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King County is taking a comprehensive, community-focused approach that early data suggests is helping steer young people away from cycles of violence. In an interview with the Hacks & Wonks podcast, Eleuthera Lisch, director of the King County Regional Office of Gun Violence Prevention, discussed the promising impacts of the county's community violence intervention initiatives. At the heart of the strategy are organizations like Regional Peacekeepers Collective and Rainier Beach Action Coalition - Restorative Solutions that employ street outreach workers and "violence interrupters" - credible messengers with lived experience who can rapidly respond to shooting incidents. When violence interrupters are deployed to active scenes involving law enforcement, their role is crucial. "They will be able to de-escalate tensions, they will be able to form rapid rapport, and they will be able to create a follow-up and safety plan for the individuals that they are able to connect with," Lisch explained. Their expertise in crisis intervention and rapport-building can help defuse volatile situations and ensure the well-being of those involved. Violence interrupters don't just react to youth gun-violence, but work proactively to prevent it. "They're providing daily contact - they're connecting with that young person, they're checking in on their well-being, their safety," said Lisch. "They're helping make sure that that young person is able to access rides and supports to get to and from court as needed, to get re-entered into school, re-engaged in school, to get to employment opportunities." While the work is still maturing, Lisch pointed to some early positive signs of impact, including: The average age of those involved in shootings rising into the 30s, suggesting fewer youth are getting caught up in violence cycles Over 400 high-risk youth currently being intensively mentored Reductions in youths' re-hospitalization rates after gun injuries Decreases in losses from youth shoplifting near outreach sites "We're seeing loss prevention happening - that there are less young people, through whatever crisis they are in, going into stores and taking things that don't belong to them," Lisch said. She cautioned that transformational change can take 4-5 years to manifest fully as interventionists build trust. But the initial data "is a strong indicator that we are seeing a downtrend in young people involved in gun violence." Lisch stressed the need for sustained funding and coordination across jurisdictions. “First and foremost, our advice is to fund peace, fund safety…If we're seeking safe communities and we're seeking peace, we have to invest in the strategies that help us get there. The county is working to evaluate the efforts and demonstrate their cost effectiveness. “We've just recently contracted a cost-of-violence analysis to help support our local elected leaders in King County and at the state of Washington level to understand the cost savings of community violence intervention strategies.” Even as the community intervention programs show promise, Lisch emphasized there are ways all residents can get involved and be part of the solution. "We can all participate in safe storage, and we can all participate in amplifying the message that community-led solutions are important and that they are a functional part of a holistic public safety framework," she said. "We often talk about gun violence being a disease. I want to emphasize, as strongly as I possibly can, that the community is the cure." The data suggests this public health-focused approach, with the community leading the way, is making a positive impact. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Follow us on Twitter at @HacksWonks. Find the host, Crystal Fincher, on Twitter at @finchfrii and find the King County Regional Office of Gun Violence Prevention at @kingcountyrgv. About the Guest  Eleuthera Lisch Eleuthera Lisch (She/Her) is a violence prevention professional with over 27- years of experience developing, implementing, and bringing to scale cutting edge gun violence prevention, intervention, public safety, and community reconciliation programs, both nationally and internationally. Eleuthera serves as the inaugural director for the Regional Office of Gun Violence Prevention for Public Health-Seattle & King County. As a seasoned strategist, social change innovator, advocate for social justice, and champion for community safety and well-being, Eleuthera proudly supports grassroots to “grass tops” partnerships and emerging leaders. She has raised millions in funding/endowments for gun violence prevention programs and other services in Seattle and King County and has consulted to provide subject matter expertise in cities across the nation.  She received a White House Champion for Change Award in 2012 for her work with the Dept. of Justice National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention and featured as a model "social change agent" in Paul Shoemaker's Can't Not Do, The Compelling Social Drive that Changes the World.  Eleuthera is proud to be a member of the National Office of Prevention Directors Network. She is grateful for the giants whose shoulders the movement to prevent gun violence was built on and honored to work with communities and champions across the nation who strive to ensure that all communities, families, and individuals can live free of violence and thrive.  Eleuthera was born in Puerto Rico and is the proud daughter of noted activist Arthur Lisch and teacher Paula Lisch. She lives with her husband of 30 years, Patrick Burningham, in Southeast Seattle, Washington. Find the King County Regional Office of Gun Violence Prevention on Twitter/X at @kingcountyrgv. Resources King County Regional Office of Gun Violence Prevention    “King County to start Office of Gun Violence Prevention” by David Gutman from The Seattle Times   Community Violence Intervention | Center for Gun Violence Solutions at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health   Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) | Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice   “Community Violence Intervention Programs, Explained” by Nazish Dholakia and Daniela Gilbert from Vera Institute of Justice   King County gun violence data | King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office   Lock It Up: Promoting the safe storage of firearms | Public Health - Seattle & King County   “Governor Newsom Signs Historic Tax on Gun Manufacturers to Fund School Safety and Violence Prevention Programs” | September 26, 2023 Press Release from Office of Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel

Joined on this episode by the one and only Paul Shoemaker. Paul is passionate about Electric Vehicles and Lithium ion batteries! We go deep diving into considerations and concerns for this evolving aspect of our craft. Off gassing, UHSS components, the sheer amount of water we are using, and how we can be more effective.  And of course the audience had a ton of great questions that Paul crushed! This is a topic that everyone wants more information on and you do not want to miss this Scrap!

Lithium Ion batteries are an increasing issue facing the fire service. From e-scooters and bikes to Tesla's and other electric vehicles; Li batteries are everywhere. HOW DO WE DEAL WITH THEM?! Join us in this live stream as we talk to Paul Shoemaker about how to tackle the hazards associated with Lithium ion batteries. Paul has been in the fire service for 15 years. He has extensive training with electric vehicles, lithium ion battery fires, and an excellent understanding of Tesla vehicles. Paul is currently working with UL and NFPA as the subject matter expert on multiple advisory boards for EV fires, Li fires, and stored energy fires. Subscribe here -- https://www.youtube.com/c/jobtlks?sub_confirmation=1 https://linktr.ee/jobtlks to find our upcoming events, merchandise, & web site Please follow us on FB and Instagram, & make sure you're subscribed to our YouTube Channel. As always, Thank you for your continued support. We couldn't do this without you. Make sure you tune in every other Saturday at noon for a new episode! https://www.youtube.com/jobtlks https://www.instagram.com/jobtlks https://www.tiktok.com/jobtlks #JobTlksPodcast #lithiumionbattery #electricvehicles #firefighter #firetraining #firedepartmentlife #culture #femalefirefighter #firedept #fireman #firefighters #firefighter #firefighting #technicalrescue #firehouse #femalefirefighter #firedept #iaff #medic #hazmat #firerescue #firefighterfitness #fire #training #culture #tactics #podcast #firefighterpodcast #JobTlks #fireground #firehouseculture #fire #tactics #allhazards #lithiumionbattery #lithiumbattery #lithiumbatteries #teslafires #EV #electricvehicle #electricvehicles #electricvehiclefires #ebike #ebikes #escooter #batteryfires #nfpa #ul #underwriterslaboratory #nationalfireprotectionagency #nextlevelextrication @nextlevelextrication

This is the sermon preached at Trinity Lutheran Church in Vallonia, Indiana, on Sunday, February 26th, 2023. This was the funeral sermon for Eugene Shoemaker. Text: Genesis 3:14-19; I Corinthians 15:35-37, 42-49; John 11:17-27

Sharing stories for generations to come For 26 years, Tom Ikeda has been using digital storytelling to preserve history at Densho, a nonprofit organization that he co-founded in 1996 to preserve and document the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during WWII. In this episode of Beyond the Blue Badge, Tom sits down with host Paul Shoemaker to discuss his family's own experiences during WWII, why he started Densho, why it's crucial to preserve history correctly and how we all need to speak up to spark change on the issues we care about.

This is a previously recorded episode from The Firehouse Tribune's Kitchen Table Web Series. On this episode of the KTWS, Nick and Tom sit down with Paul Shoemaker of Next Level Extrication to discuss his work with Ion lithium batteries, electrics cars and the fears of the fire services with working with this changing and advanced technology in today's society. Instagram: @nextlevelextrication Facebook: Next Level Extrication Email: nextlevelextrication@gmail.com The Book: The 5-Tool Firefighter Paperback — The Firehouse Tribune The 5-Tool Firefighter: Higgins, Nicholas J.: 9798752048593: Amazon.com: Books The 5-Tool Firefighter by Nicholas Higgins, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com) Support Us: The Firehouse Tribune - www.thefirehousetribune.com - FHTribune Kitchen Table Web Series - Kitchen Table Web Series — The Firehouse Tribune - FHTribune YouTube Channel - The Firehouse Tribune - YouTube Origin USA - 10% off Origin Maine and Jocko Fuel using promo code 'FHTribune' at checkout - Origin USA - Handcrafted in America, Without Compromise. (originmaine.com) https://frontline-optics.com?sca_ref=2060519.DucSK9bE2h 5-Alarm Task Force Corp. - 5-ALARM TASK FORCE CORP. - 5-Alarm Task Force Corp --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/5-tool-firefighter/support

Using corporate experiences to fuel the nonprofit sector and change lives Microsoft alumni have the opportunity to use their unique experiences to supercharge change in the nonprofit sector. In this episode of our Beyond the Blue Badge podcast, host Paul Shoemaker sits down with alum Alonda Williams, author, speaker and current chief executive officer at Big Brothers Big Sister of Puget Sound, which is provides mentorship to thousands of children. Alonda discusses how she uses her Microsoft and life experiences to lead in the nonprofit sector, why she's passionate about building confidence in young black girls, and how mentorship can transform our communities and youth.

CoCoTALK! Episode 266 - What if there was no CoCo? Paul Shoemaker returns to review his game Ghost Rush, which was played this week, and Simon Jonassen joins to give his update on the port of Ghost Rush to the MC-10. Ron Delvaux posed an interesting question on Facebook this week, "What if the CoCo hadn't been invented", and we can explore what we think might have happened if there was no CoCo, or even worse, no Tandy or Radio Shack! All this and more on CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live  

CoCoTALK! episode 265 - Paul Shoemaker, Networking & Grease weasels Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live

Over the last several years Paul (a firefighter based in Colorado Springs USA) has had the opportunity to work with Tesla to gain an understanding of EV's for proper extrication when dealing with high voltage cables and lithium batteries.With his experience he currently works with the NFPA and UL as their SME for EV extrication, EV Fires and stored energy fires.A big thanks to our partners for supporting this episode.William Wood WatchesHAIX FootwearRosenbauerDuty Crew CoffeePlease subscribe to the podcast on YoutubeEnter our monthly giveaways on the following platformsFacebookInstagramGet notified of each Podcast episode as soon as they come out by clicking HERE

How to start saving the planet for generations to come Climate change is at the forefront of our world's issues, and it's going to take all of us to move the needle. Kathleen Hebert has dedicated her post-Microsoft career to fighting climate change, an issue she's made her purpose. Her multi-pronged approach to change includes volunteering, investing, learning and making changes in everyday life that can have lasting impact. In this episode of Beyond the Blue Badge, host Paul Shoemaker sits down with Kathleen to discuss why and how she's tackling climate change, the environmental responsibilities that different organizations and businesses have, what the future of climate change looks like for all of us and how we can contribute. Kathleen was a corporate vice president at Microsoft from 1989 to 2003. After leaving the company, she spent 19 years at Social Venture Partners, deep diving into the world of philanthropy. She's now a venture partner, board member and investor at E8 Ventures, which is investing in clean tech for environmental impact. She also serves on the board of the Clean Energy Transition Institute and The Nature Conservancy.

Matthew Bishop (MB): Hello, welcome to Books Driving Change. I'm Matthew Bishop, and today we're talking with Paul Shoemaker, who is the author of Taking Charge of Change: How Rebuilders Solve Hard Problems. Paul is a podcaster, activist, philanthropist, founder of Social Venture Partners International, which is a network of philanthropists, and has been really involved and an activist in change for many years. Paul, our audience is really people who are feeling a calling to get involved, in trying to build back better, trying to make the world a better place. In a sentence, what's your elevator pitch to them? Why should they read this book?Paul Shoemaker (PS): Because I'm identifying the leaders and the leadership traits that we will need to meet the complexities and reverse the inequities in America for the decade ahead.MB: The book was written before COVID, but clearly anticipated many of the topics that we've been talking about in terms of building back better. And what I really like about it is you have five leadership characteristics that you identify, and you put people to each of those characteristics, people who are actually doing change on the ground. And I like the fact that your five things are not obvious in some ways. You do have authenticity as your first one, and I kind of inwardly cringed as everyone is in favor of authenticity at the moment. And I think it is a bit like what Groucho Marx said about sincerity -- it is the key to success in public life, you can fake that you've got it made -- and you wonder whether authenticity is the same. But then you go into the things like complexity, having a complexity mindset, and being able to deal with cross sectoral complexity, to be very data centric, things that aren't so obvious to people who were just sort of picking the five characteristics. And I wonder how you came to those five, what made you pick those? And the other thing you do, which I love as well, is that you have a downside to each of those five as well. So many leadership books just talk about the virtues and they don't say well actually some people who are data obsessed are quite a pain to deal with or these cross sectoral people may not really get it in depth enough or whatever. So how did you pick those five?PS: In 2018 while working on a project about poverty in America, I was studying different aspects of inequities that affect poverty, race, health, economics, social, etc. In the middle of that project, what slapped me in the face was, while I certainly understand we have inequities in America, I did not know the pace and the downward path of economic, social, and health inequities over the last 25 years in America. And I think people think 2020 was this year of inequity, but this has been building for a generation. And so that's what I finally recognized. And that follows 50 years in America where we were slowly, haltingly, unevenly making progress. And we've sort of gone back down the other direction. So that was my original sort of motivation. Then I said, okay, how do I think about how we're going to reverse these inequities? What kind of leaders are we going to need? So I took the next six months, and I did three things. One, I talked to nearly 100 of the best leaders I've worked with over the last 30 years, and several traits and characteristics started to sort of fall out of that. Number two, I was also looking for evidence of programs and organizations where there was also true social impact. The ones that were starting to reverse that 25 year trend going the wrong direction. And then number three, was understanding the complexities that are coming in the decade ahead. This is the most insanely complex, not just inequitable, but complex decade, I think America has faced in at least 75, maybe 100 years. And so if you think of those as three overlapping circles -- leaders, impact, context of complexity -- the intersection of those three things, yielded those five traits for me. So it was a very well thought out, subjective, qualitative process that has a prospective point of view that I feel very passionately about, and think that these five traits are going to make a huge difference in the decade ahead -- 24/7 authenticity, generosity mindset, data conviction, capacity for complexity, and cross sector fluency. And the last thing, in terms of downsides, a good example of 24/7 authenticity, which is in bleak short supply, these days in America -- I have several examples in the book where standing up with integrity and honesty, and particularly with personal accountability, will cost you in the short term, and it may cost you a lot career wise, by making some enemies, etc. But in the long term, I think it's an enormously important leadership trait.MB: A lot of people have been forced to confront the inequities that you've written about, and that you and I have both been working on to different degrees over the years to address, but have been forced by COVID to address them, and are now thinking, how do I get involved, I'd like to get involved in in some kind of public service trying to make the world better. And yet they find it a kind of intimidating world. A lot of people who have been in the business world may be thinking, it looks like unrewarding difficult terrain and so forth. What do you say to them?PS: It is absolutely difficult terrain, as you well know. At times, it will be deeply frustrating. And it will be occasionally, hopefully, enormously rewarding. The challenges we've got -- whether you want to think on a local or global level -- climate, geopolitical, cybersecurity, rural urban divide, go on and on and on. These are generational kinds of challenges, and they are at real inflection points. So for someone to feel daunted is honest and correct. What I hope people don't feel is hopeless. Because you can make a difference. The book is full of 38 people who have found ways to make a difference -- some of them on a local level, some of them on a national level, some of them at the top of an organization, some of them in a medium part of the organization, or on the street in a community. So part of the reason to write the book was not just to have a point of view, but also to tell 38 stories of people who are making a positive impact, and how they're doing it, and how that positive impact reflects those five qualities that I think are so important.MB: And there are some great stories in there. The person that you start with is Rosanne Haggerty, who I know as well, and has this extraordinary record of actually figuring out how to get to zero homelessness in a number of cities around America. When you see what she's done, what can we learn from that in terms of how we could achieve real, dramatic change? Because I think homelessness has been an issue that no one really ever believed you could solve.PS: Particularly on the West Coast. I'm sure it's true on the East Coast, but on the West Coast it's just absorbing us.MB: And you were quite honest that you were involved in Seattle in trying to solve homelessness and couldn't do it.PS: I will say my case study was of Seattle, I wasn't directly involved in it. That's not letting myself off the hook. I'm trying to find an entry point in Seattle about how to be involved, because we do have a new housing authority that's trying to go after it. So what do you learn from someone like Rosanne? I would say a couple things. One, the people in this book, every one of them, sort of exemplifies one of these particular traits. And I think all of us, we have to be multifaceted. But there's also something about us picking a particular principle, or a particular strength, that's going to guide our work. And it needs to represent who we are. So in Rosanne's case, what she exemplifies is what I call the generosity mindset. And it's because she told me that phrase. She has to walk into so many communities and deal with some of the most complex, contentious issues there are. And I just said to her, how the hell do you have a chance? She says, I have to have a generosity mindset. And we went on to have a whole conversation about what that is and what that means. But she has a grounding in that approach and that strategy. So she doesn't randomly walk into a community to do this. She doesn't just say, I'm gonna do my best. Generosity mindset is a strategy. It is a hard-edged strategy. So I say, the first thing is, as a leader, we need to have an approach. We need to have a mindset. We need to have a particular leadership strategy that we're going to lead with that represents who we are and what our strengths are. The second thing to learn from her story is that literally from the day she got out of college this is what she's worked on. Now, I'm not saying everybody has to commit their whole life to it. But there's definitely the story of when people hop around to different causes and different issues, you're just staying shallow. If you want to make a difference, you have to pick at some point -- a place, or an issue, or a cause to go deep on, and stick with it, and go hard, and go deep. That is the one where you have a chance, that's the second thing I think you learn. And the third thing you learn from her example, and it's reflective in the trade of cross sector fluency, is everybody from every sector has a role to play in this. So if you're in the private sector, and you feel like homelessness is hard to solve, believe me, we need you. If you're in the public sector, and you feel like nobody cares about homelessness enough to really do something about it, that's not true. What her stories exemplify also is that we need all three sectors to converge on these problems. We do not have a chance to solve these huge problems one or two sectors at a time. We need all three of them. So have a strategy, stick with it over the long term, and understand that we need all three sectors.MB: This is a very challenging point, though. Firstly, near the end of the book you use a quote from McKinsey, which is obviously a firm that is very much associated with public private partnerships, but also currently is in the news for not being brilliantly ethical in this respect. And yet, there is this general thing that we all kind of know in principle, that we need public private partnerships to work at scale, if we're really going to move a lot of change fast. But yet, there are very few examples of public private partnerships that have really seemed to work. And there is this imbalance that I think is there between what you get paid if you're working in the private sector, and what you get paid in government. And the worry that many of the people who end up in government are not the best, that many of the most talented people go into the private sector. And that actually, where you want more of the talented people to go is into the public sector. And they don't, because it's not an attractive career, in many ways. How do we get beyond saying we need the public private partnerships to work to actually setting up the conditions where they can work? Obviously, there are many talented people in government, but how do we solve that problem?PS: I would say in the last three to five years, the most hopeful part of that equation is the private sector, not because they're the best, or whatever. I mean, all three of those sectors genuinely contribute a part of the equation. If you take one part of the equation away you do not have what you need. But in the last three to five years, you can look at the statement on stakeholder capitalism in September 2019, Larry Fink at BlackRock making the statements he's making, the way that CEOs had to step up in 2020. I think we've reached a convergence point where it's great if the CEO wants to be socially conscious, because they care about it or they have a good moral ethic. That's nice. That's great. It is even better if it's truly woven into the business, and it's truly going to affect the bottom line. Somewhere in the last three to five years, I believe we crossed over that. And in 2020, we absolutely moved past that point where it isn't just a nice thing to do, to varying degrees for companies, it's something they have to do. And so I think we have this place where profit and purpose are now not this incongruent, or forced together, equation. They genuinely can live together. So that's a really hopeful part of it. And what is also true is, there has been for a while there, this sort of a pedantic relationship between the private and the public/nonprofit sectors. And I would say in particular in 2020, a lot of private sector companies realized, man, I better have at least a nonprofit partner or a public sector partner, or both, that actually understands what's going on the ground, because I need to navigate this for my business, for my company. And I can't do this if I just sit over here in my private sector silo. So I would say the most hopeful thing, while it's still complex and it will always be, but the most hopeful thing is there is more alignment of natural incentives than I have seen in a long, long time and I think that gives me hope.MB: I agree with you, that business has definitely changed his tune. I think what remains to be seen is what the reality is underneath that. But I do find that the public sector part of it is the one that I find hardest to solve. Because there are so many aspects of working in the public sector that you really have to feel incredibly called to do. You have to be willing to put up with a lot of obstacles, and often feeling that things are moving at a very slow moving pace, that you are not well paid. And lots of risks in terms of politicians, particularly, who are very much subject of 24/7 scrutiny and in this current moment, can easily find themselves suddenly out of office for something that might have been seen as relatively minor in the past. What do we do? I mean, you have some examples, this Chief Performance Officer that you quoted, who is very impressive. How do we make it more palatable to go into government, into the public sector?PS: That's a hard equation to solve for. What I'll suggest is, at the national level, it can feel enormously discouraging. I don't know that I would tell anybody to try to run for one of those 535 spots in Congress, or anything at that level. So I'm gonna sort of bag off of that. But at a local and a state level -- and there's plenty of complexity there, too -- there's a lot of local and state issues, where I do think there is a chance to make change. You know, we talk a lot about mayors. I have one example of a mayor in the book, Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia who was there a few years ago. I think mayors, sometimes governors, sometimes local city council, they absolutely can have an impact. And what I do find inspiring is, I think that there are still enough people that care about that civic ethic, and that want to commit to their community. And I actually think that the Gen Zs have this, even more than you or my generation did, so I think there's a little more supply coming at it. And the last thing I would say, based on several of the examples in the book, is that cities, some states, some counties, they're never going to be okay with the private sector coming in, that it's just not gonna happen. But what they can do is hopefully create a working environment and a sense of purpose that is strong enough, and clear enough, that enough talented people will want to continue to want to work in the public sector. So absolutely a hard challenge. I see enough hope at the state, county, local levels, where there are enough people that have that sense of civic service, and enough of those entities that I think create a working environment where people do want to be a part of it, and that they can contribute something to public private partnerships.MB: One of the things that your book does, that is one reason I would recommend it to people, is you tell these 38 stories of people who really are making a difference. People who in some ways should be household names, but most of them aren't. And they could be. One of the things that we need to do better as a media is to shine light on some of these stories of people who are builders, who are taking charge of change. And, not in a naive way. And one of the things I like about the book is that you are willing to concede when people have not have not been perfect. What makes you optimistic as we come out of this pandemic?PS: So the simple answer, which is also true, is it's partly the people that I profile in the book and other folks that I talked to that are not in the book. So that is true. And I guess I would also sort of suggest that that's the easy answer. So I would say the less obvious answer is in doing the research on those people, and understanding those five traits, I had to come across organizations that were doing things that I didn't know they were doing, and I didn't expect. I came across a lot of private sector organizations that are not just in this stuff because they think it's a nice thing to do, because they have to do it. I see a lot more talented CEOs that are now willing to apply themselves to this wholeheartedly. I am probably as inspired by the public sector examples. The city of Cincinnati, Nicolette [Stanton], the head of waste management, the city of Phoenix, Philippe Marino, there are genuine examples of not just good people, but good work getting done. And, like you said, we are not telling those stories well enough. And in the midst of all the noise, and the division, and the silos, and the lack of facts we can agree on, which man they could win the day, I think there's enough good work, solid work that's going on. And these kinds of leaders, that gives me hope. It's a real race, where it's like, the good and the evil are both racing to the tipping point for America. And I know that's a little dramatic. And I think people like to always say you're at an inflection point. But, at least to me, America truly does feel like over the next five to ten years here, we're gonna make up our minds about an awful lot of things. And if we get it right, I think we will be going in the right direction. Again, if we get it wrong, then it's going to be a bitch.MB: So just to wrap up, do you have one challenge for listeners of Books Driving Change? And do you have one piece of advice for anyone who does feel that they want to take up the opportunity to take charge of change?PS: Sure, on the latter one, if you literally can't find somewhere my email is: shoe@paulshoemaker.org. And I've helped people many, many times to find that point of entry. The latter part I would say to folks is: start. We can get intimidated by, overwhelmed by, the size of the challenge, the complexity of the challenge. Where do I have an entry point in the community? Pick somewhere. You can find it -- there's volunteer match, there's your local nonprofit directory, there's your local city, etc, etc. So find a place and start. And then what I would say to folks about advice on a personal level -- in addition to getting the book -- is don't underestimate that everybody's got a skill or skills, a trait or traits, that actually have significant value. And I don't know that everybody realizes it, and doesn't necessarily sort of see where they have a pathway to: I have an expertise in finance, [but] what the hell does that have to do with this social problem or that one? Your skills and traits, they always have applicability. And it may take a little bit of a journey to find it. But part of the reason I wrote about these five traits is that every one of them can make a difference. So find a way to start. If you can't find a way to start, contact me. And look in your own skill set, and your own strength, and your own assets, and realize there are ways that they can be applied into a community beyond what you probably know, you'd probably expect, and beyond your checkbook and your wallet.MB: Great. Well, that's a great note to end on. Thank you very much. I've been talking with Paul Shoemaker, the author of Taking Charge of Change. It's a great book. Read it and get started. Thank you.

In honor of Microsoft Give Month, we're re-releasing our inspiring conversation with Microsoft Alumni Network Integral Fellow and TAF Executive Director Trish Millines Dziko. In this episode of Beyond the Blue Badge, Paul Shoemaker talks with Trish Millines Dziko how promoting diversity during her tenure at Microsoft became her fulltime job when founded Technology Access Foundation. Learn how her upbringing influenced her passion for preparing children of color for a career in technology, her new book and what's next for TAF.

Ross Hunter joined Microsoft in 1983 and was one of the company's first program managers. He spent 17 years at the company before getting involved in the public sector. He became a representative for the Washington State Legislature and now is the secretary of the Department of Children, Youth, and Families. In this episode of our Beyond the Blue Badge podcast, host Paul Shoemaker talks with Ross about the early days of Microsoft, transitioning to the public sector, and the important work he's doing now to foster early upstream change for children and families across Washington state.

