The CoCo Nation Show

It's super close to Christmas hope your Christmas is a CoCo Christmas! And, with luck, we had a very special guest, Bill Pierce! 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 CoCoTALK! airs live, every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

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

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] 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 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.

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: 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 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

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/ CoCoTALK! Join the live panel on ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/109422739 Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/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

A lot of revelations on this week's show! A new product "The Joey" has been announced by Jason Reighard and will allow you to switch multiple joystick configurations around. Visit http://cocoman.biz to learn more/order. Stevie Strow has a new CoCoVGA game project Visit http://cocovga.com to learn more about that product Ron Delvaux and Terry Steege host a TDP-100 segment Curtis Boyle reveals 6309 optimized games that run faster on the CoCo 1/2/Dragon and would run even faster on the CoCo 3 Nick Marentes shows a new way to palette patch PMODE 3 colored games to look better on a CoCo 3! Some news stories for November 2, 2019 show: 1) Jim Gerrie has ported his MC-10 Akalabeth to the Coco, using the same PMODE 2. https://youtu.be/4s9f8edNpXY https://youtu.be/WtSF4Al4hGA He also ported "Paint Duel" to the MC-10 https://youtu.be/3AZSy_YQk0Y 2) Paul Shoemaker has released a new video update to Oregon Trail: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157600108852641/ 3) Chet Simpson has a demo testing his VGM player that will support the original Speech Systems Symphony 12 card, or Jim Brains Philharmonic 12. He still has a way to go, but the Moon Patrol theme at the beginning sounds very much like the arcade: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157602710247641/ 4) Todd Wallace has a demo of simple OPL music player based on Ed Sniders CCT (Coco Chip Tunes) format that he plans on using as the base of an OS9 player. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157603182972641/ 5) Amigos Retro Gaming has a few new Coco videos: https://youtu.be/Kacg-R-b3cs https://youtu.be/_RDkZKJtkDk https://youtu.be/IYj2BlYvLYg 6) Petsasjim1 has some more Dragon videos: Dragrunner (Kind of Frogger with guns?): https://youtu.be/T0_dXReupXc Fireball (written in BASIC): https://youtu.be/71zRvBlNv3k Fireforce https://youtu.be/mscZ1gtgyUQ Fearless Freddy: https://youtu.be/jZqXHb_sV-g?t=46 Folly's Farm Chicken Run: https://youtu.be/jRFTUqM5ITs?t=11 Football Manager: Manage your Football (Soccer to us North Americans) team, and low res game play views as well. https://youtu.be/JZWVv4nreIg?t=18 7) Gigerpunk has a game video for the Dragon that was a game promo for Weetabix cereal https://youtu.be/tY1S4LF2dc0 8) CanadianRetroThings has part two of his MC-10 video up on YouTube. https://youtu.be/WJleDGNi5dY 9) David OConner put a video up showing some custom fonts/palettes using the CocoVGA running on his Coco 1. https://youtu.be/TvXa2UMvU3w 10) Simon Jonassen has an animated 10 color palette demo, based on his RGB/10 color demo he did previously, which will be the base background for a much fancier looking demo he is working on. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157617349797641/ 11) James Jones mentioned on Facebook that the Paul Schreiber interview (from Tandy Assembly) is up on YouTube: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157613982202641/ 12) Davy Mitchell has updates to SGEDIT online semigraphics screen editing tool, and Rob Inman also found out that it works fine from iOS (in addition to desktop browers): https://hardcore-jackson-6272e8.netlify.com/ 13) New cartoon from D. Bruce Moore: http://joey.gracenote.ca/004-syntax-errors/ VOLUME 1 OF COCO 1/2 6309 ENHANCED GAMES (will work on Coco 3 as well - and if you do POKE 65497,0, some of them *really* run fast) - Includes 6309 sped up versions of 3 old Coco 1/2 games. https://youtu.be/DdDHVTEjoS8 To download: http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/Coco12-6309games-volume1.zip Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/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

CoCoTALK! audio episode 131 - With Floyd Resler, Chet Simpson and Inside CoCoTALK! Some news stories for October 26, 2019 show: 1) Jim Gerrie release "Stronghold of the Dwarven Lords" for the MC-10. https://youtu.be/Ovdg0AiZwZQ 2) Brian Palmer has been experimenting with custom Coco 3 palettes for the Dragon game (that works on the Coco) called Back Track: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157585763007641/ 3) Paul Shoemaker has gotten a fair bit further on his port of the Apple II version of Oregon Trail to the Coco: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157585460487641/ 4) Related to this: Vintage is the New World has an article on (and mini interview with) Paul Shoemaker about his port of Oregon Trail: https://vintageisthenewold.com/after-35-years-the-trs-80-color-computer-will-get-a-faithful-port-of-the-classic-game-the-oregon-trail/ 5) Diego Barizo has released version 4.0 of his X-Filer virtual disk utility for the Coco 3: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157583688102641/ 6) petsasjim1 on YouTube has been adding more Dragon 32/64 game videos, of course - a neat one is a text adventure game that not only has an interesting user interface, but allows up to 4 players. Death Cruise 4 player: https://youtu.be/dq_gaKY6yjc The Dark Pit (which actually works with the Tandy Electronic Book, too!): https://youtu.be/NLxygDDNnIY?t=96 Cyclops (Semigraphics Pacman type game): https://youtu.be/-z_Wq6BoZ78 Cuthbert in the Cooler: https://youtu.be/wUgIKWGpmYM Dragon Golf: https://youtu.be/lSXGsk4ldSE Dragon Trek (a graphical Star Trek game): https://youtu.be/wsffitkCXP8?t=10 And another Dragon Trek (completely different), also graphical game https://youtu.be/5pg7qgEmWZ8 7) Amigos Retro Gaming did a play of Poltergeist on real hardware: https://youtu.be/CGh9jMui6dc 8) Dave Philipsen has a video showing some of the progress he has made on his CocoDEV board - which features an FPGA 6809 core running at 25 MHz and with BASIC. https://youtu.be/kztLj53tNfA 9) Stevie himself did a couple of special Coco YouTube videos this past Tuesday. One was a demo of some BASIC games using the extended features of the CocoVGA, which included Brendan Donahe & his daughter Morgan (Brendan is the man behind the CocoVGA, and his daughter wrote the games and designed the custom characters): https://youtu.be/s96dGe14Jw0 His second video had Sheldon MacDonald as his guest, and he was showing prototypes of Sheldon's new Coco controllers, demonstrating multiple games with it: https://youtu.be/iQ7e8udWi44 10) Bill Pierce uploaded a video (from VCC) of his horizontal scrolling demo again, this time written in assembly. One thing that happened during people testing it on real hardware, is that it was causing screen glitches on real 2 MB RAM systems (both Triad+ and Boomerang E2). It appears to be a timing problem if running the computer at .895 MHz. On both boards, it runs fine if running at 1.78 Mhz) (a huge discussion trying to track down what what happening is in the comments). https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157584143357641/ And, more discussion on the 2MB / video above 512k issue: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157594300962641/ 11) Steve Bamford has a new video displaying a Halloween themed level in his upcoming GMC cartridge game, 'kiruke-no-shima-circe' 12) CanadianRetroThings has put up a video about his MC-10 (including his 16K RAM pack & cassette), with general info, etc. A bonus - he has a modified MC-10 which has 8K on the main board, but still only goes to 20K with the 16K pack added in. This is also labelled as "Part 1", so he is planning on more MC-10 content in the future. (He also plays Minefield, written by our own Ken Reighard). Unfortunately, I think the 8K RAM upgrade is causing problems with the 16K upgrade pack (as seen on PacMan) https://youtu.be/cwCvuT2oRs8 13) Simon Jonassen has graphic/game demo that he has been working on for the Coco 3: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157598804057641/ 14) Ben Drakes has made a video playing Ken Kalish's Escape game (which was the first use of the engine he used for Phantom Slayer) using his VR rig: https://youtu.be/lKFdnLs0lGo

