The latest episode of CoCoTALK! brings us game development TALK! and we heard from a veteran and new CoCo game maker. Craig Stewart from Australia, neighbor of Nick Marentes talks about his CoCo 1/2/3 games he made over the years, the ones that earned him a little fame and fortune in AU were Pursuit and Space Marauder, both of which one contests in the Australian Color Computer magazine and were sold by Tandy Stores. Paul Shoemaker talks about his latest CoCo Project Dungeon Crawl, inspired by T...
Feb 18, 2019•2 hr 54 min•Ep. 173
CoCoTALK! episode 95 will be live tonight at our new experimental time slot which is 8 PM EST. This will mark the first time that the main show will also be simulcast on both YouTube and Facebook Live! at the same time! You can see us on our usual YouTube address of http://live.cocotalk.live or on the CoCoTALK! Facebook page which is https://facebook.com/cocotalklive Tonight we're going to have some special guests, we won't reveal who that is just yet, but you'll have to watch and find out. CoCo...
Feb 11, 2019•5 hr 11 min•Ep. 171
We're back, and we're live at a slight earlier time, this week we're trying 8PM EST by somewhat popular request, so we'll see how it goes, as it turned out, it was just shy of 5 hours of mostly non-coco (but still retro) discussions and we all had a great time. CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We a...
Feb 04, 2019•4 hr 42 min•Ep. 169
Live again from New Jersey, it's episode 93 of CoCoTALK! which streamed live January 26, 2019, and the panel of community members takes us through another week of all that's going on in the world of the Color Computer. Special thanks to Tom C for hosting the stream, to Rob INNman, for being the announcer and conductor, to L. Curtis Boyle for handling the news segment, and to the entire community for being part of the panel and the shared live experience. CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have ...
Jan 27, 2019•3 hr 17 min•Ep. 167
Our first episode of CoCoTALK! that we scheduled at 9PM, in our AFterDARK! time slot went off without a hitch, and had a some record numbers for both the size of the panel and the live audience. If that wasn't enough, we were treated to a very special guest visit, Marty Goodman! CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at...
Jan 21, 2019•3 hr 51 min•Ep. 165
Episode 91 streaming live from New Jersey thanks to Tom C, the CoCoTALK! panel bring you another great show with lots of gave development talk with updates on Nick Marentes' Gun Star and Chet Simpson's Digger 3, CoCo news, and so much more! CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for...
Jan 14, 2019•3 hr 2 min•Ep. 163
It's a brand new year, and I predict that 2019 will be the year of CoCo awesomeness with lots of new hardware, software, and games supporting awesome music cards and sound chips, so let's gab and blab about our beloved CoCo! Links to the news items discussed: Chet Simpson GMC on VCC: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156856659092641/ Ken Reighard's super Nut Race (or something): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156856955172641/ http://www.cankenmakeit.c...
Jan 08, 2019•3 hr 39 min•Ep. 161
Special Guest John Kowalski aka the Sock Master is our special guest today, thanks to celebrity interview wrangler Ron Delvaux again! Check out Sock Master's site: http://users.axess.com/twilight/sock/ CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all ...
Dec 31, 2018•4 hr 11 min•Ep. 159
Ron Delvaux is at it again, he continues to bring in the A-list celebrity interviews to our show, and today, we'll be treated to an OS-9 guru and legend, Dale L. Puckett, who is very active in HAM Nation and on TwiT, hope you enjoy! CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay ...
Dec 26, 2018•3 hr 28 min•Ep. 157
It's the most wonderful time of the year! We're getting ready for Christmas and all other forms of holiday cheer, peace on earth, good will towards men and all that good stuff, so let's spread some holiday cheer with the members of the CoCo community, we invite everyone to join us today on the Zoom call and let talk cheerfully about the CoCo, Dragon, and MC-10! CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://disc...
Dec 17, 2018•3 hr 47 min•Ep. 155
Episode 86 of CoCoTALK! will feature a very special appearance of Frank Hogg from Frank Hogg laboratories, maker and providers of many fine Color Computer products, and will be hosted the internet's own Grant Leighty and co-hosted by Mr. Mullet himself, L. Curtis Boyle, as well as both the regular, and irregular members of our Color Computer Community! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live Send feedback and suggestions to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Custom artwork designed by Instagram ...
Dec 10, 2018•3 hr 40 min•Ep. 153
CoCoTALK! Episode 85 will be the OS-9® episode! We'll talk about Ease of Use beta 2 and speak with Allan Batteiger, General Manager of Microware, the creators and owners of OS-9, which, is still very much alive and well today. Microware LP http://www.microware.com/ Microware OS-9® Community Edition ftp://www.wb5qng.org/OS9/OS-9_CE/ NitrOS-9 EoU http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/nitros9.html Beta 2 Videos http://youtu.be/bAZzlOWvYBo http://youtu.be/NJVIWGsQF9I 00:00:00 Opening 00:01:32 Around t...
Dec 03, 2018•3 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 85
CoCoTALK! Episode 84 finds us on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, we already had a Thanksgiving evening episode, so you'd think we wouldn't have anything else to talk about, but, somehow, we managed. Lots of news, some tech segments with Curtis and Nick and more!
Nov 26, 2018•2 hr 23 min•Ep. 149
CoCoTALK! Episode 83 hosted by the Internet's own Grant Leighty! CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live Regular segments: Panel introduction, review of how our week in the retro hobby transpired. F...
Nov 18, 2018•2 hr 47 min•Ep. 145
It's finally here, Tandy Assembly 2018, hopefully we'll hear from some of the attendees during the show, and get a ground floor view of the event. In addition to that, we'll talk about CoCo, Retro and other stuff! News Links: Ron Delvaux Chrio Freeze: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156727214042641/ Brian Weisler Car Ride: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156728854412641/ Carl Daugherty Flash Air: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/1...
Nov 12, 2018•3 hr 45 min•Ep. 141
We're back with episode 81 of CoCoTALK! and we'll jump right in with Assembly Language part 12, continuing what Steve Bjork has been laying down for us, we're going to progress from moving 1 dot, to moving 3 balls! Download the ASM source code and disk image for the demo here: http://haunthackers.com/data/lesson12.zip We also had William Culver join us and talk about his retro interests, podcasts, and the Vectrex which shares the same CPU as the CoCo! Check out all of William's links: https://ww...
Nov 05, 2018•4 hr 1 min•Ep. 139
Episode 80 of CoCoTALK! brings us to part 11 in our on going assembly language series with Steve Bjork, we're getting out of the theoretical and into the practical application, we'll look at some assembly code that will move a dot across the screen, and will begin the foundation of a PONG game, let's jump in and start coding! Download link for assembly file and disk image: http://haunthackers.com/data/lesson11.zip CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Jo...
Oct 29, 2018•3 hr•Ep. 137
We're back with Episode 79 of CoCoTALK! live, aka "Old Guys Talking" just stay off our lawn and we'll be OK. We covered the gripping topics of "Do you still have your original first CoCo", and, "Who got into the CoCo 'late' into it's lifespan", we also got a live and impromptu demonstration on how to use the EDTASM program to create and assemble a program, and we did a "Hello World" Demo with the help of Nick Marentes and Simon Jonassen! All these and more on this week's CoCoTALK! CoCoTALK! Emai...
Oct 21, 2018•2 hr 56 min•Ep. 135
Today on CoCoTALK! Episode 78 we'll have a very special guest, Eric Crichlow to talk about his latest retro inspired game Loot Raider inspired by the classic Lode Runner game from the Applie II and cloned many ways to the CoCo, as well as Eric's own version for the MM/1 We'll also feature part 10 in the ongoing assembly language series by Seve Bjork and cover news from around the globe, all this and more! Eric Crichlow Loot Raider https://www.facebook.com/lootraidergame/ http://infusionsofgrande...
Oct 16, 2018•3 hr 20 min•Ep. 131
Today on CoCoTALK! Live we'll feature part 9 in the on-going series on 6809 Assembly language by Steve Bjork, as well as hear from the panel and review news and information regarding the Tandy Color Computer and other interesting areas of vintage computing and retro gaming, join us live at 2PM EST! News items links: Carlos Camacho sprint samples: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156644150677641/ Richard Lorbieski (Boyson Technologies) super clean CoCo 3 board work: https://...
