The CoCo Nation Show

The CoCo Nation

The World’s First Live and Interactive Talk Show featuring the Tandy Color Computer and it’s Hardware Cousins.

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Nov 1, 2021 · 5 hr 29 min
236 - Special Guest Mark Siegel
Today's Special Guest is Mark Siegel product manager for the Color Computer and many other things with Tandy, we'll hear about things we thought we knew, things we never knew, and things we never even knew might have possibly existed! 00:00:00 -Start/Intro 00:03:00 -Start of the show, with Special Guest Host Stevie! 00:03:18 -Panel Introductions 00:06:50 -Special Guest, Mark Siegel 00:50:00 -Commercial Break 00:52:52 -More! with Special Guest, Mark Siegel 03:39:45 -Commercial Break 03:43:00 -More! with Special Guest, Mark Siegel 04:05:05 -Commercial Break 04:07:50 -Whose New to Discord this Week! 0:: -CoCoThoughts by Samuel Gimes... 0:: -Thoughts and opinions of Samuel Gimes... 04:09:39 -Game On! Results, With Ken of Canadian Retro Things 04:11:57 -Apologies to MrDave6309 04:12:30 -Game On! discussion With Ken 04:30:40 -Game On! Game for next week, Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things 04:34:43 -CoCoFest next week! 04:43:00 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 04:43:34 -CoCo News} John Whitworth and Pere Serrat- More info for the Supersprite FM+ board 04:44:46 -CoCo News} Antonio Carlos Jimenez Ely/FB- Pi400 in John Strong's new 3D printed case 04:45:35 -CoCo News} Dale Francum/YT- sharing of files between a Coco 3 and a Linux box/Pi 04:46:06 -CoCo News} L. Curtis Boyle- 6309 patches to Remi's 3D Texture map demo, with demo/comparison by Dannii O'Connor 04:47:57 -CoCo News} Ken @ Canadian Retro Things/YT- fourth NitrOS-9/EOU tutorial video 04:51:37 -CoCo News} Allen Huffman/YT- Deep Dive:Extended BASIC's Get/Put buffer 04:52:30 -CoCo News} Color Computer Programming/YT- BASIC programming for the Coco 04:53:00 -CoCo News} Michael Pittsley/YT- Tandy multi-media programs 04:54:10 -CoCo News} Tim Lindner/YT- assembly language tutorial series 04:55:05 -CoCo News} Pedro Pena/YT- DriveWirelessly and his new Pepper board 04:56:56 -CoCo News} Sonicstate.com- video reviewing Audio Spectrum Analyzer 04:58:18 -CoCo News} Sheldon MacDonald/FB- graphics rotations in assembly (with skewing) 04:59:08 -CoCo News} Alison Denu/FB- 3 posts detailing her history with the Coco from 1980-present 04:59:44 -CoCo News} Allen Huffman/FB- update to the Cocopedia Wiki search function 05:00:20 -CoCo News} Shawn Clayton- 1983 version of Audio Spectrum Analyzer **MC-10 News** 05:01:00 -MC-10 News} Jim Gerrie- "Drac" Halloween demo 05:01:18 -MC-10 News} Ron Klein- XRoar (by Ciaran) with added MC-10 support in CoCoPi 05:02:33 -MC-10 News} Ciaran Anscomb- XRoar online added MC-10 emulation **Dragon News** 05:02:45 -Dragon News} John Whitworth/FBDG- last batch of 15 Dragon Power Supply Unit boards 05:03:30 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 05:03:45 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 05:04:18 -Game On! News} The Coco Show/YT- episode 25 (Photon) 05:07:37 -Game On! News} vghchannel/YT- Shamus on the Coco 05:08:35 -Game On! News} Aaron Newcomb@Retro Hack Shack/YT- Dungeons of Daggorath 05:09:30 -Game On! News} Glen Hewlett- Robotron and its interesting internals 05:10:14 -Game On! News} Paul Daniels/FBCG- very early 1980's games from major companies 05:11:25 -Game On! News} Brian Palmer/FB- Early type-in game Dogfight by Craig Stewart 05:12:48 -Game On! News} Robert Gault/FB- DragonFire patched for NTSC Coco 3, and 6309 05:13:20 -Game On! News} Frikkie Botha/FB- Dragon release of Mark Data Product's Cave Hunter 05:14:04 -Game On! News} Chris Poacher/FB- "Worlds of Flight" 05:15:10 -Game On! News} Dale Francum/YT- Lunar Rover Patrol on the Coco 3 05:15:55 -Game On! News} Rob's Retro Rambles/YT- Grid Runner for the Dragon 32 05:16:46 -Game On! News} AC's 8-bit Zone/YT- comparing sprites 05:17:40 -Game On! News} David Mitchell@Davy's Retro Corner/YT- August 1984 Dragon User type-in Caterpiller 05:18:18 -Game On! News} Joseph Quinn/FB- Launchbox front end (for MAME) of Coco art 05:19:09 -Game On! News} Michael Strickland/FB- BASIC game that found on an old cassette, can you idenitfy it? 05:19:49 -Game On! News} John Kowalski (Sock Master)/FB- port of Dungeons of Daggorath to the Vectrex 05:20:45 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle (Fastest edition of News EVER!) 05:21:00 -Nightmare Highway! (in honor of CoCoFest next week) 05:24:00 -CoCoFest in Elk Grove Village Nov 6th and 7th... 05:27:00 -CoCoTalk scheduling to end of year and beginning of 2022! 05:29:15 -Good Bye Everybody! CoCoForever! Dragon Forever! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.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
Oct 25, 2021 · 6 hr 3 min
235 - MC-10 Special!
CoCoTALK! Episode 235 - MC-10 Special! With special guests: Darren Ottery, Simon Jonassen, Robert Sieg, Greg Dionne, Jim Gerrie, Alan Cox, and James Diffendaffer! 00:00:00 -Start/Intro 00:02:55 -Start of the MicroCoCoTalk show! 00:03:50 -Panel Introductions 00:08:20 -L. Curtis Boyle, driver of this dumpster fire! 00:13:15 -First Special Guest, Darren Ottery 00:46:50 -Second Special Guest, Simon Jonassen 01:32:08 -Commercial break 01:35:24 -Who is new on Discord! 01:37:07 -Third Special Guest, Robert Sieg 01:37:47 -Third Special Guest, Now, WITH Robert Sieg! 02:23:30 -Fouth Special Guest, Greg Dionne 03:29:45 - Ron Delvaux hacks hardware! 03:31:11 -Fifth Special Guest, Jim Gerrie (as if there could be an MC-10 special without Jim!) 04:09:09 -Sixth Special Guest, Alan Cox 04:39:00 -Commercial break, with Fletcher! 04:42:20 -Seventh Special Guest, James Diffendaffer 05:08:55 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things 05:10:45 -Curse you MrDave6309 for scoring more then me! :) 05:11:20 -Game On! discussion 05:31:13 -Game On! Game for next week, Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things 0:: -Game On! Challenge LIVE! With Sloopy 05:16:36 -El Guesto, El Presidente Jim Brain. 29th Annual "Last" CoCoFEST! November 6th and 7th 2021! 05:47:30 -Presentation by John Strong 06:02:42 -Thank you to our guests and viewers! 06:03:10 -Good Bye Everybody! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.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
Oct 17, 2021 · 3 hr 36 min
234 - Run Dino Run Results
CoCoTALK! Episode 234 - Run Dino Run Results 00:00:00 -Start/Intro 00:05:38 -Start of the show, with Special Guest Host Stevie! 00:05:55 -Panel Introductions 00:10:20 -CoCoThoughts by Samuel Gimes... 00:11:00 -Thoughts and opinions of Samuel Gimes... 00:11:18 -Paul 'Dino' F's programmers escaping 00:12:08 -Game On! Results, With Ken of Canadian Retro Things 00:14:30 -Game On! discussion With Ken 00:45:00 -Game On! Game for next week, Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things 00:49:19 -Game On! Challenge LIVE! Report 00:54:04 -Best part of the show! 00:54:28 -Whose New to Discord this Week! 00:56:30 -De Ja Moo! 00:59:59 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:00:30 -Game On! News} Tony Jewell/FBDG- photos from the Retro Computer Festival in Cambridge 01:01:48 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie/YT- Greg Dionne's Tetris 01:04:35 -Game On! News} Glen Hewlett- updated blog/video about his Robotron transcode/port 01:08:30 -Game On! News} Steve Bamford/WOD- update to Circe's Island game 01:09:52 -Game On! News} David Mitchell/YT- typed in the game "Explosion" from the book "Terrific Games for Your Tandy Color", and added improvements 01:14:20 -Game On! News} Christopher English/FBCG- posted about two game packages he wrote and had reviewed in the March 1990 issue of Rainbow (Arcade Action Packs Volumes 1&2)... 01:16:45 -Game On! News} Neb6/YT- Glen Hewlett's Joust on real hardware 01:17:17 -Game On! News} LRU's Outrageous Gaming Project/YT- posted several videos of the game Jet Boot Colin and caparison video of Jeff Minter's Gridrunner on various platforms 01:23:10 -Game On! News} TGP Highscore Runs/YT- Dragon 32 gameplay of 3D Seiddab Attack 01:27:00 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:28:08 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 01:28:28 -CoCo News} John Strong/FBCG- new 3D printed case to hold a Raspberry PI 400 in a Coco like case 01:38:15 -CoCo News} James Diffendaffer/YT- rotating 3D image of a Teapot in BASIC 01:41:25 -CoCo News} Sheldon MacDonald- is building a webpage for all of his projects 01:44:24 -CoCo News} John Whitworth/Pere SerratFBDG- released software ZIP files for the SuperSprite FM+ board 01:45:40 -CoCo News} Tim Lindner- Google doc list of all the disk & cassette image utilities for the Coco and Dragon 01:48:58 -CoCo News} Paul Fiscarelli/FBCG- putting together a little utility to ID your base Coco hardware specs 02:03:45 -CoCo News} Allen Huffman/YT- poll on: How do you Coco? 02:05:20 -CoCo News} Robert Gault- released DWPRINT (for BASIC) 02:06:20 -CoCo News} Christopher English- found issues of his "Color Computer Connection" newsletter that was completely done on the Coco 3 back in 1988 02:12:02 -CoCo News} Simon Slaytor/FBCG- published photos of his Coco 1 after he finished refurbishing and upgrading it (64k/ECB/repaint/new keyboard) 02:15:35 -CoCo News} Color Computer Programming/YT- posted several new BASIC program demo's 02:17:07 -CoCo News} Allen Huffman/YT- continues to explore how GET/PUT works in Extended BASIC **MC-10 News** 02:21:05 -MC-10 News} Simon Jonassen/FBMG- new 3 voice music demo video **Dragon News** 02:24:24 -Dragon News} John Whitworth @ DragonPlus Electronics/FBDG- has sold out of his first run of the Phil Harvey-Smith designed power supply boards, more coming soon 02:25:15 -Dragon News} Richard Harding/FBDG- The Dragon Meetup for Nov. 27/28 at Cambridge in the UK is officially on now 02:27:40 -Dragon News} Pere Serrat/FBSSG- posted more software for John Whitworth's Supersprite FM+ board 02:31:18 -Dragon News} The Laird's Lair/YT- "10 Amazing Dragon 32 Facts" 02:34:34 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:35:20 -Projects Updates and Acquisitions 02:35:45 -PUA} Rick Uland 02:49:30 -PUA} John Laury 02:54:00 -PUA} Sloopy 02:54:22 -proteanthread, sorry... I saw it! :) 02:57:30 -PUA} Stevie 'El Jeffe' Strow 03:03:23 -PUA} Brian Wieseler 03:14:18 -Who is going to CoCoFest Nov 6/7? 03:28:00 -Next week, CoCoTalk MC-10 Special! 03:30:03 -Thank you everyone for all you do to make this show what it is! 03:31:31 -Outtro 03:34:18 -Final Thoughts 03:36:23 -Good Bye Everybody! CoCoForever! Dragon Forever! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.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
Oct 11, 2021 · 4 hr 28 min
233 - Special Guest Ciaran Anscomb++
CoCoTALK! Episode 233 - Special Guest Ciaran Anscomb++ Today's special guest is Ciaran Anscomb, aka Sixxie, author of the Xroar emulator, and so much more. We'll hear about his games, his emulator, and speak with his co-interviewers Steve "Bosco" Bamford and Stewart Orchard, all from the Dragon community. 00:00:00 -Start/Intro 00:03:00 -Start of the show! 00:03:25 -Panel Introductions 00:08:00 -Special Guest, Ciaran Anscomb, aka Sixxie, aka XRoar developer! 01:06:30 -Additinal Special Guest, Stew Orchard 01:54:35 -Commercial break 01:57:50 -Who is new on Discord! 02:00:18 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things 02:02:20 -Game On! discussion 02:21:31 -Game On! Game for next week, With(out) Nick Marotta! But... Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things 02:23:55 -Game On! Challenge LIVE! With Sloopy 02:26:44 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:27:02 -Game On! News} vghchannel/YT- Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? on CoCo3 review 02:29:02 -Game On! News} This Week in Retro/YT- updated CoCo info 02:30:25 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:30:45 -Commercial break 02:34:02 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 02:34:24 -CoCoTalk show give-away 02:41:38 -CoCo News} Sheldon Hildebrand- updates to his 3D engine 02:43:43 -CoCo News} Alfredo Santos- images of his heavily customized Coco 3 03:01:58 -CoCo News} Kenneth Udut- Short video on the Orchestra-90 03:02:55 -CoCo News} Timothy Halloran- Images of his display table from Tandy Assembly 03:06:38 -CoCo News} Allen Leno- Images of a modern AMD based machine put into a Coco 3 case 03:08:10 -CoCo News} Tandy Assembly/John Linville- Posted images from Tandy Assembly 2021! 03:10:22 -CoCo News} Richard Kelly- A BMP reader program for RGB displays 03:11:04 -NickM- Original RCA TV, Tandy used modified OEM for the Model 1 03:14:30 -CoCo News} The RetroChannel/YT- CoCo2 repair and upgrade video 03:16:10 -CoCo News} Color Computer Programming/YT- Videos on on various topics 03:18:28 -CoCo News} KOJRO Retro Innovations/YT- video comparing the Dragon 32 to the Coco 1 03:34:04 -CoCo News} Allen Huffman/YT- video on the inner workings of ECB 03:35:53 -CoCo News} "Me"/YT- animated Dali clock on CoCo3 03:37:27 -CoCo News} RetroComputo/YT- Showing off their new CoCo3 03:40:40 -CoCo News} Pedro Pena/YT- demo of his Pepper board (SALT Replacement) 03:43:47 -CoCo News} Arctic Retro/YT- Mail Call episode, includes a Dragon 32 **MC-10 News** 03:45:58 -MC-10 News} Simon Jonassen- multi-voice music player 03:49:00 -MC-10 News} lowlevel- Blog post on swapping the SHIFT/CONTROL keys 03:51:08 -MC-10 News} Jim Gerrie- Video of Nyan Cat, with music **Dragon News** 03:53:30 -Dragon News} Dan Doore- Image of Megadrive controller with a custom Dragon Logo 03:57:47 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:59:15 -Project Updates and Acquisitions 03:59:25 -PUA} R. Allen Murphy 04:04:55 -PUA} Ron Delvaux 04:09:30 -PUA} Rick Uland 04:10:30 -Upcoming Guests and show details 04:14:30 -The Outtro... 04:16:50 -John Laury, Model 1 Montior 04:22:15 -Panel discussion on various topics 04:28:55 -Good Bye Everybody! We'll also have the results of the winner of the Drive Wirelessly raffle and so much more! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.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
Oct 4, 2021 · 2 hr 57 min
232 - CoCoTALK!
