[Coco] Cocovid player LIVES!

[Ron Klein]

Hi Art,

Sorry about that!  I just reset the security on it

Please let me know if it works for you now.

Thanks!

-Ron


On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> "This video is private.  Sorry about that."
>
> Art
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Ron Klein <ron at kdomain.org> 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
> >
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