News stories for May 2, 2020 show

News stories for May 2, 2020 show:

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1) Canadian Retro Things has had a couple of videos released: Using an iPad to load cassette programs, and a technique he came up with with then started not working reliably:

 https://youtu.be/4zPgcG6fqAU

Going over his retro collection (which includes both a Coco 2 and an MC-10)

 https://youtu.be/m1PMwtOlWWg

2) Stevie Strowbridge posted a couple of "how to" videos, one for using a Wifi Card in the CocoSDC for development:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq7rR9lzi38

And another for using PyDrivewire, DWTerm and BBSing online:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coAa2qeFJoE

3) YouTube channel "Terry's Workbench" (Terry Trapp) has a 1+ hour video on recapping his Coco 2:

 https://youtu.be/aiR-IQCeYgc

He also has one about a bad connection on a VDG, with some odd effects:

 https://youtu.be/YsFWytbCObU

4) TJBChris posted a video on upgrading his Coco 2 to use a composite monitor upgrade from Ed Snider (www.zippsterzone.com):

 https://youtu.be/GOcltv2OUsU

5) Michael Pittsley has a photo of rather oddly modified Coco 1 for sale on ebay - does anyone have any idea what this large port is for?

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158202231857641/

6) Travis Poppe posted a really nice B&W picture of his main Coco's set up (all 6309 upgraded), including a Coco 3, and white Coco 1 with a Coco 3 keyboard, CocoVGA, etc.:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158202013777641/

7) Rick Bagwell is asking for some help in locating GEMPRINT 1.1 for the Coco 1/2 and older Gemini line printers. He found his manual, but not the software. Can anyone help?

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158201586557641/

8) Coco Crew podcast #59 is out. Features part 2 of their interview with Mark McDougall about Knight Lore, and an interview with George Dorner. Find it at:

 http://cococrew.org

9) Jason Wohlgemuth has a photo of interesting Coco clone from Mexico "microSEP", which looks to be a white Coco 1 style case, and this one is upgraded with a Coco 3 keyboard.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158201947112641/

10) Allen Huffman finds evidence that a Coco with Audio Spectrum Analyzer was used for the Knight Rider TV show display in KITT (for some of the cars that went "on tour" (And Chad Edward commented that he got to see it himself, and talked to William Daniels (the voice of KITT), and that he had confirmed that many Tandy programs were used):

 https://youtu.be/twWVvMtnHi0?t=569

11) Tony Jewell has some photos up of his Wifi enabled Dragon getting onto the net in the Dragon Facebook page, using the Compusense Viewdata software:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2601410993451887/

And he has a picture of a power supply/multipak combo he home made that looks awesome and industrial with his black Dragon 32:

 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10159291260736756

12) Tormod Volden has posted the latest CMOC release (0.1.65) for Windows without requiring the Cygwin environment:

 http://toolshed.sourceforge.net/cmoc/

13) New member on Facebook Xeox Gomazoa shows pictures of his Coco 1 systems, including very different joysticks: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158208364027641/

14) And, of course, a little thing called "NitrOS-9 Ease of Use Edition, Beta 5" was released. It is on my site for free download now, and should be on the Color Computer Archive soon (if not by broadcast time).

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

15) Terry Steege has even posted a video showing how to install VCC (2.0.1e) and EOU, for those who want to try it without a Coco 3. And it's dead silent, so as not to bug your spouse and/or pets:

 https://youtu.be/JU8SIC-4Smw

Game On News stories

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1) The Coco Show released their second April episode, featuring Speed Racer. Don't forget to enter the Gunstar giveaway contest, by leaving them a review on iTunes!

 https://youtu.be/lwKOE-d2eak

2) Michael Pittsley on YouTube continues his rundown of the Disney multi-media cassette education games for the Coco 1/2, with "Mickey's World of Writing":

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilFDA00Od_s

3) Cuthbert Dragon on YouTube has some Dragon 32/64 game videos up. Some that I have not seen before are Boris the Bold, Star Defense (a Defender clone I have not seen before), Breakout (where the bricks slowly scroll onto the screen), Circus Adventure (beginners adventure game with low res graphics, for young kids).

 https://www.youtube.com/user/MaryWinstead32/videos

4) Gigerpunk (Rob's Retro Rambles) does a review/play of Cuthbert in Space:

 https://youtu.be/s0IyZeAdJIk

5) A new YouTuber I have not seen before (cunningmunki) has a video playing Phantom Slayer (Dragon 32). It is their only Dragon related game on his channel so far.

 https://youtu.be/vBWeZcoTmyA

6) R. Allen Murphy has a new blog post about him learning how Coco 3 graphics work for the game conversion of AX-2 Uchu Yusosen Nostromo game from the NEC PC-6001:

 https://exileinparadise.com/nostromo:hitting_the_books

7) Erico Patricio Monteiro posted on Facebook that he is thinking of making a real Coco game, now that his PC game "The Outhouse" is done. He is thinking of doing a fight game, and shows that we didn't have a lot of them on the Coco. Can anyone thing of any others not on his list? (The Last Ninja was never completed, so it doesn't count. :-p ) :

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158200441742641/

8) Carlos Camacho is compiling a database list of all hardware/peripherals that were either required or optional for Dragon and Coco games. If anyone has any others that can add, please reply to his Facebook post:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158186341627641/