7) Bill Sexton 5 line Fruit Slot on his Coco 3
8) FrodoNL, wrapped the score in Bomb Threat
https://youtu.be/w_GvpEDbIrw?t=9317
9) Simonwgb 3&1/2 hour stream of playing Dragon 32 games in XRoar:
another 1&1/2 hours:
10) Gigerpunk plays Beyond the Cimeeon Moon:
News stories
Brian Wieseler "Hands-On BASIC" https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158484133002641/
David O'Connor Realistic Pocketvision mini-TV
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158488345052641/
1) Canadian Retro Things (Ken) received his CocoSDC
2) Ed Snider "HalfMeg Coco"
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158490074937641/
3) BoystonTech add on board for the Sound Speech Pak.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158485229962641/
4) Virtual VCF-West presentations
http://vcfed.org/wp/vcf-west-event-schedule/
5) Thomas Winkler his RE-FD502-KIT
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158488441527641/
6) Terry Steege spreadsheet of "all known Coco and TDP-100 cartridges"
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158486679817641/
7) CocoCrew episode is out (#62) interview with Fran Purcell
http://cococrew.org/cococrew-podcast-62.html
8) Andrew Ayers with the old Armatron form the Coco:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158484902337641/
Hot Coco about the Armatron:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158484897777641/
9) Paul Shoemaker "TRS-80 Extended Color Basic"
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158480718012641/
10) James Jones a book to help teach users BASIC09,
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158476611857641/
11) Christopher Zepka retrobrighting project
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158475931042641/
12) John Whitworth his test setup
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2683441655248820/
13) Si Owen very rare Dragon MSX
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2683066768619642/
Info on it:
14) ChibiAkumas Hello World program in 6809 assembly on the Dragon or Coco:
15) Re.Enthused history of the Dragon
16) Newsmakers Tech 1990 Radio Shack catalog
https://youtu.be/QvoR96iBtL8?t=2604
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Sunday Jul 26, 2020
Episode 170 Part 2 - The News
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
We had a long show today, so a few die hard members decided to soldier on and do an evening news cast, so part 2 of episode 170
Time stamps you can quick link to
00:04:51 News from around the retro world
01:38:14 GameON! news
02:36:12 CoCo Caboose
News
1 Boisy sold his "Marty Goodman edition" modified Coco 3 on ebay.
2 Brian Schubring NRI Coco course books
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2625497341046527/
3 Newsmakers Tech a Tandy Lab episode
4 Sheldon MacDonald RSDOS disk imaging tool for windows
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158440446867641/
5 Garrett Meiers photos Coco haul in NC
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158438627787641/
6 Netflix "History 101", season 1 episode 4 (plastics) at around 10:35 has a very brief
7 3rd party Dragon joystick (the ALT A1)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2671600099766309/
8 Greg Dionne GitHub for MC-10 (6803/6847) assembly language programming
https://github.com/gregdionne/tasm6801/tree/master/tutorial
9 Roland's Recycling YouTube channel VLOG #8: "Tandy Coco2 Part 1 - Testing it out".
10 ZENITH System 3 tests (another!) CRT.
11 "8bitsinthebasement" (real name Peter, from France) a video about his Coco 2
12 Soren Roug a new OS-9 Level 2 emulator he is working on
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2629002100696051/
13 Garrett Meiers a different Videotex terminal "Professional Farmers Instant Update"
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158465793097641/
14 Bart van Akker new Dragon & Coco donations at the Home Computer Museum
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158469864952641/
15 Ed Snider "re-organization" retro-computer storage room
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158454039607641/
16 Robin Buckley, father's old Coco 1 w/ 32K RAM
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158458429082641/
17 Nathan Byrd hooking up a Teensy 3.5 to his Coco 3
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158459941237641/
18 Alexander Von Hartmann picture from the 1986/1987 office at Australian Coco
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457784067641/
19 Jeff Salzman Silver Spoons where Coco 1 featured
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457004347641/
episode with a Coco 2
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457194887641/
20 Andrew Marshall photos of a Coco 2
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457889137641/
21 Richard Harding Dragon keyboard through USB,Teensy 2.0
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2674959899430329/
22 Roger Taylor Dragon 64 core on the MiSTer
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2674468819479437/
23 Dragon group PDF "advanced sound&graphics for the Dragon computer"
24 Tony Jewell getting the CocoVGA into a Dragon 32
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2672583473001305/
25 John Whitworth cool masks for CoVid
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2672410019685317/
26 Darren Ottery MC-10 Home Computer Course #17
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/3047156445411157/
27 Brian Blake review SoundChaser
28 Brett Gordon UDP based debugger/monitor
Game On news:
1 Jim Gerrie an update MC-10 port of Akalabeth,
Uno
2 Chet Simpson Digger III
https://www.facebook.com/chet.simpson.x/videos/3408829199136725/
Super Pitfall
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158468112882641/
3 Paul Thayer game play
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457068637641/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158464997407641/
4 Trey Tomes Python based Sudoku
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158467682677641/
5 Erico Patricio Monteiro animations and moves
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158465131082641/
6 Joey Cabral arcade cabinet Temple Of ROM
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158453402712641/
7 Paul Shoemaker Poker Squares
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457589917641/
8 "Might Heidi Dream Warrior"gameplay of Downland
9 Marlin Lee Moon Patrol based game: