News stories for Episode 185, November 7, 2020 show

News stories for Episode #185, November 7, 2020 show:

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Ken @ Canadian Retro Things - Video of Game of week Pipes:

 https://youtu.be/p-Bc7SGn0VE

1) The Retro Channel has posted a new video on YouTube showing Coco 2 RAM and ROM upgrades, performed on a Coco 2 with just Color BASIC and 16K of RAM:

 https://youtu.be/f6a0ZsV7OO8

2) Michael Pittsley pointed out a followup to his question why Coco 3 BASIC was running slower than Coco 1/2 BASIC for a numerical integration program (from the book "TRS-80 Color Computer Programs" from 1982). James Jones wrote an article (including sourcecode) showing it running under BASIC-09, and then how to optimize the program itself:

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uIKW3bpL1OeJJlFe1hwmWZ79pdM-UT-8mA4TeTm-PRg/edit

3) Ciaran Anscomb (sixxie on Discord) has notified me that his his index of Dragon User magazine has now been completed. There is a PDF version available for download here:

 http://www.6809.org.uk/dragon/dragonuser-bib.pdf

The BibTex database version is here:

 https://gitlab.com/sixxie/dragonuser-bib

4) AC's 8-Bit Zone posted his 2nd video of repairing a Coco 2 for one of his viewers:

 https://youtu.be/NBw-KohzGIk

5) Simon put up a new demo of his 4 voice sound routine, this time converting a MIDI file from a C-64 game theme song:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158729659987641/

6) Xeox Gomazoa has created a new poll on Facebook, to figure out what continent/country/(state/province/territory) people are from, to get a demographic of active members:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158729531232641/

7) A new Coco site has been started at:

 https://8bitcoco.com

8) Chris Burke posted a video of his progress on his USB keyboard adaptor for the Coco:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158724349502641/

9) For those who want to experiment with the AY-3-8910 audio chip, Jim Brain at RETRO Innovations bulk bought some, and you can buy them on his site for $2.00 plus shipping:

 http://store.go4retro.com/electronic-components/general-instruments-ay-3-8910-audio-ic

10) Allen Huffman posted a poll on Facebook about Retro Games Ltd. asking about which old computers to make a recreation of (having just completed a VIC-20 project), and had mentioned a Coco and/or Dragon. Allen's poll is about what specific Coco model would be most wanted:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158723054632641/

11) Derek Osborn posted a link to an older project that may have been forgotten about, to make a digital joystick adaptor for the Coco:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158723054632641/

12) Tony Cappelinni posted on Facebook that a program has been made that generates an emulator from a specification. The GitHub for this project includes the Dragon 32 as one of the sample projects (along with multiple other UK systems):

 https://hackaday.com/2020/11/06/procedurally-generated-retrocomputer-emulators/

13) Richard Harding posted on the Dragon group in Facebook that he has uploaded two non-English versions of the Dragon BASIC manual (Norwegian and Italian):

  http://www.dragondata.co.uk/Publications/BASIC-MAN/BASIC-man.html#Norsk

Game On news:

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1) Cuthbert Dragon released a video of playing Phantom Slayer on a real Dragon... coincidentally, released just after we finished with Phantom Slayer being our game of the week:

 https://youtu.be/RC6woCuGJXY

2) Henry Rietveld put up some gameplay video of Superkid (originally for the Dragon, ported to the Coco):

 https://youtu.be/_WBHSs0NUgk

3) Robert Allen Murphy has published his next Blog on Nostromo port from the NEC PC-6001 to the Coco:

 https://exileinparadise.com/nostromo:taking_stock

4) Simonwgb did another Dragon games stream - this time with Crazy Painter, Cruising, Phantom Slayer, Dungeon Raid:

 https://youtu.be/XSnAu-DbeSA

5) Paul Shoemaker posted a new video and download for an updated ANTS demo, which includes a menu:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158718892962641/

6) Jim Gerrie posted a screenshot of a new economic simulation game (Warren's Word: The Lost Colony) he is working on, ported from the PC:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/3361694637290668/