The CoCo Nation Show

Happy 40th birthday Colour Computer! We celebrate the 4 decades of fun and enjoyment you have brought us today on CoCoTALK! Special guest host and streamer Rob Innnnman, with Nick Marotta covering GameON! and L. Curtis Boyle bringing us this weeks' retro news and full panel of middle ages retro enthusiasts, join us for a very special episode of CoCoTALK! today!

00:02:57 Panel Introductions

00:25:23 CoCo Happy Birthday Talk - Sharing stories

00:49:37 From then to now - Happy Birthday CoCo3 video

00:50:30 More CoCoTalk

01:38:37 CoCo Thoughts - Big Bomb Threat

01:44:39 GameON! challenge results

02:05:29 CoCo Thoughts - Big Bomb Threat - encore

02:01:42 Next week's game announcement - CASHMAN

02:12:40 GameON! news

02:41:21 News from around the retro world

03:33:41 Project updates and acquisitions

03:51:44 L. Curtis Boyle models a 1986 Rainbow Fest T shirt

03:58:31 CoCo Caboose

Game On news:

1) Jim Gerrie Missile Command

 https://youtu.be/y7n8G1A5jdo

Cave Raid

 https://youtu.be/IcwDACyL_LM

Red Alert, from the TRS-80 Space Adventures book:

 https://youtu.be/_BO-0wfsWJY

Puzzle game

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/3054995854627216/

2) Erico Monteiro semigraphics fighting game:

 https://vintageisthenewold.com/a-trs-80-color-computer-commercial-quality-action-fight-game-in-basic-part-1/

 Work In Progress #2

 https://youtu.be/uN7jC96MTPg

3) Marlin Lee Color Outhouse video:

 https://youtu.be/Wug2v9MQTwk?t=16

4) Paul Shoemaker Poker Squares Coco 3 game

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158489105042641/

5) Chet Simpson more Digger III

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158481075232641/

6) Aaron of Amigos Pac Dude Monster Maze

 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/696799665

7) Bill Sexton 5 line Fruit Slot on his Coco 3

 https://youtu.be/g-R23a9kdTc

8) FrodoNL, wrapped the score in Bomb Threat

 https://youtu.be/w_GvpEDbIrw?t=9317

9) Simonwgb 3&1/2 hour stream of playing Dragon 32 games in XRoar:

 https://youtu.be/HcFVHi-hMTE

another 1&1/2 hours:

 https://youtu.be/aQcJwkRO2AU

10) Gigerpunk plays Beyond the Cimeeon Moon:

 https://youtu.be/iVfemgShyOY

News stories

Brian Wieseler "Hands-On BASIC" https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158484133002641/

David O'Connor Realistic Pocketvision mini-TV

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158488345052641/

1) Canadian Retro Things (Ken) received his CocoSDC

 https://youtu.be/f82Jp_IEQTo

2) Ed Snider "HalfMeg Coco"

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158490074937641/

 http://store.go4retro.com/tandy/tandy-color-computer-coco-3-512kb-sram-pcb/?fbclid=IwAR2HNW6JKGQy8tSyj57Wzo24K33Ndwohdj8YRxeGmm9JE1HiIk2cov8oJr8

3) BoystonTech add on board for the Sound Speech Pak.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158485229962641/

4) Virtual VCF-West presentations

 http://vcfed.org/wp/vcf-west-event-schedule/

5) Thomas Winkler  his RE-FD502-KIT

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158488441527641/

6) Terry Steege spreadsheet of "all known Coco and TDP-100 cartridges"

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158486679817641/

7) CocoCrew episode is out (#62) interview with Fran Purcell

 http://cococrew.org/cococrew-podcast-62.html

8) Andrew Ayers with the old Armatron form the Coco:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158484902337641/

Hot Coco about the Armatron:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158484897777641/

9) Paul Shoemaker "TRS-80 Extended Color Basic"

