[Coco] CoCoFEST! reports, anyone?

[Mark McDougall]

On 2/05/2014 12:29 PM, S Klammer wrote:

> Was every attendee sworn to secrecy?  :)

This is what I heard happened:

* The Coco4 was revealed and available for sale for USD$49.95. It runs up to 
200MHz and has a true colour mode and an OpenGL driver for DECB. 
Unfortunately Sockmaster's Boing demo and Donkey Kong still can't be made to 
work properly on it.

* NitrOS9 Level 3 was released, which now supports X-Windows.

* Wayne has fixed all remaining issues with decode, and it now produces 
BASIC source code for *any* arbitrary 6809 binary.

* Cloud 9 demoed new hardware that adds support for all known storage 
devices, up to 16GB RAM, and toasts really nice crumpets.

* Nick sent a preview copy of Popstar Pilot

* John Linville demoed his new project, a WIP port of Sega Dreamcast's 
Shenmue, and you can actually play the original Fahrfall in the in-game 
virtual arcade.

* Luis revealed CP/M was a hoax, but then demoed Amiga Workbench running on 
a Coco 1/2, but it makes use of a semi-graphics mode that isn't available on 
the Coco 3.

* Boisy announced a new book - a (rather controversial as it turns out) 
3-volume history of the TP-10 Thermal Matrix Printer.

Regards,

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