Oct 08, 2018•3 hr 31 min•Ep. 127
We're back with episode 76 of CoCoTALK! the world's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer, we'll have part 8 in the on-going assembly language series by Steve Bjork, and so much more, make sure you join us! CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and po...
Sep 30, 2018•2 hr 32 min•Ep. 123
We're back with another live episode of CoCoTALK! this makes 75, and we'll have part 7 in the on-going assembly language series hosted by Steve Bjork, as well as look at photos, and videos, and hear from the attendees who were at Vintage Computing Festival Mid West #13 in Chicago last weekend, should be a good show! VCFMW Talks play list https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE-Iywr9LQERoM2Iy6EeO9ln5SdFnmnsW RETRO Innovations VCFMW13 album https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1088786634614...
Sep 25, 2018•3 hr 32 min•Ep. 119
I have to say, I'm glad this show turned out as good as it did, the initial topic, "Drama Judor" was to let our host, Steve Strowbridge blow off some steam and get a few things off his chest with regards to events that have transpired over the past week that caused a lot of our social channels to be less than pleasant at times. A healthy discussion ensued from that, and afterwards, after Steve left, the show got good :) The community and the panel got back to talking about all that's good in our...
Sep 10, 2018•2 hr 38 min•Ep. 113
We are back with another live episode of CoCoTALK! Episode 72 will feature assembly language part 6 with Steve Bjork and other CoCo and retro related goodies. CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://coco...
Sep 04, 2018•3 hr 26 min•Ep. 112
We're back with episode 72 of CoCoTALK! LIve! We'll be talking about all kinds of retro and vintage computing crap, join us! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/9NCAvA7 CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live Regular segments: Panel introduction, revie...
Aug 26, 2018•2 hr 30 min•Ep. 105
Another great episode packed with news from around the retrosphere, a Why did Tandy do that question, a Core Dump! with Nick Marentes, and, an on going discussion about, Abe Vigoda? You'll have to watch to see! 00:28:54 - Why Did Tandy Do that? Floppy discussions 01:02:37 - Bruce Moore shows off his development environment 01:25:13 - Omnistar has been beaten for the 2nd time! 01:33:00 - CoreDump! with Nick Marentes - Window Master program Bill Vagona - not Abe Vigoda 01:58:31 - Ron's Garage - lo...
Aug 20, 2018•3 hr 8 min•Ep. 103
CoCoTALK! Episode 70 covered a lot of retro news and treated us to a special guest Dennis Bathory-Kitsz! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/9NCAvA7 Help support the show by becoming a patron https://www.patreon.com/ogsteviestrow Retro SWAG sales help support operating costs and make you look cool http://8bit256.com CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We...
Aug 13, 2018•3 hr 16 min•Ep. 99
Episode 69 is live an on the airwaves, today we'll feature part 5 in the on-going series on Assembly language with Steve Bjork, we have special guests hosts and co-hosts Grant Leighty and L. Curtis Boyle, we can talk about the latest episode of the CoCo Crew Podcast, what's going on in the world of retro, and so much more! 00:00 show and panel introductions 09:07 world premier of Boomerang Mania video 10:18 what can you do with 2MB discussion 28:00 sponsors 32:40 Assembly language part 5 01:09:1...
Aug 05, 2018•2 hr 55 min•Ep. 97
CoCoTALK! is now live streaming and replaying right here, where it started, at the ogStevieStrow channel. Today we celebrate 10K that's right, we've received over 10,000 downloads on the podcast versions of our show. We also experience part 4 in the on-going series on 6809 Assembly with Steve Bjork, you won't want to miss that. To learn more about CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live send us feed back, suggestions, segments, etc., to CoCoTALK@cocotalk.live This video is a production of The Origi...
Jul 30, 2018•3 hr 29 min•Ep. 95
Our main topic today is the CocoPi project which has been updated to support Dragon emulation, too, this runs on a Raspberry Pi3 and uses MAME and XROAR as the emulators to run CoCo and Dragon systems, has a ton of software built in, and a lot of other cool features like a built-in DriveWire server, EMCEE Server, and PyWire (Python DriveWire), and so much more! Ron Klein will be walking us through a lot of the cool features! To get the latest version go to http://imacoconut.com/downloads/ Email ...
Jul 22, 2018•3 hr 53 min•Ep. 93