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158480718012641/

10) James Jones a book to help teach users BASIC09,

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158476611857641/

11) Christopher Zepka retrobrighting project

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158475931042641/

12) John Whitworth his test setup

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2683441655248820/

13) Si Owen very rare Dragon MSX

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2683066768619642/

Info on it:

 https://www.msx.org/wiki/Dragon_MSX-64?fbclid=IwAR2bsTSNX7Egdxv_-Dlc07_YSTfsmsjRQkiJVCMH7OJpYsNS2dI1OY6HOGk

14) ChibiAkumas Hello World program in 6809 assembly on the Dragon or Coco:

 https://youtu.be/qZlOOAkaQzU

15) Re.Enthused history of the Dragon

 https://youtu.be/g9nzvpTASrI

16) Newsmakers Tech 1990 Radio Shack catalog

 https://youtu.be/QvoR96iBtL8?t=2604

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:

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We had a long show today, so a few die hard members decided to soldier on and do an evening news cast, so part 2 of episode 170

Time stamps you can quick link to

00:04:51 News from around the retro world

01:38:14 GameON! news

02:36:12 CoCo Caboose

News

1 Boisy sold his "Marty Goodman edition" modified Coco 3 on ebay.

  https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Tandy-Color-Computer-3-Marty-Goodman-As-seen-on-the-CoCo-Collector-Episode-3/303620738239?hash=item46b134ccbf%3Ag%3ABSoAAOSwVghfCdJi

2 Brian Schubring NRI Coco course books

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2625497341046527/

3 Newsmakers Tech  a Tandy Lab episode

  https://youtu.be/-RaLfqnzb8s

4 Sheldon MacDonald RSDOS disk imaging tool for windows

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158440446867641/

5 Garrett Meiers photos Coco haul in NC

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158438627787641/

6 Netflix "History 101", season 1 episode 4 (plastics) at around 10:35 has a very brief

7 3rd party Dragon joystick (the ALT A1)

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2671600099766309/

8 Greg Dionne GitHub for MC-10 (6803/6847) assembly language programming

  https://github.com/gregdionne/tasm6801/tree/master/tutorial

9 Roland's Recycling YouTube channel VLOG #8: "Tandy Coco2 Part 1 - Testing it out".

  https://youtu.be/_-dkwUv_Vy4

10 ZENITH System 3 tests (another!) CRT.

  https://youtu.be/paP_TECYdFk

11 "8bitsinthebasement" (real name Peter, from France) a video about his Coco 2

  https://youtu.be/VZnCd0ZGNBE

12 Soren Roug a new OS-9 Level 2 emulator he is working on

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2629002100696051/

13 Garrett Meiers a different Videotex terminal "Professional Farmers Instant Update"

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158465793097641/

14 Bart van Akker new Dragon & Coco donations at the Home Computer Museum

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158469864952641/

15 Ed Snider "re-organization" retro-computer storage room

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158454039607641/

16 Robin Buckley, father's old Coco 1 w/ 32K RAM

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158458429082641/

17 Nathan Byrd hooking up a Teensy 3.5 to his Coco 3

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158459941237641/

18 Alexander Von Hartmann picture from the 1986/1987 office at Australian Coco

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457784067641/

19 Jeff Salzman Silver Spoons where Coco 1 featured

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457004347641/

episode with a Coco 2

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457194887641/

20 Andrew Marshall photos of a Coco 2

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457889137641/

21 Richard Harding Dragon keyboard through USB,Teensy 2.0

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2674959899430329/

22 Roger Taylor Dragon 64 core on the MiSTer

https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2674468819479437/

https://youtu.be/cyn5N9w7BXI

23 Dragon group PDF "advanced sound&graphics for the Dragon computer"

  http://www.retro8bitcomputers.co.uk/Content/downloads/books/Advanced-Sound-And-Graphics-For-The-Dragon-Computer.pdf