Paul Shoemaker believes America is approaching a looming inflection point. The author and social impact leader says that the massive upheavals over the last year is emblematic of how the social, economic, and health challenges facing us in the 2020s are radically different from those we faced even one generation ago. But far from feeling downtrodden by this challenge, Shoemaker argued that this can be an opportunity for undoing and expelling old ways of thinking and working and being. In his book Taking Charge of Change: How Rebuilders Solve Hard Problems, he introduced us to the leaders and change agents he dubs “Rebuilders,” and the five vital traits they use to solve big problems. He sat down with one of those Rebuilders, retired Seahawk wide receiver Doug Baldwin, who Shoemaker profiled and celebrated for exemplifying the trait of “24-7 authenticity.” Together, they discussed Baldwin's background, and how Baldwin thinks about his own leadership. He discussed his leadership on the field, elucidating how authenticity is especially relevant and important in a team setting, as well as his leadership now off the field, as he gears up to build the Family First Community Center in Renton. They considered the leadership of athletes speaking out on subjects outside of sports, and the power and responsibility in doing so. Join them for this optimistic conversation about the future of leadership, the cohesive skills to foster to become a Rebuilder, and how to be an agent of change amidst challenges. Paul Shoemaker is the Founding President of Social Venture Partners International, a global network of thousands of social innovators, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and business and community leaders. Before that, he spent over a decade as a global thought leader at Microsoft, Nestle, and as a consultant. He has spoken at TEDx and United Nations events, and has written for the Stanford Social Innovation Review and Huffington Post. Doug Baldwin spent eight years in the NFL learning and unlearning identity. He is a believer in redemption. He was raised in Florida where he learned to survive, and attended Stanford where he learned curiosity. He is a proud husband and father. Mostly, he is a striving human aiming to serve. Buy the Book: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/book/9781400221691  Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here. 

Dianne Calvi is president and CEO of Village Enterprise, a nonprofit working in sub–Saharan Africa that aims to alleviate poverty through entrepreneurship and innovation. Dianne worked across multiple sectors — including an 11-year stint at Microsoft — before joining Village Enterprise in 2010. In this episode of our Beyond the Blue Badge podcast, host Paul Shoemaker talks with Dianne about how she’s scaling Village Enterprise and why she’s rooted in empathy. They also dive into how tech, data, and partnerships are crucial in the fight to alleviate poverty.

Today’s guest is Kris Putnam-Walkerly, author of Delusional Altruism: Why Philanthropists Fail to Achieve Change and What They Can Do to Transform Giving. She and Charlie talk about the barriers philanthropists face in making change happen, and Kris shares some of what she writes about in her book on ways to overcome them. Most importantly, they discuss whether the word philanthropy itself is one of these barriers for social funders and investors. Key Takeaways:[2:50] - Kris now works with philanthropists as an advisor and strategist, assessing impact and making changes based on what works and what doesn’t. Originally starting with a master’s in social work, her journey through different family foundations led her to this opportunity she has now.[5:35] - Kris defines philanthropy as actively promoting human welfare, and generosity and caring for others. While giving money is a big part of philanthropy, the definition extends to giving of our full selves to help our neighbors, communities, and the greater good.[8:20] - Charlie and Kris talk about whether the word philanthropy is culturally problematic. When considering the connotation of the words, phrases, or norms we perpetuate, we have to be conscious of racism or structural inequities, and implications they have for people’s lives today.[12:15] - As people begin to think about themselves as philanthropists or funders, it’s important to put yourself in uncomfortable positions and make sure you aren’t shying away from the hard problems. Nonprofits can help with this, but funders need to challenge themselves as well.[14:55] - Kris talks about overcoming the barrier of overwhelm, especially in an ever-changing world: 1. Start with the right questions (why and what), 2.an valuate where you’re at toda, 3. Figure out what focus items you need to work on to move you forward. [21:50] - Charlie and Kris talk about complexity capacity, and the barrier for philanthropists and funders taking on projects that will take an extended time to play out. They talk about putting reality into a relatable context, and also recognizing interim progress and engagement points along the way. [26:45] - Charlie shares his own experience fighting racial inequity and social justice on the board of SVP Portland. They looked at what was causing disparate outcomes in the community, and identified where they could make the biggest change. [32:19] - Once your plan is in action, you also have to intentionally check in to see what’s working and not working, and make changes as necessary. Disruption and volatility are the status quo.[33:50] - It can be frustrating for the entrepreneurial sector who are used to identifying problems and solutions on their own and at a fast pace. It is important for the entrepreneurial spirit and the coalition mindset to come together to make change happen in the most effective ways. [38:45] - In her book, Kris writes about ways to increase your speed (especially on the coalition side), while also noting that you have to have all the pieces in place for effective processes before you can kick things off. You have to allow time for connectivity to be established, but move quickly enough that the interest and funding remains.[40:15] - Charlie and Kris talk about what’s on the horizon for social investors and funders as we are moving toward a recovery period after this pandemic. In addition to looking ahead, organizations should also look back at the past year to identify things they would like to maintain going forward or changes they need to make to remain effective.[44:45] - Kris’ invitation for listeners is to reflect on your strategy, and refresh your strategy based on your reflections over the past year and your team’s plans moving forward. This will give clarity and flexibility. Mentioned in This Episode:Productive FlourishingStart Finishing, by Charlie GilkeyDelusional Altruism, by Kris Putnam-Walkerly8 Things Every Philanthropist Can Do - Free GuideCan’t Not Do, by Paul Shoemaker

Microsoft alum Njideka Harry is founder and executive board member at Youth for Technology Foundation. Njideka is a social entrepreneur that experienced the “Digital Canyon” first-hand when she moved from her native Nigeria to the U.S. for university. In this episode of our Beyond the Blue Badge podcast, host Paul Shoemaker talks with Njideka about her personal journey to start and grow YTF, Microsoft’s influence, and why she’s passionate about ensuring technology training and lifelong learning skills are available to all communities in sustainable and accessible ways.

Special Guests: Frances Mayes & Paul Shoemaker

When Jon Browning looks back at his 24-years at Microsoft, he thinks about the mentors who helped him along his career path from first installing telephones fresh out of college to eventually becoming a director at the tech giant. When he left the company, he knew that there are so many people who don’t have anyone help them bridge between the academic world and the professional workforce. He founded Global Mentorship Initiative to change all of that. In this episode of Beyond the Blue Badge podcast, host Paul Shoemaker talks with Jon about Global Mentorship Initiative, helping underserved students bridge that gap, and matching mentors with hundreds of individuals from around the world, including refugees from Chad, South Sudan, Syria and Palestine. They also talk about how you can help.

We live in a fundamentally different America than we did at the turn of the millennium. It is an increasingly uneven, siloed America. Those dynamics are being accelerated and amplified by tech, media, and Covid.  As has always been and always will be the case, these times call for a new kind of leadership. I’m Paul Shoemaker and for the last 30 years, I’ve had a unique vantage point and perspective on leaders across sectors, within corporate America, and in our local communities. What I was beginning to believe in early 2020 has become increasingly urgent with every passing day.

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:43 Panel Introductions 00:10:07 Holloween talk 00:39:04 CoCo Thoughts 00:42:03 GameON! challenge results 00:44:25 GameON! Discussion - Phantom Slayer 01:09:50 Next week's game announcement - Pipes 01:43:40 GameON! news 02:26:12 News from around the world 03:41:46 Project updates and acquisitions 04:01:17 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion   1) Robert Sieg has uploaded a disk image with 3 sample 160x192x16 color pictures https://tinyurl.com/y33edhca https://tinyurl.com/y4r4bhre https://tinyurl.com/yynf4pqa   2) Simon Jonassen released some details and sample song using a 4 voice music player https://tinyurl.com/y595r2pv   3) Neil Blanchard has a last call for his special run of 40th anniversary Coco masks on Facebook:  https://tinyurl.com/y4cu9h4s   4) Sheldon MacDonald posted a video on the Coco group on Facebook showing what his upcoming RSDOS tool program https://tinyurl.com/y6a4wx8c   5) Philippe Trottier posted on Facebook about replacing a 6551 chip with another chip.  https://tinyurl.com/yyrdzzz9   6) Laurence Byers posted some scans of a review of BASIC-09 from the April 1984 issue of BYTE magazine https://tinyurl.com/y3rl9x66   7) Ciaran Anscomb (Sixxie) has posted a link to a work in progress on his gitlab account - indexing Dragon User magazine articles https://tinyurl.com/yylhycxk   8) Keith (ChibiAkumas) on YouTube has his first assembly language tutorial specifically for the Coco 3 up, concentrating on 16 color bitmap drawing in this episode: https://tinyurl.com/y5b4c3x5   9) Paul Shoemaker put up a cool video demo on Facebook showing his "Pixels" program, which shows randomly moving pixels https://tinyurl.com/y5chbboo https://tinyurl.com/y6fop83n   10) Carlos Camacho is reminding people on Facebook that he has ROM chip upgrades for Coco https://tinyurl.com/y5562hne   11) Steve Norton has released a utility on Facebook (for Windows) that will help automate renaming long DSK filenames to the 8.3 format required for the CocoSDC. https://tinyurl.com/y4phoeg4   12) Peter Cetinski uploaded to github an archive of the Tandy Coco Tech bulletins: https://tinyurl.com/y2gkz8rd   13) Darren Ottery put up a video demo on Facebook of his simple Drum machine program called 'Beatbox'. https://tinyurl.com/y5rqls8l   14) Bill Pierce has put up a list of known bugs, and of feature requests, for VCC on Facebook and is asking for people to update the lists for future updates. https://tinyurl.com/y5o5dkkh   15) Episode 65 of the Coco Crew podcast is out http://cococrew.org   16) Robert Gault has uploaded a utility called MLFINDER to the Facebook Coco group  https://tinyurl.com/y5y4xd2f   17)  Curtis Boyle released the first public release of the new Technical Reference manual for NitrOS-9 https://tinyurl.com/y643o9ga   18) AC's 8-Bit Zone has posted a video where a channel viewer has a Coco 2 that won't start up properly - and AC sees if he can fix it (part 1): https://tinyurl.com/yyx5m9w3   19) John Whitworth announced that a 2nd order for the MSX 2+ boards has been ordered https://tinyurl.com/yxmpk5lb   Game On news: ============= 1) Avram Berman put up an interesting question: What Coco game would you most like to have a sequel of? https://tinyurl.com/yxdzetxu   2) Neil Blanchard he has a last call going out for 3D Monster Maze and Bomb Threat cartridges https://tinyurl.com/y64fs5rj   3) Chet Simpson has released the first info files for eventual disassembled source code for 4 programs on his GitHub. https://tinyurl.com/y6lo8uc3   4) Paul Thayer has a video update on his progress with his Coco 3 game, Sokoban https://tinyurl.com/y5k5m2zx   5) Nick Marentes did a tongue in cheek "teaser" image for his upcoming dual game pack (Rally-SG, now with a track editor, and his new Pipes game), which has stirred some controversy. Nick has a comment on this.   6) Rick Adams put some scans up on Discord and Facebook showing some of his original notes and sketches for his original, more complicated design for the  OmniStar   https://tinyurl.com/y3d2kxnb   7) Henry Reitveld did a quick video showing him using the CocoSDC with Brett Gordon's YA DOS that can have up to 3500 floppy disk images: https://tinyurl.com/yyzvg6lb   8) Vintage is the New Old did a review of Digger III: The Saint's Ascension, including a gameplay video: https://tinyurl.com/yxf9uf6t https://tinyurl.com/y23pu93x

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:43 Panel Introductions 00:10:07 Holloween talk 00:39:04 CoCo Thoughts 00:42:03 GameON! challenge results 00:44:25 GameON! Discussion - Phantom Slayer 01:09:50 Next week's game announcement - Pipes 01:43:40 GameON! news 02:26:12 News from around the world 03:41:46 Project updates and acquisitions 04:01:17 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion   1) Robert Sieg has uploaded a disk image with 3 sample 160x192x16 color pictures https://tinyurl.com/y33edhca https://tinyurl.com/y4r4bhre https://tinyurl.com/yynf4pqa   2) Simon Jonassen released some details and sample song using a 4 voice music player https://tinyurl.com/y595r2pv   3) Neil Blanchard has a last call for his special run of 40th anniversary Coco masks on Facebook:  https://tinyurl.com/y4cu9h4s   4) Sheldon MacDonald posted a video on the Coco group on Facebook showing what his upcoming RSDOS tool program https://tinyurl.com/y6a4wx8c   5) Philippe Trottier posted on Facebook about replacing a 6551 chip with another chip.  https://tinyurl.com/yyrdzzz9   6) Laurence Byers posted some scans of a review of BASIC-09 from the April 1984 issue of BYTE magazine https://tinyurl.com/y3rl9x66   7) Ciaran Anscomb (Sixxie) has posted a link to a work in progress on his gitlab account - indexing Dragon User magazine articles https://tinyurl.com/yylhycxk   8) Keith (ChibiAkumas) on YouTube has his first assembly language tutorial specifically for the Coco 3 up, concentrating on 16 color bitmap drawing in this episode: https://tinyurl.com/y5b4c3x5   9) Paul Shoemaker put up a cool video demo on Facebook showing his "Pixels" program, which shows randomly moving pixels https://tinyurl.com/y5chbboo https://tinyurl.com/y6fop83n   10) Carlos Camacho is reminding people on Facebook that he has ROM chip upgrades for Coco https://tinyurl.com/y5562hne   11) Steve Norton has released a utility on Facebook (for Windows) that will help automate renaming long DSK filenames to the 8.3 format required for the CocoSDC. https://tinyurl.com/y4phoeg4   12) Peter Cetinski uploaded to github an archive of the Tandy Coco Tech bulletins: https://tinyurl.com/y2gkz8rd   13) Darren Ottery put up a video demo on Facebook of his simple Drum machine program called 'Beatbox'. https://tinyurl.com/y5rqls8l   14) Bill Pierce has put up a list of known bugs, and of feature requests, for VCC on Facebook and is asking for people to update the lists for future updates. https://tinyurl.com/y5o5dkkh   15) Episode 65 of the Coco Crew podcast is out http://cococrew.org   16) Robert Gault has uploaded a utility called MLFINDER to the Facebook Coco group  https://tinyurl.com/y5y4xd2f   17)  Curtis Boyle released the first public release of the new Technical Reference manual for NitrOS-9 https://tinyurl.com/y643o9ga   18) AC's 8-Bit Zone has posted a video where a channel viewer has a Coco 2 that won't start up properly - and AC sees if he can fix it (part 1): https://tinyurl.com/yyx5m9w3   19) John Whitworth announced that a 2nd order for the MSX 2+ boards has been ordered https://tinyurl.com/yxmpk5lb   Game On news: ============= 1) Avram Berman put up an interesting question: What Coco game would you most like to have a sequel of? https://tinyurl.com/yxdzetxu   2) Neil Blanchard he has a last call going out for 3D Monster Maze and Bomb Threat cartridges https://tinyurl.com/y64fs5rj   3) Chet Simpson has released the first info files for eventual disassembled source code for 4 programs on his GitHub. https://tinyurl.com/y6lo8uc3   4) Paul Thayer has a video update on his progress with his Coco 3 game, Sokoban https://tinyurl.com/y5k5m2zx   5) Nick Marentes did a tongue in cheek "teaser" image for his upcoming dual game pack (Rally-SG, now with a track editor, and his new Pipes game), which has stirred some controversy. Nick has a comment on this.   6) Rick Adams put some scans up on Discord and Facebook showing some of his original notes and sketches for his original, more complicated design for the  OmniStar   https://tinyurl.com/y3d2kxnb   7) Henry Reitveld did a quick video showing him using the CocoSDC with Brett Gordon's YA DOS that can have up to 3500 floppy disk images: https://tinyurl.com/yyzvg6lb   8) Vintage is the New Old did a review of Digger III: The Saint's Ascension, including a gameplay video: https://tinyurl.com/yxf9uf6t https://tinyurl.com/y23pu93x

