News stories for Episode 174, August 22, 2020 show

News stories for Episode #174, August 22, 2020 show:

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1) Jim Gerrie has a couple of videos showing some Reverse video routines he is using on his MC-19 programs:

 https://youtu.be/oerMg-ZgUk0

And an ML routine by Anders Carlsson to invert video a CLS command

 https://youtu.be/uDtBPiAYn40

He also put up a video of his port of General Accounting Program originally done by Larry Allen. It uses a neat trick of directly POKING the text data into the DATA statements, so to save new test fields, you simply SAVE the program (numerics are done separately with the MC-10's unique CSAVE*, which saves a numeric array):

 https://youtu.be/Wc6PPHvw7EM

2) Canadian Retro Things (Ken Waters) has an unboxing video up for his newly acquired Coco 3 - but he hasn't fired it up yet:

 https://youtu.be/mxKK9Gzv5Iw

3) Cyberhug Technologies is working on fixing his Coco 1, and his first going into it on his YouTube page (note, he has some of his facts wrong):

 https://youtu.be/FehNAj98h9I

4) Our own panelist James Diffendaffer put up a speed comparison video between the original MC-10 BASIC ROMs and the current version of his optimized one:

 https://youtu.be/kRpYmfpwYx0

5) Ed Snider just posted a video of his 8MB prototype board for the GIME-X:

 https://youtu.be/iEVl8Hh9ejQ

Game On news:

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1) [REDACTED] got "bored" and decided to convert some graphics from the Capcom CPS-1 platform version of Ghouls and Ghosts. He shows multiple stages of the conversion from original graphics to Coco 3 color reduced:

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158533587722641/

2) Richard Kelly has uploaded a new version of the graphics game "Artillery!", that fixes a long outstanding bug when trying to run it on a Coco 3. It is available for free on the Facebook Coco group, in the Files section:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158531573052641/

3) Jason Reighard posted a photo to the Coco group that originally showed up in the TRS-80/Tandy 1000 group - of a Ghost Gobbler game from Spectral Associates... but on *cartridge*. I was unaware that Spectral did cartridge games.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158531109277641/

4) Erico Patricio Monteiro showed some possible SG-4 enhancements that could be done to Jim Gerrie's Pittman game:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158538984097641/

5) Jim Gerrie put up an MC-10 video of an original game he did called Halifax Tail Gunner:

 https://youtu.be/kfCayAipSMc

6) LRU's outrageous gaming project (a new channel to me) has a playthrough to level 10 of Pegasus and the Phantom Riders, amongst multiple other Coco and Dragon game videos:

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKaIk2c7dGJ2uVLyvrGgh7Q/videos