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Sunday May 31, 2020
Sunday May 31, 2020
Episode 162 of CoCoTALK! celebrates the NASA/Space-X live launch and incorporates that into the show. Unfortunately, airing the live footage became a copyright issue and so this replay will now feature some substitute footage, our apologies.
Segment Timestamps:
00:05:36 Panel Introductions
00:09:36 Who's new to Discord this week
00:10:18 CoCo Thoughts
00:11:53 GameON! high score challenge results
00:13:49 GameON! Timberman discussions
00:23:10 Timber Bots
00:47:35 Next week's game announcement
00:53:45 GameON! news game news from around the world
00:57:39 The best 6 minutes of your life
01:20:58 NASA launch with commentary
01:44:32 CoCo Thoughts replay
01:48:46 CoCo News from around the world
02:53:17 CoCo community info
02:38:18 Project updates and Acquisitions
03:16:35 parting thoughts and outro/credits
News Links:
1) James Diffendaffer pointed out the video of Gary Becker showing both Ed Snider's keyboard, and a prototype GIME-X (which Gary is doing the FPGA programming for, and Ed is building the hardware), form the Central Texas Retro Computer Club Online meeting from May 2:
https://youtu.be/NdSU-Ot7Osw?t=1686
2) Erik Gavriluk has released his new version of the 3D DISPLAY program from Hot Coco magazine. It features the original version, the optimized version (which is at least twice as fast, supports rotation on multiple axis simultaneously, and a Coco 3 version. Details here:
https://github.com/milliluk/display/blob/master/README.md
3) Our own Stevie Strowbridge put up a video showing him (finally!) hooking up his MC-10 to his MCX1-128, and showing how much memory it gives to it's enhanced BASIC, and also showing off it's Emcee server capabilities (similar to Drivewire):
4) Carlos Camacho is compiling a list of every possible Model number for all Coco's. If anyone has any more to add, please use the Facebook link to send him the information to update his spreadsheet:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158287258932641/
5) Allen Huffman has a post about finding a "COCOFEST" easter egg in BASIC using the RND function... or, *did* he?
https://subethasoftware.com/2020/05/28/random-easter-egg/
6) Canadian Retro Things did a video of hooking his Coco 2 to a 1979 Panasonic Mini TV/Radio/Cassette recorder.
Game News:
1) Eric Monteiro posted a semigraphics demo, this time using real Coco BASIC, for animated characters for an upcoming game he is working on:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158293816847641/
2) I will be slowing down game page updates on Monday as I get started into EOU Beta 6, but I will have managed to have added over 70 game entries this month (I should break 80 by the end of the weekend):
http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/coco_game_list.html
3) Cuthbert Dragon posted a lot of Dragon gameplay videos on real hardware. Teee Off (Dragon color set), Arcadia, Leggit!, Monsters, Flight worth looking at.
https://www.youtube.com/user/MaryWinstead32/videos
4) The Amigos have posted their next episode, featuring Mind-Roll from Tandy (programmed by Jesse Taylor @ Epyx):
They have also recorded their last regular episode (for the forseeable future) featuring Battle Stations by Novasoft, as well as the winner of the Gunstar giveaway contest. This will be officially released on Wednesday. They have said they will still do some Coco live streams, and an occasional episode as John finds time, but I want to play this clip from the show, where they talk about their experience with the Coco:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/635796973?t=00h43m14s
Play until 49:13 (Battle Station start)
Sunday May 24, 2020
Sunday May 24, 2020
We're back with another exciting episode of CoCoTALK! this week brings us episode 161.
What can you expect this week? Hearing from CoCo enthusiasts from around the world, get updates on projects and any acquisitions, we'll cover CoCo and retro news from around the world, have our GameON! segment where we'll review the results of all who played Downland this week, we may have a sneak peek or announcement from Boyson technologies, and so much more!
