The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 381, September 28, 2024 =================================================================== Collected by L. Curtis Boyle Special Guests today: --------------------- Paul Fiscarelli live from Tandy Assembly Interview schedule: -------------------- None Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people: ------------------------------------------------------------ Today is the Amigos live ICC (International Computer Club) stream (Twitch and YouTube, which starts at 4 PM EST on September 28. This is for all retro computers & gaming consoles. It streams live on their Twitch channel and YouTube channels). I will be on to talk about the 2 new game releases last week, and the CocoTech episode on semi-graphics in Extended BASIC, but nearer the end of their show. Previous club videos can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaD3XRYu1lQTWrMYYPmaOa4AIj4xArroD The Dragon Meetup is 100% official now: October 12-13, 2024 at the Museum of Technology in Cambridge, England: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3776261519300156/ Retro Computer Festival 2024: November 9-10, 2024 Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England The largest general retro computing show in the UK (it's their VCF style show), covering all retro machines. Tickets can be ordered online for individual days or both days. All of their events (including separate entries for both days) at the bottom of this page: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/pages/30677/What-s-On/ The Saturday event specifically now has a partial list of exhibitors: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/72253/Retro-Computer-Festival-2024-Saturday-9th-November/ Retro SC, the retro show in Brazil, is having their 2024 event on November 16. This always has a strong Coco/CP-400/etc. contingent, including multiple people who have been guests on our show.It is happening at 1670 Haroldo Soares Glavan road, Cacupé, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. https://retrosc.org/ VCF East has had a date change for next years show due to a scheduling conflict. It is now April 4-6, 2025 - same facility as this year. Info Age Science Museum, Wall, NJ. VCF-SW in Texas has been booked with dates: June 20-22, 2025 at the Davidson Gundy Alumni Center, University of Texas, Dallas, Texas. Tables & Tickets will go on sale January 2025. $20/adult ($25 if bought at the door), $10/student ($15 at the door). 17 and under are free (with accompanying adult). Tables are $50. Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform) ------------------------------- 1) Coco Town did another SepTandy video - this time delving back into his earliest attempts at writing arcade games on his Coco way back in his teens: https://youtu.be/xuwPTfglupg?si=lkDz8dM_c8DPV_2m 2) Numerous updates to ugBASIC the past two weeks as well: Beta branch: https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/changelog/beta Main Branch: https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/changelog/main 3) Bob Emery released an 18 minute video called DIY FOG generator on his YouTube channel La Coco Strangiato for SepTandy - which shows how to install and configure his Color FOG Coco 3 utility: https://youtu.be/UyeyPsDH4Fc?si=gGujycYq70tBp9Wn 4) The Amigos have release a video compiling all of the on the floor interviews they did with some of the guests from this past June's BoatFest, including Ken (Canadian Retro Things), Henry (The Break Key) and myself. Catch us and other from an international group on their YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/-P6DwG0Bwd0?si=mEJWBnVtOy6Tq7vR 5) Wi-Fi Sheep Tech Channel on YouTube released his first ever #SepTandy video - with him running a Coco-Pi and NitrOS9 (gotta plug that!): https://youtu.be/ff_45ua5KhE?si=e9ahHpieRP-PMEYE 6) Tandy Assembly had their Tech Talks streamed live on their YouTube channel yesterday. One that is Coco related was John Strong talking about Interfacing with the Color Computer: General live stream channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tandyassembly3099 John's Talk: https://www.youtube.com/live/PuLk8Qqh2tE?si=SaYqJd5c0TN2wazN 7) Davidk4715 on YouTube put up a short demo of his X-Pad graphics tablet on the Coco: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qAfNGQ494Uw 8) Spanish YouTube channel RetroComputo did a review of the CocoSDC for their SepTandy video this past week, including SDC Explorer: https://youtu.be/KBQSJfrj3bQ?si=4wASIMcNReFRl6ei 