News stories for Episode 181, October 10, 2020 show

News stories for Episode #181, October 10, 2020 show:

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0) If Terry Steege isn't able to be on, his Darth Vader Coco pictures are up:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/imacoconut/permalink/758570748327199/

1) AC's 8 Bit Zone has is composite & S-Video upgrade video up (two different methods), as promised at the tail end of SepTandy:

 https://youtu.be/tayGsz7Xs3A

He also added an addendum with some corrections (no high res photos in the original video, and a missing component on one schematic):

 https://youtu.be/XSDkQX9RREw

2) Richard Kelly posted an interesting question to the entire Coco Facebook page group: "What event caused you to move from the CoCo to a more modern system (More than one factor is likely, I suspect)?" As of Sunday night, there were already 40+ comments, and it makes an interesting discussion topic.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158652220692641/

3) Another interesting poll by Steve Norton in the Coco Facebook group, in the form of a survey: For what reason do you use the Coco:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158651287562641/

4) Carlos Camachos is having a 30% discount for his Coco 1 64K small square RAM badges, the Coco 1 badge & Coco 3 2048KB badges - get them while supplies last!:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158652623627641/

5) Brian Schubring posted a video on various Coco related Facebook groups listing the various printer ribbons that he has (still sealed, but probably need re-inking), that he has for sale, in case you want to get your lineprinter working again:

 https://www.facebook.com/brian.schubring.3/videos/3835873759775864

5) Pat Randolph (of Dinty's Hideaway fame, who was our guest last week) posted the final part 3 of his interview with former Tandy CEO John Roach:

 https://youtu.be/_eyfo2_ESlA

6) Pat also gave is a link to an interview with Lewis "Lew" Kornfield, who started work at Radio Shack long before Tandy bought them (starting before 1950; Tandy bought Radio Shack in 1963), which also goes into some detail about Tandy's relation with InterTan, his hiring of Bernie Appel in 1959, and other things.

 https://youtu.be/o6NA0Rlyvrs

7) Walter Zambotti has posted a new version of OVCC (1.4.0) for people to test, that now supports the Tandy Hi res interface. Video demo here:

 https://youtu.be/3XZWaIBRwhA

Hit main github for the project here:

 https://github.com/WallyZambotti/OVCC

8) Ruth Kim Ann Moss is finishing up getting inventory and pictures of various old computer stuff she has inherited from her dad, including a lot of Coco stuff. She is hoping to sell as much of the stuff she is putting up on sale in the San Francisco area:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/imacoconut/permalink/758696411647966/
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158665660742641/

9) Robert Sieg has posted some "256 color" composite images done on his Coco 3, which he has made a video of showing them loading and displaying:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158662136507641/

10) Christian Kremo is selling off his original Coco disks (most including manuals) on ebay (including Tandy and some 3rd party):

 https://www.ebay.com/itm/143777677849

11) Ron Delvaux uploaded a DSK image showing an move Alien "poster" type scene using Sock Master's High Color technique (screenshot in comments):

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158661177067641/

12) Jack Gurner posted a photo of an interesting bit of Coco history - a membership certificate from the International Color Computer Club (which used to advertised in Rainbow):

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1626730907535645&set=gm.10158659622467641

13) Allen Huffman is also selling off some of his Coco stock on ebay (just under a week left), and includes software packages, and some hardware, in different bundles::

 https://www.ebay.com/usr/allenhuffman?_trksid=p2047675.l2559 contains a list 

Game On news:

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1) Since Eddie Van Halen passed away this past week, a couple of Coco relate Van Halen things have popped up on Facebook. Bill Pierce put up an audio of his Coco MIDI rendition of "Jump" (There is also a version of "I'll Wait" done Musica or Lyra that played natively on the Coco I have buried somewheres):

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158656993902641/
 http://yaccs.info/BPIERCECOCO/My_Music/Jump.mp3

And something I had totally forgotten about is that the graphic/sound adventure game "The Martian Crypt" has a brief Van Halen tribute in the game as well:

 https://youtu.be/4BJJMV5TiTk?t=270

2) Jason Reighard (CocoMan) is now taking pre-orders for the Joey HIGH-RES, for $55+shipping:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2695745050688422/

3) Sheldon MacDonald has a video up showing music playing (and selectable tunes, if they are pre-loaded) using the PSG player from zippsterzone.com. He is also has a GMC version, which he is making a video for as well (add if done by showtime):

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158661807097641/

4) Erico Patricio Monteiro is sketching a low-res multi-user game idea (showing 6 players on his sample), that would work well using the network protocols that Jay Searle & Brett Gordon are working on for their Coco 3 only game:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158660385792641/

5) Ken @ Canadian Retro things has an update on the BASIC arcade game he picked up after 35 years:

 https://youtu.be/f6ZqFCdGQnw

6) Ben "VR" Drakes made an announcement in the Coco Talk Discord that the Omni One VR game system (which has advanced since he did his demo using an earlier prototype playing Coco games like Phantom Slayer) is actually for sale (pre-order), and on sale for a limited time; it's expected out to home users in 2021: Original Phantom Slayer demo for those that haven't seen it (probably mute or turn volume way down to avoid copyright ding):

 https://youtu.be/uLMyB5_19m4

And there new commercial, showing modern games and the newest design:

 https://youtu.be/aOYHg8qdxTE

And some details from Ben: "The great thing is you don't even feel like you're exercising, you're too busy having fun to notice. It's $995 for just the treadmill, but there will be a bundle that includes a standalone VR headset (no pc required) -that's going to be $1,995. There's a way to get your place reserved in the queue, and pick up a 40% discount - if you invest here this week: https://invest.virtuix.com/ After that it will be 20% off for the remainder of the campaign.

7) Paul Shoemaker posted an update video of his new isometric dungeon game that he is working on, showing it rendering a scene:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158663555217641/