Featuring game development updates from Chet Simpson, CoCo news from around the globe, and a little show and tell from the CoCoTALK! panel. 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 Some news stories for October 19, 2019 show: 1) Petsasjim1 has put up more Dragon gameplay videos (Copta Snatch & Cosmic Crusader are quite good): Chuckie Egg+ https://youtu.be/M5tUCIujuM0 Chateau of Gold (interesting interface for a text adventure game): https://youtu.be/1ZPXujEkKuA Championship Darts: https://youtu.be/avMxWV-ctAA Clowns: https://youtu.be/y8LkGXLuByM And Clowns part 2? https://youtu.be/n5GBfL24EUU Tom Mix Colour Golf: https://youtu.be/lv77A9n1Lx4 Convoy: https://youtu.be/-OmZ--aWfZs Cuthbert in Space: https://youtu.be/2LWsEs8VrH0 Cuthbert Goes Digging: https://youtu.be/IZO9ccNYHhE Cuthbert and the Golden Chalice (jump to 2 minutes in to show multiple screens): https://youtu.be/8wJLMhkuAlU The Cricklewood Incident (another cool "GUI" for an adventure game): https://youtu.be/-uuHvdS2uDQ?t=45 Cruising (actual gameplay starts around 2:20) https://youtu.be/MPNM77DepAs Crusader: https://youtu.be/t0EfMpM9FGw Copta Snatch (A hi-res semi-graphics game similar to Chopper Strike/Scramble): https://youtu.be/EysJf_Xap74 Cosmic Crusader: https://youtu.be/CBCTVlo-PH8 2) Ed Snider (Zippsterzone.com) has his shrunken footprint Orchestra-90 cards for sale (called CocoDAC-16). https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157559098787641/ 3) Paul Shoemaker has an update on his porting Oregeon Trail from the Apple II to the Coco: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157560611492641/ 4) John Linville has made a video demonstrating his first version of replacing the standard Extended BASIC PLAY for the GMC https://youtu.be/uj-WKwgIGy8 5) ShareSquid put up another "Tips and Tricks" video, this time for Dungeons of Daggorath: https://youtu.be/WGofc41TV6k 6) Frédériic Griignon Posted a video on Facebook about a video game tournament from Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1983. The price as a 16K Coco 1, and the competition was playing Mega Bug. All in French. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157566416852641/ 7) Matchy released a video showing a Coco generating a QR code (and using the Axel F MOD file playing using Sock Master's MOD player as background music), and showing that is scannable. https://youtu.be/DyAYuW-hG9o 8) GigerPunk on YouTube started to do long play Dragon game reviews about a year ago - on the real hardware, but I just found out about his page with his latest video, released this week.. He also reads out the original instructions, too. When he got his Dragon: https://youtu.be/gUJ3u--7V-I Transylvanian Tower: https://youtu.be/BLi4B7_6r7I Phantom Slayer: https://youtu.be/KUenov72GQ0 Backtrack: https://youtu.be/Dqjb717REmw 9) Secretly helped by our own host Steve Strowbridge, Manny Wolfe II got an awesome anniversary present from his wife & Cloud 9 - a 2 MB RAM, 6309 Coco 3 (including 2048K replacement sticker): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157570045997641/ 10) Rick Adams put up some details and background story behind his first game cartridge, Temple of Rom, that he has discovered while going through the sourcecode, with an eye on making an updated version of the game: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157578172622641/ 11) Neil Blanchard put up a photo of some Game Master Cartridge boards being manufactered, as the unstoppable onslaught of winter starts approaching us that live in the Great White North: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157577927592641/ 12) Simon Jonassen put up some graphic images showing a technique that he is working on of (I think) just using the primary RGB (& black & white) colors with dithering, and alternating lines vertically with red, blue and green based palettes to make it appear as if more colors are being display (kind of like a zoomed up version of the RGB phospher dots that appear in a triangle on a TV): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157577945362641/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157578152282641/ 13) Glenside has released the latest Coco~123 newsletter, with some tweaks by brand new newsletter editor, Stevie Strowbridge: https://glensideccc.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ede30d58ff87ad93d480d6401&id=10507e4a80&e=d6af30851b 13) Stevie has gotten Steve Bjork's assembly series in a separate playlist on his Youtube account: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDfh7JjQaSYAs92js43dJ05ytKqswUV4 He also has a download page for the slides and sample files from the tutorial: http://cocotalk.live/6809asm/

The top story this week was the results of the Glenside Color Computer Club election results, we also heard project updates from the panel, and reviewed a lot of Coco, MC-10 and Dragon news from around the globe. Some news stories for October 12, 2019 show: 0) Glenside election results President - Eric Canales Secretary - Rich Bair Treasurer - Brian Goers VicePresident - John Mark Mobley 1) Jim Gerrie has been fixing more bugs, and slightly speeding up his Akalabeth port to the MC-10 (he even took a suggestion from Curtis Boyle!): http://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/2019/10/retrochallenge-201910-akalabeth-another.html https://youtu.be/n9lCJjo-MJc Unfortunately, his blog has a later update from Thursday, October 10th, that he is running out of BASIC memory, even on the MCX-128, to be able to fit the whole game on the MC-10 - and the Coco will have a lot of the same issues. So it may have to wait until we get time to work on the a (Nitr)OS9 Level 2 BASIC09 version, where we can get >32K for a BASIC program. http://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/2019/10/retrochallenge-201910-coco-version.html 2) Roger Taylor is sending out feelers on Facebook about a "computer on a channel" for Roku, where you will be able to use a Coco 3 emulator through the Roku: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157540291702641/ 3) Amigos Retro Gaming did a live stream of some classic computer game playing, including a sizable chunk on the Coco 1/2/3 (starting about 59 minutes in for the Coco). Paul Fiscarelli and myself helped supply tips & some game suggestions, and even Rick Adams popped by for a little bit. https://youtu.be/ofiWbjGcKPQ?t=3540 4) Amigos Retro Gaming have also released the video of episode 1 of their Coco game podcast (the Coco Show) which features Poltergeist and Sailor Man https://youtu.be/uxxvmehrA_o And the audio version is up as well: https://anchor.fm/thecocoshow 5) Aaron from Amigos Retro gaming also did a video of him playing Sailor Man live, showing a lot of the features, all 3 levels, the inviso screen, etc. https://youtu.be/mOBgt-GE9Z0 6) Ed Snider has some preliminary designs for his new Coco 3+ - but this time for the case. It will have an external keyboard, but a built in MPI, and be in a compact, cube shape. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157542665227641/ And an actual prototype, showing the 2 slots built in: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157552612097641/ 7) ShareSquid on YouTube did video play of Downland showing some tips and tricks - running on real hardware with a deluxe joystick. https://youtu.be/PyoVOjIP1ig He also did a companion piece - "Dumb Ways to Die" in Downland: https://youtu.be/DoY_FSrqPgw 8) Our own Brian Wieseler has pictures of (and demo video from) the Dazzle video capture device, capturing composite from a Coco 3. It seems to be an excellent job: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157550440267641/ 9) Petsasjim1 on YouTube did more Dragon game play videos, including (This is not all of them by far): Cave Fighter (a Scramble type game - but with some cool wall barriers added): https://youtu.be/cMT1pstBFcc?t=14 Caverns of Doom (BASIC adventure game with RPG elements): https://youtu.be/eGJX-xRlK1I Capture the Flag: https://youtu.be/9QfoDR87zbk Buzzin Bertie (never seen this one before, not sure what the goal is): https://youtu.be/LPf-KCdYKqQ?t=18 Bust-Out! (A higher semi-graphics version of Bustout with a fair number of game options - including some multi-voice music in the background at times & win you complete a screen): https://youtu.be/231Qys-6AUg?t=157 Bug Diver (reminds me of Shark Treasure): https://youtu.be/iahDeU1SODc?t=9 Bubble Buster (Popcorn style game): https://youtu.be/6XQcH1kVDIE?t=15 Brock's Kingdom: https://youtu.be/RpFeT4GtWoQ?t=25 Boulder Crash2 - which is a revised version of Boulder Dash that actually contains a level editor: https://youtu.be/85CLAWyYtns?t=5 Bonka (Space Panic type game): https://youtu.be/ZgV63G5CYNs

