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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Jun 14, 2021 · 2 hr 51 min
Episode 216 - ASM Basics, new time slot
We're going very BASIC, pun intended with our assembly series by George J, and we're starting an hour earlier so you can recover sooner. The original Steve Bjork ASM series and his slides covering all of the CPU instructions can be found at http://cocotalk.live/6809asm/ 00:00:00 - Start 00:02:42 - Start of the show! 00:02:54 - Panel Introductions 00:05:38 - Viewer Introductions 00:06:24 - Who's new to the CoCoDiscord 00:10:00 - Stefan Vogt, coming in two weeks! (6/26) 00:13:20 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes 00:14:35 - Thoughts on Samuel Gimes 00:15:05 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:16:55 - Game On! discussion 00:28:40 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 00:31:10 - Assembly Basics with George Jensen 01:17:15 - End of Line for... Assembly Basics with George Jensen 01:09:15 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:10:02 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie released several other 10 line BASIC games, including Pac-Rat and Jumping Jack 01:13:40 - Game On! News} Stefan Vogt- will be our special guest on June 26th to discuss his new game, Hibernated 1: Director's Cut 01:22:48 - Game On! News} The Laird's Lair/YT- 4 way comparison video of Demon Attack on the Atari 8 bit, Coco 1/2, Commodore 64 and TI/99-4A 01:28:15 - Game On! News} Watercooler Films/YT- video/review of Poltergeist on the Coco, with their own backstory 01:32:52 - Game On! News} Aaron@ Amigos Retro Gaming/YT- live stream of various consoles and computers on a MiSTer, including the Coco playing Rick Adam's Temple of ROM 01:35:02 - Game On! News} Richard Kelly/FB- uploaded a BASIC brick out style game from T&D Software to the CoCo FB group download section 01:36:05 - Game On! News} Guillaume Major/CCA- has made an update to the Color Computer Archive that now lets you run over 900 Coco 1/2 programs in your browser, using XRoar Online Emu 01:37:57 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon/YT- posted more new Dragon 32 gameplay videos 01:40:20 - Game On! News} Nick Marentes- new blog update on his game in development, Zero Hour... which NEEDS release so we can play it!!! 01:48:08 - End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:48:12 - Awkwqard silence... 01:48:30 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 01:48:38 - CoCo News} Pedro/YT- testing replacing the 6821 PIA with a WDC modern replacement,and a Coco to HDMI using an open source design from Retro Hack Shack YT channel who is our special guest on the show next week! 01:59:10 - CoCo News} Amber's Vibe Corner/YT- short 6809 Coco assembly language example 02:02:10 - CoCo News} Nice Keyboard Alan/YT- Tandy Coco 3 system acquired from local goodwill... for only *$30.00*! 02:04:32 - CoCo News} Brenda Make- 3d printer files for CocoSDC case that is similar to a Tandy FD-501 disk controller 02:07:08 - CoCo News} Nik Brisevac/FB- photo of a new game controller for Coco, it includes a paddle and multiple buttons (and a homemade Coco 3 case, where the ALT/CTRL keys are reversed) 02:09:38 - CoCo News} Norm Lamoureux- posted up some pictures from a RainbowFest in the mid 1980's, includes pictures of people like Lonnie Falk, Coco Cat and Marty Goodman 02:11:22 - CoCo News} Danielle O'Connor/YT- posted a picture of he massive (audio) keyboard rig... Can you find the two Coco's in the image? **MC-10 News** 02:12:48 - MC-10 News} Retrograming arcade/YT- showing using a TI computer cassette deck with an MC-10, along with some homebrew BASIC games that came with the MC-10 02:16:10 - MC-10 News} Dillon Teagan/FB- uploaded the instructions for using the built in Editor/Assembler on the Alice 32 and 90 **Dragon News** 02:18:08 - Dragon News} Tony Jewell/FB- pictures of a 256K RAM upgrade for the Dragon 64 based on Stewart Orchard's instructions 02:19:35 - Dragon News} Raspberry Pi Press- released an ad video for a book: The Computers that made Britain (The home computer revolution of the 1980s), which include the Dragon 02:22:20 - Dragon News} Tim Gilberts/FB- posted labelled photos and a brief history of Mettoy, the company which produced the Dragon 02:24:52 - End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:25:42 - Commercial Break 02:29:10 - Return to the show! 02:29:40 - Project Updates and Aquisitions 02:30:10 - PUA} Rick Ulland 02:40:30 - PUA} Ron Delvaux 02:44:30 - Panel discussion on various topics 02:46:35 - Closing Credits 02:48:52 - Final thoughts 02:49:20 - Thank you to all you wonderful people! 02:51:12 - Goodbye everybody! 02:51:19 - 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 7, 2021 · 3 hr 46 min
Episode 215 - AMS p2 - Temple or ROM wrap-up
CoCoTALK! Episode 215 - AMS p2 - Temple of ROM wrap-up 00:00:00 - Start 00:00:10 - Start of the show! 00:02:48 - Panel Introductions 00:04:04 - Viewer Introductions 00:06:12 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes 00:07:25 - Thoughts on Samuel Gimes 00:08:00 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:11:12 - Game On! discussion with Rick Adams! 01:05:16 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 01:07:08 - Starting next week, the show will start 1 hour sooner! (CoColight savings time!) 01:09:25 - Commercial Break 01:13:00 - New Assembly Language with George Jensen 02:52:35 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 02:53:00 - CoCo News} Coco Crew- newest episode released, Topics:hexadecimal from Extended BASIC, review of Thexder 02:53:40 - CoCo News} Todd Wallace(Lord Dragon)- released video of his IRC client running on his Coco 3, under NitrOS-9 03:02:44 - CoCo News} Long Lost Tech/YouTube- Deskmate on a Coco 2 03:06:10 - CoCo News} Amber's Vibe Corner/YT- released a couple of videos using EDTASM+ to write quick assembly routines **MC-10 News** 03:08:40 - MC-10 News} Robert Sieg- graphic experiments on the Alice 32 **Dragon News** 03:13:05 - Dragon News} John Whitworth- Updates on his Dragon MSX 2+ upgrade graphics/sound board 03:15:02 - Dragon News} Patrik Gahm/FB- announced "forNDATA sUMMER 2o21" happening today (June 5) in Sweden 03:20:10 - End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:20:20 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:20:38 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- ported games from the APF Imagination Machine "Mission Improbable: Operation Alpha" and a 10 line BASIC game called Defender (which is a Missile Command type game) 03:27:12 - Game On! News} Paul Shoemaker/FB- video on his new 16 color card deck design (using a 256x192 16 color mode) 03:28:35 - Game On! News} Stefan Vogt/TW- Coco is going to be added to the list of old machines that will be able to run a port of his text adventure game (currently already on 24 systems!) called Hibernated 1 03:29:54 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon/YT- more videos, including "The Sword and the Sorcerer" 03:33:10 - End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:33:20 - Get your next spouse from Amazon, no hassle returns! 03:33:45 - Panel discussion on various topics 03:37:55 - Panel's favorite part of the show 03:43:30 - Starting next week, the show will be at 1pm EDT (1 hour earlier!) 03:46:24 - Goodbye everybody! 03:46:28 - The end of Line. We're starting 6809 assembly language tutorials with George J, and we'll discuss the results of playing Temple of ROM this week, and hear from it's creator, legendary game designer Rick Adams! 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
