Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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We're back with another episode of everyone's favorite talk show, CoCoTALK!

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:
00:02:47 Panel Introductions
00:07:31 AtomicPi - CoCo project with Aaron Doughty
youtube.com/watch?v=YQw1Qy1RyxA
00:36:56 News from around the retro world
01:03:37 CoCo Thoughts
01:04:18 GameON! challenge results
01:20:58 Next week's game announcment - The Crystal City - gosub.com/Coco
01:25:00 Rally-SG go live announcement with Nick Marentes - nickmarentes.com/ProjectArchive/rallysg.html
01:40:57 GameON! news
01:59:44 CoCo Thoughts
02:01:08 Up coming game announcment - Bomb Threat
02:01:36 Project updates and acquisitions
03:00:28 CoCo Thoughts
03:03:33 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion

News stories for Episode #168, July 11, 2020 show:
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1) Carlos Camacho has shrunken replicas of the Coco 1 that I believe were 3D resin printed
facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158431202067641

2) Eric Sperano has written a little launch program for his SDC
facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158430713227641

3) Erico Patricio Monteiro has a request on Facebook for helping crunch a program down for a project he is working on
facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158431076227641

4) Martin Brossman posted some photos from when he worked at Radio Shack in the 1980's
facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158429775042641

5) Alison DeNu has been recovering multiple programs that she wrote in the past for the Coco from old audio cassettes
facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158419718652641

6) Jonathan Felchlin posted on Facebook about the availability of a Coco 2 Cap replacement kit
facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158430035342641

7) Jim McClellan posted how he got his DMP-105 working again, including the trick of replacing the ink sponge:
facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158421898857641

8) Quinn Good posted a series of videos on YouTube about a Coco 2 he found in the attic (he is a young fella)
youtu.be/txCoNRfrSoA
youtu.be/m2Jdl6JYdK0
And then a third video a few days later, where he learns how to take apart and needs to clean a fairly dirty keyboard:
youtu.be/9ZL5xGZyKyw

Game On news:
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1) Evan Wright has some embellishments to Flood It
youtu.be/G166eiSG0hQ

2) Jim Gerrie shows off a Battleship style game on the MC-10,
youtu.be/od8gOda53JA

3) Jerry Stratton posted a link to his site where he has a text mode version of Reversi
hoboes.com/Mimsy/hacks/coco/reversi

4) Erico Patricio Monteiro has some updated semigraphics animation demos for his karate game he is working on
facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158424557902641

5) "The 64K Gamer" on YouTube has a video up showing how to get free cassette file games (from the Color Computer Archive) onto your phone to load on a Coco
youtu.be/sgMcjmcB-pk

6) Retro Core on YouTube has part 2 of his "Battle of the Ports", this time of Frogger. Part 2
youtu.be/w7v7A9tSRzA

7) Giger Punk (Rob's Retro Ramblers) returns with his Cuthbert in the Cooler review/playthrough:
youtu.be/zFu8ccvNrT0

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