24 Tony Jewell getting the CocoVGA into a Dragon 32

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2672583473001305/

25 John Whitworth cool masks for CoVid

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2672410019685317/

26 Darren Ottery MC-10 Home Computer Course #17

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/3047156445411157/

27 Brian Blake review SoundChaser

  https://youtu.be/4VzPnrCEb68

28 Brett Gordon UDP based debugger/monitor

 https://youtu.be/x4XqAvkIjxk

Game On news:

1 Jim Gerrie an update  MC-10 port of Akalabeth,

  https://youtu.be/c6_5yqClck8

 Uno

  https://youtu.be/RWuCcoZzSuo

2 Chet Simpson Digger III

  https://www.facebook.com/chet.simpson.x/videos/3408829199136725/

 Super Pitfall

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158468112882641/

3 Paul Thayer  game play

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457068637641/

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158464997407641/

4 Trey Tomes Python based Sudoku

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158467682677641/

5 Erico Patricio Monteiro animations and moves

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158465131082641/

6 Joey Cabral arcade cabinet Temple Of ROM

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158453402712641/

7 Paul Shoemaker Poker Squares

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457589917641/

8 "Might Heidi Dream Warrior"gameplay  of Downland

  https://youtu.be/bguFtiKn1qA

9 Marlin Lee Moon Patrol based game:

  https://youtu.be/IdrvfWEYThI

Glen Dahlgren is the author of the upcoming young-adult fantasy novel, the Child of Chaos–a passion project that is the culmination of Glen’s lifelong love of fantasy and years of experience releasing compelling characters into fascinating worlds and describing what happens. His debut title is scheduled to be published in 2020.

Wearing slightly different hats, Glen has written, designed, directed, and produced award-winning, narrative-driven computer games for the last three decades. What’s more, he had the honor of creating original fantasy and science-fiction storylines that took established, world-class literary properties into interactive experiences. He collaborated with celebrated authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (The Death Gate Cycle), Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time – soon to be a TV series from Amazon), Frederik Pohl (Heechee saga), Terry Brooks (Shannara), and Piers Anthony (Xanth) to bring their creations to the small screens. In addition, he crafted licensor-approved fiction for the Star Trek franchise as well as Stan Sakai’s epic graphic novel series, Usagi Yojimbo.

Glens Blog:

https://glendahlgren.home.blog

His Facebook Book site:

https://www.facebook.com/gdahlgrenauthor

His Twitter:

https://twitter.com/glendahlgren

Amazon page:

https://www.amazon.com/Glen-Dahlgren/e/B08BPGZZN2

Amazon pre-order page:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BN6S5R2

Goodreads page:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20441786.Glen_Dahlgren

Good Reads order page:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54239375-the-child-of-chaos

Bookbub page:

https://www.bookbub.com/profile/glen-dahlgren

Bookbub order site:

https://www.bookbub.com/books/the-child-of-chaos-the-chronicles-of-chaos-book-1-by-glen-dahlgren

Good Reads Giveaway:

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/309385-the-child-of-chaos

Coco programs Glen has done/been involved with:

=========================================

Hall of the King

Darkmoor Hold

Hall of the King II: The Inner Chambers

Dragon Blade

Champion

Hall of the King III: The Earthstone revealed

Kung-Fu Dude

White Fire of Eternity

In Quest of the Star Lord

Warrior King

Kyum-Gai: To Be Ninja

SoundTrax

Sinistaar

Paladin's Legacy

The Quest for Thelda

Photon

GrafExpress

War Monger

The Contras

We had a long show today, so a few die hard members decided to soldier on and do an evening news cast, so part 2 of episode 170

Time stamps you can quick link to

00:04:51 News from around the retro world

01:38:14 GameON! news

02:36:12 CoCo Caboose

News

1 Boisy sold his "Marty Goodman edition" modified Coco 3 on ebay.

  https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Tandy-Color-Computer-3-Marty-Goodman-As-seen-on-the-CoCo-Collector-Episode-3/303620738239?hash=item46b134ccbf%3Ag%3ABSoAAOSwVghfCdJi

