News stories for Episode 233, October 9, 2021 show

News stories for Episode 233, October 9, 2021 show

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

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1) Sheldon Hildebrand added a new video showing some changes to his 3D engine, including adding door keys & switches:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10159492672397641/

2) Alfredo Santos (author of the original "Coco Chronicles" Coco history text file from the 1991) has posted some photos on the Coco Facebook group showing a heavily customized Coco 3 he has:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10159499335587641/

3) Kenneth Udut made a short, interesting video - visually, showing the manual for the Orchestra-90, but with the musical background being a multi-voice song produced by the Orchestra-90 itself:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10159498684952641/

4) Timothy Halloran posted a photo of his display table from Tandy Assembly this past weekend:

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4951621588181556&set=gm.10159498202612641

5) Allen Leno posted photos of a modern AMD based machine put into a Coco 3 case - but with a new custom label for it:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10159496364682641/

6) John Linville posted up some photos of the show floor and some of the vendors from this past weekend's Tandy Assembly:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10159494390012641/

7) Richard Kelly has uploaded A BMP reader program in the Coco Facebook group. It is coded specifically for RGB monitors, it should be mentioned:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10159493768582641/

8) Humorously tagged as "OctTandy2021", The RetroChannel on YouTube did a video doing a Coco 2 repair & RAM upgrade, and also converting the the NTSC Coco's power supply:

 https://youtu.be/y_SZNztN3wM

9) YouTube channel "Color Computer Programming" put up a few videos this week (BASIC programming, it should be mentioned) - a PacMan demo, sprite movement demo, and a review of Dragon Fire:

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq8e7rmnX95GZuou36i0t5Q/videos

10) KOJRO Retro Innovations on YouTube put up a video comparing the Dragon 32 to the Coco 1. He mentions Noel's video from last week, but he doesn't think it was as much of a ripoff as Noel does, and explains why (including the Motorola reference design, etc.):

 https://youtu.be/u2AE8c2V3VE

11) Allen Huffman continues his exploration of BASIC beyond the end of Septandy, including a really well done on how to determine the smallest possible DIM size to use GET/PUT buffers in Extended BASIC (and how much memory the examples in the Extended BASIC manual wasted):

 https://youtu.be/6Ix7DEcDmOs

12) A YouTube called "Me" (Cute!) put up a video showing an animated Dali Clock running on the Coco 3:

 https://youtu.be/WkWQRzY13-Q

13) RetroComputo on YouTube (who is Jose Antonio Vaca Bello from Columbia) put up a Coco 3 video in Spanish (CC auto-translate to english is an option) where he just aquired a Tandy disk drive. I also noticed that he has a fan installed, so I am guessing he has an older 512K RAM upgrade as well. He discusses 3 way of how to get disk images over to the real floppy disks (ultimately deciding on Drivewire as being the cheapest and easiest to get working). One thing interesting he mentioned in the comments: Apparently the Coco was the 2nd most popular machine at the time, after the Ataris. Oh, and he used a PacMan demo game made by some Australian. :) :

 https://youtu.be/GuHukbwaRHw

14) Pedro Pena put up a video showing him testing his Pepper Board in his self-made Coco 3 motherboard:

 https://youtu.be/MY2BseB63P0

15) Arctic Retro on YouTube did a mail and donations episode (he is based in Norway), which included a Dragon 32: (The Dragon appears at 12:28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyL5EdBwrzs&t=748s)

 https://youtu.be/JyL5EdBwrzs

MC-10

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1) Simon Jonassen put up a video in the MC-10 group on Facebook showing his multi-voice music player for the MC-10, this time also including a percussion track. Pretty good for a 1 bit sound generator!:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/4298080123652110/

2) Jim Gerrie posted a link to a blog posting on swapping the SHIFT and CONTROL keys on the MC-10 (published back in April, but I think we missed it back then):

 https://lowlevel.ca/mc-10/mods/2021/04/08/MC10_Keyboard_Fix.html

3) Jim Gerrie also put up a YouTube video of his MC-10 version of the Nyan Cat, with music from SOUND statements:

 https://youtu.be/Iv4jrOBR0SM

Dragon 32/64

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1) Dan Doore posted a photon in the Dragon Facebook group of a Megadrive controller with a custom Dragon Logo on it:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3013210462271936/

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):

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1) vghchannel on YouTube released a gameplay video of the Coco 3 version of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? He also gave it a 6/10, preferring the Apple II version:

 https://youtu.be/pWvWHSTtTyc

2) John Boatofcar Shawler did an update on This Week in Retro this week, doing a brief followup on them covering Glen Hewlett's Joust last week, announcing that Defender was released:

 https://youtu.be/o4C1pH2r97E