News stories for February 1, 2019 show

News stories for February 1, 2019 show:

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1) Steve Strowbridge has caught up on the world map of Coco/Dragon users, which now has just about 315 entries worldwide:

 https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1NsilYgpxOXvME-6WOMhYmDp0L-M&ll=15.33813215670769%2C-113.84234904999994&z=2

2) Henry Reitveld has posted a video showing how to create physical disks from .WAV files for the Coco and Dragon:

 https://youtu.be/ZIRskBWM2xM

3) Henry also showed a video of a "Coco Cat Headroom" (based on Max Headroom) that was published in Rainbow in 1987, and uses the speech sound cartridge with some PMODE 4 graphics:

 https://youtu.be/jEluReHyz1Q

4) Antonio Carlos Jimenez Ely shared a link to a high-resolution (256x192) joystick/mouse cartridge, that was designed before the Tandy High Resolution Interface. It seems to have the same resolution as the CocoMax one; not sure if it is the same design, but it includes full schematics.

 https://manualzz.com/doc/14067040/tandy---radio-shack-color-computer-analog---hires-joystic

5) John Linville and the Coco Crew are proposing a CocoFest! Challenge (similar to Retro Challenge, but Coco specific. You have to blog and document your progress, and the it is proposed to run from February 15 through April 1. Details on the Coco Crew page on Facebook.The winner of the contest gets a paid for dinner with the CocoCrew.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1606095809633762/permalink/2513094772267190/

6) Friend of the show Diego released a video in Spanish showing how to use VCC for Coco 3 emulation. He also shows some of the real hardware (Coco 3, floppy drives, multi-pak:

 https://youtu.be/0VqKo8ht5f0

7) Coco Crew's January podcast is available now. This month features an interview with Dale Lear, author of the OS9 column in Rainbow, and several OS-9 books, whom we also interviewed back on December 22, 2018 (Episode 88).

 http://cococrew.org

Game On segment videos:

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1) Ken Reighard posted the link to a video on the history of Zaxxon, including home ports, which has the Coco mentioned as a decent port. The Coco mention happens around here:

 https://youtu.be/LKalWCWjyRM?t=642

2) Brian Palmer put up some screenshots from a game that was just uploaded to the archive this past week, a Coco 1/2 graphical adventure game called "Indiana Jim". It appears to be joystick/mouse driven.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157886389587641/

3) And probably the last of the Petsasjim1 Dragon games (since he has hit 'Z' in his alphabetical listing of games he has made videos for the Dragon): World Boxing (in BASIC, no less):

 https://youtu.be/G_hEh49PzEc?t=16

Wumpus Mansion (also in BASIC, and basically (HA!) has two mini games):

 https://youtu.be/CRoihi-k23Q

Zorakk the Conqueror:

 https://youtu.be/RziB_V0DeT4

Zotoka (1st video is instructions, 2nd video is game play). Kind of like Viking or Erland, but with high res graphics:

 https://youtu.be/dfd62olWlRQ
 https://youtu.be/OQyB0pb-UW4?t=11

6809 Express (after a bit of the intro music, fast forward to 3:17) He doesn't really learn to play the game, with a plan bombing your train, it looks interesting. I assume the bottom is a map for changing tracks?:

 https://youtu.be/SXf7yIYRH8o?t=9

I will mention - Jim is still doing Dragon videos, but now covering educational programs, tutorial programs, utilities, etc. I don't think that appeals to a wider audience, so I won't be specifically covering them, but for those interested, he is still producing non-game Dragon videos.

4) [REDACTED], during a Sunday game playing sequence, showed some new effects (lighting and parallax scrolling) that he is testing in [REDACTED GAME] III:

 https://youtu.be/UgoW2u-GYaM?t=8403

5) Jorf released several speedrun videos of Coco games on YouTube (done on VCC by the looks of artfacting): Downland: all 10 chambers in 7 minutes.

 https://youtu.be/zx4rPRZ6K6w

Canyon Climber: All 3 levels in 1 minute, 7&2/3 seconds:

 https://youtu.be/LIlFdk8khsM

6) Jim Gerrie has released Mini Solo Chess for the Coco, with a video showing it here:

 https://youtu.be/n5lS_lzNcuE

And also Alpha Force:

 https://youtu.be/oh1oA1zTf7E