The CoCoTALKers did a whole lot of CoCoTALKing this week :) No major topic just a lot of panel discussions. We saw an update on some new 3D printed cased from John Strong for the Ian Mavrick FD-502 reproduction cartridge. We had a host discussion on favorite CoCo Arcade Game/Clone/Derivative that one might enjoy more than the arcade original. And CoCo/Dragon and MC-10 news from around the web. Some news stories for October 5, 2019 show: 1) Ed Snider announced that him and Gary Becker will continue to collaborate after the GIME-X project is done (which seems to be soon now), and will make a full blown Coco 4! https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157521502122641/ 2) Todd Wallace has started implementing copying files between DECB and OS9 in his disk utility: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157526522332641/ 3) Sheldon MacDonald showed off his prototype mini game controller for the Coco (smaller than a black beauty joystick): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157526519867641/ 4) Jim Gerrie has an update video to his MC-10/MCX-128 Akalabeth port (The predecessor to Ultima). https://youtu.be/2ZOsAsKzMqE He also has a blog entry for it now: http://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/2019/10/retrochallenge-201910-akalabeth-updates.html 5) Matchy has a new video (shown *greatly* sped up, not in real time) of 3D mapping (both outline and filled) using tessellation terrain maps. The first part is on the Coco 1/2 in semigraphics graphics; the later parts on the Coco 3 with 16 colors. https://youtu.be/WvWuVKGc6AI 6) Interesting discussion on Facebook started by our very own Nick Marotta - what game ports (official or clone) did one prefer to play on the Coco vs. the actual arcade (not including the influence who not having to pay quarters). https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157528830222641/ 7) "Petsasjlm1" on YouTube has been using XRoar to play a bunch of old Dragon games, which he seems to be playing in alphabetic order. I don't think he is too familar with the platform, as some of them he doesn't get very far at all. But there are some good videos of Dragon unique titles: Backtrax: https://youtu.be/sN-RxQ_iiJE Balldozer (Arkanoid style game): https://youtu.be/LevwtgRePfE Beanstalker (Lode Runner clone): https://youtu.be/OKBEYaDm9tI The Bells: https://youtu.be/MDiOrdniHc8?t=47 8) Richard Kelly put up a program to check for true lowercase T1 VDG by checking it one has Color Basic 1.3 installed. Now, the two are not tied together, hardware wise, but does anyone know if Tandy sold Color Basic 1.3 on anything but T1 equipped Coco 2's (and Coco 3's)? https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157526641202641/ 9) Daniel Campos & Luciano Scharf have some pictures from the RetroSC gathering in Brazil, showing various Coco's and some of the Brazilian clones: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157536046292641/ 10) Paul Shoemaker has some pics from a possible upcoming Coco project (one of several people to delve into porting Oregon Trail to the Coco). https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157534949302641/ 11) Amigos Retro Gaming (on YouTube) did a live stream of several of their shows in a row on Friday night. One of them is their new Coco gaming show (which featured Poltergeist and Sailor Man), but it hasn't been posted yet (Their Sinclair show, recorded just before the Coco show, just got posted this morning, so I assume that it is coming soon). 12) Retro Arcade gaming has done a Space Invaders clone, which includes several Coco/Dragon ports (including the transcode) (I would have picked Mark Data Products clone for the Coco 1/2 over the Spectral one, myself): https://youtu.be/7gl9AdOs5hY

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We’re doing our wrap-up show discussing all the fun we had last weekend at VCFMW, hear from those that were there, and rejoice in the awesomeness of the event. We'll also have live coverage from the Glenside Color Computer Club's (hosts of the Chicago CoCoFEST!) Pick Nick, so more Chicago area retro goodness! Join us live today, if you were at the event, we'd love to have you join us on the panel to share your experiences. Special Guest Matt from Drakware https://drakware.com/ News links: 1) Jim Gerrie shows off Alpha Force, a Targ like game for the MC-10: https://youtu.be/pKOue-KEbOE https://youtu.be/yzLS60J4SHY https://youtu.be/KOaYwn3TSkA 2) Retro Core did a Thexder port comparison https://youtu.be/H3V2VFze0Vs 3) John Day (ShareSquid on YouTube) is doing high score challenge videos of Coco games: https://youtu.be/ogROu5zUkhY https://youtu.be/OH6KL7Vzc9M 4) FitFo on YouTube is doing a "Sleeper build" based on a Coco 1 case https://youtu.be/vzpffYGSu_s 5) Amigo Aaron on YouTube does a play through of Kron on the Coco: https://youtu.be/NVhQdVl7LBc 6) Simonwgb does a 2 hour play of Jet Set Willy on a Dragon emulator (not sure which one). https://youtu.be/QM0yybcIb2A 7) Todd Wallace aka LordDragon demo's the current version of his OS9/RSDOS disk utility program https://youtu.be/xC4_xg7RcGU 8) For those going to Tandy Assembly, this is a slight change of venue for the show itself https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/301742781704175616/624707134159847424/Screenshot_20190920-163834_Facebook.jpg 9) Nick Marentes has chapter 21 of his Gunstar blog up - which includes some screenshots from levels 3 and 4 from his upcoming game. http://www.nickmarentes.com/Gunstar/21.html 10) Some nice pictures of the Coco related displays from the Living Computer Museum in Seattle https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157495570507641/ 11) Sheldon MacDonald received a Mini MPI this past week, and has it set up to use his SDC and GMC cartridges. He has some photos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157495318582641/ He also has 2 videos on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qrygOXxGF9g https://youtu.be/eSnCI5OlDk8 12) Mike Hawkey purchases a Coco 3 awhile ago, and upon opening it up recently, found some hardware mods directly connected to one of the PIA's: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157486584317641/ 13) D. Bruce Moore has submitted a possible graphic design for the upcoming CocoFest 2020, which is the 40th anniversary of the Coco 1 being released in 1980: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157492904112641/ 14) Erik Gavriluk has apparently tackled speeding up the 3D wireframe displaying program from Hot Coco https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157490650532641/ 15) Sheldon MacDonald has also been making custom game pad joysticks for his Coco as well: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157487841352641/ 16) Diego Barizo has an update on his "Docked Master" game that we previewed on one of our programming live streams, including new bonus screens: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157490627892641/ 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

