News stories for January 11, 2019 show

News stories for January 11, 2019 show:

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1) David O'Connor completed his version of a composite mod for the Coco 1 (and both PAL and NTSC versions), that is producing pretty good output.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156870022202641/

2) Jason Reighard, who debuted his new Joey Serial Switch on our show last week, has posted some nice clean pictures showing what it looks like:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157815048357641/

3) Jim Brain (Retro Innovations) is the no longer secret manufacturer of the MIDI board that Brian Schubring has mentioned on our show. And he has schematics and some prototype photos to show what it looks like:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157812384677641/

4) Jim Brain also did his very test on his new MIDI board with some software provided by Brian Schubring. MIDI OUT seems to be working; he was able to play Axel F from the Coco. With some roundabout testing, he also gotten MIDI IN and MIDI THRU working as well.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157824922902641

5) John Laury did a quick video showing the Spade Invaders font on the CocoVGA, running in the 64x32 column mode, including animating the characters (mute the music in case it is copyrighted):

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157813759812641/

6) The latest Coco Show (featuring Crystal City & Outhouse) has been released on YouTube.

 https://youtu.be/NQ40ZILoqA8

7) Jerry Stratton has made a Rainbow BASIC program preflight tool, that helps catch other errors beyond his original RCHECK program (which is based on RainbowCheck+ from Rainbow, which did rudimentary checksumming of each BASIC line):

 http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/hacks/coco/rainbow-magazine-basic-program-preflight-tool/

8) Ed Snider has a video talking about his image converter to the VG6 (128x96x16 color) mode on the CocoVGA:

 https://youtu.be/h3Hcmeek6MY

Game On segment videos:

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1) Jim Gerrie has release Goblin for the MC-10 (ported from the Vic-20) for 20K MC-10's:

 https://youtu.be/4TDz0JxMv8s

And a 4K, reduced version:

 https://youtu.be/wNR03k06qbA

And he updated the MC-10 port of "Time Travelers" from the 3rd Rainbow Book of Adventures to run on a 20K MC-10 (rather than needing the MCX-128), and it also now does word wrap:

 https://youtu.be/BPERzOgHZxc

And, just today, he released the MC-10 version of Nightmare Park Game, ported from the PET:

 https://youtu.be/5VSgP0cPEdU

2) Amigo Aaron has a gameplay video of And a gameplay video of Crystal City played live on his Coco 3 up:

 https://youtu.be/HC1H4daYTHY

3) Petsasjim1 Dragon videos: Total Eclipse (Note: he doesn't appear to be able to get it fully going, but there is enough to briefly show):

 https://youtu.be/gUK2sSndas0?t=5

Trace Racers (Loosely a one player Tron light cycle type game):

 https://youtu.be/LcB8TlFUXow?t=82

Trace Racers (the 2 player Tron light cycle version):

 https://youtu.be/2UyGk3UBtQU?t=12

Triplet (3 sub-games, loosely based on Master Mind)

 https://youtu.be/QuYbi7Ot7Zk

Trial of Arnold Blackwood (text adventure game, but running in PMODE 4 with upper/lowercase black on white text, and some highlighting of key areas of the screen. And some sound.):

 https://youtu.be/_uFBXoRfVug

Underbeings of Croth (well presented text adventure game in PMODE 4):

 https://youtu.be/hxjQiz-vgJY

Up Periscope (a cool looking BASIC war strategy game with multiple screens) - limited gameplay in this video:

 https://youtu.be/LKtbF3-Dj1Y

U-X-B - A weird bomb defusing game:

 https://youtu.be/afJgYv8iSvo

Ugh!

 https://youtu.be/2kt8jNZM9w4

Tube Way Army (Scramble clone):

 https://youtu.be/HNztP2hE6cI?t=201

Trivial Crosswords:

 https://youtu.be/zc056wLHQuQ?t=57

Vulcan Noughts and Crosses (BASIC Connect 4 game):

 https://youtu.be/ybnYeTpzPmI?t=50

White Barrows (Kind of a Hunt the Wumpus type of game) in BASIC:

 https://youtu.be/MwmfxV2vEqE

Willy's Revenge:

 https://youtu.be/I0txYG4m4dA?t=1

Wizard's Quest:

 https://youtu.be/c6fRn89nK2o?t=5

Vultures (Galaxian style game):

 https://youtu.be/fKF7C2B7mDE

4) Gigerpunk released another Dragon game, "Bombs Away Basil", which is somewhat original:

 https://youtu.be/gkyh49MobBQ

And, Steve will be demoing it now: