The CoCo Nation Show

Only the bravest souls enter, only the most cunning return!  Defeat innumerable monsters to ransom the king’s scepter, stolen by the evil wizard and kept deep in the Forest of Doom.

Forest of Doom is a Role Playing Adventure Game for the Tandy Color Computer 1, 2, and 3. Created by D. Bruce More in roughly 1982 for a 4K CooCo 1 with standard Color BASIC, Bruce put this game to the side when get got a 16K CoCo 2 and started writing games in Extended Color BASIC, and eventually sold 5 games that were published by T&D Software as games on cassette, party of a monthly subscription software service.

This game was lost and forgotten for almost 30 years, when in 2016, Bruce's brother got him a CoCo 2 from a thrift store, and to his surprise, Bruce found some of original cassette tapes, and, the original version of Forest of Doom. It's been a labor of love updating and enhancing this game to now run on a 32K CoCo requiring a disk drive and Extended BASIC,.

We'll hear about Bruce's early beginnings, all the way up to the process of completing Forest of Doom in 2017. We'll see an exclusive first look at an extended video trailer, and see the world premier of what the game actually looks like.

You can get your own copy of the strategy guide which contains a link to download the game and the soundtrack at:

Video episode on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/ZgJxtLdeIMA

• CoCo Merchandise: http://8bit256.com

In episode 31 of CoCoTALK! we'll discuss the buzz this week that's been going on in Facebook at the possibility of a modern version of the Rainbow Magazine, which was "the institution" of tech magazines for the Color Computer.

Ron Delvaux has been busy creating not only mock covers, but will have a 20+ digital version of what the magazine could look like.

We have set up a website for an on-line version of the magazine which is http://therainbow.online and we'll hear people's opinion and suggestions on what a new Rainbow should be, seeing as there is already a monthly podcast and a weekly live talk show, it wouldn't be the place to get breaking news, but it could serve a nice periodical to document things that have happened, quarterly, bi-annually, or even a year-end review.

Weigh in with your thoughts, opinions and suggestions.

On the call:

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:

NewbieTALK!

TechTALK!

Ron's Garage!

Interviews, News, Reviews, and more!

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

For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:

Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:

CoCoTALK! After Dark! Episode 01 - 10-21-2017

On episode 30 of CoCoTALK! we talked about some of the community drama, and it was good to talk about it, but we didn't get to have too many other just "normal" conversations.

Later in the evening, a few of the CoCoTALK!ers got together for an off-line conversation that went in many directions.

Yes, we talked a little more about the drama, but we also talked about a few other things, and, just talked.  This is unscripted, unplanned, and slightly, uncensored.

On the call:

David Ladd, Jay Searle, Nick Marentes, Jim Brain from Retro Innovations, Rick Adams, Wayne Campbell, and hosted by ogStevieStrow

We talked a bit about Pop*Star Pilot with it's author, Rick Adams gave us some mental notes on the next game he's thinking about designing.

Jim Brain gave some input on to when people want to "armchair quarterback" somebody else's project, and was asking to be called out, if he ever crossed any lines in the community.

Jay Searle had some assembly language questions, which, we were lucky to have a handful of experts around to handle, and many other random topics were discussed.

We hope you like the episode, and let us know if you'd like to see and hear more episodes like this.

CoCo Merchandise:  http://8bit256.com

CoCo Links: http://imacoconut.com

CoCoTALK! http://cocotalk.live

ogStevieStrow:  http://ogsteviestrow.com

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:

https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/

Episode 30 of CoCoTALK! finds us having to address some community drama that has popped up this week, which we attempt to do in a mature, and intelligent way, to shed light on some things, and hopefully find ourselves in a better place when it comes to competition, stepping on toes, etc.

On the call:

CoCo Merchandise: http://8bit256.com

CoCo Links: http://imacoconut.com

CoCoTALK! http://cocotalk.live

ogStevieStrow: http://ogsteviestrow.com

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:

Episode 29 - The Tandy Assembly Post Show! We'll talk about everything that was happening this past weekend!

On the show:

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:

NewbieTALK!

TechTALK!

Ron's Garage!

Interviews, News, Reviews, and more!

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

For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:

Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:

Original live stream video from YouTube: https://youtu.be/X3O-tiFh5Es

Tandy Talk!  Tandy Assembly Podcasters Roundtable - October 7th, 2017

On the panel:

• Steve Strowbridge - host of CoCoTALK!

Segments:

• Introductions:  Who we are, what show we’re on, and how/why we got started with TRS-80 and Tandy Computers

Links to the panel and podcasts:

Ian Mavrick - The Right Stuff: http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/trs80/

Peter Bartlett - Bartlett Labs: http://bartlettlabs.com/

The Floppy Days Podcast: http://floppydays.libsyn.com/

The CoCo Crew Podcast: http://www.cococrew.org/

TRS-80 Trash Talk Podcast: http://www.trs80trashtalk.com/

CoCoTALK! Podcast: http://cocotalk.live

Episode 28 is the Tandy Assembly Pre-Game show, this is the last live show before we're at Tandy Assembly next weekend, so we'll go over everything there is to discuss, play plenty of promo clips, and with some luck, be visited by some of the founders of the event.

Tandy Assembly will be live streamed, and a special live edition of CoCoTALK! called TandyTALK! will take place Saturday evening, make sure you subscribe to the Tandy Assembly YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPyGtUzQU0Vf7CiSiJLySUg

Tandy Assembly live stream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzStXVBO9tU&feature=youtu.be

On the show: Barry Nelson, Bill Nobel, Ciaran Anscomb, David Ladd, John Linville, John Strong, Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, Nicholas Marentes, Retro Innovations (Jim Brain), Richard Lorbieski, Rick Adams, Ron Delvaux, Simon Jonassen, Steve Bjork, Grant Leighty

Feed back review:

Community activity reviews:

NewbieTALK!