Streaming from the Vintage Computing Festival Midwest, in Elmhurst, IL. Visit http://vcfmw.org/ to learn more about VCFMW Segment timeline: Main Exhibitor walk-through: 0:13:00 Overflow area walk-through: 01:20:00 CoCo News: 02:22:00 John Strong: 03:15:45 Tandy Assembly Promo: 03:42:30 Brian (The Music Man) Schubring and Bonus news: 04:01:00 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 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

Streaming from the Vintage Computing Festival Midwest, in Elmhurst, IL. Visit http://vcfmw.org/ to learn more about VCFMW Segment timeline: Main Exhibitor walk-through: 0:13:00 Overflow area walk-through: 01:20:00 CoCo News: 02:22:00 John Strong: 03:15:45 Tandy Assembly Promo: 03:42:30 Brian (The Music Man) Schubring and Bonus news: 04:01:00 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 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

Streaming from the Vintage Computing Festival Midwest, in Elmhurst, IL. Visit http://vcfmw.org/ to learn more about VCFMW Segment timeline: Main Exhibitor walk-through: 0:13:00 Overflow area walk-through: 01:20:00 CoCo News: 02:22:00 John Strong: 03:15:45 Tandy Assembly Promo: 03:42:30 Brian (The Music Man) Schubring and Bonus news: 04:01:00 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 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

Streaming from the Vintage Computing Festival Midwest, in Elmhurst, IL. Visit http://vcfmw.org/ to learn more about VCFMW Segment timeline: Main Exhibitor walk-through: 0:13:00 Overflow area walk-through: 01:20:00 CoCo News: 02:22:00 John Strong: 03:15:45 Tandy Assembly Promo: 03:42:30 Brian (The Music Man) Schubring and Bonus news: 04:01:00 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 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

Streaming from the Vintage Computing Festival Midwest, in Elmhurst, IL. Visit http://vcfmw.org/ to learn more about VCFMW Segment timeline: Main Exhibitor walk-through: 0:13:00 Overflow area walk-through: 01:20:00 CoCo News: 02:22:00 John Strong: 03:15:45 Tandy Assembly Promo: 03:42:30 Brian (The Music Man) Schubring and Bonus news: 04:01:00 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 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

Today we'll see footage from an actual Radio Shack store in Fergus Falls, ND, and we'll cover CoCo and retro news from around the world, all this and more! Dragon MMC https://www.facebook.com/486899808139431/photos/a.1140963062733099/1373107506185319/?type=3&theater&ifg=1 CoCo Dream Team https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3546521472040762&set=gm.911639275871352&type=3&theater&ifg=1 Singing River Computer Club Colorama BBS https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3861047400610358&set=gm.10157432004972641&type=3&theater&ifg=1 Pulled the trigger on a CoCo 2 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157441852882641/ Cheap CoCo 2 on eBay https://www.ebay.com/itm/Tandy-Radio-Shack-TRS-80-64K-Color-Computer-2-Repaired-Cleaned-Tested-/113871228345?fbclid=IwAR0I0CaNxAbYyW2Jcb_mCmWbK4_9Ax8omDq-4pUqN5R98jK6MkrW2FddUaI Fixed Yellow Bar on CoCo 2 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156838069387641/ Somebody got a CoCo 3! https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157441784502641/ Dragon Cassette collections https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2389185931341062/ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10211923271312096&set=pcb.2384130605179928&type=3&theater&ifg=1 Type-in Mania Haunted House Text Adventure https://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/2019/08/this-is-text-adventure-haunted-house.html?fbclid=IwAR3dQIBlgnufNa9C66OdQe_X6EGif0wJ4jeE1Qmr4OxkBR91agaiHPH-2H0 Starring the Computer - CoCo on screen! http://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=34&fbclid=IwAR1hcBpbxolHfwQNburFpt4rae9xCSsM6UeGjvHRJEWi0IiwGS59AAtjDeE Glenside Voting https://www.facebook.com/groups/290791956162/permalink/10157404684246163/ More AGD packs and games! http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7079 http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7078 Wireless controller on C-64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcItOtWsD94&feature=share. Wireless Sega-style controller on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/8Bitdo-Wireless-Gamepad-Original-Genesis-Drive/dp/B07HB1XFQW?th=1 Donations to the Cave #3 retro unboxing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPQ2bYBA7gA&feature=share Fuzix turnes 0.3! https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX/commit/cacbe5238588d352768ab95951c46d09879ba310 8-bit educational games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqdzesm5tyE&feature=youtu.be Inferno Dragon 32 Cassette 50 game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hqDCYpXhkE&feature=youtu.be CoCo 3 OS-9 serial to a TRS-80 model 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwKHXIHrF4g&feature=youtu.be Mini-Zork source code request https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157457656482641/ Rick Adams Delphi update https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157450468347641/ http://delphi.rickadams.org/ Restoring a CoCo 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIaGozS6G8Q&feature=youtu.be Metro Area Color Computer Club BBS Overview 1986 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftp82s832xQ&feature=youtu.be CoCo 3 game development https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZl3T5VqfAU&feature=youtu.be Radio Shackck in North Dakota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD91PI3Y1qI&feature=youtu.be RARE TRS-80 interface box https://www.ebay.com/itm/254338246736?ul_noapp=true 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 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 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

So we're pleased to announce a very special guest, Erturk Kocalar, from www.8bitforce.com he's going to talk about his RetroShield for Arduino Mega project that was shown off at VCF West. Episode 123 of CoCoTALK! live will look at the evolution of the Color Computer Community, it's past, it's present, and speculate on it's future, we'll hear from old timers and new comers alike, so let's all chime in about our favorite computer and community 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 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 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

We've had so many amazing things happen on this show, it's hard to imagine what's going to happen next, and, this week, we have a brand new CoCo game to unveil to the world, it's going to be a surprise to us all, even on the panel, but we're super excited to have our software library expand. Turns out the game is called Run Dino Run, by Paul Fiscarelli, with the 3-voice music player by Simon Jonassen, and it’s a lot of fun. You can download it here http://imacoconut.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DINORUN.zip requires a CoCo 3 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 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

Keller, Texas marks the location of the first "new" official Radio Shack Store in 2019, and our live correspondent Joe Burnett will take us on a live video tour of this new store, and we'll hopefully hear from some employees, customers, and managers. Full article: http://www.fortworthbusiness.com/news/radioshack-reboot-retailer-powers-up-with-new-vision/article_2b0389aa-bac5-11e9-b62b-aff8b65d0aa1.html?fbclid=IwAR0RNyIssjWn_gNVj0Yew-X_BXmwiSJpKLIYwgeBa7k8OCugVhA1k7qu_JA We'll also hear from Guru Santiago on a new CoCo sprite hardware project and more! 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

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.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 News Links: ews stories for August 10, 2019 show: 1) Jim Gerrie has released a new version of "Brickout" for the MC-10 that runs faster than the original that Tandy released. https://youtu.be/Jqe46M0gr-k He also has a video for generating a random maze (I believe? Not sure) that is literally one line of BASIC code. https://youtu.be/NwfBdafWouE 2) Amigos Retro Gaming posted a Youtube video with 2 Dragon games featured. https://youtu.be/WJzbJSrjSYc 3) Noriko Miyagami has posted her complete play through of the Coco version of the Scott Adams Grand Adventure #6: Strange Odyssey. https://youtu.be/2j3WsK-PYic 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. https://youtu.be/v3kD4PawrtE

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.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

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.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

