Episode 173 - Crikey a new Nick Marentes game!

Crikey! Nick Marentes is at it again! Earlier this year he released Gun Stah, and followed that up with Rally-SG, you'd think he'd be busy counting all his money and watching his Swiss bank accounts, but no, he's at it again with yet another new game for the Coco and we'll see the world premier of his current project in progress! That along with all the other usual boring stuff, Games, News, old guys, blah, blah, blah.

 

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to:

• 00:02:39 Panel Introductions
• 00:09:09 Simon Jonassen - Demo
• 00:35:50 Nightmare Highway song
• 00:40:24 Rick Adams - Bomb Threat talk
• 01:03:25 CoCo Thoughts
• 01:05:13 GameON! challenge results
• 01:33:50 Next week's game announcment - Sea Dragon
• 01:41:13 Nick Marentes - New game annoucement
• 01:02:05 GameON! news
• 02:43:28 News from around the world
• 03:31:55 Project updates and acquisitions
• 03:54:42 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussion

News stories for Episode #173, August 15, 2020 show:

1) Boisy has released The Coco Collector Part 4

  https://youtu.be/cU4vOGXS3eE

 

2) Keith (ChibiAkumas) on YouTube has another Dragon/Coco assembly language tutorial episode

  https://youtu.be/QlnXqshkTyw

 

3) Jim Gerrie has a video up for the Lissajous program from Creative Computing in 1979

  https://youtu.be/IGFFXY_si7U

 

4) Glen Dahlgren has put up an image of the dust jacket for the hardcover version of his novel coming out on August 16th:

https://tinyurl.com/y6nf5tr7

 

5) Ralph Klein has released the CocoPI update - MAME 0.223 on both the Pi3 and the Pi4:

(I will only show one link on the show)

https://tinyurl.com/y6ppt3l3

https://tinyurl.com/y28lph34

 

6) Boysontech has posted a picture of a new version of the design of a little satellite board that will allow a Sound/Speech pack to run at .895, 1.78 and 2.86 MHz.

https://tinyurl.com/y22qozdr

 

7) Guillaume Major has released an update to the "complete Coco SDC image", which now has 600+ new disk images of applications, games, demos, educational, etc. compared to the previous version.

https://tinyurl.com/y6ntwlyw

 

8) Curtis F. Kaylor showed some output from his TP-10 simulator program (TP-10 was the small thermal printed that Tandy sold):

https://tinyurl.com/y5jc8xjh

 

9) James Tamer has uploaded Virtual MC-10 version 0.73i, which includes some bug fixes.

https://tinyurl.com/yxcp4fea

 

10) Another very young fella did a Coco 2 restoration on YouTube (channel: Jackson's_antiqueAdventures) retrobrighting it:

https://youtu.be/5S3A3RLfnaY

 

11) TJBChris has a new video on tricks you can do with the LOADM command:

https://youtu.be/MzO7t87baTo

 

12) A YouTube channel called hirudov2d did multiple videos of different Coco's (and a Dragon-64)

https://www.youtube.com/c/hirudov2d/videos

 

13) Glenside has their latest newsletter out

https://tinyurl.com/y4ja8qdx

 

Game On news:

1) Marlin Lee has a video up showing New Burt, a Q-Bert clone from Mike Ro Productions:

https://youtu.be/UlB4IwL-16c

 

2) Jim Gerrie has a video showing an update to Pitman

https://youtu.be/IGFFXY_si7U

He also has a port to the MC-10 from an old Dragon 32 game from the book "More Programs for your Dragon 32" from 1984, called Joust

https://youtu.be/LVv4x_7pz5g

Also a game called Civil War, from Creative Computing:

https://youtu.be/KbUntsdxPeE

Time Bomb

https://youtu.be/XnN0TNNLNuI

 

3) Paul Shoemaker shows some possible palettes that he is considering for a Wizardry clone that he is calling Sorcery,

https://tinyurl.com/y2ubh875

 

4) Jerry Stratton has a text version of Hunt the Wumpus

https://tinyurl.com/yyzxfpot

 

5) Erico Monteiro has two new blogs up about his semi-graphics fighting game:

Part 2:

https://tinyurl.com/y693oque

Part 3:

https://tinyurl.com/y29ttaxy

 

6) Erico  playing Cashman on screens 40+

https://youtu.be/UAUHVGMlSMI?t=236

 

7) Stevie did a live stream demo of Rally-SG and the Digger III

https://youtu.be/BIfepYk8wYE

 

8) Simonwgb did a 3 hour stream on Twitch playing about half a dozen Dragon 32 games:

https://youtu.be/eWaJi82Dmgo?t=114

9) Adam Haase has released a complete map and tips breakdowns of the huge Coco 3 RPG game, The Seventh Link.

https://tinyurl.com/y52jjxbo

 

 

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