The CoCo Nation Show

CoCoTALK! Episode 243 - CoCo New Year! Happy 2022

00:00:00 -Start/Intro
00:01:44 -Start of the show!
00:02:05 -Panel Introductions
00:07:30 -A special presentation by D. Bruce Moore & Rick Adams
00:20:20 -We paid the sound bill!
00:27:00 -Terry Steen, Dont watch/listen to this part, and no one tell him!
00:27:40 -Terry Steen, just skip to here!
00:29:25 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things
00:31:45 -Game On! discussion - Dragon Slayer
00:44:30 -Game On! discussion - Thexder
00:58:25 -Game On! Challenge LIVE report
01:14:14 -Game On! Game for next week, With(out) Nick Marotta! But... Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things
01:16:10 -Thank you Patrons!
01:17:45 -Are you on Discord? Join Here: Discord.CoCoTalk.Live
01:18:18 -Commercial Break
01:20:18 -Who's new to Discord?
01:20:25 -Who's new to Discord? (Take 2!)
01:22:34 -CoCoFest 2022!
01:23:43 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
01:25:20 -Game On! News} Sheldon MacDonald- update on his Ice Brawlers, which I am waiting for!
01:28:42 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- Demon Attack, but compiled... and Tank... and Dropship... and more we dont even know about yet!
01:33:10 -Game On! News} tanam 1972/YT- Frogger port from "Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy" to MC-10
01:36:16 -Game On! News} Chris Hawkins/YT- "10 day Christmas Countdown" of Dragon games
01:3:31 -Game On! News} James Jones- Google doc on conversion of the 1K ZX-81 BASIC game to BASIC09
01:40:35 -Game On! News} Pere Serrat- AGD pack #43 released, #44 is next!
01:44:04 -Game On! News} Paul Shoemaker- Progress update on Dragon version of Poker Squares
01:47:43 -Game On! News} Paul Thayer/YT- VLOG #5 on upcoming CocoBan
01:51:51 -Game On! News} Neil Blanchard- GMC cartridge version of Ciaran Anscombs's Blockdown
01:53:13 -Game On! News} Sibling Rivalry (Tim & AJ)/YT- Episode 10, PitStop! (Hey AJ!  Tim cheated! )
01:59:23 -Game On! News} LardDeus/YT- gameplay video/review of Dino Wars
02:01:07 -Game On! News} Retro PC- new game 'LIFT' (MC-10/Coco)
02:02:45 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
02:03:03 -Commercial Break
02:05:15 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle
**CoCo/General News**
02:05:35 -CoCo News} Glen Hewlett- blog post and video on his mod's to Simon Jonassens' dot plot demo
02:08:28 -CoCo News} Terry Steege@Retro Tech Time/YT- Commercial for CoCoFest 2022!
02:09:09 -CoCo News} Kevin Phillipson & Michael Rywalt- Updated video on "Turbo9"
02:13:27 -CoCo News} Allen Huffman- his  of the Logicker Vintage Computing Challenge and playing with bits
02:16:26 -CoCo News} 48KRAM/TW- stream demonstrating some Christmas programs, CoCo at Time Stamp-51:00
02:18:56 -CoCo News} AC's 8-bit Zone/YT- Next in sprite series, FPGA Sprite board!
02:24:00 -CoCo News} The Coco Crew- Released Episode #79! this is pack full of CoCo goodness!
02:28:10 -CoCo News} Alfredo Santos- pictures of his old Coco's from his attic, including older 4K Coco 1's
02:33:03 -Samuel Gimes???
02:34:08 -CoCoTalk, New and IMPROVED!
02:34:54 -Back to the CoCoTalk streaming show!
02:36:46 -CoCo News} Brian Schubring- video and the Ultimuse file for playing "Carol of the Bells" via MIDI from the Coco 3
02:44:37 -Remove... um WHO?!?
02:44:55 -CoCo News} Rick Adams & D. Bruce Moore- re-mixed version of Nightmare Highway
02:45:15 -CoCo News} Simon Jonassen- sourcecode for his "infinite bobs" demo
02:46:06 -CoCo News} John Linville/YT- "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" performed on the GMC cartridge
02:46:46 -CoCo News} The Taylor and Amy Show/YT- upgrading a Coco 2 from 16K to 64K RAM, and then play Math Bingo
02:51:10 -CoCo News} NML32/YT- first alpha release of the free Coco 3 core for the MiSTer
02:53:20 -CoCo News} Color Computer Programming/YT- released more BASIC programming videos over the holidays
**MC-10 News**
02:55:22 -MC-10 News} John Linville- found MC-10 PSU's at Jameco!
**Dragon News**
03:00:33 -Dragon News} Tom Erik Gundersen- early Serial number model, #388!
03:01:10 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:03:30 -Project Updates and Acquisitions
03:04:00 -PUA} Sloopy X. Malibu
03:07:20 -"OS-9? Never heard of it" -sloopy, just before he disappeared from this planet
03:14:34 -PUA} Rick Ulland
03:20:40 -PUA} Brian "The Music Man" Schubring
03:23:13 -Upcoming guests
03:23:53 -Outtro
03:26:46 -Encore playing of Nightmare Highway Country Remix
03:29:45 -CoCoTalk, now with better audio!
03:30:00 -Good Bye Everybody!