2 Brian Schubring NRI Coco course books

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2625497341046527/

3 Newsmakers Tech  a Tandy Lab episode

  https://youtu.be/-RaLfqnzb8s

4 Sheldon MacDonald RSDOS disk imaging tool for windows

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158440446867641/

5 Garrett Meiers photos Coco haul in NC

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158438627787641/

6 Netflix "History 101", season 1 episode 4 (plastics) at around 10:35 has a very brief

7 3rd party Dragon joystick (the ALT A1)

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2671600099766309/

8 Greg Dionne GitHub for MC-10 (6803/6847) assembly language programming

  https://github.com/gregdionne/tasm6801/tree/master/tutorial

9 Roland's Recycling YouTube channel VLOG #8: "Tandy Coco2 Part 1 - Testing it out".

  https://youtu.be/_-dkwUv_Vy4

10 ZENITH System 3 tests (another!) CRT.

  https://youtu.be/paP_TECYdFk

11 "8bitsinthebasement" (real name Peter, from France) a video about his Coco 2

  https://youtu.be/VZnCd0ZGNBE

12 Soren Roug a new OS-9 Level 2 emulator he is working on

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2629002100696051/

13 Garrett Meiers a different Videotex terminal "Professional Farmers Instant Update"

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158465793097641/

14 Bart van Akker new Dragon & Coco donations at the Home Computer Museum

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158469864952641/

15 Ed Snider "re-organization" retro-computer storage room

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158454039607641/

16 Robin Buckley, father's old Coco 1 w/ 32K RAM

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158458429082641/

17 Nathan Byrd hooking up a Teensy 3.5 to his Coco 3

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158459941237641/

18 Alexander Von Hartmann picture from the 1986/1987 office at Australian Coco

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457784067641/

19 Jeff Salzman Silver Spoons where Coco 1 featured

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457004347641/

episode with a Coco 2

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457194887641/

20 Andrew Marshall photos of a Coco 2

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457889137641/

21 Richard Harding Dragon keyboard through USB,Teensy 2.0

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2674959899430329/

22 Roger Taylor Dragon 64 core on the MiSTer

https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2674468819479437/

https://youtu.be/cyn5N9w7BXI

23 Dragon group PDF "advanced sound&graphics for the Dragon computer"

  http://www.retro8bitcomputers.co.uk/Content/downloads/books/Advanced-Sound-And-Graphics-For-The-Dragon-Computer.pdf

24 Tony Jewell getting the CocoVGA into a Dragon 32

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2672583473001305/

25 John Whitworth cool masks for CoVid

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2672410019685317/

26 Darren Ottery MC-10 Home Computer Course #17

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/3047156445411157/

27 Brian Blake review SoundChaser

  https://youtu.be/4VzPnrCEb68

28 Brett Gordon UDP based debugger/monitor

 https://youtu.be/x4XqAvkIjxk

Game On news:

1 Jim Gerrie an update  MC-10 port of Akalabeth,

  https://youtu.be/c6_5yqClck8

 Uno

  https://youtu.be/RWuCcoZzSuo

2 Chet Simpson Digger III

  https://www.facebook.com/chet.simpson.x/videos/3408829199136725/

 Super Pitfall

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158468112882641/

3 Paul Thayer  game play

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457068637641/

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158464997407641/

4 Trey Tomes Python based Sudoku

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158467682677641/

5 Erico Patricio Monteiro animations and moves

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158465131082641/

6 Joey Cabral arcade cabinet Temple Of ROM

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158453402712641/

7 Paul Shoemaker Poker Squares

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158457589917641/

8 "Might Heidi Dream Warrior"gameplay  of Downland

  https://youtu.be/bguFtiKn1qA

9 Marlin Lee Moon Patrol based game:

  https://youtu.be/IdrvfWEYThI

Glen Dahlgren is the author of the upcoming young-adult fantasy novel, the Child of Chaos–a passion project that is the culmination of Glen’s lifelong love of fantasy and years of experience releasing compelling characters into fascinating worlds and describing what happens. His debut title is scheduled to be published in 2020.

