[Coco] CoCoTALK Live! News from Episode 287 2022-11-05

Sat Nov 5 17:40:22 EDT 2022

CoCoTALK Live! News stories for Episode 287, November 5, 2022
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(October 29-November 4)
Collected by L. Curtis Boyle

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
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Voidstar Tech posted a video showing him connecting two 8 bit computers
(a PET and a Coco 3) via WiModems to connect to each other via wireless
LAN:
  https://youtu.be/PH7YtoxOdrI

Robert Emery posted a video showing his Portable Coco 3, with a *lot*
of mods:
  https://youtu.be/rP8AFvWrdVM

Geek with Social Skills on YouTube received a Coco 2 that had been
stored in a barn, and given to him by Tim Lindner. Spoiler - it ain't
working outta the box:
  https://youtu.be/9J587haAHZA

JaysVintageJunk on YouTube did several videos this past week. First he
did a "Pickups from Golborne" where he picked up several things,
including a Coco 2 (21:50 for the Coco 2):
  https://youtu.be/Ik5wtDOMKfk

Then his first turning it on and trying to remember how to use it:
  https://youtu.be/b_ZetvvqUfg

And finally a video where he got some tape games working on it (both
real cassette & through WAV files from a laptop):
  https://youtu.be/7o0us_vBvM0

hirudov2d on YouTube put up a video showing BASIC on a Codimex CD-6809
- A Coco compatible computer from 1983 - but with some BASIC
improvements (like accepting lowercase commands):
  https://youtu.be/bdX1VsHIyn0

The latest Coco Crew episode has been released, including an interview
with Ian Mavric from Australia about Tandy Assembly:
  http://cococrew.org/

Our very own Ken of Canadian Retro Things did a follow up video
exploring "is it worth installing a 6309 in a Coco 1/2?". This time he
concentrates on the power draw and heat from the 6809 vs. 6309 CPU, and
the fact that running the 6309 version of NitrOS9 and BASIC09 allows
existing programs to speed up without one having to change a single
line of BASIC09 code (which he shows using a Mandelbrot set graphics
drawing program. It still takes a long time, but noticeably less):
  https://youtu.be/kFw91cdgxcw

MC-10
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Jayfor80's on YouTube did a quick video showing a working MC-10 he
picked up from ebay this week:
  https://youtu.be/6JX5a6fQAew

Dragon 32/64
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Tim Gilberts released a 20+ minute video to summarize the Dragon Meetup
in Port Talbot, Wales:
  https://youtu.be/od2Up_4j5Xo

Julian Brown posted an update (and some more in the comments) of his
progress with getting all the parts onto his Dragon 32 motherboard
recreation. Not quite to the point of firing it up yet, though:
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3309030359356610/

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
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Color Computer Programing on YouTube released a video showing the full
stage one to his graphical adventure style game "Tales of Suburbia",
which now includes some single voice PLAY style music:
  https://youtu.be/R-M5uqfOd2Y

Jim Gerrie release a port of the puzzle program REVERSE by Ramon Zamora
from the 1978 book, "What Happens When you Hit Return", originally for
the TRS-80 Model 1/3:
  https://youtu.be/NLkN7Q0fs78

He also released a version of Rally-X for the MC-10 in SG6, with some
routines by both Darren Atkinson (of MCX-128 fame) and Greg Dionne for
special routines for updating the screen and for held down key input:
  https://youtu.be/quf8F0C4Jas

And, he also released an MC-10 port of the original Little Brick out
game from 1979 that Steve Wozniak wrote as a demo for his Apple II
Integer BASIC (which also includes the keyboard reading routine by Greg
Dionne):
  https://youtu.be/za8P1HN2Eys

Pere Serrat & Kees van Oss (Sorry I forgot to mention Kees' name last
week!) have released the 59th AGD converted games pack, featuring 7
more games, for both the Coco's and the Dragons:
Dungeon Escape
Escape Room
Fat Hearts
Gassy Glasgow
Minty's Marvelous Travels
Mojoni in the Sewer World (easy version)
Mojoni in the Sewer World (hard version)
  http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11047

Rob's Retro Rambles posted a video of him playing & reviewing "And All
Because..." on his Dragon 32:
  https://youtu.be/OSnJSzBgXS8

FRGCB Dude (stands for "Finnish Retro Game Comparison Blog") channel on
YouTube did a cross platform comparison video of the UK game
"Hunchback", including the original arcade version and the Dragon 32/64
(Arcade at the beginning, Dragon at 10:51):
  https://youtu.be/_9Pt3HaFIZY

The Laird's Lair on YouTube also did a cross platform game video
compare, for Space Zap, including the Dragon 32:
  https://youtu.be/WbHhK2X6mXM

Getting Connected
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Join hundreds of other “CoConuts” (or is that CoConauts?) on the CoCo
Discord:
  http://discord.cocotalk.live

New to Discord? Get started quickly with this video introduction:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2POVhc5NvQ

Learn more about everything old and new for the Color Computer by
tuning in to:

The CoCoTALK! Live weekly Color Computer, Dragon, and MC-10 video talk
show,
  http://cocotalk.live

The CoCo Show monthly gaming video talk show by Boat and Aaron of
Amigos Retro Gaming,

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-coco-show-a-trs-80-color-computer-podcast/id1480941752

Three different CoCo groups on https://mewe.com/:
  Glenside Color Computer Group,
  Tandy Color Computer,
  TRS-80 Color Computer,

Four different CoCo and MC-10 groups on https://groups.io:
  Color Computer,
  Retro About 64K,
  CoCo3FPGA,
  MC-10,

The CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
  https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco

And even more at I'm A CoCo Nut:
  http://imacoconut.com/start-here/

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Robert "Exile In Paradise" Murphey <exile at weylan-yutani.com>
Weylan-Yutani Corporation