May 31, 2021 · 3 hr 22 min
Episode 214 - 6809asm part 001
We're starting 6809 assembly language tutorials with George J! 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
May 23, 2021 · 3 hr 38 min
Episode 213 - Frank from Retro Rewind
Today we'll be interviewing Frank from https://retrorewind.ca/ Who is interested in making CoCo hardware 00:00:00 - Start 00:02:22 - Start of the show! 00:02:30 - Viewer Introductions 00:03:20 - Panel Introductions 00:06:45 - Special Guest George Jensen 00:28:45 - Special Guest Frank from RetroRewind.ca 01:32:35 - Who's new to the CoCoDiscord 01:34:00 - Who's new to the CoCoTalk world map! 01:35:10 - Commercial Break 01:38:35 - Stevie cant say the state MA (psh, he cant say it... I cant spell it!) 01:40:15 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes 01:42:58 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 01:45:15 - Game On! discussion 01:58:30 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 02:03:08 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:03:24 - Game On! News} The Coco Show/YT- Episode 20 released 02:06:05 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie/YT- video of 'P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A.', anti-soviet text adventure game 02:07:50 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon/YT- videos of games, Dickie's Den and Utopia 02:12:55 - End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:13:15 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 02:13:30 - CoCo News} Tim Lindner/YT- Using the MAME debugger when emulating a Coco 02:24:18 - CoCo News} Simon Jonassen/FB- screenshots of mixed colors in SG24 with page flipping 02:28:48 - CoCo News} Rocky Hill/YT- his replacement SALT chip for the Coco 2, named PEPPER 02:37:05 - CoCo News} Chibiakumas/YT- Coco 3 graphics assembly language, with map in and set a graphics screen, use the MMU, read joysticks and do bounds checking 02:40:44 - CoCo News} NitrOS-9 EOU 6.1.0 released for Matchbox Coco and MiSTer Coco 3 cores 02:44:58 - CoCo News} Canadian Retro Things/YT- video of working with the boards from MrDave6309@CoCoDiscord 02:49:22 - CoCo News} Sheldon MacDonald/FB- video showing his progress on loading files from disk using the "legal" DSKCON routines/API's in assembly 02:55:00 - CoCo News} Ron Delvaux/FB- put up a disk image (on "Ron's Garage"@Facebook) of 10 Coco 3 utilities **MC-10 News** 03:01:45 - MC-10 News} Jim Gerrie/YT- converted an educational programs originally written in French for the Alice 03:06:46 - MC-10 News} Robert Sieg points out that a the MC-10 emulator "DCALICE" (also emulates the Alice computers) also emulates the "MCX-32-FDJ floppy controller developed by Darren Atkinson" 03:09:20 - MC-10 News} Darren Ottery- Text/SG graphics editing tool for the MCX32-SD for the MC-10 **Dragon News** 03:10:24 - Dragon News} John Whitworth- 3 new Dragon MSX2: boards were almost ready to go out as of May 15 03:12:24 - End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:12:45 - Stevie and staff, an apology 03:16:45 - Project Updates, and Acquisitions 03:17:10 - PUA} MarkO(verholser) 03:19:19 - PUA} MrDave6309 03:33:10 - PUA} Ron's Garage 03:36:58 - L. $NAME, Thank you for being here 03:38:08 - 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
May 16, 2021 · 4 hr 6 min
Episode 212 - NitrOS9 EOU Beta 6.1 release, demo & discussion
The most advanced operating system ever invented, as everyone knows is NitOS9, and the EASE OF USE edition keeps getting better, learn all about it in this episode. 00:00:00 - Start 00:02:54 - Start of the show! 00:04:02 - Start of Show... we finally got the audio DLC... 00:04:10 - Panel Introductions 00:05:25 - Viewer Introductions 00:06:42 - Who's new to the CoCoDiscord 00:08:08 - Who's new to the CoCoTalk world map! 00:08:58 - PUA} Stevie aka "The OG" aka El Jeffe aka The Man with the Master Plan! 00:14:40 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes 00:15:10 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:16:58 - Game On! discussion 00:28:28 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 00:30:25 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 00:30:48 - Game On! News} Amigos Retro Gaming/YT- subject of "Manager games - Non Sports" 00:42:10 - Game On! News} Jamie Cho/FB- released an update of his Coco 3 space shooter game, Space Bandits 00:47:20 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie/YT- ported a game originally from the Commodore PET called Maxit 00:49:52 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon/YT- New games/Videos, Home Base, River of Fire, Dungeon Destiny 01:00:05 - Game On! News} Rob's Retro Rambles/YT- official Frogger for the Dragon 32 01:04:25 - Game On! News} Robos/YT- video of Dragon games starting with "S"... and W, Z, and R... 01:18:06 - End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:18:40 - Commercial Break! **CoCo/General News** 01:22:02 - CoCo News} Amigos podcast- 300th episode released 01:26:12 - CoCo News} John Laury- tutorial video on programming a Coco 3 to go into the 80 column mode 01:50:52 - CoCo News} Sheldon MacDonald- video on his Flash ROM boot loader for the PSG cartridge 01:55:52 - CoCo News} Retro Computing Roundtable/YT- episode 234 CoCoMax hardware interface 01:57:40 - CoCo News} Tim Lindner- blog post fixing an issue in MAME 02:03:10 - CoCo News} chibiakumas (Keith)/YT- released next Dragon 32 assembly language episode 02:08:00 - CoCo News} Ken@Canadian Retro Things/YT- video of Mr Dave 6309's prototype cartridge boards 02:17:32 - CoCo News} Jerry Stratton- blog (and code) for a BASIC program to explore the BASIC ROM's, and how tokenization works 02:18:35 - CoCo News} Barry Nelson/FB- utility to reverse the red/blue artifact colors on a Coco 3 02:21:04 - CoCo News} Richard Kelly/FB- utility for Coco 1/2's with 64K, tests to see if the Coco is already in 64K RAM mode and copies ROM to RAM 02:22:20 - CoCo News} Raymond Jett/FB- picked up 26-3022 floppy controllers, and selling them $8.00 each 02:24:00 - CoCo News} Digital Soup Podcast- digging his Coco 3 out, and running with some modern equipment 02:26:25 - CoCo News} Frank of Retro Rewind- thinking of getting into the Coco market, possibly with a very fast 6809 replacement 02:27:15 - The dumpster fire went out of control... aka, Panel talking about various things... **MC-10 News** 02:53:38 - MC-10 News} Robert Sieg- Video/Images to show a 32x32x9 color screen **Dragon News** 02:54:25 - Dragon News} Stewart Orchard- memory testing utility for the Dragon 02:56:40 - CoCo News} Bill Nobel and L. Curtis Boyle (along with contributors like Frank Provenchko, Todd Wallace, Jeff Teunissen, Walter Zambotti, etc.) are proud to release NitrOS-9/EOU Beta 6.1 (this is over an hour of either... NitrOS-9 goodness, or a nice afternoon nap time!) 03:58:28 - End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:58:00 - Jason The CoComan, is put on the spot! 03:59:38 - Closing Credits/Outtro 04:02:30 - Final Thoughts/CoCoTalk Caboose! 04:04:00 - NitrOS-9 is the most advanced operating system ever invented! 04:05:15 - Stevie basically needs a new computer with a 6809! 04:06:41 - Goodbye Everybody! 04:06:44 - The end of Line. (note: there was a dumpster fire in there, but I did not timestamp it cause there was not enough room in this description section to list and timestamp it cause it was so large.) 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