Wearing slightly different hats, Glen has written, designed, directed, and produced award-winning, narrative-driven computer games for the last three decades. What’s more, he had the honor of creating original fantasy and science-fiction storylines that took established, world-class literary properties into interactive experiences. He collaborated with celebrated authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (The Death Gate Cycle), Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time – soon to be a TV series from Amazon), Frederik Pohl (Heechee saga), Terry Brooks (Shannara), and Piers Anthony (Xanth) to bring their creations to the small screens. In addition, he crafted licensor-approved fiction for the Star Trek franchise as well as Stan Sakai’s epic graphic novel series, Usagi Yojimbo.

Glens Blog:

https://glendahlgren.home.blog

His Facebook Book site:

https://www.facebook.com/gdahlgrenauthor

His Twitter:

https://twitter.com/glendahlgren

Amazon page:

https://www.amazon.com/Glen-Dahlgren/e/B08BPGZZN2

Amazon pre-order page:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BN6S5R2

Goodreads page:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20441786.Glen_Dahlgren

Good Reads order page:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54239375-the-child-of-chaos

Bookbub page:

https://www.bookbub.com/profile/glen-dahlgren

Bookbub order site:

https://www.bookbub.com/books/the-child-of-chaos-the-chronicles-of-chaos-book-1-by-glen-dahlgren

Good Reads Giveaway:

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/309385-the-child-of-chaos

Coco programs Glen has done/been involved with:

=========================================

Hall of the King

Darkmoor Hold

Hall of the King II: The Inner Chambers

Dragon Blade

Champion

Hall of the King III: The Earthstone revealed

Kung-Fu Dude

White Fire of Eternity

In Quest of the Star Lord

Warrior King

Kyum-Gai: To Be Ninja

SoundTrax

Sinistaar

Paladin's Legacy

The Quest for Thelda

Photon

GrafExpress

War Monger

The Contras

Is your weasel greased and are you excited to talk about floppies? We know David Ladd is!  Today Simon Jonassen will share with us some cool coding tricks he's using to fast load data from floppy disks, and we'll hopefully hear from David Ladd and possibly even Paul Fiscarelli, so if you're as excited about floppies as we are, you're going to love today's show!

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:

00:02:51 CoCo Closet

00:05:09 Panel Introductions

00:12:23 Simon Jonassen - coding tricks he's using to fast load data from floppy

00:58:42 More floppy talk

02:04:45 CoCo Thoughts

02:08:30 GameON! challenge results

02:20:58 Next week's game announcment - COLORPEDE

02:30:44 GameON! news

02:55:33 Project updates and acquisitions

03:46:58 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion

Game On news:

=============

1) Erico Patricio Monteiro has video of his upcoming Color Fight game in progress

  https://youtu.be/mj_8UXKvTkw

2) Paul Shoemaker has a very good full deck set of card graphics (with full face cards in 16 colors)

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158448701372641/

3) Henry Reitveld put up a video of him play Nick Marentes new release, Rally-SG - but in his full blow arcade cabinet:

  https://youtu.be/wBZe9yWj9Zo

4) Chet Simpson played live (on Facebook) first 10 levels of his upcoming Coco 3 masterpiece, Digger III.

Thursday's video shows the Easy skill level:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158447571022641/

Friday's shows the Hard skill level (and it *does* look hard!):

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158450523007641/

5) Canadian Retro Things put up an unboxing video for his just received Bomb Threat cartridge (by Rick Adams)

  https://youtu.be/GL4dXad2iTE

6) Aaron from The Amigos has put up his CoinOPS Coco Beta 2 package,

  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13mC2Fd__D3vj5aSO7zzDqd_EUwy57LZF

7) The Amigos are doing their 4th annual Amiga themed fundraiser for The Children's Network this weekend

  https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/649422475322458122/733881626253066370/Amigathon_Schedule.jpg

And the donation info:

  https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=411413

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Is your weasel greased and are you excited to talk about floppies? We know David Ladd is!  Today Simon Jonassen will share with us some cool coding tricks he's using to fast load data from floppy disks, and we'll hopefully hear from David Ladd and possibly even Paul Fiscarelli, so if you're as excited about floppies as we are, you're going to love today's show!

