The CoCo Nation Show

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

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Jan 31, 2021 · 3 hr 40 min
Episode 197
00:00:00 - Start 00:00:10 - Intro 00:02:45 - Start 00:03:40 - Panel Introductions 00:08:00 - Project updates and acquisitions 00:08:30 - PUA} Brian Wieseler 00:21:56 - PUA} Patrick Ulland 00:29:40 - PUA} Sloopy Malibu 00:36:25 - Project updates and acquisitions 00:36:40 - PUA} Sloopy Malibu (Part 2) Contact: Discord-Sloopy Malibu, Facebook-Chris Luckey 00:46:58 - PUA} Quigon (Mike Brandt) 00:49:15 - PUA} Marc Bosley 00:50:39 - PUA} Steve Strow and his New Throne! 00:52:02 - Commercial break 00:56:54 - CoCo Thoughts by Samuel Gimes 00:59:42 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:59:42 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 01:15:25 - Game On! News with L. Curtis Boyle 01:15:55 - Game On! News} Ben "VR" Drakes- VR on CoCo 01:23:29 - Game On! News} RichN- SPACEWAR! 01:25:55 - Game On! News} Sheldon MacDonald- SG8 game update 01:27:33 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- MC-10 Speed Demon 01:29:22 - Game On! News} Richard Harding- Dragon Cuthbert player 01:25:28 - Game On! News} Tor-Eiril Bakke Lunde- Joystick adaptor 01:34:42 - Game On! News} The Digital Orphanage- Refurbishing Dragon Series Part 3 01:42:02 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- MC-10 Scramble 01:44:26 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- MC-10 Lode Runner 01:46:00 - Game On! News} Cuthbert Dragon- Dragon revamping youtube videos 01:56:18 - Game On! News} Simonwgb- Long play youtube videos of Dragon/CoCo games on XRoar 01:59:52 - Commercial Break 02:02:51 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle 02:03:23 - CoCo News} Richard Harding- Dragon USB Keyboard 02:06:04 - CoCo News} Simon Jonassen- Mandelbrot set on CoCo/Song Popcorn 02:08:00 - CoCo News} Jim Brain- CoCo Flashpak 02:12:00 - CoCo News} The CoCo Crew- Episode 68 02:12:55 - CoCo News} Fabian Rodriguez- Posting of French/Quebec 1984 Radio Shack Catalog 02:12:55 - CoCo News} Antonio Carlos Jimenez Ely- Upload of a remastered manual for the Tandy High-Res Interface 02:17:41 - CoCo News} Joel Rees- C language tutorial 02:18:35 - CoCo News} Gary Moulton- Dragon ML routine for capitalizing text strings 02:19:17 - CoCo News} The Retro Channel 02:22:07 - CoCo News} The ABUG Channel/Ian Bradbury- Multi system converter RGB to HDMI 02:23:45 - CoCo News} L. Curtis Boyle- NitrOS-9 EOU Beta 6.0.1 Matchbox release 02:28:10 - Commercial break 02:33:32 - Return from break 02:34:24 - CoCo Thoughts by Samuel Gimes 02:35:22 - Editorial By Steve Strowbridge 02:51:50 - FrodoNL - Interview on FPGA emulation systems, and other topics 02:58:30 - End of interview 02:58:48 - PUA} Addedum, Sloopy Malibu 03:00:42 - Discussion on the CoCo community 03:10:14 - FrodoNL - More on FGPA systems 03:11:38 - Ron Delvaux - Community events 03:12:08 - More Discussion on ESP8266-01 and DriveWire and other topics of CoCo interfacing 03:29:58 - Parting Thoughts 03:32:08 - Closing Credits/Outtro 03:34:06 - Caboose/Final Thoughts 03:39:25 - Good Bye Everybody!
Jan 25, 2021 · 3 hr 47 min
Episode 196 - Greatest show on Earh
CoCoTALK! Episode 196 - Greatest show on Earh 00:00:00 - Intro Now with SOUND! 00:02:40 - Start 00:03:10 - Panel Introductions 00:08:00 - End of Great show! 00:08:15 - End of Introductions 00:08:36 - CoCo Thoughts by Samuel Gimes 00:08:06 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:22:53 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 00:33:00 - Game On! News with L. Curtis Boyle 00:33:32 - Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- MC-10 SPACEWAR! 00:35:27 - Game On! News} Amigos- CoCo show 00:36:27 - Game On! News} Steve Norton- Mod Retron 77 (Atari remake) Joystick for CoCo. 00:38:58 - Game On! News} Sheldon MacDonald- SG8 scrolling engine update 00:46:28 - Game On! News} Tor-Eiril Bakke Lunde- Joystick adaptor 00:46:27 - Game On! News} Rob's Retro Rambles- Shaolin Master plus (by Dave Gibbons... yes, the comic book artist!) 00:53:48 - Commercial Break 00:53:32 - CoCo Thoughts by Samuel Gimes 00:53:57 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle 00:57:23 - CoCo News} Jim Brain- Version 2 of the Dual 6X09 switcher for CoCo3 01:10:22 - CoCo News} Jim Brain- Version 2 of the Dual 6X09 switcher for CoCo2 01:16:56 - CoCo News} Jim Brain- CoCoNIC 01:48:30 - CoCo News} Allen Huffman- Benchmarking the CoCo Keyboard Part 7 01:47:06 - CoCo News} JoAnn Donaldson- CoCo C 01:50:20 - CoCo News} Terry Trapp- CoCo 2 P2eval update 01:50:48 - CoCo News} Chad Edward- Australian CoCo Group formed for plans of a TandyAssembly/CoCoFest in Australia 01:54:12 - CoCo News} John Whitworth- Dragon 64,DragonPlus & CoCoSDC, running OS-9 02:07:40 - CoCo News} Simon Jonassen- Mandelbrot set on CoCo 02:08:12 - CoCo News} Robert Sieg- MC-10 Text reader for MCX-32 02:09:15 - CoCo News} Robert Sieg- MC-10 BMP viewer 02:09:15 - CoCo News} Jim McClellan- MC-10 McDraw update 02:11:59 - CoCo News} Mark Dusko- MC-10 Circle BASIC routine 02:15:43 - CoCo News} Greg Dionne- MC-10 MicroColor BASIC cross-compiler 02:22:39 - CoCo News} Jim Fuller- Dragon RetroBrighting 02:25:10 - CoCo News} Unum Lapis- Dragon/CoCo RGBtoHDMI output 02:26:20 - CoCo News} Craig Chapman- Intro to binary arithmetic 02:30:26 - CoCo News} AC's 8bit Zone- Convert IBM PCjr joystick to CoCo / 6847T1 VDG lower case text and 64k RAM upgrade for CoCo2 02:34:25 - CoCo News} Retro Gaming Banter- Dragon 32 restore 02:38:54 - CoCo News} Russ Campbell- Learn Classic programming with BASIC 02:40:50 - CoCo News} Ben "VR" Drakes- Info about Richard Wadman, former Dragon Data employee 02:43:50 - CoCo News} L. Curtis Boyle- NitrOS-9 EOU Beta 6.01 released! 02:52:48 - Commercial break 02:56:22 - Project updates and acquisitions 02:57:20 - PUA} Nick Marentes 02:59:00 - PUA} CoCoMan/Jason Reighard 03:01:40 - PUA} Brian Schubring 03:05:46 - PUA} BoatOfCar/John Shawler 03:12:18 - PUA} Ron Delvaux 03:18:18 - PUA} David Ladd 03:22:44 - PUA} Marc Bosley 03:28:00 - PUA} Brian Wieseler 03:36:00 - Parting Thoughts 03:44:56 - Closing Credits/Outtro 03:46:39 - Caboose/Final Thoughts Streaming live on NEW! https://www.youtube.com/imacoconut NEW! https://www.twitch.tv/cocotalk https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive 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
Jan 17, 2021 · 3 hr 29 min
Episode 195 - New Channels!
