News stories for Episode 284, October 22, 2022

News stories for Episode 284, October 22, 2022

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(October 15-October 21)

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

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1) James Diffendaffer posted a BASIC source code update for his "Fedora 3D Plot" program, incorporating both his 6809 multiply patch and 6309 native mode:

 https://jdiffendaffer.blogspot.com/2022/10/fedora-3d-plot-update.html

2) Color Computer Programing on YouTube did a quick video showing some page flipping animated to show a 3Dish ball bouncing:

 https://youtu.be/ISCfowlbFMo

3) Ken Waters (alias Canadian Retro Things) - in a Halloweeny mood - put up part 1 of his "My Cursed Coco 3" video series - if things that went wrong when trying to upgrade a Coco 3:

 https://youtu.be/jtKiLBu91sw

4) Speaking of upgrading Coco's - The Taylor and Amy show released a video showing the 6309 upgrade to their Coco 2, and a real time running of Mandelbrot sets:

 https://youtu.be/8l9Ye0RlIOA

MC-10

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1) Jim Gerrie did a quick little program (with some suggestions from Greg Dionne) showing him moving a little text tie fighter under keyboard control, but sensing more than 1 key at a time so that you can move diagonally, as well as key repeat. The entire program is show on screen at the beginning:

 https://youtu.be/zlZ684RXNjI

Dragon 32/64

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1) Julian Brown found an issue with his current duplication of the Dragon 32 motherboard - the cassette motor relay footprint is reversed. It is testable in this state; unfortunately it does mean that he needs at least one more board revision:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3297890577137255/

He also got an update on the EDAC edge connector with mounting point lugs - he found place to get the part cheaper, but a lead time of 10-12 weeks:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3299428526983460/

2) The Retrogames Show episode 6 has a section on a bunch of Dragon software that he received, including some rarer titles (according to the host, anyways):

 https://youtu.be/EgrzS1NOzv0?t=1976

3) John Whitworth (who is stepping away from DragonPlus Electronics for a month or two as he undergoes his next round of treatment) did set up a Github repository for the Dragon Beta (including Gerber files, Disk images, PAL/GAL documentation, etc.) :

 https://github.com/dragonplus-electronics/Dragon-Beta

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):

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1) Retro Hack Shack has returned (a little late for SepTandy due to hand surgery) with a "LETS PLAY" episode, with 3 official arcade game ports sold by Radio Shack - Rampage, Predator and Robocopy:

 https://youtu.be/sglrLmBpvGU

2) Tim & AJ of Sibling Rivalry were live at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo last weekend, and they did a live stream on Sunday morning playing some Coco games from the show floor, featuring gameplay of Pitstop II & LeMans (the latter finally with some skidding physics) (they also did some other streams for the Intellivision and Atari 2600 if you want to check those out):

 https://youtu.be/BvH-VyzRuWY

3) Davy's Retro Corner posted a video of gameplay from the BASIC game Lumberjack, from the "Games for your Dragon" book by Clive Gifford:

 https://youtu.be/Xklq_X3a3mw 

4) Alderson Retro Computing posted an unusual video for his channel - playing Color Baseball:

 https://youtu.be/9n_TgUR1yiM

5) Inufuto has started releasing ports of their next game - looks to be based on Galaga - called Guntus. Currently, the 32K RAM Coco 1/2 version is up:

 http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/guntus/

And as of yesterday, the MC-10 version as well:

 https://youtu.be/s6KNZvpNtlo

6) Port Battles on YouTube did a video on the official ports of Frogger - including the Coco 1/2 & Dragon versions (which are pretty well identical). (Note: This an update to his original version of this video, and includes many more ports & some clones, although no Coco clones are included):

 https://youtu.be/_XGzk0elA0M

7) Rob's Retro Rambles returns to the Dragon with a playthrough & funny commentary of Ghost Attack (which is a slightly modified version of Pac Attack by the same original company, Computerware):

 https://youtu.be/d5rbk1VeO9k

8) Our very own David Ladd released a video for the Game On Challenge this week, showing him play Paul Shoemakers Halloween edition of Ghost Rush (the Coco 3 version):

 https://youtu.be/SyY2y8tTqcU

9) Tim and AJ over at My Drunk Sibling also played it as well... for a lonngggggg time:

 https://youtu.be/tMKF3724Yw4