CoCoCrew Episode 24

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:32)
  • The CoCo New Year is here!
  • CoCoFEST! is 11 months away...
  • Tandy Assembly is only 5 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:12:27)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and tunein.
  • Member of The Throwback Network
  • Listed on the Game-by-Game Podcast Information Hub
  • Show audio hosted at Cyber Ears
  • Email addresses
    
    
    • show@cococrew.org
    • podcast@cococrew.org
    • feedback@cococrew.org
    
    
    • john@cococrew.org
    • neil@cococrew.org
    • mike@cococrew.org
    
    
  • CORGS-Con 2017: May 27, 2017
  • Indy Area Vintage Computer Club: June 3, 2017
  • The Cambridge Dragon Meetup: June 3, 2017
  • Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo 2017: June 9-11, 2017
  • Pacific Commodore Expo 2017: June 10-11, 2017
  • KansasFest 2017: July 18-23, 2017
  • Commodore Vegas Expo v13.0: July 29-30, 2017
  • Coleco Expo: August 5-6, 2017
  • VCF West XII: August 5-6, 2017
  • VCF MidWest 12: September 9-10, 2017
  • Tandy Assembly: October 7-8, 2017
  • World of Commodore 16: December 3-4, 2017
• News (0:35:49)
  
  • Bernie Appel, RadioShack leader, renowned retailer, dies at 85 (Fort Worth Business Press)
  • Happy Birthday, BASIC! (Frank Pittel)
  • CoCoTALK! (Steve Strowbridge)
  • A "master list" of CoCo related web sites? (Steve Strowbridge)
  • Circles Demo a programming challenge (Steve Strowbridge)
  • CoCoFEST! Facebook Photo Album (Steve Strowbridge)
  • Rally X Update (Jim Gerrie)
  • Jerusalem Adventure (Jim Gerrie)
  • Cross Rally with Machine Language Code (Jim Gerrie)
  • Graf Spee Simulation from ZX81 (Jim Gerrie)
  • The New 8-bit Heroes (The New 8-bit Heroes, LLC)
  • Alien Downpour (Michael Packard)
  • Dunjunz for the Dragon (and CoCo, probably) (Ciaran Anscomb)
  • Forest of Doom (D. Bruce Moore)
  • Gunstar, a game development blog (Nick Marentes)
  • Rebooting the project (Hugo Dufort)
  • VICScript – Programming Language Interpreter (VintageIsTheNewOld)
  • 32-Bit Processing For The Vectrex Arcade System (Brian Benchoff)
  • FPGA Emulates NES Cart; Prototype So Cyberpunk (Bryan Cockfield)
  • Z80 Fuzix Is Like Old Fashioned Unix (Al Williams)
  • The Raspberry Pi Becomes a SCSI Device (Brian Benchoff)
  • A Mini-ITX Atari 800 (Jenny List)
  • Reverse engineering the 76477 "Space Invaders" sound effect chip from die photos (Ken Shirrif)
  • DIY Flexible Printed Circuits (Dr. C. K. Harnett)
  • PC-BASIC (Rob Hagemans)
  • Debugging 33-Year-Old Code From a 1984 Episode of 'Airwolf' (Eric Limer)
  • NOS Sundog games available (Glen Dahlgren)
  • Do any of you guys solve Project Euler problems with CoCo BASIC? (Jovan Trujillo)
  • CoCo MiniLisp (Jamie Lee Cho)
  • Available in the near future...hopefully...CoCoStud! (Tim Thayer)
  • Demonstration of NTSC CP400 w/ integrated controller (Ernani Cioffi)
  • New version of Coco SDC Explorer (0.30) (Guillaume Major)
  • Let's figure out the best method to compile sprites for the CoCo (Glen Hewlett)
  • Zilog z80 to Motorola 6809 Transcode – Part 022 – Quick and dirty Speed Test – Five Sprites and 2 audio samples at the same time (Glen Hewlett)
  • An FPGA-based GIME replacement. (Ed Snider)
  • CoCoVGA 64-column mode (Brendan Donahe)
  • Coco KB membrane replacement (Jim Brain)
  • Sometimes a '57 Chevy should remain stock. (Cutter Mcginnis)
• Feedback (1:51:47)
  • "I'm looking for RSS feeds for non-Apple II retrocomputing news — CoCo, Tandy, Amiga, anything. It can be a blog, a news outlet, a podcast, or a convention, so long as it has an RSS feed." -- Ken Gagne
  • "While I don't do a 'stop for the night at a hotel' type waystop, I *do* stop along the way a few times for extended breaks and/or naps with the stops being more frequent as the drive progresses." -- William Astle
  • "Neil, where have you been hiding? This is great stuff you did. I think you're getting comfortable in front of the microphone. :) Really enjoyed your recounting the 2010 CoCoFEST." -- Mike Rowen
  • "MAME emulation of 'Games Master Cartridge' is working!" -- Tim Lindner
  • "The last episode of the CoCo Crew podcast, was the best yet. My favorite parts were your memories of your first CoCofest. This gave a nice impression of what it was like. Second favorite was Johns tech talk on creating games. I think he nailed what I needed to hear, I wish that tech talk was an hour instead of a few minutes, great topic and so well presented. Last but not least the playful 'news style' segment with serious theme music and I think Pitr was the 'hard hitting news show host' it was a perfect parody of those self-important TV shows." -- Kevin Braun
• Host discussion -- Re: upgrades: How far is too far? How much is too much ($$$)? (1:59:03)
• Tech Segment -- CoCo cartridge development fundamentals (2:24:17)
• Neil's Corner -- CoCo User Groups (3:03:33)
• Parting Thoughts (3:11:13)

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