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Sep 6, 2020
Sep 6, 2020
3hr 32 min
We're back with episode 176 of CoCoTALK! where we talk CoCo every week. Unbiased non deprecating discussions about the people, projects, and community.
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:02:37 Panel Introductions
00:13:23 Who's new to Discord this week
00:14:39 New Fletcher commercial - courtesy of Alison DeNu
00:16:33 CoCo Thoughts
00:16:50 GameON! challenge results
00:19:29 GameON! Discussion - Canyon Climber
00:39:12 Next week's game announcement - Rally-SG
00:46:46 GameON! news
01:31:23 News from around the world
02:38:27 Project updates and acquisitions
02:53:41 Show discussion
03:25:27 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion
News stories for Episode #176, September 5, 2020 show:
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1) Todd Wallace (Lord Dragon) has released a video showing his new OS9/NitrOS9 utility
2) Charlie (charlie2020 on Discord) has released version 1.3 of some OS9/NitrOS9 utilities that he wrote in BASIC09:
http://jechar.ca/coco/Download/
3) "Mr. Lurchs Things" "SepTandy 2020" promotion between multiple YouTube pages. His upgrades include the 6309, SDC and 512K:
4) Also part of SeptTandy 2020 is TheRetroChannel
5) A 3rd "SepTandy" video is from Dinty's Hideaway
6) A 4th "SepTandy" video is from "Adrian's Digital Basement"
7) A reminder of David O'Connors naming contest for his Coco 3 in a Model III case project
8) Fran Purcell has a cool photo from the air of the Computer Plus facility in Littleton, Massachusetts circa 1981
9) Fred Rique has been experimenting with some animations done with Semi-graphics 24 mode
10) Coco Crew episode 63 was released, including an interview with Curtis Kaylor (who wrote the printer emulator we covered last week)
11) The Amigos are doing an "International Computer Club" Zoom call next Saturday (September 12) at 5 PM EST
https://www.twitch.tv/amigosretrogaming/
12) David O'Connor is also attending the Adelaide Retro Computing Group September Event next Friday
13) Glenside Color Computer Club is having a virtual picnic on September 19th - details to follow.
Game On news:
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1) Jim Gerrie has released a "complete remake" of his MC-10 port of the Scott Adams 1978 text adventure game called Adventureland
He also put up a video of his port of "Sirius Adventure"
2) Our own Stevie Strowbridge officially release his BASIC shoot em up Cosmic Aliens
3) Amigos show "ARG Presents" Sunday morning show (featuring The Interbank Incident and Rad Warrior)
4) SimonWGB on YouTube put up another Dragon 32 game stream (includes Frogger, Screaming Ab-Dabs, Caverns of Chaos). These are long plays.
https://youtu.be/CBPcWSJ6Cc0?t=235
5) "Cloudy Eggs" on YouTube did a comparison of the educational game
6) DaveJustDave on YouTube released an interview with Ken Williams (who, with his wife Roberta created Sierra),
Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:
https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams
Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:
Consider becoming a patron of the show:
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Live interactive video streams:
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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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To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com
Aug 30, 2020
Aug 30, 2020
3hr 56 min
CoCoTALK! 175 is all about MIDI and MIDI on the CoCo. What is MIDI, how do I do MIDI on my Coco, what does it look like, what does it sound like, how hard is it? All these questions and more will be answered. We'll have live demonstrations and information from Rob Innman, Brian "The Music Man" Schubring, L. Curtis Boyle, and Darren Ottery, and Jim Brain, so tune and get MIDIfied!
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:02:35 Panel Introductions
00:08:29 CoCo Thoughts
00:10:15 GameON! challenge results
00:13:23 GameON! Discussion - Arkanoid
00:24:43 Next week's game announcment - Canyon Climber
00:31:42 Midi Maestro - commercial
00:32:22 Discussion - Midi Talk
02:44:26 News from around the world
03:02:49 GameON! news
03:31:14 Project updates and acquisitions
03:49:16 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion
Retro Innovations / Jim Brain is now fully shipping MIDI Maestro cards
http://www.go4retro.com/products/midi-maestro/
https://store.go4retro.com/tandy/midi-maestro/
Brian Schubring and Rob Inman showing use of these cards
#1: General introduction to MIDI on the Coco
#2: Playing Compacted Midi Files
News stories for Episode #175, August 29, 2020 show:
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1) Bill Pierce has released version 2.0.1f of VCC.
