Episode 175 - MIDI TALK!

CoCoTALK! 175 is all about MIDI and MIDI on the CoCo. What is MIDI, how do I do MIDI on my Coco, what does it look like, what does it sound like, how hard is it? All these questions and more will be answered. We'll have live demonstrations and information from Rob Innman, Brian "The Music Man" Schubring, L. Curtis Boyle, and Darren Ottery, and Jim Brain, so tune and get MIDIfied! General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:35 Panel Introductions 00:08:29 CoCo Thoughts 00:10:15 GameON! challenge results 00:13:23 GameON! Discussion - Arkanoid 00:24:43 Next week's game announcment - Canyon Climber 00:31:42 Midi Maestro - commercial 00:32:22 Discussion - Midi Talk 02:44:26 News from around the world 03:02:49 GameON! news 03:31:14 Project updates and acquisitions 03:49:16 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion Retro Innovations / Jim Brain is now fully shipping MIDI Maestro cards http://www.go4retro.com/products/midi-maestro/ https://store.go4retro.com/tandy/midi-maestro/ Brian Schubring and Rob Inman showing use of these cards #1: General introduction to MIDI on the Coco https://tinyurl.com/yxptfyph #2: Playing Compacted Midi Files https://tinyurl.com/yyk5zeac News stories for Episode #175, August 29, 2020 show: ================================================= 1) Bill Pierce has released version 2.0.1f of VCC. https://tinyurl.com/yxopazr8 James Ross put up a comparison of the new composite colors from the older versions and the new one: https://tinyurl.com/yyzdw6ph 2) Bill Nobel has released his new SDC2 utility https://tinyurl.com/yy3oezmu He also has uploaded a short video showing it in action: https://tinyurl.com/y3jepdbr 3) Phil Harvey-Smith has put some photos up for the custom cases he is doing https://tinyurl.com/y2e9mmlm 4) "The Digital Orphanage" YouTube page has him getting 11(!) Dragon 32 computers from the Museum of Computing in Swindon, UK https://youtu.be/YY56UpN37Bo 5) Robert Sieg has been experimenting with a program to dither colors on the MC-10 https://tinyurl.com/yy73de37 6) Ken (CanadianRetroThings) go his Coco 3 up and running https://youtu.be/VjfPeRMJSeU 7) Keith (ChibiAkumas on YouTube) has his next Tandy Coco/Dragon assembly language tutorial up https://youtu.be/_AzD_hPkW4g 8) Sheldon MacDonald has released his first beta release of his RSDOS Windows utility. https://tinyurl.com/y2u4zul7 Game On news: ============= 1) Neil Blanchard has announced availability of his new "The Gamester" - a customizable, real arcade hardware based joystick https://tinyurl.com/y2cq22y3 2) Denis Bisson put up a gameplay video of Pooyan under MAME. https://youtu.be/1gqj4ZquvFU 3) A reminder from Ian Mavric that the 2020 Trash Talk game programming competition for 2020 has a deadline of November 30 https://tinyurl.com/y2marg6t Contest page: https://tinyurl.com/y48dmsbq 4) John "Boatofcar" Shawler of the Amigos did a live Coco stream this past Thursday evening https://tinyurl.com/y4soq3yq 5) Following Brett Gordon's progress on his networkable Coco 3 game 6) Chet Simpson made an announcement of the official release date for the much anticipated Digger III https://tinyurl.com/y4jgokzb 7) Jim Gerrie has yet another update to his port of the 3D graphical adventure game Akalabeth https://tinyurl.com/y2lwb5pg 8) User Hloberg on the Atari Age forums has released a Mille Bornes card game (written in BASIC) https://tinyurl.com/yy5xat3w 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 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