CoCoCrew Episode 10

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:28)
  • CoCoFEST! one month away!
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:08:12)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play
  • Member of The Throwback Network
  • Listed on the Game-by-Game Podcast Information Hub
  • Email addresses
    • show@cococrew.org
    • podcast@cococrew.org
    • feedback@cococrew.org
    
    
    • john@cococrew.org
    • neil@cococrew.org
    
    
  • TRS-80 Trash Talk podcast
    
    
  • Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 4.0: April 2-3, 2016
  • 2º Encontro Clube Color Rio: April 9, 2016
  • Vintage Computer Festival East XI: April 15-17, 2016
  • The 25th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 23-24, 2016
  • Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 11: September 10-11, 2016
• News (0:18:41)
  
  • Would anyone be interested in entering a Color Robot Battle Tournament? (John Metcalf)
  • [CoCo3FPGA] Booting nitros from SD card (Brett Gordon)
  • "Ultimate" CoCoSDC Image (Travis Poppe)
  • Bouncy Ball Public Beta 1 (Lee Patterson)
  • International font designed for CoCo (Hugo Dufort)
  • Gotek floppy emulator (Frank Swyggert)
  • Sprite editor improvments (Paul Thayer)
  • 10 Liner Text Adventure in Micro Color BASIC (Jim Gerrie)
  • James McKay to Release "Glove" and "Death Chase" Source (Jim Gerrie)
  • Color Computer Reproduction Game Box (Tim Lindner)
  • Affectionate nicknames for Radio Shack (Tim Lindner)
  • CoCo "platform studies" book? (Christopher Fox)
  • VCF East on-line ticket sales (Vintage Computer Federation)
  • Setting up a modern toolchain for Vectrex development with CMOC. (Johan Van den Brande)
  • real talker (plea for sale) (Josh Harper)
  • Pop Star Pilot game development blog chapter 25 (Nick Marentes)
  • Commodore PET 8032 add-on SuperPET2 board (Boisy Pitre)
  • FORTH for OS-9 (Tony Cappellini)
  • MAME is now Free and Open Source Software (MAME Development Team)
  • DriveWire version of the Ultimate VHD (Barry Nelson)
  • Last week of the CoCo Lounge before the Move (Glen VanDenBiggelaar)
  • MCX-128 cases (now available) (John Strong)
  • The community need your help to create a “Retro” Stack Overflow (Vintage Is The New Old)
  • CoCo 3 port of ZX Spectrum game Knight Lore (Mark McDougall)
  • CoCo 3 RGB to Component Video (Ed Snider)
  • Automatic booting for drive1 on start of the DP50 extender (Pere Serrat)
  • Relaunch of Retrogaming Times (Retrogaming Times)
  • Over 100 Color Computer game videos on my YouTube channel!!!!! (Stevie Strowbridge)
  • Version 0.1.20 of CMOC C-like compiler released (Pierre Sarrazin)
• Feedback (1:08:56)
  • "It really is like the days of finding a Rainbow magazine in the mailbox." -- Mike Rowen
  • "I have no issue with the tech segments at all, I enjoy them." -- Steve Strowbridge
  • "I'm not that interested in printers either, but I don't want to see them... gutted! The carnage! :O" -- Ed Snider
  • "Congratulations on the show, and best wished for its continued success." -- David Bittner
  • "I stumbled on your Podcast from yesterday.. thanks for the mention about Java Grinder! It's kind of weird because while I was looking for information on programming the Coco, I actually found your 'Stupid VDG Tricks'..." -- Mike Kohn
• Host discussion -- "But, what does it do?" (1:19:41)
• Tech segment -- Orchestra-90 (1:32:40)
• Interview -- John Strong of Strongware (1:56:56)
• Games Corner -- Time Bandits (3:13:18)
• Parting Thoughts (3:15:54)

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