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:

00:02:51 CoCo Closet

00:05:09 Panel Introductions

00:12:23 Simon Jonassen - coding tricks he's using to fast load data from floppy

00:58:42 More floppy talk

02:04:45 CoCo Thoughts

02:08:30 GameON! challenge results

02:20:58 Next week's game announcment - COLORPEDE

02:30:44 GameON! news

02:55:33 Project updates and acquisitions

03:46:58 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion

Game On news:

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1) Erico Patricio Monteiro has video of his upcoming Color Fight game in progress

  https://youtu.be/mj_8UXKvTkw

2) Paul Shoemaker has a very good full deck set of card graphics (with full face cards in 16 colors)

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158448701372641/

3) Henry Reitveld put up a video of him play Nick Marentes new release, Rally-SG - but in his full blow arcade cabinet:

  https://youtu.be/wBZe9yWj9Zo

4) Chet Simpson played live (on Facebook) first 10 levels of his upcoming Coco 3 masterpiece, Digger III.

Thursday's video shows the Easy skill level:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158447571022641/

Friday's shows the Hard skill level (and it *does* look hard!):

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158450523007641/

5) Canadian Retro Things put up an unboxing video for his just received Bomb Threat cartridge (by Rick Adams)

  https://youtu.be/GL4dXad2iTE

6) Aaron from The Amigos has put up his CoinOPS Coco Beta 2 package,

  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13mC2Fd__D3vj5aSO7zzDqd_EUwy57LZF

7) The Amigos are doing their 4th annual Amiga themed fundraiser for The Children's Network this weekend

  https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/649422475322458122/733881626253066370/Amigathon_Schedule.jpg

And the donation info:

  https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=411413

Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected]

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https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelm...

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We're back with another episode of everyone's favorite talk show, CoCoTALK!

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:

00:02:47 Panel Introductions

00:07:31 AtomicPi - CoCo project with Aaron Doughty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQw1Qy1RyxA

00:36:56 News from around the retro world

01:03:37 CoCo Thoughts

01:04:18 GameON! challenge results

01:20:58 Next week's game announcment - The Crystal City -  https://gosub.com/Coco/

01:25:00 Rally-SG go live announcement with Nick Marentes - http://www.nickmarentes.com/ProjectArchive/rallysg.html

01:40:57 GameON! news

01:59:44 CoCo Thoughts

02:01:08 Upcoming game announcement - Bomb Threat

02:01:36 Project updates and acquisitions

03:00:28 CoCo Thoughts

03:03:33 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion

News stories for Episode #168, July 11, 2020 show:

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1) Carlos Camacho has shrunken replicas of the Coco 1 that I believe were 3D resin printed

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158431202067641/

2) Eric Sperano has written a little launch program for his SDC

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158430713227641/

3) Erico Patricio Monteiro has a request on Facebook for helping crunch a program down for a project he is working on

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158431076227641/

4) Martin Brossman posted some photos from when he worked at Radio Shack in the 1980's

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158429775042641/

5) Alison DeNu has been recovering multiple programs that she wrote in the past for the Coco from old audio cassettes

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158419718652641/

6) Jonathan Felchlin posted on Facebook about the availability of a Coco 2 Cap replacement kit

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158430035342641/

7) Jim McClellan posted how he got his DMP-105 working again, including the trick of replacing the ink sponge:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158421898857641/

8) Quinn Good posted a series of videos on YouTube about a Coco 2 he found in the attic (he is a young fella)

  https://youtu.be/txCoNRfrSoA

  https://youtu.be/m2Jdl6JYdK0

And then a third video a few days later, where he learns how to take apart and needs to clean a dirty keyboard:

  https://youtu.be/9ZL5xGZyKyw

Game On news:

