Episode 168

We're back with another episode of everyone's favorite talk show, CoCoTALK! General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:47 Panel Introductions 00:07:31 AtomicPi - CoCo project with Aaron Doughty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQw1Qy1RyxA 00:36:56 News from around the retro world 01:03:37 CoCo Thoughts 01:04:18 GameON! challenge results 01:20:58 Next week's game announcment - The Crystal City - https://gosub.com/Coco/ 01:25:00 Rally-SG go live announcement with Nick Marentes - http://www.nickmarentes.com/ProjectArchive/rallysg.html 01:40:57 GameON! news 01:59:44 CoCo Thoughts 02:01:08 Upcoming game announcement - Bomb Threat 02:01:36 Project updates and acquisitions 03:00:28 CoCo Thoughts 03:03:33 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion News stories for Episode #168, July 11, 2020 show: ================================================= 1) Carlos Camacho has shrunken replicas of the Coco 1 that I believe were 3D resin printed https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158431202067641/ 2) Eric Sperano has written a little launch program for his SDC https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158430713227641/ 3) Erico Patricio Monteiro has a request on Facebook for helping crunch a program down for a project he is working on https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158431076227641/ 4) Martin Brossman posted some photos from when he worked at Radio Shack in the 1980's https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158429775042641/ 5) Alison DeNu has been recovering multiple programs that she wrote in the past for the Coco from old audio cassettes https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158419718652641/ 6) Jonathan Felchlin posted on Facebook about the availability of a Coco 2 Cap replacement kit https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158430035342641/ 7) Jim McClellan posted how he got his DMP-105 working again, including the trick of replacing the ink sponge: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158421898857641/ 8) Quinn Good posted a series of videos on YouTube about a Coco 2 he found in the attic (he is a young fella) https://youtu.be/txCoNRfrSoA https://youtu.be/m2Jdl6JYdK0 And then a third video a few days later, where he learns how to take apart and needs to clean a dirty keyboard: https://youtu.be/9ZL5xGZyKyw Game On news: ============= 1) Evan Wright has some embellishments to Flood It https://youtu.be/G166eiSG0hQ 2) Jim Gerrie shows off a Battleship style game on the MC-10, https://youtu.be/od8gOda53JA 3) Jerry Stratton posted a link to his site where he has a text mode version of Reversi https://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/hacks/coco/reversi/ 4) Erico Patricio Monteiro has some updated semigraphics animation demos for his karate game he is working on https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158424557902641/ 5) "The 64K Gamer" on YouTube has a video up showing how to get free cassette file games (from the Color Computer Archive) onto your phone to load on a Coco https://youtu.be/sgMcjmcB-pk 6) Retro Core on YouTube has part 2 of his "Battle of the Ports", this time of Frogger. Part 2 https://youtu.be/w7v7A9tSRzA 7) Giger Punk (Rob's Retro Ramblers) returns with his Cuthbert in the Cooler review/playthrough: https://youtu.be/zFu8ccvNrT0 Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] 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/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive