Today we celebrate the greatest thing in American History, the birf of Tom C from Jersey!
We may also pay homage to our treasonous Brexit of 1776, but that is not as important.
This.... is..... CoCoTALK!
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:02:50 "Happy Birthday Song" to Tom C
00:04:01 Panel Introductions
00:08:14 CoCo Discord #coco-art-gallery
00:10:51 CoCo Thoughts
00:13:43 GameON! challenge results
00:43:45 Next week's game announcement
00:54:48 Upcoming game of the week announcement - Bomb Threat
00:53:21 Nick Marotta magazine cover
00:55:10 Panel Discussion - De-soldering
01:18:45 News from around the retro world
01:47:37 GameON! news
02:10:09 Panel discussion "What did you use regularly"
02:47:16 CoCo Thoughts
02:54:18 Project updates and acquisitions
03:44:50 How Tom C impacted your life
03:50:41 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion
News stories for Episode #167, July 4, 2020 show:
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1) Tim Halloran has an updated video on using DC power to power his Coco 2.
https://youtu.be/6UN1XvJG-bs
2) Playing on an emulator or actual Coco - which to choose, and why?:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158399124387641/
3) Bill Garretson has a video of a Fireworks program he wrote for the Coco 1/2:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158410702962641/
4) Joey Cabral has some photos up of his upgrading a Coco 3 to a 6309 using his newly acquired Hakko de-soldering vacuum
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158398004597641/
5) Interesting discussion started by Jim McClellan - asking what is an "acceptable" word processor for the Coco 3
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158398348812641/
6) Christopher Mayeux posted a newspaper article from September 13, 1990 talking about some Color Computer User Groups in his area
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158398828332641/
7) Coco Crew episode 61 is out. Includes an interview with Simon Jonassen and Paul Fiscarelli about a new background sampled sound routine they are working on that is both compressed (4 bit ADPCM) and fast (no more than 63 CPU cycles per sample). An interesting discussion topic was "What Coco software did you use the most?".
http://cococrew.org
8) Nir Dary in the Dragon Facebook group shows a Hebrew font he has been working on, that uses John Whitworth's board that allows custom fonts:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2659735700952749/
9) Interesting Ebay find in Europe in the Dragon Facebook group - a Dragon 32 with *native* RGB support:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2657678064491846/
10) Robert Gault has apparently uploaded a large world map program for OS9 up to the Color Computer archive, but it's not up yet as of this time.
11) Simon Jonassen has posted a brief video showing his new demo program, and using the ADPCM sound routine that he talked about on the latest Coco Crew episode:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158411807097641/
Game On news:
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1) Jim Gerrie has a video showing his MC-10 port of the game "Touch Down", based on the computer book "Space Games"
https://youtu.be/pIJznvSBUP4
2) Neil Blanchard's new run of Rick Adam's "Bomb Threat" game cartridge is shipping
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158405524972641/
3) Lee Perkins put up some screenshots of his initial conversion of an MS-DOS game screen to a Coco 3
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158394680422641/
4) Pere Serrat shared a video showing his more advanced version of the AGD engine, now using the Wordpak2+ for additional sound effects and music:
https://youtu.be/zYMfmzttu3w
5) Robert Allen Murphy has put up his latest blog post on converting the PC6001 game Nostromo to the Coco line:
https://exileinparadise.com/nostromo:assembling_the_blocks
CoCoTALK!
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Episode 38 - Forest of Doom live stream and contest
Episode 37 - Christmas Demos, Paul Thayer and Timber Man
Episode 36 - CoCo Christmas Wishes
Episode 35 - Thanksgiving edition with NitrOS9 "Ease of Use" project update
Episode 34 - Special guest host Grant Leighty!
Episode 33 - Hardware Talk!
Episode 32 - Forest of Doom Launch Party
Episode 31 - Rainbow Revival
Episode 30 - Community Drama
Episode 29 - Tandy Assembly wrap-up show
Episode 28 - Tandy Assembly pre-game show
Episode 27 - Ease of Use!
Episode 26 - New CoCo games, assembly optimization, Simon's latest demo and more!
Episode #25 - The Hurricane Irma edition!
Episode 24 - Oz K-Fest - Forrest of Doom trailer 2 - New OS-9 commercial and more!
Episode 23 - Floppy TALK! and other hardware goodies with a few special guests!
Episode 22 - Nick Marentes Pac-Man 1.1 - Basic09 and more!
Episode 20 - Community Chat - Ron's Garage - Forest of Doom teaser
Episode 19 - CoCo Hardware! Retro Innovations and CoCo on a Chip!
Episode 18 - An introduction to OS-9 and NitrOS-9
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