CoCoCrew Episode 19

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:08)
  • CoCoFEST! is four months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:14:18)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and tunein.
  • 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
    • mike@cococrew.org
    
    
  • Play Through Gaming Convention: February 25-26, 2017
  • VCF East XII: March 31 - April 2, 2017
  • 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
  • Coleco Expo: August 5-6, 2017
    
    
  • CoCoFEST! 2017 promos (Mike Rowen)
• News (0:32:08)
  
  • CoCo-spotting in Lo and Behold film. (Craig Stewart)
  • The BASIC Issue With Retro Computers (Hackaday)
  • Microsoft replaces cmd with PowerShell in new Windows 10 build (OSnews)
  • native BCPL development under FUZIX (Neal Crook)
  • Text-based sprites with MC6847 External Character ROM? (Carlos Camacho)
  • Announcement CoCo3FPGA 4.1 full Release (Gary L. Becker)
  • MM/1 Promotional Video (Boisy Pitre)
  • Tandy/Microsoft contract signed by Bill Gates (Allen Huffman)
  • Cavern 2160 for MC-10 (Jim Gerrie)
  • Port of "Apple Bowling Champ" game to MC-10 (Jim Gerrie)
  • Jet Pac for the TRS-80 MC-10 (Jim Gerrie)
  • Escape from Colditz (Jim Gerrie)
  • Robot Nim (Jim Gerrie)
  • ZX81 Connects to the Network (Hackaday)
  • Building Your Bots The 1980s Way (Hackaday)
  • Learn Some Plastic Techniques With This SNES WiiMote Mod (Hackaday)
  • Chapter 35 - The End (Nick Marentes)
  • Looking for rare CoCo program... BASSEMBLER. (Nick Marentes)
  • Simon Jonassen can probably bring these images to life on a TRS-80 Coco-2... (Chris Martin)
  • This archive is not complete but does have 750+ titles so far... (Chris Poacher)
  • A new version of CoCo SDC Explorer is now available for download! (Guillaume Major)
  • Tour of the Megaprocessor (James Newman)
  • ColorBASIC under Fuzix (Brett Gordon)
  • Fuzix: Now on CoCo2 (Brett Gordon)
  • Nearly 40 Years Later, Steve Wozniak Still Brainstorms Ways The Apple II Could Have Been Better (TechCrunch)
  • Vectrex PS2 adapter (Koko Vec)
  • It's #CoCoWeekend and a high score earns TRS-80 & Motorola vinyl decals! (Chris Osborn)
  • Welcome to CoCoWares! (Diego Barizo)
  • I have ported another AGI fan-made adventure game to the Coco 3. The game is Star Commander I and was developped in 2001 by Steve Coyle. (Guillaume Major)
  • FOSS DOS for 21st Century Hardware (FOSS Force)
  • An updated SDC-DOS version 1.3 for the CoCo-SDC is now available. (Darren Atkinson)
  • Another update to SDC-DOS is available (now version 1.4). (Darren Atkinson)
• Feedback (1:33:16)
  • "The Oregon Trail Board Game is now in stock at Target." -- John Mark Mobley
  • "In the tech segment, you probably should have also mentioned the PCOPY command..." -- L. Curtis Boyle
  • "Fahrfall: what is needed to play it?" -- Kevin Braun
• Host discussion -- what is a repack? (1:40:31)
• Tech Segment -- Book review of Retrogame Archeology (1:57:55)
• Interview w/ Mark Siegel (2:11:24)
• Games Corner -- World of Commodore and Christmas demos (2:50:29)
• Parting Thoughts (2:57:39)

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