[Coco] Cocovid player LIVES!

[Michael Rowen]

Great video! John's player is always impressive. I'll likely give it a go myself when you publish the how-to. Excellent work, Ron. Thanks!

Cheers,
Mike Rowen







Ron Klein <ron at kdomain.org> wrote:

>Hi Mike,
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>This should work for you now.
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>Thanks!
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>-Ron
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>On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Michael Rowen <mike at borncoco.com> wrote:
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>> Great that you're doing this, Ron. However, the link indicates that your
>> video is private when I attempt to play it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Mike
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>> Ron Klein <ron at kdomain.org> wrote:
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>> >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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