The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 318, June 24, 2023 =================================================================== Collected by L. Curtis Boyle and Mark Overholser June 23, Ken and I will hopefully be reporting live from BoatFest while Mark Overholser hosts the news, and Sloopy hosts the Game On Challenge. August 12 we have Matt Harper on (developer of Wizard's Den sold by Tom Mix Software). August 19 we have a special treat - the original programmer of The Contras for Sundog Systems, Doug Masten - and Glen Dahlgren who ran Sundog (and who has been on the show several times before, including during our Dave Dies interview) will be on to help co-interview Doug about one of the most ambitious Coco 3 games done at that time (1991-1993) Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform) ------------------------------- First, an reminder on behalf of Frank @ RetroRewind: Stock replenishment will be slower for a month or two due to Frank recovering from wrist/hand surgery. 1) David of the Coco Town YouTube channel, put up a nice "thank you" video for being our interview guest last week. We are also glad that he survived the experience. :-) https://youtu.be/nFO6k-z4Ias 2) TRS-80 Retro Programing on YouTube Posted another update to his Tales of Suburbia game project, adding model rocket graphic to the title part of the screen: https://youtu.be/bcDM4F5c8GM 3) Last weeks guest of YouTube Coco Town fame has released a new video detailing his discovery that the values you write to the VDG don't always match the ASCII values of the characters: https://youtu.be/e9qgUNI9V1s 4) Gadget Reboot on YouTube did a video on how he made a digital to analog joystick adaptor for the Coco: https://youtu.be/xZSDwJGriC8 5) Boisy Pitre : Ready for VCF Southwest. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10160737030387641/ Allan Batteiger of Microware and Mark Siegel of Tandy. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10160739006697641/ 6) Michael Furman : MikeyN6IL's VLOG $13: FLEXing the CoCo Ep 7: Flex OS https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10160737178927641/ https://youtu.be/FDM3sc3NMyo 7) Jim Gerrie : I've been working on a typing in a program FACTSFIG from Input magazine: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10160734056767641/ 8) Marco Spedaletti : ugBASIC:COLDFIX v1.14 [rev. 20230624.1025] https://www.facebook.com/groups/867151224158600/posts/1312009456339439/ https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/ https://spotlessmind1975.itch.io/ugbasic-ide MC-10 ----- 1) I feel a grave disturbance in the Force as if a million 6803 cried out and were suddenly silenced ... Dragon 32/64 ------------ 1) Nick Marentes : Dragon PAL H-sync fix... Does anyone know or can point me to a web site that explains the mod required to PAL Dragon64's to correct the H-Sync problem? https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10160731606432641/ 2) Julian Brown : More details on his Keyboard https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3485240268402284/ 3) Mike Miller : Does anyone have any copies (or know of an archive) of 68' microcosm magazine? https://www.facebook.com/groups/6809assembly/posts/3168186500141377/ Game On news (all Coco related platforms): ========================================== 1) Todd Horch on his YARC (Yet Another Retro Channel) posted a video showing the half dozen arcade transcodes on the Coco 3 - Donkey Kong by Sock Master, Space Invaders by Mark McDougall, and Defender, Joust, Robotron:2084 & PacMan by Glen Hewlett: https://youtu.be/FgEYt1k7Xeo 2) The next episode (45) of The Coco Show has dropped on YouTube. This episode features Karate by Diecom: https://youtu.be/Jx9bABuOAhw 3) Paul Shoemaker : Hi everyone. I just released a CoCo version of my most recent game, Video Poker https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10160737831767641/ https://pshoemaker70.itch.io/ 4) Richard Kelly : "Maze Creator" version 0.10K. This is my rewrite of the maze-making algorithm. I had to do so weird code tweaking to make the PMODE graphics look right. The thing is - does it look right on a real CoCo 1/2/3? I'll have to leave it to you folks to find out, as my current CoCo isn't connected to anything right now. Feel free to post bug reports! https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10160737721912641/ 5) David Mitchell : This is probably the type-in I messed around most with back in the day. I used Rainbow Writer and a custom character set to produce a High-res version. Good times.. https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3486138521645792/ News and Topic Suguestions Channel on The CoCo Discord ------------------------------------------------------ ZX Spectrum games by Bearsden Primary 2023 https://dougie9mcg.itch.io/zx-spectrum-games-by-bearsden-primary-2023