News stories for Episode 160, May 16, 2020 show

News stories for Episode #160, May 16, 2020 show:

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1) Simon Jonassen put up some demo videos showing a 4 bit ADPCM player, playing a 60 KByte sound sample at 8KHz. It takes about This is the same format that some Windows WAV files use.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158234787657641/
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158234999072641/

2) Sheldon MacDonald showed off some sample 3D prints of the final case designs for his Coco Gamepads:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158235628302641/

3) Richard Harding posted on the Dragon Facebook group about the Diagnostic Dragon board by Phil Harvey-Smith that we showed last month. He is very impressed with how it helped him fix a bad Dragon, and shows a screenshot of some of the stuff it checks for:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2608357592757227/

4) Curtis F Kaylor posted on the MC-10 Facebook page a program utility (for both the MC-10 and Coco) for listing all files on a cassette, but unfortunately the post is, for some reason, removed

5) TJBChris posted a video showing OS-9 Level II booting from OS9 from ROM (from the Cloud9 ROM kit):

 https://youtu.be/Sa_4xPc22eE

6) Darren Ottery shows his sanded/repainted Coco 1 (with a Coco 3 keyboard for now) that he is restoring:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158253098897641/

7) Jason Downs (the showoff!) has the prototype GIME-X, which is has tested with some higher semi-graphics modes already:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158252577957641/

8) Jerry Stratton has a manual out now (both free ebook, and a physical copy that you can download from Amazon) for Super Basic, his modern looking BASIC that gets converted down to regular Extended Color BASIC. It requires PERL on the host system, and is available for download here (near the bottom of the page):

 https://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/hacks/coco/superbasic-trs-80-color-computer/

The book on Amazon:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158254404732641/

9) Terry Steege has a quick video showing his entire Tandy Computer collection (and Dragons):

 https://youtu.be/8-zrURcP1rw

10) Terry Trapp has an update on his replacing the SALT chip project:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158249875927641/

11) Boisy has release episode 2 of his Coco Collector YouTube series. This episode, covering one of his Korean Coco 2's, which is old enough to have the Radio Shack label, but the modern full travel keyboard. It has the normal VDG chip.

 https://youtu.be/X-_jgfQlzPw

Game On News stories

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1) Marlin Lee has video review of MS Gobbler by Spectral Associates:

 https://youtu.be/I0j1y0oxI8c

and Ms. Maze:

 https://youtu.be/b7EMCbQDJas

and, completing the Ms. PacMan trilogy, Mrs. Pac:

 https://youtu.be/1Ya7YflsRp8

2) Roger Taylor rediscovered something about the great Zenix game by Jeremy Spiller - like his other game, Crystal City, you can hit the "1" to "4" keys to start at a later level:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2575074772755451/

3) Jerry Young had a live stream last Saturday demonstrating a version of Dragonfear 2 (that he himself modified and improved) on the MC-10. He also shows the code he changed for his improvements:

 https://youtu.be/xIbhkGAEfo4

He also has cassette file downloads of his M10 projects (and some Atari 8 bit as well) here:

 https://sites.google.com/view/pitfalljerry/downloads

4) A press release for Jim Allard (formerly of Microsoft, and XBox cofounder, amongst others) joining to launch the upcoming Intellivision Amico Game Console, mentions in his bio that his very first game was a version of the Lemonade Stand for the Coco in the early 1980's. Has anybody seen this?

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158251441792641/

5) Jim Gerrie posted a video of the demo adventure game by Jorge Mir from the July 1982 Rainbow. I actually used the version he posted the following month (August 1982) as the basis for my Ringquest game in 1984.

 https://youtu.be/OKYr3j5t7NQ

6) Michael Pittsley has three new videos of early 1980's multi-media cassette based Coco educational games - this time, Mickey's Alpine Adventure:

 Short vowels: https://youtu.be/CCAxxNFtFFw
 Long vowels: https://youtu.be/KR2rVJQdSaU

and Telling Time with Donald:

 https://youtu.be/n8FeczwyJ54

7) Somebody new (to me, anyways) has just started a series of playing through Dungeons of Daggorath:

 https://youtu.be/5LscPW0c6do

8) Cuthbert Dragon has some new Dragon gameplay videos done on the real hardware (show Mined Out, The Dark Pit):

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