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Jul 20, 2020
Jul 20, 2020
3hr 51 min
Is your weasel greased and are you excited to talk about floppies? We know David Ladd is! Today Simon Jonassen will share with us some cool coding tricks he's using to fast load data from floppy disks, and we'll hopefully hear from David Ladd and possibly even Paul Fiscarelli, so if you're as excited about floppies as we are, you're going to love today's show!
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:02:51 CoCo Closet
00:05:09 Panel Introductions
00:12:23 Simon Jonassen - coding tricks he's using to fast load data from floppy
00:58:42 More floppy talk
02:04:45 CoCo Thoughts
02:08:30 GameON! challenge results
02:20:58 Next week's game announcment - COLORPEDE
02:30:44 GameON! news
02:55:33 Project updates and acquisitions
03:46:58 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion
Game On news:
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1) Erico Patricio Monteiro has video of his upcoming Color Fight game in progress
2) Paul Shoemaker has a very good full deck set of card graphics (with full face cards in 16 colors)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158448701372641/
3) Henry Reitveld put up a video of him play Nick Marentes new release, Rally-SG - but in his full blow arcade cabinet:
4) Chet Simpson played live (on Facebook) first 10 levels of his upcoming Coco 3 masterpiece, Digger III.
Thursday's video shows the Easy skill level:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158447571022641/
Friday's shows the Hard skill level (and it *does* look hard!):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158450523007641/
5) Canadian Retro Things put up an unboxing video for his just received Bomb Threat cartridge (by Rick Adams)
6) Aaron from The Amigos has put up his CoinOPS Coco Beta 2 package,
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13mC2Fd__D3vj5aSO7zzDqd_EUwy57LZF
7) The Amigos are doing their 4th annual Amiga themed fundraiser for The Children's Network this weekend
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/649422475322458122/733881626253066370/Amigathon_Schedule.jpg
And the donation info:
https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=411413
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/artistjoelm...
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/Ogsteviestr...
https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive
https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/
https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive
Jul 12, 2020
Jul 12, 2020
3hr 18 min
We're back with another episode of everyone's favorite talk show, CoCoTALK!
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:02:47 Panel Introductions
00:07:31 AtomicPi - CoCo project with Aaron Doughty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQw1Qy1RyxA
00:36:56 News from around the retro world
01:03:37 CoCo Thoughts
01:04:18 GameON! challenge results
01:20:58 Next week's game announcment - The Crystal City - https://gosub.com/Coco/
01:25:00 Rally-SG go live announcement with Nick Marentes - http://www.nickmarentes.com/ProjectArchive/rallysg.html
01:40:57 GameON! news
01:59:44 CoCo Thoughts
02:01:08 Upcoming game announcement - Bomb Threat
02:01:36 Project updates and acquisitions
03:00:28 CoCo Thoughts
03:03:33 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion
News stories for Episode #168, July 11, 2020 show:
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1) Carlos Camacho has shrunken replicas of the Coco 1 that I believe were 3D resin printed
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158431202067641/
2) Eric Sperano has written a little launch program for his SDC
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158430713227641/
3) Erico Patricio Monteiro has a request on Facebook for helping crunch a program down for a project he is working on
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158431076227641/
4) Martin Brossman posted some photos from when he worked at Radio Shack in the 1980's
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158429775042641/
5) Alison DeNu has been recovering multiple programs that she wrote in the past for the Coco from old audio cassettes
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158419718652641/
6) Jonathan Felchlin posted on Facebook about the availability of a Coco 2 Cap replacement kit
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158430035342641/
7) Jim McClellan posted how he got his DMP-105 working again, including the trick of replacing the ink sponge:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158421898857641/
8) Quinn Good posted a series of videos on YouTube about a Coco 2 he found in the attic (he is a young fella)
And then a third video a few days later, where he learns how to take apart and needs to clean a dirty keyboard:
Game On news:
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1) Evan Wright has some embellishments to Flood It
2) Jim Gerrie shows off a Battleship style game on the MC-10,
3) Jerry Stratton posted a link to his site where he has a text mode version of Reversi
https://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/hacks/coco/reversi/
4) Erico Patricio Monteiro has some updated semigraphics animation demos for his karate game he is working on
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158424557902641/
5) "The 64K Gamer" on YouTube has a video up showing how to get free cassette file games (from the Color Computer Archive) onto your phone to load on a Coco
6) Retro Core on YouTube has part 2 of his "Battle of the Ports", this time of Frogger. Part 2
7) Giger Punk (Rob's Retro Ramblers) returns with his Cuthbert in the Cooler review/playthrough:
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:
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
Jul 5, 2020
Jul 5, 2020
3hr 51 min
Today we celebrate the greatest thing in American History, the birf of Tom C from Jersey!