Beyond the Blue Badge host Paul Shoemaker speaks with fellow Microsoft alum Terri Cole on National Philanthropy Day about her work with Social Venture Partners and United Indians of All Tribes. They talk about listening and learning, being an advocate and ally, her work with United Indians, where she derived her passion for philanthropy, and more.

Microsoft alum Reggie Brown talks with Beyond the Blue Badge host Paul Shoemaker about his passion for education, and particularly about his involvement with two organizations – Rainier Scholars and Ashesi University. They also address education’s role in eliminating systemic racism.

Crikey! Nick Marentes is at it again! Earlier this year he released Gun Stah, and followed that up with Rally-SG, you'd think he'd be busy counting all his money and watching his Swiss bank accounts, but no, he's at it again with yet another new game for the Coco and we'll see the world premier of his current project in progress! That along with all the other usual boring stuff, Games, News, old guys, blah, blah, blah.   General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:49 Panel Introductions 00:09:19 Simon Jonassen - Demo 00:36:01 Nightmare Highway song 00:40:34 Rick Adams - Bomb Threat talk 01:03:35 CoCo Thoughts 01:05:23 GameON! challenge results 01:34:04 Next week's game announcment - Sea Dragon 01:41:23 Nick Marentes - New game annoucement 01:02:15 GameON! news 02:43:38 News from around the world 03:32:05 Project updates and acquisitions 03:54:52 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion News stories for Episode #173, August 15, 2020 show: 1) Boisy has released The Coco Collector Part 4   https://youtu.be/cU4vOGXS3eE   2) Keith (ChibiAkumas) on YouTube has another Dragon/Coco assembly language tutorial episode   https://youtu.be/QlnXqshkTyw   3) Jim Gerrie has a video up for the Lissajous program from Creative Computing in 1979   https://youtu.be/IGFFXY_si7U   4) Glen Dahlgren has put up an image of the dust jacket for the hardcover version of his novel coming out on August 16th: https://tinyurl.com/y6nf5tr7   5) Ralph Klein has released the CocoPI update - MAME 0.223 on both the Pi3 and the Pi4: (I will only show one link on the show) https://tinyurl.com/y6ppt3l3 https://tinyurl.com/y28lph34   6) Boysontech has posted a picture of a new version of the design of a little satellite board that will allow a Sound/Speech pack to run at .895, 1.78 and 2.86 MHz. https://tinyurl.com/y22qozdr   7) Guillaume Major has released an update to the "complete Coco SDC image", which now has 600+ new disk images of applications, games, demos, educational, etc. compared to the previous version. https://tinyurl.com/y6ntwlyw   8) Curtis F. Kaylor showed some output from his TP-10 simulator program (TP-10 was the small thermal printed that Tandy sold): https://tinyurl.com/y5jc8xjh   9) James Tamer has uploaded Virtual MC-10 version 0.73i, which includes some bug fixes. https://tinyurl.com/yxcp4fea   10) Another very young fella did a Coco 2 restoration on YouTube (channel: Jackson's_antiqueAdventures) retrobrighting it: https://youtu.be/5S3A3RLfnaY   11) TJBChris has a new video on tricks you can do with the LOADM command: https://youtu.be/MzO7t87baTo   12) A YouTube channel called hirudov2d did multiple videos of different Coco's (and a Dragon-64) https://www.youtube.com/c/hirudov2d/videos   13) Glenside has their latest newsletter out https://tinyurl.com/y4ja8qdx   Game On news: 1) Marlin Lee has a video up showing New Burt, a Q-Bert clone from Mike Ro Productions: https://youtu.be/UlB4IwL-16c   2) Jim Gerrie has a video showing an update to Pitman https://youtu.be/IGFFXY_si7U He also has a port to the MC-10 from an old Dragon 32 game from the book "More Programs for your Dragon 32" from 1984, called Joust https://youtu.be/LVv4x_7pz5g Also a game called Civil War, from Creative Computing: https://youtu.be/KbUntsdxPeE Time Bomb https://youtu.be/XnN0TNNLNuI   3) Paul Shoemaker shows some possible palettes that he is considering for a Wizardry clone that he is calling Sorcery, https://tinyurl.com/y2ubh875   4) Jerry Stratton has a text version of Hunt the Wumpus https://tinyurl.com/yyzxfpot   5) Erico Monteiro has two new blogs up about his semi-graphics fighting game: Part 2: https://tinyurl.com/y693oque Part 3: https://tinyurl.com/y29ttaxy   6) Erico  playing Cashman on screens 40+ https://youtu.be/UAUHVGMlSMI?t=236   7) Stevie did a live stream demo of Rally-SG and the Digger III https://youtu.be/BIfepYk8wYE   8) Simonwgb did a 3 hour stream on Twitch playing about half a dozen Dragon 32 games: https://youtu.be/eWaJi82Dmgo?t=114 9) Adam Haase has released a complete map and tips breakdowns of the huge Coco 3 RPG game, The Seventh Link. https://tinyurl.com/y52jjxbo   Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:   https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive  

Crikey! Nick Marentes is at it again! Earlier this year he released Gun Stah, and followed that up with Rally-SG, you'd think he'd be busy counting all his money and watching his Swiss bank accounts, but no, he's at it again with yet another new game for the Coco and we'll see the world premier of his current project in progress! That along with all the other usual boring stuff, Games, News, old guys, blah, blah, blah.   General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:39 Panel Introductions 00:09:09 Simon Jonassen - Demo 00:35:50 Nightmare Highway song 00:40:24 Rick Adams - Bomb Threat talk 01:03:25 CoCo Thoughts 01:05:13 GameON! challenge results 01:33:50 Next week's game announcment - Sea Dragon 01:41:13 Nick Marentes - New game annoucement 01:02:05 GameON! news 02:43:28 News from around the world 03:31:55 Project updates and acquisitions 03:54:42 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion News stories for Episode #173, August 15, 2020 show: 1) Boisy has released The Coco Collector Part 4   https://youtu.be/cU4vOGXS3eE   2) Keith (ChibiAkumas) on YouTube has another Dragon/Coco assembly language tutorial episode   https://youtu.be/QlnXqshkTyw   3) Jim Gerrie has a video up for the Lissajous program from Creative Computing in 1979   https://youtu.be/IGFFXY_si7U   4) Glen Dahlgren has put up an image of the dust jacket for the hardcover version of his novel coming out on August 16th: https://tinyurl.com/y6nf5tr7   5) Ralph Klein has released the CocoPI update - MAME 0.223 on both the Pi3 and the Pi4: (I will only show one link on the show) https://tinyurl.com/y6ppt3l3 https://tinyurl.com/y28lph34   6) Boysontech has posted a picture of a new version of the design of a little satellite board that will allow a Sound/Speech pack to run at .895, 1.78 and 2.86 MHz. https://tinyurl.com/y22qozdr   7) Guillaume Major has released an update to the "complete Coco SDC image", which now has 600+ new disk images of applications, games, demos, educational, etc. compared to the previous version. https://tinyurl.com/y6ntwlyw   8) Curtis F. Kaylor showed some output from his TP-10 simulator program (TP-10 was the small thermal printed that Tandy sold): https://tinyurl.com/y5jc8xjh   9) James Tamer has uploaded Virtual MC-10 version 0.73i, which includes some bug fixes. https://tinyurl.com/yxcp4fea   10) Another very young fella did a Coco 2 restoration on YouTube (channel: Jackson's_antiqueAdventures) retrobrighting it: https://youtu.be/5S3A3RLfnaY   11) TJBChris has a new video on tricks you can do with the LOADM command: https://youtu.be/MzO7t87baTo   12) A YouTube channel called hirudov2d did multiple videos of different Coco's (and a Dragon-64) https://www.youtube.com/c/hirudov2d/videos   13) Glenside has their latest newsletter out https://tinyurl.com/y4ja8qdx   Game On news: 1) Marlin Lee has a video up showing New Burt, a Q-Bert clone from Mike Ro Productions: https://youtu.be/UlB4IwL-16c   2) Jim Gerrie has a video showing an update to Pitman https://youtu.be/IGFFXY_si7U He also has a port to the MC-10 from an old Dragon 32 game from the book "More Programs for your Dragon 32" from 1984, called Joust https://youtu.be/LVv4x_7pz5g Also a game called Civil War, from Creative Computing: https://youtu.be/KbUntsdxPeE Time Bomb https://youtu.be/XnN0TNNLNuI   3) Paul Shoemaker shows some possible palettes that he is considering for a Wizardry clone that he is calling Sorcery, https://tinyurl.com/y2ubh875   4) Jerry Stratton has a text version of Hunt the Wumpus https://tinyurl.com/yyzxfpot   5) Erico Monteiro has two new blogs up about his semi-graphics fighting game: Part 2: https://tinyurl.com/y693oque Part 3: https://tinyurl.com/y29ttaxy   6) Erico  playing Cashman on screens 40+ https://youtu.be/UAUHVGMlSMI?t=236   7) Stevie did a live stream demo of Rally-SG and the Digger III https://youtu.be/BIfepYk8wYE   8) Simonwgb did a 3 hour stream on Twitch playing about half a dozen Dragon 32 games: https://youtu.be/eWaJi82Dmgo?t=114 9) Adam Haase has released a complete map and tips breakdowns of the huge Coco 3 RPG game, The Seventh Link. https://tinyurl.com/y52jjxbo     Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:   https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive  

We've always got a lot to talk about and a great show to be shared by all on CoCoTALK! each week, and this week is no exception, we're going to hear from Peter Cullen about his retro background, and see his official Tandy SCART CoCo, which is something most of us has probably never seen before.   That along with news, GameON!, some possible tech segments, show  & tell and who knows what else, get ready for an action packed episode!   General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:01:00 Panel Introductions 00:25:00 General discussion 00:25:30 Who is new to Discord 00:26:00 Peter Cullen showing a Tandy SCART CoCo 01:36:00 David O'Conner 02:20:00 CoCo Thoughts - CashMan 02:21:00 GameON! challenge results 02:31:30 Next week's game announcement - SPEEDRACER 02:34:00 GameON! news 02:47:00 News from around the retro world 03:18:00 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion     Game On news: ============= 1) Jim Gerrie posted a video of his port of Steve Wozniak's original Apple classic "Little Brick Out"   https://youtu.be/8HMK1Si8ADY   2) Chet Simpson has released the first public Beta of Digger III.   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158495328987641/   3) Paul Thayer now has Timber Man available for paid download at itch.io: Announcement:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158493670122641/ Download link ($5.00 USD) - includes the DSK image and full color PDF manual:   https://pthayer100.itch.io/timber-man   4) Paul Shoemaker put up a short video teaser of some graphics he is fiddling with for a possible upcoming game:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158492892777641/   5) "The New Retro Show" has an episode about "new games" for the Coco and MC-10:   https://youtu.be/_QR2PZXaPRQ   6) Canadian Retro Things shows one of the Micro Adventure Books   https://youtu.be/ymLrh9NuTEQ   News stories for Episode #172, August 8, 2020 show: 1) Keith has lesson 4 of his 6809 series up now - covering the stacks:   https://youtu.be/mW57Gy436OE   2) Carlos Martins Nabeto posted a cool link to some 1983-1987 news about Brazilian Coco clones (in Portuguese):   https://computadoresbrasileiros.wordpress.com/category/noticias/ English translation:   https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fcomputadoresbrasileiros.wordpress.com%2Fcategory%2Fnoticias%2F%3F   3) Jason Weber on Facebook is helping organize "SepTandy" for this year   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158503187087641/   4) Frederiic Griignon posted a Radio Shack catalog page for the Coco from Quebec   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158496708377641/   5) James Jones is still soliciting feedback on his Coco MS Basic to BASIC09   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158492811687641/ Direct link to the Google Doc so far:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DFWC0XAv6NENnqXc3AZGy_Gl6TcZDfPcHGAB34woQwg/edit   6) Timothy Halloran update on getting his Coco 3 running from purely USB power   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158491484982641/   7) Soren Roug has been typing in Dragon 128 drivers for OS-9   https://www.roug.org/retrocomputing/os/os9/dragon128   8) Carlos Camacho posted the covers from an OS-9 book called "The OS-9 Guru : 1   https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2646468465616081/   9) Nigel Barnes posted in the Dragon Facebook group   https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2688555014737484/   11) I have also put up two videos to show increased speeds of scrolling in the forthcoming EOU Beta 6, These videos are all 6809 - 6309 versions are faster still. Also, these have the overhead of printing characters, etc. so it doesn't fully show the speed increase (which is around 14-15%). 80x25 hardware text:   https://youtu.be/SsHMkmKIFYo 640x200x4 graphics:   https://youtu.be/vD_q7-z4Iqc   Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com   Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow   Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive  

