[Coco] Cocovid player LIVES!

[Arthur Flexser]

Looking fine now, thanks.  Very cool.

Art

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Ron Klein <ron at kdomain.org> wrote:

> 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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