CoCoCrew Episode 28

Agenda

• Introduction (0:01:19)
  • CoCoFEST! is 7 months away...
  • Tandy Assembly is less than a month away!
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:12:05)
  • 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
    
    
  • VCF MidWest 2017 trip report
    
    
  • RetroChallenge 2017/10: October 1-31, 2017
    
    
  • Tandy Assembly: October 7-8, 2017
  • Portland Retro Gaming Expo: October 21-22, 2017
  • Freeplay Florida 2017: November 17-19, 2017
  • World of Commodore: December 2-3, 2017
  • VCF Pacific-Northwest: February 10-11, 2018
  • The 27th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 21-22, 2018
  • KansasFest 2018: July 16-22, 2018
• News (0:29:01)
  
  • Dale Lear 4/13/51-9/1/17 (Dale Lear, R.I.P.)
  • Crossdevelopment ON the C64 for the Atari2600 (Martin Wendt)
  • PAC-MAN v1.1 is now available as a free download (Nick Marentes)
  • Berzerk Further Update (Jim Gerrie)
  • Independent RadioShack Dealers Unleashed By Latest Bankruptcy (twice.com)
  • Pyramid Solitaire (Jim Gerrie)
  • Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer Joystick Buttons (3D-printed replacements) (Russ Bernhardt)
  • Sprite Compiler for the TRS-80 Color Computer 3 (Glen Hewlett)
  • msg from John Turner this morning (Gene Heskett)
  • MC-10 demo program discovered (Jim Gerrie / Ron Delvaux)
  • I had to learn assembly language to truly understand my grandfather (Elle O'Brien / salon.com)
  • How (and why) we ported SHENZHEN SOLITAIRE to MS-DOS (Zach Barth)
  • Dragon Shared Memory: Board for share data and/or programs between a PC and Dragon Computer throw expansion bus. (Tomeu Capó)
  • Electronic Computer Festival Badge Idea (John Mark Mobley)
  • Your load is too heavy: Zork deep reading (Andrew Plotkin)
  • You can follow my attempts to learn 6809 assembly... (William Schaub)
  • Voyager 1 at 40: Scientists 'amazed' 1970s space probe still works (Trystan Young / BBC News)
  • Atanarjuat (Jim Gerrie)
  • French games uploaded the to the archive (Rietveld Rietveld)
  • Availability of the DragonMMC board (Phill Harvey-Smith)
  • Optimizing 6809 Assembly Code (Glen Hewlett)
  • Yellow tinge (Carlos Camacho)
  • Fly Wheel Update (Jim Gerrie)
  • Working on my Adventure clone (MC-10) (Jerry Young)
  • Color Computer Community Resources (Steve Strowbridge)
  • Star Wars. Software Development Kit (Mark McDougall)
• Feedback (1:21:27)
  • "Re: 6309 in a Coco 1/2. Yes, it does run cooler than 6809. I think they are easier/cheaper to find than a 6809, but not by much." -- L. Curtis Boyle
  • "We made some tries and finally found a way to read from / write to disks just controlling the WD2797 status, instead of depending on the SCS/CTS changes. I added 4 new commands in the Orchestra (0-1-2-3) that allow the user to change the ‘hardware’ slot keeping the ROM fixed as a CoCo. NOW this works fine and we can read any drive in any MPI slot. Not important to CoCo-SDC users, but mandatory for a CoCoDAC-16" -- Pere Serrat
• Host discussion -- Another CoCo podcast? (1:27:37)
• Interview -- David Ladd (1:38:23)
• Host discussion -- Vintage collecting -- when is enough enough? (2:32:48)
• Host discussion -- Ready Player One (2:45:58)
• Tech Segment -- Load/run CoCo3 BASIC programs from ROM cartridge too? (3:01:55)
• Neil's Corner -- Clowns and Baloons (3:14:44)
• Parting Thoughts (3:17:17)

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