[Coco] Cocovid player LIVES!

[John W. Linville]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 09:55:53AM -0500, Ron Klein wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> As some of you may know, John Linville developed a video player for the
> Color Computer 3 and demo'd it some years back at CocoFEST 2011.  I never
> saw it when it was originally released, but stumbled across it a few months
> ago when looking at videos of previous CocoFESTs.  I was so impressed with
> John's video player and wanted to try it for myself.  I had reached out to
> John looking for some information as I didn't know if it was available to
> the community.  As it turns out it absolutely is, however, the
> documentation is a bit lacking and some components of the project require
> special utilities/tools as well as compiling source code.  In other words,
> some assembly required...
> 
> A few emails back and forth with John answered some of the questions I
> had.  From there, I started documenting the entire process making note of
> each step along the way.  I will be providing this documentation soon for
> others who may wish to try John's Cocovid player for themselves.
> 
> In the meantime, I posted a Youtube video of me demo'ing the Cocovid player:
> 
> https://youtu.be/iSjNHcmmkN0
> 
> My hope is to renew interest in the Cocovid player and get others to use
> it.  It's a great way to show off the color capabilities of our "Color
> Computers."  Who needs the 256 color mode of the GIME when it's been
> showcased so well with this project in software!  Perhaps John will port
> his player over the CoCoSDC if there's enough interest...  ahem.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Ron

Awesome news -- very exciting! I am eager to see what documentation
you can provide. Maybe we will add it to the project's GIT repository,
along with various changes to scripts, BASIC programs, etc.

Anyway, great work!

John
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John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville at tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.