News stories for April 11, 2020 show

News stories for April 11, 2020 show:

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1) Henry Reitveld put up a video showing his VHD image patched to work with the Sidekick menu, from VCC.

 https://youtu.be/vrJPo8D7pZA

2) Allen Huffman has a really interesting article on his blog for speeding up multiple IF/THEN statements:

 https://subethasoftware.com/2020/04/09/if-and-or-then-versus-if-then-if/

3) Fred Rique has his take on a modern language that converts down to Extended BASIC (similar in concept to Jerry Stratton's SuperBasic that we covered recently) called Coco Basic Dignified:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158109213282641/

4) Fred also posted the standalone version of his Cocoumorphic for download:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158109209912641/

5) Rick Bagwell set up his Coco 1 with VIP Terminal so that he can log into his Linux machine at 1200 baud, and then ssh into his work.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158113348347641/

6) Eddie Malphrus posted a photo on Facebook of some of the old Tandy badges he received from Paul Schreiber - including one from the unreleased Deluxe 64K Coco:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158116060922641/

7) Erico Patricio Monteiro posted some 3D designs for a Coco 2 exploded scheme image:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158106941192641/

8) quick show os some of the new features in the upcoming EOU Beta 5, due out by the end of this month (still some bugs being worked on). (from my VCC)

Game On segment videos:

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1) Jim Gerrie has Car Race game update:

 https://youtu.be/kuHbKa8L5Xs

and Night Blitz update:

 https://youtu.be/vg83q6tHRWM

2) John Shawler over at the Amigos posted a side by side video of Donkey King on the Coco vs. the official Donkey Kong port for the Atari 800/8 bits):

 https://youtu.be/4bsYTayx6u4

They also did their live show recording of several shows (including The Coco Show) yesterday, with the official podcast release coming this Wednesday

3) Eric Sperano has been learning 6809 assembly, and has a Tetris clone called Spetris! that is the result of his endeavors so far. He has a video up demonstrating it, as well as sourcecode on his github page:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158119246892641/

4) Alison DeNu released a little Coco 1/2/3 game this week that I haven't had a chance to look at, called Xenocide, available for download:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158117390642641/

5) Paul Shoemaker posted a photo of the original disks for a couple of Coco games that have been featured in the Game On Spotlight/Challenges this past while:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158106820217641/

6) Michael Pittsley has a complete playthrough video of Walt Disney's "Goofy Covers Government" educational game on the Coco:

 https://youtu.be/jIrnWTGGYGg

7) John Hancock did a video going through his Coco cartridge collection:

 https://youtu.be/5jFMLDAtwvg

8) Cuthbert Dragon has some more Dragon game videos this week, recorded on real hardware (including Dragon exclusives like Dragon Bandito):

 https://www.youtube.com/user/MaryWinstead32/videos