CoCoCrew Episode 9

Agenda

• Introduction (00:01:29)
  • CoCoFEST! two months away!
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (00:09:38)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play
  • Member of The Throwback Network
  • Listed on the Game-by-Game Podcast Information Hub
  • Hosted at Cyber Ears
  • Email addresses
    • show@cococrew.org
    • podcast@cococrew.org
    • feedback@cococrew.org
    
    
    • john@cococrew.org
    • neil@cococrew.org
    
    
  • Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 2016: April 2-3, 2016
  • Walsall Games Mart: April 9, 2016
  • 2º Encontro Clube Color Rio: April 9, 2016
  • Vintage Computer Festival East XI: April 15-17, 2016
  • The 25th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!: April 23-24, 2016
  • Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 11: September 10-11, 2016
• News (00:19:22)
  
  • SuperPak Cartridge Case Pricing (Boisy Pitre)
  • SuperPak cartridge -- mechanical drawings for PCBs and labels (John Linville)
  • Désigne document about BASIC for the 8080 & 6800 - Microsoft (Tony Cappellini)
  • TRS-80 Coco Java (Michael Kohn)
  • This old tech: TRS-80 MC-10 Micro Color Computer lives to play again (PC World)
  • Optimization, inside the mind of a mad man (Lee Patterson)
  • I bid you all farewell... why? (Bill Pierce)
  • Clone of Computerware composite video circuit (Ed Snider)
  • A short of video of the Cave Hunter progress and my messy desk!! (Paul Thayer)
  • Quest to find parts and supplies for the CGP-115... (Brian White)
  • Bugbook Computer Museum is moving to the Computer Museum of America (David Larsen)
  • Null Phone Adapters for Sale (MilliVee)
  • Using an Arduino joystick on CP-400 (Juliano Oliveira)
  • Usborne coding books for a new generation (Usborne)
  • MShell Update (Bill Pierce)
  • Frozen assets, rent, new digs, and winding down the CoCo Lounge store (Glen Vandenbiggelaar)
  • No, The Lounge is MOVING , Not CLOSING (Glen Vandenbiggelaar)
  • RC2016/01 Competition Winners (Retrochallenge)
  • CGA to VGA Video Converter kit (Microbee Technology)
  • MC-11 Status Update (Darren Atkinson)
  • "I have finally finished my BMP to Semigraphics 24 mode converter." (Chris Martin)
  • Pop Star Pilot Blog Chapter 24 (Nick Marentes)
  • Pc boards for my Bomb Squad game (John Strong)
  • Prototype case for MCX128 (John Strong)
  • Xpander Multipak-BR Extended Plus Blue (Victor Trucco)
  • Printing from Coco3 Disk Basic to the Drivewire4 printer (Robert Gault)
  • Reproduction Program Pak Boxes (Tim Lindner)
  • Madness and the Minotaur (jml@frigid.net)
• Feedback (01:13:21)
  • "There was shareware in the Coco world - I remember programs on Delphi/Compuserve being shareware (I even did a few utilities that way for OS9/NitrOS9). It has never really taken off in the Coco world, though - if I remember correctly, Nick Marentes released Cosmic Ambush as shareware, and only a couple of people ever contributed any money for it. I know my CCUNZIP program got 1 shareware payment." -- L. Curtis Boyle
  • "It turns out that plain Color Basic on the Coco doesn't have CSAVEM either. It's added by Extended Basic." -- William Astle
  • "The MC-10 segment has given an idea to my suggestion of breaking your tech segments into smaller pieces." -- Steve Strowbridge
  • "Talking about the things, people should bring along CoCoFest, you forgot the most important part at all: They NEED to bring their Dragon/CoCo-Multi-Cartridges:)!" -- Roland Schwaiger
• Host discussion -- What about printers? (01:20:51)
• Tech segment -- Deluxe RS-232 Pak (01:36:15)
• Games Corner -- Dragon Slayer (02:01:54)
• Parting Thoughts (02:04:51)

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