Episode 132 - Lots of Revelations!

A lot of revelations on this week's show!

A new product "The Joey" has been announced by Jason Reighard and will allow you to switch multiple joystick configurations around.  Visit http://cocoman.biz  to learn more/order.

Stevie Strow has a new CoCoVGA game project

Visit http://cocovga.com  to learn more about that product

Ron Delvaux and Terry Steege host a TDP-100 segment

Curtis Boyle reveals 6309 optimized games that run faster on the CoCo 1/2/Dragon and would run even faster on the CoCo 3

Nick Marentes shows a new way to palette patch PMODE 3 colored games to look better on a CoCo 3!

 

Some news stories for November 2, 2019 show:

1) Jim Gerrie has ported his MC-10 Akalabeth to the Coco, using the same PMODE 2.

https://youtu.be/4s9f8edNpXY

https://youtu.be/WtSF4Al4hGA

He also ported "Paint Duel" to the MC-10

https://youtu.be/3AZSy_YQk0Y

 

2) Paul Shoemaker has released a new video update to Oregon Trail:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157600108852641/

 

3) Chet Simpson has a demo testing his VGM player that will support the original Speech Systems Symphony 12 card, or Jim Brains Philharmonic 12. He still has a way to go, but the Moon Patrol theme at the beginning sounds very much like the arcade:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157602710247641/

 

4) Todd Wallace has a demo of simple OPL music player based on Ed Sniders CCT (Coco Chip Tunes) format that he plans on using as the base of an OS9 player.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157603182972641/

 

5) Amigos Retro Gaming has a few new Coco videos:

https://youtu.be/Kacg-R-b3cs

https://youtu.be/_RDkZKJtkDk

https://youtu.be/IYj2BlYvLYg

 

6) Petsasjim1 has some more Dragon videos:

Dragrunner (Kind of Frogger with guns?):

https://youtu.be/T0_dXReupXc

Fireball (written in BASIC):

https://youtu.be/71zRvBlNv3k

Fireforce

https://youtu.be/mscZ1gtgyUQ

Fearless Freddy:

https://youtu.be/jZqXHb_sV-g?t=46

Folly's Farm Chicken Run:

https://youtu.be/jRFTUqM5ITs?t=11

Football Manager: Manage your Football (Soccer to us North Americans) team, and low res game play views as well.

https://youtu.be/JZWVv4nreIg?t=18

 

7) Gigerpunk has a game video for the Dragon that was a game promo for Weetabix cereal

https://youtu.be/tY1S4LF2dc0

 

8) CanadianRetroThings has part two of his MC-10 video up on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/WJleDGNi5dY

 

9) David OConner put a video up showing some custom fonts/palettes using the CocoVGA running on his Coco 1. https://youtu.be/TvXa2UMvU3w

 

10) Simon Jonassen has an animated 10 color palette demo, based on his RGB/10 color demo he did previously, which will be the base background for a much fancier looking demo he is working on.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157617349797641/

 

11) James Jones mentioned on Facebook that the Paul Schreiber interview (from Tandy Assembly) is up on YouTube:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157613982202641/

 

12) Davy Mitchell has updates to SGEDIT online semigraphics screen editing tool, and Rob Inman also found out that it works fine from iOS (in addition to desktop browers):

https://hardcore-jackson-6272e8.netlify.com/

 

13) New cartoon from D. Bruce Moore:

http://joey.gracenote.ca/004-syntax-errors/

 

VOLUME 1 OF COCO 1/2 6309 ENHANCED GAMES (will work on Coco 3 as well - and if you do POKE 65497,0, some of them *really* run fast) - Includes 6309 sped up versions of 3 old Coco 1/2 games.

https://youtu.be/DdDHVTEjoS8

To download:

http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/Coco12-6309games-volume1.zip

 

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