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Sunday Jun 28, 2020
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
This week we'll look at the world premiere of the latest game from Nick Marentes, Rally SG, inspired by Rally-X from the arcade, it uses the 9-color semi-graphics mode, and will run on a CoCo 1,2,3 and Dragon with 64K. http://nickmarentes.com/
This along with CoCo and retro news, GameOn! results, the new game of the week, projects, updates, acquisitions, and all kinds of CoCo goodness!
Time Stamps:
- 00:02:23 Panel Introductions
- 00:10:02 CoCo and Retro News
- 00:25:11 CoCo Thoughts
- 00:25:36 GameON! Results, discussion, and new game reveal
- 00:45:41 Gaming news
- 00:54:56 Rally SG premier with Nick Marentes
- 01:15:17 Project acquisitions, updates
- 02:04:42 additional updates and discussions
- 02:22:19 Closing credits
- 02:24:44 Final words
News stories for Episode #166, June 27, 2020 show:
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1) CanadianRetroThings has a new video out showing him hooking up his giant Panasonic TV/Radio/Cassette deck to his MC-10 this time:
2) Davy Mitchell posted a link to his blog, "Davy's Retro Corner", in the Dragon Facebook group. This entry talks about a 3D terrain generating program
https://davysretrocorner.blogspot.com/2020/06/type-in-dragon-user-fault-line-graphics.html
3) The Trash Talk (TRS-80) podcast has game programming contest, that includes the Coco.
http://www.trs-80.org.uk/2020competition.html
4) Tim Halloran has a video demonstrating him powering his Coco 2 - from USB:
5) Keith (ChibiAkumas on YouTube) has his 2nd 6809 assembly language tutorial up - this episode covers the 6809 addressing modes:
6) Ed Snider has some photos of his 32K RAM MC-10 board in the making
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/2969740209819448/
Game On news:
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1) Paul Shoemaker is working on a Coco 3 only Dungeon Crawler, and shows a sample screen using a tileset he purchased:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158370706662641/
2) Neil Blanchard has ROM cartridge versions of Rick Adam's "Bomb Threat" game available again, for $30.
3) Neil also has the new cartridge game by Evan Wright called 3D Monster Maze, which is a Coco 1/2 version of the game
Evan also upload a video of the final version in action:
4) Cuthbert Dragon has a few new Dragon gameplay videos of note this week:
https://www.youtube.com/user/MaryWinstead32/videos
- Monsters
5) Ciaran has released an updated Coco version of the Dragon game ROTABB's - it now includes the original loaded an opening story:
http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/da/coco_ports/
6) Nick Marentes has a video out to promote his Rally-SG game for all Coco's and the Dragon's (with at least 64K), which is getting released in August:
Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live
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To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com
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https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/
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Sunday Jun 21, 2020
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
We're back with everyone's favorite talk show about the CoCo and this week we'll talk about news, GameON! results for Galagon and so much more!
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
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
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
This week we'll focus on people who are new to being back to the CoCo hobby, a lot has changed in the past 40 years and the CoCo is alive and well, and there are a lot of things you can do in the CoCo hobby. So how does one start? What's the best way? What's the best CoCo setup? How do I get and run hardware and software, what's the minimum I'd need, how far can we go, what about emulators, and so much more.
Gather your questions and we'll hear from a variety of people on how they CoCo and what suggestions we have for people just getting back to the CoCo.
We'll review the GameON! results from Candy Company, learn what next week's game will be, cover CoCo news, and more!
CoCoTALK!
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: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm
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
Live interactive video streams:
https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live
https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive
Sunday Jun 07, 2020
Sunday Jun 07, 2020
This week we're going to focus on the latest and greatest update to the CoCo-Pi project which now has an official web site http://coco-pi.com We'll show you a 30 minute tutorial on how to download and set up your Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 to run the CoCo-Pi image. We show you how to add all the CoCo ROMS to MAME, how to download and run software, and how to add your own software to your system. This will be followed by a live Q&A session with Ron Klein who's managing this project.