CoCoTALK! Episode 232 00:00:00 -Start/Intro 00:02:30 -Start of the show, with Special Host Sara(h)! 00:03:10 -Panel Introductions 00:03:42 -Viewer Introductions 00:04:00 -More! Panel Introductions 00:06:15 -CoCoTalk with guest host Stevie 00:06:48 -More! Viewer Introductions 00:07:00 -Whose New to Discord this Week! 00:11:00 -Projects Updates and Acquisitions 00:12:00 -PUA} Brian Wieseler 00:28:28 -PUA} Terry Steege 00:32:23 -CoCoThoughts by Samuel Gimes... 00:37:40 -Game On! Results, With(out) Nick Marotta! Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things 00:39:50 -Game On! discussion With Ken 00:59:00 -Game On! Game for next week, With(out) Nick Marotta! Featuring Ken 01:03:44 -Commercial Break 01:06:36 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:06:50 -Game On! News} The Coco Show/YT- Episode #24 ~ Mudpies! is released! 01:08:48 -Game On! News} This Week in Retro, With BoatOfCar/YT- Released Episode #52 01:11:58 -Game On! News} Retrocomputing Roundtable/YT- released Episode #242 01:13:06 -Game On! News} Glen Hewlett- released source code for his Joust and Defender transcodes! 01:14:48 -Game On! News} David Gisbert/YT- Lanzó un video sobre su Dragon 200 01:16:00 -Game On! News} Mr. Lurch's Things/YT- Released a video of releases for Tandy computers in the last year for #SepTandy 01:18:08 -Game On! News} Jay Searle- Working on releasing Attack of the PETSCII Robots! for the CoCo 01:22:28 -Game On! News} MrDave6309/DC- Posted video on Discord of a NES Game/Concept he is working on 01:23:13 -Game On! News} Sheldon MacDonald- Released videos of a new 3D graphics engine he is working on 01:25:15 -Game On! News} Robert Sieg and Jim Gerrie- Released 'Boulder Dash' for the... 01:27:27 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:27:45 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 01:28:00 -CoCo News} The Retro Channel/YT- #SepTandy video on covering S-Video/Composite mods for a Coco 2, and a look into S-Video for a Dragon 32 as well 01:30:05 -CoCo News} Retro Tech Toys/YT- video of some "much needed maintenance" to his 64K Coco 2 for #SepTandy 01:32:32 -CoCo News} Tom Parlier/YT- video showing the color palette range (showing 256 colors at once) on the GIME-X 01:33:36 -CoCo News} smbakeryt/YT- upgrades he did to his 16K Extended BASIC Coco 2 01:35:58 -iPhone- RING! RING! 01:36:08 -CoCo News} Scottyanimation/YT- how to load cassette based programs using smartphones, including making the cables 01:37:37 -CoCo News} The Coco Crew- Released Episode #76, with many good CoCo goodies and info 01:39:39 -CoCo News} Retro Entre Amigos/YT- habla sobre el juego Dragon and the Dragon Back Track en su último episodio 01:40:36 -CoCo News} Noel's Retro Lab/YT- video on his YouTube channel: Is the Dragon a clone of the Coco... or not? 01:52:42 -CoCo News} James Diffendaffer/DC- raytrace demo in Super Extended Color BASIC 01:54:00 -CoCo News} Canadian Retro Things/YT- A box opening with CoCo goodies from MrDave6309 01:57:57 -CoCo News} Tandy Assembly- This weekend! (well when the show was made, not when you are watching this!) 02:00:22 -CoCo News} Retro Informatica Paraguay/YT- un video que muestra un Coco 3 de 128K con joystick con empuñadura de pistola y un CocoSDC 02:01:58 -CoCo News} Ron's Computer Videos/YT- #SepTandy video on VCFmw and CoCo emu for OldWorld PPC Macintosh's 02:03:53 -CoCo News} Color Computer Programming/YT- released a demo of 'Kickman' from the Atari 2600 02:07:37 -CoCo News} Allen Huffman/YT- the rest of his #SepTandy videos! 02:08:32 -CoCo News} ChibiAkumas/YT- Videos Coco 1/2 & Dragon for his assembly language tutorials, and has a new book in the works **MC-10 News** 02:12:20 -MC-10 News} Danjovic/GH- detailed, redrawn schematic for the MC-10 **Dragon News** 02:13:00 -Dragon News} No news is NOT good news... so, um... How about, I want a Dragon! 02:13:15 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:15:15 -Remix of the Audio Spectrum Analyzer cart, for people who missed last week 02:20:30 -PUA} Stevie is booked to be at CoCoFest 2021! 02:20:50 -PUA} Brian Wieseler 02:26:36 -PUA} Sloopy 02:27:17 -CoCoTalk! GameOn Live! annoucement! 02:30:30 -Sloopy's DriveWirelessly/intDriveWire upgrades to be given free to a fortunate viewer! [ cocotalk@cocotalk.live subject:DriveWirelessly ] 02:44:44 -Panel talk on various topics 02:49:00 -Thanks to all the people who make this show what it is, including YOU the viewers! 02:49:50 -Stevie gets a MacBook Air! 02:51:00 -Panel talk on various topics 02:56:56 -Good Bye Everybody! 02:57:00 -CoCoForever! Dragon Forever! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.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
Sep 27, 2021 · 4 hr 42 min
231 - Glen Hewlett
CoCoTALK! Episode 231 - Glen Hewlett Glen Hewlett has given us many great transcodes and ports to the CoCo. Pac-Man, Joust, and who knows what else? We may learn today! Check out Glen's Blog: https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/ 00:00:00 -Start/Intro 00:03:00 -Start of the show! 00:03:20 -Panel Introductions 00:05:00 -Glen Hewlett 01:45:15 -CoCoThoughts by Samuel Gimes... 01:47:12 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things 01:48:50 -Game On! discussion 02:04:30 -Game On! Game for next week, With(out) Nick Marotta! But... Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things 02:15:00 -Who's new to Discord! 02:24:00 -Back to our show! 02:25:20 -Passing of George H. Bethe 02:39:10 -Project Updates and Acquisitions 02:39:09 -PUA} Brian Wieseler 03:05:25 -PUA} Ron Delvaux 03:15:20 -PUA} Nick 'Mr Ferrari' Marentes 03:27:47 -PUA} Rick Uland 03:30:58 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:31:13 -Game On! News} Paul Shoemaker- updates on H.E.R.O clone for the Coco 03:32:30 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- video BASIC version of Sokoban 03:33:33 -Game On! News} I only did it for the Calculator Watch/YT- play example of a game called Dynamite 03:35:28 -Game On! News} Glen Hewlett- Released arcade Defender transcode 03:42:00 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:42:15 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 03:42:30 -CoCo News} All Things Tandy Radio Shack/YT- full hour interview with Mark Siegel 03:47:14 -CoCo News} John Whitworth- Sold out of the SuperSprite FM+ boards :( 03:48:48 -CoCo News} Fabian Rodriguez- updated the Cocopedia Wiki 03:49:55 -CoCo News} Allen Huffman/YT- #SepTandy videos 03:50:55 -CoCo News} Scotty Animation/YT- TRS-80 8 bit's and their BASIC's 03:53:33 -CoCo News} Patrick B./DC- searchable PDF archive of messages from the Tandy Delphi forums 03:55:35 -CoCo News} Alex Redman- Coco 3 DECB enhancement written by Ron Redman, from Softworks in 1989 03:57:37 -CoCo News} Pedro Pena- Part 4 video of his CoCo2 mainboard 04:00:10 -CoCo News} TheRetroChannel/YT- #SepTandy improved simpler S-Video design for CoCo1 **MC-10 News** 04:05:55 -MC-10 News} The Atari Live/Jose Antonio Vaca Bello, Had a MC-10 without a power source, so he built his own 04:06:36 -MC-10 News} Greg Hamilton- received his MCX-32 in Australia 04:08:24 -MC-10 News} Canadian Retro Things/YT- video on how to set up and use an MC-10 emulator **Dragon News** 04:12:10 -Dragon News} Noel's Retro Lab/YT- video up going into a deep dive on the Dragon 64 04:14:14 -Dragon News} Garreth Owen- July 1983 price list for "FarmFax Dragon" 04:15:55 -Dragon News} David F. Gisbert- Cart games, 3rd party games 04:17:45 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 04:17:55 -Carts for the CoCo, are still being made by... MrDave6309! 04:19:39 -PUA} Sloopy 04:32:32 -Panel discussions on various topics, including upcoming show topics... 04:42:24 -Skipping the outtro... 04:42:42 -Good Bye Everybody! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.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