=============

1) Evan Wright has some embellishments to Flood It

  https://youtu.be/G166eiSG0hQ

2) Jim Gerrie shows off a Battleship style game on the MC-10,

  https://youtu.be/od8gOda53JA

3) Jerry Stratton posted a link to his site where he has a text mode version of Reversi

  https://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/hacks/coco/reversi/

4) Erico Patricio Monteiro has some updated semigraphics animation demos for his karate game he is working on

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158424557902641/

5) "The 64K Gamer" on YouTube has a video up showing how to get free cassette file games (from the Color Computer Archive) onto your phone to load on a Coco

  https://youtu.be/sgMcjmcB-pk

6) Retro Core on YouTube has part 2 of his "Battle of the Ports", this time of Frogger. Part 2

  https://youtu.be/w7v7A9tSRzA

7) Giger Punk (Rob's Retro Ramblers) returns with his Cuthbert in the Cooler review/playthrough:

  https://youtu.be/zFu8ccvNrT0

Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected]

Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live

Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  http://discord.cocotalk.live

To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:

https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/

Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:

http://8bit256.com

Consider becoming a patron of the show:

https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

Live interactive video streams:

https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live

https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive

https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/

https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

We're back with another episode of everyone's favorite talk show, CoCoTALK!

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:

00:02:47 Panel Introductions

00:07:31 AtomicPi - CoCo project with Aaron Doughty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQw1Qy1RyxA

00:36:56 News from around the retro world

01:03:37 CoCo Thoughts

01:04:18 GameON! challenge results

01:20:58 Next week's game announcment - The Crystal City -  https://gosub.com/Coco/

01:25:00 Rally-SG go live announcement with Nick Marentes - http://www.nickmarentes.com/ProjectArchive/rallysg.html

01:40:57 GameON! news

01:59:44 CoCo Thoughts

02:01:08 Upcoming game announcement - Bomb Threat

02:01:36 Project updates and acquisitions

03:00:28 CoCo Thoughts

03:03:33 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion

News stories for Episode #168, July 11, 2020 show:

=================================================

1) Carlos Camacho has shrunken replicas of the Coco 1 that I believe were 3D resin printed

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158431202067641/

2) Eric Sperano has written a little launch program for his SDC

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158430713227641/

3) Erico Patricio Monteiro has a request on Facebook for helping crunch a program down for a project he is working on

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158431076227641/

4) Martin Brossman posted some photos from when he worked at Radio Shack in the 1980's

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158429775042641/

5) Alison DeNu has been recovering multiple programs that she wrote in the past for the Coco from old audio cassettes

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158419718652641/

6) Jonathan Felchlin posted on Facebook about the availability of a Coco 2 Cap replacement kit

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158430035342641/

7) Jim McClellan posted how he got his DMP-105 working again, including the trick of replacing the ink sponge:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158421898857641/

8) Quinn Good posted a series of videos on YouTube about a Coco 2 he found in the attic (he is a young fella)

  https://youtu.be/txCoNRfrSoA

  https://youtu.be/m2Jdl6JYdK0

And then a third video a few days later, where he learns how to take apart and needs to clean a dirty keyboard:

  https://youtu.be/9ZL5xGZyKyw

Game On news:

=============

1) Evan Wright has some embellishments to Flood It

  https://youtu.be/G166eiSG0hQ

2) Jim Gerrie shows off a Battleship style game on the MC-10,

  https://youtu.be/od8gOda53JA

3) Jerry Stratton posted a link to his site where he has a text mode version of Reversi

  https://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/hacks/coco/reversi/

4) Erico Patricio Monteiro has some updated semigraphics animation demos for his karate game he is working on

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158424557902641/

5) "The 64K Gamer" on YouTube has a video up showing how to get free cassette file games (from the Color Computer Archive) onto your phone to load on a Coco

  https://youtu.be/sgMcjmcB-pk

6) Retro Core on YouTube has part 2 of his "Battle of the Ports", this time of Frogger. Part 2

  https://youtu.be/w7v7A9tSRzA

7) Giger Punk (Rob's Retro Ramblers) returns with his Cuthbert in the Cooler review/playthrough:

  https://youtu.be/zFu8ccvNrT0

Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected]

Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live

Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  http://discord.cocotalk.live

To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:

https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/

Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:

http://8bit256.com

Consider becoming a patron of the show:

https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

Live interactive video streams:

https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live

https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive

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https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

Today we celebrate the greatest thing in American History, the birf of Tom C from Jersey!