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! Join the live panel on ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/109422739 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 News links: 1) Nick Marentes has his latest GunStar blog up: http://www.nickmarentes.com/Gunstar/18.html 2) Blair Leduc has another update to his Assembly extension for Visual Code Studio (now up to version 0.3.0): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157315033642641/ 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 https://youtu.be/IqvOJ6hL6Nc 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. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157314793107641/ 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. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157146611412641/ 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=6112 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: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/homecomputermuseum-streaming-tour 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. https://youtu.be/5JsJGPI4e4k 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. http://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-92-dave-lagerquist-interview-editor-cload-and-chromasette 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. https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2352252818367707/ (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. https://youtu.be/3F03WK6NNZo You can also download the program he has written: http://jasonpittman.com/dist/CoCoPic.zip 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/

Today we'll announce a very special opportunity to join a private screening of the entire series of CoCoForever, created by D. Bruce Moore, and we'll hear from the cast, crew, and consumes of the series. A few special guests will also be invited, send an email to [email protected] with your entry, telling us _WHY_ you should attend the private screening. News stories for July 6 show: 1) Jeff Teunissen (Deek on Discord) has started a public github for ALL C source code for OS9/NitrOS-9 (past and present), and includes parts of the C compiler itself. This is very much an ongoing work in progress, so if this is of interest to you, keep checking in on it periodically. He is also wanting anyone with C source code for OS-9/NitrOS-9 projects that he has not been able to find, to sent them to him and he will include them on his Github. As of July 3, in addition to the C compiler itself, he also has other language whose compilers were written in C (like Forth09 and XLisp), as well as enhanced utilities (like Help & CUTS). https://github.com/Deek/CoCoC 2) Ron Klein has an experimental (translation: expect bugs!) CocoPI3 git repo, so that the CocoPI3 can get automatic updates. Details & instructions here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tTtsB-_iR7ECtPwY11cxcHeB9GSF8oaZszDFWWV3uNg/edit 3) Tony Cappellini shared some photos he had taken at one of the Color America Fests, held in the southern California around the mid-1980's. Steve Bjork makes a guest appearance, and has a photo shoot with a Quadrunner (I think some of these photos ended up in his interview with Color Computer Magazine). They also hooked the quad up so that it could literally control Steve's game Desert Rider (released by Tandy/Radio Shack). One of the Wayne Technologies CP/M cards makes an appearance, as well as other hardware and software. There is also a Q&A session with some local Coco luminaries of the time, that Tony would like help identifying. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157299413497641/ 4) Allen Huffman gets a shoutout for his version of the Zimodem firmware (originally by Bo Zimmerman for the Commodores) for Simulant's Retro Wifi SI (Wifi RS-232 serial modem). (See notes at end) https://www.simulant.uk/shop/retro-vintage-computer-wifi-modem-rs232-serial-hayes-compatible 5) Erico Monteiro has been working on sample semi-graphics animated artwork (all fully compatible with real hardware), including a mock-up of a Street Fighter II type game. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157292683362641/ 6) Mat Chy is making a utility to help mix text scanlines for the Semigraphics-24 mode (like Protectors II did for the people you are rescuing), and has a video showing it: https://youtu.be/XhhAgFfe7bY And he has an animated GIF demo of it doing a kung-fu type game, as well as additional screenshots of experiments: https://www.facebook.com/mat.chy.5099/videos/142356680199801/ And he also released a video showing an SG12 demo with a character running between rooms, with some automapping as well: https://www.facebook.com/mat.chy.5099/videos/142687670166702/ 7) CocoMech keyboard installation video by Ed Snider - shows how to install it. https://youtu.be/PSR8-zqRSTY 8) Evan Wright has found software author Robert G. Kilgus, who has a book out called "An Inside Look at Microfiles", which goes into the thinking (and includes source) for his TRS-80 Model I/III program "Microfiles". Robert also did some of the earliest Coco programming as well, and seemed to favour 3-dimensional games (Quasar Commander, Dino Wars, Skiing, Color Cubes), and he also did the Disk Edtasm+ package. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157301702177641/ 9) Glenside has published their latest newsletter, which includes a lot of pictures and info from the CocoFest in May: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157302097527641/ 10) Blair Leduc has released an updated Visual Studio code for 6x09 assembly language (0.2.0). https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157292683362641/ 11) And speaking of SG modes, Mat Chy shared a video of an SG Tile editor he has been working on. Erico has been active in the comments of that thread as well. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157289429657641/ 12) Ken Reighard has released a new game "Nightmare Highway", with a great little commercial. https://www.cankenmakeit.com/2019/07/new-game-for-coco-1-2-and-3-nightmare.html 13) James Diffendaffer has a video demonstrating the speedup he has done to MC-10 BASIC in the SIN/COS functions, and how BASIC keeps track of it's current line. He says that most programs get an 8% speed increase, but math intensive get up to 44% faster (as this video shows). https://youtu.be/BCeR-tOz5QY

News stories for June 22 show: 1) Ron Klein has release a 2nd tutorial video on running the CocoPi3 - this time for working with disk images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPmmhA2Wf5s 2) Ron Klein has also put up a video about using the Atom Editor for cross platform software development to the Coco: https://youtu.be/CkFVCOD0NoU He also has uploaded the files for it to GitHub: https://github.com/mrgw454/AtomDevEnv 3) Mark D. Overholser & Bill Nobel have both received some Omniboards for developing hardware projects for the Coco, based on a design by Jayeson Lee-Steere. Picture of Mark's (in different colors) here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157337010235960&set=a.123088625959&type=3 4) Carlos Camacho asked on the Coco group on Facebook for a complete list of magazines/newsletters that supported the Coco. The list is a lot bigger than I would have thought when it was first asked. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157240838647641/ 5) Ed Orbea was asking some questions about running Fuzix (Coco 3 port by Brett Gordon) on a real Coco 3, and has received answers from William Carlin and Ron Klein. For those wanting to experiment with a version of Unix for the Coco, this is a good post to start with. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157275811322641/ 6) Brendin Emslie printed a case for his CocoSDC using his resin printer, which turned out quite well: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157278238652641/ 7) Richard Sorek has uploaded a PDF reference for the 6809, 6821, 6840 & 6850 in French. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157262363462641/ 8) Paul Barton is doing a Coco 3 repack into a PC tower case (We haven't seen one of these in quite awhile, but they were almost commonplace in the 1990's): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157277554822641/ 9) RetroManCave on YouTube has a video about The Micro Museum (40 years of collecting microcomputers), and the Coco 1, 2 and MC-10 make an appearance around 5:35 into it (and again at 5:50) when showing some of the 1980's machines. Strangely, I don't see a Coco 3 in there. https://youtu.be/S8e84LE7fYs 10) Jim Gerrie has been busy again: Coup D'Etat MC10 port from Sharp MZ80A: https://youtu.be/GUZSTyx9xd0 11) Todd Wallace shared a video powering his Coco 3 set up from stored solar energy: https://youtu.be/YyLG4MrFSEk 12) For our Dragon brethren in the UK, The 3rd annual Dragon Meetup (2019) is being held on July 6, at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2344147779178211/ 13) Retro Arcade Gaming did a comparison of Galaxians (and clones) between platforms. Since every computer had multiple clones, he chose Galax Attax by Spectral Associates to represent the Coco. (Coco at 9:26). He did choose the version with the original alien ships (quite different than the arcade); there was a later version that had graphics more closely resembling the original arcade. Visually, Glaxxons by Mark Data was closer visually, but the gameplay was quite different than the arcade. https://youtu.be/fTFT3aCj_AY 14) Paul Thayer & Simon Jonassen are starting a massive Coco game project that they want to get other volunteers to become part of the team (graphics artists, level designers, musicians, etc.) You can respond to Paul's call on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157285796482641/

Today we'll be even liver than ever, because we'll have our first ever live audio podcast on Spreaker! Live YouTube video feed: http://live.cocotalk.live Live audio podcast feed: https://www.spreaker.com/show/cocotalklive News stories for June 22 show: 1) AGD game pack #31 release by Pere Serrat and Kees van Oss. Includes Breakanoid, Chunkzone, Operation Labyrinth Fall, Pengo Quest & Percy Penguin. Of note is that these are much more recently made games from the Spectrum; these are from 2015-2019. http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6085 2) AGD game pack #31 release by Pere Serrat and Kees van Oss. Includes Ferret Buster, Flipping Horace, Lupo Alberto, Monkey Jr, Pickaxe Pete & "Zyblut Owrzodzien w Kamiennym". http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6091 They have also updated the "Big Packs" to version 2.3, if you want to get all of the AGD games in one ZIP. There are 4 versions - long filenames (for emulators), short filenames (for the SDC,etc.), and each for Dragon and Coco. http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5971 3) Brian Wieseler found other sets of Production samples of Coco cartridges (both Tandy & Radio Shack labelled) are now up on eBay (similar to the Temple of ROM we talked about a few weeks ago). These also have the dates and sizes of production runs, which I find fascinating, especially with how many copies of older games (like Bustout) were still being made 8 years after their debut). And the fact that these are the only "official" numbers I have seen for Coco related product (even if they are incomplete, and a snapshot of a specific time frame). These were in the archives at the Radio Shack warehouse in Fort Worth, and were obtained by the seller in 2017 when Radio Shack went into bankruptcy. Demolition Derby (4,650 made between April 21, 1988-March 7, 1989): https://www.ebay.com/itm/273893753643 Dino Wars (2,300 made between Sep. 20-21, 1988): https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dinowars-Tandy-TRS-80-Radio-Shack-Production-Sample/273893753615 Bustout (1,950 made between Nov. 10, 1988-Nov. 23, 1988): https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bustout-Tandy-TRS-80-Radio-Shack-Production-Samples/273893753621 Space Assault (1,925 made between April 20, 1988-Feb. 24, 1989) https://www.ebay.com/itm/Space-Assault-Tandy-TRS-80-Radio-Shack-Production-Sample-Complete-in-Box/283519897602 Monster Maze (made between April 20, 1988-Sep 19,1988 Can't quite read qtys - at least 1558?) https://www.ebay.com/itm/Monster-Maze-Tandy-TRS-80-Radio-Shack-Production-Sample-Complete-in-Box/283519897605 4) Matchy (I don't know his real name) has released as DSK image for his Atari 2600 Combat type game called Tank Out, that we showed last week. This includes support for Ed Snider's PSG sound/joystick card, as well as "normal" joystick and 6 bit DAC sound. It's in the I'm A CoCo Nut group on Facebook, under Files: https://www.facebook.com/groups/imacoconut/permalink/415901369260807/ 5) Davy Mitchell has uploaded videos of the remaining games on the Dragon by Pocket Money Software (we have already viewed Tea Time, Bubble Buster, Data Fall and Robin Hood). New games to look at are Fearless Freddy, Bandito, Jet Boot Colin, Slide, Toppler, Pit Fiend. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0L3KoVXJkYHs0aKZfSACTIJmuavZPUlN 6) Jason Pittman has rejoined the Coco community, and has a screenshot from an emulated Coco, showing his real Coco set up (inception?) https://imgur.com/a/ooGkS10 7) A discussion on Facebook for supporting more than the standard 32K RAM supported by BASIC, particulary on a Coco 1/2/Dragon/TDP that has 64K brought out a couple of solutions; a 40K BASIC from Rainbow magazine January 1984, Baby Basic. I remember Key-264 also supporting something like this. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157265333152641/ 8) Noriko Miyagami has posted a walkthrough of the Coco version of the Scott Adams adventure game Secret Mission (originally Mission Impossible - likely changed for copyright reasons). https://youtu.be/Whj6hpoLxVE 9) Atari Vision on YouTube has uploaded an 8 minute video "introducing his Tandy Color Computer 3". His is upgraded to 512k, and has a real FD-501 floppy drive. I am not sure who this is, real name wise. https://youtu.be/6tR_mEeFmOk 10) Ciaran Ascomb's online, web-based XRoar emulator (coco 1/2/Dragon) is "Coming along nicely" It supports various disk ROM's, cassette, Orchestra-90 and Game Master Cartridge support (if running the Fest demo for the GMC, it only works properly with NTSC emulation - timing will be off in PAL). http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/x/

Episode 112 of CoCoTALK! will deal with adding/upgrading RAM in your CoCo 3. From 512K to 2MB and beyond, we'll hear first-hand from those who've done it, see a tutorial video on how to do it, and discuss how much RAM is really "needed" in a CoCo 3. We'll also review some news from around the retro web, including Davy Mitchell's retro corner and Dragon games, Jim Gerries MC-10 trophy challenges, and more, tune in at 2PM EDT at http://live.cocotalk.live NEWS LINKS: CoCo PSG Tank Battle (Mat Chy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXRhwG8Feq4&fbclid=IwAR1PKrYzl5jI8xNOqPXVabUNmbsu_J1tnleUw-kFRy1v904DRjEwYJI98j0 CoCo Mystery unboxing - Amigos Retro Gaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCjshz4YhYM&fbclid=IwAR37lH5J3QNinKBVr8HV1cAOTvCOcakOyhEU7SSbKHlUPdeM8SHEzshmzYc AGD downloadable packs: http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5971 AGD Pack #30 http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6077&fbclid=IwAR3r-b-QjQjXjKRzSbk2ZUf4S3eNznJ1c5msCSfCRNywPiO5cTpYHctEZpg Nick Marentes Waterfall: http://www.nickmarentes.com/ProjectArchive/waterfall.html Glen Dahlgren (Sun Dog Systems) https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157244056382641/ Jeff Vavosaur Atari StarWars Arcade emulation: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157247518017641/?sfnsn=mo Dragon videos from Davy's retro corner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJCLq3KjoSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD6OjCa_feQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCGY0qSRrU8 Charlie's MC-10 page: http://chazbeenhad.tripod.com/?fbclid=IwAR1dY3BlYAXGYaa8MVCszyEbdzLOgOqdHs3M37QwttZFPGmqcBhhyJ9nepA Jamie Cho MC-10 group https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/2162992693827541/ Jim Gerrie's type-in mania page: http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html?fbclid=IwAR1D514SIT_wranG_TcIpcbz2ihtEmcPvs0P7AJuRT1BVi59oZXJRFr8_k4 MC-10 group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/?epa=SEARCH_BOX

This week's episode is a potpourri of CoCo goodness, we'll have an announcement from Richard Lorbieski of BoysonTech we'll cover this week in CoCo news, hear from members of the community, possibly see some footage from VCF East this year, and maybe, if we're lucky, see a tutorial on how to install a memory upgrade on a CoCo 3. All this and more, tune in live and join the CoCo community with CoCoTALK!