Sep 19, 2021 · 4 hr 1 min
Episode 230
CoCoTALK! Episode tooth hurty It's time to go to the dentist, because CoCoTALK! is now on episode tooth hurty 00:00:00 -Start/Intro 00:02:44 -Start of the show! 00:03:48 -Start of the show! (Now with SOUND!) 00:04:05 -Viewer Introductions 00:05:05 -Panel Introductions 00:13:19 -The passing of Paul T. Barton 00:45:11 -Commercial Break 00:49:00 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things 00:51:00 -Game On! discussion 01:15:45 -Game On! Game for next week, With(out) Nick Marotta! But... Featuring Ken of Canadian Retro Things 01:16:50 -Back to our show! 01:17:02 -Hello Simon Jonassen, we appreciate you! 01:18:00 -CoCoFest 2021! November 6/7 Be there! This is required attendance, or they will twist your arm until you go! (Don't ask how I know...) 01:31:45 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:32:00 -Game On! News} Paul Thayer- released a public beta of CocoBan level editor 01:34:50 -Game On! News} Deborah Maxwell- uploaded more programs from the Computer Space (Adventures and Games) book collection 01:42:20 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- released a WAV file for his updated Sokoban re-code 01:46:00 -Game On! News} Scott Cooper(Tazman)- is learning assembly language, posted a video of bouncing face in low res graphics 01:59:25 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:59:45 -Project Updates and Acquisitions 02:00:00 -PUA} Grant Leighty 02:06:06 -PUA} Sloopy 02:10:30 -PUA} Rick Uland 02:16:00 -PUA} Stevie aka OGGamer, aka El Jeffe, aka Our benevolent dictator for life! 02:21:00 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 02:21:20 -CoCo News} The Amigos/TW- ICC (International Computer Club) meeting online (with Nick Marentes, Stevie, and L. Curtis Boyle) 02:22:40 -CoCo News} World of Retro Computing Expo- September 25, Cambridge Hotel and Conference Center in Cambridge, Ontario 02:24:40 -CoCo News} Juan Castro- Brazilian blog of a graphical text driver for BASIC on Coco 1/2's 02:28:00 -CoCo News} Paul Thayer- Posted several more (very useful) assembly routines on github 02:30:15 -CoCo News} John Whitworth's Supersprite FM+ boards are shipping 02:35:30 -CoCo News} CoCoPi- updates/upgrades/cool new features, cause Ron Klein is awesome like that, backed by Tim Lindner, Ciaren Anscomb, and Ron Delvaux upstream 02:38:30 -Simon Jonasson shows us hit beta of John Whitworth's Supersprite FM+ board 02:47:20 -CoCo News} Timothy Halloran/FB- showed his 6309 512K Coco 3 system that he has (heavily) modified 02:49:19 -CoCo News} Allen Leno/FB- Released pics of his implementation of a 'modernized' CoCo 02:51:41 -CoCo News} VCF-East (in Wall, New Jersey) is on Oct 8-10 02:54:14 -CoCo News} #SepTandy its a party on Youtube! **MC-10 News** 03:12:24 -MC-10 News} RetroComputing with Mike/YT- #SepTandy MC-10 showcase video **Dragon News** 03:14:44 -Dragon News} Dragon Group/FB- In response to a request, Simon Hardy posted a list of all carts released for the Dragon 03:17:00 -Dragon News} Retro Computer Festival Oct 9-10 in Cambridge, UK 03:19:00 -Glenside Color Computer Club, Officer elections coming soon! 03:21:21 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:23:00 -Stevie the tech pro! 03:24:40 -Info on the CoCoPi 03:27:00 -The wonderful and awesome El Presidente Grande... Jim Brain! 03:50:40 -TRS-80 TRaSh Talk Live! tonight at 7pm 03:52:50 -Tandy Assembly October 1-3, 2021 03:54:34 -"Thanks to all the wonderful people who put actually do things" -Stevie 03:56:56 -Outtro 04:00:11 -Final Thoughts 04:55:00 -Good Bye Everybody! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.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
Sep 12, 2021 · 6 hr 1 min
Episode 229 - Special Guest Gene Turnbow + VCFMW
Author of the first Color Computer Star Trek game in the early days of the CoCo released by Spectral Associates, station manage of scifi.radio and so much more, join us! 00:00:00 -Start/Intro 00:02:55 -Start of the show! 00:03:10 -Panel Introductions 00:05:05 -Special guest Gene Turnbow 00:38:50 -Secondary Guest Scott Griepertrog and StG Net 01:03:15 -More with guest Gene Turnbow 02:21:38 -Commercial Break/Upcoming Guests on CoCoTalk! 02:26:26 -Live from VCFmw, with Stevie! 02:33:10 -NEW! CoCoThoughts with Samuel Gimes! 02:34:45 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 02:36:35 -Special Message from David Kroeker! 02:38:00 -Game On! will be passed on to... 02:43:20 -Game On! discussion 03:05:50 -Game On! Game for next week, With(out) Nick Marotta! 03:12:44 -Commercial Break 03:15:48 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:16:45 -Game On! News} Paul Thayer- Updates on his CoCoBan game 03:17:33 -Game On! News} Paul Shoemaker- Updates on his H.E.R.O. game 03:19:02 -Game On! News} Ciaran Anscomb- patched version of Star Trek III version 4.00 to run on the Dragon also 03:19:56 -Game On! News} Phil Wheatley/FB- posted a cool ad from Personal Computer Games magazine, showing a full color, full page ad for Microdeal 03:21:54 -Game On! News} Whathosnorkers/YT- video of a variety of BASIC games on the Dragon 32 03:27:10 -Game On! News} Nick Marentes- blog and video update to his game project, Zero Hour 03:35:35 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:36:40 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 03:37:37 -We need a new channel on discord, Streaming Channel for coders 03:38:48 -CoCo News} Deborah Maxwell- uploaded multiple cassette images to Facebook 03:39:59 -CoCo News} Robert Gault- quick memory test program for the Coco 3 03:41:30 -CoCo News} Sheldon MacDonald- Several utilities/programs for Zippsters PSG cartridge 03:47:40 -CoCo News} Mike Rojas- released his Coco 3 RGB to AppleColor RGB (IIGS version) monitor adaptors 04:07:40 -CoCo News} Ron Klein et al- Various updates for the CocoPi 04:09:40 -CoCo News} Ken/Canadian Retro Things- NitrOS9 EOU Part 3 video 04:13:23 -CoCo News} Danielle O'Connor- photos from the September meetup for the Adelaide Retro Computer Group 04:14:40 -CoCo News} Fabian Rodriguez- CocoPedia updates 04:16:12 -CoCo News} Allen Huffman- releasing many videos for #SepTandy 04:17:05 -CoCo News} Joe's Computer Museum/YT- #SepTandy CoCo3 and Tandy 1000TX 04:19:05 -CoCo News} Mark Ovehorlser- announcement (this is a must watch! ) 04:28:28 -CoCo News} Nick Marentes, Steve Strowbridge and L. Curtis Boyle- Amigos ICCC live stream on Twitch, which starts at 6 pm EST on Saturday, Sept 18 04:30:28 -CoCo News} Deek/Discord- Is getting high speed serial on the MMMPI working **MC-10 News** MC-10 News} - None :( **Dragon News** 04:33:28 -Dragon News} Tim Gilberts/YT- #SepTandy video on upgrading a Dragon 32 Mark II to 64K 04:34:50 -Dragon News} Stewart Orchard- uploading a ton of software, utilities and source code to his various Dragon games 04:37:22 -Dragon News} Alanna Kelly/FB- converting a 3D Blender image to a wireframe Dragon image 04:38:25 -CoCo News} Paul Barton (creator of the NoCan3 memory/I/O upgrade board & many other things, and a guest on our show multiple times) is in Hospice, and could use your best wishes and prayers 04:47:47 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 04:49:00 -Images from VCFmw 05:06:36 -Stevie says... 05:57:44 -Outtro 05:59:52 -Thank you to all YOU great people! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.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
