Happy 40th birthday Colour Computer! We celebrate the 4 decades of fun and enjoyment you have brought us today on CoCoTALK! Special guest host and streamer Rob Innnnman, with Nick Marotta covering GameON! and L. Curtis Boyle bringing us this weeks' retro news and full panel of middle ages retro enthusiasts, join us for a very special episode of CoCoTALK! today!
00:02:57 Panel Introductions
00:25:23 CoCo Happy Birthday Talk - Sharing stories
00:49:37 From then to now - Happy Birthday CoCo3 video
00:50:30 More CoCoTalk
01:38:37 CoCo Thoughts - Big Bomb Threat
01:44:39 GameON! challenge results
02:05:29 CoCo Thoughts - Big Bomb Threat - encore
02:01:42 Next week's game announcement - CASHMAN
02:12:40 GameON! news
02:41:21 News from around the retro world
03:33:41 Project updates and acquisitions
03:51:44 L. Curtis Boyle models a 1986 Rainbow Fest T shirt
03:58:31 CoCo Caboose
Game On news:
1) Jim Gerrie Missile Command
https://youtu.be/y7n8G1A5jdo
Cave Raid
https://youtu.be/IcwDACyL_LM
Red Alert, from the TRS-80 Space Adventures book:
https://youtu.be/_BO-0wfsWJY
Puzzle game
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/3054995854627216/
2) Erico Monteiro semigraphics fighting game:
https://vintageisthenewold.com/a-trs-80-color-computer-commercial-quality-action-fight-game-in-basic-part-1/
Work In Progress #2
https://youtu.be/uN7jC96MTPg
3) Marlin Lee Color Outhouse video:
https://youtu.be/Wug2v9MQTwk?t=16
4) Paul Shoemaker Poker Squares Coco 3 game
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158489105042641/
5) Chet Simpson more Digger III
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158481075232641/
6) Aaron of Amigos Pac Dude Monster Maze
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/696799665
7) Bill Sexton 5 line Fruit Slot on his Coco 3
https://youtu.be/g-R23a9kdTc
8) FrodoNL, wrapped the score in Bomb Threat
https://youtu.be/w_GvpEDbIrw?t=9317
9) Simonwgb 3&1/2 hour stream of playing Dragon 32 games in XRoar:
https://youtu.be/HcFVHi-hMTE
another 1&1/2 hours:
https://youtu.be/aQcJwkRO2AU
10) Gigerpunk plays Beyond the Cimeeon Moon:
https://youtu.be/iVfemgShyOY
News stories
Brian Wieseler "Hands-On BASIC" https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158484133002641/
David O'Connor Realistic Pocketvision mini-TV
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158488345052641/
1) Canadian Retro Things (Ken) received his CocoSDC
https://youtu.be/f82Jp_IEQTo
2) Ed Snider "HalfMeg Coco"
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158490074937641/
http://store.go4retro.com/tandy/tandy-color-computer-coco-3-512kb-sram-pcb/?fbclid=IwAR2HNW6JKGQy8tSyj57Wzo24K33Ndwohdj8YRxeGmm9JE1HiIk2cov8oJr8
3) BoystonTech add on board for the Sound Speech Pak.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158485229962641/
4) Virtual VCF-West presentations
http://vcfed.org/wp/vcf-west-event-schedule/
5) Thomas Winkler his RE-FD502-KIT
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158488441527641/
6) Terry Steege spreadsheet of "all known Coco and TDP-100 cartridges"
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158486679817641/
7) CocoCrew episode is out (#62) interview with Fran Purcell
http://cococrew.org/cococrew-podcast-62.html
8) Andrew Ayers with the old Armatron form the Coco:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158484902337641/
Hot Coco about the Armatron:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158484897777641/
9) Paul Shoemaker "TRS-80 Extended Color Basic"
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158480718012641/
10) James Jones a book to help teach users BASIC09,
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158476611857641/
11) Christopher Zepka retrobrighting project
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158475931042641/
12) John Whitworth his test setup
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2683441655248820/
13) Si Owen very rare Dragon MSX
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2683066768619642/
Info on it:
https://www.msx.org/wiki/Dragon_MSX-64?fbclid=IwAR2bsTSNX7Egdxv_-Dlc07_YSTfsmsjRQkiJVCMH7OJpYsNS2dI1OY6HOGk
14) ChibiAkumas Hello World program in 6809 assembly on the Dragon or Coco:
https://youtu.be/qZlOOAkaQzU
15) Re.Enthused history of the Dragon
https://youtu.be/g9nzvpTASrI
16) Newsmakers Tech 1990 Radio Shack catalog
https://youtu.be/QvoR96iBtL8?t=2604
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