News stories for Episode 183, October 24, 2020 show

News stories for Episode #183, October 24, 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/

0a) Mention the election results: President: Jim Brain Vice President: Terry Steege Treasurer: Brian Goers Secretary: Richard Bair

1) Jim Brain of Retro Innovations posted on Facebook with a link to a github project he has done for a "1980's TTL-based solution [...] using SRAM". This does 2MB of RAM, and works with existing DAT boards from Boysontech and Cloud-9.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2711446359118291/

2) [REDACTED] has been "practicing his disassembly skills" (something I have done quite a bit, myself), on Audio Spectrum Analyzer:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158691629497641/

3) Robert Sieg has been experimenting with special palette settings for the "256 color mode" in the composite mode on the Coco 3: Grey scale:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158687223992641/

Color (the actual Coco 3 screenshot is in the comments, at the bottom):

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158687115497641/

4) AC'S 8-Bit Zone put up a video showing how to copy floppies back and forth between a real Coco floppies and a PC via Drivewire. He has a weird thing happening with some BASIC programs he has imported; if anyone has a way to fix that, please let him know on his YouTube channel. I have seen a little weirdness with BASIC09 code if I forget to hit ENTER on the final line - it won't see it. He also mentions an upcoming episode where he is tackling fixing another person Coco 2:

 https://youtu.be/bFOGSQnscsc

5) By coincidence, 8bitsinthebasement, who was a guest on our show a couple of months ago, also released a video on Drivewire 3, including booting NitrOS-9 level 1 from a Coco 2 with no disk controller:

 https://youtu.be/KISNyh8TsGc

6) Wagner's TechTalk on YouTube did a video on hooking various retro consoles to modern HDMI TV's/monitors... including multiple systems: TI-99/4A, ColecoVision, Atari 2600, and his Coco 2.

 https://youtu.be/KWoK8YIA9cA

7) Later today (7 pm CST) is the TRS-80 Trash Talkers Live #8 show, and they have requested that some Coco people join in with their Model 1/2/3/4/12/16 experts. They will be showing off the new Talker/80 Voice Synthesizer, amongst other things.

 https://www.facebook.com/events/769336010527584/

8) Xeox Gomazoa started an interesting poll: What hardware/emulation Coco family systems to you currently own and/or run. If you have more than one, you are encouraged to check off every one you own/use.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158694998122641/

9) Chad Edward had a question about a modified Coco 3 with a hole cut in the side of the case - what was this for? Bill Pierce supplied the answer: it was a common way to install the PC Eagle keyboard adaptor and XT style Eagle keyboard (see comments for photos that Bill found of Coco 3's with the keyboard installed:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158693762322641/

10) James Rye is working on getting the composite palettes closer to the real thing on VCC (I have noticed that they are *way* off as well), and posted a request to get some composite artwork on disk file(s) that he can use for reference:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158693719997641/

Game On news:

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1) Jim Gerrie has a new update to the multiplayer 3D engine that he and Erico Monteiro are collaborating on, this time showing the 6 players individual viewpoints (running on a Coco this time):

 https://youtu.be/g5IwsM4sdzY

2) Paul Thayer posted both his 3rd VLOG, and, a few days later, a couple of screenshots of further progress in his CocoBan game - to show additions, including the addition of laser emitters:

 https://youtu.be/CkItS-dqSog
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158692698457641/

3) John Linville posted a brief video of a vertical scrolling routine he is experimenting with, using stack blasting techniques on the 6809:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1606095809633762/permalink/2739155982994400/