James Ross put up a comparison of the new composite colors from the older versions and the new one:
2) Bill Nobel has released his new SDC2 utility
He also has uploaded a short video showing it in action:
3) Phil Harvey-Smith has put some photos up for the custom cases he is doing
4) "The Digital Orphanage" YouTube page has him getting 11(!) Dragon 32 computers from the Museum of Computing in Swindon, UK
5) Robert Sieg has been experimenting with a program to dither colors on the MC-10
6) Ken (CanadianRetroThings) go his Coco 3 up and running
7) Keith (ChibiAkumas on YouTube) has his next Tandy Coco/Dragon assembly language tutorial up
8) Sheldon MacDonald has released his first beta release of his RSDOS Windows utility.
Game On news:
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1) Neil Blanchard has announced availability of his new "The Gamester" - a customizable, real arcade hardware based joystick
2) Denis Bisson put up a gameplay video of Pooyan under MAME.
3) A reminder from Ian Mavric that the 2020 Trash Talk game programming competition for 2020 has a deadline of November 30
Contest page:
4) John "Boatofcar" Shawler of the Amigos did a live Coco stream this past Thursday evening
5) Following Brett Gordon's progress on his networkable Coco 3 game
6) Chet Simpson made an announcement of the official release date for the much anticipated Digger III
7) Jim Gerrie has yet another update to his port of the 3D graphical adventure game Akalabeth
8) User Hloberg on the Atari Age forums has released a Mille Bornes card game (written in BASIC)
Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:
https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/
Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:
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
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
Aug 23, 2020
Aug 23, 2020
3hr 3 min
This was a game heavy show this week with the GameON! Results and discussions around playing Sea Dragon this past week, and hearing about a new multi-player game being designed by Bret Gordon, which looks amazing and will be quite fun to have an online multi player CoCo game to enjoy with friends.
- 00:02:43 Panel Introductions
- 00:09:59 CoCo Thoughts
- 00:11:41 GameON! challenge results
- 00:13:32 GameON! Discussion
- 00:33:44 Next week's game announcment - Arkanoid
- 00:35:46 Discussion with Brett Gordon - Multi player game
- 00:56:06 GameON! news
- 01:11:36 News from around the world
- 01:54:57 Project updates and acquisitions
- 02:47:09 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion - Staying with a project
News stories for Episode #174, August 22, 2020 show:
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1) Jim Gerrie has a couple of videos showing some Reverse video routines
ML routine by Anders Carlsson to invert video a CLS command
Port of General Accounting Program originally done by Larry Allen
2) Canadian Retro Things has an unboxing video up for his newly acquired Coco 3
3) Cyberhug Technologies is working on fixing his Coco 1
4) James Diffendaffer put up a speed comparison video between the original MC-10 BASIC ROMs and the current version of his optimized one:
5) Ed Snider just posted a video of his 8MB prototype board for the GIME-X:
Game On news:
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1) Chet Simpson convert some graphics from the Capcom CPS-1 platform version of Ghouls and Ghosts.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158533587722641/
2) Richard Kelly has uploaded a new version of the graphics game "Artillery!"
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158531573052641/
3) Jason Reighard Ghost Gobbler game from Spectral Associates
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158531109277641/
4) Erico Patricio Monteiro showed some possible SG-4 enhancements that could be done to Jim Gerrie's Pittman game:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158538984097641/
5) Jim Gerrie put up an MC-10 video of an original game he did called Halifax Tail Gunner:
6) LRU's outrageous gaming project has a playthrough to level 10 of Pegasus and the Phantom Riders
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKaIk2c7dGJ2uVLyvrGgh7Q/videos
Aug 16, 2020
Aug 16, 2020
4hr 17 sec
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.
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