Take part in CoCo discussions 24/7 on our CoCo Discord server http://discord.cocotalk.live
Learn more about CoCoTALK! at http://cocotalk.live
Send feedback to cocotalk@cocotalk.live
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
- 00:02:57 Panel Introductions
- 00:07:32 News from around the retro world
- 00:57:42 Boyson Tech - Making the CoCoSDC
- 01:30:47 GameON! challenge results and next week's game reveal
- 01:55:46 GameON! news
- 02:17:12 Project updates and acquisitions
- 03:19:35 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussions
News stories for Episode #161, May 23, 2020 show:
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1) Frank Hogg published on Facebook, his remembered history of creating the Tomcat computer (TC-9 & TC-70):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158274266977641/
2) Stevie put up a couple of videos for the CocoPi3:
How to set up the CocoPi3:
Setting up a CocoPi3 to become a full game console:
3) Carlos Camacho put up a scan of an article that Frank Hogg wrote back around 1983/1984, about the Deluxe Coco
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158274975512641/
4) Eric Canales running MAME in it's debug mode for the Coco, that lets you merge in your own assembly source code into the debugger
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158270853957641/
5) David O'Connor has started setting up a website of all of his 6809 related projects (Coco's, synthesizers, etc.):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158275986067641/
6) Brian Wieseler posted some photos of Coco Kraft Joysticks
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158274553217641/
7) Alison Denu posted an encrypted file done on the Coco, and invited other Coco users to try and crack it:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158263393342641/
By Wednesday, Paul Fiscarelli had done it, and made a video about it:
ADDENDUM - Alison has changed her code a bit, and has issued the challenge anew.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158278601702641/
8) David Brenneman shows a completed cartridge interface for the CocoPi3
https://www.facebook.com/groups/748644118674047/permalink/1292324787639308/
9) Allen Huffman has posted another blog about BASIC, and ELSE/GOTO optimizations:
https://subethasoftware.com/2020/05/21/basic-and-else-and-goto-and-work-part-2/
10) A Youtube channel that I have not seen before called "Take it Apart"
11) Canadian Retro things posted a video showing using a stereo to load programs on an MC-10:
12) Curtis Posted updated the Ease of Use page
http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/nitros9_docs.html
VED 2.9 manual (From Bob van der Poel with permission):
http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/EOUDOCS/VED2.9_manual.pdf
WINDOWS part of the full NitrOS-9 Level II manual (we are formatting it fairly close to the original manuals):
http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/EOUDOCS/NitrOS-9_EOU_Level_2_Windowing_System_Manual.pdf
Game On News stories
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1) Marlin Lee has a video of Avenger (a somewhat Defender clone)
2) Paul Thayer has Timber Man back on sale again through PayPal:
https://www.paypal.com/instantcommerce/checkout/WS823RPSY22YW
3) Pere Serrat has a full gameplay video now of his Coco 1/2/Dragon port of the AGD game
4) Jim Gerrie has his final version of Mahjong for the MC-10
5) Noriko Miyagami has put up a video playthrough of the Adventure International Coco port of "Dog Star Adventure"
Sunday May 17, 2020
Sunday May 17, 2020
This week's CoCoTALK! is being multi tasked via NitrOS9 Ease of Use beta 5 with special guest host and streamer Rob Inman.
00:02:39 Show Starts
00:04:17 GameON! results
00:05:49 Game discussion, tips, trick
00:16:03 Next week's game revealed
00:21:18 Panel Introductions
00:33:52 GameON! news
00:56:46 Simon Jonnasen shows us how he produces CoCo sound samples
01:03:14 GameON! news continues
01:13:32 NEWS!
01:48:21 Barrier to Entry - the CoCoTALK! Quiz!
02:10:22 Ron's Garage
02:21:44 Project Updates/Acqusitions
02:35:00 NitrOS9 Ease of Use quick demo
02:48:14 Outro/Closing credits
Sunday May 10, 2020
Sunday May 10, 2020
This week we'll be joined by special guest Brett Gordon and see and hear all about his latest release of YA-DOS. We'll also hear from Ron Klein who recently posted a video showing off a virtual hard drive image he's created for YA-DOS that has over 3,000 disks from the Color Computer Archive at your disposal.
We'll also include our usual segments; project updates & acquisitions, GameON! results and the new game of the week reveal, NEWS from around the retroverse and so much more!
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:02:50 Panel Introductions
00:07:00 Ron Klein - CoCoPi
00:10:25 Brett Gordon - YA-DOS
01:02:37 GameON! challenge results and next week's game reveal
01:19:57 Project updates and acquisitions
01:49:08 News from around the retro world
02:23:08 GameON! news
02:56:29 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussions
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News links:
1) Dennis Havlena
https://youtu.be/LSjzj94YzEg
2) Stevie Strow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NegztbUWM8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Arxa7JbsI
https://youtu.be/L6OEjuVIceQ
3) Allen Huffman:
https://subethasoftware.com/2020/05/07/more-crazy-on-goto-gosub-and-if-thens/
4) Ron Klein:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riNy1nA0_GI
https://github.com/mrgw454/CCHDD
5) Steven Wallis:
http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/2020-May/174999.html
6) Carlos Camacho
https://youtu.be/4ZWEk04V9qw?t=222
7) Paul Barton
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158222214282641/
8) Ed Snider:
https://youtu.be/Ba3fBYJXwVE
https://youtu.be/Q8rA0fkvKeU
9) Terry Trapp:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158191599277641/
10) Todd Wallace:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158227016527641/
11) Bill Nobel:
http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/nitros9.html
12) Rob Owen:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2607317549527898/
13) Tony Jewell:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2606409212952065/
14) John Whitworth:
https://www.dragonplus-electronics.co.uk/?product=dragonplus-board-for-dragon-32-or-64-kit
GameON! News stories
1) A reminder that time is running out for the Amigos Coco Show Gunstar giveaway! Simply leave a review of their show on iTunes to enter (look for "The Coco Show")!
2) Marlin Lee videos:
https://youtu.be/71C280P8-uc
https://youtu.be/WYlEiJmoCOU
https://youtu.be/We4uSYEowm4
https://youtu.be/cDMU-H8H5Lg
3) Roger Taylor:
https://youtu.be/7Oux2xTrEYU
4) Michael Pittsley:
https://youtu.be/IMoP5kJ8OaM
5) Jim Gerrie:
https://youtu.be/gITD3VWRliA
https://youtu.be/BMB2nyWIZys
https://youtu.be/-AZUA7LC0PE
6) Chinnyvision Episode 338:
https://youtu.be/sZWBn1hVDLg
7) Sheldon MacDonald:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158215948927641/
8) Steve Parham:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2606514002941586/
9) Pere Serrat:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2605381713054815/
10) Retrospectreviews:
https://youtu.be/VaoFtTWkR6w
11) Cuthbert Dragon/Willy's Revenge:
https://youtu.be/1DIGE15fLgU