CoCoTALK! episode 195 is live on some new channels, please make sure you're up-to-date on where you can catch live streams and replays, make sure you've followed, subscribed, and turned on notifications. Our live channels: NEW! https://www.youtube.com/imacoconut NEW! https://www.twitch.tv/cocotalk https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:49 - Start 00:04:00 - Panel Introductions 00:12:48 - Samuel Gimes 00:16:32 - Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta! 00:21:10 - Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta! 00:45:40 - Game On! New game related talk 00:50:10 - Game On! News with L. Curtis Boye 00:50:20 - Game On! News} Allen Huffman- Atari Adventure 00:52:31 - Game On! News} Robert Sieg- MC-10 Minecraft Characters 00:56:40 - Game On! News} Guillaume Major- Sierra's AGI Patch 01:07:35 - Game On! News} Sheldon MacDonald- Zelda style scrolling in SG8 01:10:08 - Game On! News} Nick Marentes- Zero Hour 01:28:32 - Commercial Break 01:13:16 - Return from break talk 01:31:30 - Encore presentation of Samuel Gimes 01:33:50 - News, with L. Curtis Boyle 01:34:26 - CoCo News} Jim McClellan- McDraw Version 2.0 for MC-10 01:36:00 - CoCo News} Simon Jonassen- Mixed graphics modes updates 01:37:44 - CoCo News} Guillaume Major- SDCX 1.20 released 01:43:42 - CoCo News} Allen Huffman- Benchmarking the CoCo Keyboard 01:44:55 - CoCo News} Trey Tomes- "Virtual Machine" screen saver 01:47:35 - CoCo News} Mr Lurch's Things- Dragon 32 external power supply 01:49:40 - CoCo News} Hywel Evans- Tano Dragon 64 for sale 01:59:00 - CoCo News} Canadian Retro Things- Video capture for composite 02:03:42 - CoCo News} L. Curtis Boyle et al- NitrOS-9 EOU Beta 6.01 update 02:04:35 - CoCo News} Hjalfi- CGP-115 repair/use 02:04:35 - CoCo News} Staff- Editorial info Part 1 02:15:20 - Commercial break 02:47:00 - CoCo News} Staff- Editorial info Part 2 02:28:46 - Project updates and acquisitions 02:29:10 - PUA} Ben "VR" Drakes 02:31:14 - PUA} Ben "VR" Drakes- Richard Wadman 02:47:54 - PUA} R. Allen Murphy 02:50:35 - PUA} Sloopy Malibu 02:59:01 - PUA} CoCoMan/Jason Reighard 03:05:27 - PUA} Brian Wieseler 03:13:58 - PUA} Stevie Strow 03:22:48 - PUA} Ron Delvaux 03:23:56 - Closing Credits/Outtro 03:26:15 - Caboose/Final 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
Jan 10, 2021 · 2 hr 3 min
Episode 194 - pot luck
Episode 194 - pot luck 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
Jan 3, 2021 · 4 hr 28 min
Episode 193 - CoCo New Year!
CoCoTALK! episode 193 - CoCo New Year! Hello 2021 it's a brand new year of CoCoTALK! This week we'll review the GameON! results of playing Star Spores, and hear from the game's author Dave Shadoff, along with news, panel discussions and more! It's a CoCo New Year!
Dec 28, 2020 · 3 hr 7 min
Episode 192 - A very CoCo Christmas
Join us as we celebrate the spirit of Christmas and CoCo as we share Yule Tidings and CoCo talking, let's ring in 2021 with some holiday cheer and peace on earth!
Dec 20, 2020 · 2 hr 51 min
Audio episode 191 - Winter Wonderland
CoCoTALK! episode 191 - Winter Wonderland Walking in a Winter Wonderland with the latest episode of CoCoTALK! We'll be bringing out GameON! results, news, discussions, and more!
Dec 14, 2020 · 4 hr 39 min
Audio episode 190 - NitrOS9 EOU Beta 6
Everything you've ever or never wanted to know about the latest incarnation of NitrOS9 will be revealed today. Quick history lesson: Microware created OS9 for the CoCo, there was Leve I for the CoCo 1/2 and Leve II for the CoCo 3. When the 6309 became a prevalent upgrade for CoCo 3s an optimized version was released that was 20% faster known as Nitro OS9 (NitrOS9) primarily developed and maintained by L. Curtis Boyle, Bill Nobel, and Wes Gale. Some years later that project became open source and was maintained by a few members of the community. Fast forward to the past few years, now, back in the hands of Curtis Boyle and Bill Nobel, with a team of testers and documenters, the project has taken new life, is now known as the "Ease of Use" or EOU version, with more optimizations, a standard "GUI" known as G-Shell making it more user friendly for novices to run software quickly and easily, and support for newer hardware like the GIME-X and future devices is already in the works. Get your copy of EOU here: http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/nitros9.html
Dec 6, 2020 · 3 hr 18 min
Episode 189 - mixed bag of nuts
This week's highlights: Brand new theme music by D. Bruce Moore. Project updates and acquisitions from the panel with a huge haul obtained by John Laurey. GameON! results discussing this week's game Photo and revealing next week's game. Bonus clips and song parodies. CoCo News from around the world., including a word from Simon Jonassen Getting to know Alison DeNu who joined the panel for the first time Parting thoughts and well wishes. 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
Nov 29, 2020 · 4 hr 20 min
Episode 188 - MAME Talk!
