News stories for Episode 162, June 6, 2020 show

News stories for Episode #162, June 6, 2020 show:

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1) Tim Halloran put up a video on how to take a Coco 2 keyboard apart, and clean it:

 https://youtu.be/u1S9KExR9jU

2) Erico Monteiro (who is working on the semi-graphics fighting game), put up a semigraphics performance test video, but I am not exactly sure what he is specifically testing:

 https://youtu.be/OBXG1O_5fEY

He also has a blog started on a forum, to show his progress on the game:

 https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=70215.0

3) David K on YouTube put a video up in his series "Would You Buy it", where he bought a bunch of vintage computer systems in Brooklyn... one of which was a Coco 2, which he demo's:

 https://youtu.be/nJgzYuMWNfg?t=471

4) Coco Crew episode 60 was released, and includes a review of Rampage. http://cococrew.org/cococrew-podcast-60.html

5) Ed Snider has announced that the GIME-X will also have an optional 8 MB RAM upgrade, set up similarly as Paul Barton's NoCan 3 was back in the 1990's. This means that 6 MB RAM disk drivers are already done and tested that are compatible with it. (And, like Paul, it can be expanded beyond 8 MB as well). Scroll down in the comments to zoom in the picture Ed provided of it fully installed in a Coco 3. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158318768477641/

6) Eric Canales shared a cool video clip from one of Friday the 13th horror movies, which has a Coco 1 in the scene:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158317268257641/

7) Brian Wieseler (and others) have found rubber feet at Home Depot, ACE Hardware, eBay etc. that are almost perfect replacements for the original ones on a Coco 1:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158315306512641/

8) Terry Trapp released a video about an issue he is having with his new Hauppauge WinTV adaptor... but it only produces black and white images. Stevie can talk about alternate adaptors that seem to work better.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158310032052641/

Video from Stevie showing the analog capture that he and Brian Wieseler use:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158310933662641/

9) Guillaume Major has done some updates to the Color Computer Archive (including fixing a bug that cropped up when they were testing things). In addition to having added graphical tags for things like "Semi Graphics program", "Coco 3", "6309", "Sound Speech cartridge supported", etc., you can now search by those tags as well, via drop down menus:

 https://colorcomputerarchive.com/search

10) James Jones runs some BASIC09 performance tests with surprising results https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2597277030535225/

11) James Hosts inquires about INKEY$ and alternatives to allow for key repeat detection https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/2914666795326790/

12) Wayne Aaron obtains a CoCo 2 he plans to use as a CoCo-Pi case https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158321285392641/

13) Alsion Denu posts some *interesting* photos with CoCos https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158316789277641/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158318792572641/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158303480947641/

14) Tony Jewell from the Dragon group joins the CoCo owner's club https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158295267832641/

Game On news:

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1) New to me YouTuber "retro techtive" has started releasing Coco game videos (in addition to other platforms he has already done), and this week he has:

Androne: 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrkXrJqkN-Q
Air Attack:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XroCF2adwNA

2) The Amigos released their final regular episode of The Coco Show on Wednesday, feature Battle Stations by Novasoft. This also includes their thoughts on the Coco community, and also the winner of their Gunstar giveaway contest.

 https://youtu.be/aLFLQuCInQs

3) GigerPunk did a video of Cuthbert in the Mines on his Dragon 32:

 https://youtu.be/YnbHDTNtY1U

4) Pere Serrat released a new video of his updated AGD engine, using the Wordpak II+ board - but now also supports the Coco-PSG soundcard with the YM-2149 chip for some of the sound effects (in addition to the sprite and better graphics hardware):

 https://youtu.be/dnuiz5J4bCs

5) Erik Gavriluk started an interesting discussion on what is the greatest ORIGINAL Coco 3 game (something to rival DoubleBack or Dungeons of Daggorath from the Coco 1/2 era? Curtis's vote would be Photon as number 1, then Zenix and/or Crystal City.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158318127852641/

6) Mark McDougall is starting to work on finishing some of his arcade transcodes again - including finish Space Invaders to the normal orientation on the Coco 3 (his original port played at a 90 degree angle). He has put up several blog posts with his latest updates (including a screenshot of the work in progress of rotating the screen):

 https://retroports.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR02Xk-ZcVMqFKq4uEy77tk2yWxItAJJN1A8UVJAXZmNEreApX3wzH9xKn8

7) Cuthbert Dragon released a lot of new Dragon gameplay videos this week (on real hardware and CRT): Red Meanies (3D Pacman):

 https://youtu.be/UqbcAz-kieA

Keys of Roth (kind of a graphics Choose Your Own Adventure style game(:

 https://youtu.be/MOb3c0RPaDs

Starfighter:

 https://youtu.be/f-wGM5dtnn8

Mutant Wars (kind of a Shamus/Berzerk crossover?):

 https://youtu.be/wZkPoIZ0ZA4

Screaming Ab-Dabs (and he seems to know how to actually play it properly):

 https://youtu.be/nsrm1BMZcVA

8) Michael Pittsley inquires about a Soduko game for the CoCo, John Linville replies https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158322420287641/

9) Carlos Camacho inquires about the Canyon Climber Cartridges for the NEC PC-600, created by James Garon, author of the CoCo version https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158308661562641/ Steve Bjork chimes in Allen Huffman posts a YouTube video of the game by HighRetroGameLord https://youtu.be/1Lt4Tts0CfI