The CoCo Nation Show
The CoCo Nation Show
The CoCo Nation
Episode 210 - CoCo 2 Blue Board
3 hour 3 minutes Posted May 3, 2021 at 12:43 am.
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Intro
Start of the show!
Viewer Introductions
Panel Introductions
Special Guest Pedro Pena, Maker of the new CoCo2 mainboard!
Whos's New to the CoCotalk Discord
CoCo Thoughts, by Samuel Gimes
Game On! Results, With Nick Marotta!
Game On! discussion
Game On! Game for next week, With Nick Marotta!
Stevies wife is baking lasagna, and its making us hungry!
Game On! News, with L. Curtis Boyle
Game On! News} Jim Gerrie- has released a compiled version Berzerk
Game On! News} Paul Shoemaker- Updates and release of CocoVGA edition of Poker Squares game
Game On! News} Mike Ohearn Sr.- showed his "Franken Joystick", a
Game On! News} Henry Reitveld- Video of Donkey Kong Remix, loaded from a precariously balanced real hard drive
Game On! News} ROBOS- Videos of Dragon game play
News, with L. Curtis Boyle
CoCo News} Rocky Hill (aka Pedro Pena)- has released a video showing
CoCo News} Simon Jonassen- has an updated video showing the smooth
CoCo News} Barry Nelson- uploaded some "headless" NitrOS-9 Level 1
CoCo News} Paul Fiscarelli- posted a video showing his new SWTPC
CoCo News} Coco Crew- April episode released, Topics include:tech discussion on the TIMER function in Extended BASIC, and about the Coco hobby getting more expensive, and thus not as much fun, for some.
CoCo News} Tom Best- video on YouTube with his original Coco 2,
CoCo News} Coco Facebook group- a program has been written for the
CoCo News} John Laury- a quick little ML demo of a way to "fade"
CoCo News} Radio Shack- Coco badge shirts up for sale again, after disappeared for awhile
MC-10 News} Robert Sieg- posted a picture of a "graphics" dump he did with his MC-10 and TP-10 printer - which isn't supposed to be capable of graphics
Dragon News} John Whitworth- updated/fixed issues with his DragonPlus boards
Dragon News} John Whitworth- also posted a video explaining an issue he was having with his new DragonPlus boards, and how he fixed it
Dragon News} The Digital Orphanage- put up their final Dragon 32 repair/test/play videos
End of Line for... News, with L. Curtis Boyle
Project updates and acquisitions
PUA} Brian Wiesler
PUA} R. Allan Murphy
Features wanted in the new CoCo mainboard!
Stevie thanks to the crew during his absence
Closing Credits/Outtro
Final Thoughts/CoCoTalk Caboose!
Encore presentation of our tribute to our favorite Australian/Italian
Goodbye Everybody!
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Show notes
Special Guest Pedro Pena talks about his project to recreate a replacement motherboard for the CoCo 2 which is open source.  Links to all things discussed in the news available in our CoCo Discord server, http://discord.cocotalk.live
for the MC-10, with a new method for diagonal movement and checkers updates 
homemade hack... for game controls, until he can get a real one. 
**CoCo/General News**
his new Rev B main board Coco 2 main motherboard complete with a few fixes
scrolling VDG text screen and demo sound program
images to the Coco group, These are set up to boot with a shell onto the
serial port, and ADOS update
6809 system, and a cloned 6 bit DAC Newtech Model 68 Music Card
along with a few mods 
Commodore 64 to mine bitcoins, and discussion on the 6809 taking half the time 
characters out/in 
**MC-10 News**
**Dragon News**
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