The CoCo Nation Show

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News stories for June 22 show:

1) AGD game pack #31 release by Pere Serrat and Kees van Oss. Includes Breakanoid, Chunkzone, Operation Labyrinth Fall, Pengo Quest & Percy Penguin. Of note is that these are much more recently made games from the Spectrum; these are from 2015-2019.

2) AGD game pack #31 release by Pere Serrat and Kees van Oss. Includes Ferret Buster, Flipping Horace, Lupo Alberto, Monkey Jr, Pickaxe Pete & "Zyblut Owrzodzien w Kamiennym".

They have also updated the "Big Packs" to version 2.3, if you want to get all of the AGD games in one ZIP. There are 4 versions - long filenames (for emulators), short filenames (for the SDC,etc.), and each for Dragon and Coco.

3) Brian Wieseler found other sets of Production samples of Coco cartridges (both Tandy & Radio Shack labelled) are now up on eBay (similar to the Temple of ROM we talked about a few weeks ago). These also have the dates and sizes of production runs, which I find fascinating, especially with how many copies of older games (like Bustout) were still being made 8 years after their debut). And the fact that these are the only "official" numbers I have seen for Coco related product (even if they are incomplete, and a snapshot of a specific time frame). These were in the archives at the Radio Shack warehouse in Fort Worth, and were obtained by the seller in 2017 when Radio Shack went into bankruptcy.

Dino Wars (2,300 made between Sep. 20-21, 1988):

Bustout (1,950 made between Nov. 10, 1988-Nov. 23, 1988):

Space Assault (1,925 made between April 20, 1988-Feb. 24, 1989)

Monster Maze (made between April 20, 1988-Sep 19,1988 Can't quite read qtys - at least 1558?)

4) Matchy (I don't know his real name) has released as DSK image for his Atari 2600 Combat type game called Tank Out, that we showed last week. This includes support for Ed Snider's PSG sound/joystick card, as well as "normal" joystick and 6 bit DAC sound. It's in the I'm A CoCo Nut group on Facebook, under Files:

5) Davy Mitchell has uploaded videos of the remaining games on the Dragon by Pocket Money Software (we have already viewed Tea Time, Bubble Buster, Data Fall and Robin Hood). New games to look at are Fearless Freddy, Bandito, Jet Boot Colin, Slide, Toppler, Pit Fiend.

6) Jason Pittman has rejoined the Coco community, and has a screenshot from an emulated Coco, showing his real Coco set up (inception?)

7) A discussion on Facebook for supporting more than the standard 32K RAM supported by BASIC, particulary on a Coco 1/2/Dragon/TDP that has 64K brought out a couple of solutions; a 40K BASIC from Rainbow magazine January 1984, Baby Basic. I remember Key-264 also supporting something like this.

8) Noriko Miyagami has posted a walkthrough of the Coco version of the Scott Adams adventure game Secret Mission (originally Mission Impossible - likely changed for copyright reasons).

9) Atari Vision on YouTube has uploaded an 8 minute video "introducing his Tandy Color Computer 3". His is upgraded to 512k, and has a real FD-501 floppy drive. I am not sure who this is, real name wise.

10) Ciaran Ascomb's online, web-based XRoar emulator (coco 1/2/Dragon) is "Coming along nicely" It supports various disk ROM's, cassette, Orchestra-90 and Game Master Cartridge support (if running the Fest demo for the GMC, it only works properly with NTSC emulation - timing will be off in PAL).

Episode 112 of CoCoTALK! will deal with adding/upgrading RAM in your CoCo 3. From 512K to 2MB and beyond, we'll hear first-hand from those who've done it, see a tutorial video on how to do it, and discuss how much RAM is really "needed" in a CoCo 3. We'll also review some news from around the retro web, including Davy Mitchell's retro corner and Dragon games, Jim Gerries MC-10 trophy challenges, and more, tune in at 2PM EDT at http://live.cocotalk.live

NEWS LINKS:

CoCo Mystery unboxing - Amigos Retro Gaming:

AGD downloadable packs:

AGD Pack #30

Nick Marentes Waterfall:

Glen Dahlgren (Sun Dog Systems)

Jeff Vavosaur Atari StarWars Arcade emulation:

Dragon videos from Davy's retro corner:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD6OjCa_feQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCGY0qSRrU8

Charlie's MC-10 page:

Jamie Cho MC-10 group

Jim Gerrie's type-in mania page:

MC-10 group:

Episode 112 of CoCoTALK! will deal with adding/upgrading RAM in your CoCo 3. From 512K to 2MB and beyond, we'll hear first-hand from those who've done it, see a tutorial video on how to do it, and discuss how much RAM is really "needed" in a CoCo 3. We'll also review some news from around the retro web, including Davy Mitchell's retro corner and Dragon games, Jim Gerries MC-10 trophy challenges, and more, tune in at 2PM EDT at http://live.cocotalk.live

NEWS LINKS:

CoCo Mystery unboxing - Amigos Retro Gaming:

AGD downloadable packs:

AGD Pack #30

Nick Marentes Waterfall:

Glen Dahlgren (Sun Dog Systems)

Jeff Vavosaur Atari StarWars Arcade emulation:

Dragon videos from Davy's retro corner:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD6OjCa_feQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCGY0qSRrU8

Charlie's MC-10 page:

Jamie Cho MC-10 group

Jim Gerrie's type-in mania page:

MC-10 group:

This week's episode is a potpourri of CoCo goodness, we'll have an announcement from Richard Lorbieski of BoysonTech we'll cover this week in CoCo news, hear from members of the community, possibly see some footage from VCF East this year, and maybe, if we're lucky, see a tutorial on how to install a memory upgrade on a CoCo 3. All this and more, tune in live and join the CoCo community with CoCoTALK!

This week's episode is a potpourri of CoCo goodness, we'll have an announcement from Richard Lorbieski of BoysonTech we'll cover this week in CoCo news, hear from members of the community, possibly see some footage from VCF East this year, and maybe, if we're lucky, see a tutorial on how to install a memory upgrade on a CoCo 3. All this and more, tune in live and join the CoCo community with CoCoTALK!

Fedor Steemen shows us the Motorola Raster Memory System

Cover some CoCo news

CoCoTALK!

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Fedor Steemen shows us the Motorola Raster Memory System

Cover some CoCo news

CoCoTALK!

Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm

Join the live panel ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/109422739

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:

Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:

Consider becoming a patron of the show:

Steamed courtesy of Marc Bosley, and co-hosted by L. Curtis Boyle, and "that guy who made Zaxxon", Steve Bjork, catch up on what's new and exciting this week in the world of retro computing and the Tandy Color Computer.

Catch us live on YouTube at http://live.cocotalk.live on our Facebook page https://facebook.com/cocotalklive

CoCoTALK!

Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm

Join the live panel ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/109422739

CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live

Regular segments:

Feed back review:

Community activity reviews:

Question of the week:

TechTALK!

CoreDUMP! Nick Marentes will host technical discussions about software development, and hopefully not only raise questions, but provide answers for our CoCo devs

Ron's Garage!

Why did They/Tandy do that?

Interviews, News, Reviews, and more!

CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer.

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:

Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:

Consider becoming a patron of the show:

Steamed courtesy of Marc Bosley, and co-hosted by L. Curtis Boyle, and "that guy who made Zaxxon", Steve Bjork, catch up on what's new and exciting this week in the world of retro computing and the Tandy Color Computer.

Catch us live on YouTube at http://live.cocotalk.live on our Facebook page https://facebook.com/cocotalklive

CoCoTALK!

Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm

Join the live panel ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/109422739

CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live

Regular segments:

Feed back review:

Community activity reviews:

Question of the week:

TechTALK!

CoreDUMP! Nick Marentes will host technical discussions about software development, and hopefully not only raise questions, but provide answers for our CoCo devs

Ron's Garage!

Why did They/Tandy do that?

Interviews, News, Reviews, and more!

CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer.

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:

Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:

Consider becoming a patron of the show:

Episode 108 of CoCoTALK! aired live Saturday may 18th 2018, and what a great show we ended up having.  We got to see live footage from HamVention an annual HAM radio event, and our own CocoMan Jason Reighard ended up getting a lot of cool CoCo and retro gear.

A civil discussion about copyright protection was had, as well as project updates and other discussions from members of the CoCo community.

Make sure to stay on top of all things CoCoTALK! at http://cocotalk.live