[Coco] CoCoFEST! 2010...

[Brian Blake]

I hope there's some video of Roy's Replicator (RepliCoCo?) forthcoming.
That's gotta be very cool to see.



On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> Well, shucks, it looks like I missed some interesting stuff on Saturday. I
> rolled in just after 5 p.m. as things were shutting down, so I did not get
> to hear the talk from one of the designers of the 6809 processor!
>
> The interesting things...
>
> 1. Roy Justus brings weird stuff. This year, a six legged "spider" looking
> robot, moved by 18 servos. He had the CoCo fully controlling it, with
> signals going out the CoCO bitbanger to a Bluetooth adapter, then another
> bluetooth on the robot. Every step was a ballet of commands to move all the
> motors to make the creepy thing crawl.
>
> 2. John Mark Mobley has the only booth besides HawkSoft that looks like a
> real Fest booth of days gone. He had a nice backdrop, color printouts, and
> was showing HI COLOR (Sockmaster program) images. He did a talk on Sunday
> explaining a bit about the options. He also had some old computers,
> including an abacus (older than a CoCo, finally!).
>
> 3. Cloud-9's DriveWire 4 boggles the mind. Gone is the need for a PC or Mac
> to host the system -- anything with Java can do it, including a reprogrammed
> $80 ROUTER! This opens up a ton of possibilities that I want to investigate.
> THey also had some FPGA experimenters board running the virtual CoCo
> hardware -- it was doing crazy fast GIME CHIP graphics, complete with VGA
> output, PC keyboard, BASIC, etc -- if they hadn't told me what it was, I
> would have swore it was a real CoCo. Can't wait to see what happens with
> this project (I forget who is working on it, but you guys probably know more
> about it than I do since I've been off the list since last year).
>
> 4. John Linville's video player for the CoCo 3 is amazing. It reminded e of
> the low resolution web video from 1996-era internet. He had clips and
> several full movies, with sound. Not what you'd want to watch in your
> livingroom, but amazing that it can even be done. I'll post videos of this
> soon.
>
> I sold out of all the DVDs I had time to make, and have more to ship out.
> If you want a copy of my 1999 CoCoFEST! video trip report DVD, send me $5
> and I'll ship one out.
>
> Video from 2010 coming in a bit, too, time permitting...
> --
> R.I.P. Howard Luckey. You will be missed. We will honor your memory at this
> year's CoCoFest.
>
> 2010: 30th Anniversary - Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo) -
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