Today we'll hear about all the cool CoCoCentric stuff that's been added to MAME over the past 6 months or so by Tim Lindner, our CoCo MAME expert. To fast forward to the MAME specific segment, scrub to about 02:03:00
Nov 23, 2020 · 4 hr 32 min
Episode 187 - special guests
CoCoTALK! episode 187 - special guests This week we have two special guests: Dave Shadoff, author of Star Spores, and Alan of AC's 8-bit Zone join us! Check out AC's 8-Bit Zone YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0wUUzZ68Xi5elmNo4TtGg
Nov 15, 2020 · 3 hr 33 min
Episode 186 - ”Winging it”
Buzzard Bait was the game of the week, see how scores played out, and the revelation of next week's game... no spoilers! We heard game on news, regular news, updates from the panel and a WeFax demo, and so much more!
Nov 8, 2020 · 3 hr 44 min
Episode 185 - You can count on us
CoCoTALK! episode 185 - You can count on us In this time of electoral uncertainty, there is one thing you can count on, and that's CoCoTALK! 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/steviestrow https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive
Nov 1, 2020 · 4 hr 10 min
Episode 184 "CoCo Halloween"
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:43 Panel Introductions 00:10:07 Holloween talk 00:39:04 CoCo Thoughts 00:42:03 GameON! challenge results 00:44:25 GameON! Discussion - Phantom Slayer 01:09:50 Next week's game announcement - Pipes 01:43:40 GameON! news 02:26:12 News from around the world 03:41:46 Project updates and acquisitions 04:01:17 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion 1) Robert Sieg has uploaded a disk image with 3 sample 160x192x16 color pictures https://tinyurl.com/y33edhca https://tinyurl.com/y4r4bhre https://tinyurl.com/yynf4pqa 2) Simon Jonassen released some details and sample song using a 4 voice music player https://tinyurl.com/y595r2pv 3) Neil Blanchard has a last call for his special run of 40th anniversary Coco masks on Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y4cu9h4s 4) Sheldon MacDonald posted a video on the Coco group on Facebook showing what his upcoming RSDOS tool program https://tinyurl.com/y6a4wx8c 5) Philippe Trottier posted on Facebook about replacing a 6551 chip with another chip. https://tinyurl.com/yyrdzzz9 6) Laurence Byers posted some scans of a review of BASIC-09 from the April 1984 issue of BYTE magazine https://tinyurl.com/y3rl9x66 7) Ciaran Anscomb (Sixxie) has posted a link to a work in progress on his gitlab account - indexing Dragon User magazine articles https://tinyurl.com/yylhycxk 8) Keith (ChibiAkumas) on YouTube has his first assembly language tutorial specifically for the Coco 3 up, concentrating on 16 color bitmap drawing in this episode: https://tinyurl.com/y5b4c3x5 9) Paul Shoemaker put up a cool video demo on Facebook showing his "Pixels" program, which shows randomly moving pixels https://tinyurl.com/y5chbboo https://tinyurl.com/y6fop83n 10) Carlos Camacho is reminding people on Facebook that he has ROM chip upgrades for Coco https://tinyurl.com/y5562hne 11) Steve Norton has released a utility on Facebook (for Windows) that will help automate renaming long DSK filenames to the 8.3 format required for the CocoSDC. https://tinyurl.com/y4phoeg4 12) Peter Cetinski uploaded to github an archive of the Tandy Coco Tech bulletins: https://tinyurl.com/y2gkz8rd 13) Darren Ottery put up a video demo on Facebook of his simple Drum machine program called 'Beatbox'. https://tinyurl.com/y5rqls8l 14) Bill Pierce has put up a list of known bugs, and of feature requests, for VCC on Facebook and is asking for people to update the lists for future updates. https://tinyurl.com/y5o5dkkh 15) Episode 65 of the Coco Crew podcast is out http://cococrew.org 16) Robert Gault has uploaded a utility called MLFINDER to the Facebook Coco group https://tinyurl.com/y5y4xd2f 17) Curtis Boyle released the first public release of the new