News stories for Episode 168, July 11, 2020 show

News stories for Episode #168, July 11, 2020 show:

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• • ) Aaron from the currently on hiatus The Coco Show has a video up on his Coco Atomic Pi project. This includes the hardware setup (including Paul Fiscarelli's interface for a real Coco keyboard), and Aaron's setting up a great gaming front end for it:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQw1Qy1RyxA

1) Carlos Camacho has shrunken replicas of the Coco 1 that I believe were 3D resin printed - and look pretty darned good:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158431202067641/

2) Eric Sperano has written a little launch program for his SDC, but it actually boots a graphic screen to allow you to select between NitrOS9, Fuzix, SDC Explorer and DECB, and report your basic system specs. It's still a work in progress, but it looks really good:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158430713227641/

3) Erico Patricio Monteiro has a request on Facebook for helping crunch a program down for a project he is working on (he posted some code so people can look at it):

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158431076227641/

4) Martin Brossman posted some photos from when he worked at Radio Shack in the 1980's, and also mentioned that helped start a Coco club in his area:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158429775042641/

5) Alison DeNu has been recovering multiple programs that she wrote in the past for the Coco from old audio cassettes, and has been sharing them on Facebook:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158419718652641/

6) Jonathan Felchlin posted on Facebook about the availability of a Coco 2 Cap replacement kit (and I believe that they are working on Coco 1, etc. as well):

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158430035342641/

7) Jim McClellan posted how he got his DMP-105 working again, including the trick of replacing the ink sponge:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158421898857641/

8) Quinn Good posted a series of videos on YouTube about a Coco 2 he found in the attic (he is a young fella) and what he knows about it so far:

 https://youtu.be/txCoNRfrSoA
 https://youtu.be/m2Jdl6JYdK0

And then a third video a few days later, where he learns how to take apart and needs to clean a fairly dirty keyboard:

 https://youtu.be/9ZL5xGZyKyw

Game On news:

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• • ) AT BEGINNING - NICK MAROTTA WILL PLAY LIVE DEMO TO INTRODUCE THE GAME, AND NICK MARENTES CAN ANSWER QUESTIONS:

Now available for digital download for $5 USD - and runs on the TDP-100, Coco 1,2,3 and Dragon 64.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158422478122641/

1) Evan Wright has some embellishments to Flood It (some sound additions, some more animated sequences, etc.):

 https://youtu.be/G166eiSG0hQ

2) Jim Gerrie shows off a Battleship style game on the MC-10, ported from an earlier game from Computing Today magazine, November 1979 issue, and enhanced with semi-graphics.

 https://youtu.be/od8gOda53JA

3) Jerry Stratton posted a link to his site where he has a text mode version of Reversi (originally from Tim Hartnell's "Giant Book of Computer Games", that is written in his SuperBASIC (that we have featured before), which is a modern syntax style language that converts down to Coco BASIC. He goes through the "modern" code and explains how it works:

 https://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/hacks/coco/reversi/

4) Erico Patricio Monteiro has some updated semigraphics animation demos for his karate game he is working on (Scroll down in the comments for a video of 4 attack moves):

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158424557902641/

5) "The 64K Gamer" on YouTube has a video up showing how to get free cassette file games (from the Color Computer Archive) onto your phone to load on a Coco (he shows Dragonfire as a sample), and he is planning on doing some gameplay videos in the future as well:

 https://youtu.be/sgMcjmcB-pk

6) Retro Core on YouTube has part 2 of his "Battle of the Ports", this time of Frogger. Part 2 has the Dragon/Coco version, compared with Colecvision, Intellivision, C64 and more:

 https://youtu.be/w7v7A9tSRzA

7) Giger Punk (Rob's Retro Ramblers) returns with his Cuthbert in the Cooler review/playthrough:

 https://youtu.be/zFu8ccvNrT0