The CoCo Nation Show

We're back with everyone's favorite talk show about the CoCo and this week we'll talk about news, GameON! results for Galagon and so much more!

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This week we'll focus on people who are new to being back to the CoCo hobby, a lot has changed in the past 40 years and the CoCo is alive and well, and there are a lot of things you can do in the CoCo hobby. So how does one start? What's the best way? What's the best CoCo setup? How do I get and run hardware and software, what's the minimum I'd need, how far can we go, what about emulators, and so much more.

Gather your questions and we'll hear from a variety of people on how they CoCo and what suggestions we have for people just getting back to the CoCo.

We'll review the GameON! results from Candy Company, learn what next week's game will be, cover CoCo news, and more!

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: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm

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

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https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

Live interactive video streams:
https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live

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This week we're going to focus on the latest and greatest update to the CoCo-Pi project which now has an official web site http://coco-pi.com We'll show you a 30 minute tutorial on how to download and set up your Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 to run the CoCo-Pi image. We show you how to add all the CoCo ROMS to MAME, how to download and run software, and how to add your own software to your system. This will be followed by a live Q&A session with Ron Klein who's managing this project.

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General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:02:51 Panel Introductions
00:05:51 Ron Klein - CoCoPi update
00:17:18 CoCo Thoughts
01:17:37 GameON! challenge results
01:20:50 GameON! Lunar Rover Patrol discussion
01:30:39 Next week's game announcment
01:39:09 GameON! news
02:07:13 News from around the retro world
02:41:56 CoCo Thoughts
02:44:29 Project updates and acquisitions
03:11:17 Nightmare Highway - The song
03:14:05 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussions

New Links:
1) Tim Halloran put up a video on how to take a Coco 2 keyboard apart, and clean it:
https://youtu.be/u1S9KExR9jU

2) Erico Monteiro
https://youtu.be/OBXG1O_5fEY

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=70215.0

3) David K on YouTube
https://youtu.be/nJgzYuMWNfg?t=471

4) Coco Crew episode 60 was released, and includes a review of Rampage.
http://cococrew.org/cococrew-podcast-60.html

5) Ed Snider has announced 8 MB RAM upgrade
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158318768477641/

6) Eric Canales shared a cool video clip
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158317268257641/

7) Rubber feet for the Coco 1:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158315306512641/

8) Terry Trapp CoCo capture issues
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158310032052641/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158310933662641/

9) Guillaume Major has done some updates to the Color Computer Archive
https://colorcomputerarchive.com/search

10) James Jones runs some BASIC09 performance tests with surprising results
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2597277030535225/

11) James Hosts inquires about INKEY$ and alternatives to allow for key repeat detection
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/2914666795326790/

12) Wayne Aaron obtains a CoCo 2 he plans to use as a CoCo-Pi case
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158321285392641/

13) Alsion Denu posts some *interesting* photos with CoCos
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158316789277641/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158318792572641/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158303480947641/

14) Tony Jewell from the Dragon group joins the CoCo owner's club
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158295267832641/

Game On news:
1) YouTuber "retro techtive" has started releasing Coco game videos
Androne:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrkXrJqkN-Q

Air Attack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XroCF2adwNA

2) The Amigos released their final regular episode of The Coco Show https://youtu.be/aLFLQuCInQs

3) GigerPunk did a video of Cuthbert in the Mines on his Dragon 32:
https://youtu.be/YnbHDTNtY1U

4) Pere Serrat released a new video of his updated AGD engine, using the Wordpak II+
https://youtu.be/dnuiz5J4bCs

5) Erik Gavriluk started an interesting discussion on what is the greatest ORIGINAL Coco 3 game https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158318127852641/

6) Mark McDougall is starting to work on finishing some of his arcade transcodes again
https://retroports.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR02Xk-ZcVMqFKq4uEy77tk2yWxItAJJN1A8UVJAXZmNEreApX3wzH9xKn8

7) Cuthbert Dragon released a lot of new Dragon gameplay videos this week
Red Meanies (3D Pacman):
https://youtu.be/UqbcAz-kieA

Keys of Roth (kind of a graphics Choose Your Own Adventure style game(:
https://youtu.be/MOb3c0RPaDs

Starfighter:
https://youtu.be/f-wGM5dtnn8

Mutant Wars (kind of a Shamus/Berzerk crossover?):
https://youtu.be/wZkPoIZ0ZA4

Screaming Ab-Dabs (and he seems to know how to actually play it properly):
https://youtu.be/nsrm1BMZcVA

8) Michael Pittsley inquires about a Soduko game for the CoCo, John Linville replies
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158322420287641/

9) Carlos Camacho inquires about the Canyon Climber Cartridges for the NEC PC-600, created by James Garon, author of the CoCo version
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158308661562641/

Steve Bjork chimes in
Allen Huffman posts a YouTube video of the game by HighRetroGameLord
https://youtu.be/1Lt4Tts0CfI

 

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):

  https://youtu.be/OOSR2nZgi_s

 

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.

  https://youtu.be/5ZH3fRyK9SA

 

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):

  https://youtu.be/dyjNIdwps1g

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)