Episode 27 - Ease of Use!

The CoCo Nation Show

CoCoTALK! Episode 27 - the Ease of Use Episode! Original air date - 09-23-2017

On the show: John Strong, Richard Lorbieski, Barry Nelson, Bill Nobel, Curtis Boyle, David Ladd, Simon Jonassen, Rick Adams, Nicholas Marentes, Jim Brain from Retro Innovations, and D. Bruce More.

• John Strong filled us in on the status of his projects "Dr. CoCo" a Dr. Mario clone which will feature the Game Master Cartridge sound chip, as will "Handy Andy" a Wreck-It Ralph/Fix-It Felix Clone, along with some news of VCF Midwest.
• Barry Nelson brought us up to speed on Jim Brain's 2MB RAM upgrade which will go in-line with the CoCo GIME chip.
• Simon Jonassen has some killer demos with animation and music for the upcoming Tandy Assembly.
• Richard Lorbieski had a question about using the CoCoSDC with DriveWire and OS-9 which was our main TechTALK! and we were reminded of just how much "Ease of Use" OS-9 offers :)
• Jim Brain showed us a hardware project he tweaked based on David Ladd's design of a circuit board that allows you to use a PS/2 mouse on a CoCo. All this and more :)

Regular segments:

• Introduce the panel of the week, go around the room, see what everyone's been up to.
• Feed back review: We go over previous episodes, how many views have they received, what's our current podcast download count, who sent us comments, email feed back, all those and more will be discussed and shared.
• Review of news and postings from the Facebook group and the Color Computer mailing list.
• NewbieTALK! Each week Grant Leighty will have the newbie question of the week about something to do with your color computer or emulator.
• TechTALK! L. Curtis Boyle and David Ladd provide us with some more depth on technical discussions
• Ron's Garage! Ron Delvaux offers us a peek into the past by showing of his impressive retro computing collection, each week we'll see some new items and talk about them. Interviews, News, Reviews, and more!
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Original live stream: https://youtu.be/rnvWVGpflRs