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Today's special guest is none other than David Lent who's YouTube channel is Computer Hobbyist  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC11512Vl1wFobXU6ZSIylLQ

David did a video tour of VCFMW this year and also attended CoCoFEST! where he interviewed some hack named Stevie Strow, check out that interview here:
https://youtu.be/lD0Tx59CRSw

We'll hear Dave's story, have GameON! results, news, updates, and more!

00:00:00 -Start/Intro
00:01:50 -Start of the show!
00:02:00 -Panel Introductions, (We shut off Stevies mic, but didnt tell him :) )
00:05:10 -Special Guest, David Lent
00:40:10 -Thank you Patrons!
00:41:05 -Who's new to Discord?
00:42:10 -Commercial Break
00:46:00 -CoCo Thoughts By Samuel Gimes
00:47:17 -Panel response to the wisdom of Samuel Gimes
00:48:30 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things
00:49:50 -Game On! discussion
01:11:30 -We found sloopy! he has returned from Wawa for coffee!
01:11:40 -Game On! Challenge LIVE report
01:25:25 -Game On! Game for next week, With(out) Nick Marotta! But... Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things
01:35:35 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
01:36:06 -Game On! News} Paul Thayer- VLOG of his Coco 3 game, CocoBan
01:39:25 -Game On! News} Paul Shoemaker- Poker Squares, that does not use artifact colors but "regular" PMODE 3
01:40:28 -Game On! News} Tim Thayer- covert leaked images of a new game!
01:42:00 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- KINGMOVE by John Krutch
01:43:03 -Game On! News} Kees van Oss and Pere Serrat- AGD games Pack #42 released!
01:48:16 -Game On! News} inufuto- Mazy for the MC-10
01:50:42 -Game On! News} Chris Hawkins@Chris's Retro Corner/YT- Dragon game plays!
01:55:35 -Game On! News} Erico Monteiro- 1K War of the Worlds
01:57:17 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
01:57:47 -Commercial Break, now with Fletcher!
02:01:03 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle
**CoCo/General News**
02:01:21 -CoCo News} Viewers/Panel- Who is the best games programmer for the Color Computer?
02:12:21 -CoCo News} Guillaume Major- working on a new program for the CocoSDC that will let you flash the ROM banks
02:14:34 -CoCo News} Todd Wallace- major update to his chiptunes player for NitrOS-9
02:21:11 -CoCo News} Roger Taylor- more updated photos of the GIME die's (both 1986 and 1987 versions
02:22:58 -CoCo News} Jamie Cho- Twitter link on Facebook from famous hacker and actress Jeri Ellsworth, where she helped restore a Coco 2
02:24:34 -CoCo News} Michael Furman- how to get NitrOS-9 EOU running under XRoar using it's IDE controller emulation
02:28:48 -CoCo News} Tony Jewell- changing the Brazilian Coco clone (Prologica CP400)to run in the UK
02:31:11 -CoCo News} Allen Huffman/YT- Second video on using BASIC to deal with individual bits
**MC-10 News**
02:32:50 -MC-10 News} Jim Gerrie- He has completed everything that can be programmed on an MC-10
**Dragon News**
02:37:37 -Dragon News} John Whitworth- orders for the 2nd round of PSU's for the Dragon
02:40:35 -Dragon News} Richard Harding- 2nd Video (with commentary this time) for his walkaround at the Dragon Meetup
02:41:11 -Dragon News} Retro Marky/YT- Recieved a Dragon 32 system from a family member, and did a video unboxing, and  clearning
02:42:12 -CoCo News} Terry Steege@Retro Tech Time/YT- Setup a CoCo with a Gotek!
02:52:12 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle
02:53:00 -Project Updates and Acquisitions
02:53:30 -PUA} Rick Ulland
02:57:05 -PUA} Grant Leighty, El Jeffe of CoCoFest 2022
03:02:20 CoCo Networking with Rick Ulland and panel
03:10:20 -PUA} Sloopy X. Malibu
03:29:29 -PUA} Jason "The CoCoMan" Reighard
03:31:41 -PUA} Stevie "Ring Leader" Strow
03:48:58 -Outtro
03:51:15 -Final Thoughts
03:52:22 -Upcoming speakers and other show topics
03:55:35 -Thank you to all the people involved in the show, in front of the 'camera' and behind!
03:57:05 -Good Bye Everybody!

