CoCoCrew Episode 17

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:28)
  • CoCoFEST! is six months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:11:36)
  • 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
  • Hosted at Cyber Ears
  • Email addresses
    
    
    • show@cococrew.org
    • podcast@cococrew.org
    • feedback@cococrew.org
    
    
    • john@cococrew.org
    • neil@cococrew.org
    
    
  • Portland Retro Gaming Expo: October 21-23, 2016
  • Vintage Computer Festival Europa: November 19-20, 2016
  • World of Commodore 2016: December 3-4, 2016
  • The 26th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST: April 22-23, 2017
  • Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo 2017: June 9-11, 2017
  • KansasFest 2017: July 18-23, 2017
    
    
  • CoCoFEST! 2017 promos (Mike Rowen)
    
    
  • Retrochallenge 2016/10 in-progress! (John Linville)
• News (0:29:03)
  
  • Here is a gameplay video for Bomb Threat, my unsold game from long ago. (Rick Adams)
  • Gameplay of Shanghai during development. (Rick Adams)
  • Gameplay of Temple of ROM during development. (Rick Adams)
  • Starting work on the MC10 Supercart firmware. (Ed Snider)
  • MC10 Supercart menu, now with interrupt driven music. (Ed Snider)
  • I've been working on the music player portion of the firmware for the MC10 Supercart. (Ed Snider)
  • Cleaned-up the player screen a little... Now with sizes/frames, frame count, and level bars. (Ed Snider)
  • Cave Walker runs on NitrOS9 L2 on VCC, but not real hardware? (Barry Nelson)
  • CoCo-related designs on Thingiverse (Chris Smith)
  • When you're bored and realize you have the stuff to reproduce a magazine cover from June 1983. (Matt Whitt)
  • CoCo Cat Fan Club T-shirt (Norm Lamoureux)
  • Pop*Star Pilot blog chapter 33 (Nick Marentes)
  • How cool is the first ever MC-10 game cartridge?? (Matt Whitt)
  • Atari ST Computer Sales and Marketshare: A Comparison (Intric8 aka Eric Hill(?))
  • History Of Xenix — Microsoft’s Forgotten Unix-based Operating System (Adarsh Verma)
  • Port of "Miniature Golf by Mitch Voth" (Jim Gerrie)
  • Just finished porting another David Ahl simulation to Micro Color BASIC (Jim Gerrie)
  • Just finished a new game "Deep Scan". (Jim Gerrie)
  • Deepscan, Grafdemo, and Furtrade now added to my compilation. (Jim Gerrie)
  • CoCoFEST 25 bonus video part 1 (Steve Strowbridge)
  • Nick Marentes reviews and interviews (Steve Strowbridge)
  • Setting up DriveWire 4 Server on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Wheezy. (David Ladd)
  • Can a CoCo 2 keyboard be retrofitted to work in a CoCo 1? (Daniel Wolfson)
  • Status of 8 port MPI (Jim Brain)
  • Well, the coco 1/2/3 were always undersung (literally).... (NOT ANYMORE) (Simon Jonassen)
  • I hope to make some use of a tape deck and DriveWire4 with the CoCo. (Jeremy Harton)
  • My goal is, to get my 26 year old Colour Computer 2 connected to my Windows system so I can browse/load/save files. (Derek John Evans)
• Feedback (1:19:43)
  • "I guess the two MC-10 carts could possibly get confused. One is just a basic software/RAM cart with 32K of RAM and 16K ROM. [...] These boards are not based on the MCX-128 btw, though I could see why it might be thought so, since I produced a couple of runs of those. Interestingly enough however, there may be a version of MCX BASIC included on the Supercart firmware." -- Ed Snider
  • "Think I might have mentioned this on IRC, but as you're interested, might be worth noting that XRoar does this semi-'properly' now (as of 0.34) by having a variable colour burst signal that's multiplied with a low-pass filtering of the signal to generate the colour. Just pick 'Simulated' from View->Composite Rendering." -- Ciaran Anscomb
  • "Thanks again for a neat program. You were curious about the origins of Robot R-29 puzzle game. Its from an old Polish Atari magazine type-in. Here’s my blog posting on were I got it from: http://jimgerrie.blogspot.ca/2016/06/i-guess-you-can-call-me-type-in-fanatic.html" -- Jim Gerrie
  • "One of the things I do for old DOS utilities and games is I use DOSBox. It works really well and DOSBox is in most Linux distros as well." -- David Ladd
  • "William Astle has a awesome video commentary on how he (most masterfully, if I may opine) disassembled DoD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYIbXeO2IiU and his HG repo with very nicely disassembled (and extended) DoD code: http://dod.projects.l-w.ca/hg/index.cgi/file/7072cfd10af3/" -- Brett Gordon
• Host discussion -- What is the proper etiquette for extending someone else's project? (1:29:40)
• Tech Segment -- CoCo Dragon DOS controller compatibility (1:44:35)
• Round Table -- Six months until CoCoFEST! (2:14:44)
• Games Corner -- Color Max Deluxe: Part ][ (3:35:16)
• Parting Thoughts (3:37:40)

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