News stories for December 21, 2019 show

News stories for December 21, 2019 show: 1) Henry Reitveld has a video showing using the Direct Modem Pack on his Tano Dragon, using the CocoSDC with Dragon ROM, and connecting with a Coco with an RS-232 pack, and communicating between the two:

https://youtu.be/wfiz_WOzfbo

2) Jim Gerrie has an update to his MC-10 game Swell Foop, which is a low resolution game originally for the Videpac C7420, and has gameplay similar to Todd Wallace's upcoming Coco 3 game Clickomania. This new version slightly speeds it up.

https://youtu.be/nB3QhnEfsXw

Also, he has "Batalha No Mar" ("Battle At Sea") converted from the CP-400 to the MC-10 as well:

https://youtu.be/C7hCv7OAP_k

And, lastly, he has his port of "Tut-Tut" from the Sinclair Spectrum:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157767783122641/

(Source for this last one:)

 https://github.com/jggames/trs80mc10/tree/master/quicktype/Puzzle/TutTut

3) Richard Kelly has uploaded the program and documenation for "Automate" by Roger Smith (originally a T&D Software release), which allows one to pre-pend semigraphics screens to view while your program loads. DSK image:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157749554252641/

Docs:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157749549147641/

4) [REDACTED] has put up the video of him showing Paul Thayer his tiled map converter software to YouTube - almost an hour of Coco compatible tile and map goodness.

https://youtu.be/QaskKwQCC1k

5) [REDACTED] also put up some pictures of his Nortel motherboard that uses a 6809 clone (and not by Hitachi!):

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157750853312641/

6) [REDACTED] (a busy boy this week!) has put up a new promotional video for [REDACTED GAME] III, which looks awesome:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157761729597641/

7) Wayne Aaron put up a video of him playing the very first game his parents bought for him for his Coco 2 when he was young: Galactic Attack. (may have to mute sound - music in background - not sure if copyrighted)

https://youtu.be/iNoUee5q-tw

8) Walter Zambotti put out his next test version of OVCC, for OSX, Windows 10, or Linux), which should have full 6309 support.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157749961102641/

9) Paul Thayer just released a demo (playable) version of the new Christmas version of Timber Man (full version is $10):

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157752751982641/

10) Rick Adams has released various stages of his Shanghai source code (from various stages of development) on GitHub, for historical record purposes.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157752819687641/

11) Amigos Retro Gaming has the official release of episode 6 of The Coco Show, featuring Sands of Egypt and Color Outhouse this week.

https://youtu.be/jASEWFjvOM0

12) Old Classic Retro Gaming on YouTube has a video featuring Dino Wars:

https://youtu.be/kXHNOkCt4IY

13) Giger Punk did a video on Formula One on the Dragon 32 (2 player, 3D racing game in 256x192x2 graphics, with 2 players on screen at once (similar to Pole Position II, but with no pits tops that I know of):

https://youtu.be/nuzOuelBdXQ

14) Petsasjim1 has a few videos of the Dragon educational game "Shape Up", which contains 4 sub-games, all based on matching shapes:

 https://youtu.be/DzIMdm0irrE
 https://youtu.be/6VcrR1o1-Co?t=6
 https://youtu.be/6VcrR1o1-Co?t=10
 https://youtu.be/o5YJeNVeSHU?t=11