News stories for May 9, 2020 show

News stories for May 9, 2020 show:

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1) Dennis Havlena has a video on YouTube that plays 17 Celtic fiddle and Pipe tunes that he did back in the 1980's using Musica:

 https://youtu.be/LSjzj94YzEg

2) Stevie Strow has three videos on how to set up MAME to emulate Coco's, from scratch, and using his CocoSDC to autoboot to a Drivewire disk:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NegztbUWM8
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Arxa7JbsI
 https://youtu.be/L6OEjuVIceQ

3) Allen Huffman has an interesting BASIC programming post (again!) showing some really cool techniques for using ON GOTO and ON GOSUB to compress size and increase speed:

 https://subethasoftware.com/2020/05/07/more-crazy-on-goto-gosub-and-if-thens/

4) Ron Klein has a demo video for the new 0.5a version of YA-DOS, and a hard drive image is available for download. YA-DOS is a 16K DOS ROM with built in Drivewire support and other goodies, created by Brett Gordon:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riNy1nA0_GI
 https://github.com/mrgw454/CCHDD

5) Steven Wallis made a post on the Coco list with details on a technique (that Nick Marentes has used previously as well, for the Donut Dilemma update), for using the Coco 3 128x192x4 color mode to replace a Coco 1/2 mode, and thus giving you control of both color and better yet, the border color (instead of being fixed in green or white, like on the Coco 1/2):

 http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/2020-May/174999.html

6) Carlos Camacho found an old Radio Shack commercial showing the Coco being played by Santa's elves (played by young children):

 https://youtu.be/4ZWEk04V9qw?t=222

7) Paul Barton put up a post on Facebook showing his prototype "Cerial-X" card, which is a 16550 serial based card of some sort:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158222214282641/

8) Ed Snider released two videos concerning the upcoming GIME-X Coco 3 upgrade (of which beta boards are being sent to developers very soon): Basic Installation:

 https://youtu.be/Ba3fBYJXwVE

Main Board overview:

 https://youtu.be/Q8rA0fkvKeU

9) Terry Trapp Posted a quick sketch of his SALT replacement chip for the older Coco's (a very hard chip to find a replacement for).

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158191599277641/

10) Todd Wallace posted his Tandy 1000 simulator video (similar to my Windows 95 one I did years ago, except his looks better):

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158227016527641/

11) Bill Nobel has released the Matchbox Coco version of NitrOS9 EOU Beta 5, which should be showing up on the color computer archive soon, and is available now on the EOU page:

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

12) Rob Owen posted a photo of 9 different Dragon programming books from back in the day on the Facebook Dragon group:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2607317549527898/

13) Tony Jewell in the Facebook Dragon Group posted a picture of his now working Dragon, but most intriguing is his photos showing the new diagnostic cartridge made by Phill Harvey-Smith:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2606409212952065/

14) John Whitworth has DragonPlus self build kits available again for Dragon 32/64/200 models. This adds an 80 column card (that doesn't use any video RAM from the Dragon itself), and also an extra 64K RAM that can be used as a RAM Drive. Works with OS9/NitrOS9 level 1, Flex and Edit128:

 https://www.dragonplus-electronics.co.uk/?product=dragonplus-board-for-dragon-32-or-64-kit

Game On News stories

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1) A reminder that time is running out for the Amigos Coco Show Gunstar giveaway! Simply leave a review of their show on iTunes to enter (look for "The Coco Show")!

2) Marlin Lee, after an almost year long hiatus, has returned with 3 Coco game videos this past week: Pumpman:

 https://youtu.be/71C280P8-uc

Zeus:

 https://youtu.be/WYlEiJmoCOU

Defense:

 https://youtu.be/We4uSYEowm4

Moon Patrol games by R.G. Lustig (Moon Hopper & Desert Patrol)

 https://youtu.be/cDMU-H8H5Lg

3) Roger Taylor has a video showing his Coco 3 MiSTer FPGA - now supporting 128MB RAM module:

 https://youtu.be/7Oux2xTrEYU

4) Michael Pittsley has another multi-media Disney educational game video up - this time for Space Probe Math (I think it is "inspired" by Star Trek):

 https://youtu.be/IMoP5kJ8OaM

5) Jim Gerrie has a text strategy game out called "Chairman of the Board", converted from the VZ200 to the MC10:

 https://youtu.be/gITD3VWRliA

and "The Golden Flute" (from a book called "Golden Flutes and Great Escapes: How to Write Adventure Games"):

 https://youtu.be/BMB2nyWIZys

and a special one: MicoMania 2 - Converting a game from an Australian Coco magazine in 1985, originally written by Darren Ottery. It was updated by both Jim Gerrie AND it's original author, Darren, in April of this year!

 https://youtu.be/-AZUA7LC0PE

6) Chinnyvision Episode 338 features 5 Tandy Coco games (Dino Wars, Pinball, Skiing, Wildcatting and Canyon Climber):

 https://youtu.be/sZWBn1hVDLg

7) Sheldon MacDonald share a screenshot and video of progress on a Coco 1/2 graphics game he is working on that also supports the Game Master Cartridge sound chip:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158215948927641/

8) Steve Parham posted a photo of the cassette case and label for the Microdeal release of the Spectral Associates game, Module Man:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2606514002941586/

9) Pere Serrat posted a video showing further progress with his port of the AGD game "Foggy's Quest" to the Wordpak2+ Dragon upgrade card, which features the V9958 video chip:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2605381713054815/

10) Australian YouTube channel Retrospectreviews has a review of a Coco 3 game called Shoot'N'Range, written by Albert Marsh. The author himself suggested he try the game (which appeared in a 1987 issue of Rainbow):

 https://youtu.be/VaoFtTWkR6w

11) Cuthbert Dragon added a video of the Dragon 32 game Willy's Revenge:

 https://youtu.be/1DIGE15fLgU