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February 21. 2010.
Luc from Team Pixelboy has announced that he intends to produce a programming language to use for ColecoVision programmers.
Luc also says: "The first real step will be to create a language parser application."
And it will: "Definately be a long-term project, but oh so promising."

February 12. 2010.
CollectorVision says now that all Mario Bros. and all Penguin Land games will be shipped in March 2010.
So if you have ordered both games, you'll receive them both in one single box.

February 05. 2010.
Eduardo at OpCode Games says that the SEM project has been scalled down.
The name of the new Module are ColecoVision Memory Module CMM.
The new Memory expander allows more avanced games up to 16Kb. instead of 1Kb.
No Video chips, no Speech chip, no AV Out, and no BIOS for the new CMM, it will be saved for the new upcoming CV 2 in 2012.

January 19. 2010.
Eduardo has now decided to concentrate fully on developing its next unit, Colecovision CV2.
Eduardo's SE Module is perhaps on standby, and he is in full swing with the purchase of chips.
It will be a unit with a very sophisticated graphic and sound in the 80's spirit.

January 05. 2010.
Shipping of Mario Brothers will be completed this week and you will soon receive your copy.

January 04. 2010.
5-11under aka Harvey DeKleine has produced and designed a small PCB with AV Out and dual mono for the Colecovision.
There will be a possibility to adjust the colors red, green and blue independently.
The price will be $ 45 US pieces, including mailing to US and Canadian addresses.
Are you interested in a copy, contact Harvey through this thread.

December 23. 2009.
Retroillucid at CollectorVision says now that the games Pooyan, Penguin Land and Mario Brothers, are delayed until 2010.
The reason is the lack of PCB's from the original supplier, and the solution is to buy from another one.

November 12. 2009.
Eduardo at OpCode Games announced that the new design for SEM will be shrinking with SMT components.
Simultaneously says Eduardo
that the Oki MSM 9842 speech chip now will be supplied in the future version.
Eduardo hope to have a beta board before the end of 2009.
T
he final SEM will in Summer 2010 in collaboration with Nurve Networks LLC., be manufactured in China, tested and assembled complete with Box and Game.

November 07. 2009.
Super Expansion Module Prototype #2 is now assembled with all the chips, and Eduardo from OpCode Games are now ready to start testing the MegaRAM and SaveRAM.

November 06. 2009.
Eduardo at OpCode Games says: Donkey Kong Arcade, Knightmare and Goonies will all be released sometime in 2010.
He want all 3 games to be out in the space of 6 months in the worst case.

November 04. 2009.
Doubledown's Site vikingvideogames.com are offline in the moment.
It was hosted on Yahoo's GeoCities server, which they shut down at the end of October.
"Doubledown" are in the process of deciding on a new server, but it will probably be a couple months before he will find another one, and layout a design for it.

November 03. 2009.
ColecoVision.dk is starting changing the site to a widescreen format, expected to be completed February 2010.
The site will then best be displayed at a resolution of 1280 x 800 (16:10).

November 01. 2009.
CollectorVision communicate, that as soon as all Penguin Land PCB's are assembled, will they all be sent at the end of November 2009.

October 31. 2009.
CollectorVision taking this opportunity to mention that Mario Bros now is finally done.
All 100 Red copies will be sent in the beginning of December 2009.
Then will CollectorVision starting a Black Cartridge Edition Reservation List, with a Green Box, a Black Cartridge, and a Green Label. 75 will be available.
An extra Classic box version with a Black Cartridge will also be available, limited to 25 copies only.


October 28. 2009.
Daniel Bienvenu, Newcoleco's site are down.
Daniel's very good and useful site is down, because geocities free web hosting are closed.
His new site is this:
ccjvq.com/newcoleco, or you can catch him at: newcoleco.dev-fr.org

October 26. 2009.
"Junior" has in cooperation with newcoleco added internal documents from the Coleco Company to his site.
You can find all the documents on colecovisionzone.com

October 22. 2009.
Team Pixelboy are now a reality.
Luc Miron from Canada is now ready to start up with two games for ColecoVision.
Gulkave will probably be the first one to be released.
Take a look on:
TeamPixelboy.com

October 18. 2009.
CollectorVision has just announced that the Mario Brothers will be ready for sale in November 2009.

October 13. 2009.
Philippe from atomic Fe which has made the game Ghost n Zombies communicate through CollectorVision, that Ghost n Zombies now finally are on the way out to all users.
Ghost N Zombies will arrive in your mailbox very soon.

October 09. 2009.
Eduardo from OpCode Games has created a second prototype of his Super Expansion Module for ColecoVision.
The 2nd. prototype PCB is now sent to the factory.
The module allows you to access the extended game, and a distinct improvement in sound.
Whether the SEM Module will include AV Out and the Oki MSM 9842 speech chip is not quite in place yet.

September 29, 2009.
Albert from AtariAge says, that all games of GhostBlasters by Daniel Bienvenu will be sent with the mail tomorrow, so the game should be on the road.

September 05. 2009
CollectorVision are now taking orders for the game Pinguin Land from Sega SG 1000.
The game is converted to ColecoVision by Steve Bégin and launched through CollectorVision.
A friendly greeting goes to "The man behind", Luc Miron from Team Pixelboy.