[Coco] [!! SPAM] CoCoFest Online - For those that just simply could not go.

[Aaron Wolfe]

I haven't seen the video capture on the FTP site, but if it's just a
recording of the live feed, there will certainly be long periods of
the same shot.  I did try to move it around from time to time and to
put it close to the seminars, but I was pretty busy doing other things
at the fest.  I think some serious cutting/editing would need to be
done in order to have something enjoyable to watch.

I did monitor the coco IRC channel most of the time and tried to
respond to requests made there for a closeup of this or that or a
chance to say hi to someone.  For instance we did a short
demonstration of the FPGA, the coco I/O board and the new video modes
for the internet folks, and Frank P. and Steve B. talked to them for a
bit.  We had over a dozen people in the IRC channel for the entire
fest from what I saw, so lots of good conversations there as folks
watched the sometimes boring feed :)

Steve Bjork took high def video of various fest happenings, and I
think this would make a much better starting place for a "highlights"
video in the style of Allen's past work.  There might only be a few
minutes worth saving out of the entire live feed, if it captured
anything that Steve missed.

-Aaron


On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:44 PM, John Kent <jekent at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> I'm afraid I missed out on the live video link by Aaron. I did download a
> 300MB video from Curtis Boyle's ftp site but it was a fixed camera and
> didn't show any of the other tables there that I could see. I did skip
> through the video though. I've enjoyed seeing the videos on YouTube by Alan
> Huffman, they have been great, and I enjoyed seeing Gary's CoCo3FPGA demo
> from last year. I even get a mentioned :-). I hope there can be a video with
> edited highlights this year to see what is on display.
>
> Living in Australia, it's a bit expensive to fly all the way to the US to
> take part. I was hoping to get an FPGA MC-10 going for this year's CoCo
> Fest, but I am involved with a number of local community organizations and
> activities which have taken a lot of my time.
>
> I was going to comment on Roger Taylor's comments about the Super IDE and
> CF. I have implemented an IDE interface on some of my FPGA 6809 projects.
> The CF cards I was using did have a feature register that allowed for 8 bit
> operation, but that was not present on most IDE hard disks. Instead I used a
> 16 bit interface which latched the high or low byte depending on whether you
> were doing a read or write. You could do the same on the CoCo using a pair
> of 74HC646 bus registers and a 74HC139 or GAL for doing the address decoding
> and generating the bus register, clock, enable and direction signals.
>
> I wrote disk drivers for Flex9. I wrote a small X-Modem download routine to
> program the CF card with a disk image. I think it was buffered, and maybe
> even interrupt driven using the MC6850 compatible RS232 interface so that
> the CF card had time to write the sector to flash memory. The CF cards that
> I was using might have been limited to a 22bit LBA or 2GB capacity using
> True IDE mode although ATA uses a 28 bit LBA which extends the capacity to
> 128GB. The lower 4 bits of the head register form the 4 Most Significant
> Bits of the LBA. True IDE must not have used all the cylinder bits if it
> uses a 22bit LBA.
>
> John.
>
> On 23/05/2011 7:48 PM, Nick Marentes wrote:
>>
>> After all the chat on the list about the difficulty in setting up IRC and
>> Webcam at the CoCoFest, we were let to believe that it was an impossible
>> task given the low bandwidth Wifi connection at the fest.
>>
>> In steps Aaron Wolfe and amazed us all !!
>>
>> Aaron had his laptop sending live video via the hotels Wifi via Ustream
>> for almost the full two days of the fest, kindly moving the laptop
>> periodically for the online viewers to experience some of the fun of the
>> Fest.
>>
>> We were able to watch live video in one window via ustream while chatting
>> to other people online and at the fest via IRC in another.
>>
>> Curtis Boyle has recorded a lot of the ustream feed and I believe will
>> have 2.5 hours available from his ftp site.
>>
>> I read several comments from people saying they wish they were there which
>> confirms my belief that the web access can actually HELP the CoCoFest by
>> encouraging people to attend the next fest.
>>
>> On behalf of all the online folks I'd like to thank Aaron for his efforts
>> and his kind support to his fellow CoCoNuts. You made us proud to be part of
>> the CoCo community.
>>
>> Thank you also to Tony Podraza of the Glenside group for allowing this to
>> happen.
>>
>> Nick Marentes
>>
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