[Coco] CoCoTALK Live! News stories for Episode 284, October 22, 2022

[Robert "Exile In Paradise" Murphey]

CoCoTALK Live! News stories for Episode 284, October 22, 2022
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(October 15-October 21)
Collected by L. Curtis Boyle

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
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1) James Diffendaffer posted a BASIC source code update for his "Fedora
3D Plot" program, incorporating both his 6809 multiply patch and 6309
native mode:
  https://jdiffendaffer.blogspot.com/2022/10/fedora-3d-plot-update.html

2) Color Computer Programing on YouTube did a quick video showing some
page flipping animated to show a 3Dish ball bouncing:
  https://youtu.be/ISCfowlbFMo

3) Ken Waters (alias Canadian Retro Things) - in a Halloweeny mood -
put up part 1 of his "My Cursed Coco 3" video series - if things that
went wrong when trying to upgrade a Coco 3:
  https://youtu.be/jtKiLBu91sw

4) Speaking of upgrading Coco's - The Taylor and Amy show released a
video showing the 6309 upgrade to their Coco 2, and a real time running
of Mandelbrot sets:
  https://youtu.be/8l9Ye0RlIOA



MC-10
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1) Jim Gerrie did a quick little program (with some suggestions from
Greg Dionne) showing him moving a little text tie fighter under
keyboard control, but sensing more than 1 key at a time so that you can
move diagonally, as well as key repeat. The entire program is show on
screen at the beginning:
  https://youtu.be/zlZ684RXNjI



Dragon 32/64
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1) Julian Brown found an issue with his current duplication of the
Dragon 32 motherboard - the cassette motor relay footprint is reversed.
It is testable in this state; unfortunately it does mean that he needs
at least one more board revision:
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3297890577137255/
He also got an update on the EDAC edge connector with mounting point
lugs - he found place to get the part cheaper, but a lead time of 10-12
weeks:
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3299428526983460/

2) The Retrogames Show episode 6 has a section on a bunch of Dragon
software that he received, including some rarer titles (according to
the host, anyways):
  https://youtu.be/EgrzS1NOzv0?t=1976

3) John Whitworth (who is stepping away from DragonPlus Electronics for
a month or two as he undergoes his next round of treatment) did set up
a Github repository for the Dragon Beta (including Gerber files, Disk
images, PAL/GAL documentation, etc.) :
  https://github.com/dragonplus-electronics/Dragon-Beta



Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
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1) Retro Hack Shack has returned (a little late for SepTandy due to
hand surgery) with a "LETS PLAY" episode, with 3 official arcade game
ports sold by Radio Shack - Rampage, Predator and Robocopy:
  https://youtu.be/sglrLmBpvGU

2) Tim & AJ of Sibling Rivalry were live at the Portland Retro Gaming
Expo last weekend, and they did a live stream on Sunday morning playing
some Coco games from the show floor, featuring gameplay of Pitstop II &
LeMans (the latter finally with some skidding physics) (they also did
some other streams for the Intellivision and Atari 2600 if you want to
check those out):
  https://youtu.be/BvH-VyzRuWY

3) Davy's Retro Corner posted a video of gameplay from the BASIC game
Lumberjack, from the "Games for your Dragon" book by Clive Gifford:
  https://youtu.be/Xklq_X3a3mw 

4) Alderson Retro Computing posted an unusual video for his channel -
playing Color Baseball:
  https://youtu.be/9n_TgUR1yiM

5) Inufuto has started releasing ports of their next game - looks to be
based on Galaga - called Guntus. Currently, the 32K RAM Coco 1/2
version is up:
  http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/guntus/
And as of yesterday, the MC-10 version as well:
  https://youtu.be/s6KNZvpNtlo

6) Port Battles on YouTube did a video on the official ports of Frogger
- including the Coco 1/2 & Dragon versions (which are pretty well
identical). (Note: This an update to his original version of this
video, and includes many more ports & some clones, although no Coco
clones are included):
  https://youtu.be/_XGzk0elA0M

7) Rob's Retro Rambles returns to the Dragon with a playthrough & funny
commentary of Ghost Attack (which is a slightly modified version of Pac
Attack by the same original company, Computerware):
  https://youtu.be/d5rbk1VeO9k

8) Our very own David Ladd released a video for the Game On Challenge
this week, showing him play Paul Shoemakers Halloween edition of Ghost
Rush (the Coco 3 version):
  https://youtu.be/SyY2y8tTqcU

9) Tim and AJ over at My Drunk Sibling also played it as well... for a
lonngggggg time:
  https://youtu.be/tMKF3724Yw4
-- 
Robert "Exile In Paradise" Murphey <exile at weylan-yutani.com>
Weylan-Yutani Corporation