CoCoTALK! episode 184 "CoCo Halloween"

CoCoTALK! 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 announcment - 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