May 9, 2021 · 3 hr 13 min
Episode 211
00:00:00 - Start 00:02:50 - Marc the Start of the show! 00:03:08 - Viewer Introductions 00:04:00 - Marc Introductions 00:07:30 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes 00:08:30 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:10:30 - Game On! discussion 00:30:20 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 00:36:45 - PUA} Marc R. Ulland 00:41:20 - Panel - Discussion of Hard Drives 00:44:08 - PUA} Marc R. Delvaux 00:48:22 - Panel - Discussion of our lynching by the (wonderful and nice) Dragon users 00:49:49 - PUA} Marky MarkO(verholser) 01:00:00 - Game On! News, with Marc L. Curtis Boyle 01:01:00 - Game On! News} Carlos Camacho/FB- screenshot from an old NEC PC6001 (same VDG), and allows mixing color sets more easily 01:09:22 - Game On! News} Marc N. Marentes- 5th blog post for his upcoming game Zero Hour 01:11:18 - Game On! News} Fabrizio Caruso- Has released Cross Horde, a cross platform game 01:15:48 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie/FB- Updates to Computing Now! Poker Game, and his checkers game 01:17:22 - Game On! News} Robert Sieg/FB- poll in the MC-10 group for what games should be on a proposed "Jim's Gone Gold" LP 01:21:28 - Game On! News} Old School Games & Stories/YT- about his first ever video game system - The Coco 2 01:26:40 - Game On! News} Jason Vectrex/YT- video of Tandy pickups he just got, including several Coco game cartridges 01:28:24 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon/YT- continued to be active with his Dragon gameplay videos on real hardware with Tube Way Army and Trun 01:33:44 - Game On! News} Retromantra/YT- video comparing some clones (or derivatives) of Donkey Kong from various systems 01:40:55 - Game On! News} ROBOS/YT- Dragon games that start with 'D' video 01:41:51 - Me and the timestamp union objects and is offended by the comments here, and it is against our contract to say such things! 01:45:15 - End of Line for... Game On! News, with Marc L. Curtis Boyle 01:45:25 - PUA} Marc B. Wieseler 02:01:40 - News, with Marc L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 02:02:00 - CoCo News} Tim Linder- has put up a blog post studying Coco 3 hardware 'all' text modes 02:06:10 - CoCo News} MrDave6309/YT- video showing his joystick prototype 02:07:30 - CoCo News} Marc B. Wieseler- found a Rainbow poster with a D&D theme, and framed it. 02:10:00 - CoCo News} CoCoCrew-John Linville/FB- poll on Facebook of what guest speaker(s?) for Tandy Assembly 02:10:58 - CoCo News} Mike Gideon/FB- rare speech cartridge for the Coco - Real Talker by Colorware 02:15:55 - CoCo News} John Laury/FB- is learning how the GIME video modes work in assembly language 02:24:35 - CoCo News} Steve Adolph/FB- made a custom FD502 controller clone for himself, but has a couple of spare ones available 02:26:15 - CoCo News} Sheldon MacDonald/FB- working on flashing the PSG board (which is a sound/joystick/flash ROM cart), So he is taking suggestions on making a boot menu for the Flash ROM part 02:32:38 - CoCo News} Don Barber/FB- posted about a manual (from Tandy) for the Coco 3 Diagnostic disk, but has been unable to find a copy of the disk itself **MC-10 News** 02:36:10 - MC-10 News} Robert Sieg- posted some screenshots of all of the colors available on the MC-10 - Included is some SG6 screenshots, which allow 4 colors at 64x48 resolution 02:38:25 - MC-10 News} Robert Sieg- continued his experiments in producing a graphic screen dump type program for the MC-10 / TP-10 combo **Dragon News** 02:40:18 - Dragon News} John Whitworth/YT- video updating the work on the MSX2+ board and programmatic switching between the 6847 / RGB board on the MSX2 02:43:30 - Dragon News} Mark Elliot/FB- posted 7 cartridges for the Dragon, still in their original boxes, which includes some 3rd party games 02:45:00 - Dragon News} Tom Alexander/FB- Made a black version of his Dragon 64 02:46:38 - Dragon News} Atari User Magazine/YT- reviewed the Neoteck NTK022 SCART to HDMI convert/upscalar (on Dragon 32 and Atari! :) ) 02:52:20 - End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:52:30 - Panel discussion of SCART, and video signals 02:58:15 - Closing Credits/Outtro 03:00:25 - Final Thoughts/CoCoTalk Caboose! 03:00:35 - Thanks to all the Marc's 03:01:00 - We want to do a Dragon focused show, please contact us! 03:08:48 - Panel- Discussion of CoCo Noob centric show 03:09:00 - Panel- Discussion of CoCo information sources... Discord, etc. 03:13:15 - Goodbye EveryMarc! 03:13:18 - The Marc's the end of the 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
May 3, 2021 · 3 hr 3 min
Episode 210 - CoCo 2 Blue Board
Special Guest Pedro Pena talks about his project to recreate a replacement motherboard for the CoCo 2 which is open source. Links to all things discussed in the news available in our CoCo Discord server, http://discord.cocotalk.live 00:00:00 - Start 00:00:10 - Intro 00:02:29 - Start of the show! 00:02:55 - Viewer Introductions 00:03:20 - Panel Introductions 00:07:00 - Special Guest Pedro Pena, Maker of the new CoCo2 mainboard! 00:48:00 - Whos's New to the CoCotalk Discord 00:49:25 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes 00:50:00 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:52:20 - Game On! discussion 01:32:25 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 01:33:55 - Stevies wife is baking lasagna, and its making us hungry! 01:34:10 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:34:20 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- has released a compiled version Berzerk for the MC-10, with a new method for diagonal movement and checkers updates 01:36:30 - Game On! News} Paul Shoemaker- Updates and release of CocoVGA edition of Poker Squares game 01:41:08 - Game On! News} Mike Ohearn Sr.- showed his "Franken Joystick", a homemade hack... for game controls, until he can get a real one. 01:42:22 - Game On! News} Henry Reitveld- Video of Donkey Kong Remix, loaded from a precariously balanced real hard drive 01:43:30 - Game On! News} ROBOS- Videos of Dragon game play 01:51:41 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 01:52:02 - CoCo News} Rocky Hill (aka Pedro Pena)- has released a video showing his new Rev B main board Coco 2 main motherboard complete with a few fixes 01:59:33 - CoCo News} Simon Jonassen- has an updated video showing the smooth scrolling VDG text screen and demo sound program 02:01:52 - CoCo News} Barry Nelson- uploaded some "headless" NitrOS-9 Level 1 images to the Coco group, These are set up to boot with a shell onto the serial port, and ADOS update 02:05:18 - CoCo News} Paul Fiscarelli- posted a video showing his new SWTPC 6809 system, and a cloned 6 bit DAC Newtech Model 68 Music Card 02:12:15 - CoCo News} Coco Crew- April episode released, Topics include:tech discussion on the TIMER function in Extended BASIC, and about the Coco hobby getting more expensive, and thus not as much fun, for some. 02:16:48 - CoCo News} Tom Best- video on YouTube with his original Coco 2, along with a few mods 02:31:55 - CoCo News} Coco Facebook group- a program has been written for the Commodore 64 to mine bitcoins, and discussion on the 6809 taking half the time 02:34:08 - CoCo News} John Laury- a quick little ML demo of a way to "fade" characters out/in 02:36:55 - CoCo News} Radio Shack- Coco badge shirts up for sale again, after disappeared for awhile **MC-10 News** 02:37:22 - MC-10 News} Robert Sieg- posted a picture of a "graphics" dump he did with his MC-10 and TP-10 printer - which isn't supposed to be capable of graphics **Dragon News** 02:38:04 - Dragon News} John Whitworth- updated/fixed issues with his DragonPlus boards 02:39:05 - Dragon News} John Whitworth- also posted a video explaining an issue he was having with his new DragonPlus boards, and how he fixed it 02:40:10 - Dragon News} The Digital Orphanage- put up their final Dragon 32 repair/test/play videos 02:50:00 - End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:50:10 - Project updates and acquisitions 02:50:30 - PUA} Brian Wiesler 02:54:30 - PUA} R. Allan Murphy 02:56:30 - Features wanted in the new CoCo mainboard! 