====== SEPTANDY 2021 ====== _ _ _________ ___________ .___ __| || |__ / _____/ ____ _____\__ ___/____ ____ __| _/__.__. \ __ / \_____ \_/ __ \\____ \| | \__ \ / \ / __ < | | | || | / \ ___/| |_> > | / __ \| | \/ /_/ |\___ | /_ ~~ _\/_______ /\___ > __/|____| (____ /___| /\____ |/ ____| |_||_| \/ \/|__| \/ \/ \/\/ ===== CoCoTALK! ===== All hail [[http://lcurtisboyle.com|L. Curtis Boyle]] for gathering the news for [[https://cocotalk.live|CoCoTALK!]] including these SepTandy items: ===== CoCoTALK! #228 2021-09-04 ===== First, I [Curtis] will mention that SepTandy for 2021 officially started on September 1st on YouTube, and I have seen multiple Tandy 1000 style videos out already. If you put up any videos for the Coco, include #SepTandy in your search words and the title of the video so that it gets findable in this years SepTandy. Alison DeNu, as part of this year's SepTandy, released a YouTube video showing her 3D printing a shell for a Program Pak: \\ [[https://youtu.be/okMFBPTN-JA]] Alison DeNu, as part of SepTandy, has released a couple of BASIC games: \\ Simply Better Blackjack, a low res blackjack game that she started almost 40 years ago (and got about 75% finished at that time), and this year she found the tape again, loaded it back up, and finished the game: \\ [[https://youtu.be/t5fJM_DZ4zc]] JumpShip: A high res Extended BASIC game that is turn based space flying game that she wrote in 2020: \\ [[https://youtu.be/pvRjNCIg8mg]] ===== CoCoTALK! #229 2021-09-11 ===== For those following the many scheduled videos that Allen Huffman has been releasing that are Coco related for #SepTandy, a bunch more dropped this past week (and more are still coming): \\ [[https://www.youtube.com/allenhuffman/videos]] Joe's Computer Museum on YouTube, for SepTandy, did a live stream on Sept. 9 doing a Tandy 1000TX teardown, and an exploration of the Coco 3 (Coco starts at 1:53:10 - note that it doesn't boot up at the start - he gets it going a little later... although he isn't sure why it started working. He is also just learning the SDC, so it was a lot of live figuring out how things worked): \\ [[https://youtu.be/CwWpb108qP4]] Tim Gilberts shared a video for SepTandy on YouTube on upgrading a Dragon 32 Mark II to 64K - with humour. \\ [[https://youtu.be/olRUYvM_O08]] ===== CoCoTALK! #230 2021-09-18 ===== Anachronistic Things on YouTube put up a video showing Tetris and Audio Spectrum Analyzer running on a Coco 2 (which included some cartridge repair). (Should warn you; he is still setting up for aping, so the audio/video is rough in spots): \\ [[https://youtu.be/xheDSOHd5YY]] Allen Huffman had a lot more more videos get released this week as well, on a variety of subjects (and scheduled some more for next week): \\ [[https://www.youtube.com/allenhuffman/videos]] Noel's Retro Lab got several computers on his September 16 episode, including a PAL Coco 2 (unboxing at start of episode, including some extra/different manuals): \\ [[https://youtu.be/qKthyDXdOQ0]] Pedro Pena put up parts 1-3 of his video series about making his own Coco 2: \\ [[https://youtu.be/H2KNHDKdDhw]] Part 2 has an interesting display: You get to see (highlighted in green on the parts list, and red on the schematic) what part he is installing on the video feed, all at the same time): \\ [[https://youtu.be/MNNGa4_IVk4]] Part 3 is \\ [[https://youtu.be/sGEANZCR-Eo]] Joe's Computer Museum and live guest Mike Rojas (who is an active Coco community member who just did the Apple IIGS RGB monitor adaptor) did a 3&1/2 hour live stream which started with the Coco 3 with Mikes' adapter on an admittedly poor shape Apple monitor: \\ [[https://youtu.be/JnEmoHn812I]] RetroComputing with Mike on YouTube put up an MC-10 showcase video for #SepTandy (which has a Zippster composite mod in it): \\ [[https://youtu.be/Y2ELLlsMViE]] ===== CoCoTALK! #231 2021-09-25 ===== As part of his SepTandy Coco videos, Allen Huffman has many more videos released this week, with a few more queued up to finish out the month next week (24 videos in all, at my last count): \\ [[https://www.youtube.com/allenhuffman/videos]] Pedro Pena has added the final (part 4) video showing his building his Coco 2 motherboard from scratch, including populating the board, burning the ROM's, and testing the SDC Explorer and some artifacting games: \\ [[https://youtu.be/OPx7hGcEO9U]] TheRetroChannel does a followup to his last year's SepTandy S-Video & composite mods with an improved, simpler design. He also goes through the differences between NTSC and PAL: \\ [[https://youtu.be/oG9dxo2g6To]] ===== CoCoTALK! #232 2021-10-02 ===== The Retro Channel put up there last SepTandy video, covering S-Video/Composite mods for a Coco 2, and a look into S-Video for a Dragon 32 as well - he is not sure it is worth it since the Dragon already has composite out, and would require buffering the chroma signal): \\ [[https://youtu.be/r-88OfykB4Y]] Retro Tech Toys put up a SepTandy video of doing some "much needed maintenance" to his 64K Coco 2 (mainly a dodgy RF connector): \\ [[https://youtu.be/hXy7Y8Hrlks]] Ron's Computer Videos channel on YouTube as a last day SepTandy video, showed a litte bit of VCF Midwest (including Jason's table), and then the old Virtual Coco emulator that ran on first generation Power Macintoshes (written by Phil Stroffolino): \\ [[https://youtu.be/EoIe_ghYNoQ]] Of course, the remaining SepTandy Coco video clips from Allen Huffman are all officially released now: \\ [[https://www.youtube.com/allenhuffman/videos]] As part of SepTandy, Jason Weber (alias Mr. Lurch's Things on YouTube) put up a video showing some of latest Coco game releases from the past year, including Glen Hewlett's latest arcade ports Joust and Defender, Nick Marentes Pipes & Rally-SG (and showing a brief bit of Zero Hour): \\ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuxXbmcJatg]] ===== CoCoTALK! #236 2021-10-30 ===== Aaron Newcomb of Retro Hack Shack got his SepTandy video for Dungeons of Daggorath out (a little late, but it's worth it) - almost a full hour - as a celebration of his 1st year of being on YouTube: \\ [[https://youtu.be/JZcI-3ELs4g]] ===== RTS ===== Return to [[SepTandy]] or [[:Tandy Color Computer:]]