Technical Reference manual for NitrOS-9 https://tinyurl.com/y643o9ga 18) AC's 8-Bit Zone has posted a video where a channel viewer has a Coco 2 that won't start up properly - and AC sees if he can fix it (part 1): https://tinyurl.com/yyx5m9w3 19) John Whitworth announced that a 2nd order for the MSX 2+ boards has been ordered https://tinyurl.com/yxmpk5lb Game On news: ============= 1) Avram Berman put up an interesting question: What Coco game would you most like to have a sequel of? https://tinyurl.com/yxdzetxu 2) Neil Blanchard he has a last call going out for 3D Monster Maze and Bomb Threat cartridges https://tinyurl.com/y64fs5rj 3) Chet Simpson has released the first info files for eventual disassembled source code for 4 programs on his GitHub. https://tinyurl.com/y6lo8uc3 4) Paul Thayer has a video update on his progress with his Coco 3 game, Sokoban https://tinyurl.com/y5k5m2zx 5) Nick Marentes did a tongue in cheek "teaser" image for his upcoming dual game pack (Rally-SG, now with a track editor, and his new Pipes game), which has stirred some controversy. Nick has a comment on this. 6) Rick Adams put some scans up on Discord and Facebook showing some of his original notes and sketches for his original, more complicated design for the OmniStar https://tinyurl.com/y3d2kxnb 7) Henry Reitveld did a quick video showing him using the CocoSDC with Brett Gordon's YA DOS that can have up to 3500 floppy disk images: https://tinyurl.com/yyzvg6lb 8) Vintage is the New Old did a review of Digger III: The Saint's Ascension, including a gameplay video: https://tinyurl.com/yxf9uf6t https://tinyurl.com/y23pu93x
Oct 26, 2020 · 3 hr 28 min
Episode 183 ”It belongs in a museum”
We've heard a of stories from Rick Adams about the creation of Temple of ROM, Shanghai, and the loss of Bomb Threat, which lead to it's recreation. Rick has also mentioned there were things he wish he could find which documented some of these projects. Low and behold, he's found some archeological treasures from the past, and we'll hear all about them today!
Oct 18, 2020 · 3 hr 29 min
Episode 182 - updates, acquisitions , games, and news
Episode 182 - updates, acquisitions , games, and news Episode 182 of CoCoTalk! brings us updates and acquisitions from the panel, game on results for the week playing Shock Trooper, Game On news, more regular news, and so much more!
Oct 11, 2020 · 2 hr
Episode 181
We're back with the world's leading live Color Computer talk show, and this week we'll talk about the C-64, just kidding! This... is... CoCoTALK!
Oct 4, 2020 · 4 hr 5 min
Episode 180 #SepTandy wrap-up with special guest Dinty's Hideaway
We're at the end of #SepTandy but we've got a whole week of content to review this week as we wrap on an incredible month of Tandy Content on YouTube, we'll have special guest Pat, From Dinty's Hideaway on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJPsl76e7jAORLi3NZlkjLQ) who scored an incredible interview with John Roach from Tandy. We'll hear from Pat, learn about his retro past and present, as well as his YouTube channel, and see that final offerings from #SepTandy that came in last week.
Sep 28, 2020 · 4 hr 27 min
Episode 179 - the end of #SepTANDY
This is the last week CoCoTALK! is in the middle of #SepTandy and we wrapped up the event with a great new music parody and video from D. Bruce Moore, sung to the tune of Bow, Wow Wo's "I Want Candy", Bruce gives us "I want Tandy!" We reviewed a lot of #SepTandy happenings this pas week and so much more!
Sep 20, 2020 · 3 hr 40 min
Episode 178 - Glenside virtual picnic
Welcome to official Glenside Color Computer Club virtual picnic, which usually happens in person, in the Chicago area, but, in these trying times, most things are virtual now. Join us for food, drinks and merriment, and talking about the CoCo! as we continue to celebrate #SepTandy all September, as well as celebrate Tandy the rest of the year! #SepTandy