Sep 6, 2021 · 4 hr 9 min
Episode 228 - Bill Sias - Pubisher of Color Computer News
CoCoTALK! Episode 228 - Bill Sias - Pubisher of Color Computer News Today's special guest is Bill Sias, the creator and publisher of Color Computer News, the first published magazine pre-dating the Rainbow. 00:00:00 -Start/Intro 00:02:45 -Start of the show! 00:02:52 -Audience Greetings and Sanitations 00:03:15 -Panel Introductions 00:05:40 -Special guest Bill Sias 01:18:40 -Commercial Break/Upcoming Guests on CoCoTalk! 01:23:20 -More, with guest Bill Sias 02:21:55 -Musical interlude 02:24:42 -NEW! Samuel Gimes! 02:25:30 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 02:27:10 -Game On! discussion 02:34:15 -Game On! Game for next week, With(out) Nick Marotta! 02:36:25 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:36:36 -Game On! News} Antonio Carlos Jimenez Ely- video playing Glen Hewlett's Joust transcode/port... on a pi400 with a twist, watch and find out! 02:38:10 -Game On! News} Deborah Maxwell- Video of 'Missle!' which she ported from Model 1 BASIC 02:38:45 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- completed his FreeCell, and then ported Deborah's (above) port to the... (destination system is left as an exercise for the viewer to guess ;) ) 02:40:25 -Game On! News} Alison DeNu- #SepTandy releases of her Simply Better Blackjack, and JumpShip 02:43:38 -Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- St. George and the Dragons and Waxworks 02:45:00 -Game On! News} Old School Games & Stories- playthrough of Canyon Climber 02:45:55 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:46:10 -Projecy Updates and Aquisitions 02:46:30 -PUA} Rick Uland 02:52:20 -PUA} Nick Marentes 02:57:57 -PUA} Jason "The CoCoMan" Reighard is comin in HOT! 03:03:20 -PUA} Doug Bell 03:08:08 -PUA} Stevie The OGGamer, Our fearless leader, El Jeffe! Now with an iPhone! 03:09:40 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 03:09:55 -CoCo News} Glen Dahlgren- Our last weeks guest, won a gold medal in the Young Adult Fantasy Epic category Amazon Kindle store 03:12:08 -CoCo News} Ciaran- Added even more support to XRoar for Coco3, including the online version of XRoar 03:13:10 -CoCo News} Roberto Fernandez- Released his Dragon tools 03:13:53 -CoCo News} Tim Lindner- Updates to Squanchy BASIC including a Jackson Pollack generator, and alot of internal details 03:18:55 -CoCo News} Coco Crew- released episode #75 of their podcast 03:20:20 -CoCo News} John Whitworth- More details and selling SuperSprite FM+ board 03:: -CoCo News} Barry Nelson- makes Coco centric custom builds of MAME, with serial issues fixed 03:23:13 -CoCo News} Trey Tomes- latest update to his X32 Over-Extended Color Basic 03:25:20 -CoCo News} Alison DeNu- #SepTandy, Video of 3D printing a Program Pak 03:25:55 -CoCo News} Allen Huffman- #SepTandy, CoCo stuff being released this week! 03:28:05 -CoCo News} Carlos Camacho- Ported a Maze generation program from the PC-6001VW to the CoCo 03:30:05 -CoCo News} Mike Rojas- gotten his non-functioning Coco 3 fully working 03:31:13 -CoCo News} Rutherford Le Blang- fork for VCC to incorporate some of the GUI niceties that he did on Return of Coco back in the day 03:33:53 -CoCo News} Glen Hewlett- blog posting on "tricks and cool features" from William Astle's LWASM package 03:35:55 -CoCo News} Allen Leno- installing modern components (including a color LED keyboard, KB) into a Coco 3 case **MC-10 News** 0:: -MC-10 News} Simon- demo for the MC-10 doing an ML sound routine 0:: -MC-10 News} Anders Carlsson- Modified the ML sound routine to allow entering just note data to play **Dragon News** 03:41:41 -Dragon News} John Symes- Images of the Tapematic tape duplicators system used at Microdeal 03:42:42 -Dragon News} Dragon Meetup- Set for November 27th/28th 2021 03:43:30 -Dragon News} Pere Serrat- Java app to convert VDK files to a standard format to use in DriveWire 03:44:40 -Dragon News} Arvid Claasen- Step 1 towards building my own Dragon 64 03:: -Dragon News} John Whitworth- Uploaded Flex and OS9 for Dragon. 03:: -Dragon News} Pere Serrat- released DOSPlus 5.0 Extended 03:47:27 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:47:35 -All the details you need to know about the CoCoPi! 03:51:20 -CoCoPi demo with Squanchy BASIC! 03:54:35 -CoCoPi demo of Geany 04:05:05 -Outtro 04:07:15 -Thank you to all YOU great people! 04:08:56 -Goodbye Everybody! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.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
Aug 29, 2021 · 4 hr 38 min
Episode 227 - Special Guest Glen Dahlgren
We are please to have back on the program Glen Dahlgren of Sun Dog Systems fame, provider of many fine games for the Color Computer. Glen will be talking about his new book, and coco memories. Glen's Promos for today: 5 Free Days of Child of Chaos - Amazon Ebook https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BN6S5R2/ Good Reads Game Of War Giveaway https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/enter_choose_address/329917-the-game-of-war COCOTALK coupon code for 15% off anything, including the new release https://mysteriummerchandise.bigcartel.com/ Preorder discount for Game of War ($3.99 last day) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098RXYHGF/ Audiobook out now! https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Game-of-War-Audiobook/B09D8P2NL4 Glen's Blog: https://glendahlgren.home.blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gdahlgrenauthor Twitter: https://twitter.com/glendahlgren Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/Glen-Dahlgren/e/B08BPGZZN2 Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20441786.Glen_Dahlgren Bookbub page: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/glen-dahlgren 00:00:00 -Start/Intro 00:03:00 -Start of the show! 00:03:18 -Panel Introductions 00:06:00 -Special guest Glen Dahlgren 01:37:40 -Commercial Break 01:42:00 -Upcoming Guests on CoCoTalk! 01:45:45 -Best of Samuel Gimes! 01:46:00 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 01:47:37 -Game On! discussion 02:03:23 -Game On! Game for next week, (now!) With Nick Marotta! 02:08:40 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:09:05 -Game On! News} Glen Hewlett- Update to Joust transcode release 02:17:40 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- Screenshot of WIP Freecell, and ported an old Atari 8bit (Atari Roolz!) version of Old Maid to the... yup you guess it, MC-10! 