TechTALK!

Ron's Garage!

Interviews, News, Reviews, and more!

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

For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:

Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:

Original Live Stream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/02BX5tURnIs

CoCoTALK! Episode 27 - the Ease of Use Episode! Original air date - 09-23-2017

On the show: John Strong, Richard Lorbieski, Barry Nelson, Bill Nobel, Curtis Boyle, David Ladd, Simon Jonassen, Rick Adams, Nicholas Marentes, Jim Brain from Retro Innovations, and D. Bruce More.

• John Strong filled us in on the status of his projects "Dr. CoCo" a Dr. Mario clone which will feature the Game Master Cartridge sound chip, as will "Handy Andy" a Wreck-It Ralph/Fix-It Felix Clone, along with some news of VCF Midwest.

Regular segments:

• Introduce the panel of the week, go around the room, see what everyone's been up to.

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelm...

Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com

Original live stream: https://youtu.be/rnvWVGpflRs

CoCoTALK #26 09-16-2017

Episode 26 - New CoCo games, assembly optimization, Simon's latest demo and more!

CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer.  For video and audio replays, visit http://imacoconut.com

On the show:

Ciaran Anscomb, D. Bruce Moore, Jacob Moore, David Ladd, Glen Hewlett, Grant Leighty, Jay Searle

1. Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, Paul Thayer, Richard Lorbieski, Ron Delvaux, Simon Jonassen, Wayne Campbell

Ciaran Anscomb shared a cool CoCo/Dragon project with us, the Mooh memory and MPI board:

http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5629

Paul Thayer shows us a sneak peek at a CoCo 3 game in development, Timberman, and talks about how Simon Jonassen helped him learn how to optimize assembly code.

Glen Hewlett reminds us of his current blog posts about optimizing assembly programming.

https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/2017/09/14/optimizing-6809-assembly-code-part-1-quick-and-easy-changes-to-speedup-your-code/

Grant Leighty had the Newbie question of the week; which method of purchasing real CoCo hardware to each of us prefer?

Richard Lorbieski talked about about the risks of purchasing TRS-80 "model X" machines via mail, and some services he'll offer at Tandy Assembly.

Ron Delvaux treated us to an extended version of Ron's Garage including a Tandy Hard Drive controller, and lots of cool magazines and manuals.

Simon Jonassen showed us his latest demo with 2-voice music, and plasma animation.

Wayne Campbell gave us a peek at how to use BASIC09 to use different routines, loops, goSUBS and goTOs, which was pretty cool.

All this and more!

Original live stream:  https://youtu.be/ZFb2-iRcw5I

For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live

For all things CoCo, visit http://imacoconut.com

For RetroSWAG! visit http://8bit256.com

Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:

https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/

CoCoTALK! #25 09-09-2017

CoCoTALK! Episode #25 - The Hurricane Irma edition!

People on the show and items discussed:

John W. Linville - Host of the CoCoCREW! POD Cast.

Glen Hewlett interview on CoCoCREW!, Hack-A-Day project mention

Bill Nobel: Full Source Code for the Ribbs BBS for OS9, v2.03.

The "original" Three Musketeers of NitrOS9, Curtis Boyle and Bill Nobel & Wes Gail.

John W. Linville: Another Mashup of The CoCoCrew! and Trash Talk..

Pending Interview with Curtis Boyle and Bill Nobel & Wes Gail.

Rick Adams' Bomb Threat cartridges for Tandy Assemble, 24 Units.

ohn W. Linville: Facebook post with Bomb Threat cartridge, art by Joel Adams.

John W. Linville: Retrochallenge 2017/10, http://www.retrochallenge.org

Bruce Moore: Found an Easter Egg in OS9..

William Schaub: Wanting to start learning 6809 Assembly Language.

Ron Delvaux's OS9 Group: Remembering OS9 on the CoCo.

OS9 Easter Eggs.

CoCo 3 Easter Egg.

CoCopedia: Allen Huffman's http://www.cocopedia.com

OS9 History by Bill Peirce.

OS9 Resources ( Manuals ) on the OS9 Group.

Different versions of the Color BASIC Manuals.

Ron Delvaux's Garage: Four Videos of CoCos and CoCoSDC with a "real" Floppy.

CoCo Mail List: https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco

William Schaub: Background with the CoCo.

William Schaub: First Assembly Language program.

Grant Leighty's Newbie Talk: CoCo Pi, What is It, and How does it Work?

Curtis Boyle and David Ladd with Tech Talk: Barry Nelson, Cave Walker for OS9 on NitrOS9 L2.

Tandy Assembly check in: http://www.tandyassembly.com/.

BREAKING NEWS: CoCo List, Toolshed v2.2 just released, HDB-DOS v1.5 just released.

CoCo Mailing List: Overview of contents

CoCo Sources of Information: Facebook, CoCo List, IRC, CoCoTALK! on Skype and Discord, Yahoo Group, and Fido-Net.

CoCo Retro Pi: Dual DriveWire Servers with One shared Image to Exchange Files.

CoCo to Drivewire cable.   Two different Cable Designs...   Which one is Correct??

Mark D. Overholser: Drivewire cable design, http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started_with_DriveWire#The_DriveWire_Cable

William Schaub: Windows File Sharing or WinSCP for Disk Sharing.

Links:

• Original livestream: https://youtu.be/-2gv7Unfkr4