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CoCoTALK! 175 is all about MIDI and MIDI on the CoCo.  What is MIDI, how do I do MIDI on my Coco, what does it look like, what does it sound like, how hard is it?  All these questions and more will be answered.  We'll have live demonstrations and information from Rob Innman, Brian "The Music Man" Schubring, L. Curtis Boyle, and Darren Ottery, and Jim Brain, so tune and get MIDIfied!

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:

00:02:35 Panel Introductions

00:08:29 CoCo Thoughts

00:10:15 GameON! challenge results

00:13:23 GameON! Discussion - Arkanoid

00:24:43 Next week's game announcment - Canyon Climber

00:31:42 Midi Maestro - commercial

00:32:22 Discussion - Midi Talk

02:44:26 News from around the world

03:02:49 GameON! news

03:31:14 Project updates and acquisitions

03:49:16 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion

Retro Innovations / Jim Brain is now fully shipping MIDI Maestro cards

  http://www.go4retro.com/products/midi-maestro/

  https://store.go4retro.com/tandy/midi-maestro/

Brian Schubring and Rob Inman showing use of these cards

#1: General introduction to MIDI on the Coco

  https://tinyurl.com/yxptfyph

#2: Playing Compacted Midi Files

  https://tinyurl.com/yyk5zeac

News stories for Episode #175, August 29, 2020 show:

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1) Bill Pierce has released version 2.0.1f of VCC.

  https://tinyurl.com/yxopazr8

 James Ross put up a comparison of the new composite colors from the older versions and the new one:

  https://tinyurl.com/yyzdw6ph

2) Bill Nobel has released his new SDC2 utility

  https://tinyurl.com/yy3oezmu

He also has uploaded a short video showing it in action:

  https://tinyurl.com/y3jepdbr

3) Phil Harvey-Smith has put some photos up for the custom cases he is doing

  https://tinyurl.com/y2e9mmlm

4) "The Digital Orphanage" YouTube page has him getting 11(!) Dragon 32 computers from the Museum of Computing in Swindon, UK

  https://youtu.be/YY56UpN37Bo

5) Robert Sieg has been experimenting with a program to dither colors on the MC-10

  https://tinyurl.com/yy73de37

6) Ken (CanadianRetroThings) go his Coco 3 up and running

  https://youtu.be/VjfPeRMJSeU

7) Keith (ChibiAkumas on YouTube) has his next Tandy Coco/Dragon assembly language tutorial up

  https://youtu.be/_AzD_hPkW4g

8) Sheldon MacDonald has released his first beta release of his RSDOS Windows utility.

  https://tinyurl.com/y2u4zul7

Game On news:

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1) Neil Blanchard has announced availability of his new "The Gamester" - a customizable, real arcade hardware based joystick

  https://tinyurl.com/y2cq22y3

2) Denis Bisson put up a gameplay video of Pooyan under MAME.

  https://youtu.be/1gqj4ZquvFU

3) A reminder from Ian Mavric that the 2020 Trash Talk game programming competition for 2020 has a deadline of November 30

  https://tinyurl.com/y2marg6t

Contest page:

  https://tinyurl.com/y48dmsbq

4) John "Boatofcar" Shawler of the Amigos did a live Coco stream this past Thursday evening

  https://tinyurl.com/y4soq3yq

5) Following Brett Gordon's progress on his networkable Coco 3 game

6) Chet Simpson made an announcement of the official release date for the much anticipated Digger III

  https://tinyurl.com/y4jgokzb

7) Jim Gerrie has yet another update to his port of the 3D graphical adventure game Akalabeth

  https://tinyurl.com/y2lwb5pg

8) User Hloberg on the Atari Age forums has released a Mille Bornes card game (written in BASIC)

  https://tinyurl.com/yy5xat3w

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

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

This was a game heavy show this week with the GameON! Results and discussions around playing Sea Dragon this past week, and hearing about a new multi-player game being designed by Bret Gordon, which looks amazing and will be quite fun to have an online multi player CoCo game to enjoy with friends.

• 00:02:43 Panel Introductions

News stories for Episode #174, August 22, 2020 show:

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1) Jim Gerrie has a couple of videos showing some Reverse video routines

  https://youtu.be/oerMg-ZgUk0

ML routine by Anders Carlsson to invert video a CLS command

  https://youtu.be/uDtBPiAYn40

Port of General Accounting Program originally done by Larry Allen

  https://youtu.be/Wc6PPHvw7EM

2) Canadian Retro Things has an unboxing video up for his newly acquired Coco 3

  https://youtu.be/mxKK9Gzv5Iw

3) Cyberhug Technologies is working on fixing his Coco 1

  https://youtu.be/FehNAj98h9I

4) James Diffendaffer put up a speed comparison video between the original MC-10 BASIC ROMs and the current version of his optimized one:

  https://youtu.be/kRpYmfpwYx0

5) Ed Snider just posted a video of his 8MB prototype board for the GIME-X:

  https://youtu.be/iEVl8Hh9ejQ

Game On news:

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

1) Chet Simpson convert some graphics from the Capcom CPS-1 platform version of Ghouls and Ghosts.

