CoCoCrew Episode 35

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:40)
  • CoCoFEST! is this month!
  • Tandy Assembly is (still) roughly 7 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:07:27)
  • 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
    • boisy@cococrew.org
    
    
  • RetroChallenge
    
    
  • Call for Papers for the 27th Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!
    
    
  • The 27th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 21-22, 2018
  • VCF Southeast 2018: April 21-22, 2018
  • Pittsburgh Retro Gaming Expo: April 21-22, 2018
  • 4º Encontro Clube Color Rio: April 28, 2018
  • VCF East 2018: May 18-20, 2018
  • CORGS-CON 2018: June 2, 2018
  • KansasFest 2018: July 16-22, 2018
• News (0:17:48)
  
  • FHL Kix\030 Kix030 (Mark Marlette)
  • DriveWire 4 demonstration (Aaron Wolfe)
  • I'd like to know what people think of this for a case design. (Ed Snider)
  • First batches of the MOOH board will soon be shipped out to those who pre-ordered. (Tormod Volden)
  • Dig Dug With Instructions (Jim Gerrie)
  • The Last Scan: Inside the desperate fight to keep old TVs alive (Adi Robertson @ The Verge)
  • We are proud to announce that we will be supplying The Amazing DragonMMC Expansion Board. (Bas Gialopsos aka BetaGamma Computing)
  • Robot Minefield (Lee Patterson)
  • RetroChallenge 2018/04: New Game for Cocofest (Jim Gerrie)
  • MC Chase Beta (Jim Gerrie)
  • Microdocumentation on the Road (Steven K. Roberts)
  • Every Video Game in 'Ready Player One' Explained By Author Ernest Cline (WIRED)
  • Moving Forth: Internals and TTL Processor (Brad Rodriguez, et al.)
  • Someone uploaded Microware's original OS-9 source code to the archive... (Guillaume Major)
  • New RadioShack in Pocatello holds grand opening (Scott Kraus @ Idaho State Journal)
  • When BBS SysOps ruled the Earth (Scott Raymond @ ZDNet)
  • Compact 4 slot MPI with YM262 (OPL3) sound, and 2 high speed serial UARTs (Ed Snider)
  • Fahrfall: Master Edition -- preview for CoCoFEST! 2018 (John Linville)
• Feedback (0:54:50)
  • "One thing I would mention for Boisy’s talking about the kernel handling system calls - system calls is the OS-9 terminology for what would now be known as an API call. This may make it more clear for “modern” types of people. :-)" -- L. Curtis Boyle
  • "Thanks for airing my “Coco Forever “ commercial on the latest podcast! Very much appreciated!" -- D. Bruce Moore
  • "John I will be ordering one of the composite out boards u talked about and install it in my TDP." -- Henry Rietveld
• Host discussion -- "Three years in..." (0:58:18)
• Interview w/ Mark Marlette of Cloud-9 (1:12:13)
• Tech Segment -- The Electronic Book (2:03:30)
• OS-9 Corner -- IOMAN (2:13:05)
• Neil's Corner -- Flood It! (2:25:19)
• Parting Thoughts (2:28:34)

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