Episode 172 - Special Guest Peter & The SCART CoCo 2

We've always got a lot to talk about and a great show to be shared by all on CoCoTALK! each week, and this week is no exception, we're going to hear from Peter Cullen about his retro background, and see his official Tandy SCART CoCo, which is something most of us has probably never seen before.

 

That along with news, GameON!, some possible tech segments, show  & tell and who knows what else, get ready for an action packed episode!

 

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:

00:01:00 Panel Introductions

00:25:00 General discussion

00:25:30 Who is new to Discord

00:26:00 Peter Cullen showing a Tandy SCART CoCo

01:36:00 David O'Conner

02:20:00 CoCo Thoughts - CashMan

02:21:00 GameON! challenge results

02:31:30 Next week's game announcement - SPEEDRACER

02:34:00 GameON! news

02:47:00 News from around the retro world

03:18:00 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion

 

Game On news:

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1) Jim Gerrie posted a video of his port of Steve Wozniak's original Apple classic "Little Brick Out"

  https://youtu.be/8HMK1Si8ADY

 

2) Chet Simpson has released the first public Beta of Digger III.

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158495328987641/

 

3) Paul Thayer now has Timber Man available for paid download at itch.io:

Announcement:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158493670122641/

Download link ($5.00 USD) - includes the DSK image and full color PDF manual:

  https://pthayer100.itch.io/timber-man

 

4) Paul Shoemaker put up a short video teaser of some graphics he is fiddling with for a possible upcoming game:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158492892777641/

 

5) "The New Retro Show" has an episode about "new games" for the Coco and MC-10:

  https://youtu.be/_QR2PZXaPRQ

 

6) Canadian Retro Things shows one of the Micro Adventure Books

  https://youtu.be/ymLrh9NuTEQ

 

News stories for Episode #172, August 8, 2020 show:

1) Keith has lesson 4 of his 6809 series up now - covering the stacks:

  https://youtu.be/mW57Gy436OE

 

2) Carlos Martins Nabeto posted a cool link to some 1983-1987 news about Brazilian Coco clones (in Portuguese):

  https://computadoresbrasileiros.wordpress.com/category/noticias/

English translation:

  https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fcomputadoresbrasileiros.wordpress.com%2Fcategory%2Fnoticias%2F%3F

 

3) Jason Weber on Facebook is helping organize "SepTandy" for this year

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158503187087641/

 

4) Frederiic Griignon posted a Radio Shack catalog page for the Coco from Quebec

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158496708377641/

 

5) James Jones is still soliciting feedback on his Coco MS Basic to BASIC09

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158492811687641/

Direct link to the Google Doc so far:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DFWC0XAv6NENnqXc3AZGy_Gl6TcZDfPcHGAB34woQwg/edit

 

6) Timothy Halloran update on getting his Coco 3 running from purely USB power

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158491484982641/

 

7) Soren Roug has been typing in Dragon 128 drivers for OS-9

  https://www.roug.org/retrocomputing/os/os9/dragon128

 

8) Carlos Camacho posted the covers from an OS-9 book called "The OS-9 Guru : 1

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2646468465616081/

 

9) Nigel Barnes posted in the Dragon Facebook group

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2688555014737484/

 

11) I have also put up two videos to show increased speeds of scrolling in the forthcoming EOU Beta 6, These videos are all 6809 - 6309 versions are faster still. Also, these have the overhead of printing characters, etc. so it doesn't fully show the speed increase (which is around 14-15%).

80x25 hardware text:

  https://youtu.be/SsHMkmKIFYo

640x200x4 graphics:

  https://youtu.be/vD_q7-z4Iqc

 

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