News stories for Episode 169, July 18, 2020 show

News stories for Episode #169, July 18, 2020 show:

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1) Boisy has now sold his "Marty Goodman edition" modified Coco 3 on ebay. This is the same one he showed recently on his Coco Collector YouTube series, and it sold for $177.50 USD

 https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Tandy-Color-Computer-3-Marty-Goodman-As-seen-on-the-CoCo-Collector-Episode-3/303620738239?hash=item46b134ccbf%3Ag%3ABSoAAOSwVghfCdJi

2) Brian Schubring has posted some scans of the NRI Coco course books he briefly showed us on last week's Coco Talk. It looks like they had both Coco 2 and Coco 3 versions.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2625497341046527/

3) Newsmakers Tech has a Tandy Lab episode they just released, showing unboxings for a Coco 1, Coco 2, Coco 3 (sans box) and MC-10:

 https://youtu.be/-RaLfqnzb8s

4) Sheldon MacDonald is working on an RSDOS disk imaging tool for windows, and has some screenshots of his progress, and the features it supports:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158440446867641/

5) Garrett Meiers posted photos from a major Coco haul he found in North Carolina (including a Mark Data Products keyboard, software, some TRS-80 Model I/III stuff, etc.):

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158438627787641/

6) One of the newer Netflix series is "History 101", season 1 episode 4 (plastics) at around 10:35 has a very brief, bad quality video (as part of it's "1980's" part of the segment) that is Color Space Invaders by Spectral Associates.

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7) There is an ebay auction for a 3rd party Dragon joystick (the ALT A1) that I have never seen before:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2671600099766309/

8) I had missed this before, but Greg Dionne had posted a link to his GitHub account for MC-10 (6803/6847) assembly language programming. It includes a powerpoint slide show, as well as multiple small assembly source listings to try:

 https://github.com/gregdionne/tasm6801/tree/master/tutorial

9) Roland's Recycling YouTube channel has his VLOG #8: "Tandy Coco2 Part 1 - Testing it out". Another younger guy (born in 1992) works on firing up a Coco 2 that he aquired for the first time. He also has an interesting amperage testing system involving a heat lamp.

 https://youtu.be/_-dkwUv_Vy4

10) And speaking of really young people: ZENITH System 3 on Youtube gets and tests (another!) CRT. At 9:06 he adds that he went with his mom shopping, and he ended up at Vortex Video games store. And he found a Coco 2 there, for $10.00 (power cable was cut off, so it needs repairs)... he decided on some other things, and when he went to pay for them, the store owner basically said "you know... we probably won't fix this Coco 2... you can have it for free". Fast forward to around 17:40, where he decides which CRT he is going to use with it. Now, he just needs to replace the power cable in a future episode... (unfortunately, comments are turned off, so we can't respond to him/help him out).

 https://youtu.be/paP_TECYdFk

11) "8bitsinthebasement" on YouTube has a video about his Coco 2, including a look under the hood and some overdue upgrades (his even has "Colour" spelled correctly, and is the SCART version!). He also does some upgrades: 16K to 64K, and adding Extended BASIC:

 https://youtu.be/VZnCd0ZGNBE

Game On news:

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1) Erico Patricio Monteiro has video of his upcoming Color Fight game in progress (his karate semi-graphics game. In this demo, he has two AI's fighting each other, and also has working health meters. It looks really good so far:

 https://youtu.be/mj_8UXKvTkw

2) Paul Shoemaker has a very good full deck set of card graphics (with full face cards in 16 colors), that he has released a couple of video demos on Facebook, for use in upcoming card games. The latest one:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158448701372641/

3) Henry Reitveld put up a video of him play Nick Marentes new release, Rally-SG - but in his full blow arcade cabinet:

 https://youtu.be/wBZe9yWj9Zo

4) [REDACTED] played live (on Facebook) Thursday & Friday showing the (current - may still be tweaks coming) first 10 levels of his upcoming Coco 3 masterpiece, [REDACTED GAME] III. The final game will be 36 levels, with two skill levels. NOTE: Colorful language, may want to mute these. Thursday's video shows the Easy skill level:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158447571022641/

Friday's shows the Hard skill level (and it *does* look hard!):

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158450523007641/

5) Canadian Retro Things put up an unboxing video for his just received Bomb Threat cartridge (by Rick Adams)... and also talks about how the buying a new game experience has changed since "the old days".

 https://youtu.be/GL4dXad2iTE

6) Aaron from The Amigos (and the on hold The Coco Show) has put up his CoinOPS Coco Beta 2 package, which includes the whole fancy arcade selection system (with demo videos, logo artwork, etc.) that we showed last week. This includes multiple cartridges and disk based games, all pre-setup and ready to go! Requires Windows:

 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13mC2Fd__D3vj5aSO7zzDqd_EUwy57LZF

7) Will mention also - the Amigos are doing their 4th annual Amiga themed fundraiser for The Children's Network this weekend, including special guests. If you want to contribute to a good cause while delving into Amiga retro goodness (a more advanced cousin of the Coco 3, but also featuring a pre-emptive multi-tasking operating system that ran in 512K... unlike Windows), you can catch the show today - it started at noon UTC (8 AM Eastern), and runs for 12 hours until 8 pm tonight.

 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/649422475322458122/733881626253066370/Amigathon_Schedule.jpg

And the donation info:

 https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=411413