   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158533587722641/

2) Richard Kelly has uploaded a new version of the graphics game "Artillery!"

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158531573052641/

3) Jason Reighard Ghost Gobbler game from Spectral Associates

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158531109277641/

4) Erico Patricio Monteiro showed some possible SG-4 enhancements that could be done to Jim Gerrie's Pittman game:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158538984097641/

5) Jim Gerrie put up an MC-10 video of an original game he did called Halifax Tail Gunner:

  https://youtu.be/kfCayAipSMc

6) LRU's outrageous gaming project has a playthrough to level 10 of Pegasus and the Phantom Riders

  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKaIk2c7dGJ2uVLyvrGgh7Q/videos

This was a game heavy show this week with the GameON! Results and discussions around playing Sea Dragon this past week, and hearing about a new multi-player game being designed by Bret Gordon, which looks amazing and will be quite fun to have an online multi player CoCo game to enjoy with friends.

• 00:02:43 Panel Introductions

News stories for Episode #174, August 22, 2020 show:

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

1) Jim Gerrie has a couple of videos showing some Reverse video routines

  https://youtu.be/oerMg-ZgUk0

ML routine by Anders Carlsson to invert video a CLS command

  https://youtu.be/uDtBPiAYn40

Port of General Accounting Program originally done by Larry Allen

  https://youtu.be/Wc6PPHvw7EM

2) Canadian Retro Things has an unboxing video up for his newly acquired Coco 3

  https://youtu.be/mxKK9Gzv5Iw

3) Cyberhug Technologies is working on fixing his Coco 1

  https://youtu.be/FehNAj98h9I

4) James Diffendaffer put up a speed comparison video between the original MC-10 BASIC ROMs and the current version of his optimized one:

  https://youtu.be/kRpYmfpwYx0

5) Ed Snider just posted a video of his 8MB prototype board for the GIME-X:

  https://youtu.be/iEVl8Hh9ejQ

Game On news:

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

1) Chet Simpson convert some graphics from the Capcom CPS-1 platform version of Ghouls and Ghosts.

   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158533587722641/

2) Richard Kelly has uploaded a new version of the graphics game "Artillery!"

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158531573052641/

3) Jason Reighard Ghost Gobbler game from Spectral Associates

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158531109277641/

4) Erico Patricio Monteiro showed some possible SG-4 enhancements that could be done to Jim Gerrie's Pittman game:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158538984097641/

5) Jim Gerrie put up an MC-10 video of an original game he did called Halifax Tail Gunner:

  https://youtu.be/kfCayAipSMc

6) LRU's outrageous gaming project has a playthrough to level 10 of Pegasus and the Phantom Riders

  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKaIk2c7dGJ2uVLyvrGgh7Q/videos

Crikey! Nick Marentes is at it again! Earlier this year he released Gun Stah, and followed that up with Rally-SG, you'd think he'd be busy counting all his money and watching his Swiss bank accounts, but no, he's at it again with yet another new game for the Coco and we'll see the world premier of his current project in progress! That along with all the other usual boring stuff, Games, News, old guys, blah, blah, blah.

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:

• 00:02:49 Panel Introductions

News stories for Episode #173, August 15, 2020 show:

1) Boisy has released The Coco Collector Part 4

  https://youtu.be/cU4vOGXS3eE

2) Keith (ChibiAkumas) on YouTube has another Dragon/Coco assembly language tutorial episode

  https://youtu.be/QlnXqshkTyw

3) Jim Gerrie has a video up for the Lissajous program from Creative Computing in 1979

  https://youtu.be/IGFFXY_si7U

4) Glen Dahlgren has put up an image of the dust jacket for the hardcover version of his novel coming out on August 16th:

https://tinyurl.com/y6nf5tr7

5) Ralph Klein has released the CocoPI update - MAME 0.223 on both the Pi3 and the Pi4:

(I will only show one link on the show)

https://tinyurl.com/y6ppt3l3

https://tinyurl.com/y28lph34

6) Boysontech has posted a picture of a new version of the design of a little satellite board that will allow a Sound/Speech pack to run at .895, 1.78 and 2.86 MHz.

