The CoCo Nation Show

David O'Connor, Australian's own lord of the analog modular synths is going to give us some live demonstrations of using the Tandy Color Computer to output and control analog synths including Moogs. He'll also be showing the ACO160 evaluation kit that can turn any single voice sound into midi and pitch data to run synths, it's very cool. We'll also hear a wrap-up from last week's Vintage Computing Festival West, where our very own Mark Overholser, Mikey Furman, Rob Inman and Tim Linder attended and put on a great CoCo showing. We'll also review what's going in with the MC-10 and Dragon this past week and more on this week's CoCoTALK!

Live interactive video streams:

https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive

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

https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

Live interactive audio stream:

He also has a video for generating a random maze (I believe? Not sure) that is literally one line of BASIC code.

2) Amigos Retro Gaming posted a Youtube video with 2 Dragon games featured.

3) Noriko Miyagami has posted her complete play through of the Coco version of the Scott Adams Grand Adventure #6: Strange Odyssey.

4) Nathanial Lockhart posted a demo video (and there is a discussion on Facebook as well) of loading programs from a reel to reel tape player on a real Coco 2.

David O'Connor, Australian's own lord of the analog modular synths is going to give us some live demonstrations of using the Tandy Color Computer to output and control analog synths including Moogs. He'll also be showing the ACO160 evaluation kit that can turn any single voice sound into midi and pitch data to run synths, it's very cool. We'll also hear a wrap-up from last week's Vintage Computing Festival West, where our very own Mark Overholser, Mikey Furman, Rob Inman and Tim Linder attended and put on a great CoCo showing. We'll also review what's going in with the MC-10 and Dragon this past week and more on this week's CoCoTALK!

Live interactive video streams:

https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive

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

https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

Live interactive audio stream:

He also has a video for generating a random maze (I believe? Not sure) that is literally one line of BASIC code.

2) Amigos Retro Gaming posted a Youtube video with 2 Dragon games featured.

3) Noriko Miyagami has posted her complete play through of the Coco version of the Scott Adams Grand Adventure #6: Strange Odyssey.

4) Nathanial Lockhart posted a demo video (and there is a discussion on Facebook as well) of loading programs from a reel to reel tape player on a real Coco 2.

Today we'll feature exclusive coverage from the Vintage Computing Festival West at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.  We'll have a strong CoCo presence with multiple tables and setups, Michael Furman, Tim Lindner, Mark Overholser and Rob Inman will be present to help represent and give us a tour of the event.

All this and more on today's CoCoTALK!

Live interactive video streams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqj3IMT0-A8

https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive

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

https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

Live interactive audio stream:

https://www.spreaker.com/show/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:  https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm

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

Today we'll feature exclusive coverage from the Vintage Computing Festival West at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.  We'll have a strong CoCo presence with multiple tables and setups, Michael Furman, Tim Lindner, Mark Overholser and Rob Inman will be present to help represent and give us a tour of the event.

All this and more on today's CoCoTALK!

Live interactive video streams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqj3IMT0-A8

https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive

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

https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

Live interactive audio stream:

https://www.spreaker.com/show/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:  https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm

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

Today's show main topic will be "Fond Memories of our early CoCo Days" Or "Fond Memories" for short. Think about what it was like when you got your CoCo, what you did with it and how it effected your life going forward.

CoCoTALK!

https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive

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

https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

Live interactive audio stream:

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

Today's show main topic will be "Fond Memories of our early CoCo Days" Or "Fond Memories" for short. Think about what it was like when you got your CoCo, what you did with it and how it effected your life going forward.

CoCoTALK!

https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive

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

https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

Live interactive audio stream:

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

This week on CoCoTALK! we'll have a very special guest on the live panel that you wont want to miss! Along with that, we'll hear from a cross-section of the CoCo community, cover some news of what happened the past week in the MC-10, Dragon and CoCo communities, and possibly get into some hardware, and/or software discussions. Now that the show is over, we can reveal that our special guest was none other than David Murray, The 8-bit guy, and we had a great conversation with Dave, so check it out.

Live interactive video streams:

https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive

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

https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

Live interactive audio stream:

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

This week on CoCoTALK! we'll have a very special guest on the live panel that you wont want to miss! Along with that, we'll hear from a cross-section of the CoCo community, cover some news of what happened the past week in the MC-10, Dragon and CoCo communities, and possibly get into some hardware, and/or software discussions. Now that the show is over, we can reveal that our special guest was none other than David Murray, The 8-bit guy, and we had a great conversation with Dave, so check it out.

Live interactive video streams:

https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive

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

https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

Live interactive audio stream:

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

We're back with another great live episode of CoCoTALK! the world's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. This week we'll reveal the winners of the private CoCo Forever screening party. cover CoCo news and so much more!

CoCoTALK!