We've always got a lot to talk about and a great show to be shared by all on CoCoTALK! each week, and this week is no exception, we're going to hear from Peter Cullen about his retro background, and see his official Tandy SCART CoCo, which is something most of us has probably never seen before.   That along with news, GameON!, some possible tech segments, show  & tell and who knows what else, get ready for an action packed episode!   General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:01:00 Panel Introductions 00:25:00 General discussion 00:25:30 Who is new to Discord 00:26:00 Peter Cullen showing a Tandy SCART CoCo 01:36:00 David O'Conner 02:20:00 CoCo Thoughts - CashMan 02:21:00 GameON! challenge results 02:31:30 Next week's game announcement - SPEEDRACER 02:34:00 GameON! news 02:47:00 News from around the retro world 03:18:00 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion   Game On news: ============= 1) Jim Gerrie posted a video of his port of Steve Wozniak's original Apple classic "Little Brick Out"   https://youtu.be/8HMK1Si8ADY   2) Chet Simpson has released the first public Beta of Digger III.   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158495328987641/   3) Paul Thayer now has Timber Man available for paid download at itch.io: Announcement:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158493670122641/ Download link ($5.00 USD) - includes the DSK image and full color PDF manual:   https://pthayer100.itch.io/timber-man   4) Paul Shoemaker put up a short video teaser of some graphics he is fiddling with for a possible upcoming game:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158492892777641/   5) "The New Retro Show" has an episode about "new games" for the Coco and MC-10:   https://youtu.be/_QR2PZXaPRQ   6) Canadian Retro Things shows one of the Micro Adventure Books   https://youtu.be/ymLrh9NuTEQ   News stories for Episode #172, August 8, 2020 show: 1) Keith has lesson 4 of his 6809 series up now - covering the stacks:   https://youtu.be/mW57Gy436OE   2) Carlos Martins Nabeto posted a cool link to some 1983-1987 news about Brazilian Coco clones (in Portuguese):   https://computadoresbrasileiros.wordpress.com/category/noticias/ English translation:   https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fcomputadoresbrasileiros.wordpress.com%2Fcategory%2Fnoticias%2F%3F   3) Jason Weber on Facebook is helping organize "SepTandy" for this year   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158503187087641/   4) Frederiic Griignon posted a Radio Shack catalog page for the Coco from Quebec   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158496708377641/   5) James Jones is still soliciting feedback on his Coco MS Basic to BASIC09   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158492811687641/ Direct link to the Google Doc so far:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DFWC0XAv6NENnqXc3AZGy_Gl6TcZDfPcHGAB34woQwg/edit   6) Timothy Halloran update on getting his Coco 3 running from purely USB power   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158491484982641/   7) Soren Roug has been typing in Dragon 128 drivers for OS-9   https://www.roug.org/retrocomputing/os/os9/dragon128   8) Carlos Camacho posted the covers from an OS-9 book called "The OS-9 Guru : 1   https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2646468465616081/   9) Nigel Barnes posted in the Dragon Facebook group   https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2688555014737484/   11) I have also put up two videos to show increased speeds of scrolling in the forthcoming EOU Beta 6, These videos are all 6809 - 6309 versions are faster still. Also, these have the overhead of printing characters, etc. so it doesn't fully show the speed increase (which is around 14-15%). 80x25 hardware text:   https://youtu.be/SsHMkmKIFYo 640x200x4 graphics:   https://youtu.be/vD_q7-z4Iqc   Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com   Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow   Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive  

Is your weasel greased and are you excited to talk about floppies? We know David Ladd is!  Today Simon Jonassen will share with us some cool coding tricks he's using to fast load data from floppy disks, and we'll hopefully hear from David Ladd and possibly even Paul Fiscarelli, so if you're as excited about floppies as we are, you're going to love today's show!   General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:51 CoCo Closet 00:05:09 Panel Introductions 00:12:23 Simon Jonassen - coding tricks he's using to fast load data from floppy 00:58:42 More floppy talk 02:04:45 CoCo Thoughts 02:08:30 GameON! challenge results 02:20:58 Next week's game announcment - COLORPEDE 02:30:44 GameON! news 02:55:33 Project updates and acquisitions 03:46:58 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion   Game On news: ============= 1) Erico Patricio Monteiro has video of his upcoming Color Fight game in progress   https://youtu.be/mj_8UXKvTkw   2) Paul Shoemaker has a very good full deck set of card graphics (with full face cards in 16 colors)   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158448701372641/   3) Henry Reitveld put up a video of him play Nick Marentes new release, Rally-SG - but in his full blow arcade cabinet:   https://youtu.be/wBZe9yWj9Zo   4) Chet Simpson played live (on Facebook) first 10 levels of his upcoming Coco 3 masterpiece, Digger III. Thursday's video shows the Easy skill level:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158447571022641/ Friday's shows the Hard skill level (and it *does* look hard!):   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158450523007641/   5) Canadian Retro Things put up an unboxing video for his just received Bomb Threat cartridge (by Rick Adams)   https://youtu.be/GL4dXad2iTE   6) Aaron from The Amigos has put up his CoinOPS Coco Beta 2 package,   https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13mC2Fd__D3vj5aSO7zzDqd_EUwy57LZF   7) The Amigos are doing their 4th annual Amiga themed fundraiser for The Children's Network this weekend   https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/649422475322458122/733881626253066370/Amigathon_Schedule.jpg And the donation info:   https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=411413   Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com   Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelm... Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow     Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestr... https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

Is your weasel greased and are you excited to talk about floppies? We know David Ladd is!  Today Simon Jonassen will share with us some cool coding tricks he's using to fast load data from floppy disks, and we'll hopefully hear from David Ladd and possibly even Paul Fiscarelli, so if you're as excited about floppies as we are, you're going to love today's show!   General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:51 CoCo Closet 00:05:09 Panel Introductions 00:12:23 Simon Jonassen - coding tricks he's using to fast load data from floppy 00:58:42 More floppy talk 02:04:45 CoCo Thoughts 02:08:30 GameON! challenge results 02:20:58 Next week's game announcment - COLORPEDE 02:30:44 GameON! news 02:55:33 Project updates and acquisitions 03:46:58 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion   Game On news: ============= 1) Erico Patricio Monteiro has video of his upcoming Color Fight game in progress   https://youtu.be/mj_8UXKvTkw   2) Paul Shoemaker has a very good full deck set of card graphics (with full face cards in 16 colors)   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158448701372641/   3) Henry Reitveld put up a video of him play Nick Marentes new release, Rally-SG - but in his full blow arcade cabinet:   https://youtu.be/wBZe9yWj9Zo   4) Chet Simpson played live (on Facebook) first 10 levels of his upcoming Coco 3 masterpiece, Digger III. Thursday's video shows the Easy skill level:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158447571022641/ Friday's shows the Hard skill level (and it *does* look hard!):   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158450523007641/   5) Canadian Retro Things put up an unboxing video for his just received Bomb Threat cartridge (by Rick Adams)   https://youtu.be/GL4dXad2iTE   6) Aaron from The Amigos has put up his CoinOPS Coco Beta 2 package,   https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13mC2Fd__D3vj5aSO7zzDqd_EUwy57LZF   7) The Amigos are doing their 4th annual Amiga themed fundraiser for The Children's Network this weekend   https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/649422475322458122/733881626253066370/Amigathon_Schedule.jpg And the donation info:   https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=411413   Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com   Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelm... Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow     Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestr... https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

This week we'll look at the world premiere of the latest game from Nick Marentes, Rally SG, inspired by Rally-X from the arcade, it uses the 9-color semi-graphics mode, and will run on a CoCo 1,2,3 and Dragon with 64K.  http://nickmarentes.com/   This along with CoCo and retro news, GameOn! results, the new game of the week, projects, updates, acquisitions, and all kinds of CoCo goodness!   Time Stamps: 00:02:23               Panel Introductions 00:10:02               CoCo and Retro News 00:25:11               CoCo Thoughts 00:25:36               GameON! Results, discussion, and new game reveal 00:45:41               Gaming news 00:54:56               Rally SG premier with Nick Marentes 01:15:17               Project acquisitions, updates 02:04:42               additional updates and discussions 02:22:19               Closing credits 02:24:44               Final words News stories for Episode #166, June 27, 2020 show: ================================================= 1) CanadianRetroThings has a new video out showing him hooking up his giant Panasonic TV/Radio/Cassette deck to his MC-10 this time:   https://youtu.be/3j-fA5kBUdo   2) Davy Mitchell posted a link to his blog, "Davy's Retro Corner", in the Dragon Facebook group. This entry talks about a 3D terrain generating program   https://davysretrocorner.blogspot.com/2020/06/type-in-dragon-user-fault-line-graphics.html   3) The Trash Talk (TRS-80) podcast has game programming contest, that includes the Coco.   http://www.trs-80.org.uk/2020competition.html   4) Tim Halloran has a video demonstrating him powering his Coco 2 - from USB:   https://youtu.be/qfa4Db2OwE8   5) Keith (ChibiAkumas on YouTube) has his 2nd 6809 assembly language tutorial up - this episode covers the 6809 addressing modes:   https://youtu.be/JpIi85GWDRo   6) Ed Snider has some photos of his 32K RAM MC-10 board in the making   https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/2969740209819448/   Game On news: ============= 1) Paul Shoemaker is working on a Coco 3 only Dungeon Crawler, and shows a sample screen using a tileset he purchased:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158370706662641/   2) Neil Blanchard has ROM cartridge versions of Rick Adam's "Bomb Threat" game available again, for $30. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1606095809633762/permalink/2636663219910344/?sale_post_id=2636663219910344     3) Neil also has the new cartridge game by Evan Wright called 3D Monster Maze, which is a Coco 1/2 version of the game https://www.facebook.com/groups/1606095809633762/permalink/2636658969910769/?sale_post_id=2636658969910769   Evan also upload a video of the final version in action:   https://youtu.be/4uqWLrzsd2U   4) Cuthbert Dragon has a few new Dragon gameplay videos of note this week:   https://www.youtube.com/user/MaryWinstead32/videos - Monsters   5) Ciaran has released an updated Coco version of the Dragon game ROTABB's - it now includes the original loaded an opening story:    http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/da/coco_ports/   6) Nick Marentes has a video out to promote his Rally-SG game for all Coco's and the Dragon's (with at least 64K), which is getting released in August:   https://youtu.be/9lUiwo7Zly4   Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive  

This week we'll look at the world premiere of the latest game from Nick Marentes, Rally SG, inspired by Rally-X from the arcade, it uses the 9-color semi-graphics mode, and will run on a CoCo 1,2,3 and Dragon with 64K.  http://nickmarentes.com/   This along with CoCo and retro news, GameOn! results, the new game of the week, projects, updates, acquisitions, and all kinds of CoCo goodness!   Time Stamps: 00:02:23               Panel Introductions 00:10:02               CoCo and Retro News 00:25:11               CoCo Thoughts 00:25:36               GameON! Results, discussion, and new game reveal 00:45:41               Gaming news 00:54:56               Rally SG premier with Nick Marentes 01:15:17               Project acquisitions, updates 02:04:42               additional updates and discussions 02:22:19               Closing credits 02:24:44               Final words   News stories for Episode #166, June 27, 2020 show: ================================================= 1) CanadianRetroThings has a new video out showing him hooking up his giant Panasonic TV/Radio/Cassette deck to his MC-10 this time:   https://youtu.be/3j-fA5kBUdo   2) Davy Mitchell posted a link to his blog, "Davy's Retro Corner", in the Dragon Facebook group. This entry talks about a 3D terrain generating program   https://davysretrocorner.blogspot.com/2020/06/type-in-dragon-user-fault-line-graphics.html   3) The Trash Talk (TRS-80) podcast has game programming contest, that includes the Coco.   http://www.trs-80.org.uk/2020competition.html   4) Tim Halloran has a video demonstrating him powering his Coco 2 - from USB:   https://youtu.be/qfa4Db2OwE8   5) Keith (ChibiAkumas on YouTube) has his 2nd 6809 assembly language tutorial up - this episode covers the 6809 addressing modes:   https://youtu.be/JpIi85GWDRo   6) Ed Snider has some photos of his 32K RAM MC-10 board in the making   https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/2969740209819448/   Game On news: ============= 1) Paul Shoemaker is working on a Coco 3 only Dungeon Crawler, and shows a sample screen using a tileset he purchased:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158370706662641/   2) Neil Blanchard has ROM cartridge versions of Rick Adam's "Bomb Threat" game available again, for $30. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1606095809633762/permalink/2636663219910344/?sale_post_id=2636663219910344     3) Neil also has the new cartridge game by Evan Wright called 3D Monster Maze, which is a Coco 1/2 version of the game https://www.facebook.com/groups/1606095809633762/permalink/2636658969910769/?sale_post_id=2636658969910769   Evan also upload a video of the final version in action:   https://youtu.be/4uqWLrzsd2U   4) Cuthbert Dragon has a few new Dragon gameplay videos of note this week:   https://www.youtube.com/user/MaryWinstead32/videos - Monsters   5) Ciaran has released an updated Coco version of the Dragon game ROTABB's - it now includes the original loaded an opening story:    http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/da/coco_ports/   6) Nick Marentes has a video out to promote his Rally-SG game for all Coco's and the Dragon's (with at least 64K), which is getting released in August:   https://youtu.be/9lUiwo7Zly4   Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive  

Beyond the Blue Badge podcast host Paul Shoemaker talks with fellow Microsoft alum Ravi Venkatesan. Ravi has spent three decades leading organizations in the private, public and social sectors, across three continents and multiple industries. He was the former chairman and CEO of Microsoft India and founder of Social Venture Partners India. Today he’s UNICEF’s Special Representative for Young People and Innovation, and he’s also the founder of the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (G.A.M.E. India) and a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation. Paul checked in with Ravi to discuss why his focus these days is centered on youth and helping develop future leaders. (This conversation was recorded during the early days of the coronavirus outbreak.)