02:18:30 -Game On! News} Glen Hewlett- blog update on his Defender transcode 02:22:12 -Game On! News} L. Curtis Boyle- fixed Star Trek III (by AI) for disk system based Cocos 02:30:18 -Game On! News} Old School Games and Stories- long play Coco game video - Demolition Derby from Spectral / Tandy 02:31:00 -Game On! News} NML32/YT- gameplay footage of Fahrfall, playing on the free Coco 2 core for the MiSTer 02:31:51 -Game On! News} Stewart Orchard- uploaded the "full" versions of Balldozer to WOD 02:33:25 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:34:00 -Commercial Break 02:41:41 -Return to The show! 02:42:00 -Projecy Updates and Aquisitions 02:42:24 -PUA} Pedro Pena 03:03:31 -PUA} Brian Wiesler 03:13:23 -PUA} Rick Uland 03:19:19 -PUA} Mark O(verholser) 03:21:41 -PUA} Nick Marentes 03:26:06 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 03:26:40 -CoCo News} Tim Lindner- released "Squanchy-BASIC" 03:31:31 -CoCo News} Pedro Pena- CoCo3 mainboard remake 03:53:53 -CoCo News} Allen Huffman- blog post revisiting his "PRINT RACER" BASIC program with updates 03:54:50 -CoCo News} Ron Klein- Released the new Unified Community Edition X of CoCoPi, for your Raspberry Pi (3, 4, 400) 04:06:11 -CoCo News} Henry Strickland- photos from the VDF-SE (Southeast) in Atlanta that took place on August 20-22 04:20:10 -CoCo News} Mike Rojas- small batch of his adapter board for the Coco 3 RGB output into an AppleColor RGB monitor 04:21:05 -CoCo News} Brian Wieseler- posted photos of his maxed out Coco 3, in it is... ^ click here to find out! 04:22:32 -CoCo News} Lee Davey- opened up his Coco 3 for the first time in 30 years and discovered a couple of things 04:24:54 -CoCo News} John Kowalski (Sock Master)- composite color experiments, this time picking 4 actual colors, and managing to use artifacting to produce grey scale 04:26:10 -CoCo News} Keith Reynolds- FB group post-If the Coco had continued, what would it look like today? 04:26:46 -CoCo News} Rodney Hamilton- photos from the Chicago RainbowFest in 1983 04:29:55 -CoCo News} Mike Rojas- Dead CoCo3 Repair Blog-Part 10: Keyboard trace repair **MC-10 News** 04:31:00 -MC-10 News} Nothing, I guess I will have to find something for my MC-10 to do this week myself. **Dragon News** 04:31:25 -Dragon News} XRoar Dev Team- XRoar Version 0.37.1 released 04:32:10 -Dragon News} Nigel Barnes- MAME update for the SuperSprite+ board 04:33:40 -Dragon News} Tom Erik Gunderson- photo of an introduction to Python programming for 12 year olds class, where he used online XRoar 04:34:44 -Dragon News} David Gisbert- designed some colour Dragon stickers that he is going to sell 04:35:18 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 04:35:25 -Upcoming events 04:37:10 -Thank you to all you great people! 04:38:00 -Goodbye Everybody! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.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
Aug 22, 2021 · 5 hr 39 min
Episode 226 - Special Guest Stewart Orchard
CoCoTALK! Episode 226 - Special Guest Stewart Orchard Today's special guest interview is Stewart Orchard who has made many amazing games for the Dragon computer "back in the day" and his current project is the most excellent Return of the Beast ROTB join us! 00:00:00 -Start/Intro 00:03:00 -Start of the show! 00:03:30 -Panel Introductions 00:06:25 -Introducing Stu Orchard and Ciaran Anscomb 02:00:25 -Commercial Break 02:05:05 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 02:16:18 -Game On! discussion 02:26:30 -Game On! Game for next week, With(out) Nick Marotta! 02:35:15 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:35:35 -Game On! News} Glen Hewlett- released the transcode of the arcade Joust game to the Coco 3 02:46:28 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- released Theseus and the Monster for the Coco 1/2, as if all he does on the MC-10 isn't enough! 02:47:30 -Game On! News} Paul Shoemaker- video of 30 animated bird sprites 02:48:25 -Game On! News} Magic Micro Mission- Episodes of 1983 'Magic Micro Mission' Tv show 02:53:22 -Commercial Break? 02:54:33 -Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- Castle of Doom, Great Fish Van Scandal, Laser Zone, Lunar Rescue, Jupiter Patrol, Treasure Tomb, Attack, Evictor, Android Invaders, Convoy Attack, Bugged, Jumpjet, Shuttlezap and Ciaran's Blockdown 03:01:48 -Game On! News} The Coco Show- Episode 23: Pitstop II 03:07:15 -Game On! News} Old School Games & Stories/YT- playthrough of Mega Bug 03:09:00 -Game On! News} Terrifying House of Obsession/YT- Dragon 32 unboxing 03:12:12 -General discussion about software packaging 03:27:50 -Game On! News} Rob's Retro Rambles- Copta Snatch video 03:34:50 -Game On! News} MrDave6309- video recording of VCC running his current test/demo 03:40:40 -Game On! News} Francesco Fiorentini- article (in Italian) for RetroMagazine World on RPG game "Valley of Death" 03:41:31 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:42:00 -Commercial Break 03:45:00 -Projecy Updates and Aquisitions 03:45:20 -PUA} Doug Bell 03:53:50 -PUA} Ron Delvaux 04:02:45 -PUA} Grant Leighty 04:06:50 -PUA} Nick Marenetes, learning about this new computer thing! 04:21:00 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 04:21:25 -CoCo News} Turbo9/YT- new video about their pipelined 6809 processor core Masters project 04:23:10 -CoCo News} Sheldon MacDonald- update to his RSDosTool 04:27:17 -CoCo News} Danielle O'Connor- reported on the Adelaide Retro Computer Group 04:30:20 -CoCo News} John Kowalski (Sock Master)- experiments in graphics on the Coco 3 04:37:37 -CoCo News} Richard Kelly- working on a font editor 04:38:55 -CoCo News} John Linville- Released details on October RetroChallenge 04:40:20 -CoCo News} TJBChris/YT- tutorial on how to make a custom Program Pak 04:42:50 -CoCo News} Jose Antonio Vaca Bello- Restoration of his CoCo3 04:48:08 -CoCo News} Jim Brain (aka El Presidente Grande)- Looking for photos from previous CoCoFests **MC-10 News** 04:49:36 -MC-10 News} Jim- fractal Mandelbrot set generator **Dragon News** 04:53:20 -Dragon News} Tim Gilberts/MicroDeal@FB- Uploaded Microdeal Newletter #2 04:55:20 -Dragon News} Dragon Facebook group- Collecting a database of Dragon serial numbers 05:08:08 -Dragon News} Stevie- Did his awesome technical wizardry, and last weeks 4 part miniseries of DragonTalk, is now released in a single 6 hour 5 minute epic made for TV Movie! 05:09:18 -Dragon News} Tony Jewell- looking for input on having A Dragon meetup at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge 05:11:30 -Dragon News} John Whitworth- created a Facebook page for the hardware with User/Dev guide posted 05:12:25 -Dragon News} - top 20 home computer sales for 1983 05:27:48 -Dragon News} Noel's Retro Lab/YT- Mail Day - The Case of the Smelly Dragon 05:34:35 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 05:34:45 -Outro/Closing credits 05:37:45 -Final Dragons... 05:38:50 -Goodbye Everybody! Check out some of Stewart's games: http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/rotabb.html http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/rotb.html Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.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
Aug 15, 2021 · 6 hr 5 min
Episode 225 - DragonTALK!
