News stories for Episode 166, June 27, 2020 show

News stories for Episode #166, June 27, 2020 show:

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1) CanadianRetroThings has a new video out showing him hooking up his giant Panasonic TV/Radio/Cassette deck to his MC-10 this time:

 https://youtu.be/3j-fA5kBUdo

2) Davy Mitchell posted a link to his blog, "Davy's Retro Corner", in the Dragon Facebook group. This entry talks about a 3D terrain generating program that was originally from Dragon User magazine. It even includes hidden line removal. He plans on trying to port it to the Coco 3 later.

 https://davysretrocorner.blogspot.com/2020/06/type-in-dragon-user-fault-line-graphics.html

3) The Trash Talk (TRS-80) podcast has game programming contest, that includes the Coco. Deadline is November 30. There are hardware prizes to be won:

 http://www.trs-80.org.uk/2020competition.html

4) Tim Halloran has a video demonstrating him powering his Coco 2 - from USB:

 https://youtu.be/qfa4Db2OwE8

5) Keith (ChibiAkumas on YouTube) has his 2nd 6809 assembly language tutorial up - this episode covers the 6809 addressing modes:

 https://youtu.be/JpIi85GWDRo

6) Ed Snider has some photos of his 32K RAM MC-10 board in the making (I think based on the upgrade he did for Stevie), which allows the higher resolution graphics modes to run, as well as giving you 32K of RAM:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/2969740209819448/

Game On news:

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1) Paul Shoemaker is working on a Coco 3 only Dungeon Crawler, and shows a sample screen using a tileset he purchased:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158370706662641/

2) Neil Blanchard has ROM cartridge versions of Rick Adam's "Bomb Threat" game available again, for $30. This includes the cartridge packaging, color instruction card, and the actual cartridge game itself. If you are interested in one, email neil@cococrew.org.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1606095809633762/permalink/2636663219910344/?sale_post_id=2636663219910344

3) Neil also has the new cartridge game by Evan Wright called 3D Monster Maze, which is a Coco 1/2 version of the game of the same name that originally appears on the Sinclair ZX-81. The Coco 1/2/3 version features color and other enhancements as well. Also $30.00 and the cartridges are available in both deep blue and a new translucent color, with box and manual sheet. There appears to be two versions of the instruction manual art as well.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1606095809633762/permalink/2636658969910769/?sale_post_id=2636658969910769

Evan also upload a video of the final version in action:

 https://youtu.be/4uqWLrzsd2U

4) Cuthbert Dragon has a few new Dragon gameplay videos of note this week:

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

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5) Ciaran has released an updated Coco version of the Dragon game ROTABB's - it now includes the original loaded an opening story:

  http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/da/coco_ports/

6) Nick Marentes has a video out to promote his Rally-SG game for all Coco's and the Dragon's (with at least 64K), which is getting released in August:

 https://youtu.be/9lUiwo7Zly4