In this Beyond the Blue Badge episode, host Paul Shoemaker speaks with fellow Microsoft alum Jabe Blumenthal. During his days at Microsoft, Jabe designed the first version of Excel and was the company’s first program manager. Since leaving Microsoft, he’s taken a “systems approach” to tackle big issues, including land conservation, climate change, clean energy. He’s devoted much time to his work with Climate Solutions and the Progress Alliance of Washington among other organizations. Here, he and Paul talk about the importance of finding focus to make a difference, understanding the big picture, and why policy must be part of any solution.

The coming together of a husband and wife is a challenging experience that requires compromise, courage, and humility. This week we talk about what true humility is, why it is so important, and then we discuss five specific ways you can further develop humility in yourself and your marriage:Take responsibility for your side of the equation.Look for your spouse's strengths. And, verbalize them.Seek to understand your spouse's point of view. And, listen well.Be willing to admit when you are wrong and ask for forgiveness.Give your spouse permission to provide you with feedback.Corollary: Be extremely gentle, kind, and encouraging when providing your spouse with feedback.A few resources that we reference during the conversation include:Measuring Humility and Its Positive Effects by Don Emerson Davis, Jr. and Joshua N. Hook in Association for Psychological ScienceReligious Involvement, Humility, and Change in Self-Rated Health Over Time by Neal Krause in Journal of Psychology and TheologyDo These Six Things to Be More Humble by Patty Onderko in Success MagazineQuote: "One good question is worth 100 good answers..." by Paul Shoemaker, author of Can't Not Do: The Compelling Social Drive that Changes Our WorldQuote: "True humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less." (attributed to various authors)The Stat of the Week is all about Leap Day (February 29th) and somehow includes Ja Rule (NSFW).We truly appreciate you listening! Please take a minute to share this episode with a friend who might be encouraged by this conversation or who just needs a good laugh at our expense.Also, please join our Growing Up with Kids Facebook group and engage in the encouraging conversation about the heart of marriage and parenting.

Juhi Gupta is the founder and CEO of Frego Foods. She became an entrepreneur later in life after working 17 years in the corporate world in finance for massive companies like Texaco and Pillsbury. Inspired while packing lunches for her two young boys in 2012, Juhi created Frego an award-winning patented glass and silicone food container. When Juhi and I first spoke, she got 5 minutes into her story and I knew this woman was a hard worker. She goes after what she wants with a steadfast and clear direction - Juhi is smart as a whip and yet incredibly humble about failure along the way. Juhi’s story shows the harsh realities we are faced with when failure hits and we are forced to question everything. ‘Did You Notice’ Segment Resource:“Why Failure is the Foundation of Innovation,” by Paul Shoemaker https://www.inc.com/paul-schoemaker/brilliant-failures/why-failure-is-the-foundation-of-innovation.html For more information, check out the website: sofailsogood.comMatriarch Digital Media (matriarchdm.com) produces this and other podcasts that understand, encourage and uplift women.

A lot of revelations on this week's show! A new product "The Joey" has been announced by Jason Reighard and will allow you to switch multiple joystick configurations around.  Visit http://cocoman.biz  to learn more/order. Stevie Strow has a new CoCoVGA game project Visit http://cocovga.com  to learn more about that product Ron Delvaux and Terry Steege host a TDP-100 segment Curtis Boyle reveals 6309 optimized games that run faster on the CoCo 1/2/Dragon and would run even faster on the CoCo 3 Nick Marentes shows a new way to palette patch PMODE 3 colored games to look better on a CoCo 3!   Some news stories for November 2, 2019 show: 1) Jim Gerrie has ported his MC-10 Akalabeth to the Coco, using the same PMODE 2. https://youtu.be/4s9f8edNpXY https://youtu.be/WtSF4Al4hGA He also ported "Paint Duel" to the MC-10 https://youtu.be/3AZSy_YQk0Y   2) Paul Shoemaker has released a new video update to Oregon Trail: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157600108852641/   3) Chet Simpson has a demo testing his VGM player that will support the original Speech Systems Symphony 12 card, or Jim Brains Philharmonic 12. He still has a way to go, but the Moon Patrol theme at the beginning sounds very much like the arcade: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157602710247641/   4) Todd Wallace has a demo of simple OPL music player based on Ed Sniders CCT (Coco Chip Tunes) format that he plans on using as the base of an OS9 player. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157603182972641/   5) Amigos Retro Gaming has a few new Coco videos: https://youtu.be/Kacg-R-b3cs https://youtu.be/_RDkZKJtkDk https://youtu.be/IYj2BlYvLYg   6) Petsasjim1 has some more Dragon videos: Dragrunner (Kind of Frogger with guns?): https://youtu.be/T0_dXReupXc Fireball (written in BASIC): https://youtu.be/71zRvBlNv3k Fireforce https://youtu.be/mscZ1gtgyUQ Fearless Freddy: https://youtu.be/jZqXHb_sV-g?t=46 Folly's Farm Chicken Run: https://youtu.be/jRFTUqM5ITs?t=11 Football Manager: Manage your Football (Soccer to us North Americans) team, and low res game play views as well. https://youtu.be/JZWVv4nreIg?t=18   7) Gigerpunk has a game video for the Dragon that was a game promo for Weetabix cereal https://youtu.be/tY1S4LF2dc0   8) CanadianRetroThings has part two of his MC-10 video up on YouTube. https://youtu.be/WJleDGNi5dY   9) David OConner put a video up showing some custom fonts/palettes using the CocoVGA running on his Coco 1. https://youtu.be/TvXa2UMvU3w   10) Simon Jonassen has an animated 10 color palette demo, based on his RGB/10 color demo he did previously, which will be the base background for a much fancier looking demo he is working on. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157617349797641/   11) James Jones mentioned on Facebook that the Paul Schreiber interview (from Tandy Assembly) is up on YouTube: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157613982202641/   12) Davy Mitchell has updates to SGEDIT online semigraphics screen editing tool, and Rob Inman also found out that it works fine from iOS (in addition to desktop browers): https://hardcore-jackson-6272e8.netlify.com/   13) New cartoon from D. Bruce Moore: http://joey.gracenote.ca/004-syntax-errors/   VOLUME 1 OF COCO 1/2 6309 ENHANCED GAMES (will work on Coco 3 as well - and if you do POKE 65497,0, some of them *really* run fast) - Includes 6309 sped up versions of 3 old Coco 1/2 games. https://youtu.be/DdDHVTEjoS8 To download: http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/Coco12-6309games-volume1.zip   Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive   Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com  

Lots revealed on this weeks show! A new product "The Joey" has been announced by Jason Reighard and will allow you to switch multiple joystick configurations around.  Visit http://cocoman.biz  to learn more/order. Stevie Strow has a new CoCoVGA game project Visit http://cocovga.com  to learn more about that product Ron Delvaux and Terry Steege host a  TDP-100 segment Curtis Boyle reveals 6309 optimized games that run faster on the CoCo 1/2/Dragon and would run even faster on the CoCo 3 Nick Marentes shows a new way to palette patch PMODE 3 colored games to look better on a CoCo 3!   Some news stories for November 2, 2019 show: 1) Jim Gerrie has ported his MC-10 Akalabeth to the Coco, using the same PMODE 2. https://youtu.be/4s9f8edNpXY https://youtu.be/WtSF4Al4hGA He also ported "Paint Duel" to the MC-10 https://youtu.be/3AZSy_YQk0Y   2) Paul Shoemaker has released a new video update to Oregon Trail: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157600108852641/   3) Chet Simpson has a demo testing his VGM player that will support the original Speech Systems Symphony 12 card, or Jim Brains Philharmonic 12. He still has a way to go, but the Moon Patrol theme at the beginning sounds very much like the arcade: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157602710247641/   4) Todd Wallace has a demo of simple OPL music player based on Ed Sniders CCT (Coco Chip Tunes) format that he plans on using as the base of an OS9 player. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157603182972641/   5) Amigos Retro Gaming has a few new Coco videos: https://youtu.be/Kacg-R-b3cs https://youtu.be/_RDkZKJtkDk https://youtu.be/IYj2BlYvLYg   6) Petsasjim1 has some more Dragon videos: Dragrunner (Kind of Frogger with guns?): https://youtu.be/T0_dXReupXc Fireball (written in BASIC): https://youtu.be/71zRvBlNv3k Fireforce https://youtu.be/mscZ1gtgyUQ Fearless Freddy: https://youtu.be/jZqXHb_sV-g?t=46 Folly's Farm Chicken Run: https://youtu.be/jRFTUqM5ITs?t=11 Football Manager: Manage your Football (Soccer to us North Americans) team, and low res game play views as well. https://youtu.be/JZWVv4nreIg?t=18   7) Gigerpunk has a game video for the Dragon that was a game promo for Weetabix cereal https://youtu.be/tY1S4LF2dc0   8) CanadianRetroThings has part two of his MC-10 video up on YouTube. https://youtu.be/WJleDGNi5dY   9) David OConner put a video up showing some custom fonts/palettes using the CocoVGA running on his Coco 1. https://youtu.be/TvXa2UMvU3w   10) Simon Jonassen has an animated 10 color palette demo, based on his RGB/10 color demo he did previously, which will be the base background for a much fancier looking demo he is working on. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157617349797641/   11) James Jones mentioned on Facebook that the Paul Schreiber interview (from Tandy Assembly) is up on YouTube: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157613982202641/   12) Davy Mitchell has updates to SGEDIT online semigraphics screen editing tool, and Rob Inman also found out that it works fine from iOS (in addition to desktop browers): https://hardcore-jackson-6272e8.netlify.com/   13) New cartoon from D. Bruce Moore: http://joey.gracenote.ca/004-syntax-errors/   VOLUME 1 OF COCO 1/2 6309 ENHANCED GAMES (will work on Coco 3 as well - and if you do POKE 65497,0, some of them *really* run fast) - Includes 6309 sped up versions of 3 old Coco 1/2 games. https://youtu.be/DdDHVTEjoS8 To download: http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/Coco12-6309games-volume1.zip   Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive   Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com  

CoCoTALK! video episode 131 - With Floyd Resler, Chet Simpson and Inside CoCoTALK! Some news stories for October 26, 2019 show: 1) Jim Gerrie release "Stronghold of the Dwarven Lords" for the MC-10. https://youtu.be/Ovdg0AiZwZQ 2) Brian Palmer has been experimenting with custom Coco 3 palettes for the Dragon game (that works on the Coco) called Back Track: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157585763007641/ 3) Paul Shoemaker has gotten a fair bit further on his port of the Apple II version of Oregon Trail to the Coco: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157585460487641/ 4) Related to this: Vintage is the New World has an article on (and mini interview with) Paul Shoemaker about his port of Oregon Trail: https://vintageisthenewold.com/after-35-years-the-trs-80-color-computer-will-get-a-faithful-port-of-the-classic-game-the-oregon-trail/ 5) Diego Barizo has released version 4.0 of his X-Filer virtual disk utility for the Coco 3: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157583688102641/ 6) petsasjim1 on YouTube has been adding more Dragon 32/64 game videos, of course - a neat one is a text adventure game that not only has an interesting user interface, but allows up to 4 players. Death Cruise 4 player: https://youtu.be/dq_gaKY6yjc The Dark Pit (which actually works with the Tandy Electronic Book, too!): https://youtu.be/NLxygDDNnIY?t=96 Cyclops (Semigraphics Pacman type game): https://youtu.be/-z_Wq6BoZ78 Cuthbert in the Cooler: https://youtu.be/wUgIKWGpmYM Dragon Golf: https://youtu.be/lSXGsk4ldSE Dragon Trek (a graphical Star Trek game): https://youtu.be/wsffitkCXP8?t=10 And another Dragon Trek (completely different), also graphical game https://youtu.be/5pg7qgEmWZ8 7) Amigos Retro Gaming did a play of Poltergeist on real hardware: https://youtu.be/CGh9jMui6dc 8) Dave Philipsen has a video showing some of the progress he has made on his CocoDEV board - which features an FPGA 6809 core running at 25 MHz and with BASIC. https://youtu.be/kztLj53tNfA 9) Stevie himself did a couple of special Coco YouTube videos this past Tuesday. One was a demo of some BASIC games using the extended features of the CocoVGA, which included Brendan Donahe & his daughter Morgan (Brendan is the man behind the CocoVGA, and his daughter wrote the games and designed the custom characters): https://youtu.be/s96dGe14Jw0 His second video had Sheldon MacDonald as his guest, and he was showing prototypes of Sheldon's new Coco controllers, demonstrating multiple games with it: https://youtu.be/iQ7e8udWi44 10) Bill Pierce uploaded a video (from VCC) of his horizontal scrolling demo again, this time written in assembly. One thing that happened during people testing it on real hardware, is that it was causing screen glitches on real 2 MB RAM systems (both Triad+ and Boomerang E2). It appears to be a timing problem if running the computer at .895 MHz. On both boards, it runs fine if running at 1.78 Mhz) (a huge discussion trying to track down what what happening is in the comments). https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157584143357641/ And, more discussion on the 2MB / video above 512k issue: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157594300962641/ 11) Steve Bamford has a new video displaying a Halloween themed level in his upcoming GMC cartridge game, 'kiruke-no-shima-circe' 12) CanadianRetroThings has put up a video about his MC-10 (including his 16K RAM pack & cassette), with general info, etc. A bonus - he has a modified MC-10 which has 8K on the main board, but still only goes to 20K with the 16K pack added in. This is also labelled as "Part 1", so he is planning on more MC-10 content in the future. (He also plays Minefield, written by our own Ken Reighard). Unfortunately, I think the 8K RAM upgrade is causing problems with the 16K upgrade pack (as seen on PacMan) https://youtu.be/cwCvuT2oRs8 13) Simon Jonassen has graphic/game demo that he has been working on for the Coco 3: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157598804057641/ 14) Ben Drakes has made a video playing Ken Kalish's Escape game (which was the first use of the engine he used for Phantom Slayer) using his VR rig: https://youtu.be/lKFdnLs0lGo  

