The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 438, November 8,2025 (Nov 1-Nov 7)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 439, November 15,2025 (Nov 8-Nov 14)

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Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle

Special NOTES:

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NOTE: We are planning to do a special “Coco 4” episode in the future, which will included all the computers that were announced in the 1991-1994 time frame that were supposed to be successors to the Coco 3. We have Joel Ewy who has volunteered to show off their MM/1, I am going to try and get my TC-9 up and running at least enough to show it working, and Rick Ulland will show off a Delmar System V… but we still need volunteers with TC-70’s, Kix-20 or Kix-30, Delmar System IV, AT-306 and MM/1 B’s. Anybody still have these machines that they would like to show off in an upcoming show? Email me at curtisboyle@sasktel.net if you are.

For those who want to try an online BBS running on a real 512K Coco 3, you can reach Terry Trapp’s RiBBS system here (please note that this an active development machine so the BBS occasionally goes down when Terry is working on hardware, etc).: telnet ribbs.griswoldfx.com 6809

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:

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World of Commodore is December 6-7 in Mississauga, Ontario at the Admiral Inn. The show “warmly embrace(s) enthusiasts of all retro computer gear, not just the Commodore computers (although the SuperPET does have a 6809 in it and runs a version of OS-9 Level 1… making it a cousin to the Coco in a way).

 https://woc.tpug.ca/

As Mark Overholser mentioned on our show, the next Tandy Retro Show will be happening January 24 and 25th, which will be a series of live YouTube streaming presentations. He is currently taking bookings of people & topics. Send an email to: registration@tandyretroshow.com

 https://tandyretroshow.com/

Canada is getting it's own official VCF - Montreal, January 25-26 of 2026. It will be held at the Royal Military College outside of Montreal, but I don't have any more details (the venue, for example) yet:

 https://vcfed.org/vcf-montreal/

Date for CocoFest 2026 - April 24-25, as mentioned in the Glenside meeting this past week. And hotel rates are locked in now (see post on Glenside website)

 https://www.glensideccc.com/

That same weekend is the first official Latin American VCF, which takes place April 24-26 in Bahia Blanca, Argentina:

 https://vcf-espaciotec-com-ar.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

VCF-PNW (Pacific North West) is returning after multiple years in hiatus, and is happening May 2-3 2026 in the Tukwila Community Center in Tukwila, Washington:

 https://www.vcfpnw.net/

NEWS:

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Dragon 32/64

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1) Dave’s 8-Bit Basement posted a video on his YouTube channel take 2 of his Dragon 32 retrobrite attempt, where he tries a method that he has not tried before:

 https://youtu.be/tyfQtyCDspw?si=pTiJkns07YSBa6U1

2) The Laird’s Lair released a video covering 5 popular British computers that “you didn’t know made it to America”. The Dragon 64 gets covered (4:47 in):

 https://youtu.be/9SmNORabrG4?si=Ld1Flq0wfbfgAhkp

3) Julian posted an update to the Dragon Facebook group that he has figured out an issue for multiple versions of his motherboards over the last couple of years:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4218556895070614/

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)

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1) Coco Town’s latest video from about a month ago, about how NTSC color artifacting on the Coco (and other machines) works, has gone viral and now has over 192,000 views:

 https://www.youtube.com/@CocoTownRetro/videos

2) Brian Blake added an entry to his blog showing the 3D printed case that he had made for the John Linville designed, Neil Blanchard produced Sega Joypad adapter:

 https://tandy-trs80.com/sega-j-s-adapter-case/

3) Erico Monteiro released an animated GIF of his in progress TPE game, a multi-screen cave game by the looks of it:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10163469674622641/

4) The latest Compute!’s Gazette magazine is out and is 100 pages long. It even has an article on the Daggorath port to the Amiga that we have been covering recently:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10163467018077641/

5) Allen Huffman posted on his Sub-Etha Software Facebook page a video showing his progress on his ASCII Kong on the Coco, continuing from a previous post he made:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10163434215742641/

He also posted that is looking for a disassembly of Terry Todd’s OS9Term program – a program for DECB to log into Coco 3 OS9 level 2 systems and support the text subset of control and escape codes. Not just colors, cursor positioning, etc. but even overlay windows (we had a program of the same name for the PC / DOS back in the day for work, written in Borland Pascal, but that has since been lost as well):

 https://subethasoftware.com/2025/11/13/wanted-disassembly-of-sub-etha-softwares-os9term/

MC-10

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1) For those who want to make their own Serial I/O joystick adapter, Jay Mundy has posted a handdrawn schematic. This is used by both of Jay’s games, T.H.E.M. and U.S.:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/24850388314661323/

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):

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1) The Amigos (Aaron and Brent) released the latest The Coco Show episode, reviewing the 32K RAM Coco 1/2/3 Halloween themed game released a few months ago, called Spooks:

 https://youtu.be/d60MdaZMas4?si=gHXd7k05YtYUnqIL

They also released raw game footage with no commentary of the game:

 https://youtu.be/oBGJK5odbzM?si=1CO_W-aLEyjWQYWG

2) Thomas Cherryhomes of FujiNet fame has released the Coco version of the Fujinet enabled Battleship game, and have posted a video showing the Coco 1 and 2 version running on the tschak909 YouTube channel:

 https://youtu.be/4Dc1VZkY5Xw?si=6KkoTC7DfvTP-xnL

3) Nostalgiavault on YouTube posted episode 152 of their The MediaList show. One of the things they covered is the Coco 3 version of the game AntiAir by Inufuto:

 https://youtu.be/8BNY26Ay-BY?si=ZtRdHGp3DO_AmBjJ&t=2622

4) Jim Gerrie released an alpha version of Dual Alien for the MC-10, ported from the NEC PC-6001. This is compiled using Greg Dionne’s MCBASDIC compiler for extra speed. If I understand the concept right, it has dual “screens” that with the player showing up in both (like Grabber?):

 https://youtu.be/lkrXmKDJk0U?si=WGwqY1Tv0P_G3VvL

5) Gregok1973 on YouTube released a gameplay video of a BASIC Coco port of the Atari 2600 classic Adventure, done in SG4 graphics:

 https://youtu.be/ORjYtfcnS14?si=mlQMAnUwbzBezCO8

6) Pere Serrat released the latest version (38T9M) of Allan Turvey’s Asteroids RX (originally for the Spectrum). Allen himself released version L not too long ago for free. Pere’s version adds 6309 support and support for the Supersprite FM+ board and it’s AY sound chip. Both Dragon and Coco versions have been released to support the extra hardware. You can get it now at the World of Dragon forums, but it has been uploaded to the Color Computer Archive as well and should be available there soon as well:

 https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11315

7) Nick Marentes has released version 1.1 of his new Pinball game, fixing an issue where (rarely) a ball would get stuck:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/?multi_permalinks=10163471276747641&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen

8) Thomas Cherryhomes posted an update to the Coco Facebook group showing that the Coco Fujinet now supports 3 Game Lobby games (where people can compete both on scores and between 8 bit platforms). This now includes Fujizee, 5 Card Stud and Battleship:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10163455208002641/

10) The Geek Orthodox channel on YouTubek which has a priest as a host, covers the game Stellar Empires from Chromasette on the Coco in his latest episode (#21). This was a personal favourite of mine, and I actually made a modified version adding features that unfortunately now appears to be lost. I should also mention that the host lives in BC – maybe Ken can set up an interview?. He has covered the Coco before in some of his previous episodes as well:

 https://youtu.be/82v3xxfz18s?si=Qdo8sRphSeD2fFPp

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