02:57:05 - Stevie thanks to the crew during his absence 02:58:48 - Closing Credits/Outtro 03:00:58 - Final Thoughts/CoCoTalk Caboose! 03:01:25 - Encore presentation of our tribute to our favorite Australian/Italian 03:50:50 - 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 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
Apr 25, 2021 · 2 hr 58 min
Episode 209
00:00:00 - Start 00:00:10 - Intro 00:03:03 - Start of the show! 00:03:10 - Panel Introductions (We sent MarcB to college to learn his left/right!j) 00:06:05 - Reminder! Glenside Virtual Meet Up/ CCCC SpringFEST, TONIGHT!!! 8p/7p Eastern/Central Time on the usual Glenside CoCo BlueJeans channel 00:06:40 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes 00:07:00 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:08:00 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! Now with SOUND! 00:09:50 - Game On! discussion 00:26:30 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 00:36:25 - Hmmm, a comershal, been so long I didnt realize what it was! 00:39:42 - CoCotalk! Special on the CoCoPi with Ron Klein 01:11:50 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:12:12 - Game On! News} Robert Allen Murphy- posted his blog on Nostromo, mainly covering sound for the MegaMini MPI by Ed Snider 01:20:54 - Game On! News} Paul Shoemaker/FB- video showing his early efforts on his upcoming CocoVGA version of Poker Squares 01:23:38 - Game On! News} Eric Monteiro/YT- live dev video on test game play for his SG4 fighting game 01:26:00 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon/YT- Posted Dragon game videos again, Guardian Angel, Mission Attack, Laser Run 01:33:55 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie/YT- updated version of his MC-10 Mahjong game, and a question about the user interface 01:35:32 - Game On! News} Brendan Donahe- Recieved his cartridge of Treasure Island Defence and gives his thoughts and opinions on it 01:39:52 - Game On! News} Tim Lindner/YT- playing the official Arkanoid on Coco1/2&3 01:43:06 - Game On! News} Watercooler Films/YT- raw footage of Poltergeist gameplay 01:45:45 - End of Line for... Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:46:10 - Commercial Break! 01:49:38 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 01:50:02 - CoCo News} ThisWeekInRetro/YT- Call for CoCo3 Support on MiSTer 01:50:57 - CoCo News} Henry Rietveld/YT- video showing his Coco 3 surfing the web through Action Retro's "Frog Find" portal 01:54:14 - CoCo News} Simon Jonassen/FB- posted his next version of VDG hardware scrolling tricks 01:54:54 - CoCo News} John Laury- posted a Coco 3 only response video to Simon's VDG scrolling trick 01:56:56 - CoCo News} Ciaran Anscomb- has made some prototype 512k upgrade boards, available in Europe 01:59:22 - CoCo News} Carlos Camacho/FB- ad from a 1981 6809 magazine for a SS-50 bus adaptor for the CoCo 02:05:17 - CoCo News} Riz Thomas/FB- composite upgrade to his Coco 2, based on AC's 8 Bit Zone (Alan) video 02:06:34 - CoCo News} Catherine Trudel/FB- unboxing a DMP-105 dot matrix printer, and later generation MultiPak 02:10:54 - CoCo News} 8 Bits in the Basement/YT- video of what he is doing with Mark J. Blair's cartridge PCB, including internal mounting 02:12:48 - CoCo News} Rocky Hill/YT- followup videos showing the serial and cassette ports on his new motherboard *** He is scheduled to be on the show next week (5/2/2021) with more details and discussion *** 02:16:24 - CoCo News} Glenside Virtual Meet Up/ CCCC SPringFEST **MC-10 News** 02:17:55 - MC-10 News} Darren Atkinson- update to the MCX-32 BASIC (now to version 3.1) 02:19:50 - MC-10 News} Jim McClellan/FB- version of his Itty Bitty Banner Maker for an MC-10 with a TP-10 02:38:02 - MC-10 News} Sloopy- He got an (obscenely large) MC-10! **Dragon News** 02:21:22 - Dragon News} Felipe (Coco Demus)- released a special NitrOS-9 Level 1 for the Dragon Plus board 02:23:45 - Dragon News} Ciaran Anscomb- released an update to XRoar 02:25:18 - Dragon News} Philippe Hennebert/FB- posted some pictures of his old Dragon/Coco stuff 02:30:30 - Dragon News} David F. Gisbert/FB- posted a picture of his dog - who is obviously a huge Dragon fan... (My dog, Pokey, approves of this dog/picture. -Sloopy) 02:31:23 - End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:31:55 - Project updates and acquisitions 02:32:05 - PUA} Rick Ulland 02:36:40 - PUA} MarkO(verholser) 02:37:40 - PUA} Sloopy 02:42:20 - PUA} Ron Delvaux's Garage 02:47:50 - PUA} Tim Lindner, cool t-shirt from VintageBeef 02:48:20 - John Laury and the panel, talk of Apple/ARM processor (inspired by the 6502 which is partially/indirectly influenced by the Motorola 68xx series) 02:53:48 - Ron giving an update on Paul Barton... Get well soon, Paul! 02:54:24 - Closing Credits/Outtro 02:56:30 - Hello Simon! 02:56:56 - Final Thoughts/CoCoTalk Caboose! 02:57:52 - 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 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
Apr 19, 2021 · 3 hr 29 min
Episode 208 - The Bandwidth Strikes Back
Thank you MarcB for streaming and hosting the show, despite bandwidth issues. This is the local recording of the entire show, uncut and and stutter free. Enjoy! 00:00:00 - Start 00:00:42 - Intro 00:03:00 - Upload the good one later? this is the good one?!? 00:03:34 - Start of the show! 00:04:00 - Having bandwidth issues, were soooorry 00:04:38 - Panel Introductions (top left corner, our host was stressed) 00:08:35 - Reminder! Glenside Virtual Meet Up/ CCCC SPringFEST, April 28th (NEXT WEEK!!!) 8p/7p Eastern/Central Time on the usual Glenside CoCo BlueJeans channel 00:09:45 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes 00:11:05 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:13:03 - Game On! discussion 00:24:32 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 00:29:55 - CoCoTalk! New and improved with 2400baud! 00:30:25 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 00:31:06 - Game On! News} Paul Shoemaker/FB- videos showing his back-porting his Poker Squares game from the CoCo3 to the CoCo1/2 00:58:12 - Game On! News} Sheldon MacDonald/FB- started rolling out his new Coco 3 and Coco 1/2 with CocoVGA game, Treasure Island Defence 01:06:45 - Game On! News} Richard Kelly/FB- posted a reference map guide for his version 2 "The Binary Adventure" 01:09:03 - Game On! News} Fabrizio Caruso- placed 2nd in the PUR-120 category of the 10 liner BASIC programming contest with Mines+ for the MC-10 01:10:58 - Game