Some news stories for September 28, 2019 show

Some news stories for September 28, 2019 show: 1) The weekly Jim Gerrie updates: Galaxy! (port of an old Avalon Hill game) https://youtu.be/BBMuhYGZGpo Also NukeWar (also an Avalon Hill port): https://youtu.be/oFIlYxAijiI

2) Paul Thayer (and Simon Jonassen) have completely their palette editor module, which lets you pick your 16 colour palette from all 64 colours being on the screen at once, using a mouse or joystick: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157502498552641/

3) Todd Wallace (Lord Dragon) has video showing him adding color to his Coco disk utility: https://youtu.be/kXHjUjWZsaI

4) 3oldtechdudes on YouTube - One of the members of this trio (Nathan) explains why he got a Coco 2. And he uses Audio Spectrum Analyzer. They also talk about experiences with them in schools. https://youtu.be/K8dgx8Rbw0k

5) Jon Day finally has an update on "Return to Rom" - a completely modern PC sequel to Rick Adams "Temple of ROM game", done in full 3D. Like me, real life tends to slow down/pause projects: https://youtu.be/2o__-PXemBg

6) Bill Pierce shared a video of one of the 16 color mode graphics demos that came with Sundog's GrafExpress package - which allowed faster graphics, sprites and windows from BASIC using a custom, string based extension to BASIC. It also supported 256 colors in composite only. Unfortunately, the licensing at the time looked expensive (in talking with Glen Dahlgren, who ran Sundog, it was actually not as bad as it sounded... but unfortunately, no one knew that at the time), and it took a fair bit of RAM away from BASIC, so you couldn't write as huge of programs for it. https://youtu.be/RQH_CnFHVqM

7) Ed Snider showed off a prototype case to hold his new replacement keyboards externally to the Coco. Which brings up the thought of doing a larger one with both Coco 3 and Coco 1/2 layout arrow keys in the same keyboard, and adding a numeric keypad (all of which can be done with the existing 57 key keyboard matrix): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157509626857641/

8) Ron Delvaux made a mockup of a poster to commemorate the upcoming 40th anniversary of the Coco https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157509222022641/

9) Chris Burke, of Burke&Burke fame, has made a SCART cable that comes directly from the RGB port on the Coco 3, so no external box is required: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157500810717641/

10) Ed Snider put up some schematics of a motherboard for a Coco2Plus - while most of the chips are "stock" Coco 2 parts, a "few key IC's are removed and a daughterboard" is added, allowing VGA output, 2x overclocking, and - the tantalizing teaser from Ed - "maybe a couple of other things". https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157512101192641/

11) Matchy has a video demonstrating doing "real" 3D graphics rotations, etc. - in Semigraphics modes. https://youtu.be/fI_iT3GW-Ko

Live stream from Tandy Assembly (seminars live at this point): https://youtu.be/Jx-p-1CeV3M