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Video episode 228 - Bill Sias - Pubisher of Color Computer News


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CoCoTALK! Episode 228 - Bill Sias - Pubisher of Color Computer News

Today's special guest is Bill Sias, the creator and publisher of Color Computer News, the first published magazine pre-dating the Rainbow.

00:00:00 -Start/Intro

00:02:45 -Start of the show!
00:02:52 -Audience Greetings and Sanitations
00:03:15 -Panel Introductions
00:05:40 -Special guest Bill Sias
01:18:40 -Commercial Break/Upcoming Guests on CoCoTalk!
01:23:20 -More, with guest Bill Sias
02:21:55 -Musical interlude
02:24:42 -NEW! Samuel Gimes!
02:25:30 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta!
02:27:10 -Game On! discussion
02:34:15 -Game On! Game for next week, With(out) Nick Marotta!
02:36:25 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
02:36:36 -Game On! News} Antonio Carlos Jimenez Ely- video playing Glen Hewlett's Joust transcode/port... on a pi400 with a twist, watch and find out!
02:38:10 -Game On! News} Deborah Maxwell- Video of 'Missle!' which she ported from Model 1 BASIC
02:38:45 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- completed his FreeCell, and then ported Deborah's (above) port to the...
(destination system is left as an exercise for the viewer to guess ;) )
02:40:25 -Game On! News} Alison DeNu- #SepTandy releases of her Simply Better Blackjack, and JumpShip 
02:43:38 -Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- St. George and the Dragons and Waxworks
02:45:00 -Game On! News} Old School Games & Stories- playthrough of Canyon Climber
02:45:55 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
02:46:10 -Projecy Updates and Aquisitions
02:46:30 -PUA} Rick Uland
02:52:20 -PUA} Nick Marentes
02:57:57 -PUA} Jason "The CoCoMan" Reighard is comin in HOT!
03:03:20 -PUA} Doug Bell
03:08:08 -PUA} Stevie The OGGamer, Our fearless leader, El Jeffe! Now with an iPhone!
03:09:40 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle
**CoCo/General News**
03:09:55 -CoCo News} Glen Dahlgren- Our last weeks guest, won a gold medal in the Young Adult Fantasy Epic category Amazon Kindle store
03:12:08 -CoCo News} Ciaran- Added even more support to XRoar for Coco3, including the online version of XRoar
03:13:10 -CoCo News} Roberto Fernandez- Released his Dragon tools
03:13:53 -CoCo News} Tim Lindner- Updates to Squanchy BASIC including a Jackson Pollack generator, and alot of internal details
03:18:55 -CoCo News} Coco Crew- released episode #75 of their podcast
03:20:20 -CoCo News} John Whitworth- More details and selling SuperSprite FM+ board
03:: -CoCo News} Barry Nelson- makes Coco centric custom builds of MAME, with serial issues fixed
03:23:13 -CoCo News} Trey Tomes- latest update to his X32 Over-Extended Color Basic
03:25:20 -CoCo News} Alison DeNu- #SepTandy, Video of 3D printing a Program Pak
03:25:55 -CoCo News} Allen Huffman- #SepTandy, CoCo stuff being released this week!
03:28:05 -CoCo News} Carlos Camacho- Ported a Maze generation program from the PC-6001VW to the CoCo
03:30:05 -CoCo News} Mike Rojas- gotten his non-functioning Coco 3 fully working
03:31:13 -CoCo News} Rutherford Le Blang- fork for VCC to incorporate some of the GUI niceties that he did on Return of Coco back in the day
03:33:53 -CoCo News} Glen Hewlett- blog posting on "tricks and cool features" from William Astle's LWASM package
03:35:55 -CoCo News} Allen Leno- installing modern components (including a color LED keyboard, KB) into a Coco 3 case
**MC-10 News**
0:: -MC-10 News} Simon- demo for the MC-10 doing an ML sound routine
0:: -MC-10 News} Anders Carlsson- Modified the ML sound routine to allow entering just note data to play
**Dragon News**
03:41:41 -Dragon News} John Symes- Images of the Tapematic tape duplicators system used at Microdeal
03:42:42 -Dragon News} Dragon Meetup- Set for November 27th/28th 2021
03:43:30 -Dragon News} Pere Serrat- Java app to convert VDK files to a standard format to use in DriveWire
03:44:40 -Dragon News} Arvid Claasen- Step 1 towards building my own Dragon 64
03:: -Dragon News} John Whitworth- Uploaded Flex and OS9 for Dragon.
03:: -Dragon News} Pere Serrat- released DOSPlus 5.0 Extended
03:47:27 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle
03:47:35 -All the details you need to know about the CoCoPi!
03:51:20 -CoCoPi demo with Squanchy BASIC!
03:54:35 -CoCoPi demo of Geany
04:05:05 -Outtro
04:07:15 -Thank you to all YOU great people!
04:08:56 -Goodbye Everybody!

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