On! News} Trey Tomes- Screenshots of a PC to Coco 3 game conversion "Town of ZZT" 01:12:52 - Game On! News} Robert Sieg- animation cels with Mario for the MC-10 (Created on an MC-10 with the MCX-32) 01:14:00 - Game On! News} Ken of Canadian Retro Things/YT- Video on Coco (or generic 8 bit bit micro) books of type in BASIC games, and demonstrates several of them 01:17:30 - Game On! News} FrodoNL/TW- Videos of Manic Miner on 12 systems, 'The first year of' series for CoCo1 (late 1980) 1981 01:21:55 - Game On! News} Nick Marentes- posted Chapter 4 of his Zero Hour development blog 01:38:40 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie/YT- poll for what MC-10 game of his is to be used for a high score challenge, the prize is one of his "Type-in Mania" coffee mugs 01:40:30 - Game On! News} Sixxie (Ciaran Anscomb, author of XRoar)/YT- video showing the Anniversary Edition of his Dunjunz port, smooth vertical scrolling demo 01:44:20 - Game On! News} The Coco Show/YT- New episode released featuring Rescue on Fractalus 01:45:30 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon/YT- videos are back up again, and has over 25 games on it, including new videos 01:47:35 - End of Line for.. Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:47:52 - Commercial Break! 01:51:12 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 01:51:35 - CoCo News} Simon Jonassen/FB- screen shots showing a teaser to a demo he is working on, showing 32 graphics mode splits per 2 scan lines 01:55:30 - CoCo News} Trey Tomes/GH- download on his github for the entire CGA character set, that you can use in your own programs 01:56:25 - CoCo News} Walter Zambotti- port of the V7/32V version of Unix AWK to NitrOS-9 02:00:21 - CoCo News} Robert Gault/FB- new version of his EDTASM6309, now supports up to 256 virtual drives on a CocoSDC 02:04:50 - CoCo News} Barry Nelson/FB- released a special copy of HDBDOS meant for the CocoSDC 02:06:38 - CoCo News} Tandy Assembly- looking for speakers for this October's show in Springfield, Ohio 02:07:35 - CoCo News} Rocky Hill/YT- showing his receiving of some clone boards of a Coco 2 on KiCAD for Bit-Preserve project 02:35:40 - CoCo News} Michael Pittsley- 30 minute video showing the Coco program (with audio on the cassette) for the Radio Shack Talk/Tutor educational program, "The Solar System: Featuring the Discovery of the Planet Pluto" **MC-10 News** 02:47:08 - MC-10 News} Robert Sieg/FB- update of his high res editor for the MC-10 MCX32 02:48:35 - MC-10 News} Jim McClellan/FB- Posted work on an MC-10 banner maker 02:49:15 - MC-10 News} retrolimber 2018/YT- video of the French Alice 90 computer (Italian language) **Dragon News** 02:59:08 - Dragon News} Matt Kaye/FB- made metal plate name badge replacements for Dragons 03:00:18 - Dragon News} ctrl-alt-rees/YT- released a 20 minute video on exploring the Dragon 32 03:03:58 - Dragon News} Ian Hopkin/FB- started a original cool photo post in the Dragon group 03:05:10 - Dragon News} John Whitworth/FB- uploaded the Dragon Service Manual spanish version 03:05:10 - Dragon News} Bonus You tube video on the details of the Alice 90 03:11:08 - End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:11:30 - Project updates and acquisitions 03:11:58 - PUA} Rick Ulland 03:18:00 - PUA} Ron's (Delvaux) Garage 03:21:00 - More info on the Alice 90, by L. Curtis Boyle 03:25:05 - Closing Credits/Outtro 03:27:54 - Final Thoughts/CoCoTalk Caboose! 02:28:48 - Goodbye Everybody!
Apr 12, 2021 · 2 hr 52 min
Episode 207
CoCoTALK! Episode 207 00:00:00 - Start 00:00:08 - Intro 00:02:48 - Start of the show! 00:03:05 - Shout outs to chat visitors 00:04:05 - Panel Introductions 00:06:40 - Happy Birthday to David Kroeker and Mark Overholser 00:08:25 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes 00:09:50 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:10:00 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! (for real this time, now with PROFESSIONALISM!) 00:11:50 - We formally apologize to Marcie for making a mistake with her score, and Nick has been punished for this and he truely repents for his mistake. 00:12:40 - Game On! discussion 00:25:32 - Encore of Happy Birthday to David Kroeker and Marc Mark Overholser 00:26:10 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 00:29:16 - Nick Merentes joined the show, may be he will help make the show better? 00:31:31 - Another Encore of Happy Birthday to David Kroeker and Marc Mark Overholser (we are doing these instead of commercial breaks) 00:31:51 - Keeping this train rollin! 00:32:20 - CoCo 123, the Glenside news letter is released! April 28th Glenside Virtual Meet Up! 00:36:08 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 00:37:38 - CoCo News} Ciaran Anscomb- posted a demo/download, showing a hardware scrolling trick on the VDG 00:44:04 - CoCo News} John Laury/FB- Images of his CoCo3 with GIME-X, 6309 and CoCoMech keyboard! ( drool! ) 01:28:40 - CoCo News} Jerry Stratton- post on his site entitled "What are the 8 bits in 8-bit computing?" 01:31:50 - CoCo News} MrDave6309/YT- new cartridge, case and PCB ( These are awesome! ) 01:38:04 - CoCo News} Darren Ottery/FB- Quad multi-viewer, where one can hook up multiple systems and display them simultaneously on a large TV 01:41:00 - CoCo News} Ermani Cioffi/YT- demonstrating his new Coco / CP400 joystick, with analog controls **MC-10 News** 01:43:18 - MC-10 News} Robert Sieg- video/download of the start of his high res editor for the MC-10 MCX32 **Dragon News** 01:45:48 - Dragon News} The Gen1Gamer/YT- nice history of the Dragon video, with personal anecdotes 01:49:52 - CoCoTalk! Quality content! Brought to you by GIME-X, CoComan Product placement, Nick Merentes games, and... Depends! 01:50:05 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:50:20 - Game On! News} Erico Patricio Monteiro- game progress featured on the cover of Brazilian retro magazine, "Jogos 80" 01:51:55 - Game On! News} Amigos "ARG Presents"/YT- "Type in Games" (typed in from books or magazines) 02:01:00 - Game On! News} Jim "Sir MC10" Gerrie- released a beta of "Galaxy Jailbreak", and a 15 minute "Medly" video of games 02:09:18 - Game On! News} Uncoda/YT- part 2 of his "Nice games for the Coco" video series 02:14:58 - Game On! News} Steven Smith- selling 48 Dragon 32 original programs in cassette form 02:17:17 - Game On! News} Nick Marentes- 3rd Chapter of his new developing game, called Zero Hour 02:35:25 - End of Line for (Game On!) News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:35:40 - Reminder! Glenside Virtual Meet Up/ CCCC SPringFEST, April 28th 8p/7p Eastern/Central Time on the usual Glenside CoCo BlueJeans channel 02:36:33 - Project updates and acquisitions 02:37:05 - PUA} Ron Delvaux 02:43:00 - PUA} Rick Ulland 02:45:10 - PUA} Marc B 02:46:35 - Encore of Happy Birthday to David Kroeker and Marc Mark Overholser 02:46:53 - Closing Credits/Outtro 02:49:00 - David Ladd FINALLY gets here, YEAH! So the above was a 'dress rehersal'... 02:49:08 - Intro 02:49:24 - Just kidding! But David maybe excited to be here! 02:50:42 - Final Thoughts/CoCoTalk Caboose! 02:51:45 - Happy belated birthday to Mark Overholser who is 29 or 55... 02:52:00 - Happy Birthday to David Kroeker, his wife says he is a half centry! 02:52:08 - 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 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
Apr 5, 2021 · 2 hr 59 min
Episode 206 - CoCo Digital Video!