The first ever live DragonTALK! featuring members of the Dragon Community from across the world. 00:00:00 - Opening 00:02:55 - Panel Introductions 00:08:27 - GameON! Intro - special presentation by Amigos Retro Gaming 00:24:07 - GameON! Results - Reveals of next week's game 00:48:23 - Chris Poacher 01:08:29 - Ciaran Anscomb 01:27:52 - Duncan Smeed 01:57:52 - John Vella 02:16:44 - John Witworth 02:55:14 - Nigel Barnes 03:11:09 - Pere Serrat 03:28:25 - Richard Harding 04:03:52 - Roberto Fernandez 04:33:31 - Simon Waterfield 04:46:03 - Steve Bamford 05:11:47 - Stewart Orchard 05:28:32 - Tim Gilberts 05:50:18 - Outro 05:51:49 - Parting thoughts
Aug 8, 2021 · 4 hr 6 min
Episode 224 - Updates and Special Guests
Part 1 & 2 spliced into one video for your viewing pleasure. Welcome to CoCoTALK! Episode 224 Panel introductions - Special Guest Kevin talks about the Turbo9 project Promoting upcoming specials - Dragon Talk - Glen Dahlgren Project Updates and Acquisitions - Bill Nobel shows us RSDOS performance in NitrOS9 - Pedro Pena (Rocky Hill) shows us a new drop-in CoCo 3 mother board - Stevie Strow talks about CoCo-Pi updates and a test image Assembly Language with George J GameON! News Newsy News Parting Thoughts Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com 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
Aug 2, 2021 · 3 hr 37 min
Episode 223 - Hosted by Grant Leighty
CoCoTALK! Episode 223 - Hosted by Grant Leighty Greg has taken over and according to him, Stevie is fired. Today we have special guest host and streamer, the internet's own, Grant Leighty. Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com 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
Jul 26, 2021 · 4 hr 11 min
Episode 222 - Live from CCAG - Interview with Doug Bell
CoCoTALK! episode 222 - Live from CCAG - Interview with Doug Bell We'll be providing live coverage of the Cleveland Classic Console & Arcade Gaming Show thanks to Jason "CoCoMan" Reighard. Check them out at https://www.ccagshow.com/ We also got to chat with Doug Bell, head the GameON! results, news, and more! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com 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
Jul 19, 2021 · 4 hr 19 min
Episode 221 - Sheldon MacDonald
This week's special guest is Sheldon MacDonald, who has done a lot of cool projects for the CoCo. He recently released a very nice game "Treasure Island Defense" which is on a cartridge, and support a few different sound chips, he's made cool custom CoCo controllers, and he's working on an RS-DOS disk tool that allows you to mange disk images, and has a very interesting development environment that lets you use assembly language almost like BASIC! This and so much more! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com 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
Jul 11, 2021 · 4 hr 52 min
Episode 220 - Markus Blumrich
CoCoTALK! episode 220 - Markus Blumrich Today we'll speak with Markus Blumrich who hosted one of the original Color Computer "super sites" on the internet and hear some fun and fascinating stories from the CoCo glory days. We'll also introduce a new segment from Game Designer Rick Adams: Raiders of the Lost CoCo where he'll go over some code samples from professional video games. If we're lucky we'll also have some assembly from George J and who knows what else? {Well, here is a list of what we have! -sloopy} 00:00:00 -Start 00:02:50 -Start of the show! 00:02:55 -Viewer Introductions 00:03:30 -Panel Introductions 00:06:55 -CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes 00:07:46 -Everyone loves Samuel Gimes! 00:08:40 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:10:25 -Game On! discussion 00:23:28 -Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 00:26:20 -Special Guest, Markus Blumrich 01:56:10 -Commercial Break 01:58:06 -Return to the Show! 01:58:30 -Raiders of the Lost CoCo w/ Rick Adams 02:14:14 -Asssembly with George J! 03:00:30 -Return to the Show! 03:01:20 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:01:48 -Game On! News} tanam 1972/YT- video about Gakken TV Boy (200X) 03:03:48 -Game On! News} Nick Marentes- part 8 of his Zero Hour blog 03:08:54 -Game On! News} The Amigos/YT- preview/no commentary video of Pitstop II 03:10:58 -Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon/YT- more gameplay videos Ft. Decathlon , Dragon 32 Invaders, Desperado Dan, Taskship, Sporting Decathlon), Fantasy Fight, Albert and the Monsters, Kriegspiel, Crazy Foota 3 03:29:42 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie/YT- another MC-10 game port - Blastar, originally written by 12 year old Elon Musk (yes, *that* Elon Musk!) 03:33:10 -Game On! News} MrDave6309- video showing what he has learned so far using hardware vertical scrolling on the Coco 3 03:43:30 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:44:00 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 03:44:15 -CoCo News} Richard Kelly- PDF explains how his maze generating program works 03:48:25 -CoCo News} Pedro Pena/YT- has been experimenting with the RGBtoHDMI adaptors 03:53:20 -CoCo News} Michael Golden- Image of his heavily modified Coco 1 from back in the 1980's 04:05:45 -CoCo News} Nik Bresievac- Several hardware projects (keypad,CoCo1 SVideo,Joystick-KB mod) 04:08:32 -CoCo News} John Whitworth- Looking for suggestions for making an updated name for his MSX2+ board 04:10:10 -CoCo News} Jacob@Newsmaker Tech/YT- video of his favourite top 5 Tandy computers 04:16:15 -CoCo News} Sheldon MacDonald- update to his RS Dostool 04:17:42 -CoCo News} Deek- Requesting public review of his released DCC documentation **MC-10 News** None :( **Dragon News** None :( 04:20:10 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 04:20:20 -Info for the upcoming ALL DRAGON SPECIAL!!! 04:30:40 -What has Brian Wiesler bought this week?!? 04:43:25 -End of Line for Brian Wiesler's 'Treasure Chest' 04:48:00 -Final Thoughts and Goodbye! 04:51:00 -Goodbye to our viewers! 04:52:20 -Goodbye everybody! 04:52:32 -The end of Line. Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com 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
Jul 5, 2021 · 3 hr 53 min
Episode 219 - Happy 4th!