Fedor Steemen shows us the Motorola Raster Memory System We have a reflective segment we call "Dirty Laundry" Cover some CoCo news Finally have a fairly lengthy and heavy discussion about some current drama in the community. CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm Join the live panel ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/109422739 Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

Steamed courtesy of Marc Bosley, and co-hosted by L. Curtis Boyle, and "that guy who made Zaxxon", Steve Bjork, catch up on what's new and exciting this week in the world of retro computing and the Tandy Color Computer. Catch us live on YouTube at http://live.cocotalk.live on our Facebook page https://facebook.com/cocotalklive CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm Join the live panel ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/109422739 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: Panel introduction, review of how our week in the retro hobby transpired. Feed back review: We go over previous episodes, how many views have they received, what's our current podcast download count, who sent us comments, email feed back, all those and more will be discussed and shared. Community activity reviews: Review of news and postings from the Facebook group and the Color Computer mailing list. Question of the week: Grant Leighty will bring us a question of the week occasionally for us to discuss. TechTALK! L. Curtis Boyle and David Ladd provide us with some more depth on technical discussions CoreDUMP! Nick Marentes will host technical discussions about software development, and hopefully not only raise questions, but provide answers for our CoCo devs Ron's Garage! Ron Delvaux offers us a peek into the past by showing of his impressive retro computing collection, each week we'll see some new items and talk about them. Why did They/Tandy do that? We'll ask the hard hitting questions of why things were (or weren't) done that could have possibly changed the course of history (hey that sounds like a great premise for a series!) Interviews, News, Reviews, and more! CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

Episode 108 of CoCoTALK! aired live Saturday may 18th 2018, and what a great show we ended up having. We got to see live footage from HamVention an annual HAM radio event, and our own CocoMan Jason Reighard ended up getting a lot of cool CoCo and retro gear. A civil discussion about copyright protection was had, as well as project updates and other discussions from members of the CoCo community. Make sure to stay on top of all things CoCoTALK! at http://cocotalk.live

CoCoTALK! episode 107 will be reviewing this past weekend's 28th annual "last" Chicago CoCoFEST! which took place in Lombard, IL. We'll hear from those who were there We'll see lots of pictures We'll hear the stories (there are some great stories this year!) We'll see what people purchased from exhibitors We'll see what people got in the auction We'll see an updated preview of Simon Jonassen's CoCo 3 demo We'll get a look at Beta 4 of Nitros09 Ease of Use edition Time permitting we'll see a tech video on how to install a 2MB upgrade Perhaps a few other surprises, too! Join us at 2PM EDT live on either Facebook or YouTube https://facebook.com/cocotalklive http://live.cocotalk.live Join us as we celebrate one of the most successful CoCoFEST! in recent years!

The year 2019 marks the 28th annual "last" Chicago CoCoFEST! in Lombard Illinois hosted by the Glenside Color Computer Club, and we were there all weekend bringing live coverage, and, thanks to the folks who weren't able to attend, still have a live episode of CoCoTALK! so enjoy! CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm Join the live panel ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/109422739 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: Panel introduction, review of how our week in the retro hobby transpired. Feed back review: We go over previous episodes, how many views have they received, what's our current podcast download count, who sent us comments, email feed back, all those and more will be discussed and shared. Community activity reviews: Review of news and postings from the Facebook group and the Color Computer mailing list. Question of the week: Grant Leighty will bring us a question of the week occasionally for us to discuss. TechTALK! L. Curtis Boyle and David Ladd provide us with some more depth on technical discussions CoreDUMP! Nick Marentes will host technical discussions about software development, and hopefully not only raise questions, but provide answers for our CoCo devs Ron's Garage! Ron Delvaux offers us a peek into the past by showing of his impressive retro computing collection, each week we'll see some new items and talk about them. Why did They/Tandy do that? We'll ask the hard hitting questions of why things were (or weren't) done that could have possibly changed the course of history (hey that sounds like a great premise for a series!) Interviews, News, Reviews, and more! CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

We're about a week away from CoCoFEST! this will be the last CoCoTALK! before the FEST! let's talk CoCoFEST! Special thanks to MarcB for being the live streamer and for the entire panel for helping the show go on! CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm 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: Panel introduction, review of how our week in the retro hobby transpired. Feed back review: We go over previous episodes, how many views have they received, what's our current podcast download count, who sent us comments, email feed back, all those and more will be discussed and shared. Community activity reviews: Review of news and postings from the Facebook group and the Color Computer mailing list. Question of the week: Grant Leighty will bring us a question of the week occasionally for us to discuss. TechTALK! L. Curtis Boyle and David Ladd provide us with some more depth on technical discussions CoreDUMP! Nick Marentes will host technical discussions about software development, and hopefully not only raise questions, but provide answers for our CoCo devs Ron's Garage! Ron Delvaux offers us a peek into the past by showing of his impressive retro computing collection, each week we'll see some new items and talk about them. Why did They/Tandy do that? We'll ask the hard hitting questions of why things were (or weren't) done that could have possibly changed the course of history (hey that sounds like a great premise for a series!) Interviews, News, Reviews, and more! CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

History was made, and a Tandy Speech and Sound Pack was awarded live on air based on the audience votes. A new segment called Game On was also introduced, and lots of news and talk of the upcoming CoCoFEST! News links: BBC Archive - Musical Computer: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=262930994658413 Robert Sieg - HiRes SG6 modes on the MC-10: https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/2071882059605272/ Mega Mini MPI serial adapter: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2344664822479863&set=gm.10157099095877641&type=3&theater&ifg=1 Brian Palmer CoCo 3 UFO: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10219136668117750&set=gm.10157102029602641&type=3&theater&ifg=1 CoCo 64K badge: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156991463531718&set=gm.10157101174432641&type=3&theater&ifg=1 CoCo real-time clock and speech synthesis: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2590297334331964&set=gm.10157093599267641&type=3&theater&ifg=1 ColorMate: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157099729062641/ David O'Connor original CoCo: https://www.facebook.com/groups/127411341292422/permalink/323684794998408/ Speech Sound Pack give away: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157097979872641/ 6309 CPU in music synths: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157109352372641/ Custom CoCo clone: https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/be21rh/has_anyone_ever_seen_a_homebuilt_trs80_clone_my/ CoCoVGA font editor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPFwUq9Ryac&feature=youtu.be CoCoVGA character sets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zlRS-oJYm0&feature=youtu.be New CoCo website: http://jechar.ca/coco/index.php Port Battles - Dig Dug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt1Js6g6UMo&feature=youtu.be GMC demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilTBt1cpprQ&feature=youtu.be CoCoFEST! T-Shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4661984-cocofest-2019 AGD Pack #26: http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5970&sid=4dfe3fcbccd29eeed4fa1da6f7ab57b2 Dragon 32 - trash to treasure part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NUhKTe12v0&feature=youtu.be Events: Midwest gaming classic photo album: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipM6pcJcRPUmeBAvYKI4kDtSSzBcyT1AOVn-uqc0KHhdtPInHq7E5VpYxWW0oMoQzg?key=WUkyS25INVBzV0c4N3I3WHdLcDNmdkhyWk45RVdB Glenside CoCoFEST! http://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/index.shtml

Live from Oklahoma City it's CoCoTALK! Episode 103! Thanks to MarcB for streaming! 00:00:00 Opening. 00:00:57 Around the Room. 00:22:49 Nicholas Marotta: Interested in Purchasing a CoCo 2. 00:28:55 ogStevie Strow: Office Remodel. 00:30:33 Brian Wieseler: Book, Comics and Dell 2408-WFPB. 00:37:51 Rick Adams: Snow Free?? 00:40:07 Paul Shoemaker: Dungeon Crawl, and CoCo 2 Poster. 00:49:19 Break. 00:51:47 The New Rainbow Magazine Update. 00:59:53 News, From Around the CoCo and Dragon World.. 01:35:42 Break. 01:37:28 Core Dump: NitrOS9, DriveWire and Ease of Use ( EoU ). 02:30:35 Closing. CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