Live interactive video streams:

https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive

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

https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

Live interactive audio stream:

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

News links:

2) Blair Leduc has another update to his Assembly extension for Visual Code Studio (now up to version 0.3.0):

3) Speaking of Visual Code Studio extensions, Jason Pittman has uploaded a video of his Coco C/ASM extension, that also includes converting graphics down to the 16 color mode on the Coco 3: He also demo's the source highlighting using Ken Reichart

4) Brian Weiseler has come across a book for the Coco, called "Making the Most of Your TRS-80 Color Computer" by Peter Vernon. This is one that I have never seen before, and was published in Australia.

5) Sheldon MacDonald is making a cartridge (based on the Game Master Cartridge) that also attaches to the cassette port, so that you can shut the music playing on/off simply with AUDIO ON and AUDIO OFF commands in BASIC. He 3D printed his own case for the project, and is tweaking the software side still.

6) Pere Serrat & Kees van Oss have released AGD game packs #33 & 34, which are special ones. The games were created by 10-11 year old children at the Bearsden Primary School in Scotland, in a class on programming taught by Dougie Mcg. The children designed their own sprites, levels, etc. and programmed/debugged them themselves. All the games were written this year (2019) in the class.

http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6115

7) Bart van den Akker has an IndieGogo campaign going to raise money for the Home Computer Museum in the Netherlands (which is interactive and lets visitors try over 200 older home computers). If you are interested in information, or contributing to the museum, see there Indiegogo page:

8) Todd Wallace has a demo video showing his 80 column Coco 3 text editing tool. This has sparked some conversation on doing a game using 80x24/25/28 hardware text mode, but using color attributes, blinking and underline, to do "graphics", similar to the Semigraphics stuff being done on the Coco 1/2 side.

9) The Floppy Days podcast (With Randy Kindig) episode 92 features and inteview with Dave Lagerquist, who worked for CLOAD (for the Model I/III) and then started Chromasette, the first tape based magazine for the Coco back in the early 1980's. Some great stories from when the company was started.

10) Tony Jewell posted some photos from the Dragon Meetup 2019 that took place during CocoTalk last week (July 7), at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, England.

(There are other videos and photos from this event in the Dragon 32/64 Facebook group).

11) Jason Pittman has an updated video showing his Picture converter/editor - which now has the beginnings of converting to Coco 1/2 modes as well as Coco 3.

You can also download the program he has written:

CoCoPi3 project page: http://www.cocopi3.com/

Dragon Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/

MC-10 Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/

We're back with another great live episode of CoCoTALK! the world's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Comptuer. This week we'll reveal the winners of the private CoCo Forever screening party. cover CoCo news and so much more!

CoCoTALK!

Live interactive video streams:

https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive

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

https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

Live interactive audio stream:

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

News links:

2) Blair Leduc has another update to his Assembly extension for Visual Code Studio (now up to version 0.3.0):

3) Speaking of Visual Code Studio extensions, Jason Pittman has uploaded a video of his Coco C/ASM extension, that also includes converting graphics down to the 16 color mode on the Coco 3: He also demo's the source highlighting using Ken Reichart

4) Brian Weiseler has come across a book for the Coco, called "Making the Most of Your TRS-80 Color Computer" by Peter Vernon. This is one that I have never seen before, and was published in Australia.

5) Sheldon MacDonald is making a cartridge (based on the Game Master Cartridge) that also attaches to the cassette port, so that you can shut the music playing on/off simply with AUDIO ON and AUDIO OFF commands in BASIC. He 3D printed his own case for the project, and is tweaking the software side still.

6) Pere Serrat & Kees van Oss have released AGD game packs #33 & 34, which are special ones. The games were created by 10-11 year old children at the Bearsden Primary School in Scotland, in a class on programming taught by Dougie Mcg. The children designed their own sprites, levels, etc. and programmed/debugged them themselves. All the games were written this year (2019) in the class.

http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6115

7) Bart van den Akker has an IndieGogo campaign going to raise money for the Home Computer Museum in the Netherlands (which is interactive and lets visitors try over 200 older home computers). If you are interested in information, or contributing to the museum, see there Indiegogo page:

8) Todd Wallace has a demo video showing his 80 column Coco 3 text editing tool. This has sparked some conversation on doing a game using 80x24/25/28 hardware text mode, but using color attributes, blinking and underline, to do "graphics", similar to the Semigraphics stuff being done on the Coco 1/2 side.

9) The Floppy Days podcast (With Randy Kindig) episode 92 features and inteview with Dave Lagerquist, who worked for CLOAD (for the Model I/III) and then started Chromasette, the first tape based magazine for the Coco back in the early 1980's. Some great stories from when the company was started.

10) Tony Jewell posted some photos from the Dragon Meetup 2019 that took place during CocoTalk last week (July 7), at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, England.

(There are other videos and photos from this event in the Dragon 32/64 Facebook group).

11) Jason Pittman has an updated video showing his Picture converter/editor - which now has the beginnings of converting to Coco 1/2 modes as well as Coco 3.

You can also download the program he has written:

CoCoPi3 project page: http://www.cocopi3.com/

Dragon Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/

MC-10 Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/