https://tinyurl.com/y22qozdr

7) Guillaume Major has released an update to the "complete Coco SDC image", which now has 600+ new disk images of applications, games, demos, educational, etc. compared to the previous version.

https://tinyurl.com/y6ntwlyw

8) Curtis F. Kaylor showed some output from his TP-10 simulator program (TP-10 was the small thermal printed that Tandy sold):

https://tinyurl.com/y5jc8xjh

9) James Tamer has uploaded Virtual MC-10 version 0.73i, which includes some bug fixes.

https://tinyurl.com/yxcp4fea

10) Another very young fella did a Coco 2 restoration on YouTube (channel: Jackson's_antiqueAdventures) retrobrighting it:

https://youtu.be/5S3A3RLfnaY

11) TJBChris has a new video on tricks you can do with the LOADM command:

https://youtu.be/MzO7t87baTo

12) A YouTube channel called hirudov2d did multiple videos of different Coco's (and a Dragon-64)

https://www.youtube.com/c/hirudov2d/videos

13) Glenside has their latest newsletter out

https://tinyurl.com/y4ja8qdx

Game On news:

1) Marlin Lee has a video up showing New Burt, a Q-Bert clone from Mike Ro Productions:

https://youtu.be/UlB4IwL-16c

2) Jim Gerrie has a video showing an update to Pitman

https://youtu.be/IGFFXY_si7U

He also has a port to the MC-10 from an old Dragon 32 game from the book "More Programs for your Dragon 32" from 1984, called Joust

https://youtu.be/LVv4x_7pz5g

Also a game called Civil War, from Creative Computing:

https://youtu.be/KbUntsdxPeE

Time Bomb

https://youtu.be/XnN0TNNLNuI

3) Paul Shoemaker shows some possible palettes that he is considering for a Wizardry clone that he is calling Sorcery,

https://tinyurl.com/y2ubh875

4) Jerry Stratton has a text version of Hunt the Wumpus

https://tinyurl.com/yyzxfpot

5) Erico Monteiro has two new blogs up about his semi-graphics fighting game:

Part 2:

https://tinyurl.com/y693oque

Part 3:

https://tinyurl.com/y29ttaxy

6) Erico  playing Cashman on screens 40+

https://youtu.be/UAUHVGMlSMI?t=236

7) Stevie did a live stream demo of Rally-SG and the Digger III

https://youtu.be/BIfepYk8wYE

8) Simonwgb did a 3 hour stream on Twitch playing about half a dozen Dragon 32 games:

https://youtu.be/eWaJi82Dmgo?t=114

9) Adam Haase has released a complete map and tips breakdowns of the huge Coco 3 RPG game, The Seventh Link.

https://tinyurl.com/y52jjxbo

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

Crikey! Nick Marentes is at it again! Earlier this year he released Gun Stah, and followed that up with Rally-SG, you'd think he'd be busy counting all his money and watching his Swiss bank accounts, but no, he's at it again with yet another new game for the Coco and we'll see the world premier of his current project in progress! That along with all the other usual boring stuff, Games, News, old guys, blah, blah, blah.

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:

• 00:02:39 Panel Introductions

News stories for Episode #173, August 15, 2020 show:

1) Boisy has released The Coco Collector Part 4

  https://youtu.be/cU4vOGXS3eE

2) Keith (ChibiAkumas) on YouTube has another Dragon/Coco assembly language tutorial episode

  https://youtu.be/QlnXqshkTyw

3) Jim Gerrie has a video up for the Lissajous program from Creative Computing in 1979

  https://youtu.be/IGFFXY_si7U

4) Glen Dahlgren has put up an image of the dust jacket for the hardcover version of his novel coming out on August 16th:

https://tinyurl.com/y6nf5tr7

5) Ralph Klein has released the CocoPI update - MAME 0.223 on both the Pi3 and the Pi4:

(I will only show one link on the show)

https://tinyurl.com/y6ppt3l3

https://tinyurl.com/y28lph34

6) Boysontech has posted a picture of a new version of the design of a little satellite board that will allow a Sound/Speech pack to run at .895, 1.78 and 2.86 MHz.

https://tinyurl.com/y22qozdr

7) Guillaume Major has released an update to the "complete Coco SDC image", which now has 600+ new disk images of applications, games, demos, educational, etc. compared to the previous version.

https://tinyurl.com/y6ntwlyw

8) Curtis F. Kaylor showed some output from his TP-10 simulator program (TP-10 was the small thermal printed that Tandy sold):

https://tinyurl.com/y5jc8xjh

9) James Tamer has uploaded Virtual MC-10 version 0.73i, which includes some bug fixes.