We're live from Hollywood California with a special guest broadcaster and host, Mr. Rob Inman creator of the Boomerang mania video, and all around nice guy! On the panel: Rob Inman, Ron Delvaux, Mark Bosley, Nick Marotta, Curtis Boyle, David O'Connor, Simon Jonassen, Jason the CoCoMan Reighard, Nick Marentes, David Ladd, Brian the Music Man Schubring, and Rick Adams, thank you, you're too kind! Make sure you stay in tune with the CoCo community in Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm And don't forget to like the CoCoTALK! Facebook page: https://facebook.com/cocotalklive

We're live, back and better than ever with episode 101 of CoCoTALK! live the world's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer! CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm 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 VCF-PNW Album https://www.facebook.com/vcfederation/posts/2897415740276510 Rob Inman JoyStick Hardware ( Slides and Links ) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GgZTIPQVNpuDFgrr5AvRxRPXYIyumOg4O0SBE_w3RC0/edit#slide=id.p 00:00:00 Opening 00:03:58 Around the Room. 00:08:58 Glenside CoCoFEST! Update. 00:18:18 Project Updates and Acquisitions ( Brian Wieseler ). 00:45:23 Break. 00:47:56 Vintage Computer Federation, Pacific Northwest ( VCF-PNW ) Update. 01:25:22 Break. 01:27:03 Core Dump ( Rob Inman: JoyStick Hardware ). 01:52:12 Break. 01:56:59 In the Hot Seat: Terry Steege. 02:17:10 News from Around the World. 02:34:22 Real Time Clocks 02:43:42 VR and Dungeons of Daggorath ( Ben Drakes ). CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

CoCoTALK! celebrates 100 episodes with special musical guest David O’Connor from http://synthtweaks.com/ playing us some cool analog synth music along with the cast and crew of the Color Computer community as we celebrate 39 years of this magnificent machine! For all things CoCOTALK! visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live

We're live with episode 99 of CoCoTALK! the World's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer! 1 more until 100! CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm 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: Panel introduction, review of how our week in the retro hobby transpired. Feed back review: We go over previous episodes, how many views have they received, what's our current podcast download count, who sent us comments, email feed back, all those and more will be discussed and shared. Community activity reviews: Review of news and postings from the Facebook group and the Color Computer mailing list. Question of the week: Grant Leighty will bring us a question of the week occasionally for us to discuss. TechTALK! L. Curtis Boyle and David Ladd provide us with some more depth on technical discussions CoreDUMP! Nick Marentes will host technical discussions about software development, and hopefully not only raise questions, but provide answers for our CoCo devs Ron's Garage! Ron Delvaux offers us a peek into the past by showing of his impressive retro computing collection, each week we'll see some new items and talk about them. Why did They/Tandy do that? We'll ask the hard hitting questions of why things were (or weren't) done that could have possibly changed the course of history (hey that sounds like a great premise for a series!) Interviews, News, Reviews, and more! CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

My favorite version of Window ever, and now the highest episode ever, it's episode 98! New Guests David O'Connor joins us with his musical array of gear including CoCos. We've got a special video un-boxing from Jason Downs, we've got some music on the Game Master Cartridge, and who knows what else? Jim Gerrie joins us along with Mark B, and probably some other old guys, too :) CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm 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: Panel introduction, review of how our week in the retro hobby transpired. Feed back review: We go over previous episodes, how many views have they received, what's our current podcast download count, who sent us comments, email feed back, all those and more will be discussed and shared. Community activity reviews: Review of news and postings from the Facebook group and the Color Computer mailing list. Question of the week: Grant Leighty will bring us a question of the week occasionally for us to discuss. TechTALK! L. Curtis Boyle and David Ladd provide us with some more depth on technical discussions CoreDUMP! Nick Marentes will host technical discussions about software development, and hopefully not only raise questions, but provide answers for our CoCo devs Ron's Garage! Ron Delvaux offers us a peek into the past by showing of his impressive retro computing collection, each week we'll see some new items and talk about them. Why did They/Tandy do that? We'll ask the hard hitting questions of why things were (or weren't) done that could have possibly changed the course of history (hey that sounds like a great premise for a series!) Interviews, News, Reviews, and more! CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

We're live with episode 97 of CoCoTALK! at it's new time 8PM EST every Saturday, what will we talk about tonight? Why CoCo! of Course! We'll also introduce a new downloadable segment, CLOADM where you can load a piece of software into your CoCo, tell us what it is, and win a prize! CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm 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: Panel introduction, review of how our week in the retro hobby transpired. Feed back review: We go over previous episodes, how many views have they received, what's our current podcast download count, who sent us comments, email feed back, all those and more will be discussed and shared. Community activity reviews: Review of news and postings from the Facebook group and the Color Computer mailing list. Question of the week: Grant Leighty will bring us a question of the week occasionally for us to discuss. TechTALK! L. Curtis Boyle and David Ladd provide us with some more depth on technical discussions CoreDUMP! Nick Marentes will host technical discussions about software development, and hopefully not only raise questions, but provide answers for our CoCo devs Ron's Garage! Ron Delvaux offers us a peek into the past by showing of his impressive retro computing collection, each week we'll see some new items and talk about them. Why did They/Tandy do that? We'll ask the hard hitting questions of why things were (or weren't) done that could have possibly changed the course of history (hey that sounds like a great premise for a series!) Interviews, News, Reviews, and more! CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

The latest episode of CoCoTALK! brings us game development TALK! and we heard from a veteran and new CoCo game maker. Craig Stewart from Australia, neighbor of Nick Marentes talks about his CoCo 1/2/3 games he made over the years, the ones that earned him a little fame and fortune in AU were Pursuit and Space Marauder, both of which one contests in the Australian Color Computer magazine and were sold by Tandy Stores. Paul Shoemaker talks about his latest CoCo Project Dungeon Crawl, inspired by Telengaurd and was available on a limited run of physical floppy disks complete with printed manual, and is also available as a digital download which can run on the CoCo SDC or emulator. You can still get digital downloads from Paul if you email him at [email protected]

CoCoTALK! episode 95 will be live tonight at our new experimental time slot which is 8 PM EST. This will mark the first time that the main show will also be simulcast on both YouTube and Facebook Live! at the same time! You can see us on our usual YouTube address of http://live.cocotalk.live or on the CoCoTALK! Facebook page which is https://facebook.com/cocotalklive Tonight we're going to have some special guests, we won't reveal who that is just yet, but you'll have to watch and find out. CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm 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 Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

We're back, and we're live at a slight earlier time, this week we're trying 8PM EST by somewhat popular request, so we'll see how it goes, as it turned out, it was just shy of 5 hours of mostly non-coco (but still retro) discussions and we all had a great time. CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm 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: Panel introduction, review of how our week in the retro hobby transpired. Feed back review: We go over previous episodes, how many views have they received, what's our current podcast download count, who sent us comments, email feed back, all those and more will be discussed and shared. Community activity reviews: Review of news and postings from the Facebook group and the Color Computer mailing list. Question of the week: Grant Leighty will bring us a question of the week occasionally for us to discuss. TechTALK! L. Curtis Boyle and David Ladd provide us with some more depth on technical discussions CoreDUMP! Nick Marentes will host technical discussions about software development, and hopefully not only raise questions, but provide answers for our CoCo devs Ron's Garage! Ron Delvaux offers us a peek into the past by showing of his impressive retro computing collection, each week we'll see some new items and talk about them. Why did They/Tandy do that? We'll ask the hard hitting questions of why things were (or weren't) done that could have possibly changed the course of history (hey that sounds like a great premise for a series!) Interviews, News, Reviews, and more! CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow