News stories for December 14, 2019 show

News stories for December 14, 2019 show: 1) Ed Snider has a first working prototype board of his Coco 2 clone - with pictures and a video: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157728507472641/ https://youtu.be/uhk6xU3XqfA

2) Todd Wallace (Lord Dragon on Discord) has an updated video of his upcoming Coco 3 game Clickomania! in action, which includes the software based high res mouse driver: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157728228572641/

3) Sheldon MacDonald has a mini joystick now based on the original "black beauty" design: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157728680512641/

4) Richard Kelly released an update to his BASIC N.A.E.R (Not Another Expressway Ripoff) game on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157729671467641/

5) Roger Taylor released "Santa Fishing" to the Facebook group as well (requires 512k Coco 3) which is a musical, animated graphic program for Christmas: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157729849127641/

6) Bill Pierce has released VCC 2.01c (Windows only), which is fixes the 6309 core to handle all 6309 instructions properly. This is based on the work of Walter Zambotti, who has this core in his current test versions of OVCC, which will be cross platform, but has some GUI quirks for some users (including yours truly): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157736416112641/

7) Kenneth Udut shared a YouTube video that is a transfer to digital of a 45 composed in 1981 and released in 1982 that was completely done on the Orchestra-80 (the Model I hardware add on that was the pre-cursor to the Orchestra-90 for the Coco, made with a similar hardware base) that also includes visuals of the EP and magazine articles about it: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157735674267641/ https://youtu.be/i0UuN8S_bfA 7A) In the comments, Bill Pierce mentioned another musician who released songs written on the Coco specifically (using the Musica II and the Orchestra-90) that were written between 1988-1991, and released on cassette, by the name of Lee Rosevere (who is still an active musician). 5 of his Coco recordings are on the Internet archive: https://archive.org/details/LR_Coco/01_LeeRosevere_Coco_MirandasBigEntrance.mp3

8) Bill Pierce also released version 1.0.3W of MShell for NitrOS9. If you are running version 1.0.2, and are using Drivewire 4, you can update directly on your Coco over the Internet (if not, you can download and install it using more traditional methods). It includes new features and bug fixed, and requires 512k (1 or 2 MB RAM recommended). https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157734302227641/

9) Jim Gerrie has a video of an update to his XMas2019 MC-10 game - drop the presents from Santa's sleigh down the chimney of scrolling houses below. (mute the sound - the music may be copyrighted). https://youtu.be/dyp5ECvDBWo

10) Barry Nelson uploaded a YouTube video showing the Speech Systems (makers of the Composer, Musica, Lyra, etc.) Christmas demo program from 1984 - includes Coco 1/2 Christmas graphics and 4 part harmony Christmas songs done on the Coco. https://youtu.be/lcu7QhdXf18

11) Amigos Retro gaming had their monthly annual TEAYS (pronounced "Tays") Valley Classic Computer Club meeting (which they live stream) which lasted almost 5 hours. The Coco was the final part of the live gameplay stream of the evening, and you can watch that portion starting at around 3 hours, 46 minutes, 30 seconds in. https://youtu.be/cPsuca82NlA They also posted their latest The Coco Show (episode 5), featuring Rampage and Cashman: https://youtu.be/f6gqfpMVOG4 And finally, they did their livestream pre-record of the last Coco Show for the year, featuring Sands of Egypt & Outhouse, which will be released to YouTube on Wednesday. If you don't want to wait, it can be found on Twitch here, starting at around 2:15:45 (this is the unedited, raw version) https://www.twitch.tv/videos/521083552?filter=archives&sort=time

12) Henry Reitveld has put up a cool video of playing P-51 Mustang Attack simulator between a Coco 1 and a Coco 3 over a real modem. https://youtu.be/XigdDHOVVmg https://youtu.be/XRuq8aYRhCg

13) [REDACTED] put up a new trailer for his upcoming [REDACTED GAME] III game, showing off some of the new animations,etc. that were not in the original Christmas demo from last year: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157743804062641

14) Buttons Buttons has a new Coco game play video on his YouTube channel, Poltergeist (I think he is still learning the game): https://youtu.be/YHFETU0ONxc

15) GigerPunk did a gameplay of the Dragon game "GI's a job" - which looks like an exercise in frustration: https://youtu.be/WbgKY-uoPAc

16) Brian Palmer brought his Coco 3 to Adelaide to see if David OConnor could fix up some issues it was having. Most are now fixed, and it is functional, although the 6309 in it was dead, so they have a 6809 in it for now. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157738544737641/

17) I uploaded (and updated my website) with an obscure machine language game called AUTOBAHN that was published in the April, 1987 of Spectrogram magazine. It uses Semi-graphics 8, so it is a Coco 1/2 game only (although there is a POKE on the website that makes it possible to play on a Coco 3). It should be on the Coco archive later this week as well. http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/autobahn.html

18) Petsasjim1 Dragon games this week: Pteradactyl

https://youtu.be/eXC69CZ9XRU

Red Meanies (3D Pacman -very brief gameplay)

https://youtu.be/IHgO0kD6vAU?t=130

Pettigrew's Diary (Cool graphic detective game written in BASIC):

https://youtu.be/aUfrBDTo6qA?t=5 (fast forward once tape warning displays - it does a long, grating sound)

Ruby Robba (At first glance looks like Pengo, but is totally not that):

https://youtu.be/uKbaJJOyNwE

Row of Four:

https://youtu.be/WWf8Uk7YsRg

Rola Ball:

https://youtu.be/9kV90s9592U

Ring of Darkness:

https://youtu.be/WU_UI1mXHwE