https://tinyurl.com/yxcp4fea

10) Another very young fella did a Coco 2 restoration on YouTube (channel: Jackson's_antiqueAdventures) retrobrighting it:

https://youtu.be/5S3A3RLfnaY

11) TJBChris has a new video on tricks you can do with the LOADM command:

https://youtu.be/MzO7t87baTo

12) A YouTube channel called hirudov2d did multiple videos of different Coco's (and a Dragon-64)

https://www.youtube.com/c/hirudov2d/videos

13) Glenside has their latest newsletter out

https://tinyurl.com/y4ja8qdx

Game On news:

1) Marlin Lee has a video up showing New Burt, a Q-Bert clone from Mike Ro Productions:

https://youtu.be/UlB4IwL-16c

2) Jim Gerrie has a video showing an update to Pitman

https://youtu.be/IGFFXY_si7U

He also has a port to the MC-10 from an old Dragon 32 game from the book "More Programs for your Dragon 32" from 1984, called Joust

https://youtu.be/LVv4x_7pz5g

Also a game called Civil War, from Creative Computing:

https://youtu.be/KbUntsdxPeE

Time Bomb

https://youtu.be/XnN0TNNLNuI

3) Paul Shoemaker shows some possible palettes that he is considering for a Wizardry clone that he is calling Sorcery,

https://tinyurl.com/y2ubh875

4) Jerry Stratton has a text version of Hunt the Wumpus

https://tinyurl.com/yyzxfpot

5) Erico Monteiro has two new blogs up about his semi-graphics fighting game:

Part 2:

https://tinyurl.com/y693oque

Part 3:

https://tinyurl.com/y29ttaxy

6) Erico  playing Cashman on screens 40+

https://youtu.be/UAUHVGMlSMI?t=236

7) Stevie did a live stream demo of Rally-SG and the Digger III

https://youtu.be/BIfepYk8wYE

8) Simonwgb did a 3 hour stream on Twitch playing about half a dozen Dragon 32 games:

https://youtu.be/eWaJi82Dmgo?t=114

9) Adam Haase has released a complete map and tips breakdowns of the huge Coco 3 RPG game, The Seventh Link.

https://tinyurl.com/y52jjxbo

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've always got a lot to talk about and a great show to be shared by all on CoCoTALK! each week, and this week is no exception, we're going to hear from Peter Cullen about his retro background, and see his official Tandy SCART CoCo, which is something most of us has probably never seen before.

That along with news, GameON!, some possible tech segments, show  & tell and who knows what else, get ready for an action packed episode!

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:

00:01:00 Panel Introductions

00:25:00 General discussion

00:25:30 Who is new to Discord

00:26:00 Peter Cullen showing a Tandy SCART CoCo

01:36:00 David O'Conner

02:20:00 CoCo Thoughts - CashMan

02:21:00 GameON! challenge results

02:31:30 Next week's game announcement - SPEEDRACER

02:34:00 GameON! news

02:47:00 News from around the retro world

03:18:00 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion

Game On news:

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

1) Jim Gerrie posted a video of his port of Steve Wozniak's original Apple classic "Little Brick Out"

  https://youtu.be/8HMK1Si8ADY

2) Chet Simpson has released the first public Beta of Digger III.

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158495328987641/

3) Paul Thayer now has Timber Man available for paid download at itch.io:

Announcement:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158493670122641/

Download link ($5.00 USD) - includes the DSK image and full color PDF manual:

  https://pthayer100.itch.io/timber-man

4) Paul Shoemaker put up a short video teaser of some graphics he is fiddling with for a possible upcoming game:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158492892777641/

5) "The New Retro Show" has an episode about "new games" for the Coco and MC-10:

  https://youtu.be/_QR2PZXaPRQ

6) Canadian Retro Things shows one of the Micro Adventure Books

  https://youtu.be/ymLrh9NuTEQ

News stories for Episode #172, August 8, 2020 show:

1) Keith has lesson 4 of his 6809 series up now - covering the stacks:

  https://youtu.be/mW57Gy436OE

2) Carlos Martins Nabeto posted a cool link to some 1983-1987 news about Brazilian Coco clones (in Portuguese):

  https://computadoresbrasileiros.wordpress.com/category/noticias/

English translation:

  https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fcomputadoresbrasileiros.wordpress.com%2Fcategory%2Fnoticias%2F%3F

3) Jason Weber on Facebook is helping organize "SepTandy" for this year

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158503187087641/

4) Frederiic Griignon posted a Radio Shack catalog page for the Coco from Quebec

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158496708377641/

5) James Jones is still soliciting feedback on his Coco MS Basic to BASIC09

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158492811687641/

Direct link to the Google Doc so far:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DFWC0XAv6NENnqXc3AZGy_Gl6TcZDfPcHGAB34woQwg/edit

6) Timothy Halloran update on getting his Coco 3 running from purely USB power

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158491484982641/

7) Soren Roug has been typing in Dragon 128 drivers for OS-9

  https://www.roug.org/retrocomputing/os/os9/dragon128

8) Carlos Camacho posted the covers from an OS-9 book called "The OS-9 Guru : 1

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2646468465616081/

9) Nigel Barnes posted in the Dragon Facebook group

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2688555014737484/

11) I have also put up two videos to show increased speeds of scrolling in the forthcoming EOU Beta 6, These videos are all 6809 - 6309 versions are faster still. Also, these have the overhead of printing characters, etc. so it doesn't fully show the speed increase (which is around 14-15%).

80x25 hardware text:

  https://youtu.be/SsHMkmKIFYo

640x200x4 graphics:

  https://youtu.be/vD_q7-z4Iqc

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've always got a lot to talk about and a great show to be shared by all on CoCoTALK! each week, and this week is no exception, we're going to hear from Peter Cullen about his retro background, and see his official Tandy SCART CoCo, which is something most of us has probably never seen before.

That along with news, GameON!, some possible tech segments, show  & tell and who knows what else, get ready for an action packed episode!

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:

00:01:00 Panel Introductions

00:25:00 General discussion

00:25:30 Who is new to Discord

00:26:00 Peter Cullen showing a Tandy SCART CoCo

01:36:00 David O'Conner

02:20:00 CoCo Thoughts - CashMan

02:21:00 GameON! challenge results

02:31:30 Next week's game announcement - SPEEDRACER

02:34:00 GameON! news

02:47:00 News from around the retro world

03:18:00 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion

Game On news:

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

1) Jim Gerrie posted a video of his port of Steve Wozniak's original Apple classic "Little Brick Out"

  https://youtu.be/8HMK1Si8ADY

2) Chet Simpson has released the first public Beta of Digger III.

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158495328987641/

3) Paul Thayer now has Timber Man available for paid download at itch.io:

Announcement:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158493670122641/

Download link ($5.00 USD) - includes the DSK image and full color PDF manual:

  https://pthayer100.itch.io/timber-man

4) Paul Shoemaker put up a short video teaser of some graphics he is fiddling with for a possible upcoming game:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158492892777641/

5) "The New Retro Show" has an episode about "new games" for the Coco and MC-10:

  https://youtu.be/_QR2PZXaPRQ

6) Canadian Retro Things shows one of the Micro Adventure Books

  https://youtu.be/ymLrh9NuTEQ

News stories for Episode #172, August 8, 2020 show:

1) Keith has lesson 4 of his 6809 series up now - covering the stacks:

  https://youtu.be/mW57Gy436OE

2) Carlos Martins Nabeto posted a cool link to some 1983-1987 news about Brazilian Coco clones (in Portuguese):

  https://computadoresbrasileiros.wordpress.com/category/noticias/

English translation:

  https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fcomputadoresbrasileiros.wordpress.com%2Fcategory%2Fnoticias%2F%3F

3) Jason Weber on Facebook is helping organize "SepTandy" for this year

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158503187087641/

4) Frederiic Griignon posted a Radio Shack catalog page for the Coco from Quebec

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158496708377641/

5) James Jones is still soliciting feedback on his Coco MS Basic to BASIC09

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158492811687641/

Direct link to the Google Doc so far:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DFWC0XAv6NENnqXc3AZGy_Gl6TcZDfPcHGAB34woQwg/edit

6) Timothy Halloran update on getting his Coco 3 running from purely USB power

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158491484982641/

7) Soren Roug has been typing in Dragon 128 drivers for OS-9

  https://www.roug.org/retrocomputing/os/os9/dragon128

8) Carlos Camacho posted the covers from an OS-9 book called "The OS-9 Guru : 1

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2646468465616081/

9) Nigel Barnes posted in the Dragon Facebook group

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2688555014737484/

11) I have also put up two videos to show increased speeds of scrolling in the forthcoming EOU Beta 6, These videos are all 6809 - 6309 versions are faster still. Also, these have the overhead of printing characters, etc. so it doesn't fully show the speed increase (which is around 14-15%).

80x25 hardware text:

  https://youtu.be/SsHMkmKIFYo

640x200x4 graphics:

  https://youtu.be/vD_q7-z4Iqc

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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:

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:

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https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

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:

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 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