CoCoTALK! audio episode 131 - With Floyd Resler, Chet Simpson and Inside CoCoTALK! Some news stories for October 26, 2019 show: 1) Jim Gerrie release "Stronghold of the Dwarven Lords" for the MC-10. https://youtu.be/Ovdg0AiZwZQ 2) Brian Palmer has been experimenting with custom Coco 3 palettes for the Dragon game (that works on the Coco) called Back Track: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157585763007641/ 3) Paul Shoemaker has gotten a fair bit further on his port of the Apple II version of Oregon Trail to the Coco: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157585460487641/ 4) Related to this: Vintage is the New World has an article on (and mini interview with) Paul Shoemaker about his port of Oregon Trail: https://vintageisthenewold.com/after-35-years-the-trs-80-color-computer-will-get-a-faithful-port-of-the-classic-game-the-oregon-trail/ 5) Diego Barizo has released version 4.0 of his X-Filer virtual disk utility for the Coco 3: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157583688102641/ 6) petsasjim1 on YouTube has been adding more Dragon 32/64 game videos, of course - a neat one is a text adventure game that not only has an interesting user interface, but allows up to 4 players. Death Cruise 4 player: https://youtu.be/dq_gaKY6yjc The Dark Pit (which actually works with the Tandy Electronic Book, too!): https://youtu.be/NLxygDDNnIY?t=96 Cyclops (Semigraphics Pacman type game): https://youtu.be/-z_Wq6BoZ78 Cuthbert in the Cooler: https://youtu.be/wUgIKWGpmYM Dragon Golf: https://youtu.be/lSXGsk4ldSE Dragon Trek (a graphical Star Trek game): https://youtu.be/wsffitkCXP8?t=10 And another Dragon Trek (completely different), also graphical game https://youtu.be/5pg7qgEmWZ8 7) Amigos Retro Gaming did a play of Poltergeist on real hardware: https://youtu.be/CGh9jMui6dc 8) Dave Philipsen has a video showing some of the progress he has made on his CocoDEV board - which features an FPGA 6809 core running at 25 MHz and with BASIC. https://youtu.be/kztLj53tNfA 9) Stevie himself did a couple of special Coco YouTube videos this past Tuesday. One was a demo of some BASIC games using the extended features of the CocoVGA, which included Brendan Donahe & his daughter Morgan (Brendan is the man behind the CocoVGA, and his daughter wrote the games and designed the custom characters): https://youtu.be/s96dGe14Jw0 His second video had Sheldon MacDonald as his guest, and he was showing prototypes of Sheldon's new Coco controllers, demonstrating multiple games with it: https://youtu.be/iQ7e8udWi44 10) Bill Pierce uploaded a video (from VCC) of his horizontal scrolling demo again, this time written in assembly. One thing that happened during people testing it on real hardware, is that it was causing screen glitches on real 2 MB RAM systems (both Triad+ and Boomerang E2). It appears to be a timing problem if running the computer at .895 MHz. On both boards, it runs fine if running at 1.78 Mhz) (a huge discussion trying to track down what what happening is in the comments). https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157584143357641/ And, more discussion on the 2MB / video above 512k issue: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157594300962641/ 11) Steve Bamford has a new video displaying a Halloween themed level in his upcoming GMC cartridge game, 'kiruke-no-shima-circe' 12) CanadianRetroThings has put up a video about his MC-10 (including his 16K RAM pack & cassette), with general info, etc. A bonus - he has a modified MC-10 which has 8K on the main board, but still only goes to 20K with the 16K pack added in. This is also labelled as "Part 1", so he is planning on more MC-10 content in the future. (He also plays Minefield, written by our own Ken Reighard). Unfortunately, I think the 8K RAM upgrade is causing problems with the 16K upgrade pack (as seen on PacMan) https://youtu.be/cwCvuT2oRs8 13) Simon Jonassen has graphic/game demo that he has been working on for the Coco 3: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157598804057641/ 14) Ben Drakes has made a video playing Ken Kalish's Escape game (which was the first use of the engine he used for Phantom Slayer) using his VR rig: https://youtu.be/lKFdnLs0lGo  

Featuring game development updates from Chet Simpson, CoCo news from around the globe, and a little show and tell from the CoCoTALK! panel.   Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com   Some news stories for October 19, 2019 show:   1) Petsasjim1 has put up more Dragon gameplay videos (Copta Snatch & Cosmic Crusader are quite good): Chuckie Egg+ https://youtu.be/M5tUCIujuM0 Chateau of Gold (interesting interface for a text adventure game): https://youtu.be/1ZPXujEkKuA Championship Darts: https://youtu.be/avMxWV-ctAA Clowns: https://youtu.be/y8LkGXLuByM And Clowns part 2? https://youtu.be/n5GBfL24EUU Tom Mix Colour Golf: https://youtu.be/lv77A9n1Lx4 Convoy: https://youtu.be/-OmZ--aWfZs Cuthbert in Space: https://youtu.be/2LWsEs8VrH0 Cuthbert Goes Digging: https://youtu.be/IZO9ccNYHhE Cuthbert and the Golden Chalice (jump to 2 minutes in to show multiple screens): https://youtu.be/8wJLMhkuAlU The Cricklewood Incident (another cool "GUI" for an adventure game): https://youtu.be/-uuHvdS2uDQ?t=45 Cruising (actual gameplay starts around 2:20) https://youtu.be/MPNM77DepAs Crusader: https://youtu.be/t0EfMpM9FGw   Copta Snatch (A hi-res semi-graphics game similar to Chopper Strike/Scramble): https://youtu.be/EysJf_Xap74 Cosmic Crusader: https://youtu.be/CBCTVlo-PH8   2) Ed Snider (Zippsterzone.com) has his shrunken footprint Orchestra-90 cards for sale (called CocoDAC-16). https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157559098787641/   3) Paul Shoemaker has an update on his porting Oregeon Trail from the Apple II to the Coco: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157560611492641/   4) John Linville has made a video demonstrating his first version of replacing the standard Extended BASIC PLAY for the GMC https://youtu.be/uj-WKwgIGy8   5) ShareSquid put up another "Tips and Tricks" video, this time for Dungeons of Daggorath: https://youtu.be/WGofc41TV6k   6) Frédériic Griignon Posted a video on Facebook about a video game tournament from Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1983. The price as a 16K Coco 1, and the competition was playing Mega Bug. All in French. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157566416852641/     7) Matchy released a video showing a Coco generating a QR code (and using the Axel F MOD file playing using Sock Master's MOD player as background music), and showing that is scannable. https://youtu.be/DyAYuW-hG9o   8) GigerPunk on YouTube started to do long play Dragon game reviews about a year ago - on the real hardware, but I just found out about his page with his latest video, released this week.. He also reads out the original instructions, too. When he got his Dragon: https://youtu.be/gUJ3u--7V-I Transylvanian Tower: https://youtu.be/BLi4B7_6r7I Phantom Slayer: https://youtu.be/KUenov72GQ0 Backtrack: https://youtu.be/Dqjb717REmw   9) Secretly helped by our own host Steve Strowbridge, Manny Wolfe II got an awesome anniversary present from his wife & Cloud 9 - a 2 MB RAM, 6309 Coco 3 (including 2048K replacement sticker): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157570045997641/   10) Rick Adams put up some details and background story behind his first game cartridge, Temple of Rom, that he has discovered while going through the sourcecode, with an eye on making an updated version of the game: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157578172622641/   11) Neil Blanchard put up a photo of some Game Master Cartridge boards being manufactered, as the unstoppable onslaught of winter starts approaching us that live in the Great White North: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157577927592641/   12) Simon Jonassen put up some graphic images showing a technique that he is working on of (I think) just using the primary RGB (& black & white) colors with dithering, and alternating lines vertically with red, blue and green based palettes to make it appear as if more colors are being display (kind of like a zoomed up version of the RGB phospher dots that appear in a triangle on a TV): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157577945362641/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157578152282641/   13) Glenside has released the latest Coco~123 newsletter, with some tweaks by brand new newsletter editor, Stevie Strowbridge: https://glensideccc.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ede30d58ff87ad93d480d6401&id=10507e4a80&e=d6af30851b   13) Stevie has gotten Steve Bjork's assembly series in a separate playlist on his Youtube account: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDfh7JjQaSYAs92js43dJ05ytKqswUV4 He also has a download page for the slides and sample files from the tutorial: http://cocotalk.live/6809asm/

Featuring game development updates from Chet Simpson, CoCo news from around the globe, and a little show and tell from the CoCoTALK! panel.   Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord:  https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com   Some news stories for October 19, 2019 show:   1) Petsasjim1 has put up more Dragon gameplay videos (Copta Snatch & Cosmic Crusader are quite good): Chuckie Egg+ https://youtu.be/M5tUCIujuM0 Chateau of Gold (interesting interface for a text adventure game): https://youtu.be/1ZPXujEkKuA Championship Darts: https://youtu.be/avMxWV-ctAA Clowns: https://youtu.be/y8LkGXLuByM And Clowns part 2? https://youtu.be/n5GBfL24EUU Tom Mix Colour Golf: https://youtu.be/lv77A9n1Lx4 Convoy: https://youtu.be/-OmZ--aWfZs Cuthbert in Space: https://youtu.be/2LWsEs8VrH0 Cuthbert Goes Digging: https://youtu.be/IZO9ccNYHhE Cuthbert and the Golden Chalice (jump to 2 minutes in to show multiple screens): https://youtu.be/8wJLMhkuAlU The Cricklewood Incident (another cool "GUI" for an adventure game): https://youtu.be/-uuHvdS2uDQ?t=45 Cruising (actual gameplay starts around 2:20) https://youtu.be/MPNM77DepAs Crusader: https://youtu.be/t0EfMpM9FGw   Copta Snatch (A hi-res semi-graphics game similar to Chopper Strike/Scramble): https://youtu.be/EysJf_Xap74 Cosmic Crusader: https://youtu.be/CBCTVlo-PH8   2) Ed Snider (Zippsterzone.com) has his shrunken footprint Orchestra-90 cards for sale (called CocoDAC-16). https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157559098787641/   3) Paul Shoemaker has an update on his porting Oregeon Trail from the Apple II to the Coco: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157560611492641/   4) John Linville has made a video demonstrating his first version of replacing the standard Extended BASIC PLAY for the GMC https://youtu.be/uj-WKwgIGy8   5) ShareSquid put up another "Tips and Tricks" video, this time for Dungeons of Daggorath: https://youtu.be/WGofc41TV6k   6) Frédériic Griignon Posted a video on Facebook about a video game tournament from Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1983. The price as a 16K Coco 1, and the competition was playing Mega Bug. All in French. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157566416852641/     7) Matchy released a video showing a Coco generating a QR code (and using the Axel F MOD file playing using Sock Master's MOD player as background music), and showing that is scannable. https://youtu.be/DyAYuW-hG9o   8) GigerPunk on YouTube started to do long play Dragon game reviews about a year ago - on the real hardware, but I just found out about his page with his latest video, released this week.. He also reads out the original instructions, too. When he got his Dragon: https://youtu.be/gUJ3u--7V-I Transylvanian Tower: https://youtu.be/BLi4B7_6r7I Phantom Slayer: https://youtu.be/KUenov72GQ0 Backtrack: https://youtu.be/Dqjb717REmw   9) Secretly helped by our own host Steve Strowbridge, Manny Wolfe II got an awesome anniversary present from his wife & Cloud 9 - a 2 MB RAM, 6309 Coco 3 (including 2048K replacement sticker): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157570045997641/   10) Rick Adams put up some details and background story behind his first game cartridge, Temple of Rom, that he has discovered while going through the sourcecode, with an eye on making an updated version of the game: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157578172622641/   11) Neil Blanchard put up a photo of some Game Master Cartridge boards being manufactered, as the unstoppable onslaught of winter starts approaching us that live in the Great White North: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157577927592641/   12) Simon Jonassen put up some graphic images showing a technique that he is working on of (I think) just using the primary RGB (& black & white) colors with dithering, and alternating lines vertically with red, blue and green based palettes to make it appear as if more colors are being display (kind of like a zoomed up version of the RGB phospher dots that appear in a triangle on a TV): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157577945362641/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157578152282641/   13) Glenside has released the latest Coco~123 newsletter, with some tweaks by brand new newsletter editor, Stevie Strowbridge: https://glensideccc.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ede30d58ff87ad93d480d6401&id=10507e4a80&e=d6af30851b   13) Stevie has gotten Steve Bjork's assembly series in a separate playlist on his Youtube account: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDfh7JjQaSYAs92js43dJ05ytKqswUV4 He also has a download page for the slides and sample files from the tutorial: http://cocotalk.live/6809asm/

In Episode 6 of Beyond the Blue Badge’s second season, host Paul Shoemaker talks with Microsoft alumnus Tony Mestres about the “moment of truth” that society is facing regarding social inequities, the changes that need to happen and the urgency: “We’ve got a generation tops to turn this around.” Following 22 years in the tech industry — 15 of those with Microsoft — his ah-ha moment during a mid-year review started him on the path to become president and CEO of the Seattle Foundation, where he strives to find new solutions to big social problems.

