[Coco] An interview with the Image Producers, May 14th 4:00 PM EST

[Steve Strowbridge]

I have a few play through videos of a few of the games, like Pinball,
Bustout and Monster Maze, and looking back, I was a little "harsh" in my
criticism of those games, not judging them by today's standards, but just
by what the CoCo standard eventually became.  What I didn't not know at
first, were key factors like; they ran in only 4K or RAM, and there isn't a
lot you can do in that space, and as I know now, they were developed by
people who were working on a machine that technically didn't even exist
yet, when you factor all that in, and you look at the size of the software
portfolio, their achievements are nothing short of amazing, and I'm looking
forward to paying proper respects this weekend.  Also, I will be trying to
record some background videos to "loop" during the interview, but don't
think I'll have time to do any updated reviews with commentary before this
weekend.

I'm reasonably sure there are many other videos on YouTube with play
through, though.


Steve Strowbridge, aka
The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
http://ogsteviestrow.com
ogsteviestrow at gmail.com


On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Lee Patterson <lee at 8bitcoder.com> wrote:

> Curtis/Steve,
> Have these been 'youtubed' yet? Would be need to take a peek at them
> before hand to think of questions.
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> > On May 9, 2016, at 1:42 AM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Arthur:
> > Image producers
> >
> > Personal Finance
> > Handyman
> > Color File
> > Math Bingo
> > Typing Tutor
> > Color Computer Learning Lab
> > Bustout
> > Pinball
> > Space Assault
> > Galactic Attack
> > Castle Guard
> > Color Robot Battle
> > Crosswords
> > Monster Maze
> > Roman Checkers
> > Wildcatting
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On May 8, 2016, at 11:21 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> So what CoCo software did these guys produce?  I am unfamiliar with
> their
> >> names or products, and your Facebook link shows only pictures of The
> Image
> >> software for Atari and TI.  Googling their company references only
> software
> >> for the "Radio Shack TRS-80", which generally does not refer to the CoCo
> >> but to other Tandy computers, even though Tandy initially referred to
> the
> >> CoCo as the TRS-80 Color Computer.
> >>
> >> Art
> >>
> >> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Steve Strowbridge <
> ogsteviestrow at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Our next live webcast interview will be this Saturday, May 14th at
> 4:00 PM
> >>> EAST.
> >>> Our esteem guests will be the Image producers, Al Baker, Bill Moulds
> and
> >>> Glenn Soggee.
> >>> The Image producers created software for the CoCo when it was still a
> >>> prototype and their library is, to say the least, impressive!
> >>>
> >>> The interview is a live stream on YouTube, they image producers will
> all be
> >>> on a live Skype video call, and you will be able to submit questions in
> >>> real-time via chat.
> >>>
> >>> The URL is http://live.ogsteviestrow.com
> >>>
> >>> If you are on Facebook, I have created an event where you can RSVP, the
> >>> link to that event is:
> >>> https://www.facebook.com/events/489469227922942/489473857922479/
> >>>
> >>> The interview will be co-hosted by L. Curtis Boyle and myself, we will
> >>> incorporate all the questions we receive from the live chat in the
> >>> interview.
> >>>
> >>> Please join us in hearing some incredible tales from the early days of
> CoCo
> >>> development!
> >>>
> >>> If you've missed any of the 10 previous interviews, they are all up on
> >>> YouTube 24/7:
> >>>
> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDfh7JjQaSYA9ls7ZXCU50fiAIS2p0C-l
> >>>
> >>> See you this Saturday!
> >>>
> >>> Steve Strowbridge, aka
> >>> The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
> >>> http://ogsteviestrow.com
> >>> ogsteviestrow at gmail.com
> >>>
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