CoCoCrew Episode 70

Agenda

• Introduction (0:00:42)
  • Tandy Assembly is 6 months away!
  • CoCoFEST! is 7 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (0:04:26)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, and tunein.
  • Available as video episodes on YouTube
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  • 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
    
    
  • 10th Edition of BASIC 10 Liner Contest
    • Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 27, 2021, 6 p.m. CET
    • Award ceremony: Saturday, April 10, 2021 at NOMAM
    
    
  • ParserComp is a competition for text based games which use the text inpput & output parser system as the primary way of ‘controlling’ the game.
    • The ParserComp competition page on itch.io 10 (see links section below) will be available from April 1st, from this point onwards (through to submission cut-off) it will be possible to register.
    • May & June - Submission Window Open
    • July - Voting Window
    • August 1st - Results Announced
    
    
  • KansasFest 2021: July 23-24, 2021
  • VCF West 2021: Aug 7-8, 2021
  • Southern-Fried Gaming Expo 2021: Aug 20-22, 2021
  • Tandy Assembly 2021: Oct 1-3, 2021
  • VCF East 2021 – Rescheduled!: Oct 8-10, 2021
  • The Midwest Gaming Classic: Nov 5-7, 2021
  • “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!: Nov 6-7, 2021
• News (0:17:09)
  
  • Quick KAOS state machine demo (Chet Simpson)
    Bouncing window into the future of KAOS...
  • Videotex in 2021? Connecting to the internet with a TRS-80 Color Computer 1 (Amateur Tinkering @ YouTube)
  • im learning some vector graphics! (Sheldon MacDonald)
  • I have been making steady progress on Space Bandits (Jamie Cho)
    
    
  • I decide to feed coco3's rgb signal (inverting both syncs and or'ing them with a 74LS02) and the result is... (Phil Antonio)
  • I have updated my BASIC game Alpha Force by compiling it with Greg Dionne's MBasic compiler. (Jim Gerrie)
  • The Ultimate Maxduino for 8 bit micro's (Phil Kruman)
  • CoCo-Terrestrial game (original CoCo-Terrestrial) translated into Portuguese (Daniel Campos)
    
    
  • 50 Years of Pascal (Niklaus Wirth)
  • The Famous Basic Computer Games Book Gets A 2021 Update (Al Williams @ Hackaday)
  • Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes? (Hannah Selinger @ New York Times)
  • Fry’s Electronics, Inc. has made the difficult decision to shut down its operations and close its business permanently. (Fry's Electronics)
    
    
  • proof-of-concept of my idea to synchronize a Coco’s calendar app with online iCalendar files (Frederick Provoncha)
    developing a way to enable the Coco to sync with online calendars
  • here is a sneak peek at a project im working on that should be released soon. (Sheldon MacDonald)
  • Try my new game DROPSHIP for the MCX-32SD. (Darren Ottery)
  • Adapter to connect USB devices, such as gamepad or mouse, to Tandy Color Computer joystick port. (Scott Wendt)
    
    
  • IS Retro Gaming DEAD in 2021? (Nerd Attic @ YouTube)
  • I now have OS/9 Level I...up and running on...(Corsham Tech) SS-50 6809 system (Dave McGuire)
  • 3326 bytes of madness..... (Simon Jonassen)
  • COMEFROM (or COME FROM) is an obscure control flow structure used in some programming languages, originally as a joke. (Wikipedia)
    
    
  • 50 Years of Text Games (Aaron Reed)
  • Michael Knudsen (author of UltiMuse3) passed away yesterday (his birthday). (Bill Pierce)
  • Inventor of cassette tape Lou Ottens passed away (Jennifer Ruffalo @ Netherland News Live)
  • Made some more adjustments to Caves of the Unwashed Heathen to make it work better under MCX32 SD (Jim Gerrie)
    
    
  • A popular theory that some people learn better visually or aurally keeps getting debunked. (Olga Khazan @ The Atlantic)
  • Codimex CD-6809: O primeiro Color nacional! (Daniel Campos)
  • Bazooka-- Another 10-Liner (Jim Gerrie)
  • Color Computer 3 - Booting OS-9 Level II From Cassette (TJBChris @ YouTube)
    
    
  • Tim Hartnell Chess (Jim Gerrie)
  • 25 MHz 6809 Computer running OS9 Level 2 (Dave Philipsen)
  • OLD IS BEAUTIFUL by Chris Covell (PCE / Turbografx-16 Slideshow) (Chris Covell)
  • Check out the new Ghidorah CoCo Cluster on the Internet (Boisy Pitre)
• Feedback (1:09:39)
  • "I want to thank you for the mention on my DriveWirelessly board on your show today. I am waiting for full release and sale when DriveWirelessly and InternalDriveWire boards are usable in all models of CoCo." -- Chris Luckey
  • "Luckily I have the means, time and really have enjoyed the "Rabbit Holes" collecting the rare and obscure variations has taken me...Alright enough of that, I need to get back to eBay, hope I didn't miss out on the Color File cartridge with the 10 point font variant! 😉" -- Terry Steege
  • "I can see folks needing to keep a complement of variations on things like MPIs, FDCs, etc. to ensure an internal product (or an MPI replacement) will work with all of them. " -- Jim Brain
  • "On a completely different (lower) note... Did you know one of the guys that investigated the infrasound effects was called Vic Tandy?" -- Ciaran Anscomb
  • "Otherwise you have the best COCO podcast on the net. Keep up the great job you are doing." -- Jamie Dean
• Host Discussion -- How do you interact with the CoCo community online? (1:17:51)
• Interview w/ Kevin Phillipson and Michael Rywalt (1:38:05)
• Tech Segment -- Creating Pixel Art with Google Sheets (2:17:51)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Treasure Island Defence (2:29:21)
• Parting Thoughts (2:34:10)

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