Episode 175 - MIDI TALK‪!‬ The CoCo Nation Show

CoCoTALK! 175 is all about MIDI and MIDI on the CoCo.  What is MIDI, how do I do MIDI on my Coco, what does it look like, what does it sound like, how hard is it?  All these questions and more will be answered.  We'll have live demonstrations and information from Rob Innman, Brian "The Music Man" Schubring, L. Curtis Boyle, and Darren Ottery, and Jim Brain, so tune and get MIDIfied!
 
General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:02:35 Panel Introductions
00:08:29 CoCo Thoughts
00:10:15 GameON! challenge results
00:13:23 GameON! Discussion - Arkanoid
00:24:43 Next week's game announcment - Canyon Climber
00:31:42 Midi Maestro - commercial
00:32:22 Discussion - Midi Talk
02:44:26 News from around the world
03:02:49 GameON! news
03:31:14 Project updates and acquisitions
03:49:16 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion
 
Retro Innovations / Jim Brain is now fully shipping MIDI Maestro cards
  http://www.go4retro.com/products/midi-maestro/
  https://store.go4retro.com/tandy/midi-maestro/
Brian Schubring and Rob Inman showing use of these cards
#1: General introduction to MIDI on the Coco
  https://tinyurl.com/yxptfyph
#2: Playing Compacted Midi Files
  https://tinyurl.com/yyk5zeac
 
News stories for Episode #175, August 29, 2020 show:
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1) Bill Pierce has released version 2.0.1f of VCC.
  https://tinyurl.com/yxopazr8
 James Ross put up a comparison of the new composite colors from the older versions and the new one:
  https://tinyurl.com/yyzdw6ph
 
2) Bill Nobel has released his new SDC2 utility
  https://tinyurl.com/yy3oezmu
He also has uploaded a short video showing it in action:
  https://tinyurl.com/y3jepdbr
 
3) Phil Harvey-Smith has put some photos up for the custom cases he is doing
  https://tinyurl.com/y2e9mmlm
 
4) "The Digital Orphanage" YouTube page has him getting 11(!) Dragon 32 computers from the Museum of Computing in Swindon, UK
  https://youtu.be/YY56UpN37Bo
 
5) Robert Sieg has been experimenting with a program to dither colors on the MC-10
  https://tinyurl.com/yy73de37
 
6) Ken (CanadianRetroThings) go his Coco 3 up and running
  https://youtu.be/VjfPeRMJSeU
 
7) Keith (ChibiAkumas on YouTube) has his next Tandy Coco/Dragon assembly language tutorial up
  https://youtu.be/_AzD_hPkW4g
 
8) Sheldon MacDonald has released his first beta release of his RSDOS Windows utility.
  https://tinyurl.com/y2u4zul7
 
Game On news:
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1) Neil Blanchard has announced availability of his new "The Gamester" - a customizable, real arcade hardware based joystick
  https://tinyurl.com/y2cq22y3
 
2) Denis Bisson put up a gameplay video of Pooyan under MAME.
  https://youtu.be/1gqj4ZquvFU
 
3) A reminder from Ian Mavric that the 2020 Trash Talk game programming competition for 2020 has a deadline of November 30
  https://tinyurl.com/y2marg6t
Contest page:
  https://tinyurl.com/y48dmsbq
 
4) John "Boatofcar" Shawler of the Amigos did a live Coco stream this past Thursday evening
  https://tinyurl.com/y4soq3yq
 
5) Following Brett Gordon's progress on his networkable Coco 3 game
 
6) Chet Simpson made an announcement of the official release date for the much anticipated Digger III
  https://tinyurl.com/y4jgokzb
 
7) Jim Gerrie has yet another update to his port of the 3D graphical adventure game Akalabeth
  https://tinyurl.com/y2lwb5pg
 
8) User Hloberg on the Atari Age forums has released a Mille Bornes card game (written in BASIC)
  https://tinyurl.com/yy5xat3w
 
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https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/
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