3 hr 51 min

Episode 169 - The Return of FloppyTALK‪!‬ The CoCo Nation Show

    • Society & Culture

Is your weasel greased and are you excited to talk about floppies? We know David Ladd is!  Today Simon Jonassen will share with us some cool coding tricks he's using to fast load data from floppy disks, and we'll hopefully hear from David Ladd and possibly even Paul Fiscarelli, so if you're as excited about floppies as we are, you're going to love today's show!
 
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:02:51 CoCo Closet
00:05:09 Panel Introductions
00:12:23 Simon Jonassen - coding tricks he's using to fast load data from floppy
00:58:42 More floppy talk
02:04:45 CoCo Thoughts
02:08:30 GameON! challenge results
02:20:58 Next week's game announcment - COLORPEDE
02:30:44 GameON! news
02:55:33 Project updates and acquisitions
03:46:58 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion
 
Game On news:
=============
1) Erico Patricio Monteiro has video of his upcoming Color Fight game in progress
  https://youtu.be/mj_8UXKvTkw
 
2) Paul Shoemaker has a very good full deck set of card graphics (with full face cards in 16 colors)
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158448701372641/
 
3) Henry Reitveld put up a video of him play Nick Marentes new release, Rally-SG - but in his full blow arcade cabinet:
  https://youtu.be/wBZe9yWj9Zo
 
4) Chet Simpson played live (on Facebook) first 10 levels of his upcoming Coco 3 masterpiece, Digger III.
Thursday's video shows the Easy skill level:
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158447571022641/
Friday's shows the Hard skill level (and it *does* look hard!):
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158450523007641/
 
5) Canadian Retro Things put up an unboxing video for his just received Bomb Threat cartridge (by Rick Adams)
  https://youtu.be/GL4dXad2iTE
 
6) Aaron from The Amigos has put up his CoinOPS Coco Beta 2 package,
  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13mC2Fd__D3vj5aSO7zzDqd_EUwy57LZF
 
7) The Amigos are doing their 4th annual Amiga themed fundraiser for The Children's Network this weekend
  https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/649422475322458122/733881626253066370/Amigathon_Schedule.jpg
And the donation info:
  https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=411413
 
Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live
Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live
Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  http://discord.cocotalk.live
To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com
 
Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:
https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelm...
Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:
http://8bit256.com
Consider becoming a patron of the show:
https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow
 
 
Live interactive video streams:
https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestr...
https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive
https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/
https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

Is your weasel greased and are you excited to talk about floppies? We know David Ladd is!  Today Simon Jonassen will share with us some cool coding tricks he's using to fast load data from floppy disks, and we'll hopefully hear from David Ladd and possibly even Paul Fiscarelli, so if you're as excited about floppies as we are, you're going to love today's show!
 
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:02:51 CoCo Closet
00:05:09 Panel Introductions
00:12:23 Simon Jonassen - coding tricks he's using to fast load data from floppy
00:58:42 More floppy talk
02:04:45 CoCo Thoughts
02:08:30 GameON! challenge results
02:20:58 Next week's game announcment - COLORPEDE
02:30:44 GameON! news
02:55:33 Project updates and acquisitions
03:46:58 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion
 
Game On news:
=============
1) Erico Patricio Monteiro has video of his upcoming Color Fight game in progress
  https://youtu.be/mj_8UXKvTkw
 
2) Paul Shoemaker has a very good full deck set of card graphics (with full face cards in 16 colors)
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158448701372641/
 
3) Henry Reitveld put up a video of him play Nick Marentes new release, Rally-SG - but in his full blow arcade cabinet:
  https://youtu.be/wBZe9yWj9Zo
 
4) Chet Simpson played live (on Facebook) first 10 levels of his upcoming Coco 3 masterpiece, Digger III.
Thursday's video shows the Easy skill level:
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158447571022641/
Friday's shows the Hard skill level (and it *does* look hard!):
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158450523007641/
 
5) Canadian Retro Things put up an unboxing video for his just received Bomb Threat cartridge (by Rick Adams)
  https://youtu.be/GL4dXad2iTE
 
6) Aaron from The Amigos has put up his CoinOPS Coco Beta 2 package,
  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13mC2Fd__D3vj5aSO7zzDqd_EUwy57LZF
 
7) The Amigos are doing their 4th annual Amiga themed fundraiser for The Children's Network this weekend
  https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/649422475322458122/733881626253066370/Amigathon_Schedule.jpg
And the donation info:
  https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=411413
 
Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live
Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live
Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  http://discord.cocotalk.live
To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com
 
Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:
https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelm...
Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:
http://8bit256.com
Consider becoming a patron of the show:
https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow
 
 
Live interactive video streams:
https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestr...
https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive
https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/
https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

3 hr 51 min

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