9) Brian Jones put up a video showing Apple Vision Pro Gaming (this is the Apple super-expensive VR glasses use) - trying out Downland streaming via Stream Deck: https://youtu.be/p97MODBFqgE?si=Rz5khaz_fv0npmGV 10) Spanish YouTube channel ArJoreg1987Retro posted an almost half hour about The World of Retro Computing Show that took place in Kitchener a couple of weeks ago. We plan on having the same guests we had on ahead of the show to review it, and hopefully Stacey can make it this time to talk about her Coco exhibit (which is shown in this video, before it is up and running): https://youtu.be/VfTqytyJtwM?si=xScJirUcT5LBkSUK 11) A bit "off to the side" for the Coco is a video from YouTube channel Retro4u, who found a 68008 upgrade board for the BBC Micro that is supposed to run OS-9 (OSK version). The reason I am mentioning this video is that the Coco itself had 68008 board upgrades in the mid-1980's, and initially Chris Burke's unreleased Rocket CPU upgrade board was also going to use it (he ended up deciding on a 68340, I believe... but it never received enough orders and was never manufactured). This video shows him fixing physical issues with the upgrade board, and burning the OS9 boot ROM from Cumana (which I think did other OS9/OSK ports back in the 1980's). https://youtu.be/QnZIm0DagGg?si=AnSvbqPkZzzh_AeW 12) Henry Gernhardt of The Break Key fame on YouTube returns to his FORTH language ROM project - this episode he actually gets Forth running from an actual ROM. And a single 16K ROM I believe: https://youtu.be/IqITZ43wGDI?si=aT78u6WuUGF8p4Ur MC-10 ----- 1) Jim Gerrie ported "Piano Animation", originally by George Dunbar in the February 1985 issue of Computing Now magazine: https://youtu.be/OsTYugOpTYY?si=PD30dlF_18cBEIKP He then modified it to add more colors compared with the original: https://youtu.be/tnkyt0iXNbs?si=PjnuvXFoG9EArON9 Dragon 32/64 ------------ 1) Game On news (all Coco related platforms): ========================================== 1) Rich N. posted another update to the Spy Hunter Coco 1/2 game he is working on - it's coming along very nicely. He posted a video of it on the Coco Discord: (use local file 'spy_hunter_update (Rich N).mov') 2) Jim Gerrie ported "Warlords" by Canadian company Speakeasy Software in 1978 (originally in Integer BASIC for the Apple II) to the MC-10: https://youtu.be/S0FTZNLyqkQ?si=gOxGkkHm2B72fuA9 He also ported Microtriva from the same company: https://youtu.be/nwQ1BCgmC-U?si=dwekugMkEwwetilh 3) Fabrizio Caruso has released a new game with his cross platform (over 200 different machines) program language (Cross-Lib) that is based on the Chrome browser game TREX (as is an earlier Coco version called Run, Dino, Run): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10161677024287641/ 4) The Mastertronic website has now added a review of the Dragon version of Horace Goes Skiing: https://mastertronic.co.uk/game-review-horace-goes-skiing-dragon-32-melbourne-house/ 5) Chronologically Gaming is back after fixing his PC, and covered both Star Trek:PSS on the Dragon 32, and Starfire on the Coco on his first episode back: Star Trek:PSS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K2N4Qoplpc&t=36s Starfire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K2N4Qoplpc&t=1311s As an aside, but not Coco related - he also covered Nick Marentes earliest commercial hybrid BASIC/ML game for the TRS-80 Model 1, Stellar Odyssey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ3mlizHX2g&t=1047s 6) Retro Gaming Nook put up a SepTandy video showing "3 Surprising Coco Games You Need to Try Now". These are the various Ghost Rush games (including the latest Goop Rush) and Video Poker (both by Paul Shoemaker) and the Donkey Kong transcode by John Kowalski (Sock Master): https://youtu.be/zoezF9z9yBY?si=V-CEZwjWiWB1s311 7) Tim and AJ return with Sibling Rivalry's pursuit of winning Dungeons of Daggorath... part 5. In this episode AJ vanquishes the wizards image and makes it to level 4 - where there is a whole slew of brand new monsters to deal with: https://youtu.be/nT4Dep2MD1w?si=Gr4IsQYvaB5YSmPD 8) Jay Mundy has announced in the MC-10 group on Facebook that his MC-10 arcade game T.H.E.M. is now available from his itch.io page, requiring the MCX-32SD: Announcement: https://www.facebook.com/groups/260663051145211/posts/1651300265414809/ Itch.io page: https://spriteworx.itch.io/them-total-human-eradication-mandate YouTube video: https://youtu.be/c4diW4AF41A?si=KWNG8gwlKomADK-A Speak your mind! 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