Some news stories for November 2, 2019 show

Some news stories for November 2, 2019 show: 1) Jim Gerrie has ported his MC-10 Akalabeth to the Coco, using the same PMODE 2. https://youtu.be/4s9f8edNpXY He also has a video of Akalabeth running on a real MC-10 with the MCX hardware expansion: https://youtu.be/WtSF4Al4hGA He also ported "Paint Duel" to the MC-10, from the July 1981 issue of Creative Computing magazine. https://youtu.be/3AZSy_YQk0Y

2) Paul Shoemaker has released a new video update to Oregon Trail: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157600108852641/

3) [REDACTED] has a demo testing his VGM player that will support the original Speech Systems Symphony 12 card, or Jim Brains Philharmonic 12. He still has a way to go, but the Moon Patrol theme at the beginning sounds very much like the arcade: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157602710247641/

4) Todd Wallace has a demo of simple OPL music player based on Ed Sniders CCT (Coco Chip Tunes) format that he plans on using as the base of an OS9 player. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157603182972641/

5) Amigos Retro Gaming has a few new Coco videos: John has posted a 6 minute video on how to set up MAME to emulate a Coco: https://youtu.be/Kacg-R-b3cs The 2nd Coco Show gaming podcast is up (and they have enough Patreons that they are up to bi-weekly episodes now), and this episode showcases Downland and Zenix. https://youtu.be/_RDkZKJtkDk Aaron's live play of Downland (wrong color set, as he mentioned on the new podcast episode) https://youtu.be/IYj2BlYvLYg

6) Petsasjim1 has some more Dragon videos: Dragrunner (Kind of Frogger with guns?): https://youtu.be/T0_dXReupXc Fireball (written in BASIC): https://youtu.be/71zRvBlNv3k Fireforce (Commando type game with some pretty cool music - and possibly a candidate for my Game On segment): https://youtu.be/mscZ1gtgyUQ Fearless Freddy: https://youtu.be/jZqXHb_sV-g?t=46 Folly's Farm Chicken Run: https://youtu.be/jRFTUqM5ITs?t=11 Football Manager: Manage your Football (Soccer to us North Americans) team, and low res game play views as well. https://youtu.be/JZWVv4nreIg?t=18

7) Gigerpunk has a game video for the Dragon that was a game promo for Weetabix cereal, called "Weetabix versus the Titchies" (kind of space invaders, with twist that you have get your missiles before you can fire them): https://youtu.be/tY1S4LF2dc0

8) CanadianRetroThings has part two of his MC-10 video up on YouTube. In this episode, he is reverse engineering the 8K RAM upgrade that was causing him problems. https://youtu.be/WJleDGNi5dY

9) David OConner put a video up showing some custom fonts/palettes using the CocoVGA running on his Coco 1. His little demo shows his LCD style numbering in his font. He even spells "Colour" correctly! https://youtu.be/TvXa2UMvU3w

10) Simon Jonassen has an animated 10 color palette demo, based on his RGB/10 color demo he did previously, which will be the base background for a much fancier looking demo he is working on. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157617349797641/

11) James Jones mentioned on Facebook that the Paul Schreiber interview (from Tandy Assembly) is up on YouTube: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157613982202641/

12) Davy Mitchell has updates to SGEDIT online semigraphics screen editing tool, and Rob Inman also found out that it works fine from iOS (in addition to desktop browers): https://hardcore-jackson-6272e8.netlify.com/

13) New cartoon from D. Bruce Moore: http://joey.gracenote.ca/004-syntax-errors/

X4) Teaser for Game On segment - either direct into it, or a commercial first: FOR THE GAME ON SEGMENT - VOLUME 1 OF COCO 1/2 6309 ENHANCED GAMES (will work on Coco 3 as well - and if you do POKE 65497,0, some of them *really* run fast) - Includes 6309 sped up versions of 3 old Coco 1/2 games.

My "Side project" after work started to die down, but not enough that I could concentrate on EOU, was to patch a few Coco 1/2/TDP/Dragon games to use the 6309 (native mode for sure, and TFM's in some specific cases). Coco 3 owners can even do a POKE 65497,0 to speed them even more. Download link below (Volume 1 contains Colorcar Action by Novasoft (Tom Mix Software), Touchstone (Tom Mix Software), and Gantelet (Diecom), all 6309 native mode and some with extra 6309 optimizations). Use David Ladd's 3rd video showing side by side (Coco 1/2), 6809 version on left, 6309 version on right, of Gantelet by Dave Dies & Diecom Products: https://youtu.be/DdDHVTEjoS8

To download: http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/Coco12-6309games-volume1.zip