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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CoCoTALK! Episode 241 - A gaggle of guests
We look forward to having a gaggle of guests with gaming gabbing going on today.

00:00:00 -Start/Intro
00:01:45 -Start of the show!
00:03:00 -Panel Introductions
00:04:20 -Panel Introductions
00:04:20 -Where is sloopy? getting coffee like a good boy!
00:05:20 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things
00:07:25 -Game On! discussion
00:21:10 -We found sloopy! he has returned from Wawa for coffee!
00:22:00 -Game On! Challenge LIVE report
00:39:00 -Game On! Game for next week, With(out) Nick Marotta! But... Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things
00:49:49 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
00:50:18 -Game On! News} Tim Lindner/YT- who has been doing a retro game series called "Sibling Rivalry" with his sister AJ, this past week's episode #6 featured Wildcatting on the Coco 1/2
00:52:50 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie/YT- 4K Basic clone of Run Dino Run
00:54:16 -Game On! News} raskalous/CD- video of his gameplay for MegaBug
00:56:10 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
00:56:20 -Round table of game makers in the CoCo community, upcomming and WIP!
00:57:16 -GM}Sheldon McDonald- Ice Brawlers
00:59:30 -GM}Pere Serrat and Kees van Oss- AGD update game pack #41, Bandito, Bullet Storm, Bunny vs. Fox, Bunny's Big Adventure, Chiquito and Code-112
01:04:44 -GM}MrDave6809- Space Pirate Kimiko
01:20:20 -GM}Steve Bamford- Circe's Island
01:37:57 -GM}Ciaran Anscomb/Neil Blanchard- Blockdown on GMC enabled cart
01:37:57 -GM}Jay Searle- Attack of the PETScii Robots
02:15:51 -Thank you to our Patrons!
02:17:10 -Commercial break
02:20:00 -Who's new to Discord
02:22:22 -GM}Nick Marentes- Zero Hour!
02:33:00 -GM}Frank Linhares@RetroRewind- CoCoSDC among other products
03:07:17 -GM}John "BoatOfCar" Shawler- BoatFest!
03:12:20 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle
**CoCo/General News**
03:12:40 -CoCo News} Roger Taylor- update with the high res scans of the GIME chips
03:15:33 -CoCo News} Allen Huffman- Discussion on the Character ROM in the T1 VDG (with image by Sean Riddle)/ Video on 'bits of Code'
03:20:11 -CoCo News} Larry Anderson/FB- CoCoTuner cart
03:23:03 -CoCo News} Alexander Sidorenko/FB- Making a CoCo2 from scratch, with wirewrap
03:26:00 -CoCo News} Ciaran Anscomb- Released Version 1.0.3 of XRoar
03:27:17 -CoCo News} Ciaran Anscomb- Mirror of old SockMaster website
03:29:07 -CoCo News} Michael Furman/YT- video showing how to use some of the debugging tools in XRoar with GDB
03:30:20 -CoCo News} John Strong/FB- list of the specific cables one should get for his custom Coco 3 style CocoPi case
03:31:01 -CoCo News} Vince of the Retrospectreviews/YT- Christmas themed video - typing in a Christmas programs from Rainbow
03:33:47 -CoCo News} Henry Reitveld- video on Gotek {=} IDE harddrive backup
03:34:34 -CoCo News} Tormod Volden- new release of Toolshed
03:35:45 -CoCo News} Simon Jonassen- spinning dot plot (this is seriously cool!)
**MC-10 News**
03:38:58 -MC-10 News} Jim Gerrie- A simple AI program that generates Haiku poems
**Dragon News**
03:40:55 -Dragon News} Tony Jewell/YT- Dragon Meetup video summary
03:41:25 -Dragon News} The Dragon Data Archive/YT- 10 minute walk through video of the Meetup
03:43:30 -Dragon News} TJ Ferreira/YT- Got a MC-10, his first TRS-80
03:50:25 -Dragon News} Noel's Retro Lab/YT- Got a 1986 Radio Shack catalog, Dragon replacement PSU
03:53:53 -News} Sloopy- Twitch Tags needed for Tandy (and Tech) streams!
04:59:50 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle
04:01:10 -Project Updates and Acquisitions
04:01:45 -PUA} Sloopy X. Malibu
04:07:27 -PUA} Rick Ulland
04:19:20 -PUA} James Diffendaffer
04:22:30 -Outtro
04:25:05 -Final Thoughts
04:25:40 -Good Bye Everybody!

Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live
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CoCoTALK! episode 240

00:00:00 -Start/Intro
00:01:42 -Start of the show!
00:01:56 -Panel Introductions
00:03:15 -Where is sloopy?
00:03:30 -Dragon MeetUp in Cambridge UK!
00:04:00 -Deep Thoughts by Samuel Gimes
00:05:20 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things
00:07:10 -Game On! discussion
00:25:10 -Game On! Game for next week, With(out) Nick Marotta! But... Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things
00:26:10 -We found sloopy!
00:26:30 -Game On! Challenge LIVE report
00:38:00 -Game On! Future games!
00:43:00 -Request for Christmas greetings!
00:44:44 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
00:45:30 -Game On! News} Pere Serrat- AGD game releases
00:51:00 -Game On! News} Erico Patricio Monteiro- challenge of converting a 1K BASIC ZX-81 "Space Invader" (Including a version by Jim Gerrie )
00:54:44 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- Released two ports... 
01:02:40 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
01:33:33 -Who's new to Discord
01:05:35 -Thank you to our Patrons!
01:06:03 -Commercial break
01:09:45 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle
**CoCo/General News**
01:10:10 -CoCoFest 2022, rooms are booking now!
01:13:43 -CoCo News} Yandex- The Yandex Retro Games Battle with cash prizes
01:24:20 -CoCo News} Allen Huffman- post about his converting the PETSCII font over to the Coco 1/2, VDG differences
01:28:30 -CoCo News} Roger Taylor- "Project 256" full hardware reverse engineering of the GIME chip!
01:59:00 -Frank@Retro Rewind, Live from World of Commodore!retrorewind.ca- announced the CoCoSDC and other CoCo goodies for sale Monday 12/6
02:15:35 -CoCo News} Kenneth Udut- See web pages on your CoCo, and video of a CoCo being used in the early 80's...
02:23:48 -CoCo News} The Coco Crew- Released episode 78 coverage of the Dragon MeetUp, Neil's review of Pooyan, and more!
02:27:23 -CoCo News} Retro Tech Time- NitrOS-9/EOU setup guide and set up the Phoenix IDE cross development system
02:33:07 -CoCo News} Michael Furman- pyDriveWire tutorial on using DLOAD on CoCo1/2
02:28:06 -CoCo News} Alison DeNu- Thomson M05 6809 a based microcomputer that was sold in France
02:38:46 -CoCo News} RETROMAGAZINE.TV/YT- how to install NitrOS-9/EOU (and VCC to run it on)
**MC-10 News**
02:48:10 -MC-10 News} Simon Jonassen- mixed modes and color sets on the screen at once
**Dragon News**
02:49:32 -Dragon News} Steve Bamford/FBDG- gallery of some photos from the Dragon meetup
03:05:55 -Dragon News} bluearcus/WOD- OS-9 Level 1 on a Dragon 64 with his real time clock internally installed
03:07:25 -Dragon News} John Whitworth and Phil-Harvey Smith- Discussed Dragon power supply boards and decided to make another round
03:08:55 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:09:25 -Project Updates and Acquisitions
03:09:49 -PUA} MrDave6309
03:27:27 -PUA} Bill Nobel
03:35:00 -PUA} Rick Ulland
03:44:24 -PUA} Fred Provoncha
04:04:34 -PUA} Exile in Paradise, Mr. Murphy
04:08:00 -PUA} John 'Boat of Car' Shawler- The ST Show, BoatFest, and more!
04:10:00 -Final Thoughts
04:10:30 -Good Bye Everybody!

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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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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Consider becoming a patron of the show:
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