The CoCo Nation Show

This week we'll look at the world premiere of the latest game from Nick Marentes, Rally SG, inspired by Rally-X from the arcade, it uses the 9-color semi-graphics mode, and will run on a CoCo 1,2,3 and Dragon with 64K.  http://nickmarentes.com/

This along with CoCo and retro news, GameOn! results, the new game of the week, projects, updates, acquisitions, and all kinds of CoCo goodness!

Time Stamps:

• 00:02:23               Panel Introductions

News stories for Episode #166, June 27, 2020 show:

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1) CanadianRetroThings has a new video out showing him hooking up his giant Panasonic TV/Radio/Cassette deck to his MC-10 this time:

  https://youtu.be/3j-fA5kBUdo

2) Davy Mitchell posted a link to his blog, "Davy's Retro Corner", in the Dragon Facebook group. This entry talks about a 3D terrain generating program

  https://davysretrocorner.blogspot.com/2020/06/type-in-dragon-user-fault-line-graphics.html

3) The Trash Talk (TRS-80) podcast has game programming contest, that includes the Coco.

  http://www.trs-80.org.uk/2020competition.html

4) Tim Halloran has a video demonstrating him powering his Coco 2 - from USB:

  https://youtu.be/qfa4Db2OwE8

5) Keith (ChibiAkumas on YouTube) has his 2nd 6809 assembly language tutorial up - this episode covers the 6809 addressing modes:

  https://youtu.be/JpIi85GWDRo

6) Ed Snider has some photos of his 32K RAM MC-10 board in the making

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/2969740209819448/

Game On news:

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1) Paul Shoemaker is working on a Coco 3 only Dungeon Crawler, and shows a sample screen using a tileset he purchased:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158370706662641/

2) Neil Blanchard has ROM cartridge versions of Rick Adam's "Bomb Threat" game available again, for $30.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1606095809633762/permalink/2636663219910344/?sale_post_id=2636663219910344

3) Neil also has the new cartridge game by Evan Wright called 3D Monster Maze, which is a Coco 1/2 version of the game

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1606095809633762/permalink/2636658969910769/?sale_post_id=2636658969910769

Evan also upload a video of the final version in action:

  https://youtu.be/4uqWLrzsd2U

4) Cuthbert Dragon has a few new Dragon gameplay videos of note this week:

  https://www.youtube.com/user/MaryWinstead32/videos

- Monsters

5) Ciaran has released an updated Coco version of the Dragon game ROTABB's - it now includes the original loaded an opening story:

   http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/da/coco_ports/

6) Nick Marentes has a video out to promote his Rally-SG game for all Coco's and the Dragon's (with at least 64K), which is getting released in August:

  https://youtu.be/9lUiwo7Zly4

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We're back with everyone's favorite talk show about the CoCo and this week we'll talk about news, GameON! results for Galagon and so much more!

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:

News stories for Episode #165, June 20, 2020 show:

2) Phil Harvey-Smith has some photos of the first factory manufactured circuit boards for the DragonSM.

3) Jim Gerrie basically has Sword of Fargoal working on the MC-10, but he needs some bug-testers.

4) Allen Huffman's new blog post is a bit different this week - he found an old handwritten disassembly that he had written decades ago

5) Ed Snider has a test CocoMECH keyboard using black keys:

6) Bart van den Akker of the Home Computer Museum in the Netherlands had his original Coco 2

7) Todd Wallace has released his new DIR utility for NitrOS-9 that works similar to DIR in MS-DOS (his screenshot is even using his CGA PC font), and you can download it from his site:

8) Boysentech has announced availability of their version of the CocoSDC

9) Mini discussion topic - Michael Pittsley put up a question on Facebook Friday evening about what is the best "Demo" program on the Coco 3?

10) Boisy Pitre has released The Coco Collector Episode 3 - which shows a Coco 3 that used to belong to Marty Goodman

Game On news:

2) Brian Palmer has been hunting through his disks looking for later versions of Spectral Associates games, after they enabled speech (for the Sound Speech Pak)

3) Jim Gerrie has (possibly final) video showing The Sword of Fargoal

4) Cuthbert Dragon has been busy again:

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Live interactive video streams:

We're back with everyone's favorite talk show about the CoCo and this week we'll talk about news, GameON! results for Galagon and so much more!

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

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:

Live interactive video streams:

This week we'll focus on people who are new to being back to the CoCo hobby, a lot has changed in the past 40 years and the CoCo is alive and well, and there are a lot of things you can do in the CoCo hobby. So how does one start? What's the best way? What's the best CoCo setup? How do I get and run hardware and software, what's the minimum I'd need, how far can we go, what about emulators, and so much more.

Gather your questions and we'll hear from a variety of people on how they CoCo and what suggestions we have for people just getting back to the CoCo.

We'll review the GameON! results from Candy Company, learn what next week's game will be, cover CoCo news, and more!

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: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm

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

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:

Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:

Consider becoming a patron of the show:

Live interactive video streams:

https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive

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

https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

This week we'll focus on people who are new to being back to the CoCo hobby, a lot has changed in the past 40 years and the CoCo is alive and well, and there are a lot of things you can do in the CoCo hobby. So how does one start? What's the best way? What's the best CoCo setup? How do I get and run hardware and software, what's the minimum I'd need, how far can we go, what about emulators, and so much more.

Gather your questions and we'll hear from a variety of people on how they CoCo and what suggestions we have for people just getting back to the CoCo.

We'll review the GameON! results from Candy Company, learn what next week's game will be, cover CoCo news, and more!

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: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm

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

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:

Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:

Consider becoming a patron of the show:

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This week we're going to focus on the latest and greatest update to the CoCo-Pi project which now has an official web site http://coco-pi.com We'll show you a 30 minute tutorial on how to download and set up your Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 to run the CoCo-Pi image. We show you how to add all the CoCo ROMS to MAME, how to download and run software, and how to add your own software to your system. This will be followed by a live Q&A session with Ron Klein who's managing this project.

You can enjoy CoCoTALK! live and as audio and video podcasts, visit http://cocotalk.live to learn how and join us on Discord http://discord.cocotalk.live

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:

New Links:

2) Erico Monteiro

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=70215.0

3) David K on YouTube

4) Coco Crew episode 60 was released, and includes a review of Rampage.

5) Ed Snider has announced 8 MB RAM upgrade

6) Eric Canales shared a cool video clip

7) Rubber feet for the Coco 1:

8) Terry Trapp CoCo capture issues

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158310933662641/

9) Guillaume Major has done some updates to the Color Computer Archive

10) James Jones runs some BASIC09 performance tests with surprising results

11) James Hosts inquires about INKEY$ and alternatives to allow for key repeat detection

12) Wayne Aaron obtains a CoCo 2 he plans to use as a CoCo-Pi case

13) Alsion Denu posts some *interesting* photos with CoCos

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158318792572641/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158303480947641/

14) Tony Jewell from the Dragon group joins the CoCo owner's club

Game On news:

Air Attack:

2) The Amigos released their final regular episode of The Coco Show https://youtu.be/aLFLQuCInQs

3) GigerPunk did a video of Cuthbert in the Mines on his Dragon 32:

4) Pere Serrat released a new video of his updated AGD engine, using the Wordpak II+

5) Erik Gavriluk started an interesting discussion on what is the greatest ORIGINAL Coco 3 game https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158318127852641/

6) Mark McDougall is starting to work on finishing some of his arcade transcodes again

7) Cuthbert Dragon released a lot of new Dragon gameplay videos this week

Keys of Roth (kind of a graphics Choose Your Own Adventure style game(:

Starfighter:

Mutant Wars (kind of a Shamus/Berzerk crossover?):

Screaming Ab-Dabs (and he seems to know how to actually play it properly):

8) Michael Pittsley inquires about a Soduko game for the CoCo, John Linville replies

9) Carlos Camacho inquires about the Canyon Climber Cartridges for the NEC PC-600, created by James Garon, author of the CoCo version

Steve Bjork chimes in

This week we're going to focus on the latest and greatest update to the CoCo-Pi project which now has an official web site http://coco-pi.com We'll show you a 30 minute tutorial on how to download and set up your Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 to run the CoCo-Pi image. We show you how to add all the CoCo ROMS to MAME, how to download and run software, and how to add your own software to your system. This will be followed by a live Q&A session with Ron Klein who's managing this project.

You can enjoy CoCoTALK! live and as audio and video podcasts, visit http://cocotalk.live to learn how and join us on Discord http://discord.cocotalk.live

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:

New Links:

2) Erico Monteiro

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=70215.0

3) David K on YouTube

4) Coco Crew episode 60 was released, and includes a review of Rampage.

5) Ed Snider has announced 8 MB RAM upgrade

6) Eric Canales shared a cool video clip

7) Rubber feet for the Coco 1:

8) Terry Trapp CoCo capture issues

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158310933662641/

9) Guillaume Major has done some updates to the Color Computer Archive

10) James Jones runs some BASIC09 performance tests with surprising results

11) James Hosts inquires about INKEY$ and alternatives to allow for key repeat detection

12) Wayne Aaron obtains a CoCo 2 he plans to use as a CoCo-Pi case

13) Alsion Denu posts some *interesting* photos with CoCos

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158318792572641/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158303480947641/

14) Tony Jewell from the Dragon group joins the CoCo owner's club

Game On news:

Air Attack:

2) The Amigos released their final regular episode of The Coco Show https://youtu.be/aLFLQuCInQs

3) GigerPunk did a video of Cuthbert in the Mines on his Dragon 32:

4) Pere Serrat released a new video of his updated AGD engine, using the Wordpak II+

5) Erik Gavriluk started an interesting discussion on what is the greatest ORIGINAL Coco 3 game https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158318127852641/

6) Mark McDougall is starting to work on finishing some of his arcade transcodes again

7) Cuthbert Dragon released a lot of new Dragon gameplay videos this week

Keys of Roth (kind of a graphics Choose Your Own Adventure style game(:

Starfighter:

Mutant Wars (kind of a Shamus/Berzerk crossover?):

Screaming Ab-Dabs (and he seems to know how to actually play it properly):

8) Michael Pittsley inquires about a Soduko game for the CoCo, John Linville replies

9) Carlos Camacho inquires about the Canyon Climber Cartridges for the NEC PC-600, created by James Garon, author of the CoCo version

Steve Bjork chimes in

Episode 162 of CoCoTALK! celebrates the NASA/Space-X live launch and incorporates that into the show.  Unfortunately, airing the live footage became a copyright issue and so this replay will now feature some substitute footage, our apologies.

Segment Timestamps:

00:05:36 Panel Introductions

00:09:36 Who's new to Discord this week

00:10:18 CoCo Thoughts

00:11:53 GameON! high score challenge results

00:13:49 GameON! Timberman discussions

00:23:10 Timber Bots

00:47:35 Next week's game announcement

00:53:45 GameON! news game news from around the world

00:57:39 The best 6 minutes of your life

01:20:58 NASA launch with commentary

01:44:32 CoCo Thoughts replay

01:48:46 CoCo News from around the world

02:53:17 CoCo community info

02:38:18 Project updates and Acquisitions

03:16:35 parting thoughts and outro/credits

News Links:

1) James Diffendaffer pointed out the video of Gary Becker showing both Ed Snider's keyboard, and a prototype GIME-X (which Gary is doing the FPGA programming for, and Ed is building the hardware), form the Central Texas Retro Computer Club Online meeting from May 2:

  https://youtu.be/NdSU-Ot7Osw?t=1686

2) Erik Gavriluk has released his new version of the 3D DISPLAY program from Hot Coco magazine. It features the original version, the optimized version (which is at least twice as fast, supports rotation on multiple axis simultaneously, and a Coco 3 version. Details here:

  https://github.com/milliluk/display/blob/master/README.md

3) Our own Stevie Strowbridge put up a video showing him (finally!) hooking up his MC-10 to his MCX1-128, and showing how much memory it gives to it's enhanced BASIC, and also showing off it's Emcee server capabilities (similar to Drivewire):

  https://youtu.be/OOSR2nZgi_s

4) Carlos Camacho is compiling a list of every possible Model number for all Coco's. If anyone has any more to add, please use the Facebook link to send him the information to update his spreadsheet:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158287258932641/

5) Allen Huffman has a post about finding a "COCOFEST" easter egg in BASIC using the RND function... or, *did* he?

  https://subethasoftware.com/2020/05/28/random-easter-egg/

6) Canadian Retro Things did a video of hooking his Coco 2 to a 1979 Panasonic Mini TV/Radio/Cassette recorder.

  https://youtu.be/5ZH3fRyK9SA

Game News:

1) Eric Monteiro posted a semigraphics demo, this time using real Coco BASIC, for animated characters for an upcoming game he is working on:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158293816847641/

2) I will be slowing down game page updates on Monday as I get started into EOU Beta 6, but I will have managed to have added over 70 game entries this month (I should break 80 by the end of the weekend):

  http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/coco_game_list.html

3) Cuthbert Dragon posted a lot of Dragon gameplay videos on real hardware.  Teee Off (Dragon color set), Arcadia, Leggit!, Monsters, Flight worth looking at.

  https://www.youtube.com/user/MaryWinstead32/videos

4) The Amigos have posted their next episode, featuring Mind-Roll from Tandy (programmed by Jesse Taylor @ Epyx):

  https://youtu.be/dyjNIdwps1g

They have also recorded their last regular episode (for the forseeable future) featuring Battle Stations by Novasoft, as well as the winner of the Gunstar giveaway contest. This will be officially released on Wednesday.  They have said they will still do some Coco live streams, and an occasional episode as John finds time, but I want to play this clip from the show, where they talk about their experience with the Coco:

  https://www.twitch.tv/videos/635796973?t=00h43m14s

Play until 49:13 (Battle Station start)

Episode 162 of CoCoTALK! celebrates the NASA/Space-X live launch and incorporates that into the show.  Unfortunately, airing the live footage became a copyright issue and so this replay will now feature some substitute footage, our apologies.

Segment Timestamps:

00:05:36 Panel Introductions

00:09:36 Who's new to Discord this week

00:10:18 CoCo Thoughts

00:11:53 GameON! high score challenge results

00:13:49 GameON! Timberman discussions

00:23:10 Timber Bots

00:47:35 Next week's game announcement

00:53:45 GameON! news game news from around the world

00:57:39 The best 6 minutes of your life

01:20:58 NASA launch with commentary

01:44:32 CoCo Thoughts replay

01:48:46 CoCo News from around the world

02:53:17 CoCo community info

02:38:18 Project updates and Acquisitions

03:16:35 parting thoughts and outro/credits

News Links:

1) James Diffendaffer pointed out the video of Gary Becker showing both Ed Snider's keyboard, and a prototype GIME-X (which Gary is doing the FPGA programming for, and Ed is building the hardware), form the Central Texas Retro Computer Club Online meeting from May 2:

  https://youtu.be/NdSU-Ot7Osw?t=1686

2) Erik Gavriluk has released his new version of the 3D DISPLAY program from Hot Coco magazine. It features the original version, the optimized version (which is at least twice as fast, supports rotation on multiple axis simultaneously, and a Coco 3 version. Details here:

  https://github.com/milliluk/display/blob/master/README.md

3) Our own Stevie Strowbridge put up a video showing him (finally!) hooking up his MC-10 to his MCX1-128, and showing how much memory it gives to it's enhanced BASIC, and also showing off it's Emcee server capabilities (similar to Drivewire):

  https://youtu.be/OOSR2nZgi_s

4) Carlos Camacho is compiling a list of every possible Model number for all Coco's. If anyone has any more to add, please use the Facebook link to send him the information to update his spreadsheet:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158287258932641/

5) Allen Huffman has a post about finding a "COCOFEST" easter egg in BASIC using the RND function... or, *did* he?

  https://subethasoftware.com/2020/05/28/random-easter-egg/

6) Canadian Retro Things did a video of hooking his Coco 2 to a 1979 Panasonic Mini TV/Radio/Cassette recorder.

  https://youtu.be/5ZH3fRyK9SA

Game News:

1) Eric Monteiro posted a semigraphics demo, this time using real Coco BASIC, for animated characters for an upcoming game he is working on:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158293816847641/

2) I will be slowing down game page updates on Monday as I get started into EOU Beta 6, but I will have managed to have added over 70 game entries this month (I should break 80 by the end of the weekend):

  http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/coco_game_list.html

3) Cuthbert Dragon posted a lot of Dragon gameplay videos on real hardware.  Teee Off (Dragon color set), Arcadia, Leggit!, Monsters, Flight worth looking at.

  https://www.youtube.com/user/MaryWinstead32/videos

4) The Amigos have posted their next episode, featuring Mind-Roll from Tandy (programmed by Jesse Taylor @ Epyx):

  https://youtu.be/dyjNIdwps1g

They have also recorded their last regular episode (for the forseeable future) featuring Battle Stations by Novasoft, as well as the winner of the Gunstar giveaway contest. This will be officially released on Wednesday.  They have said they will still do some Coco live streams, and an occasional episode as John finds time, but I want to play this clip from the show, where they talk about their experience with the Coco:

  https://www.twitch.tv/videos/635796973?t=00h43m14s

Play until 49:13 (Battle Station start)

We're back with another exciting episode of CoCoTALK! this week brings us episode 161.

What can you expect this week? Hearing from CoCo enthusiasts from around the world, get updates on projects and any acquisitions, we'll cover CoCo and retro news from around the world, have our GameON! segment where we'll review the results of all who played Downland this week, we may have a sneak peek or announcement from Boyson technologies, and so much more!

Take part in CoCo discussions 24/7 on our CoCo Discord server http://discord.cocotalk.live

Learn more about CoCoTALK! at http://cocotalk.live

Send feedback to [email protected]

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:

• 00:02:57 Panel Introductions

News stories for Episode #161, May 23, 2020 show:

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1) Frank Hogg published on Facebook, his remembered history of creating the Tomcat computer (TC-9 & TC-70):

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158274266977641/

2) Stevie put up a couple of videos for the CocoPi3:

   How to set up the CocoPi3:

  https://youtu.be/nQlnXzExOqQ

  Setting up a CocoPi3 to become a full game console:

  https://youtu.be/sPvzXV0HqoQ

3) Carlos Camacho put up a scan of an article that Frank Hogg wrote back around 1983/1984, about the Deluxe Coco

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158274975512641/

4) Eric Canales running MAME in it's debug mode for the Coco, that lets you merge in your own assembly source code into the debugger

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158270853957641/

5) David O'Connor has started setting up a website of all of his 6809 related projects (Coco's, synthesizers, etc.):

   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158275986067641/

6) Brian Wieseler posted some photos of Coco Kraft Joysticks

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158274553217641/

7) Alison Denu posted an encrypted file done on the Coco, and invited other Coco users to try and crack it:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158263393342641/

  By Wednesday, Paul Fiscarelli had done it, and made a video about it:

  https://youtu.be/90ly9oQ9Uvg

  ADDENDUM - Alison has changed her code a bit, and has issued the challenge anew.

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158278601702641/

8) David Brenneman shows a completed cartridge interface for the CocoPi3

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/748644118674047/permalink/1292324787639308/

9) Allen Huffman has posted another blog about BASIC, and ELSE/GOTO optimizations:

   https://subethasoftware.com/2020/05/21/basic-and-else-and-goto-and-work-part-2/

10) A Youtube channel that I have not seen before called "Take it Apart"

   https://youtu.be/RGqTCrq6f-0

11) Canadian Retro things posted a video showing using a stereo to load programs on an MC-10:

  https://youtu.be/tcK5mJbfTL0

12) Curtis Posted updated the Ease of Use page

  http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/nitros9_docs.html

  VED 2.9 manual (From Bob van der Poel with permission):

  http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/EOUDOCS/VED2.9_manual.pdf

  WINDOWS part of the full NitrOS-9 Level II manual (we are formatting it fairly close to the original manuals):

  http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/EOUDOCS/NitrOS-9_EOU_Level_2_Windowing_System_Manual.pdf

Game On News stories

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1) Marlin Lee has a video of Avenger (a somewhat Defender clone)

  https://youtu.be/_ej6IFysjps

2) Paul Thayer has Timber Man back on sale again through PayPal:

  https://www.paypal.com/instantcommerce/checkout/WS823RPSY22YW

3) Pere Serrat has a full gameplay video now of his Coco 1/2/Dragon port of the AGD game

  https://youtu.be/XITAVNvrf0Q

4) Jim Gerrie has his final version of Mahjong for the MC-10

  https://youtu.be/-w9fUJkXNqQ

5) Noriko Miyagami has put up a video playthrough of the Adventure International Coco port of "Dog Star Adventure"

  https://youtu.be/Rocjx7kTt9w