We may also pay homage to our treasonous Brexit of 1776, but that is not as important.
This.... is..... CoCoTALK!
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:02:50 "Happy Birthday Song" to Tom C
00:04:01 Panel Introductions
00:08:14 CoCo Discord #coco-art-gallery
00:10:51 CoCo Thoughts
00:13:43 GameON! challenge results
00:43:45 Next week's game announcement
00:54:48 Upcoming game of the week announcement - Bomb Threat
00:53:21 Nick Marotta magazine cover
00:55:10 Panel Discussion - De-soldering
01:18:45 News from around the retro world
01:47:37 GameON! news
02:10:09 Panel discussion "What did you use regularly"
02:47:16 CoCo Thoughts
02:54:18 Project updates and acquisitions
03:44:50 How Tom C impacted your life
03:50:41 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion
News stories for Episode #167, July 4, 2020 show:
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1) Tim Halloran has an updated video on using DC power to power his Coco 2.
https://youtu.be/6UN1XvJG-bs
2) Playing on an emulator or actual Coco - which to choose, and why?:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158399124387641/
3) Bill Garretson has a video of a Fireworks program he wrote for the Coco 1/2:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158410702962641/
4) Joey Cabral has some photos up of his upgrading a Coco 3 to a 6309 using his newly acquired Hakko de-soldering vacuum
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158398004597641/
5) Interesting discussion started by Jim McClellan - asking what is an "acceptable" word processor for the Coco 3
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158398348812641/
6) Christopher Mayeux posted a newspaper article from September 13, 1990 talking about some Color Computer User Groups in his area
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158398828332641/
7) Coco Crew episode 61 is out. Includes an interview with Simon Jonassen and Paul Fiscarelli about a new background sampled sound routine they are working on that is both compressed (4 bit ADPCM) and fast (no more than 63 CPU cycles per sample). An interesting discussion topic was "What Coco software did you use the most?".
http://cococrew.org
8) Nir Dary in the Dragon Facebook group shows a Hebrew font he has been working on, that uses John Whitworth's board that allows custom fonts:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2659735700952749/
9) Interesting Ebay find in Europe in the Dragon Facebook group - a Dragon 32 with *native* RGB support:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2657678064491846/
10) Robert Gault has apparently uploaded a large world map program for OS9 up to the Color Computer archive, but it's not up yet as of this time.
11) Simon Jonassen has posted a brief video showing his new demo program, and using the ADPCM sound routine that he talked about on the latest Coco Crew episode:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158411807097641/
Game On news:
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1) Jim Gerrie has a video showing his MC-10 port of the game "Touch Down", based on the computer book "Space Games"
https://youtu.be/pIJznvSBUP4
2) Neil Blanchard's new run of Rick Adam's "Bomb Threat" game cartridge is shipping
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158405524972641/
3) Lee Perkins put up some screenshots of his initial conversion of an MS-DOS game screen to a Coco 3
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158394680422641/
4) Pere Serrat shared a video showing his more advanced version of the AGD engine, now using the Wordpak2+ for additional sound effects and music:
https://youtu.be/zYMfmzttu3w
5) Robert Allen Murphy has put up his latest blog post on converting the PC6001 game Nostromo to the Coco line:
https://exileinparadise.com/nostromo:assembling_the_blocks
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: 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
Jun 28, 2020
Jun 28, 2020
2hr 25 min
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
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:
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