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Towards the end of the show, when we got to project updates and acquisitions, David Ladd was really excited about his new floppy imaging device the "Grease Weasel" and since it merited a lot of discussion, we've named the episode after it.  Thanks David!

CoCoTALK! Episode 137 - hosted by Rob Inman

CoCoTALK! Episode 137 - hosted by Rob Inman

Today will be a special edition of CoCoTALK! live where we'll all be turkeys and talk about what we're thankful for, doesn't even have to be retro related, but just sharing positivism with one-another.

We'll also look at some of the latest CoCo games optimized for the 6309 CPU and hear news from around the retroverse. Join us today at 2PM EDT

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

CoCoTALK! airs live, every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening!

Today will be a special edition of CoCoTALK! live where we'll all be turkeys and talk about what we're thankful for, doesn't even have to be retro related, but just sharing positivity with one-another.

We'll also look at some of the latest CoCo games optimized for the 6309 CPU and hear news from around the retroverse. Join us today at 2PM EDT

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

CoCoTALK! airs live, every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening!

This week we had a very special guest host, none other than Nick Marotta, Nick Marotta, Nick Marotta!

We heard from Brendan Donahe about the newest update to the CoCoVGA firmware and software utilities, as well as MC-10, Dragon, and CoCo news, and project updates from the panel.

This week we had a very special guest host, none other than Nick Marotta, Nick Marotta, Nick Marotta!

We heard from Brendan Donahe about the newest update to the CoCoVGA firmware and software utilities, as well as MC-10, Dragon, and CoCo news, and project updates from the panel.

Some news stories for November 16, 2019 show:

1) Petsasjim1 Dragon game play video updates:

Hungry Horace (a twist on PacMan with multi-screen, connected mazes). https://youtu.be/iK7WQHuv5Q4

The Immortal Strain (a text adventure game, but with text on a PMODE 4 screen for lowercase, 32x24 and bolder, easier to read text):

https://youtu.be/H1uNk5Tdi-M

Horace Goes Skiing (Frogger and Skiing mixed into one game):

  (Goto 1:28 to show successfully getting to the Skiing stage, after showing the title screen/music)

https://youtu.be/nc4ex03C-mY

Hornets (arcade game):

https://youtu.be/-sXAojE1an0

Hi-Lo:

https://youtu.be/n4yAwAO54_U

Hareraiser: A BASIC mix of word puzzles with graphics that was divided into two parts (Prelude & Finale, on separate tapes). Once you solved both, you submitted registration cards for both programs to Haresoft, and could win up to 30,000 pounds cash, or a Golden Jeweled Hare. This was for both the Amstrad CPC and the Dragon, so I imagine that the one prize applied to both platforms combined:

Prelude video:

https://youtu.be/LC3RSYMhmjg

Finale video:

https://youtu.be/rYkuONibZQY

Prelude cassette artwork and rules:

http://archive.worldofdragon.org/index.php?title=Hareraiser_(Prelude)

Hide and Seek (a memory game):

https://youtu.be/DfoojEoY5OE

3D OXO (3D Tic Tac Toe), I think written in BASIC?:

https://youtu.be/IMD7pJDwrbU

Indoor Football (Soccer) - very well done:

https://youtu.be/Tc5EVSCLLJk

Interplanetary Trader (well laid out text space trading game):

https://youtu.be/cnBFUzbV_fE

Jet Boot Colin:

https://youtu.be/xi4B-1ReynE

2) Henry Reitveld has a video up showing the Spectral Associates game "Module Man" running on the Coco, a Dragon (both with Speech / Sound Pac, and the Coleco Adam (with background music). Has anybody heard of Module Man on the Adam before?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ESX3EX2co

3) Rob Inman put up a video of him playing the new Xenion/6309 version, showing him getting to the 2nd & 3rd planets (no sound, unfortunately):

https://youtu.be/AsvDuGLIkl8

4) Lee Perkins has been trying to basically make his own routine to give 80x25x16 color text mode working on the Coco 3, with an extended IBM character set, for a game he wants to port. Discussing with Sock Master (John Kowalski), and the techniques that John used in Twilight Terminal, Lee got something similar working using the same techniques (3 screens flipped through, and alternate dithering between each screen), and the results look pretty good (skip down in the comments for the fully working video). There is some "shimmer", but it looks pretty good:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157648209652641/?comment_id=10157648317327641&reply_comment_id=10157654778392641

5) Jim Gerrie is working on 3D maze routines for the MC-10 to help him port Maze of Argon from the VZ-200. His current work in progress:

https://youtu.be/pNcqn0sR7w8

6) Henry Reitveld has posted 2 videos of Intellivision ported games to the Coco - are these real, and has anyone seen these before?:

Night Stalker:

https://youtu.be/w_yMzZeRQxk

Astrosmash:

https://youtu.be/mzRjSmepjJM

7) Rick Adams posted a video showing some upgrades come to Temple of ROM:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157656343317641/

8) Our own Stevie Strow has a project update for today:

https://youtu.be/L0AABqhKjrM

And he also play tested the Coco 1/2 compatible 6309 enhanced games that I released over the last couple of weeks:

https://youtu.be/OxOCBuyDHuM

9) Paul Fiscarelli has released the source code to the Coco 3 game that him and Simon Jonassen released about a month ago (Run Dino Run):

https://github.com/pfiscarelli/Run-Dino-Run?fbclid=IwAR1i5jb-4HHvNOHsDiPCggerFPRclHBUdc__iSf4j8Q8Kyyk92jcjGbLqG4

10) The latest CocoShow from amigosretrogaming is up on Twitch (part of 3 hour stream of 3 of their shows in a row)... the Coco section (feature Time Bandit and Thexder) starts at 2:58:12. It will later be put on YouTube as it's own show.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/508827521

The theme this week was CoCo holiday memories along with news, and update on the CoCO port of Oregon Trail, and so much more!

Some news stories for November 16, 2019 show:

1) Petsasjim1 Dragon game play video updates:

2) Henry Reitveld has a video up showing the Spectral Associates game "Module Man" running on the Coco, a Dragon (both with Speech / Sound Pac, and the Coleco Adam (with background music). Has anybody heard of Module Man on the Adam before?

3) Rob Inman put up a video of him playing the new Xenion/6309 version, showing him getting to the 2nd & 3rd planets (no sound, unfortunately):

4) Lee Perkins has been trying to basically make his own routine to give 80x25x16 color text mode working on the Coco 3, with an extended IBM character set, for a game he wants to port. Discussing with Sock Master (John Kowalski), and the techniques that John used in Twilight Terminal, Lee got something similar working using the same techniques (3 screens flipped through, and alternate dithering between each screen), and the results look pretty good (skip down in the comments for the fully working video). There is some "shimmer", but it looks pretty good:

5) Jim Gerrie is working on 3D maze routines for the MC-10 to help him port Maze of Argon from the VZ-200. His current work in progress:

6) Henry Reitveld has posted 2 videos of Intellivision ported games to the Coco - are these real, and has anyone seen these before?:

7) Rick Adams posted a video showing some upgrades come to Temple of ROM:

8) Our own Stevie Strow has a project update for today:

9) Paul Fiscarelli has released the source code to the Coco 3 game that him and Simon Jonassen released about a month ago (Run Dino Run):

10) The latest CocoShow from amigosretrogaming is up on Twitch (part of 3 hour stream of 3 of their shows in a row)... the Coco section (feature Time Bandit and Thexder) starts at 2:58:12. It will later be put on YouTube as it's own show.

Another week brings us another fun and informative episode of CoCoTALK! You're welcome ;)

Some news stories for November 9, 2019 show:

1) Sheldon MacDonald put up a video of using QMidi for Windows to create music to play on the Coco with a GMC cartridge

https://youtu.be/IPAkBN9C2R4

2) Sheldon also has an update to his GMC cartridge design, which includes space for an audio out jack and a "rebuilt, stronger insert":

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157638964177641/

3) Bill Pierce has a new video showing vertical and horizontal scrolling:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157621859412641/

4) Petsasjim1 on YouTube's new Dragon videos:

The Fruity Machine (slot machine):

https://youtu.be/QC0Ty1nM-Tk

He also has something different this week - running the Dragon Professional Alpha under MAME. It shows its graphic selection boot/screen.

(The Alpha was a Dragon 64 with built in modem, AY Sound chip, disk interface with two 3.5" drives, and optional boot straight into OS-9).

https://youtu.be/71YFVLMb05k

Galleons (Battleship type game):

https://youtu.be/LEYu9PZBzBw

Ghost Attack - which is a port of Computerware's Pac Attack, but with 1) a different name, and 2) different color scheme.

https://youtu.be/BmE1bxSyF7o

Golf (did the Coco or Dragon *ever* have a good golf game?)

https://youtu.be/4k4DW2Olh1Y

Grand Prix (Salamander Software) - BASIC game

https://youtu.be/4k4DW2Olh1Y

Grid Runner:

https://youtu.be/LQpUyjwjGM4

5) Henry Rietveld put up a video showing making a Canyon Climber disk (on a real floppy disk) - the twist being it is an 8" floppy, not 5.25 or 3.5"

https://youtu.be/Zn1ldeK6d94

6) 6309 optimized games:

Xenion (original, 6809 optimized, 6309):

https://youtu.be/wxdf17B5TfE

Marble Maze (original, 6309):

https://youtu.be/pXqNKKMRXeY

F-16 Assault:

https://youtu.be/g7z33ezwyYs

8) GigerPunk released a video of the game Pub Crawl on the Dragon 32 - which reminds me of the first level of Poltergeist:

https://youtu.be/YFSvbwf90EY

9) Chet Simpson has been working on a VGM to SN chiptune convert, using his prototype CPF player for the Coco.:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157631912167641/

10) On the software side of things, Simon uploaded a 4 voice software demo that plays a 3 minute, 55 second tune, with, in only 5404 bytes. It also only uses about 1/3 of the CPU cycles, leaving 2/3 for a main program, game, etc.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157632391457641/

To download:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157633124047641/

11) Nick Marentes put up a short blog, and video, for the latest updates to Gunstar - including some sneak peaks at all 4 levels.

http://www.nickmarentes.com/Gunstar/22.html

12) Jerry Young is porting the "Duke of Dragonfear" game from the book "Giant Book of Computer Games" to the MC-10 (Jim Gerrie has competition!", and has a video showing it's current state:

https://youtu.be/p-c2YhkLz1M

13) Lucas Boy on YouTube did a video of Coco 1/2 games under XRoar - his first real experience with a Coco. He covers Arkanoid, Demon Attack, Pinball, and a bunch of others, rather quickly.

https://youtu.be/rChgykJX-E4

14) Paul Fiscarelli has the first prototype run for his Coco keyboard to PC adaptor (good for emulators like MAME, I presume):

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157639043142641/

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