We may also pay homage to our treasonous Brexit of 1776, but that is not as important.

This.... is..... CoCoTALK!

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:

00:02:50 "Happy Birthday Song" to Tom C

00:04:01 Panel Introductions

00:08:14 CoCo Discord #coco-art-gallery

00:10:51 CoCo Thoughts

00:13:43 GameON! challenge results

00:43:45 Next week's game announcement

00:54:48 Upcoming game of the week announcement - Bomb Threat

00:53:21 Nick Marotta magazine cover

00:55:10 Panel Discussion - De-soldering

01:18:45 News from around the retro world

01:47:37 GameON! news

02:10:09 Panel discussion "What did you use regularly"

02:47:16 CoCo Thoughts

02:54:18 Project updates and acquisitions

03:44:50 How Tom C impacted your life

03:50:41 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion

News stories for Episode #167, July 4, 2020 show:

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1) Tim Halloran has an updated video on using DC power to power his Coco 2.

  https://youtu.be/6UN1XvJG-bs

2) Playing on an emulator or actual Coco - which to choose, and why?:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158399124387641/

3) Bill Garretson has a video of a Fireworks program he wrote for the Coco 1/2:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158410702962641/

4) Joey Cabral has some photos up of his upgrading a Coco 3 to a 6309 using his newly acquired Hakko de-soldering vacuum

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158398004597641/

5) Interesting discussion started by Jim McClellan - asking what is an "acceptable" word processor for the Coco 3

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158398348812641/

6) Christopher Mayeux posted a newspaper article from September 13, 1990 talking about some Color Computer User Groups in his area

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158398828332641/

7) Coco Crew episode 61 is out. Includes an interview with Simon Jonassen and Paul Fiscarelli about a new background sampled sound routine they are working on that is both compressed (4 bit ADPCM) and fast (no more than 63 CPU cycles per sample). An interesting discussion topic was "What Coco software did you use the most?".

  http://cococrew.org

8) Nir Dary in the Dragon Facebook group shows a Hebrew font he has been working on, that uses John Whitworth's board that allows custom fonts:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2659735700952749/

9) Interesting Ebay find in Europe in the Dragon Facebook group - a Dragon 32 with *native* RGB support:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2657678064491846/

10) Robert Gault has apparently uploaded a large world map program for OS9 up to the Color Computer archive, but it's not up yet as of this time.

11) Simon Jonassen has posted a brief video showing his new demo program, and using the ADPCM sound routine that he talked about on the latest Coco Crew episode:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158411807097641/

Game On news:

=============

1) Jim Gerrie has a video showing his MC-10 port of the game "Touch Down", based on the computer book "Space Games"

  https://youtu.be/pIJznvSBUP4

2) Neil Blanchard's new run of Rick Adam's "Bomb Threat" game cartridge is shipping

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158405524972641/

3) Lee Perkins put up some screenshots of his initial conversion of an MS-DOS game screen to a Coco 3

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158394680422641/

4) Pere Serrat shared a video showing his more advanced version of the AGD engine, now using the Wordpak2+ for additional sound effects and music:

  https://youtu.be/zYMfmzttu3w

5) Robert Allen Murphy has put up his latest blog post on converting the PC6001 game Nostromo to the Coco line:

  https://exileinparadise.com/nostromo:assembling_the_blocks

CoCoTALK!

Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected]

Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live

Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  http://discord.cocotalk.live

To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:

https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/

Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:

http://8bit256.com

Consider becoming a patron of the show:

https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

Live interactive video streams:

https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live

https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive

https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/

https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive