The CoCo Nation Show

CoCoTALK #24 09-02-2017

Episode 24 - Oz K-Fest - Forrest of Doom trailer 2 - new OS-9 commercial and more!  09-02-2017

Episode 24 treated us to a peek down under to an Apple II event in Australia called Oz K-Fest which was a weekend event dedicated to the early Apple line of computers.  Our foreign correspondent Nick Marentes gave us an inside view of what the Australian Apple community are up to these days, and the projects are impressive!

We also got to see the world premier of the Forest of Doom trailer 2, and a brand new commercial for OS-9!  This along with some regular segments like Ron’s Garage, TechTALK! And NewbieTALK!  And the latest look at what’s scheduled for Tandy Assembly.  I think we covered a lot of CoCo this week :)

On the show:

• Mark Overholser

Links:

• Original livestream: https://youtu.be/ntWHjMfzRuc

CoCoTALK #23 08-26-2017

Episode 23 - Floppy TALK! and other hardware goodies with a few special guests!

Episode 23 features all kind of hardware discussions, too many to list, you'll just have to watch and listen.

The show:

Special guest  Host, of the Retro VGM Revival Hour Podcast, Edgar Valasco.  https://www.youtube.com/c/NostalgiaRoadTripChannel

Ron's Garage : The Printer

Video and POD Cast Statistics

Ron's Garage : CoCo 1.

Simon Jonassen - Vector Graphics

Bruce Moore - Pheonix IDE by Roger Taylor

OS-9 Bashing

Grant's Newbie Talk:  Joy Sticks

David's Tech Talk aka FloppTALK!

John Turner Jr's Hardware "dump"

Tandy Assembly Web Site check in

Ciaran's Xroar Cassette Woes

MAME Fixes and DreamHost DDOS Outage

Nick Marentes Check In:  Prep for Apple ][ Oz Fest..

Richard's Boot Disk Hints

CoCoTALK! Team Accolades

Simon Jonassen  Vector Demo

Jim Brain's tour of John Turner Jr's Hardware "dump"

John Turner Jr's Hardware "dump": More to Come!!!!

Steve Bjork Plug  http://haunthackers.com/    http://www.nutsvolts.com/

Ron's Garage now has a Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/487282281640389/

Jim Brain from Retro Innovations was here to help us interpret some of the circuit board designs that were released to the public today and announced in a CoCo mailing list post:

https://pairlist5.pair.net/pipermail/coco/2017-August/162607.html

Links:

• Original livestream: https://youtu.be/Ni9HNcLc7kI

CoCoTALK #22 08-19-2017

Episode 22 - Nick Marentes Pac-Man 1.1 - Basic09 and more!

Nick Marentes Pac-Man update 1.1

http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/nickma/ProjectArchive/pacman.html

Bruce Moore will show as a peek at BASIC09

Rons Garage:  A look at the amazing retro computer collection from Ron Delvaux

Newbie question of the week from Grant Leighty

Tech discussions with David Ladd, Curtis Boyle and others

Tandy Assembly, and more!

On the show:

• Nick Marentes

Links:

• Original livestream part 1: https://youtu.be/1rzSq0lGQ3o

CoCoTALK #21 08-12-2017

Episode 21 - Podcast announcement, Ron's retro video, Grant's newbie questions, David's tech corner, and more!

This week we announce that previous episodes of CoCoTALK! can now also be listened to as an audio podcast!  Visit http://cocotalk.live for all things CoCoTALK!

We hear from the real Neil Brookins, who is not an imposter!

Rons Garage:  A look at the amazing retro computer collection from Ron Delvaux

Newbie question of the week from Grant Leighty

Tech discussions with David Ladd, Curtis Boyle and others

Tandy Assembly, and more!

On the call:

• Curtis Boyle

Links:

• Original live stream:   https://youtu.be/FnzaO8xAeZM

CoCoTALK #20 08-05-2017

Episode 20 - Community Chat - Ron's Garage - Forest of Doom teaser

CoCoTALK turns 20 episodes old today and we're celebrating!  The topic is CoCo Community Chat, and all members of the CoCo Community are encouraged and invited to join us in the Skype call and become part of the discussion, to do so, you need to add ogStevieStrow as a Skype contact, and then call him directly.

A new segment has been created, Ron's Garage, where Ron Delvaux shows us some of his amazing retro computer collection, this will be a recurring feature.

