News stories for Episode 215, June 5, 2021 show

News stories for Episode 215, June 5, 2021 show:

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

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1) The latest Coco Crew episode dropped, which includes a tech segment on using hexadecimal from Extended BASIC, and a review of Thexder:

 http://cococrew.org

2) Todd Wallace (Lord Dragon in our Discord) has released a video showing his IRC client running on his Coco 3, under NitrOS-9 (also requires Drivewire). He also has it available for download for testing (Version 0.9 Beta at the time of this writing); the link to that in the video's description:

 https://youtu.be/bWYd8rN2FU8

3) Long Lost Tech on YouTube just announced that he is back online, and made a quick 10 second teaser video - using Deskmate on a Coco 2:

 https://youtu.be/RfxORwXoyzs

4) A channel on YouTube called "Amber's Vibe Corner" has released a couple of very short videos using EDTASM+ to write quick assembly routines. Not sure if this was started due to our new assembly language tutorial, or if that is just coincidence:

 https://youtu.be/lY_iYNRIN30

Turning on the G2R graphics mode:

 https://youtu.be/1bawgY66SWQ

MC-10

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1) Robert Sieg has been doing a ton of graphic experiments on the Alice 32 (one of the French sequels to the MC-10) using it's better graphics and text modes (particularly using alternate fonts):

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10159257539802641/

Some different renders, showed along the original high color source and original lower palette bit map, then converted to color text:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/3940099572783502/
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/3933733006753492/

Dragon 32/64

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1) John Whitworth has sent in the next version of his Dragon MSX 2+ upgrade graphics/sound board:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10159250535747641/

2) Patrik Gahm announced on the Dragon Facebook group about "forNDATA sUMMER 2o21" happening today (June 5) in Sweden. It's billed as an "oldschool party featuring C64, Amiga and other 8/16 bit computer platforms", and Patrik is hoping to see some Coco and/or Dragon entries this year. They have some big name guest speakers as well (he would like to get Coco/Dragon speakers to it for next year).

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2921628568096793/

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):

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1) Jim Gerrie ported a game from the APF Imagination Machine to the MC-10 called "Mission Improbable: Operation Alpha":

 https://youtu.be/Gn9b78WSXXM

He also used an APF Imagination Machine based game (which uses the same VDG as the Coco 1) as the basis for a 10 line BASIC game called Defender (which is a Missile Command type game):

 https://youtu.be/KYkDMrprK2Y

2) Paul Shoemaker did a quick video on Facebook showing his new 16 color card deck design (using a 256x192 16 color mode):

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10159259138127641/

3) Stefan Vogt announced on Twitter that the Coco is going to be added to the list of old machines that will be able to run a port of his text adventure game (currently already on 24 systems!) called Hibernated 1. I think it is based on the famous Infocom engine (used by Zork, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Witness, etc.). *(By the way, if somebody wants to respond on Twitter - some people commenting there thought that the Coco has only has 2 new games in 32 years... clue them into the show!):

 https://twitter.com/8bit_era/status/1399029042666479620

4) Cuthbert Dragon put up more game play videos, one of which I have not seen before, which looks like a good dungeon crawler called "The Sword and the Sorcerer" (appears to be written in BASIC, but well done graphics):

 https://youtu.be/-72dYpwRCTY