You can enjoy CoCoTALK! live and as audio and video podcasts, visit http://cocotalk.live to learn how and join us on Discord http://discord.cocotalk.live
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:02:51 Panel Introductions
00:05:51 Ron Klein - CoCoPi update
00:17:18 CoCo Thoughts
01:17:37 GameON! challenge results
01:20:50 GameON! Lunar Rover Patrol discussion
01:30:39 Next week's game announcment
01:39:09 GameON! news
02:07:13 News from around the retro world
02:41:56 CoCo Thoughts
02:44:29 Project updates and acquisitions
03:11:17 Nightmare Highway - The song
03:14:05 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussions
New Links:
1) Tim Halloran put up a video on how to take a Coco 2 keyboard apart, and clean it:
https://youtu.be/u1S9KExR9jU
2) Erico Monteiro
https://youtu.be/OBXG1O_5fEY
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=70215.0
3) David K on YouTube
https://youtu.be/nJgzYuMWNfg?t=471
4) Coco Crew episode 60 was released, and includes a review of Rampage.
http://cococrew.org/cococrew-podcast-60.html
5) Ed Snider has announced 8 MB RAM upgrade
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158318768477641/
6) Eric Canales shared a cool video clip
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158317268257641/
7) Rubber feet for the Coco 1:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158315306512641/
8) Terry Trapp CoCo capture issues
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158310032052641/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158310933662641/
9) Guillaume Major has done some updates to the Color Computer Archive
https://colorcomputerarchive.com/search
10) James Jones runs some BASIC09 performance tests with surprising results
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2597277030535225/
11) James Hosts inquires about INKEY$ and alternatives to allow for key repeat detection
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/2914666795326790/
12) Wayne Aaron obtains a CoCo 2 he plans to use as a CoCo-Pi case
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158321285392641/
13) Alsion Denu posts some *interesting* photos with CoCos
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158316789277641/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158318792572641/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158303480947641/
14) Tony Jewell from the Dragon group joins the CoCo owner's club
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158295267832641/
Game On news:
1) YouTuber "retro techtive" has started releasing Coco game videos
Androne:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrkXrJqkN-Q
Air Attack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XroCF2adwNA
2) The Amigos released their final regular episode of The Coco Show https://youtu.be/aLFLQuCInQs
3) GigerPunk did a video of Cuthbert in the Mines on his Dragon 32:
https://youtu.be/YnbHDTNtY1U
4) Pere Serrat released a new video of his updated AGD engine, using the Wordpak II+
https://youtu.be/dnuiz5J4bCs
5) Erik Gavriluk started an interesting discussion on what is the greatest ORIGINAL Coco 3 game https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158318127852641/
6) Mark McDougall is starting to work on finishing some of his arcade transcodes again
https://retroports.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR02Xk-ZcVMqFKq4uEy77tk2yWxItAJJN1A8UVJAXZmNEreApX3wzH9xKn8
7) Cuthbert Dragon released a lot of new Dragon gameplay videos this week
Red Meanies (3D Pacman):
https://youtu.be/UqbcAz-kieA
Keys of Roth (kind of a graphics Choose Your Own Adventure style game(:
https://youtu.be/MOb3c0RPaDs
Starfighter:
https://youtu.be/f-wGM5dtnn8
Mutant Wars (kind of a Shamus/Berzerk crossover?):
https://youtu.be/wZkPoIZ0ZA4
Screaming Ab-Dabs (and he seems to know how to actually play it properly):
https://youtu.be/nsrm1BMZcVA
8) Michael Pittsley inquires about a Soduko game for the CoCo, John Linville replies
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158322420287641/
9) Carlos Camacho inquires about the Canyon Climber Cartridges for the NEC PC-600, created by James Garon, author of the CoCo version
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158308661562641/
Steve Bjork chimes in
Allen Huffman posts a YouTube video of the game by HighRetroGameLord
https://youtu.be/1Lt4Tts0CfI