The CoCo Nation Show

Episode 207

CoCoTALK! Episode 207

00:00:00 - Start
00:00:08 - Intro
00:02:48 - Start of the show!
00:03:05 - Shout outs to chat visitors
00:04:05 - Panel Introductions
00:06:40 - Happy Birthday to David Kroeker and Mark Overholser
00:08:25 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes
00:09:50 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta!
00:10:00 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! (for real this time, now with PROFESSIONALISM!)
00:11:50 - We formally apologize to Marcie for making a mistake with her score, and Nick has been punished for this and he truely repents for his mistake.
00:12:40 - Game On! discussion
00:25:32 - Encore of Happy Birthday to David Kroeker and Marc Mark Overholser
00:26:10 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta!
00:29:16 - Nick Merentes joined the show, may be he will help make the show better?
00:31:31 - Another Encore of Happy Birthday to David Kroeker and Marc Mark Overholser (we are doing these instead of commercial breaks)
00:31:51 - Keeping this train rollin!
00:32:20 - CoCo 123, the Glenside news letter is released! April 28th Glenside Virtual Meet Up!

00:36:08 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle
**CoCo/General News**
00:37:38 - CoCo News} Ciaran Anscomb- posted a demo/download, showing a hardware scrolling trick on the VDG
00:44:04 - CoCo News} John Laury/FB- Images of his CoCo3 with GIME-X, 6309 and CoCoMech keyboard! ( drool! )
01:28:40 - CoCo News} Jerry Stratton- post on his site entitled "What are the 8 bits in 8-bit computing?"
01:31:50 - CoCo News} MrDave6309/YT- new cartridge, case and PCB ( These are awesome! )
01:38:04 - CoCo News} Darren Ottery/FB- Quad multi-viewer, where one can hook up multiple systems and display them simultaneously on a large TV
01:41:00 - CoCo News} Ermani Cioffi/YT- demonstrating his new Coco / CP400 joystick, with analog controls
**MC-10 News**
01:43:18 - MC-10 News} Robert Sieg- video/download of the start of his high res editor for the MC-10 MCX32
**Dragon News**
01:45:48 - Dragon News} The Gen1Gamer/YT- nice history of the Dragon video, with personal anecdotes
01:49:52 - CoCoTalk! Quality content! Brought to you by GIME-X, CoComan Product placement, Nick Merentes games, and... Depends!

01:50:05 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
01:50:20 - Game On! News} Erico Patricio Monteiro- game progress featured on the cover of Brazilian retro magazine, "Jogos 80"
01:51:55 - Game On! News} Amigos "ARG Presents"/YT- "Type in Games" (typed in from books or magazines)
02:01:00 - Game On! News} Jim "Sir MC10" Gerrie- released a beta of "Galaxy Jailbreak", and a 15 minute "Medly" video of games
02:09:18 - Game On! News} Uncoda/YT- part 2 of his "Nice games for the Coco" video series
02:14:58 - Game On! News} Steven Smith- selling 48 Dragon 32 original programs in cassette form
02:17:17 - Game On! News} Nick Marentes- 3rd Chapter of his new developing game, called Zero Hour
02:35:25 - End of Line for (Game On!) News, with L. Curtis Boyle

02:35:40 - Reminder! Glenside Virtual Meet Up/ CCCC SPringFEST, April 28th 8p/7p Eastern/Central Time on the usual Glenside CoCo BlueJeans channel
02:36:33 - Project updates and acquisitions
02:37:05 - PUA} Ron Delvaux
02:43:00 - PUA} Rick Ulland
02:45:10 - PUA} Marc B
02:46:35 - Encore of Happy Birthday to David Kroeker and Marc Mark Overholser
02:46:53 - Closing Credits/Outtro
02:49:00 - David Ladd FINALLY gets here, YEAH! So the above was a 'dress rehersal'...
02:49:08 - Intro
02:49:24 - Just kidding! But David maybe excited to be here! 
02:50:42 - Final Thoughts/CoCoTalk Caboose!
02:51:45 - Happy belated birthday to Mark Overholser who is 29 or 55...
02:52:00 - Happy Birthday to David Kroeker, his wife says he is a half centry!
02:52:08 - Goodbye Everybody!

Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live
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Episode 206 - CoCo Digital Video!

CoCoTALK! Episode 206 - CoCo Digital Video!

The highlight of this week's show was getting to hear first hand from Alan of AC's 8-bit zone about a very cool new project he's working on to get 100% digital video with HDMI out from a CoCo 1 & 2, and even emulator NTSC artifact colours!

 

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Episode 205

00:00:00 - Start
00:00:08 - Intro
00:02:54 - Start of the show!
00:03:25 - Panel Introductions
00:06:50 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes
00:07:25 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta!
00:09:15 - Game On! discussion
00:25:50 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta!
00:29:40 - Commercial Break
00:32:33 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
00:33:25 - Game On! News} Sheldon MacDonald- Work in Progress video for Treasure Island Defence
00:36:40 - Game On! News} Paul Shoemaker- graphical effects to animate an intro screen
00:38:24 - Game On! News} L. Curtis Boyle- Gates of Delirium Archive put up on his site
00:49:20 - Game On! News} Erico Patricio Monteiro- animated GIF from his upcoming semigraphics fighting game
00:50:49 - Game On! News} The Coco Show- Released 18th episode featuring Demon Attack
00:54:25 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- All videos have been removed, hopefully they will return
00:54:50 - End of Line for Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
00:54:55 - Commercial Break
00:58:10 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle

**CoCo/General News**
00:58:48 - CoCo News} Mike Rowen/YT- Released his final installment of "Retro Printing for Fun and Profit"
01:00:24 - CoCo News} Brian Schubring/YT- series on using Ultimuse III and MIDI on the Coco 3
01:12:58 - CoCo News} Ed Snider/YT- new video showing the GIME-X with 8 MB RAM and prices/scheduling!
01:29:28 - CoCo News} Michael Kline/CoCo@FB- Connecting two retro 8 bit machines via modems on each
01:30:40 - CoCo News} Ciaran Anscomb- made his own 512k SRAM Coco 3
01:32:32 - CoCo News} Todd Wallace- updated his OPL2/3 chip tunes player for NitrOS-9
01:37:08 - CoCo News} RetroTech/YT- how to set up a development environment for the Coco and the GMC
01:39:10 - CoCo News} AC's 8 Bit Zone/YT- has been working on a "pure digital video" for the Coco 1&2

**MC-10 News**
01:46:05 - MC-10 News} Jim McClellan- added another feature to his McDraw graphics editing program
01:47:03 - MC-10 News} Robert Sieg- update to his 24 bit BMP to MCX-32 128x96x4 converter

**Dragon News**
01:48:28 - Dragon News} Stephen Smith/FB Dragon group- he has 27 issues of the National Dragon Users Group
01:50:24 - Dragon News} Matt Kaye/FB- finished designing replacement Dragon software boxes
01:51:38 - Dragon News} Henry Reitveld/YT- showing running a 3.5" floppy drive on the Tano Dragon 64
01:53:50 - End of Line for News, with L. Curtis Boyle
01:54:40 - Ron Delvaux- Trivia question.
01:57:15 - Commercial Break

02:00:22 - Project updates and acquisitions
02:01:00 - PUA} Brian Schubring
02:03:22 - PUA} Brian Wiesler
02:08:52 - PUA} Aaron Ishmael via L. Curtis Boyle
02:11:28 - PUA} Ron Delvaux
02:14:00 - PUA} Sloopy Malibu (hey, thats me! :) )
02:18:52 - "Sloopy shows us chips" -ACs 8Bit Zone
02:23:15 - PUA} Rick Ulland- Old advertisements for Color Computer Hardware 
02:26:23 - Closing Credits/Outtro
02:28:20 -  I found David Ladd!!!
02:29:15 - Final Thoughts/CoCoTalk Caboose!
02:29:30 - Goodbye Everybody!

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:
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Consider becoming a patron of the show:
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Episode 204 - Legends of Alcarron update

CoCoTALK! Episode 204  - Legends of Alcarron update

00:00:00 - Start
00:00:25 - Intro
00:02:37 - Start of the show!
00:03:00 - Panel Introductions
00:05:55 - Special Guest Star- Jay Searle!
00:47:18 - Special Hello to Steve Bjork's return!
00:51:54 - Commercial Break
00:54:43 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes
00:56:15 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta!
00:58:00 - Game On! discussion
01:08:20 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta!

01:13:00 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
01:13:10 - Game On! News} Erico Patricio Monteiro- More updates in graphics on his fighting game
01:16:55 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- Acey Duecey 10 Liner game,update of his port of Tim Hartnell's Chess
01:19:54 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- Added more long play videos, including a 3 part full play of BackTrack
01:21:35 - Game On! News} The Laird's Lair YT channel- Series of comparison video of several systems with Berserk
01:26:55 - Game On! News} David F. Gisbert- Dragon Facebook Group poll on most beloved games for Dragon
01:29:25 - End of Line for Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
01:29:28 - Definition of Syzygy, a name considered for the company that became Atari
01:30:15 - Commercial Break, with the wonderful Fletcher!
01:33:22 - Project updates and acquisitions
01:33:50 - PUA} The CoComan, Jason Reighard
01:36:10 - PUA} R. Allen Murphy
01:36:56 - PUA} Sloopy Malibu
01:40:15 - PUA} Nick Merentes
01:52:00 - PUA} Brian Wiesler (this is a short one... no, really!!!)
01:58:25 - PUA} Brian Schubring
02:05:00 - PUA} Ron Delvaux, Presented by L. Curtis Boyle
02:07:00 - Commercial Break
02:10:05 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle

**CoCo/General News**
02:10:25 - CoCo News} TJBChris/YT- booting OS-9 Level 2 from *cassette*
02:17:32 - CoCo News} Simon Jonassen- submission to the lovebyte sizecoding contest/256 bytes max program size category
02:18:54 - CoCo News} Roger Voss/Coco FB group- Reasons people love the CoCo
02:30:38 - CoCo News} Mike Rowen of the The Coco Crew podcast/YT- "Retro Printing for Fun and Profit" Multi-part video series
02:32:55 - CoCo News} Boisy Pitre- new website devoted to his Ghidorah networking project for CoCo
02:38:05 - CoCo News} Fabian Rodriguez/TRS-80 Color Computer FB group- fixed his Coco 3, and discussion of repair and hacking of CoCo's
02:39:54 - CoCo News} Doug Masten/github- released a updated 6809/6309 decompressor for the ZX0 (de)compression format
02:: - CoCo News} Bill Pierce- VCC 2.1.0d is due out in April
02:42:54 - CoCo News} 6809/6309/6800 Assembly FB group- 6809's place in music history with synthesizers
02:44:08 - CoCo News} GlensideCCC meeting- A new animal based mascot for the CoCoFests
02:50:05 - CoCo News} GlensideCCC meeting- CoCoFest is moved to November, and talk of a virtual event at the end of April
02:55:00 - CoCo News} Aaron Ishmael- Request for information on software titles listed in a 1985 Radio Shack catalog

**MC-10 News**
02:59:42 - MC-10 News} Robert Sieg- update to his 24 bit BMP to MC-10 128x96x4 graphics converter
03:01:24 - MC-10 News} Jim McClellan- TP-10 thermal printer

**Dragon News**
03:02:24 - Dragon News} David F. Gisbert- Dragon 200 setup - including MMC card adaptor
03:04:06 - Dragon News} Matt Kaye- Selling Dragon 32 exact replica replacement stickers
03:05:12 - Dragon News} Philippe Hennebert- Utility for 'disconnecting' the floppy controller for loading cassette software
03:07:58 - End of Line for News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:08:00 - PUA} Ron Delvaux- More information on his new console game system and the IC inside it
03:13:45 - Closing Credits/Outtro
03:16:00 - Final Thoughts/CoCoTalk Caboose!
03:18:00 - Steve, your welcome for doing the time stamps :) 
03:18:15 - Goodbye Everybody!

J Searle and Brett Gordon are working on an online multi-player game for the CoCo.  Today Jay will join us and give us a live demo of how it's coming along!

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:
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