News stories for Episode 213, May 22, 2021 show

News stories for Episode 213, May 22, 2021 show:

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Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)

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1) Tim Lindner put up a video showing how to use the MAME debugger when emulating a Coco, using Arkanoid as an example:

 https://youtu.be/7g8ZbzxxYpI

2) Simon Jonassen posted screenshots of mixed colors in SG24 with out needing page flipping (before and after) by "wobbling" the screen using the VDG / SAM timing tricks we have mentioned on recent episodes:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10159212842692641/

He also posted a pic that uses page flipping techniques instead, but these tend to flicker a bit on real hardware:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10159225394917641/

3) Pedro ("Rocky Hill" on YouTube) put up a video showing that his replacement for the SALT chip for the Coco 2 (which he is calling PEPPER) is working:

 https://youtu.be/D6V6HFp6FHY

4) Keith (Chibiakumas) has put up his 2nd Coco 3 graphics assembly language video, showing how to map in and set a Coco 3 graphics screen, use the MMU, read joysticks and do bounds checking on the edge of the screen (again using XOR software sprites, like his earlier Dragon/Coco 1/2 episode):

 https://youtu.be/RES-9Pskxpg

5) NitrOS-9 EOU 6.1.0 has now been released for both the Matchbox Coco and MiSTer Coco 3 cores, (both of those cores are by Roger Taylor), and include the enhanced EOU with 80x60 text support by Bill Nobel. You can download it free here:

 http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/nitros9.html#currentdownloads

6) Ken @ Canadian Retro Things on YouTube has put up his second video of working with the boards that he got from MrDave6309 on our Discord. 1st up is a 4 ROM bank switched Atari 8 bit game cartridge, and the 2nd is an Atari joystick adaptor for the Coco:

 https://youtu.be/x3bErpOhkgM

7) Sheldon MacDonald put up a video showing his progress on loading files from disk using assembly language, and only using the "legal" DSKCON routines/API's:

 https://www.facebook.com/sheldon.macdonald.733/videos/10165306302720361/

8) Our own Ron Delvaux put up a disk image (on his Ron's Garage Facebook page) of 10 Coco 3 utilities, that you can download:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/487282281640389/permalink/1396496337385641/

MC-10

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1) Jim Gerrie converted an educational program (World Geography) originally written in French for the Alice (MC-10 clone) computer in France to the MC-10. This includes information about the solar system, earth, etc. in a low res graphics presentation, with quizzes at the end:

 https://youtu.be/lrwSD2dCVc4

2) Robert Sieg points out that a the MC-10 emulator "DCALICE" (which also emulates the Alice 4K, Alice 32 and Alice 90 computers) also emulates the "MCX-32-FDJ floppy controller developed by Darren Atkinson" (Version 20.5.2020):

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/3886305098162950/

You can download it here (webpage is french):

 http://alice32.free.fr

3) Darren Ottery uploaded a Text/SG graphics editing tool for the MCX32-SD for the MC-10:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/3904445289682264/

Direct download link:

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NcJSbu-j780BnlklTiH8QkGT6k6n3bbZ/view

Dragon 32/64

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1) John Whitworth announced that 3 new Dragon MSX2: boards were almost ready to go out as of May 15 (this past Saturday):

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2909331315993185/

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):

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1) Episode 20 of the The Coco Show is now available on YouTube. They cover the Coco 3 game Springster this month:

 https://youtu.be/Tew1FAd0s5Y

2) Jim Gerrie has a video up for a text adventure game that is labelled as "anti-soviet", and a port of the original made in 1988 by Czech programmer Miroslav Fidler, called P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A for the MC-10:

 https://youtu.be/NUX-8JgwDjQ

3) Some more Cuthbert Dragon videos that show other games that I have not seen before: Dickie's Den. It is a game that is in the Manic Miner / JetSet Willy style:

 https://youtu.be/3eSzO3F_Izo

Utopia:

 https://youtu.be/cyswH-91VpE