News stories for December 28, 2019 show

News stories for December 28, 2019 show:

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1) Simon Jonassen released an update of spinning Santa graphics demo, that now includes a multi-track song playing at the same time.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157778404797641/

2) Bill Pierce released a new version of VCC (1.0.2e). This fixes a few minor bugs:

- .ccc allowed for program pak file extension
- Remove Use Keyboard lights as Drive indicators, and options for Tandy & CocoMax hires joystick options (they didn't work anyways, and no longer appear)
- fixed missing foreign/special characters on the GIME 40/80 column hardware fonts
- some minor cosmetic changes
 https://github.com/VCCE/VCC/releases

3) Thanks to Steve Ostrom and Carlos Camachos, the book by Ron Clark called "Color Computer Graphics" has been scanned and added to the Color Computer archive.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157778005542641/

4) Trey Tomes is working an assembly language Rogue-like game as his first major assembly project.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157784502452641/

5) The latest Glenside Color Computer Club newsletter is now out:

 http://www.glensideccc.com/data/library/newsletters/coco~123_39_3.pdf

6) Lee Patterson (of Bouncy Ball fame) has started his first Coco 3 game using the 80 column hardware text mode - Memory (based on Concentration):

 https://www.facebook.com/patterson7019/videos/10156556256950896/

7) The latest Coco Crew podcast has been released, including a review of Color Car Action, and an interview with Aaron Doughty of the The Coco Show podcast.

 http://cococrew.org

8) Luciano Scharf released a short video showing his Coco controlling a robot arm, and playing some Christmas music, which he released on YouTube on Christmas Eve.

 https://youtu.be/IY0mDH_Hjcc

9) Richard Kelly has released "English to Alien Troll Utility" for download on Facebook:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157788514952641/

10) Brian Schubring is gauging the interest in manufacturing another run of the Coco MIDI Pak's (which has MIDI In, Out and Through ports, in hardware), on Facebook. If you are interested, let him know.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157775403142641/

11) Jim Gerrie has a video playthrough of his "A Hos Lovag" adventure game port, which was originally written in Hungarian.

 https://youtu.be/uAR8i5RM_94

12) Henry Reitveld put up a video showing him using his Coco 1 & Plug N Power controller to turn his Coleco Adam & Modem on, remotely.

 https://youtu.be/ykMkGUIkLR8

13) Peter Cetinski and the Trash Talkers are doing a TRS-80 Trash Talk Live! tonight at 9 pm EST. You can watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXkGugvdCkpkMDylVQb9gfg And join the Zoom call at:

 https://zoom.us/j/600248788

They will be talking about all TRS-80's (including the Coco), as well as showing a preview of new Model 1/3 game called "RoundUp!"

14) I finally got a little work on EOU Beta 5 in - and one part that will submitted to the Repo once more testing has been done is a noticable speed up the system (API) call F$CpyMem - which is used by utilities like MDIR and PROC. It is several hundred percent faster now (show two quicktime clips) on my desktop)

Game On segment videos:

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[REDACTED] is hopefully going to have a new [REDACTED GAME] III video to show off, as the main story for Game On. We also have Ben Drakes showing his very first Dragon game

(Petsasjim1) Dragon games: Show Jump:

 https://youtu.be/KWlQP5tY73I?t=25

Sewer Rat:

 https://youtu.be/1TOXun-SUxY?t=80

Shaolin Master (clone of Karate Master):

 https://youtu.be/fQy8yPGNLW4?t=6

Shaolin Master Plus (clone of Karate Master) I think this adds new movies, as well attempted background sound:

 https://youtu.be/qK8iosatIPQ?t=12

Space Monopoly

 https://youtu.be/7R1BPx0v3es

Sniper

 https://youtu.be/VPn7Y64BxF4?t=10

Space Fighter (graphic Star Trek clone)

 https://youtu.be/62rGk0W-ESg?t=11

Snail Pace:

 https://youtu.be/XZ1qN6sp-Ds

Snakes:

 https://youtu.be/U5I5UJJDBKY

Sliding Picture Puzzles:

 https://youtu.be/A0E3hImyBlE?t=5

Woopvonwoop on Twitch did monster marathon game stream on Twitch, which includes a chunk of Coco games with her new SDC on her Coco 1.The Coco stuff starts just about 6 hours in.

 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/524666692

Wayne Aaron did play of Mega-Bug on his YouTube channel - the second game he received from his parents for his Coco 2 when he was young. For some reason, the audio seems distorted (at least on my end):

 https://youtu.be/VbsBwT628vs

GigerPunk did a playthrough of the Dragon port of Fembot's Revenge (originally a Coco game from Nelson Software Systems, later ColorQuest), and part of their low-res 3D graphic adventure/arcade games (along with Adventure Trilogy, Beyond the Cimeeon Moon)

 https://youtu.be/EWFv1IGzpUU