We  were also treated to the world premier of the teaser clip for Forest of Doom by Bruce More!  Check out the blog at http://coco.gracenote.ca/

We also got to see and hear a sneak peek at the new 4-channel music and sound generator that Nick Marentes is developing to put into his new CoCo 3 game Gun Star!

On the Show

• Mark Overholser

Links:

• Original live stream:   https://youtu.be/aZ8bYHjYyDY

CoCoTALK #19 07-29-2017

Episode 19 - CoCo Hardware!  Retro Innovations and CoCo on a Chip!

CoCo TALK is the nation's leading live talk show about the Tandy Color Computer, never mind that it's the only one.  In Episode 19 we'll dive into CoCo Hardware.

We'll hear and see from Jim Brain from Retro Innovations on what it takes to develop and produce hardware projects for the Color Computer, and we'll discuss "hardware emulation" platforms such as the CoCo FPGA and Roger Taylor's "CoCo on a Chip" and see a live demonstration on what these new CoCo hardware platforms look like, with a presentation by Bill Nobel.

Jim Brain's Retro Innovations:  http://go4retro.com

CoCo on a Chip Nano links:  

https://www.youtube.com/user/cocotower/featured

http://www.cococommunity.net/coco-downloads/

http://www.cococommunity.net/cyclone-coco-registers/

http://www.cococommunity.net/how-to-build-your-own-coco-4/

http://subethasoftware.com/2017/03/19/getting-started-with-roger-taylors-coco-on-a-chip-fpga-coco-3/

https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/ceSc9Iyt

On the Call:

• Jim Brain

Links:

• Original live stream:   https://youtu.be/FLd6BgoUdGg

CoCoTALK #18 07-22-2017

Episode 18 - An introduction to OS-9 and NitrOS-9

We are about to make history, as the first official presentation of OS-9 will happen today on CoCo TALK #18.  We'll talk a look at Microware's OS-9 Level I and II and then jump into the current version known as Nitro OS-9 or just NitrOS-9 for short.

Download OS-9 Level 1 v2.01:

http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Operating%20Systems/OS-9%20Level%201%20v2.01%20(Tandy).zip

Download OS-9 Level 2 v2.00:

http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Operating%20Systems/OS-9%20Level%202%20v2.00%20(Tandy).zip

NitrOS-9 homepage:

http://www.nitros9.org/battle.html

On the Call:

• Mark Overholser

Links:

• Original live stream:   https://youtu.be/XP0iDTS0GTg

CoCoTALK #17 July 15, 2017

Episode 17 - The World Premiere of Rick Adams' Bomb Threat!

The game that almost wasn't now is, and Rick Adams will talk about the history of this game, and how it's finally seeing the light of day!  Behold, for the first time ever, Bomb Threat for the Tandy Color Computer, originally created in 1984, lost in the sands of time, and faithfully recreated by Rick Himself using the assistance of modern technology.

Check out more of Rick Adams at http://rickadams.org

On the show:

• Rick Adams

Links:

• Dyno Sprite: https://github.com/richard42/dynosprite

CoCoTALK #16 07-08-2017

Episode 16 - MESSUI tweaks for CoCo emulation, MAME and MESS debugging tutorial

We are on week 16 of CoCo TALK, and this week, we have a new speaker to join us, Jay Searle will show us some cool tips, tricks and tweaks on using the MESSUI for CoCo specific emulation.  He'll also show us how to use the MAME and MESS debugger to aid in software development via emulators.  This, and a whole lot of other CoCo TALK from our panel and viewers.

MAME download:  http://www.mamedev.org/release.html

MESS UI download:  http://messui.1emulation.com/

On the show:

• Jay Searle

Links:

• Original live stream:   https://youtu.be/B4KU8PJuTog

CoCoTALK #15 07-01-2017

Episode 15 - Pac-Man Transcoded to the CoCo 3 - CoCo Crew Podcast and more!

This week's CoCo TALK will include the world premiere of Glen Hewlett's adaptation of the original Pac-Man arcade system to the Tandy Color Computer 3.  We'll get the first look at the completed game in action, the user manual, and the links to download the game.

We'll also listen to the latest episode of the CoCo Crew Podcast, and who knows what else!

Glen Hewlett's Blog:

https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/2016/12/29/zilog-z80-to-motorola-6809-transcode-part-001/

Download Pac-Man:

http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=76795763136641545801

Listen to the CoCo Crew Podcast:

http://cococrew.org

On the call:

• Glen Hewlett

Links:

• Original live stream:   https://youtu.be/fwYwI94PQuo