CoCoTALK! episode 219 - Happy 4th! 00:00:00 -Start 00:02:48 -Start of the show! 00:03:00 -Viewer Introductions 00:03:44 -Panel Introductions 00:05:35 -Happy Independence Day! 00:08:40 -Best of CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes 00:09:09 -Everyone is speechless by Samuel Gimes! 00:09:20 -Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:11:20 -Game On! discussion 00:32:00 -Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 00:36:15 -News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 00:36:36 -CoCo News} TRS-80 Trash Talk live- Released current episode ft. Coco card that Bartlett labs is working on with several functionalities (SD hard drives, Ethernet, floppy controller, switch selectable booting of Coco 1,2,3 and HDBDOS, VGA out) 00:47:50 -CoCo News} The Coco Crew- Released episode 73 00:50:30 -CoCo News} Ron Klein- New version of the CocoPi is coming out soon, that will support RPI3/4/400 01:06:40 -CoCo News} Richard Kelly- released his latest "Retro Rick's Maze-making Algorithm" program 01:07:18 -CoCo News} Tony Jewell- Converting PAL-M CP-400 CoCo clone to run on NTSC, and has a 'modern' style keyboard 01:11:36 -CoCo News} Glenside Color Computer Club- Released their summer newsletter 01:28:55 -CoCo News} Bill Pierce/VCC Dev Crew- released VCC 2.1.0d 01:31:41 -CoCo News} David K/YT- video showing a Coco Koala Touchpad 01:41:00 -CoCo News} Michael Pittsley/YT full series of videos showing Dorsett Courseware's Personal Finance multi-media educational software **MC-10 News** 01:45:45 -MC-10 News} Rocky Hill/YT- video showing MC-10 to HDMI using an RGB to HDMI converter **Dragon News** 01:50:30 -Dragon News} Dragon Plus Electronics- updated dev history of the Dragon MSX 2+ board, and demo videos 01:58:45 -Dragon News} Bluearcus- Doc for modern storage solutions and details for real Dragon computers 02:01:15 -Dragon News} MAME Dev Team- Added support for both the MSX2+ board, and now the Multipak 02:03:00 -End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:03:10 -Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:03:30 -Game On! News} Pedro Pena/YT- game play video of Nick Marentes recent semigraphics game Rally SG, On CoCo2 with RGBtoHDMI to use a iMac G3 as a monitor 02:10:10 -Game On! News} I only did it for the Calculator Watch/YT- video for the game Black Hole for the Dragon 02:13:42 -Game On! News} Documentary on First Person Shooters, is currently on Kickstarter, and has "Phantom Slayer" included 02:19:45 -Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- video for Beta of port of Walter Bright's 4X Ur game "Empire" 02:21:30 -Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- videos: Dragon Hawk, Return of the Ring, Lucifer's Kingdom 02:29:10 -End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:29:30 -Tim Lidner- Demo and info on the new release of MAME with the MSX2+ board for the Dragon 02:49:00 -L. Curtis Boyle- Guests and other greatness coming to CoCoTalk! in the coming weeks 02:52:10 -Project Updates and Acquisitions 02:52:30 -PUA} Brian Wiesler 03:13:45 -PUA} L. Curtis Boyle 03:33:10 -Panel- discussion of cool CoCo things. 03:40:40 -PUA} Brian Wiesler, Part II! 03:49:30 -Final thoughts & Goodbye everybody! 03:53:25 -The end of Line. Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com 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
Jun 27, 2021 · 3 hr 51 min
Episode 218 - Stefan Vogt from Puddle Software
Today we feature Stefan Vogt @8bit_era to talk about his new Infocom style game Hibernated 1 that's available for a multitude of 8-bit systems including the Dragon and CoCo. https://8bitgames.itch.io/hibernated1 The original live stream had a few glitches and ended up being in 3 parts, this is the spliced version. Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com 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
Jun 20, 2021 · 3 hr 47 min
Episode 217 - Aaron Newcomb from @retrohackshack
CoCoTALK! episode 217 - Aaron Newcomb from @retrohackshack Today we're joined by a very special guest, Aaron Newcomb from @retrohackshack https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN_u47_wJuhh249H9E8sjtw Aaron has done a lot of videos on RGB-to-HDMI conversions, and recently did one for the CoCo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm2eo4BEna4 We'll hear all about Aaron's background, his hack shack channel, and more. We'll also have GameON! results, some assembly discussions, news, and more! 00:00:00 - Start 00:03:00 - Start of the show! 00:03:15 - Viewer Introductions 00:03:42 - Panel Introductions 00:06:00 - Aaron Newcomb of Retro Hack Shack 01:05:00 - Hello to new Panelist 01:06:22 - Who's new to the CoCoDiscord 01:09:15 - Stefan Vogt, Live on CoCoTalk! on 6/26! 01:11:15 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes 01:12:20 - Everyone is speechless by Samuel Gimes! 01:13:55 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 01:16:25 - Game On! discussion 01:31:40 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 01:35:35 - Assembly Basics with George Jensen 02:33:33 - End of Line for... Assembly Basics with George Jensen 02:33:45 - Commercial Break 02:37:25 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:37:50 - Game On! News} The Coco Show- released the next episode of The Coco Show, spotlighting the Missile Command clone, Polaris 02:47:50 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- released Frogs, a port of the game by People's Computer Company magazine by Mac Oglesby from 1974! Its not Frogger, It is a puzzle game 02:50:12 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- gameplay videos on the Dragon, Shaolin Master Plus and Tangle Wood 02:57:24 - Game On! News} Richard Kelly- Coco 1/2 game from issue #110 of the old T&D Software magazine, called Mazey 02:58:45 - Game On! News} RetroMantra/YT- comparison video of various versions of Zaxxon 03:05:08 - End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:05:10 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 03:05:32 - CoCo News} Glen Hewlett- demonstration of smooth, non-flickering sprite animations, it does NOT require double buffering at all 03:11:52 - CoCo News} Jim Brain @ Retro Innovations- FlashPak now for sale in his store 03:18:18 - CoCo News} Canadian Retro Things- video showing his first usage and installation of NitrOS-9/EOU 03:21:58 - CoCo News} Robert Sieg- first assembly language program test on the Alice 32 03:23:33 - CoCo News} Rocky Hill/YT- video showing two projects into one: Putting a Coco 2 display onto a iMac G3 DV screen **MC-10 News** None :( **Dragon News** None :( 03:27:10 - End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:27:22 - Project Updates and Aquisitions 03:28:08 - PUA} Brian Wiesler 03:40:15 - Closing Credits 03:43:10 - Final thoughts 03:44:08 - Thank you to all you wonderful people! 03:45:00 - David Ladd is here! we can start the show! 03:47:27 - Goodbye everybody! 03:47:38 - The end of Line. Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com 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