CoCoTALK! Episode 206 - CoCo Digital Video! The highlight of this week's show was getting to hear first hand from Alan of AC's 8-bit zone about a very cool new project he's working on to get 100% digital video with HDMI out from a CoCo 1 & 2, and even emulator NTSC artifact colours! 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
Mar 29, 2021 · 2 hr 29 min
Episode 205
00:00:00 - Start 00:00:08 - Intro 00:02:54 - Start of the show! 00:03:25 - Panel Introductions 00:06:50 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes 00:07:25 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:09:15 - Game On! discussion 00:25:50 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 00:29:40 - Commercial Break 00:32:33 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 00:33:25 - Game On! News} Sheldon MacDonald- Work in Progress video for Treasure Island Defence 00:36:40 - Game On! News} Paul Shoemaker- graphical effects to animate an intro screen 00:38:24 - Game On! News} L. Curtis Boyle- Gates of Delirium Archive put up on his site 00:49:20 - Game On! News} Erico Patricio Monteiro- animated GIF from his upcoming semigraphics fighting game 00:50:49 - Game On! News} The Coco Show- Released 18th episode featuring Demon Attack 00:54:25 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- All videos have been removed, hopefully they will return 00:54:50 - End of Line for Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 00:54:55 - Commercial Break 00:58:10 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 00:58:48 - CoCo News} Mike Rowen/YT- Released his final installment of "Retro Printing for Fun and Profit" 01:00:24 - CoCo News} Brian Schubring/YT- series on using Ultimuse III and MIDI on the Coco 3 01:12:58 - CoCo News} Ed Snider/YT- new video showing the GIME-X with 8 MB RAM and prices/scheduling! 01:29:28 - CoCo News} Michael Kline/CoCo@FB- Connecting two retro 8 bit machines via modems on each 01:30:40 - CoCo News} Ciaran Anscomb- made his own 512k SRAM Coco 3 01:32:32 - CoCo News} Todd Wallace- updated his OPL2/3 chip tunes player for NitrOS-9 01:37:08 - CoCo News} RetroTech/YT- how to set up a development environment for the Coco and the GMC 01:39:10 - CoCo News} AC's 8 Bit Zone/YT- has been working on a "pure digital video" for the Coco 1&2 **MC-10 News** 01:46:05 - MC-10 News} Jim McClellan- added another feature to his McDraw graphics editing program 01:47:03 - MC-10 News} Robert Sieg- update to his 24 bit BMP to MCX-32 128x96x4 converter **Dragon News** 01:48:28 - Dragon News} Stephen Smith/FB Dragon group- he has 27 issues of the National Dragon Users Group 01:50:24 - Dragon News} Matt Kaye/FB- finished designing replacement Dragon software boxes 01:51:38 - Dragon News} Henry Reitveld/YT- showing running a 3.5" floppy drive on the Tano Dragon 64 01:53:50 - End of Line for News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:54:40 - Ron Delvaux- Trivia question. 01:57:15 - Commercial Break 02:00:22 - Project updates and acquisitions 02:01:00 - PUA} Brian Schubring 02:03:22 - PUA} Brian Wiesler 02:08:52 - PUA} Aaron Ishmael via L. Curtis Boyle 02:11:28 - PUA} Ron Delvaux 02:14:00 - PUA} Sloopy Malibu (hey, thats me! :) ) 02:18:52 - "Sloopy shows us chips" -ACs 8Bit Zone 02:23:15 - PUA} Rick Ulland- Old advertisements for Color Computer Hardware 02:26:23 - Closing Credits/Outtro 02:28:20 - I found David Ladd!!! 02:29:15 - Final Thoughts/CoCoTalk Caboose! 02:29:30 - 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 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
Mar 21, 2021 · 3 hr 18 min
Episode 204 - Legends of Alcarron update
CoCoTALK! Episode 204 - Legends of Alcarron update 00:00:00 - Start 00:00:25 - Intro 00:02:37 - Start of the show! 00:03:00 - Panel Introductions 00:05:55 - Special Guest Star- Jay Searle! 00:47:18 - Special Hello to Steve Bjork's return! 00:51:54 - Commercial Break 00:54:43 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes 00:56:15 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:58:00 - Game On! discussion 01:08:20 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 01:13:00 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:13:10 - Game On! News} Erico Patricio Monteiro- More updates in graphics on his fighting game 01:16:55 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- Acey Duecey 10 Liner game,update of his port of Tim Hartnell's Chess 01:19:54 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- Added more long play videos, including a 3 part full play of BackTrack 01:21:35 - Game On! News} The Laird's Lair YT channel- Series of comparison video of several systems with Berserk 01:26:55 - Game On! News} David F. Gisbert- Dragon Facebook Group poll on most beloved games for Dragon 01:29:25 - End of Line for Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:29:28 - Definition of Syzygy, a name considered for the company that became Atari 01:30:15 - Commercial Break, with the wonderful Fletcher! 01:33:22 - Project updates and acquisitions 01:33:50 - PUA} The CoComan, Jason Reighard 01:36:10 - PUA} R. Allen Murphy 01:36:56 - PUA} Sloopy Malibu 01:40:15 - PUA} Nick Merentes 01:52:00 - PUA} Brian Wiesler (this is a short one... no, really!!!) 01:58:25 - PUA} Brian Schubring 02:05:00 - PUA} Ron Delvaux, Presented by L. Curtis Boyle 02:07:00 - Commercial Break 02:10:05 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 02:10:25 - CoCo News} TJBChris/YT- booting OS-9 Level 2 from *cassette* 02:17:32 - CoCo News} Simon Jonassen- submission to the lovebyte sizecoding contest/256 bytes max program size category 02:18:54 - CoCo News} Roger Voss/Coco FB group- Reasons people love the CoCo 02:30:38 - CoCo News} Mike Rowen of the The Coco Crew podcast/YT- "Retro Printing for Fun and Profit" Multi-part video series 02:32:55 - CoCo News} Boisy Pitre- new website devoted to his Ghidorah networking project for CoCo 02:38:05 - CoCo News} Fabian Rodriguez/TRS-80 Color Computer FB group- fixed his Coco 3, and discussion of repair and hacking of CoCo's 02:39:54 - CoCo News} Doug Masten/github- released a updated 6809/6309 decompressor for the ZX0 (de)compression format 02:: - CoCo News} Bill Pierce- VCC 2.1.0d is due out in April 02:42:54 - CoCo News} 6809/6309/6800 Assembly FB group- 6809's place in music history with synthesizers 02:44:08 - CoCo News} GlensideCCC meeting- A new animal based mascot for the CoCoFests 02:50:05 - CoCo News} GlensideCCC meeting- CoCoFest is moved to November, and talk of a virtual event at the end of April 02:55:00 - CoCo News} Aaron Ishmael- Request for information on software titles listed in a 1985 Radio Shack catalog **MC-10 News** 02:59:42 - MC-10 News} Robert Sieg- update to his 24 bit BMP to MC-10 128x96x4 graphics converter 03:01:24 - MC-10 News} Jim McClellan- TP-10 thermal printer **Dragon News** 03:02:24 - Dragon News} David F. Gisbert- Dragon 200 setup - including MMC card adaptor 03:04:06 - Dragon News} Matt Kaye- Selling Dragon 32 exact replica replacement stickers 03:05:12 - Dragon News} Philippe Hennebert- Utility for 'disconnecting' the floppy controller for loading cassette software 03:07:58 - End of Line for News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:08:00 - PUA} Ron Delvaux- More information on his new console game system and the IC inside it 03:13:45 - Closing Credits/Outtro 03:16:00 - Final Thoughts/CoCoTalk Caboose! 03:18:00 - Steve, your welcome for doing the time stamps :) 03:18:15 - Goodbye Everybody! J Searle and Brett Gordon are working on an online multi-player game for the CoCo. Today Jay will join us and give us a live demo of how it's coming along! 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
