News stories for Episode 259, April 23, 2022

News stories for Episode 259, April 23, 2022

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Terry Steen Interview today!

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

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1) Jim Brain of Go4Retro (and president of Glenside) posted a link to a YouTube video that shows his MMU card upgrade for the SuperPET, and running OS-9 Level 1 on it (including using a Vic20 as a terminal). The SuperPET had a 6809 like the Coco, and the video is on the Commodore History YouTube channel:

 https://youtu.be/T_Q3_pQF42U

2) 8 Bits in the Basement on YouTube put up a half hour video showing some PCB's that MrDave6309 made and shipped over to him in France. This included MrDave's LED/ROM/555 timer cartridge (which has two 555 timer chips, a ROM socket that handles >16K ROM's, and it uses one of the 555's for bank switching 16K chunks from larger ROM's). He demos it controlling LED's, including some games patched to use them, and other things:

 https://youtu.be/cAKvNayD8O8

3) James Diffendaffer has put up a screen shots & BASIC program listings for several math based graphic demo onto the Coco Facebook page:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10159861376472641/
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10159853388092641/

4) John Linville posted a photo of a Coco Crew themed label for MyJones Custom Jones soda pop, which is a pretty cool advertising idea:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10159861195532641/

5) Sheldon MacDonald posted a video on YouTube showing his using Zippsterzone's PSG cartridge adaptor using a Sega Mouse driver he made in BASIC, running CocoCAD (a BASIC program itself):

 https://youtu.be/RtPf3VrnGMU

He also posted a screenshot and some information about the new editor environment that he is working on (which will work for Coco or Sega Genesis):

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10159852632252641/

6) John Papas posted a photo of his "VIC 20 Portable Laptop", and mentioned that he is working on a Coco version as well:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10159859546892641/

MC-10

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Dragon 32/64

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1) Andrew Sinclair posted in the Dragon Facebook group that he has a 60 cm x 40 cm poster version of the original box art for the game Lunar Rover Patrol:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3157127444546903/

2) Phil Harvey-Smith gave a small update on the Dragon Beta RAM replacement board, after he figured out what the issue was. It seems to consistently boot OS-9 Level 2 now:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3154327148160266/

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):

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1) Paul Shoemaker put up a video showing the results of his experiments on using double buffering & VYSNC to make little walking sprites:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10159855314967641/

2) Jim Gerrie ported a video his port of the educational game "Dunking Jack", a program from Fun for Kidz magazine (October 2009), to the MC-10:

 https://youtu.be/izH5tKzEVXg

He also showed a partial walkthrough of of the adventure game "King Tut's Tomb", including a new graphical title screen:

 https://youtu.be/beL1mes-BZY

3) The Amigos release episode 31 of The Coco Show on YouTube, feature Computerware's Time Patrol:

 https://youtu.be/2nQilqH3RLQ

4) A YouTube channel that I have not heard of before, HoggBallz, posted a video of Cashman gameplay:

 https://youtu.be/cI2VnCVVVc4

5) Cuthbert Dragon released a different quick video - a quick 30 second video tour of the cassette box for the game Ice Castles for the Dragon 32:

 https://youtu.be/jvdT4Dd3TNQ

6) Tim & AJ have released episode 26 of their Sibling Rivalry show - this time featuring the Coco game, Candy Co. I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but I assume it will be magic as usual!

 https://youtu.be/HGaN0fji5SA