[Coco] The CoCo Crew Podcast -- Episode 1 now available!

K. Pruitt pruittk at roadrunner.com
Sun Jul 5 21:29:11 EDT 2015


I also especially enjoyed the 6809 segment.

I also preferred both Color Computer and Hot CoCo over Rainbow due to them 
placing more emphasis on hardware and assembly than Rainbow did. But then 
again Rainbow outlasted them both, so what do I know.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "L. Curtis Boyle"
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2015 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] The CoCo Crew Podcast -- Episode 1 now available!


> I, on the other hand, quite liked the 6809 section. If a podcast is to 
> cover the Coco in general, it will always have sections that some people 
> are not interested in (some people don’t like games. Some don’t like 
> RSDOS. Some don’t like OS-9. Some don’t like programming, etc., etc. 
> etc.). So, my personal opinion is that anything Coco related is fair game 
> for the podcast.
> However, I _do_ like Al’s suggestion of having an index in the show notes, 
> stating the starting time for each segment. Thus, people can skip to the 
> section that they want to hear (myself, that is not so important on the 
> first listen through, where I listen the whole thing, but if I want to 
> review something at a later date, I can find it easily).
>
> L. Curtis Boyle
>
>> On Jul 3, 2015, at 7:02 PM, Al Hartman  wrote:
>>
>> A good episode. My only criticism is that the 6809 section was of no 
>> interest to me, and I think it would be more useful split off and maybe 
>> expanded into a Programmer's Corner podcast. It's obvious John has a lot 
>> of Knowledge to share, and there is an audience for that. Maybe he could 
>> have guests who could give tutorials on programming techniques. It could 
>> be part of the main podcast, but I'd ask that it come after the main 
>> podcast concludes and that nothing come after that a non programmer would 
>> miss if they turned it off at that point. Then, Indicate in the show 
>> notes where it starts so someone can come back to it later for reference.
>>
>> It's a shame DBK's 6809 course is gone. I'm told that was a great course 
>> for people who wanted to learn how to program 6809. I should have bought 
>> one while they they were still available. In case someday I ever got the 
>> gumption to try to learn 6809 assembler.
>>
>> -[ Al ]-
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: John W. Linville
>>
>> The next episode (i.e. Episode 1) of the CoCo Crew Podcast is now
>> available:
>>
>> http://cococrew.org
>>
>> Please take a listen and I hope you enjoy it!
>>
>> John
>> -- 
>> John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you
>> linville at tuxdriver.com might be all we have.  Be ready.
>>
>> -- 



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