News stories for Episode 192, December 26, 2020 show

News stories for Episode #192, December 26, 2020 show:

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1) NitrOS-9 EOU Beta 6, after about 8 months of work, is finally out. We will likely have a Q&A, maybe mini-tutorial session sometime this episode, for those trying it out and who have questions. Lots of new stuff added, including optional Drivewire support on real hardware (use SWAPBOOT to enable), and RTC support in all 3 Coco 3 emulators (VCC, OVCC, MAME) http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/nitros9.html

2) Sheldon MacDonald posted his 5th "Exploring 6809 assembly" series on YouTube, "Converting 2 bytes to human readable string", split into two parts: Part 1:

 https://youtu.be/ia-PYzwJmnA

Part 2:

 https://youtu.be/Prlkn6Cz5U8

He also put up a video of his optimized assembly program for drawing lines in semigraphics, now with double buffering enabled as well.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158847261582641/

3) As Tim Lindner and others have pointed out, there is an very interesting project called Turbo09, which is a project to make an open-source professional level IP processor with modern pipelining, etc. but based on the 6809 instruction set architecture. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like it could be a drop in replacement for a 6809 or 6309, but is for new designs.

 https://youtu.be/-_1-gokl-6I

4) Pierre Serrazin has release a new versions of the C like CMOC compiler (0.1.68), which is some small optimizations and bug fixes:

 http://perso.b2b2c.ca/~sarrazip/dev/cmoc.html

5) Erico Patricio Monteiro has uploaded his Coco 2 breakdown posters to the repo, and it should be available for download to the public soon:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158846356102641/

6) Simon posted an updated versions of his rotoscoping Coco 3 Christmas graphics demo with 2 voice music. It adds more Christmas songs than last year's demo.

 https://www.facebook.com/simon.jonassen1/videos/10164684898920506/

You can go to the files section for the Coco group on Facebook to download it from there. It's called XMAS.DSK. He also posted his conversion of the bouncing Torus part of his Coco 3 graphics demo to the Coco 1/2:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158838808972641/
 

7) Fedor Steeman posted a link and request for people to subscribe to his friend's YouTube channel - "Retrocomputing with Mike", and says that if they reach 1000 subscribers, they will do a feature video for the Coco (or maybe MC-10, judging by the comments). They are within a dozen at the time I checked.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158845866802641/

Mike's YouTube video links page:

 https://www.youtube.com/c/RetroComputingwithMike/videos

These next few are technically a little late now, but are Christmas related Coco things: 8) Jerry Stratton put up multiple Coco 1/2 screenshot for Christmas:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158846373782641/
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158843565567641/
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158838558907641/
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158836186062641/

9) Paul Shoemaker uploaded a Semigraphics-12 Merry X-Mas mini-demo:

 https://www.facebook.com/paul.shoemaker.169/videos/1100268007067200/

10) Ken at CanadianRetroThings has a new video about his experiments of using BlueTooth with a Coco to load programs - wirelessly. And then to do it with two Coco's simultaneously (Coco 2 and 3 in his case):

 https://youtu.be/J5wJwVyCrQ0

11) Trey Tomes put up a cool Coco 3 graphics demo showing off palette changing - using the new VCC "paste" option to load the code. It should be noted that the actual graphics demo is overclocked in the emulator to 89 MHz:

 https://www.facebook.com/treytomes/videos/10159179876217853/

12) Antonio Carlos Jimenez Ely has an update on his SD-Pak cards & labels that we have shown lately. Terry Steege is going in with Antonio for buying a bulk order of SD cards. (If Terry is on, ask for details on card capacity & price):

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158840526317641/

13) Carlos Camacho has posted that Allen Huffman was the first person to receive his order for the 40th anniversary Coco T-shirts. He also has other Coco related t-shirt designs available now as well:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158840509687641/

14) Carlos also put up his ebay links for his various Coco case badges, which are available for sale:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158840475152641/

15) A YouTube channel that I haven't heard of before ("World of Wunk") has a video of an SCART/RGB hacked adapter linked to his Coco 3.

 https://youtu.be/jfPCOPxYokA

16) Coco Crew's December episode came out a bit early for the holidays, and features an interview with Chris Burke of Burke & Burke fame, and Neil reviews the game SUKS. http://cococrew.org

17 Fred Rique announced this morning that he has released is Coco Basic Dignified and Coco Sublime Tools, and a semigraphics-24 demo snake game and drawing program. He also posted a video demo of his tools in action in conjunction with VCC:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158849025067641/

And the video:

 https://youtu.be/aQfmmiJ9mzo

18) Chris Luckey posted on the Facebook Coco group about some projects that he is working on, including an internal DriveWire board (so that you can boot straight over DriveWire from HDB-DOS, and also frees up your cartridge port for other hardware, like, MIDI, Orch-90, etc.), and also a board that plugs into the PIA socket that allows connection to an ESP8266 through the bit-banger port for faster speeds, like 57.6k baud on a Coco 1.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158848643037641/

Game On news:

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1) Cuthbert Dragon returns with more Dragon gameplay videos. This week: Cuthbert in the Cooler Screaming Abdabs (he is really good at this one) Airball (and this one too) Module Man Chambers Ghost Attack Berzerk Flag Shark Treasure Katerpillar 2 Buzzard Bait Hide and Seek Lets Count The Dark Pit Arcadia Cosmic Clones Starship Chameleon Froglet

 https://www.youtube.com/user/MaryWinstead32/videos

2) Paul Shoemaker has an updated video for his upcoming semigraphics-12 game - including some additional storyline artwork:

 https://www.facebook.com/paul.shoemaker.169/videos/1099639773796690/

3) Trey Tomes posted a video of his testing of his newest graphics engine for a game he is working on:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158836433482641/

4) hirudov2d on YouTube did a full playthrough of the 7 Card Stud Tandy game cartridge:

 https://youtu.be/_zZyKxBIHKc

He also did videos demoing Art Gallery:

 https://youtu.be/6on2QSxwJWk

5) Conn Traveler put up a Coco 1/2 animation experiment he did for the Zelda 2 fairy:

 https://youtu.be/Mt_-PTAylyo

6) Jim Gerrie released multiple MC-10 videos this week - including Christmas programs and games: The Dragon's Cube (based on a Dragon 32 Rubik's Cube implementation):

 https://youtu.be/T8GsNi9-TA4

C5P9 Random Christmas tree generating program ported from "Techniques of BASIC by John P. Grillo & J.D. Robertson in 1981:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Dv7pvcsKg

Port of "Another Haunted House Adventure", originally by Geoff Wells:

 https://youtu.be/GOk65lMk7ls

7) Marlin Lee put up a video for Cuber (Q*Bert clone by Tom Mix):

 https://youtu.be/o2xRCtQwTko