CoCoCrew Episode 25

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:19)
  • CoCoFEST! is 10 months away...
  • Tandy Assembly is only 4 (or 3?) months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:12:48)
  • 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
    
    
  • KansasFest 2017: July 18-23, 2017 (FULL)
  • 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
  • The 27th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 21-22, 2018
• News (0:28:31)
  
  • RadioShack Auction #1 (UBid Estate & Auction Services LLC)
  • General Wireless are planning to sell the RadioShack trademarks (Darren Grant)
  • Cambridge Dragon Meet-up Photos (Tony Jewell)
  • I updated my CoCo port of Rui Ueyama's MiniLisp. (Jamie Cho)
  • Stone Raider II - A Javascript Retro Remake (Marquis de Geek)
  • Remember the Micro Adventure books in the 1980s? (Auri Rahimzadeh)
  • New Interpreted Language Called CHIP-12 and BASIC Compiler for it (Marc Bertrand)
  • ZX-Uno v4.2 512k (Antonio Villena)
  • decode demo (Wayne Campbell)
  • Arabian Rhapsody Retro Game (Jim Gerrie)
  • Deflect by Tinyan (Jim Gerrie)
  • Master Maze (Jim Gerrie)
  • Computerized Astronomy program from Creative Computing March 1982 (Jim Gerrie)
  • A little CoCo 3 Pac Man update (Glen Hewlett)
  • Z80 Based Raspberry Pi Look-alike (Inderpreet Singh via Hackaday)
  • This is a Video that i'm playing my Coco mini piano. (Matteo Trevisan)
  • How People Used to Download Games From the Radio (Paulo Garcia via Vintage Is The New Old)
  • Adding Character To The C64 (Lewin Day via Hackaday)
  • SN76489 SN - EMU (Benjamin Anderson)
  • Updated Rocketship, the anatomy of a GET/PUT demo (Steve Strowbridge)
  • Optimizing GET and PUT for the Spaceship demo (Steve Strowbridge)
  • Update on the FPGA GIME replacement project... (Ed Snider)
  • There was a search to find the "possible greater than 256 colors mode in the GIMME"... (Jerry Kuhn)
  • I am searching for a CoCo 1/2 game (written in assembly) that I once played YEARS ago. (Boisy Pitre)
  • Game Master cartridge MAME command line and demo ROM (Ron Klein)
  • Vintage ROM emulator for Atari 2600 development on Apple II (Will Scullin)
  • Refurb of CoCo3 (Ian Norley)
  • Trump orders government to finally stop working on Y2K bug (Steven Musil via CNET)
• Feedback (1:21:56)
  • "I think the Coco links site you are thinking of was Markus Blumrich’s (a fellow Saskatoonian!), which was called 'TRS-80 & Tandy Color Computer Homepage'." -- L. Curtis Boyle
  • "XRoar emulated, yeah you don't need to be in RAM. Also: 'trace mode' (toggle with ^V) is what I use most of the time - simpler than GDB, just run 'xroar | less' then you can use standard regexes to find most things you're interested in. Sometimes you really do have to break out GDB though." -- Ciaran Anscomb
  • "Waiting for your podcast each month is like what it used to be like back in the 80’s waiting for the next Rainbow magazine." -- Glen Hewlett
  • "On the note of the news and announcements, not only are you keeping everyone informed on a large variety of things going on each month, but you are also providing some much appreciated validation to what people are doing." -- Steve Strowbridge
  • "I bought an MC-10 at a weird sale here in Hollywood... So now I am experimenting with the little guy and I cannot find documentation on making sounds. I can make it beep of course, but I need to make game sound effects, like a thump for example. I presume that would require poking memory or maybe a machine language routine. Can you gents point me at some kind of a magazine article or sample code?" -- Kevin Braun
• Host discussion -- Would a 'retro' crash be good? (1:31:15)
• SFGE 2017 trip report (1:43:50)
• Host discussion -- Speech/Sound Pak emulation...what changes? (1:50:30)
• Tech Segment -- Assembly Language vs. Machine Code (2:02:42)
• Neil's Corner -- Shock Trooper (2:13:05)
• Parting Thoughts (2:16:18)

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