The CoCoTALKers did a whole lot of CoCoTALKing this week :)  No major topic just a lot of panel discussions. We saw an update on some new 3D printed cased from John Strong for the Ian Mavrick FD-502 reproduction cartridge. We had a host discussion on favorite CoCo Arcade Game/Clone/Derivative that one might enjoy more than the arcade original. And CoCo/Dragon and MC-10 news from around the web.   Some news stories for October 5, 2019 show: 1) Ed Snider announced that him and Gary Becker will continue to collaborate after the GIME-X project is done (which seems to be soon now), and will make a full blown Coco 4!https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157521502122641/ 2) Todd Wallace has started implementing copying files between DECB and OS9 in his disk utility:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157526522332641/ 3) Sheldon MacDonald showed off his prototype mini game controller for the Coco (smaller than a black beauty joystick):https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157526519867641/ 4) Jim Gerrie has an update video to his MC-10/MCX-128 Akalabeth port (The predecessor to Ultima). https://youtu.be/2ZOsAsKzMqE He also has a blog entry for it now:http://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/2019/10/retrochallenge-201910-akalabeth-updates.html 5) Matchy has a new video (shown *greatly* sped up, not in real time) of 3D mapping (both outline and filled) using tessellation terrain maps. The first part is on the Coco 1/2 in semigraphics graphics; the later parts on the Coco 3 with 16 colors.https://youtu.be/WvWuVKGc6AI 6) Interesting discussion on Facebook started by our very own Nick Marotta - what game ports (official or clone) did one prefer to play on the Coco vs. the actual arcade (not including the influence who not having to pay quarters).https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157528830222641/ 7) "Petsasjlm1" on YouTube has been using XRoar to play a bunch of old Dragon games, which he seems to be playing in alphabetic order. I don't think he is too familar with the platform, as some of them he doesn't get very far at all. But there are some good videos of Dragon unique titles:Backtrax: https://youtu.be/sN-RxQ_iiJE Balldozer (Arkanoid style game): https://youtu.be/LevwtgRePfE Beanstalker (Lode Runner clone): https://youtu.be/OKBEYaDm9tI The Bells:  https://youtu.be/MDiOrdniHc8?t=47 8) Richard Kelly put up a program to check for true lowercase T1 VDG by checking it one has Color Basic 1.3 installed. Now, the two are not tied together, hardware wise, but does anyone know if Tandy sold Color Basic 1.3 on anything but T1 equipped Coco 2's (and Coco 3's)?https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157526641202641/ 9) Daniel Campos & Luciano Scharf have some pictures from the RetroSC gathering in Brazil, showing various Coco's and some of the Brazilian clones:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157536046292641/ 10) Paul Shoemaker has some pics from a possible upcoming Coco project (one of several people to delve into porting Oregon Trail to the Coco).https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157534949302641/ 11) Amigos Retro Gaming (on YouTube) did a live stream of several of their shows in a row on Friday night. One of them is their new Coco gaming show (which featured Poltergeist and Sailor Man), but it hasn't been posted yet (Their Sinclair show, recorded just before the Coco show, just got posted this morning, so I assume that it is coming soon). 12) Retro Arcade gaming has done a Space Invaders clone, which includes several Coco/Dragon ports (including the transcode) (I would have picked Mark Data Products clone for the Coco 1/2 over the Spectral one, myself):https://youtu.be/7gl9AdOs5hY

The CoCoTALKers did a whole lot of CoCoTALKing this week :)  No major topic just a lot of panel discussions. We saw an update on some new 3D printed cased from John Strong for the Ian Mavrick FD-502 reproduction cartridge. We had a host discussion on favorite CoCo Arcade Game/Clone/Derivative that one might enjoy more than the arcade original. And CoCo/Dragon and MC-10 news from around the web.   Some news stories for October 5, 2019 show: 1) Ed Snider announced that him and Gary Becker will continue to collaborate after the GIME-X project is done (which seems to be soon now), and will make a full blown Coco 4!https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157521502122641/ 2) Todd Wallace has started implementing copying files between DECB and OS9 in his disk utility:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157526522332641/ 3) Sheldon MacDonald showed off his prototype mini game controller for the Coco (smaller than a black beauty joystick):https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157526519867641/ 4) Jim Gerrie has an update video to his MC-10/MCX-128 Akalabeth port (The predecessor to Ultima). https://youtu.be/2ZOsAsKzMqE He also has a blog entry for it now:http://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/2019/10/retrochallenge-201910-akalabeth-updates.html 5) Matchy has a new video (shown *greatly* sped up, not in real time) of 3D mapping (both outline and filled) using tessellation terrain maps. The first part is on the Coco 1/2 in semigraphics graphics; the later parts on the Coco 3 with 16 colors.https://youtu.be/WvWuVKGc6AI 6) Interesting discussion on Facebook started by our very own Nick Marotta - what game ports (official or clone) did one prefer to play on the Coco vs. the actual arcade (not including the influence who not having to pay quarters).https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157528830222641/ 7) "Petsasjlm1" on YouTube has been using XRoar to play a bunch of old Dragon games, which he seems to be playing in alphabetic order. I don't think he is too familar with the platform, as some of them he doesn't get very far at all. But there are some good videos of Dragon unique titles:Backtrax: https://youtu.be/sN-RxQ_iiJE Balldozer (Arkanoid style game): https://youtu.be/LevwtgRePfE Beanstalker (Lode Runner clone): https://youtu.be/OKBEYaDm9tI The Bells:  https://youtu.be/MDiOrdniHc8?t=47 8) Richard Kelly put up a program to check for true lowercase T1 VDG by checking it one has Color Basic 1.3 installed. Now, the two are not tied together, hardware wise, but does anyone know if Tandy sold Color Basic 1.3 on anything but T1 equipped Coco 2's (and Coco 3's)?https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157526641202641/ 9) Daniel Campos & Luciano Scharf have some pictures from the RetroSC gathering in Brazil, showing various Coco's and some of the Brazilian clones:https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157536046292641/ 10) Paul Shoemaker has some pics from a possible upcoming Coco project (one of several people to delve into porting Oregon Trail to the Coco).https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157534949302641/ 11) Amigos Retro Gaming (on YouTube) did a live stream of several of their shows in a row on Friday night. One of them is their new Coco gaming show (which featured Poltergeist and Sailor Man), but it hasn't been posted yet (Their Sinclair show, recorded just before the Coco show, just got posted this morning, so I assume that it is coming soon). 12) Retro Arcade gaming has done a Space Invaders clone, which includes several Coco/Dragon ports (including the transcode) (I would have picked Mark Data Products clone for the Coco 1/2 over the Spectral one, myself):https://youtu.be/7gl9AdOs5hY

Microsoft former president and chief operating officer Jon Shirley talks with host Paul Shoemaker about what it was like when Microsoft was a still a startup and how he helped shape the fast-growing tech company — and the Seattle region — into what it is today. They also delve into how Jon did what many alumni do post-Microsoft; he followed his passion. Learn how a walk in his own garden inspired the Olympic Sculpture Park and so much more.  https://microsoftalumni.com/beyondthebluebadge

After more than a decade with Microsoft and years as a venture capitalist in the U.S. and China, Rich Tong is taking time for discovery and self-reflection as he identifies his next big thing. In Episode 10 of Beyond the Blue Badge, listen in as host Paul Shoemaker and Rich Tong talk about that journey, what he’s learned and why he knows that next big thing will be “a social venture that’s fun and with great people that’s going to change the world.”

In this episode of Beyond the Blue Badge, Paul Shoemaker talks with Trish Millines Dziko how promoting diversity during her tenure at Microsoft became her fulltime job when founded Technology Access Foundation. Learn how her upbringing influenced her passion for preparing children of color for a career in technology, her new book and what’s next for TAF.

Our first episode of CoCoTALK! that we scheduled at 9PM, in our AFterDARK! time slot went off without a hitch, and had a some record numbers for both the size of the panel and the live audience. If that wasn't enough, we were treated to a very special guest visit, Marty Goodman! CoCoTALK!Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live CoCopedia Article, Marty Goodmanhttp://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Marty_Goodman Coordinated CoCo Conferencehttp://www.coco4.com/podcasts/cococo.shtml 00:00:00 Opening 00:02:00 Around the Room. 00:11:14 New Panel Member, Dan Loyle. 00:19:42 Projects and Acquisitions. 01:03:05 Sponsors. 01:04:44 Break. 01:06:38 More, Projects and Acquisitions. 01:12:03 New Panel Member, Paul Shoemaker. 01:26:35 Martin ( Marty ) Goodman, Guest of the Week. 03:36:08 Marty Goodman, Wrap-Up. 03:39:45 Our Viewers and Around the Room 2. 03:47:20 Closing. 03:47:34 Coordinated CoCo Conference. CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show:https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow  

Our first episode of CoCoTALK! that we scheduled at 9PM, in our AFterDARK! time slot went off without a hitch, and had a some record numbers for both the size of the panel and the live audience. If that wasn't enough, we were treated to a very special guest visit, Marty Goodman! CoCoTALK!Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live CoCopedia Article, Marty Goodmanhttp://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Marty_Goodman Coordinated CoCo Conferencehttp://www.coco4.com/podcasts/cococo.shtml 00:00:00 Opening 00:02:00 Around the Room. 00:11:14 New Panel Member, Dan Loyle. 00:19:42 Projects and Acquisitions. 01:03:05 Sponsors. 01:04:44 Break. 01:06:38 More, Projects and Acquisitions. 01:12:03 New Panel Member, Paul Shoemaker. 01:26:35 Martin ( Marty ) Goodman, Guest of the Week. 03:36:08 Marty Goodman, Wrap-Up. 03:39:45 Our Viewers and Around the Room 2. 03:47:20 Closing. 03:47:34 Coordinated CoCo Conference. CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer. Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show:https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow  

Join Craig, Russ, & Paul Shoemaker of Captain Con as we discuss what we've geekiness we've been up to in November 2018.

Paul Shoemaker is the Founding President of Social Venture Partners International and was the Executive Connector of SVP Seattle for 17 years. He's the Northwest's leading expert on activating social change agents and a global thought leader on how individuals can be the most effective philanthropists. Paul believes that we need more people committed to giving long-term to make social change happen. In his book, 'Can't Not Do,' Paul shares stories of individuals who have distilled passion into potent purpose and made tremendous differences on the pressing social issues that plague our time. On the latest episode of The Wealth Confidant Podcast, Paul and I discuss how to zero in on a cause that is not only a critical area of need, but is also personally meaningful, in order to double-down on impact. What's your "can't not do"? If you need some inspiration, I encourage you to read 'Can't Not Do' for compelling stories of individuals who have made single-handed difference through philanthropic giving for social change. To learn more about turning meaningful wealth into a meaningful life filled with passion and purpose, connect with me on social media at @jcchristianson or send me an email at john@highlandprivate.com Music: "Day Is Gonna Come" by Royal Deluxe

Paul Shoemaker of the NE Privateeers & Captain Con is back in the third chair. Paul brings us up to date on what's been happening with Captain Con and what to expect at Captain Con 2017, just a little over a month away. Later we dive into the new game from Gale Force 9: Star Trek Ascendancy.  How does this 4x space exploration game with Klingons, Romulans, and the Federation play?   All that plus:    - Total Fan Girl - Do You Ever Notice - App of the Ep (Colt Express) -  & More If you'd like to discuss the show with us and others in our forum thread: .   The following fine organizations help make this show possible:        ==Quick Reference== App of the Ep: 47 min - Chess Clock Captain Con Update: 52 min Total Fan Girl: 1 hr 30 min Star Trek Ascendancy:  1 hr 36 min    Links Discussed in the show: Craig's Blog: Russ's Blog:  Total Fan Girl Blog:  Dice Tower Network:                                 

Paul Shoemaker, of the NE Privateers, joins Craig and Russ in a planning session at Dunk's.  Just what, exactly, kind of even will the D6G run this February at Captain Con?  

What can I do to change the world? The common reaction to that question is to feel that it’s futile, that the world is just too big and complex to affect change. But Paul Shoemaker is here to tell us that we can make a difference and be an everyday heroes- and maybe just make a significant impact on daunting social issues.

Podcast 538: Can't Not Do--The Compelling Social Drive that Changes our World with Paul Shoemaker by Greg Voisen