Mar 14, 2021 · 2 hr 58 min
Episode 203 - Superior Programming
This week we get to meet a new member of the CoCo community, Henry, we cover GameON! results from Zazzon, hear news, and then talk about development environments, including a sneak peek at Eric Canales' 6dev09 tool. 00:00:00 - Start 00:00:08 - Intro 00:02:45 - Start of the show! 00:02:50 - Live audience/Chat shout-outs 00:03:08 - Best part of the show! 00:02:00 - Start of the show 203b! 00:03:40 - Panel Introductions 00:06:00 - Spotlight on Henry NoNick 00:14:15 - Panel Introductions, continues... 00:14:35 - More Live audience/Chat shout-outs 00:16:00 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes 00:20:15 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:22:32 - Game On! discussion 00:35:50 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 00:39:30 - Commercial Break 00:42:54 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 00:43:15 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- Third World War, 10 Liner game, update of The Caves of the Unwashed Heathen 00:46:38 - Game On! News} Erico Patricio Monteiro- updates on a fighting game he is working on 00:47:08 - Game On! News} LRU's Outrageous Gaming Project- Added more long play videos 00:48:00 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- Added videos for Screaming Abdabs (14 levels), Boris the Bold, The King, Demon Seed, Shaft 00:50:18 - Game On! News} Rob's Retro Rambles- "MacDougal's Last Stand" for the Dragon 32 00:55:28 - Game On! News} FRGCB Dude- Compares Hungry Horace and Horace Goes Skiing on 3 systems 01:05:55 - Game On! News} Melanie Swalwell- Releasing the book "Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality" 01:16:00 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle **Dragon News** 01:16:16 - Dragon News} Ivan Rodellas Garcia- Reposted a older video of unboxing a new Tano Dragon **CoCo/General News** 01:21:42 - CoCo News} Fred Provoncha- update of iCal data into NitrOS-9 01:22:30 - CoCo News} Ken of Canadian Retro Things- review and demo of the Switch-A-Roo cable 01:35:25 - CoCo News} Simon Jonassen- Demo of smooth scrolling/flipping text 01:36:35 - CoCo News} Todd Wallace- text mode library for the Coco 3 in BASIC 01:39:05 - CoCo News} Retroralhas- Brazilian CoCo clone Codimex CD-6809 01:47:25 - CoCo News} Fabian Rodriguez- More updating/fixing/cleaning up the CocoPedia Wikim and requests for others to contribute 01:48:00 - CoCo News} Lou Ottens- who was the inventor of the compact cassette tape, passed away 01:49:50 - CoCo News} Michael J. Knudsen- author of Ultimuse III, has passed away 01:56:50 - End of Line for News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:59:45 - Commercial Break 02:03:15 - Return from Commercial Break 02:03:25 - Questions from Ron Delvaux 02:05:03 - Asparagus has been called! 02:05:08 - Project updates and acquisitions 02:05:20 - PUA} Brian Schubring 02:07:02 - PUA} Mikey 02:10:20 - PUA} Eric Canales 02:29:15 - PUA} HenryNoNick 02:40:40 - Panel discussion of various editors and IDE's... 02:51:30 - End of Line for CocoTalk! 02:51:43 - Closing Credits/Outtro 02:54:34 - Final Thoughts/CoCoTalk Caboose! 02:58:15 - The best part of the show is next! 02:58:24 - 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 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 Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/imacoconut https://www.twitch.tv/cocotalk https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive
Mar 7, 2021 · 2 hr 53 min
Episode 202 - Sharing the love of the CoCo
We're back with another amazing episode of CoCoTALK! everyone's favorite CoCo talk show, we love the CoCo, we love taking about the CoCo and sharing that love, come join us! 00:00:00 - Start 00:02:00 - Intro 00:02:28 - Start of the show! 00:02:30 - Best part of the show! 00:03:00 - Live audience/Chat shout-outs 00:03:50 - Panel Introductions 00:05:25 - Happy Birthday Sarah! 00:06:48 - Panel Introductions, continues... 00:12:00 - Project updates and acquisitions 00:12:38 - PUA} Terry Steege 00:15:15 - PUA} Brian Wieseler 00:23:40 - PUA} FrodoNL 00:26:30 - PUA} Brian Schubring 00:31:55 - PUA} Sloopy Malibu 00:33:25 - PUA} Rick Ulland (***Spoiler: no pics of neighbor... ***) 00:40:24 - Boatofcar, welcome! 00:41:05 - Brian Wieseler, Keyboard demo 00:42:30 - Stevie- Thank you to several people, like the awesome R. Allen Murphy, the great Alison DeNu... and some other random person... 00:46:38 - Commercial Break 00:49:53 - Who is new to the CoCo Discord! 00:51:32 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes 00:53:53 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:55:49 - Game On! discussion 01:10:38 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 01:16:18 - Steve continuing further off-topic, aka Coleco Talk! (a new show coming sometime, maybe, in the future!) 01:18:05 - Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:18:37 - Game On! News} Sheldon MacDonald- New game teaser, Treasure Island for CoCoVGA 01:26:37 - Game On! News} Richard N.- Spacewar! version 2 01:31:30 - Game On! News} The Pixel Gaiden podcast- Episode 53 release 01:33:32 - Game On! News} Paul Thayer- Demo of 'spotlight effect' 01:34:25 - Game On! News} LRU's Outragous gaming project- Videos of various games: Spidercide, Caverns of Chaos, Kung Fu: The Master, Breakout, Downland, Jet Boot Colin, Desperado Dan 01:35:22 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- 2 Long play game videos 01:36:43 - Game On! News} Darren Ottery- New MC-10 game:DropShip 01:40:15 - Commercial Break: Daz&Day Cover of Blue Monday by New Order 01:47:10 - Return from Commercial Break 01:48:25 - Snoozy Newsy 01:48:44 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 01:49:26 - CoCo News} pahandav- Blog post on his NitrOS-9 install video 01:50:10 - Happy Birthday to Ron Delvaux's Mother! 01:50:22 - CoCo News} "Radio Shack(R)" via Ron Delvaux- T-Shirts with the CoCo name 01:51:08 - CoCo News} Jon Guidry- Link of photos from Tandy Electronics of Australia 01:54:22 - CoCo News} Robert Gault- released disk image for a program to create text/graphics windows from CLI of NitrOS-9 01:55:07 - CoCo News} Terry Trapp- Update on his P2/CoCoBlender hardware project 02:01:22 - CoCo News} Fabian Rodriguez- updating/fixing/cleaning up the CocoPedia Wiki 02:06:10 - CoCo News} Retrotralhas- released a video of 'Color 64' South American CoCo clone 02:11:00 - CoCo News} Eric Canales- Glenside Color Computer Club is accepting donations of CoCo related items or monetary donations via PayPal 02:12:38 - CoCo News} Ed Snider- Released a teaser video of his awesome new pick and place machine (yes, I am most jealous!) **Dragon News** 02:24:43 - Dragon News} John Whitworth- Lower case kits for Dragons' series of computers 02:27:05 - End of Line for News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:27:50 - An actual Commercial Break 02:31:30 - End of Line for CocoTalk! 02:32:00 - CoCoTalk Caboose! 02:32:44 - Happy birthday to Grant Leighty 02:32:30 - More Caboose! 02:48:07 - Closing Credits/Outtro 02:50:32 - Final Thoughts 02:53:57 - The good part of the show is next!
Mar 1, 2021 · 4 hr 7 min
Episode 201 - Special Guest & Lots of News!
This week we feature special guest Joanne Donaldson and lots of news! 00:00:00 - Start 00:00:20 - Intro 00:03:14 - Hello to our chat guests 00:05:03 - Panel Introductions 00:18:58 - More, Hello to our chat guests 00:20:12 - CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes 00:20:34 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:22:38 - Game On! discussion 00:36:10 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 00:38:25 - Nick Marentes- 512k Flash/MP3 Cart 00:50:29 - Commercial Break 00:51:08 - I found Stevie! He wasnt kidnapped by Commodore users! 00:54:08 - Return from Commercial Break 00:55:00 - JoAnn Donaldson 01:31:10 - Commercial Break 01:34:40 - Intro (Game On! News/)News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:35:20 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- Various 01:39:08 - Game On! News} Jamie Cho- Space Bandits 01:45:02 - Game On! News} Diego Barizo- Airwolf 01:48:10 - Game On! News} Retro Games Diversos- CoCo/Dragon emulator for Pocket-Go Miyoo 01:53:52 - Game On! News} LRU's Outragous gaming project- Videos of various games 01:56:40 - Game On! News} Guillaume Major- Operation:RECON game demo release 02:01:25 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle **CoCo/General News** 02:01:35 - CoCo News} Daniel Campos- Rare CoCo1 clone 02:05:14 - CoCo News} Boisy Pitre- Released DriveWire4 Server for MacOS Version 1.2.1 02:05:40 - CoCo News} Ken @ Canadian Retro Things- Video of CoCo1 repair 02:07:52 - CoCo News} Erico Patricio Monteiro- low-res/semigraphics of various computers 02:09:28 - CoCo News} Sheldon MacDonald- Vector graphics demo 02:11:54 - CoCo News} Aaron Newcomb- video segment on TWiT's show FLOSS Weekly about open source RGB to HDMI 02:16:30 - CoCo News} Todd Wallace- Release of software to get live weather report on CoCo 02:19:40 - CoCo News} Jayeson Lee-Steere- Revised design of his Omniboard 02:20:30 - CoCo News} Pierre Sarrazin- Released manual/reference for CMOC for BASIC programmers 02:21:20 - CoCo News} Amateur Tinkering- Video on connecting to telnet BBS's with CoCo1/VideoTex cart 02:26:25 - CoCo News} Richard Lorbieski- Recent weather in TX has made some temporary setbacks. 02:31:52 - CoCo News} Robert Gault- Disk image for creating Koch patterns 02:33:00 - CoCo News} Ron Lammardo- Posted a discussion on GShell by Mark Griffiths and Mark Siegal 02:36:15 - CoCo News} Frederick Provoncha- Test program to sync NitrOS-9 and iCal 02:39:30 - Commercial Break 02:42:42 - Return from Commercial Break 02:42:50 - Richard Lorbieski- Update about his situation, Texas, etc... 02:54:15 - CoCo News} Fabian Rodriguez- CoCo3 rescue 03:03:00 - CoCo News} Terry Trapp- CoCo Blender, a Parallax P2 add-on to the CoCo 03:04:55 - CoCo News} Brandon Tetreau- VCC cart launcher 03:07:05 - CoCo News} Michael P Yusko- What got you into the CoCo's? 03:07:48 - CoCo News} This Week in Retro(ft Neil of RMC and John of Amigos & The CoCo Show)- Ben Drakes CoCoVR info 03:13:18 - CoCo News} pahandav- Installing NitrOS-9 in an emulator 03:14:53 - CoCo News} The Coco Crew- Released episode 69 03:15:45 - CoCo News} Brian Weisler- Gotta Catch The All! **Dragon News** 03:20:55 - Dragon News} Stewart Orchard- FPGA Blitter 03:23:34 - Dragon News} Andy Fox- CoCoVGA in a Dragon 03:24:12 - Dragon News} Jamie Murray- International edition of Dragn User 03:25:52 - Dragon News} Julian Brown- Javascript 6809 emulator 03:26:45 - Dragon News} Ciaran Anscomb- 128k ram upgrade for Dragon 64 03:29:00 - End of Line for News, with L. Curtis Boyle 03:29:12 - JoAnn Donaldson, Picture from 1972 at NASA 03:33:50 - Commercial Break 03:37:05 - Return from break talk 03:37:20 - Project updates and acquisitions 03:37:30 - PUA} Sloopy Malibu 03:38:42 - PUA} Mark D Overlholser 03:39:30 - PUA} Brian Schubring 03:43:33 - PUA} Nick Marotta(, Nick Marotta, Niiiiicoooo MarooootttaAAHH!) 03:45:14 - PUA} R. Allen Murphy 03:46:22 - PUA} Rick Ulland 03:51:10 - PUA} Ron Delvaux 03:54:10 - PUA} Brian Wieseler 03:05:27 - PUA} Brian Wieseler 04:03:00 - End of Line for Project updates and acquisitions 04:03:55 - Closing Credits/Outtro 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
Feb 21, 2021 · 3 hr 46 min
Episode 200 - Favorite Memories
4 years, 199 episodes and over 630 hours of celebrating the CoCo community! Join us as we share our favorite memories from the wild ride that's been CoCoTALK!
Feb 14, 2021 · 2 hr 39 min
Episode 199 - countdown to 200
We're counting down the days until we reach our 200th episode, join us for Game On Results, news, discussions and more! For all things CoCoTALK! visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live
Feb 7, 2021 · 1 hr 19 min
Episode 198 - part 2 - The News and more!
We're back with another episode of CoCoTALK! the world's leading live talk show dedicated to the Tandy Color Computer, it's family of machines, and community. This week we're putting a strong focus on the community, there's a lot going on every day in discord (http://discord.cocotalk.live) and D. Bruce Moore is working on a new "I'm a CoCo Nut" song, and we're asking for everyone to lend their voices, literally to the chant. Tune in and join us, won't you? Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/imacoconut https://www.twitch.tv/cocotalk https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive
Feb 7, 2021 · 3 hr 11 min
Episode 198 - part 1 - Community Focus
We're back with another episode of CoCoTALK! the world's leading live talk show dedicated to the Tandy Color Computer, it's family of machines, and community. This week we're putting a strong focus on the community, there's a lot going on every day in discord (http://discord.cocotalk.live) and D. Bruce Moore is working on a new "I'm a CoCo Nut" song, and we're asking for everyone to lend their voices, literally to the chant. Tune in and join us, won't you? 00:00:00 - Start 00:00:10 - Intro 00:02:45 - Start of show! 00:04:00 - Panel Introductions 00:10:10 - End of Introductions 00:11:11 - Project updates and acquisitions 00:12:28 - PUA} Ron Delvaux 00:16:04 - PUA} Rick Ulland 00:22:33 - PUA} Ron Delvaux 00:23:52 - PUA} Paul Shoemaker 00:26:03 - Late Panel Introductions 00:27:31 - PUA} Brian Wieseler 00:33:20 - Panel Discussion Acoustic Modems 00:36:45 - PUA} John Laury 00:38:45 - PUA} MrDave6309 00:42:05 - Panel Discussion Acoustic Modems (again!) 00:44:47 - PUA} Ron Delvaux 00:45:18 - Shoutouts to visitors in the chat 00:46:04 - PUA} Terry Steege 00:49:55 - Ricks neighbor (Video by MrDave6309) 00:50:45 - PUA} Nick Marotta, Nick Marotta, Nick Marotta! 00:51:50 - PUA} Nick Marentes 00:59:12 - PUA} Chris Durys 00:59:28 - Who is new to the CoCo Discord 01:06:55 - Return to the Show! 01:09:14 - Stevie Strow - Updates on show etc. 01:15:14 - PUA} BoatOfCar/John Shawler 01:20:04 - PUA} FrodoNL 01:31:26 - CoCo Thoughts by Samuel Gimes 01:33:57 - Responses to, Samuel Gimes 01:35:38 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 01:38:10 - Game On! Game Discussion, With Nick Marotta! 01:51:50 - Game On! Celebration of 1 year of Game On! with Nick Marotta! 02:09:03 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 02:12:20 - Random Discussion 02:13:00 - Stevie Strow - Show history 02:16:48 - Commercial break 02:19:42 - Game On! News with L. Curtis Boyle 02:20:10 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- MC-10 Basic Compiler 02:23:50 - Game On! News} Robert Allen Murphy- Update on Nostromo 02:36:15 - Game On! News} Pixel Gaiden- CoCo stream on twitch 02:45:26 - Game On! News} Sheldon MacDonald- GMC Demo 02:48:40 - Game On! News} Christopher Cantrell RPi connected large display 02:52:11 - Game On! News} Amigos- New CoCo show episode 02:55:05 - CoCo - Dragon relations 02:57:25 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon update of game videos 03:01:30 - Game On! News} Retrotective - CoCo videos on YouTube 03:04:22 - Game On! News} Mikes Tech Rescue - CoCo, and game carts 03:05:08 - Game On! News} Lee Perkins - 8 way scrolling on 1024x512x16 map 03:07:50 - Commercial Break 03:08:57 - CoCo Thoughts by Samuel Gimes 03:09:20 - Commercial Break 03:11:25 - End of Part 1 Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AeMJkDwTmk 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 Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/imacoconut https://www.twitch.tv/cocotalk https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive