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The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 481, September 5, 2026 (Aug 29-Sep 4)

2026-09-06T13:02:04Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 481, September 5, 2026 (Aug 29-Sep 4)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 481, September 5, 2026 (Aug 29-Sep 4)
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Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, and Rick Ulland

Interview schedule:
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Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
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VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

That same weekend is the World of Retro Computing at the University of
Waterloo (Ontario, Canada):
https://www.worldofretrocomputing.com/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

New England RetroFest is happening in Concord, New Hamphire on Saturday
October 24.
https://neretrofest.com/

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well). It’s at a new
location closer to Montreal proper (Champlain College Saint-Lambert):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

That same weekend, and newly added to the list, is the next RetroSC retro
computer/gaming show in Brazil that usually features a large contingent
of Coco clones (CP-400, Codimex, etc.), which is happening November 7,
2026 in Florianoplois, Brazil:
Portuguese site (try Google Translate, etc. to translate):
https://retrosc.org/

The countdown has begun! CocoFest for 2027 is May 14-15
https://www.glensideccc.com/

NEWS:
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Dragon 32/64
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1) Tom Erik Gundersen getting jiggy with the SAM
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4527191784207122/

2) A different take: OS9 for Dragon
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4524228534503447/

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
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1) Lee Perkins issued a couple of updates to his Castle Wolfenstein engine
testing for the Coco 3 that he has been trying. The first one shows wall
tile rendering and optimizations for speed, that actually looks pretty
good even at it’s low resolution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpUdIMclxwI
His second video shows a wider variety of tiles, from level 3:
https://youtu.be/DJGQi78mw5Q?si=LFhqxdZRbmNqKe1v

2) Hackaday and Digikey have announced their Retrocomputing contest (with
some prizes):
https://hackaday.io/contest/206399-retrocomputing-contest

3) George Janssen has released part 2 of lesson 21 for this Coco 3 assembly
language tutorial series, which is about drawing points, lines and boxes
in assembly:
https://youtu.be/moXQZ4BKf0g?si=NCNNML3IVUhrWFCq

4) Allen Huffman posted a quick post to his blog about some experiments
he did with AUDIO ON/AUDIO OFF back when he was young:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/09/01/the-coco-vocoder/

5) For SepTandy, Brian has been running down the CoCo. Starting with a fan,
so we can load 'er up
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164744099597641/

and then Super Voice, so the CoCo can read.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164754392532641/

and the Voice, so CoCo can sing. Is he building a robot?
From here he links the Rainbow article, check it out.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164758310967641/

6) Vincent Tran has potentially too many floppies
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164747631827641/

7) Don's gone wild. Custom Molex connectors?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164753139107641/

8) Cedric has released new ESP32 firmware, supports 6309 and more!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4262638377332924/
https://discord.com/channels/301741082600013824/1480677815237218388/1544926236302905457

9) Chris Burke updates his "hardware" math accelerator. The VCC implementation
is 80% complete, the PicoROM implementation is in investigation stage,
and I'm just starting the C runtime library support.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164756985607641/?mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=2nT92x3bKaErPxxq#

10) Thomas Cherryhomes writes on connecting FujiNet to Google Calendar
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?mibextid=wwXIfr&v=1381517507517598&rdid=SqxI9Hdm7ltJdqs1

and Gmail
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164747308422641/?mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=fINMVHZsjA44bBBX#

11) Rich Stephens reports on CAS file compatibility for FujiNet for CoCo
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164742066662641/?mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=54QjpUhb5P94SkNx#

12) Vincent Tran describes a little project since receiving my FujiNet
earlier this week- GiME ANSi! It’s an ANSI terminal for the CoCo 3
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164729531207641/?mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=E7FBJMNmgcWcXrQZ#

13) Alex Redman: Enhanced DOS BASIC has now come to v8.00b and a LOT of
useful things for programmers who want to experiment with what this 40
year old machine can still do!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164726623737641/?mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=Cshl18wafeFfJNLW#

14) Don Sorensens Coco 3 rebuild… 99 % of everything is here. I’m
still waiting on the SALT chip replacement from Tuc’s Workbench and my
2mb ram and Pro-Tector from Cloud-9.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164725544157641/?mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=wq1TKtKYF7FZaASv#

MC-10
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1)

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
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1) Aaron and The Brent of the Amigos do a review of the Tom Mix Software
game Touchstone, a clone of the arcade game Tutankham:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9dMiLXfU3w

They also staged a classic matchup - AmigaAugust vs SepTandy (Amiga vs
CoCo3). Zaxxon, Rampage, RoboCop, One On One, Marble Maze, and more. Check
them out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWI2m4v23VI

2) Chronologically Gaming covered an old Larry Greenfield game – based
on the board game Clue”” – that he originally wrote back in 1982. He
has since updated it many times, including a Coco 3 version – but just
the Coco 1&2 version is covered here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkBOUnARWWE&t=1355s

3) TRS-80 Retro Programing did something a little different in his latest
video – he plays some commercial video games for the Coco 1&2 rather
than discuss his own:
https://youtu.be/epgFfSqP2Fc?si=63r4TvvTPhc_sk7g

4) WhiskyTangoFoxtrot plays CoCo Zone every Septandy. He never finishes. Is
this his year?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMV0MsI4STk

5) NostalgiaVault plays many games, including all the PacMans. Well,
26 of them. CoCo3 is in there somewhere, if you want to see a shootout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkwa_gGPwiU

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==2019==
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==2020==
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* [[News stories for Episode 169, July 18, 2020 show]]
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* [[News stories for Episode 175, August 29, 2020 show]]
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* [[News stories for Episode 179, September 26, 2020 show]]
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* [[News stories for Episode 189, December 5, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 190, December 12, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 191, December 19, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 192, December 26, 2020 show]]

==2021==
* [[News stories for Episode 193, January 2, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 194, January 9, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 195, January 16, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 196, January 23, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 197, January 30, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 198, February 6, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 199, February 13, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 201, February 28, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 202, March 6, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 203, March 13, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 204, March 20, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 205, March 27, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 206, April 3, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 207, April 10, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 208, April 17, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 209, April 24, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 210, May 1, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 211, May 8, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 212, May 15, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 213, May 22, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 214, May 29, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 215, June 5, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 216, June 12, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 217, June 19, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 218, June 26, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 219, July 3, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 220, July 10, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 221, July 17, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 222, July 24, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 223, July 31, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 224, August 7, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 226, August 21, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 227, August 28, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 228, September 4, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 229, September 11, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 230, September 18, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 231, September 25, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 232, October 2, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 233, October 9, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 234, October 16, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 236, October 30, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 237, November 13, 2021]]
* [[News stories for Episode 238, November 20, 2021]]
* [[News stories for Episode 239, November 27, 2021]]
* [[News stories for Episode 240, December 4, 2021]]
* [[News stories for Episode 241, December 11, 2021]]
* [[News stories for Episode 242, December 18, 2021]]

==2022==
* [[News stories for Episode 243, January 1, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 244, January 8, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 245, January 15, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 246, January 22, 2022]]
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* [[News stories for Episode 248, February 4, 2022]]
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* [[News stories for Episode 259, April 23, 2022]]
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* [[News stories for Episode 290, November 26, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 291, December 3, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 292, December 10, 2022]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 293, December 17, 2022]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 294, December 31, 2023]]

==2023==
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 295, January 7, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 296, January 14, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 297, January 21, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 298, January 28, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 299, February 4, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 300, February 11, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 301, February 18, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 302, February 25, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 303, March 4, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 304, March 11 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 305, March 18 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 306, March 25, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 307, April 1, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 308, April 8, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 309, April 15, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 311, May 6, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 312, May 13, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 313, May 20, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 314, May 27, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 315, June 3, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 316, June 10, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 317, June 17, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 318, June 24, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 319, July 1, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 320, July 8, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 321, July 15, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 322, July 22, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 323, July 29, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 324, August 5, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 325, August 12, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 326, August 19, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 327, August 26, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 328, September 2, 2023]]
* [[The CoCo Nation News stories for Episode 329, September 9, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 330, September 16, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 331, September 23, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 332, September 30, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 333, October 7, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 334, October 14, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 335, October 21, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 336, October 28, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 337, November 4, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 338, November 11, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 339, November 18, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 340, November 25, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 341, December 2, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 342, December 9, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 343, December 16, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 344, December 30, 2023]]

==2024==
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 345, January 6, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 346, January 13, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 347, January 20, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 348, January 27, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 349, February 3, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 350, February 10, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 351, February 17, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 352, February 24, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 353, March 2, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 354, March 9, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 355, March 16, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 356, March 23, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 357, March 30, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 358, April 6, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 359, April 13, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 360, April 20, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 361, April 27, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 362, May 11, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 363, May 18, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 364, May 25, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 365, June 1, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 366, June 8, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 367, June 15, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 368, June 29, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 369, July 6, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 370, July 13, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 371, July 20, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 372, July 27, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 373, August 3, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 374, August 10, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 375, August 17, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 376, August 24, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 377, August 31, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 378, September 7, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 379, September 14, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 380, September 21, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 381, September 28, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 382, October 5, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 383, October 12, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 384, October 19, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 385, October 26, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 386, November 2, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 387, November 9, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 388, November 16, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 389, November 23, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 390, November 30, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 391, December 7, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 392, December 14, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 393, December 21, 2024]]

==2025==
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 394, January 4, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 395, January 11, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 396, January 18, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 397, January 25, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 398, February 1, 2025]]
* [[The CoCo Nation News Stories for Episode 399, February 8, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 400, February 15, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 401, February 22, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 402, March 1, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 403, March 8, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 404, March 15, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 405, March 22, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 406, March 29, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 407, April 5, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 408, April 12, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 409, April 19, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 410, April 26, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 411, May 3, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 412, May 10, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 413, May 17, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 414, May 24, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 415, May 31, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 416, June 7, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 417, June 14 (7-13), 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 418, June 21 (14-20), 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 419, June 28 (21-27)), 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 420, July 5,2025 (June 28-July 4)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 421, July 12,2025 (July 5-July 11)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 422, July 19,2025 (July 12-July 18)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 423, July 26,2025 (July 19-July 25)]]
* No news gathered or presented in Episode 424 - see Episode 425
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 425, August 9,2025 (Jul 26-Aug 8)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 426, August 16,2025 (Aug 9-Aug 15)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 427, August 23,2025 (Aug 16-Aug 22)]]
* [[The CoCo Nation News stories for Episode 428, August 30,2025 (Aug 23-Aug 29)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 429, September 6,2025 (Aug 30-Sep 5)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 430, September 13,2025 (Sep 6-Sep 12)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 431, September 20,2025 (Sep 13-Sep 19)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 432, September 27,2025 (Sep 20-Sep 26)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 433, October 4,2025 (Sep 27-Oct 4)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 434, October 11,2025 (Oct 4-Oct 9)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 435, October 18,2025 (Oct 10-Oct 17)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 436, October 25, 2025 (Oct 16-24)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 437, November 1,2025 (Oct 24-Oct 31)]]
* [[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)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 440, November 22, 2025 (Nov 16-22)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 441, November 29,2025 (Nov 21-28)]]
* No news gathered or presented in Episode 442 - see Episode 443
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 443, December 13,2025 (Nov 29-Dec 12)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 444, December 20,2025 (Dec 12-20)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 445, December 27,2025 (Dec 20-26)]]

==2026==
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 446, January 3, 2025 (Dec 27-Jan 2)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 447, January 10, 2025 (Jan 3-9)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 448, January 17,2025 (Jan 10-16)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 449, January 24, 2025 (Jan 17-23)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 450, January 31, 2026 (Jan 24-30)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 451, February 7, 2026 (Jan 31-Feb 6)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 452, February 14, 2026 (Feb 6-13)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 453, February 21,2026 (Feb 13-20)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 454, February 28, 2026 (Feb 21-27)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 455, March 7,2026 (Feb 28-March 6)]]
* [[The CoCo Nation News stories for Episode 456, March 14, 2026 (March 7-13)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 457, March 21, 2026 (March 13-20)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 458, March 28, 2026 (March 20-27)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 459, April 4, 2026 (March 28-April 3)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 460, April 11, 2026 (April 4-10)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 461, April 18, 2026 (April 11-17)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 462, April 25, 2026 (April 18-April 24)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 463, May 2, 2026 (April 25-May 1)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 464, May 9, 2026 (May 2-May 8)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 465, May 16, 2026 (May 9-15)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 466, May 23, 2026 (May 16-22)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 467, May 30, 2026 (May 16-29)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 468, June 6, 2026 (May 30-June 5)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 469, June 13, 2026 (June 6-12)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 470, June 20, 2026 (June 13-19)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 471, June 27, 2026 (June 20-26)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 472, July 4, 2026 (June 27-July 3)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 473, July 11, 2026 (July 5 - July 10)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 474, July 18, 2026 (July 10-17)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 475, July 25, 2026 (July 18-24)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 476, Aug 1, 2026 (July 25-31)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 477, August 8, 2026 (Aug 1-7)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 478, August 15, 2026 (Aug 8-14)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 479, August 22, 2026 (Aug 15-21)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 480, August 29, 2026 (Aug 22-28)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 481, September 5, 2026 (Aug 29-Sep 4)]]

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 480, August 29, 2026 (Aug 22-28)

2026-08-30T14:06:02Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 480, August 29, 2026 (Aug 22-28)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 480, August 29, 2026 (Aug 22-28)
============================================================================
Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, and Rick Ulland

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

That same weekend is the World of Retro Computing at the University of
Waterloo (Ontario, Canada):
https://www.worldofretrocomputing.com/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

New England RetroFest is happening in Concord, New Hamphire on Saturday
October 24.
https://neretrofest.com/

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well). It’s at a new
location closer to Montreal proper (Champlain College Saint-Lambert):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

That same weekend, and newly added to the list, is the next RetroSC retro
computer/gaming show in Brazil that usually features a large contingent
of Coco clones (CP-400, Codimex, etc.), which is happening November 7,
2026 in Florianoplois, Brazil:
Portuguese site (try Google Translate, etc. to translate):
https://retrosc.org/

CocoFest for 2027 is May 14-15 (not on site yet)
https://www.glensideccc.com/

NEWS:
=====

Breaking: @CurtisBoyle just saw some sad news on the Tandy Discord -
Jerry Heep
has passed away. He was to be the keynote speaker at Tandy Assembly this
October. Throw his family a kind thought.

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Tom Erik Gundersen soft launches Mario and Luigi’s unknown half-brother
Salvatore.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4519630554963245/
and the game's already got a name - 'Mario's bro'
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4519825238277110/

2) The only other Dragon story is obvious. Julian Brown is not going a
week without upgrading something, this time it's RAM timings.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4506771179582516/

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
-2) New game. Dragon / CoCo asteroidsish
https://angua3.itch.io/space-rocks

-1) Young Allen Huffman becoming a Sub-ethan:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/08/25/my-computer-setup-in-1987/

0) Erico Montero reminds us of the Hackaday Retro Contest, running through
Oct 27.
https://hackaday.io/contest/206399-retrocomputing-contest

1) Michael Pittsley discovers unknown tokens and other mysteries
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164723570132641/

2) Norman Green recalls days of recent past, when only old people wrote Basic
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164725655772641/

3) Carlos Camacho discovers Nick Marentes and SG24.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164711103492641/

4) A normal Chris Burke quote: I built a Y Pb Pr interface for the CoCo
2 out of junk box parts...
and put the full schematics on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164715652222641/

5) Mark Casteleijn is porting Beatle Quest. He is expecting a long and
winding road.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164711277342641/

*b) he's got a github for the underlying multi-platform engine. Find
the seven line long link
in this post.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164727101277641/

6) Alex Redman hits us with a bunch of posts, he's wanting to map the
whole 512 into ECB and add
memory protection. pretty ambitious!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164717498602641/

6b) one of his goals is to write a natural language parser in DECB. Here's
the map
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164721702007641/

6c) then he tried to start an editor flame war, but we don't have emacs
so it fizzled out.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164707633347641/

7) What does the 8bit Guy do with computers after the video? Matthew
Schreiner Computing knows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7sxb8hfg-4
00:42 - 01:56 = behold the indestructable green bubblewrap

8) We've gopt a new victi... we mean fan! Barudaxx Rantau Z and his new CoCo3
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164702523397641/

8+) Scott Baker (smbakeryt) fits real HDMI to a CoCo2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxz0JojxWIQ
backgrounder:
https://www.smbaker.com/

MC-10
-----
1) Inufuto releases UCHOTOS.
http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/uchotos/

RetroPC gives it a play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSZFU9cJYwc

1b) and Nostalgivault does it on many PCs to compare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0nws0oDFeQ
early - fancy versions
12:28 - 21:59 MC10

2) Agent Deluxe is AWOL? Shows how popular CCN is.
Spriteworx promotes Agent TJ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbPoRoOswZk

3) Scott Gilson of 'Mister Robot Electronics' reports the MCX32-SD for
the MC-10 computer is back!
A video short covering it's history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iaTeuY61LQ
And here are the links on Facebook. He's got free shipping to NA,
ebay intl everywhere else.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/27812998861733572/

4) Tom Erik Gundersen wants cursor standards for the MC10/Alice. I assume
Alice is AZERTY, do we
need two fixes?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/27810008452032613/

http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/uchotos/

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================

None of the usual game play videos or speed runs came up. You'd think it's
the last week of summer holiday or something. A few MC10 games... so we
didn't split them out this week. Let's pretend it never happened.

==============================================================================

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2026-08-30T14:03:40Z

ExileInParadise: /* 2026 */

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 479, August 22, 2026 (Aug 15-21)

2026-08-23T15:37:45Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 479, August 22, 2026 (Aug 15-21)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 479, August 22, 2026 (Aug 15-21)
=========================================================================
Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, and Rick Ulland

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct 2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

New England RetroFest is happening in Concord, New Hamphire on Saturday October 24.
https://neretrofest.com/

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well). It’s at a new location closer to Montreal proper (Champlain College Saint-Lambert):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

That same weekend, and newly added to the list, is the next RetroSC retro computer/gaming show in Brazil that usually features a large contingent of Coco clones (CP-400, Codimex, etc.), which is happening November 7, 2026 in Florianoplois, Brazil:
Portuguese site (try Google Translate, etc. to translate):
https://retrosc.org/

CocoFest for 2027 is May 14-15 (not on site yet)
https://www.glensideccc.com/

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Adrian Stokes posted a picture of redesigned boards, but I can’t remember exactly what this is for, lol:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4508087936117507/

2) Julian Brown also posted an update to his Dragon replacement board, and notes of the RAM access design changes that he has done:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4506771179582516/
He also released the 6th video blog update – this time covering implementing the SAM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYFUbz1bD_s

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) Chris Burke has been teasing with several posts on Facebook about getting Doom to run on a Coco 3 (maybe accelerated via emulator, maybe not). He has been working on the palette settings and using dithering patterns to match as close as we can. (I will mention that this video is running on a modern Linux machine, but it is using the palettes & dithering that would be doable on a Coco 3):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164685231147641/
Some more dithering options:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164683615317641/
His original dither patterns:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164674045552641/

2) Erico Monteiro posted an animated GIF update for his tank game, this time adding a meteor impact area:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164683843862641/

3) Brian Palmer posted a screenshot of some high res graphics he did with BASIC, but from what he says of the listing, he shouldn’t be seeing as many circles…
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164680983452641/

4) Alex Redman posted on the Coco Facebook group some of the hot keys used by the old commercial program BASIC FREEDOM, of which no manual scan is known to exist:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164680164402641/

5) Don Sorensen posted photos of a duplicate Coco 3 motherboad from Scott @ Tuc’s Workbench – the Athena board that we have shown before – and has started work on it:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640?multi_permalinks=10164672802977641&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen

6) Bradley Goldsmith posted an update to his HDMI Cartridge board, showing that it now works in a MultiPac:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164666496637641/

7) Glen Hewlett posted on his blog that he now has his Disk Extended BASIC stand alone assembly library ready. This lets you call disk routines *without* requiring Disk BASIC at all (and thus using memory for all of it’s functions when you don’t need them):
Blog post”
https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/coco-decb-stand-alone-assembly-library/
Github:
https://github.com/nowhereman999/DECB_Disk_File_Library

8) Allen Huffman posted on his Sub-Etha Software blog a video showing some of the video titles that he was doing on his then new Coco 3:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/08/11/computer-video-titles-in-1987/

9) Mathew Ward has been working through the excellent Don & Kurt Inman book “Assembly Language Graphics for the TRS-80 Color Computer”, and posted a video showing sample program 25, which is a combination of BASIC and Assembly:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164664076887641/

10) Brenda Make posted about a 3D printed Coco 3 case replacement that she is working on:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/posts/3837928859803363/

11) Coco Town put up a video about copy protection, auto-loading and more from cassette:
https://youtu.be/F8JH1q0jP8I?si=585kNP2pXpN0VGO1

12) George Janssen has a new assembly language tutorial for the Coco 3, this time showing how to draw lines and boxes in assembly for the Coco 3:
https://youtu.be/R0A31uXrwzk?si=9pU_wycDrSmAUZAm

13) The Sagegazers on YouTube posted a video of the “album” Mystical Data, produced on a Coco 3 using Coco MIDI 3 Pro, Roland & Yamaha synthesizers and other music hardware. (Coco MIDI 3 was published by Rulaford Research), and written by Michael Milazzo using his Coco 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACs5z2HtZlc

14) TRS-80 Color Retro Programing on YouTube posted a video update to his Haunted House game (based loosely on the Atari 2600 game of the same name, showing the first 3 floors:
https://youtu.be/NdY45hYEAcU?si=PzkMG7Dw50zQ1UiV

15) VCC version 2.1.9.3 is now out thanks to EJ Jaquay, with the following updates:
2.1.9.3 added a check box for over-clocking in the CPU settings, the Function keys are mapped around a bit, and some other changes with user interface. If you press "Function Keys" from the Help menu a list of function keys and what they do will pop up.
https://github.com/VCCE/VCC

MC-10
-----
1)

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Jamie Cho used Claude AI & Dynosprite to create both Coco 3 (512k) and Mac remakes of the MC-10 classic Lost Valley Pinball:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640?multi_permalinks=10164690365577641&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen
Github:
https://github.com/jamieleecho/pinball/releases/tag/0.1

2) YouTube channel “Mastertronic Collectors Archive” will be posting a comparison video of the Mastertronic game “Vegas Jackpot” on the 7 different machines that it ran on back in the day, including the Dragon 32. It gets premiered on August 27:
https://youtu.be/Hj7ZezPSOFs?si=vY3LuPhRLSeTH01Y

3) YouTube channel HUGAGAP posted a short video about a new Atari 2600 game called Skeleton. Why am I mentioning it here? It is meant as a tribute to Phantom Slayer on the Coco:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSGuFB-zcx4

4) Brian Jones posted a 10 minute gameplay video of the classic Coco game Downland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgRy5sETjbs

5) Guillaume Major has re-released the Sierra games with multi-voice music support that will work with a modified Sound/Speech pack, a Philharmonic/Symphony 12 or the Coco PSG sound cards:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164694895372641/

==============================================================================

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2026-08-23T15:35:47Z

ExileInParadise: /* 2026 */

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 478, August 15, 2026 (Aug 8-14)

2026-08-16T12:30:16Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 478, August 15, 2026 (Aug 8-14)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 478, August 15, 2026 (Aug 8-14)
============================================================================
Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, and Rick Ulland

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Special NOTES:
--------------
#SepTandy starts soon on YouTube!

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well). It’s at a new
location closer to Montreal proper (Champlain College Saint-Lambert):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

That same weekend, and newly added to the list, is the next RetroSC retro
computer/gaming show in Brazil that usually features a large contingent
of Coco clones (CP-400, Codimex, etc.), which is happening November 7,
2026 in Florianoplois, Brazil:
Portuguese site (try Google Translate, etc. to translate):
https://retrosc.org/

CocoFest for 2027 is May 14-15 (not on site yet)
https://www.glensideccc.com/

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Draco DS (The Dragon emulator for the Nintendo DS series) has now gotten to
version 1.7. It supports Dragon 32/64 with 32 or 64K of RAM (and PAL timings),
Coco 1&2 with 32 or 64K RAM with NTSC timings, cassette/cartridge/disk
image support, save/load game state, digital and analog joystick controls
with adjustable sensitivity, artifact color support, the ability to swap
the the 2 DS screens between the monitor screen and the keyboard/controls
screen, screenshot capture (handy for Game On Challenge) and more:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4505477136378587/

2) Tom Erik Gundersen continues rapid progress on his Choplifter port,
having tanks roaming around, and the hostages are able to be killed by
the players on fire (and there are 32 of them now):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4504599583133009/

3) A post on the World of Dragon Archive forums has the “The Dragon
Directory Jan/Feb 1989”, which is a list of people and companies still
supporting the Dragon with new software, meetups,etc.:
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11364

4) Fallen Tech put up an over half hour video about the history of the
Dragon 32:
https://youtu.be/gnkIc_byx1s?si=b6vY42qj9BiV3FXp

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) Erico Patricio Monteiro posted on the Facebook Coco group that his Open
Pilantra random story generator (with animated SG4 graphics) now has a
description of how it works and how to make your own stories, thanks to
Paul Cunningham:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164641007157641/
Documentation:
https://github.com/ugufru/OPEN-PILANTRA/blob/main/docs/MAKE-YOUR-OWN-STORY.md
He also posted an animated GIF update for his tank game, showing many
opponents going at once:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164651446602641/

2) Bradley Goldsmith posted an update to his Coco HDMI board – he now has
true lowercase support for any Coco (including non T1 VDG Coco 1 and 2’s)
setable by a switch. He has also gotten sound working, and is getting
close to a release:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164658027962641

3) An interesting post from Craig Marshall in the Facebook Dragon group
– he has written a comedy retro computer novel (called Packet Loss)
that “has a bit of a theme around some Dragon 32 software”:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4503938093199158/

4) Martin Gren showed a 6809 based computer that is home made by Claude
AI that is actually booting Flex (the 6800/6809 full operating system that
was popular until OS-9 became more popular by the mid-1980’s):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/6809assembly/posts/4094191860874165/

MC-10
-----
1)

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Fast on the heels of Lee Perkins releasing Montezuma’s Revenge for
the 512K Coco 3, Glen Hewlett has released the very first 2 MB RAM/6309
required Coco 3 game ever, a port of Rick Dangerous from the Amiga. Besides
NitrOS9 Level II, is this the first “killer app” for a 2 MB RAM Coco 3?:
Blog post announcing the release (and some details on how the port was done):
https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/2026/08/08/rick-dangerous-for-the-coco-3/
Video showing it in action:
https://youtu.be/SlgqGv250Qc?si=y1yanyg-u5o9vXdy
github for download and source:
https://github.com/nowhereman999/Rick_Dangerous_CoCo_3

2) Jim Gerrie ported a couple of games to the MC-10 this past week:
Trafalgar, a sea battle game, from Computers & Video Games magazine April
1983, from the ZX-81 and originally written by David Anderson:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/27624654447234682/
Learn Coco Learn by William D. English from Rainbow August 1987, converted
from the Coco to the MC-10:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtrz856p1Uk

3) Rich Stephens has released Fujirkle, a multiplayer dice game with both
Coco 1&2 and Coco 3 versions, for Fujinet. Coming soon for other Fujinet
supported platforms:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164663033497641

4) Jamie Cho has released a MultiVue version of Flipper09 (an Othello
type game) with pull down menus, and it supports running in 2 4 or 16 color
screens. Source code is included. The game was originally by Stephen J. Page,
published in the Decemver 1989 issue of Rainbow.
Facebook announcement/screenshot:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164661426047641/
github download & source:
https://github.com/jamieleecho/reversi/releases/tag/0.1

5) Lojinha do Moises posted in the Brazil Color Computer club Facebook
page that he has hardware cartridges for multiple games/programs for the
CP-400/CP-400 II now available:
4 games:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ClubeColor/posts/27487901847577502/
Some business software, I think:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ClubeColor/posts/27487879270913093/

6) retroports on YouTube released a video of a tribute to Dungeons of
Daggorath, done via Teletext:
https://youtu.be/wWRPM6oDnJ0?si=9WNlm_9Y9lyyhE0f

7) Gamestorian on YouTube did an almost 2 hour long play video of Sam
Sleuth, written by Steve Hartford for Computerware in late 1984:
https://youtu.be/4auxziNOKP8?si=mooL5SPjd8dQt6Kz

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CoCo Nation News Archive

2026-08-16T12:29:24Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 478, August 15, 2026 (Aug 8-14)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 477, August 8, 2026 (Aug 1-7)

2026-08-09T12:37:07Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 477, August 8, 2026 (Aug 1-7)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 477, August 8, 2026 (Aug 1-7)
============================================================================
Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, and Rick Ulland

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Special Notes
-------------
SepTandy is coming up in a couple of more weeks!

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

That same weekend, and newly added to the list, is the next RetroSC retro
computer/gaming show in Brazil that usually features a large contingent
of Coco clones (CP-400, Codimex, etc.), which is happening November 7,
2026 in Florianoplois, Brazil:
Portuguese site (try Google Translate, etc. to translate):
https://retrosc.org/

CocoFest for 2027 is May 14-15 (not on site yet)

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Ciaran Anscomb has released an update to XRoar; version 1.12.1. The
main changes involve the debugging features, which can now report register
information to GDB. This not only includes the 6809/6309 (and 6803 now as
well), but also the pseudo registers from the SAM, GIME and PIA. There is
also a new monochrome mode added thanks to code contributions from Erik
Gavriluk (of Color Max 3 Deluxe fame, amongst others):
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11362

2) Second Life Electronics posted a quick update video of what projects
he will be covering soon (his August Coffee Chat), and mentions that he
will be talking about his Dragon 32 again, since he now has a tape deck
to load programs:
https://youtu.be/AxhAhV92L-Q?si=SDrpT_LH5Nai-3MA&t=132

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) TRS-80 Retro Programing released another update video on his BASIC port
(with some differences) of the Atari 2600 classic Haunted House. This
round he has added the spider and some further gameplay:
https://youtu.be/p71W4FDjYbI?si=5B0vjKtNPLpvxSbf
He also made a video he called “Weird Coco errors – part 2”, covering
some of the eccentricities of of using geometric functions with floating
point math:
https://youtu.be/CipS_OoxXnU?si=B895VdiJ5uG63JoG

2) Henry Strickland has shared some photos from VCF-West last weekend
(that he joined the show from):
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Rm5TZEQ5uGWdk4Rc9

3) Allen Huffman posted about an online HTML Coco 1&2 emulator – but
written mostly by AI. It’s a github project by “star-fs” (Star Morin)
and even includes some debugging tools. The author shared a post about it
in the Coco Facebook group:
http://subethasoftware.com/2026/08/04/ai-wrote-a-coco-emulator-in-html5/
Original author post and github link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164490918602641/
https://github.com/star-fs/varispeed-coco2
He also released a blog post about his working on a Coco 1&2 game called
Backrooms, with his first development diary entry. In this entry he describes
the two main inspirations for the game, and what he is hoping to achieve:
http://subethasoftware.com/2026/08/04/coco-backrooms-development-diary-entry-1/

4) Bradley Goldsmith posted an update on his Coco HDMI project, showing
his second rev board that he is starting testing on:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164632461972641

5) Joseph Quinn II posted a screenshot in the Coco Facebook group a sample of
his 80x25 CP437/ANSI screen in a “16 color” mode, which could be very
useful for rendering ANSI BBS’s. The two existing programs that support
this use very different methods for rendering the full 256 character font
and all the colors; Twilight Terminal uses page flipping with 3 640x225 4
color graphics screens, and NetMate uses a 320x200x16 color screen with mini
4x8 pixel fonts. Joseph is trying a 3rd method: 640x200x4 single screen,
but changing the 4 palettes every scanline:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164622548507641/

6) Chris Burke of Burke & Burke fame posted a photo of the internals of
the Hitachi HD6309 chip to the Coco Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164616898522641/
He also posted a readme for his 6809 tracing disassembler on his github,
having not made one for it before:
Announcement:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/6809assembly/posts/4090397864586898/
Github:
https://github.com/cyberabi/diffdasm/

7) Mauricio Matte has released another update (version 1.0.77) of his Coco
FIU utility, a graphical file GUI utility that handles disk and cassette
images, real disks, DriveWire & Fujinet drives, OS-9 and regular, etc.):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164615833017641/

8) Erico Patricio Monteiro posted a DSK image to the Coco Facebook group
showing a PMODE 4 artifacted rendition of the famous Coco Cat by Rainbow
magazine (screenshot in comments):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164613178892641/

9) Tom Erik Gundersen posted another update to his Choplifter port to the
Dragon and Coco, adding 4 hostages in each of the 4 barracks, dropping
the hostages back at the base:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4496203333972634/

10) Allen Leno has posted some sample badges he is working on for the
ESP32-Coco:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4262638377332924/posts/4412305059032921/

11) Cedric Beaudoin has announced a milestone in his ESP32-Coco page:
They have reached 1,000 members already:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4262638377332924/posts/4408020229461404/

12) GB Janssen posted a new Coco 3 graphics animation in assembly language
video, more of a demo, and based on Glen Hewlett’s older sprite demo. He
also uploaded the DSK image with the program (and source):
https://youtu.be/-xdUAt6PWkM?si=NBXEE0LhrO7cQud0

MC-10
-----
1) Dave Bernazzani posted on the MC-10 Facebook group that he has
released version 1.7 of his MC-10 emulator (MicroDS) for the Nintendo
DS/Dsi/XL/LL. This includes bug fixes for sound for games like Demon Attack
(which requires changing a sound filtering setting), and the ability to
adjust the sensitivity of the joystick (on either/both axis):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164632706097641/

2) Geek With Social Skills on YouTube did a quick overview of his MC-10,
including the 16K RAM expansion:
https://youtu.be/-t7kgYRftD0?si=nGd4zTmPFOzeQNcL

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Jim Gerrie has released a port of the 1982 strategy game (originally on
the Apple II, Atari 8 bit, PET, MSDOS and TRS-80 Model 1/3, from Avalon
Hill) to the MC-10, called Andromeda Quest. It supports up to 4 players,
and Jim added a title screen:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/27568705066162954/
Gameplay footage:
https://youtu.be/rXFDmbPWadk?si=ttzyEi3NKY-KkCAR

2) RetroGamerDiaries did a review of the various versions of the Predator
game by Activision, including the Coco 3 version by Greg Zumwalt (Coco 3
version covered 32:37 in):
https://youtu.be/Do6foIejug4?si=-aktRLwnNkXEY4hJ

3) Alex Gayer has released an updated version of his Sea Battle game
(updated sound effects) for 32K Extended BASIC and higher Coco’s, to
the Coco Facebook group (video demo in comments):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164609922962641/

4) Attempts: A gaming channel (by LRU) on YouTube posted a few videos of
going for high scores in Android Attack (originally by Spectral Associates)
on the Dragon. He did videos in 3 different graphics modes (PMODE 3 with
both colorsets, and PMODE 4), but I will just show one here since the game
is identical except for the mode:
https://youtu.be/nMVp_wcA2qg?si=OUnER-Vl2D9LEdKp

5) theLogBook on YouTube did a video about the Coco version of Demon Attack:
https://youtu.be/b5Pc6YjB7Mg?si=3L5SDpAE03-oObFw

6) Chronlogically Gaming did a brief mention of Spectral Associates
CC-Thello game on last weeks episode (covering 1982 released games), but
he couldn’t get it to fully run. I know I have since I have screenshots
of the actual gameplay, but I don’t remember if I had to do anything
special to get it to play. Does anyone else know?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYGcS5qSp4&t=507s

7) Gregg TV on YouTube did a video showing Caverns of Narzod (by Max
Betteridge in the 1985, in Australian Coco or Australian Rainbow magazine,
if I remember right):
https://youtu.be/QYU0v10vyvY?si=EgxcuOXlUelv4-ba

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CoCo Nation News Archive

2026-08-09T12:36:07Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 477, August 8, 2026 (Aug 1-7)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 476, Aug 1, 2026 (July 25-31)

2026-08-02T09:36:40Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 476, Aug 1, 2026 (July 25-31)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 476, Aug 1, 2026 (July 25-31)
============================================================================
Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, and Rick Ulland

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------

VCF West is NOW at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California, and there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF-SE (combined with the Southern Fried Gaming Expo) is July 31-August 2 at The Marriott Renaissance Waverly in Atlanta, Georgia:
https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/

VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct 2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

That same weekend is the next RetroSC retro computer/gaming show in Brazil that usually features a large contingent of Coco clones (CP-400, Codimex, etc.), which is happening November 7, 2026 in Florianoplois, Brazil:
Portuguese site (try Google Translate, etc. to translate):
https://retrosc.org/

And last but not least, CocoFest for 2027 is May 14-15. Not on site yet, but just wait...

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------

1) John Whitworth has another 8 Dragon PSUs online but hurry, he's shutting down for a week starting Aug2 and afterwards new packaging rules come into play. No soup for EU.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4490400851219549/

2) Phill Harvey-Smith has the original Dragon Pro and it's clone side by side
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4486963611563273/

3) Tony Jewell with a proper, paper white office
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4486318128294488/

4) Tom Erik Gundersen (and vibe) are still tweaking Choplifter for dragon. Its getting there!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4489286484664319/

4b) And he's patched Alligata for the dragon keyboard. Link here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4484158055177162/

5) Simon Jones has intense jailbars. Ever read about D32 video?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4484999155093052/

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

1) Tom Seagrove notes the CoCo3 was 41 yesterday
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164594456222641/

1a) Ron made a badge. Well, prompted a badge
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164599118687641/

1b) Earlier we saw a Happy Birthday post from Dr Pitre but can't find it now..

2) Rich Stephens has news on the FujiNet VT100 terminal, and even better, a download link!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164339452577641/

2b) And another game with online hi scores - Imagic's Demon Attack
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164601304727641/

3) Lance Schafhausen: 'Team Melty' presents COCODESK, a GUI for the Tandy RadioShack CoCo 1/2/3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChpoZGl5uhM

4) Don Sorensen does all the wrong things. It started so promising
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164592526947641/

4a) And then the crowd introduces him to bodge wires
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164597002097641/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164600576287641/
4b) but this is Don, and he's got backup:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164584029327641/
4c) and end the end I think Brian may want to give our man Don a call? Or maybe he shouldn't.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164580403847641/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164584029332641/

5) Tristan Robichaud made himself a Hayes modem out of a ESP32. Twiterm approved.
check out Mike Kadolphs auto annswer scheme, Rube Goldberg approved.
and of course there is a subetha post or two. Reliable research is noice.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164587791557641/

6) Steve Batson will be at VCF West. Where are you?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164575291487641/

7) Frank Fuhter (OK) finds CoCo1, not one but FOUR full height floppies, and some oddball gadget from TI
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164592573327641/

8) Eduardo Couto Chueri links some interesting CP400 commercials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5CxPHol1m4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArK7QDyvTCw

and finally the whole Prologica CP series. They cloned EVERYTHING
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164594156442641/

9) Lee Bendall is hoping for a plug in 64K upgrade for his CoCo1. Anyone? Beuller?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164595280037641/

10) Steve Ungstad wrote some pretty serious software in the day, and still has the disks. But not the CoCo. He's looking to read those disks on a PC. Other than a general 'check the archive' any tips?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164596946967641/

11) Brian Maddox asks the eternal question - can we make a CoCo from all new parts?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164594308762641/

12) Guillaume Major links a fix for Prisonr3, a magazine game typed in by Brian Palmer. A couple typos is good typing, a couple eyeballs is better!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164600528407641/

MC-10
-----
1)

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================

1) Lee Perkins has been porting C64's Montezuma's Revenge since last winter and it's done? And free to download. Ken, we need a GOC date.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164588214957641/

2) Rich Stephens posts a fresh link for the high score enabled 'Downland' with known bugs unbugged
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164590437122641/

3) JohnDo TV: Finds Cuthbert Anthology 'reimagined' for Game Boy Color
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qb30fKfWQg

4) RetroBat plays a bunch of Dragon 64. It's worth it for the nosalgia hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERpoEYNNbsA

3) Attempts: A gaming channel (by LRU) does aom Dragon high score runs. First 'Electron'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjKHAhr_goM
3b) and then Android Attack in the Dragon's trademark soothing green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMFiF1MspT4
3c) and because space games sell, Astro Blast!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDvtYlvrkoQ

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CoCo Nation News Archive

2026-08-02T09:35:53Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 476, Aug 1, 2026 (July 25-31)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 475, July 25, 2026 (July 18-24)

2026-07-26T13:25:56Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 475, July 25, 2026 (July 18-24)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 475, July 25, 2026 (July 18-24)
========================================================================
Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, Rick Ulland

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
VCF West is August 1-2, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View California, and there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF-SE (combined with the Southern Fried Gaming Expo) is July 31-August
2 at The Marriott Renaissance Waverly in Atlanta, Georgia:
https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/

VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

That same weekend, and newly added to the list, is the next RetroSC retro
computer/gaming show in Brazil that usually features a large contingent
of Coco clones (CP-400, Codimex, etc.), which is happening November 7,
2026 in Florianoplois, Brazil:
Portuguese site (try Google Translate, etc. to translate):
https://retrosc.org/

CocoFest for 2027 is May 14-15 (not on site yet)

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Dave Hooper has released a new MaxDuiNEO update (version 4.3.0):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4482248125368155/

2) Tom Erik Gundersen has upload several Dragon programming manuals to
the Dragon Facebook group:
Edit+/Hi-Res from Compusense:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4480650422194592/
Dasm/Demon from Compusense:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4480651045527863/
He also uploaded a patch to the Defense game (Missile Command type game
originally by Spectral Associates) to allow it to play in the 4 color mode
rather than trying to artifact (thanks to work by Mike Miller):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4480094845583483/

3) Julian Brown has uploaded his 5th blog entry about his updated Dragon
motherboard, with this one “digging the VDG” and how he does it with
Verilog:
https://youtu.be/PV91ZWL2RYQ?si=LzyzdxURNNctye4w

4) John Whitworth posted a heads up that he will soon stop exporting
DragonPlus items to a handful of EU countries (Portugal, Greece, Norway,
Germany and France), do to some new EU regulations that make it a real pain:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4478149682444666/

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) TRS-80 Retro Programing released another update video on his BASIC port
(with some differences) of the Atari 2600 classic Haunted House:
https://youtu.be/OYAch9pC4E4?si=8NcbGwx8V0fW1juC

2) Dr. Boisy Pitre has released a BASIC09 compiler prototype, which uses LLVM
to compile BASIC09 source on modern machines, and also has an experimental
graphics library for modern machines as well:
https://github.com/DrPitre/basic09c
He has also released a new HiRes screen package for Level II
OS-9/NitrOS9. This takes some of the system calls that are done both by
CoVDG (which is the Coco 1&2 / Level 1 graphics package, but added high res
screen support for directly writing to graphics RAM for Coco 3 modes –
and even included the 160x192x16 mode that is not supported in the native
Coco 3 drivers (or Super Extended BASIC, for that matter) at all). This is
something that was done in a different way in the famed Level II upgrade, and
means one can save value system space while retaining all the functionality:
https://github.com/nitros9project/nitros9/pull/367
He also uploaded “coco-codex-pet”, an animated custom pet using ChatGPT
based on the Coco character from the original BASIC manuals:
https://github.com/DrPitre/coco-codex-pet

3) Richard Stephens has released a full how-to manual for setting up
Fujinet-pc and XRoar for the Coco in the #fujinet channel on the Coco
Discord and in the Coco Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164562707412641/

4) William Astle has released lwtools version 4.25. This contains bug
fixes and extra features like bitwise shift operators (using << and >>):
http://www.lwtools.ca/

5) Paul Cunningham released a short video showing multiple Coco emulators
and an early prototype of the sequencer engine for a new game based on
his Bare Naked Forth:
https://youtu.be/OE9EB_S6ZrQ?si=d4k32m8LZl2cxyo9

6) William Athing provided a link to Fujinet for the Dragon 32/64 that is
being made by FutureVision Research:
https://www.fvresearch.com/product/fujinet-for-dragon-rev0000/

7) Allen Huffman put up a blog covering Color TRS-DOS – the set of
utilities and driver code to allow assembly language programmers to access
disks at the file level, rather than the raw sector level that Disk Extended
BASIC’s “legal
“ ROM calls used. Brian Wieseler has full commented source for this and
Robert’s original manuals for it that were supplied to Tandy to basically
give away, but it didn’t show up with many programs (Disk Edtasm+ being
the main one).
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/07/21/unraveling-the-mysteries-of-color-trsdos/

8) Retro Islander posted an hour long video (and says a second will be coming
out later to talk about the ChatGPT component of it in more detail), which
he used in developing the game (ChatGPT Sol and Codex to be specific). It
is a Coco 3 version of the arcade classic LadyBug:
Demo of game state right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9B9HP8kYs&t=1118s

9) Tristan Robichaud has been doing updates to his manual for the ESP32-Coco
(by Cedric Beaudoin):
https://github.com/mast4rbug/ESP32-CoCo

10) Reinaldo Torres has released his TTGO-VGA32-COCO, a Coco 2 and 3 hardware
emulator (both on the same firmware) which uses a LiyGO TTGO VGA32 board:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164442530407641/

11) Alishar Hugo posted photos of replacement Dragon motherboards (version
2.1) and mentions working on a “more radical” Rev 3. But if one zooms
the photo, this is Julian Brown’s boards. Does he have a second Facebook
name/account, or somebody stealing credit for his work?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164494430037641/

12) Erico Patricio Monteiro released an animated GIF showing a heavily
artifacted tank game that he is working on (I presume written in ugBASIC?). He
may be on the show today to talk about it:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164574145682641/

13) Carlos Camacho uploaded an artifact color Coco 1&2 image showing a
mountainous landscape. He says he uploaded the source code to draw it as well:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164559254917641/

14) Ronivon Costa posted photos and a video into the Clube Color Brasil
group in Facebook with his CP-400 color with an SRAM expansion, daughterboard
with connectors for 2 joysticks, VGA, Sdcard slot, audio, ESP32 and more:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ClubeColor/posts/27238750909159265/

15) Allen Leno posted a link to his case design for the joystick option
for the ESP32 Coco:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4262638377332924/posts/4393900237540070/

MC-10
-----
1)

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) YouTube channel Retro Recenzent has started making game play videos for
Coco games (all Coco 1&2 so far) in alphabetical order (similar to what
HighRetroGameLord did some years ago). He has 3-D Breakaway, 3D-Ghostmania
and 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe so far. They are using AI for the voice, so it does
have odd pronunciations at time (or maybe he speaks a different language
natively?). He does give full descriptions and playthrough’s:
3-D Brickaway:
https://youtu.be/LBQ5qj-bmI4?si=A72X_WITKIblrJqJ
3D-Ghostmania:
https://youtu.be/fE1tMRCoxJY?si=-6CebKnNmHWjOdgj
3-D Tic-Tac-Toe:
https://youtu.be/lSonwh01NPo?si=psctWOUni3Yc-He0

2) If you are on the Coco Discord and have a 512K Coco 3 (or emulator),
pop into the #general-game-posts channel. Lee Perkins (leep) has put up
a test version of his port of Montezuma’s Revenge for the Coco 3 for
people to try and report bugs

3) Bug Twentythree on Facebook released a video of his Space Invaders port
to the Coco 1&2 level machines, that even incorporates the sound from the
original arcade game. He also released the game itself:
Video:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164548309557641/
Download (both .BIN and .CAS formats):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/files/files

4) BugTwentythree’s new Space Invaders game for the Coco 1/2/3 is now
available for the Dragon as well, thanks to Pere Serrat:
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11360

5) Chronologically Gaming covers another Coco games in the latest episode
covering games released sometime in 1982. This time he covers Box Shoot,
a game from the December 1982 issue of Chromasette tape magnazine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NxPjLLsLVg&t=539s

6) “super Mario glichy 4” on YouTube has released an hour long video
showing various clones and ports of Ms. PacMan, which includes MRS PAC
and Miss Gobbler (and somehow missing the best port, Ms. Maze by Tom Mix):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edOI3iXkZvE&t=3764s

7) Amigo Aaron did a live stream a week ago showing TV Tie In games on
a variety of platforms. For The Dallas Quest (based on the hit TV show),
he chose the Coco version:
https://www.youtube.com/live/lOO4YDyxNgo?si=MqxmElGPm-dXVJye&t=7200

8) theLogBook on YouTube has released a Coco gameplay video this week as
well for Megabug:
https://youtu.be/JH5n3WAFxz4?si=ywRjM0gPgW12tmil

9) Tom’s Toys on YouTube put up a 20 minute video showing some vector
and B/W games for the Dragon (he is using a MiSTer to emulate). He plans
a followup for later games as well. He covers Meteoroids,Asteroids RX,
Rommel’s Revenge, Cosmic Invaders & the just released Space Invaders
(see regular) news) clone this round:
https://youtu.be/HG52-kiOXJc?si=1HQtkfCGQ4Wvsxmf

10) Lance Schafhausen has released the BASIC source code to his Gruntley’s
Dungeon game that he released (and we covered) last week):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164555309717641/
He also showed a screenshot of a graphical Program Launcher that he is
working on – for the Coco 1 and 2 by the looks of it:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164555287992641/

11) Rich Stephens has released a version of the classic game Downland that
now supports the Fujinet high score feature, where you can compete against
high scores with other Coco or Dragon users using Fujinet over the Internet:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164561600587641/

12) Some nostalgia for the oldtimers: Michael Pittsley posted some screenshots
from IMB’s (Illustrated Memory Banks, Fred Scerbo’s company) very first
Coco game which appeared in the December 1981 Rainbow, called Zelda’s
Bat Bottle. Fred always did Extended BASIC games with artifacted colors,
some published in the magazine and others sold commercially:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164569915607641/

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CoCo Nation News Archive

2026-07-26T13:22:13Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 475, July 25, 2026 (July 18-24)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 474, July 18, 2026 (July 10-17)

2026-07-19T11:35:19Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 474, July 18, 2026 (July 10-17)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 474, July 18, 2026 (July 10-17)
=================================================================================
Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, and Rick Ulland

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
VCF West is August 1-2, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View California, and there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF-SE (combined with the Southern Fried Gaming Expo) is July 31-August
2 at The Marriott Renaissance Waverly in Atlanta, Georgia:
https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/

VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

That same weekend, and newly added to the list, is the next RetroSC retro
computer/gaming show in Brazil that usually features a large contingent
of Coco clones (CP-400, Codimex, etc.), which is happening November 7,
2026 in Florianoplois, Brazil:
Portuguese site (try Google Translate, etc. to translate):
https://retrosc.org/

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Tom Erik Gundersen (a regular in our live chat) posted a photo of the
manual and hardware for the DriveWire Microserver, a self-contained (no
separate computer required) micro SD card DriveWire server for the Dragon,
which also included a custom ROM (see photo in comments):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4469497403309894/

2) I don’t know if this was covered on last weeks show (it was posted a
few hours before show start), but Julian Brown posted his 4th VLOG about
his VDG/SAM replacement upgrade board:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4468617740064527/

3) Roy Berridge has a bit of a video problem on his Dragon 32. Dragon
tamers needed!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4469067310019570/

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) TRS-80 Retro Programing on YouTube uploaded an update/progress video
on his port of the Atari 2600 Haunted House game to the Coco:
https://youtu.be/SDuI7Azc-QQ?si=bzJ6JPVZIZRBfrCX

2) Brian Palmer typed in and uploaded a DSK image and a screenshot of the
Sydney Opera, originally done by Bill Baldacchino in Austrailia. I think
this is a Coco 3 640x192x4 screen?:
Screenshot:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164543537102641/
DSK image on the Coco Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164543540617641/

3) Rich Stephens posted a photo showing his Coco 3 running the Fujinet
cartridge bus prototype (and linked to the XRoar emulator and Fujinet Go
Android with XRoar as well):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164514197557641/

4) Erico Patricio Monteiro posted an animated GIF showing his Coco 1&2
rendition of RoboCop walking, which looks better than the Coco 3 official
port:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164522761537641/

5) Bradley Goldsmith teased out a picture of a Coco hardware cartridge
that he is working on in the Coco Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164535086752641/

6) Cedric Beaudoin announced last week that the second batch of the ESP32-Coco
have all been produced and shipped. He also notes in the comments that he
is not planning on doing a 3rd run until maybe this fall:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4262638377332924/posts/4388957741367653/

7) Tristan Robichaud has released the first draft of EPS32-Coco base
documentation. He would like some feedback, as well as checking for
factual errors:
Announcement:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4262638377332924/posts/4393207320942695/
Download:
https://github.com/mast4rbug/ESP32-CoCo

8) Edgar Pinheiro posted on the Clube Color Brasil Facebook page that he
is selling his multi-pack boards, along with a photo:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/397401583720895/?multi_permalinks=26989110334123325&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen
Video of it in action:
https://www.facebook.com/edgar.pinheiro.14/videos/2494957724359933/

9) Michael Pittsley started an interesting discussion in the Coco Facebook
group, asking that since many people have now gotten hardware and software
for the Coco that they couldn’t afford when young but now have; do people
use the Coco in modern times for more than just games, and if so, for what?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164536348097641/

10) Allen Huffman did a post about the 1995 Coco 3 dual direction hardware
scrolling 16 color graphic screen demo that Sock Master (John Kowalski) did,
as he did not recall seeing it at the time of release (it originally came
it on Frank Swygert’s World of 68 Micros magazine). This is pure BASIC;
no assembly language routines at all:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/07/14/sockmasters-2-way-scrolling-in-basic/

11) Coco Town returns with a deep dive on how BASIC handles the keyboard,
and even how the Dragon ROM’s improved on the Coco version:
https://youtu.be/tzZRDFCFvxA?si=rzkYfPgWd_HOG4ff

12) Lee Perkins has released several videos showing different aspects of
his port of Montezuma’s Revenge to the Coco 3. I don’t believe that
this game has been released yet:
Partial play:
https://youtu.be/aNmtxytdnCg?si=XRXHS6a-AvLCnY7s
Ways to die (including different animation sequences depending on which way):
https://youtu.be/vMKxcKBMYuE?si=lkx_nd_K6is545CC
High score board:
https://youtu.be/7NQetaGIBNo?si=UM3LZa9btxXCx6Af

13) Pierre Sarrazin has released version 1.99 of CMOC, which has the
following updates:
- fixes buggy optimization
- inline assembly now support referring to offses of struct members
- Added several non-void-function
- minor optimizations
http://gvlsywt.cluster051.hosting.ovh.net/dev/cmoc.html
I also didn’t realize that Pierre had also released his own PMODE
4 artifacting game (written in CMOC, naturally) of Astrosmash, called
CocoSmash, which needs a 64K Coco or higher Coco 1,2,3 to run:
http://gvlsywt.cluster051.hosting.ovh.net/dev/cocosmash.html

14) Some sad news passed on by Tim Lindner – Art Flexser (author of ADOS
& ADOS-3 amongst many other things) has passed away. He was active on the
Cocolist for decades:
https://goldsteinfuneralchapel.com/tribute/details/772

15) Dennis Page wants to know what roms work on a CoCo1 with 64K?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164535715032641/

MC-10
-----
1) Scott Gilson is looking into starting manufacturing of the MCX32-SD again,
since they very rarely come out anymore from zippsterzone.com. If you are
interested in one (or more), let him know on his Facebook MC-10 group post:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/27336350052731791/

2) Allen Huffman did his first MC-10 blog post on his Sub-Etha Software
site. In this entry he covers Jim Gerrie’s reverse (invert) print routine
in detail including the assembly source that makes it happen:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/07/07/jim-gerries-reverse-print-routine/

3) YouTube channel Freerolls Club has released several gameplay videos of
older games that Jim Gerrie had ported to the MC-10 (from 1971-1974). The
poster mention that “This is a gmae with an AI component modified to work
on the TRS-80 Micro Color Computer (“MC-10”) using Micro Color BASIC
from the author’s published source code”. I am not sure what this means?
Games include: Gomoku, “The other Star Trek game”, Oregon Trail,
Hangman, Composer, Hamurabi, Caves1, Lemonade Stand, Hunt the Wumpus
https://www.youtube.com/@freerollsclub/videos

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Retrobat on YouTube did a video showing video previews of a variety of
Coco games for the Retrobat front end, with 316 Coco games total so far:
https://youtu.be/5ThWa6EgKPo?si=PZ3RHblO_QSTB3SU

2) Ken Reighard has now released a commercial for Meteor Mess, his SG-12
conversion of the Intellivision classic, Astro Smash:
https://youtu.be/jAWZXJbUJQU?si=-lyzm6ljTBjN9i70
His itch.io page (including Meteor Mess):
https://kenscococorner.itch.io/

3) Lance Schafhausen made another Coco group Facebook post about his game
Gruntely’s Dungeon, including some cover art:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164516436242641/

4) Alex Gayer posted a DSK image of a Battlship clone for 32K Extended
BASIC Coco’s to the Coco Facebook group; a work in progress but playable:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164516614222641/
He earlier posted a screenshot of it running in emulation along with a
quick IDE preprocessor he “whipped up”:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164516415007641/

5) Dr. Boisy Pitre posted a link to Rich Lucente’s first public release of
his native Z-Machine interpreter for NitrOS9 (and compatible with Version 3
story files). This is the Infocom engine written in OS9 Assembly language,
which will allow all of the classic Infocom text adventures to run under
OS-9/NitrOS9:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164528820297641/

6) Richard Kelly has released version 1.00 of “The Ugly Transforming
Maze”, which is a port he has been working on for a few weeks. You can
download it from the Coco Facebook group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164479534162641/
Video of gameplay:
https://youtu.be/R5R7iaLe1jc?si=Kb6FqpblrNssGjzA

7) Jim Gerrie returned to the Coco (rather than the MC-10) for the first
time in awhile, typing in Martian Lander Simulator, originally by fellow
Canuck Geoff Stark in 1984 in the Rainbow books of Simulations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iIjKfWIpSw

8) theLogBook on YouTube did a video about the Rick Adams classic Temple
of ROM:
https://youtu.be/5XI5d2a9IfY?si=oKWVVevyC2H1H2gP

9) The Classic And Retro Gamer released a video showing his top 5 Dragon
32 games:
https://youtu.be/bpRZAqSyBr0?si=j1tMweq8Aa1cSaaa

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CoCo Nation News Archive

2026-07-19T11:34:25Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 474, July 18, 2026 (July 10-17)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 473, July 11, 2026 (July 5 - July 10)

2026-07-12T12:56:18Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 473, July 11, 2026 (July 5 - July 10)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 473, July 11, 2026 (July 5 - July 10)
=================================================================================

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------

VCF West is August 1-2, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View California, and there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF-SE (combined with the Southern Fried Gaming Expo) is July 31-August
2 at The Marriott Renaissance Waverly in Atlanta, Georgia:
https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/

VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

That same weekend is the next RetroSC retro computer/gaming show in Brazil
that usually features a large contingent of Coco clones (CP-400, Codimex,
etc.), which is happening November 7, 2026 in Florianoplois, Brazil:
Portuguese site (try Google Translate, etc. to translate):
https://retrosc.org/

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------

1) This just in: Julian Brown explains a bit of VDG video tech while
descsibing the SuperSamX32 aka 'Julian's Folly'. Can't stop now!
00:17 - where it started - Motorola reference
01:38 - the big 3 - CPU, SAM, VDG
03:42 - Goals and moving forward, with a look at the GIME
and SAMx8
06:27 - and off into the video weeds
watch this to learn way to much about Dragon and CoCo video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US5ipmtlgTo

2) Phill Harvey-Smith continues the tale of the six piece one piece Dragon
Pro case. We have both the original concept art
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4459174591008842
and the insides of the real deal, in a fashion normal printers can print.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4465802180346083

3) Chris Walsh bough a sleeping dragon and he's starting to poke it. Any
advice?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4463580823901552

4) Like Nick, Tom Erik Gundersen seeks color in his color computer. He's
not wrong, folks point out some games had both versions on one cassette
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4467696570156644

5) Ian Wellock found a new old tape. The record gets clearer.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4467528660173435

6) Leslie Anderson has 6309s to sell in merry olde Englandland. Want some?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4465332227059745

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) CoCoTECH #8 drops! Paul Cunningham has been using AI to speedwrite CoCo
programs. (get MarkO, Paul to review)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsDQdhb-oxo

2) Thomas Cherryhomes announces FujiNet's android app FujiNet Go is
available for the Apple2 and CoCo
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164510521202641/

3) Lance Schafhausen's CoCo is buried in emulation? Lance needs an
emulator? We advise.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164502376742641/

4) In case you've ever wondered is this might work, Michael Stephens
creates a phone flavored cassette cable an no, it needs MOAR POWAH.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164511016122641/

5) Scott Ellentuch (Tuc's workbench) brings the early, hand solderable
SDC V1 back to market in versions from a blank board to fully assembled
with case. The manual is also online:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164494911567641

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X_Dqyunm0Ugls_ROB_H2f1-mRq-DGkWqOpsl4pIYSkM/edit?tab=t.0

6) Tristan went urban exploting. A sad tale.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164506820492641/

7) Don Sorensen's full boat came in ... a 2 meg 6309 upgrade from Cloud9
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164506301357641/

dont worry, he's had hard times too:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164492847002641

and accidentally discovers his inner T1:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164502264282641

8) Bob Yates asks, has anyone ever ported MS BASIC to 68K? A good question,
while Atari and Commodore both expanded directly into 68K, neither was MS
BASIC... Comdr maybe a little?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164505072202641

9) Star Morin: in browser CoCo2 emulator (aad.png) including a link to
the runner
https://star-fs.github.io/varispeed-coco2/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExRk1kcmVVdFJpTTJReXhXYXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6JxRrAtBL5Pnv4JXXyf-WshBXjZo791qLKniQ5vFySq5Ocw66ccP4jcD0GQA_aem_BeQPEFx7F_SJvEQ5IHc1oQ

MC-10
-----
1) Mathew Ward asks about assembly tools for CoCo's little brother. Love
Simon's reply... 'Not really...' (TASM/DASM)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/27281182234915240

2) Jay Mindy verifies the 'Everstore' works with MC10

3) Jim Gerrie convers 'Checkmate' to the MC10. There is even a gameplay
video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x31ODOyuCB8

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Ken R. releases 'Meteor Mess' which is sure to be an upcoming Game On
Challenge? We have some game play video, and of course, a link to the
https://youtu.be/_FNxjBi0D_M?is=v8nZpGQ5NGL_Kxi1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FNxjBi0D_M&t=72s
https://kenscococorner.itch.io/meteor-mess

2) As the prophecies fortold (or was that CoCoTECH?), Paul Cunningham
releases SpaceWarp v1.2, including a github link and documentation! Visit
his itch.io and help a brother out.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164510337002641

3) Jens Petersen reminds us of chopper assault, a game he'd published in
Rainbow of June 85. Seems there is a disk version on the archive. Has this
been a Game On Challenge yet?
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1232183389976147&set=pcb.10164511202452641

4) Lance Schafhausen teases 'Gruntly' which he's planning to release in
the next Compute Gazette
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164507586162641

5) Jimmy Lockamy asks if the CoCo had a flight sim. A flight sim? The room
points out we had THE flight sim, from subLogic. Which Microsoft bought
and sells to this day
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164504214977641/

6) Modern Retro Gameplays: RetroBat samples a ton of CoCo games in one
video. Blipvert some nostalia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ThWa6EgKPo

7) A new poster, 'Freerolls club' plays bingo. And that's all we know
about that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9t6zokIECw

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2026-07-12T12:50:56Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 473, July 11, 2026 (July 5 - July 10)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 472, July 4, 2026 (June 27-July 3)

2026-07-06T14:43:52Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 472, July 4, 2026 (June 27-July 3)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 472, July 4, 2026 (June 27-July 3)
=================================================================================
Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, and Rick Ulland

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
The International Retro Computer Expo 2026 now has tickets available (this
was formerly BoatFest, ran by the Amigos – John, Aaron and Brent) for
their retro show happening July 10-11 (Friday/Saturday) (July 9/Thursday
vendors can set up in the evening). This is a general retro show for old
home computers, consoles and more, with gaming highlighted:
https://www.ticketsource.com/ircexpo2025/international-retro-computer-expo-2026/2026-07-10/09:00/t-qmjplra

VCF West is August 1-2, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View California, and there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF-SE (combined with the Southern Fried Gaming Expo) is July 31-August
2 at The Marriott Renaissance Waverly in Atlanta, Georgia:
https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/

VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

That same weekend, and newly added to the list, is the next RetroSC retro
computer/gaming show in Brazil that usually features a large contingent
of Coco clones (CP-400, Codimex, etc.), which is happening November 7,
2026 in Florianoplois, Brazil:
Portuguese site (try Google Translate, etc. to translate):
https://retrosc.org/

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Julian Brown has another update on one of his expanded Dragon boards:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4455625594697075/

2) 8BitFixIt on YouTube released a video showing how he transformed his Dragon
32 into a DragonPro+ (which adds dual 3.5” drives o the a 3d modified case:
https://youtu.be/CLyo9Nd0KuM?si=hyA8Mb8hvCv4DgHi

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) Glen Hewlett has released several updates to his BASIC to 6809 compiler:
Version 5.29:
V 5.29
• The CoCo 1/2 graphics mode was reserving an extra graphics page
beyond what the user requested, wasting upto 6144 bytes of RAM
• Fixed a bug with CASE ELSE when used inside an IF/THEN/ELSE statement
• Fixed a problem with the TRIM commands that could corrupt the
stack if given a string with a size of 0
Also the compiler can now playback movies from the CoCoSDC on a CoCo 1/2,
in GMODE 8,15 & 16. The MakeNTM program has been upgraded to create the
movies in the new CoCo 1 modes.
V 5.30
• Made the CoCo 1/2 Movie player use less RAM and it's own RAM for
the Audio buffer, as it was previously using some test RAM that could
have been user code and also previously also required the Math_Integer32
library.
V 5.31
• Fixed LOADM command so it works properly on real hardware
(initialized directory and other disk bytes)
• LOADM now will add ".BIN" to a filename if it's missing
• SDC_LOADM now will add ".BIN" to a filename if it's missing
https://github.com/nowhereman999/BASIC-To-6809
Glen also released a Mac OSX utility for accessing Coco DSK files, for
both ARM and Intel based Macs (requires OSX 13 or higher):
https://github.com/nowhereman999/CoCoDSKUtility

2) The ugBASIC compiler beta also has updates as of June 30, most of which
are cross platform:
https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/changelog/beta
The main released branch has a small fix for gamma correction.

3) Brett Gordon is working on a musical multi-voice player program,
which also includes a waveform editor, and released a quick demo showing
3 voice playback:
https://youtu.be/Io_VsvOjMYA?si=GnZLQ8upeyj37RtD

4) Allen Huffman posted a blog about one place he finds Vic-20 BASIC
better than Coco BASIC (It’s how it handles variable names with things
like IF/THEN statements):
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/06/30/vic-20-basic-is-better-than-coco-basic-for/

5) Mauricio Matte has released Coco Graphic Disk Utility, and has it
available or trying on his Google Drive:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164473424757641/

6) Andrew Diller showed some screenshots of PocketFuji Coco – a Coco 3 in
your pocket that can run on the iPhone. You can sign up for a Testflight Beta:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164470511437641/

7) Simon Jonassen put up a video showing his old sawtooth 4 voice player
to the Coco Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164460328147641/

8) Rich Stephens has released an updated version of the Fujinet VT100
terminal. Now adds more phonebook features (including F1 for help in the
phone book):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164463058202641/
He has also released a new version of the Fujinet ISS (International Space
Station) tracking program, which now adds higher resolution Coco 3 support,
and improved color palette & “Who’s in space” feature to the Coco
1&2 port:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164456980222641/

9) Specking of Fujinet, it’s author Thomas Cherryhomes showed a picture
and announced new test builds of Fujinet Go:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164462363587641/

10) Grant Bloedow put up some samples of of results from his program
Coco-GFX that will convert graphics images to Coco 3 graphics modes,
and even includes some animations now:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164453120837641/

11) Lance Schafhausen, while waiting for his 64K RAM upgrade for his Coco
2, decided to to work on a game called GRUNTLEY’s Dungeon to run under
his current 16K machine:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164455058532641/

12) Jamie Cho has added a text editing app to his mvkit suite (Multi-Vue
supporting library). He has source code and disk images available. I
haven’t tried it yet, but the screenshot indicates that it may have
mouse drag selection highlighting, amongst other features. This adds to
his existing Draw program and Christmas tree program:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164451493407641/

13) Industrial Retro Gamer put up a video on his YouTube channel about
his Coco 3:
https://youtu.be/c9o8c3BN-SY?si=iCzak4-mH74BZE_t

14) SaffFastTech on YouTube put up a 20 minute video showing his power cable
modification (adding a set of conectors so that he can quickly disconnect
it while keeping wires I place:
https://youtu.be/1sQFnilod6c?si=xRy0p7MCgyHqU69w

15) Tigger the Rat Terrior (Tigger) on YouTube put up a video deep diving
into the inner workings of RSDOS and granules. NOTE: AI was used to generate
this video:
https://youtu.be/Dwj0XEr-LaQ?si=fbaFvi92DogNA9zi

16) Retro Game Coders – Chris Garret released a video showing to their
retro IDE for web browsers, which now adds support for the Dragon 32 and Coco:
https://youtu.be/-f7cy4VnPVQ?si=-p7qWzzqcKmGbaH3

MC-10
-----
1)

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Dr. Boisy Pitre has released (and has a demo video) of his port of the
classic Robert Arnstein text adventure Raaka-Tu to OS-9 (now written in
C vs. the original in assembly):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164469590127641/

2) Retrostalgic Gamer did a gameplay video of the Coco classic Time Bandit
by Computer Shack/Michtron:
https://youtu.be/T1e9v37_IUM?si=tK01icrsmS-ir647

3) Demented Derek on YouTube did a video playthrough of the Disney educational
game Space Probe, which he says is based on the earlier Disney movie The
Black Hole:
https://youtu.be/HRFJjNDDTJw?si=C-z4gsX2qmGzLo8_

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2026-07-06T14:43:11Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 472, July 4, 2026 (June 27-July 3)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 471, June 27, 2026 (June 20-26)

2026-06-28T22:05:17Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 471, June 27, 2026 (June 20-26)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 471, June 27, 2026 (June 20-26)
=================================================================================
Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, and Rick Ulland

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
The International Retro Computer Expo 2026 now has tickets available (this
was formerly BoatFest, ran by the Amigos – John, Aaron and Brent) for
their retro show happening July 10-11 (Friday/Saturday) (July 9/Thursday
vendors can set up in the evening). This is a general retro show for old
home computers, consoles and more, with gaming highlighted:
https://www.ticketsource.com/ircexpo2025/international-retro-computer-expo-2026/2026-07-10/09:00/t-qmjplra

VCF West is August 1-2, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View California, and there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF-SE (combined with the Southern Fried Gaming Expo) is July 31-August
2 at The Marriott Renaissance Waverly in Atlanta, Georgia:
https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/

VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

That same weekend, and newly added to the list, is the next RetroSC retro
computer/gaming show in Brazil that usually features a large contingent
of Coco clones (CP-400, Codimex, etc.), which is happening November 7,
2026 in Florianoplois, Brazil:
Portuguese site (try Google Translate, etc. to translate):
https://retrosc.org/

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Julian Brown has posted update 3 video blog about his Super SAM/VDG
board update, this time covering sprites:
https://youtu.be/IMoklF2iiq4?si=1U-ih6caFOy3eEj8

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) Grant Bloedow posted a YouTube short showing his beta of a server
based implementation of the XRoar emulator with a fujinet server (using
the Becker port). It also adapts to a web interface and can run on phones,etc.
https://youtube.com/shorts/nFmITESf9io?si=ksIXTl_n1T5S7v2n

2) Allen Huffman put up a blog post explaining some of the quirky behaviour
of the PPOINT command in Extended Color BASIC, depending on PMODE and
SCREEN settings:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/06/23/what-you-pset-is-not-always-what-you-ppoint/

3) Keith Frechette has started a project called “Li’l Commander” based
on Robert Kilgus’ Color TRSDOS that came with EDTASM+. This is a set of
routines to make file handling much easier than doing straight Disk ROM
calls, and I think Brian Wieseler actually has a more modern version that
Robert did back in the day. The new program by Keith is callable by the
DOS command, and he mentions in his Facebook post that he has more planned:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164438485797641/

4) Robert Sitton has released video of his BOING.DSK challenge, which
shows ray tracing to do the “warp bubble” effect on a graphic image
on the Coco. In the comments he has video of an optimized, faster version
that does 3 such bubbles at once:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164438315277641/

5) Reinaldo Torres has announced his TTGO-VGA32-COCO, which is an emulator
that uses that quite cheap LilyGO TTGO VGA32 board. From his post on the
Coco Discord:
“After several months of hard work, I am happy to finally share my latest
project with you all! Say hello to TTGO-VGA32-COCO, an emulator built to
bring the legendary Tandy Color Computer experience to ultra-affordable
hardware. If you have a LilyGO TTGO VGA32 board lying around (or are
looking for a great reason to buy one for just a few bucks), this project
turns it into a self-contained CoCo powerhouse! Some of the key features:
- Single Unified Firmware: No need to flash different files for different
setups. One firmware handles everything.
- Online Switching: Seamlessly toggle dynamically between a CoCo 2 and
CoCo 3 environment right from the interface.
- Fully Embedded & Standalone: Runs entirely on the cheap LilyGO board. All
you need to get started is a standard PS/2 keyboard, a PS/2 mouse, and
an SD card loaded with your favorite software.
I’ve put a lot of long nights into tweaking this to get it running
smoothly, and I would love for you guys to flash it, play around with it,
and let me know what you think!”
Github link:
https://github.com/reyco2000/TTGO-VGA32-COCO

6) Thomas Cherryhomes posted where to get the test builds of Fujinet &
emulator combo downloads for Android that can run Atari 8 bit, Apple II,
Adam, MSX, and of course the Coco:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164437237882641/

7) Dennis M. Weldy linked to a post about BASIC09 being front end developed
for LLVM compiler stack by Dr. Boisy Pitre:
Facebook link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164444089957641/
Main article:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/BASIC09-LLVM-Front-End
NOTE: there are some videos of programs written this way in the basic09
channel on Discord from Boisy himself that can be shown.

8) Rich Stephens posted that a new update to the Fujinet News app for the
Coco is out with more enhancements:
- Highlighted text improved
- consolidation of redundant code
- Added ability to toggle through color sets in both high res and 40/80
column Coco 3 modes
- Selected screen width/height & color set saved in an app keyboard
- Disk image now auto-boots news
Facebook post and demo video:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164449633802641/

9) For those who have followed Don Sorensen repainting his Coco’s and
coming very close to the original colors, he has posted the exact car
equivalent paints he has used:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164446599402641/

10) 8bitsinthebasement (Peter from France) has released a 5 minute video on
how to get joysticks (and which ones will work) working with the ESP32-Coco:
https://youtu.be/liSenM-kC9k?si=9bh7THA1jDAFHQsa

11) The 8-Bit Guy released a new video showing how to hook up to 5 monitors
to a single Commodore-128.. but during the show he also officially announced
that the Quarx Coco 3 cartridge game is available:
https://youtu.be/ul5hC3PY1Yg?si=UK0lZ15zCp14cuhF&t=434

12) Ken of Canadian Retro Things released an episode about a Coco 1 that he
has had for a couple of years, packed away and forgotten about it. Until now:
https://youtu.be/ZFZyoln7bIE?si=2wr_Myx2-Pg3xv8c

13) Tech X Docs channel on YouTube released a video “Remember These
Embarrassing 1980s Tech Products?”. For some reason he lists the Coco
3 as one of them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwiinYBq6Ns&t=1209s

14) TRS-80 Retro Programing posted a video this week showing his start of
porting the Atari 2600 Haunted House game to the Coco:
https://youtu.be/3driO_PhTQQ?si=w1Jl_B3rMMygRZKH
He also added a second video showing updates:
https://youtu.be/dHoULbXNLno?si=4Ey9yLytV3iTcL0H

MC-10
-----
1)

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Aaron and Brent over at the Amigos Retro Gaming have released their
review of Intellectronics/Computerware’s Ice Hockey, a clone of the same
game on the Atari 2600 originally by Activision. They also mention that
the next game that they will be playing on The Coco Show is Touchstone,
a Tutankam clone by Tom Mix Software:
https://youtu.be/tJJKP-hssx0?si=DQSdGVwEPmMFiU9b

2) Jim Gerrie ported the game Alpha Blast, originally by Todd Koumrian in
the November 1983 issue of Compute! Magazine, to the MC-10. It runs in 4K
of RAM too:
https://youtu.be/V_df8U9QL0s?si=hDdM8pBtpChiQX2O

3) Robcfg on the World of Dragon forums posted that he has ported the
adventure game Euclides XXI to the Dragon from the Amstrad. This is a
graphical adventure game that appears to have several selections for
https://robcfg.itch.io/euclides-xxi-dragon

4) On the Coco Discord, in the mc-10-and-alice channel, has released an
updated version of the SUKS game for the MC-10 and Alice, that now supports
the TASM6801 joystick, as a WAV file.

5) Retro Rick posted a video in the Coco Discord (Programming and Development
section, Basic channel) showing his updated TransMaze game:
(download and show video from Discord)

6) Tim & AJ have released there next Sibling Rivalry Coco game entry
on their My Drunk Sibling channel on YouTube – this time covering the
classic Canyon Climber.
https://youtu.be/gJGlPk1twD8?si=CebwlgFFj3F_fLa6

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2026-06-28T22:04:25Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 471, June 27, 2026 (June 20-26)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 470, June 20, 2026 (June 13-19)

2026-06-21T12:46:39Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 470, June 20, 2026 (June 13-19)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 470, June 20, 2026 (June 13-19)
========================================================================
Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
The International Retro Computer Expo 2026 now has tickets available (this
was formerly BoatFest, ran by the Amigos – John, Aaron and Brent) for
their retro show happening July 10-11 (Friday/Saturday) (July 9/Thursday
vendors can set up in the evening). This is a general retro show for old
home computers, consoles and more, with gaming highlighted:
https://www.ticketsource.com/ircexpo2025/international-retro-computer-expo-2026/2026-07-10/09:00/t-qmjplra

VCF West is August 1-2, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View California, and there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF-SE (combined with the Southern Fried Gaming Expo) is July 31-August
2 at The Marriott Renaissance Waverly in Atlanta, Georgia:
https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/

VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Sixxie (Ciaran Anscomb) posted a link and details of an experimental
Fuzix build one can try for the Dragon64 with a SAMx8 and CocoSDC Fuzix image:
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=26322#p26322

2) Julian Brown posted an update to how he is going to implement sprites
on his upcoming video board:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4439844229608545/
He later added another question to ask the user base about implementing
the sprites:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4442591909333777/

3) YouTube channel Dear Old Blighty released a video called “21 British
Gadgets From 1980’s That Sound Fake But Were Totally Real”, which
includes the Dragon 32 as one of those gadgets:
https://youtu.be/HBKJsIbOoHk?si=-TA6eD86XZZVoPGU&t=485

4) Ricky ElQasem posted in the Dragon Facebook group that the Maxduino
Everstore now supports saving:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4442826062643695/
Where to order one, and a list of supported machines (NOTE: This is still
in Beta):
https://www.youmakerobots.com/retro-microsd-tape-device/134-1399-maxduino-everstore.html

5) The Laird’s Lair on YouTube did a follow-up video called “The Story
of 5: More Unreleased British Home Computers”. He had covered the Dragon
Professional in the previous 5 video, and this time tackles the Dragon MSX:
https://youtu.be/JcX3oCtkphg?si=NVxg7JLl5Hz8OfbV&t=914

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) George Janssen has released a new Dots demo (DSK image and video)
as part of his 6809 assembly language series for the Coco 3:
https://youtu.be/RR-saHUrHxA?si=z0a_ADBCP3-hju6r
(link for the DSK is in the video description – it’s also in his
channel on the Coco Discord)

2) Allen Huffman posted a blog talking about another way to abuse VARPTR
Extended BASIC, by using it for MID$ functionality. His warning at the
beginning: “This is stupid. Don’t bother trying it”:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/06/16/a-slightly-faster-mid-using-varptr/

3) Jeff Noyle posted some updates to his Mythfarer game (that can run,
even with the same save files, on both a PC and a 512K Coco 3) on the Coco
Discord. These include:
Music and sound effects for PC version only. Their are sound effects in
the Coco version:
https://youtu.be/RCIJsM53TOc
Throwable potions (“Rock Wall” in this case) (up the volume for this):
(show local file “Mythfarer-ThrowablePotions.mp4”
After that is a progressively drawn title, scrolls, added potions, the
ferry can take you to the continent from the islands, fog effects:
(show 5 local local PNG files)

4) Glen Hewlett has released CC3_Comp, a compressor and packer program
for the PC that will work with his Coco 3 Super Loader, which allows
full 2MB RAM access (including to MMU blocks that BASIC normally uses)
and compressed file loading):
(show local copy of the manual)
Downloads for all major OS’s on his github page:
https://github.com/nowhereman999/CC3x0_Project/tree/main

5) Grant Bloedow posted a utility he wrote to make designing levels for
Rick Adams’s Temple of ROM game easier to make to the Coco Facebook group:
(see screeshot in comments to the post)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164399895887641/
He also posted a save file of a sample map:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164399917602641/
And a DSK image with the new level:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164399959222641/

6) Keith Frechette showed the output of his RSDOS assembly to SAL (Structured
assembly language), using the CHKDIR routine from RSDOS as an example:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164395248717641/

7) Jamie Cho is working on MVKit, a framework to make it easier to write full
Multi-Vue apps. He wrote a sample graphics editor program (with assistance
from AI Claude), and has links to the source code and DSK image to try. I
think he is using an older version of NitrOS9 and hasn’t implemented
the filled circle/ellipse functions that are now built in:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164393382627641/

8) Ian Mavric posted a tease of his article on identifying floppy drive
types on a Coco that is in the current June 2026 issue of Compute’s
Gazette Magazine:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164401074557641/

9) Thomas Cherryhomes posted the Fujinet “Getting started” manual
for the Coco, patterned off the original Operation manual for the Coco 1,
and includes many screenshots to make learning it easier:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164407478302641/
Manual direct link:
https://fujinet.online/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/fujinet-getting-started-coco.pdf
He also posted about Fujinet Go Coco – which is a project in development
to bundle XRoar and Fujinet PC into an Android app for phone, tablet or PC:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164423559822641/

10) CocoTown released a new video on YouTube, “POKEing my way to faster
Coco 3 file transfers”, which is talking about using DriveWire:
https://youtu.be/NW8AjtJ6vHA?si=jT1Y87iJuX1t9nr6

MC-10
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1)

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Jim Gerrie ported Space Alert originally for the Coco from TRS-80
Microcomputer News February 1982 issue (Tandy’s own magazine) to the
MC-10, and it runs 4K. This was originally written by J.W. Myers in 1981:
https://youtu.be/Hsok4Jrop2w?si=9Aqj7Mq1aBFOq1Ue
He also posted a 10-line BASIC program entry that is a game called
Goodbye Charlie that was originally for the Vic-20 by Norman Overpeck,
from Compute! Magazine’s November 1983 issue:
https://youtu.be/YyuT7S5HKVU?si=SFXAZzY3tLg8fKOE
He later posted an updated version, although I am not sure what is updated:
https://youtu.be/bslV2WsDbLI?si=qy67gDJeglvLIhGV

2) Peter at 8bitsinthebasement released a video on his YouTube channel
testing various Coco 2 and Coco 3 games on his newly acquired ESP32-Coco:
https://youtu.be/OdUGfVXnDCM?si=NimPVdkA58j0_eJt

3) YouTube channel One More Quarter released a video showing the demo
sequence that the game Dungeons of Daggorath uses as an attract mode:
https://youtu.be/OymqB6qihkk?si=Y8mbqa-oyi91ayRa

4) Rick Adams has released a version of the classic 1970’s text based
game “Chomp” on his github:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164422982082641/
github link:
https://github.com/yggdrasilradio/chomp

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2026-06-21T12:45:48Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 470, June 20, 2026 (June 13-19)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 469, June 13, 2026 (June 6-12)

2026-06-14T10:23:05Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 469, June 13, 2026 (June 6-12)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 469, June 13, 2026 (June 6-12)
=================================================================================
Collected by L. Curtis Boyle and presented by Mark Overholser and Rick Ulland

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo is a single day event on June 20th, 2026,
starting at noon. At The Anvil Center (777 Columbia Street) in New
Westminster, BC, Canada:
https://www.vancouvergamingexpo.com/

The International Retro Computer Expo 2026 now has tickets available (this
was formerly BoatFest, ran by the Amigos – John, Aaron and Brent) for
their retro show happening July 10-11 (Friday/Saturday) (July 9/Thursday
vendors can set up in the evening). This is a general retro show for old
home computers, consoles and more, with gaming highlighted:
https://www.ticketsource.com/ircexpo2025/international-retro-computer-expo-2026/2026-07-10/09:00/t-qmjplra

VCF West is August 1-2, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View California, and there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF-SE (combined with the Southern Fried Gaming Expo) is July 31-August
2 at The Marriott Renaissance Waverly in Atlanta, Georgia:
https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/

VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Julian Brown has put up a poll on the Dragon Facebook group about what
option people would want for handling registers and memory mapping for
sprites on his upcoming board:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4437137356545899/
He also mentioned that he has the audio sub-system in place, including
the AY sound trip and also his decision on how to handle the character
ROM for his VDG implementation:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4436578166601818/
He also released a video update #2 on his sound/VDG combo board:
https://youtu.be/fs5trHjt1Vg?si=2y6zEOYje-R1JzoX

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) Allen Huffman did a new blog post revisting PUT defined by ASCII strings,
in this case to draw a tank graphic facing 4 directions:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/06/09/revisiting-put-defined-by-ascii-strings/
He also put up a very brief blog teaser for a new game project he is
working on, called Backrooms:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164379410777641

2) Brian Palmer posted a screenshot (and upload I presume, but Facebook’s
“newest” posts option for the Coco group has disappeared) of an early
Coco 3 graphic done in BASIC from Australian Coco magazine:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164371996542641/

3) Mauricio Matte (one of our Brazilian friends) posted another update to
his Coco File image utility (version 1.0.60). After recently adding OS-9
disk image support, he has now also added support for Fujinet servers
(post includes a video demonstration):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164379410777641/

4) Paul Cunningham posted an update to his adding 6 bit sound to his port
of Space Warp from the TRS-80 Model I, where he thinks he has most of the
problems solved for inserting the sound into the main game loops (ie not
interrupt driven):
https://www.facebook.com/paul.cunningham/posts/pfbid02cy3HMHBJ3ZjEkm8h3AW8S161cYNkdYKnpqNf4T15E18N9vKfdU2ztNeemtNbNNx5l

5) Robert Sitton posted a video, download and description of his Dungeons
of Dagobah, which he calls a 3D homage to Dungeons of Daggorath reimagined
as a Star Wars descent:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164378813127641/

6) Carlos Camacho released both a screen shot & download of his version of
the Amigo Boing demo. He is still working on updates from the sounds of it,
including adding the ball shadow:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164372838457641/
Download (includes video in comments):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164370573447641/

7) Don Sorenson posted about his RGB to HDMI converter that he installed,
and weirdly that he tried several USB-C bricks to power it, but only an
iPhone charger was able to so without adding image noise:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164365442707641/

8) John Linville posted a link to a comparison of C compilers for the 6809
done by Roger Boesch as part of a Vectrex project that he is working on. It
compares the outputs of the same C code using CMOC, VBCC and GCC6809 for
both speed and smallest size:
https://vectrex.substack.com/p/cmoc-vs-vbcc-vs-gcc6809?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1236748&post_id=201200862&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1xomlc&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email&utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e233_tv2_tp1_a1dennhbgldiz0

9) George Everett is looking for some help in archiving a box of 5.25”
FLEX floppies, as he has no hardware capable of reading them. Any takers?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/flexoperatingsystem/posts/1546277970194982/

10) For those interested, the Glenside Color Computer Club’s June 2026
business meeting is up on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/live/jPeMEnIRi2U?si=asjExJuR6mCgSj9P

11) I don’t fully understand this quick video clip, but it looks like
someone may be trying to make a King Tut clone on a more modern machine?
https://youtu.be/nlQexuSl_7U?si=harxqfTjOuKSl03M

12) Grant Bloedow posted a video update about his CoCoPortal Pre release,
which I believe is a launcher program for running emulators, to directly
run apps (rather than just booting a virtual machine and having the
user do everything manually) as well as access magazines, books and
more. It also allows debugging, syntax/opcode highlighting and more for
developers. Grant’s description:
“Here's another look as it is coming together a bit more. I've added a
development environment that is just fresh with a debugger, memory view
and console log. The goal is to have CMOC, BASIC, BASIC09 and 6809/6309
ASM programming with syntax or opcode highlighting and immediate feedback
with a compile and run into the emulator panel. PDF viewing and searches
(I may have to reindex the full-text search), Magazines, tech papers, spec
sheets, books and manuals. Software with immediate and saved configurations
for each title. Metadata that lets you click into the new results that
match the data "chip" such as year, publisher, author, genre. Profiles of
people in the community, programmers, publishers, development houses. All
have links directly to the content that relates to them.”
https://youtu.be/kmlA9U7wvBo?si=7Xsxcb1wO6df1Aos

13) French YouTube channel Olipix goes through a newspaper format computer
magazine called Hebdogiciel, which includes a Dragon 32 program listing
(turn CC on and auto-translate):
https://youtu.be/YGVNLCHcPlE?si=pa3dSaEDunvXFFU5
Dragon program:
https://youtu.be/YGVNLCHcPlE?si=BHmljoMpHq27cMDN&t=865

14) Lee Perkins released a video update on his Coco 3 port of Montezuma’s
Revenge:
https://youtu.be/1gn1Sbj3HMU?si=fR6E-h009d3LVv09

15) Tyler Durden did a test of his Coco 3 BASIC BurgerTime game with
“background” music at the same time as some opponents, but it is
running too slow:
(Show BTIME12.MP4)
Removing the music sped things up enough to make it playable (although a
large number of opponents may slow things down too much):
(Show BTIME13.MP4)
He later did another video update which shows the added ability of crushing
your enemies:
(Show BTIME14.MP4)

MC-10
-----
1)

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Pere Serrat has ported Inufuto’s most recent cross platform game
Sword Work to the Dragon 32/64:
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11357

2) Paul Everitt posted a photo of a display for the Dragon classic game
Back-Track:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4435663783359923/

3) Paul Shoemaker posted a reminder to check out his itch.io page of Coco
games, and also his “Oodles” game, which his own take on the Quarx
port he did for the 8-bit guy:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164380715522641

4) Chronologically Gaming is now going through all of the games that were
released in 1982 but with a completely unknown date. This week one of
those games is Apples (by Bob Crispen) for the Coco 1:
https://youtu.be/UFBUlF5T-Dk?si=XMScMaSMmKz9r24a&t=926

5) ZXFrankie posted a high score attempt for Meteoroids on the Dragon 32
on skill level 1:
https://youtu.be/RJ3aeEOt-Ps?si=QrGWKBuSJOlLFfdd

6) Paul Thayer mentioned on the Coco Discord that he has released a bugfix
for his recently released 512K Coco 3 game Penguin Icarus, which can be
found on his itch.io page:
https://pthayer100.itch.io/penguin-icarus-2026

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2026-06-14T10:22:13Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 469, June 13, 2026 (June 6-12)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 468, June 6, 2026 (May 30-June 5)

2026-06-07T13:00:32Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 468, June 6, 2026 (May 30-June 5)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 468, June 6, 2026 (May 30-June 5)
=================================================================================
Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo is a single day event on June 20th, 2026,
starting at noon. At The Anvil Center (777 Columbia Street) in New
Westminster, BC, Canada:
https://www.vancouvergamingexpo.com/

The International Retro Computer Expo 2026 now has tickets available (this
was formerly BoatFest, ran by the Amigos – John, Aaron and Brent) for
their retro show happening July 10-11 (Friday/Saturday) (July 9/Thursday
vendors can set up in the evening). This is a general retro show for old
home computers, consoles and more, with gaming highlighted:
https://www.ticketsource.com/ircexpo2025/international-retro-computer-expo-2026/2026-07-10/09:00/t-qmjplra

VCF West is August 1-2, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View California, and there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF-SE (combined with the Southern Fried Gaming Expo) is July 31-August
2 at The Marriott Renaissance Waverly in Atlanta, Georgia:
https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/

VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Julian Brown released a couple of updates to his projects this week:
The main board has had an update to handle the ROM’s running at 3.3V,
not 5V:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4425178251075143/
He also showed a board that leaves a lot of space for future audio:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4426998974226404/
Stuart Mears posted a photo of the Dragon Professional prototype that was
shown at the RetroFest in Swindon last weekend, along with his boy’s
impression of it:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4425180851074883/
He also gave a further update on sound:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4430399310553037/

2) The More Fun Making It channel on YouTube posted a 1 & ½ hour video about
RetroFest 2026 that took place in Swindon, which included Dragon displays:
https://youtu.be/IuhfMMD9bNY?si=6io12SafsnB6b32f&t=1291

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) Daniel Moisset put up assembly source and screenshots showing all
possible VDG colors on the screen at once (in SG4/text mode):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164356060887641/
This is based on a blog article Allen Huffman wrote earlier this week, which
in addition talked about how the two color sets in PMODE 1/3 graphics modes
use the first 4 and last 4 of the “standard” 8 colors from the text mode:
https://subethasoftware.com/2024/02/01/displaying-all-11-of-the-cocos-8-colors/

2) Maurico Matte has released version 1.0.21 of his Coco DSK & CCC Utility,
in both English and Brazilian Portuguese. It adds OS-9 file explorer and
manipulation options:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164352783707641/

3) Don Sorensen posted more about his matching the silver color between
his Coco 1 and the multipak (white) that he got but wanted to match. He
revealed a secret, based on a story told years ago:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164345638392641/
He also posted pics of a Coco 1 he just got that has some mods to it
including heat sinks on multiple chips. I think it’s an older motherboard
– D or E perhaps?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164360990737641/

4) Mike Horgan posted on the Coco Facebook group that he has released his
CocoCas2Way.s, adding the capability to make DSK images as well:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164345181737641/

5) Jeff Vaughn posted a poll on the Coco Facebook group asking about how
people feel about Coco MAME emulation:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164343795432641/

6) Rich Stephens announced an update to Fujinet’s Coco 3 VT100 terminal:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164339452577641/

7) Cedric Beaudoin posted on the ESP32-Coco group on Facebook that he
is now sold out of the joystick add on option for the current batch,
but plans on making more in the next batch:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4262638377332924/posts/4342870872643007/

8) After I mentioned a really cool demo that Sock Master wrote way back
in pure BASIC that showed two way hardware scrolling, Allen Huffman typed
it in and released a video showing it in action:
https://youtu.be/eq0hrpFDFqA?si=Z1dJ_bZwvhaZYU9w
He also released a video showing the VDG timing tricks (switching between
graphics and text screens) that Ciaran Anscomb wrote to show smooth hardware
scrolling on the Coco 1&2 and Dragon 32/64, and asked for help to understand
exactly how it works:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/06/03/coco-smooth-scrolling/
He also showed a graphical coarse scroll using PMODE with it’s page
offset, written by Juan Castro originally:
https://youtu.be/TLOhpfi46eI?si=eM9lkyR03Y-DzVFJ

9) Brian Palmer released a disk image on the Coco Facebook group that
contains Dish Drawer originally by Craig Stewart for Australian Coco
magazine. This draws a 3D type wireframe:
Download:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164363325967641/
Screenshot:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164363289917641/

10) Paul Cunningham has started a new page on Facebook for his various
Coco projects (several of which we have covered recently):
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0HkL8VE28jCZ7gxuUQrxxHtHpqNNYLr6gxyXumfbLR1miq9kZCjRkc99zX4x4YEm4l&id=61590553234363

11) Milton Solomon posted on Facebook that he wants to make 2 keyboard
PCB’s based on files already on the net – but he has to order a minimum
of 5 which makes it more expensive. He is wondering if anyone else would
like to chip in and receive one of the remaining 3:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164359784752641/

12) VCF Southwest has posted Boisy’s presentation about the 12 year
history of Rainbow magazine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmcg7nbMV3c

MC-10
-----
1)

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Some people on Facebook this past week have been showing possible
designs for a modernized version of Dungeons of Daggorath. Allen Huffman
found a video on YouTube done 9 years ago by user “Brain Crook” that
was doing the exact same thing:
https://youtu.be/NG_YCatnepo?si=57rieGBUUAO1dXJc
Some of the other people looking into this this week using AI include:
Robert Sitten used vector style graphics:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1981395615848644
J. Edward Higginbothom posted screenshots of full color, shaded images
along with the original Daggorath ones for comparison, with ChatGPT:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164351645637641/
So, what does the panel and chat think of this? There are over 100
comments already, with some wanting nothing to do with “updating”
a classic killer Coco app, but others who love the idea of playing the
game on modern machines but with completely updated graphics and sound
(we already have had a Windows straight port for decades)?

2) Marc Maltais released a DSK image on the Coco Facebook group that has
18 games in french from the book “Jeux en Basic sur TRS-80 Couleur”. He
plans on releasing an english version as well:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164345361212641/

3) Wikipedia recently got a page entry for Pinball Factory – a game that
started on the Coco from Michtron but got ported to the Atari ST as well
with enhancemnts by the same author (Kary McFadden):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Factory

4) Chinop on YouTube released a few Coco 1 & 2 gameplay videos:
Nuclear Avenger (I think this was from Chromasette or T&D tape magnazines?):
https://youtu.be/j_Rwh_knSYc?si=QeZR0GmkNuZKew4R
Zonx (from Rainbow magazine):
https://youtu.be/5Pk6WdQfqrE?si=iUOlq2G9Sq1diYh3

5) 8-Bit Basic on YouTube released a video going through 10 different
retro computer versions of Ski Trek, a type in game by Joey Latimer in
the February 1984 issue of Family Computing magazine. This includes a Coco
version, and a C-64 version that he updated. Coco version at 14:52:
https://youtu.be/4XIBi5az28c?si=uNMZxTxnF32_v0pZ

6) Attempts: A gaming channel (by LRU) posted a high score attempt video
for the Dragon game Perilous Pit (a BASIC platform game):
https://youtu.be/8MOPN8eJ_T8?si=SA0TbHs_fVNyI-oO

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2026-06-07T12:59:10Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 468, June 6, 2026 (May 30-June 5)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 467, May 30, 2026 (May 16-29)

2026-05-31T12:07:02Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 467, May 30, 2026 (May 16-29)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 467, May 30, 2026 (May 16-29)
=================================================================================
Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
VCF-SW (Southwest) is on this weekend (May 29-31) at the Westin Dallas Forth
Worth Airport. This is of course where Tandy/Radio Shack was headquartered,
so expect some alumni to be popping by!
https://www.vcfsw.org/

Retro Fest in the UK is also this weekend, running May 30-31st at the
STEAM Museum of Great Western Railway in Swindon, 10 am to 5 pm both days,
and there is confirmation that a Dragon Fujinet rig will be shown at the show:
https://www.retrofest.uk/

Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo is a single day event on June 20th, 2026,
starting at noon. At The Anvil Center (777 Columbia Street) in New
Westminster, BC, Canada:
https://www.vancouvergamingexpo.com/

The International Retro Computer Expo 2026 now has tickets available (this
was formerly BoatFest, ran by the Amigos – John, Aaron and Brent) for
their retro show happening July 10-11 (Friday/Saturday) (July 9/Thursday
vendors can set up in the evening). This is a general retro show for old
home computers, consoles and more, with gaming highlighted:
https://www.ticketsource.com/ircexpo2025/international-retro-computer-expo-2026/2026-07-10/09:00/t-qmjplra

VCF West is August 1-2, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View California, and there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF-SE (combined with the Southern Fried Gaming Expo) is July 31-August
2 at The Marriott Renaissance Waverly in Atlanta, Georgia:
https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/

VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Wanted to clarify the spanish video about the Dragon that Rick mentioned
last week; it’s a history of the Dragon while ran by Eurohard in Spain, and
why it ultimately failed (it now allows closed caption with auto-translate):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9snO3bP_cpQ

2) Julian Brown got some sample boards in for his video decoder, and posted
a photo in the Dragon Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4419250338334601/
He also got some carrier boards for his VDG prototype:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4418176018442033/
He also posted a short video on the Dragon Facebook group showing his
160x200x16 color mode, but being able to pick from a palette of 256 colors:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4415754868684148/
He also released a 10 minute video update on where his VDG project is at now:
https://youtu.be/QJ4dTopCvDQ?si=0r9jhJgQCqFycb_y

3) Phil Harvey-Smith posted a list of the exact screw types the Dragon uses,
in case one needs to get replacements for them:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4419249848334650/

4) Richard Harding posted a photo of his Dragon 32 with a Farmfax sticker
and some cows, in preparation for his display at RetroFest this weekend:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4421481214778180/

5) Chris Poacher has posted some photos and video from RetroFest 2026,
currently going on in the UK:
https://www.facebook.com/chrispoacher/posts/pfbid0A9moLYfP8ZVKReTzmPeLSkmGc4AMSmrF635Fosi5X8WiD3X6Kd7kzdYniGnDHk6Rl

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) Version 5.28 of Glen Hewlett’s BASIC to 6809 compiler was released,
which fixes a bug with IF and 3 or more OR’s/AND’s, and adds support
for playing movie clips streaming from the CocoSDC using his MakeNTM
utility. He even shows how to call this from a BASIC program:
https://github.com/nowhereman999/BASIC-To-6809
He also released a video showing very early progress on what is hopefully
his next full transcode project, although he has warned in the Coco Discord
that the original arcade game used 3 Z80 CPU’s that have to be transcoded
and merged:
(show local file “glen hewlett - new transcode early preview
(Galaga).mov”
2nd video shows first shot at animated sprites.

2) During the TRS-80 Trash Talk show last Saturday, George Phillips announced
some upcoming updates to the TRS-GP emulator… including more features /
hardware support for the Coco:
https://www.youtube.com/live/gYqMpxKhZB0?si=TNSdqkgWbWPKFChi&t=2193

3) Color Forth 1.1 has been released on it’s github project page. This
is a cross compiled version:
https://github.com/ugufru/coco

4) CocoTown posted a video called “The Coco’s secret debugger hidden
in Rainbow Magazine”. This covers Rainbow Check and Rainbow Check Plus,
and how they worked, how they linked into BASIC, and more:
https://youtu.be/YRwQyLVAUqs?si=P6v1cMOzf5hZXfZp

5) Allen Huffman was rather busy the last few weeks with multiple Coco
entries on his Sub-Etha Software blog site:
How Extended BASIC assigns and locates graphics screens, especially the
differences between cassette and disk based systems:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/05/19/where-does-cocos-pmode-graphics-memory-start/
Allen’s experiment with creating an ASCII Donkey Kong on the standard
32x16 screen:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/05/12/creating-ascii-donkey-kong-on-a-32x16-coco-display/
“Stupid VARPTR tricks” – this covers tricks that can be done with
the VARPTR (variable pointer) command in Extended BASIC, which allows one
to directly PEEK and POKE BASIC variables:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/05/26/stupid-varptr-tricks/
He also made torrents for the very high res scans of both the 1986 and
1987 GIME chips, done a few years back:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/?multi_permalinks=10164327395587641&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen

6) Justin Thomas extended his DE1 FPGA build to include the expanded 6309
instruction set, and used Claude code to help build it – and it works
after a few days work, including running NitrOS9/6309:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164326543082641/
He also released a new implementation of DriveWire, this one build in Rust:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164314128497641/
Github:
https://github.com/justindthomas/drivewire-rs
He also posted a screenshot of him Telnetting into his Coco3FPGA through
a ESP8266 based connection into NitrOS9:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164311445767641/

7) Richard Stephens announced Fujinet VT100 support for the Coco 3. This
is using the GIME hardware 80 column character set, so no ANSI graphics
symbols, but it does support color and European characters:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164318369597641/

8) Carlos Camacho posted on the Coco Facebook group about his using some
pixel editors for PMODE 3 and PMODE 4 graphics that one can do from a
browser, including an online interpretation of CocoMax and another called
Color SpriteX (with a more modern interface along the lines of Deluxe Paint):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164315719567641/
And 2 followups:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/?multi_permalinks=10164334800902641&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164334890197641/

9) Kamil Gorgh Trzaska posted a video showing a spinning 3D cube (using
polygons) video that he made with help from Simon Jonassen 3 years back. This
runs ona 64K Coco 1 or 2:
Post with link to raw .BIN file:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164307749832641/
Video:
https://youtu.be/hi9R_fpHCv8?si=jLjbi-fTvSGIEE6T

10) Brian Palmer posted a DSK image containing a Coco 3 BASIC graphics
program that draws Elvis Presley, originally by Bill Baldacchino from
Coco-Link magazine to the Coco Facebook group (it even lets one play an
Elvis cassette in the background via the cassette port):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164302837697641/

11) Paul Cunningham posted a video showing his running a Coco 2 emulator
on a 1.8” OLED touchscreen:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164300104452641/

12) Peter (8bitsinthebasement) posted a video about his trying out Cedric
Beaudoin’s ESP32-Coco:
https://youtu.be/rSIgg4Kzkj8?si=GQzNVPLNKwfZIe0f

13) The Laird’s Lair on YouTube did a 5 Unreleased American Home Computers
episode, and the Coco 4 is one of the 5. Unfortunately, he mixed the
Deluxe Coco and the Coco 4 together, but it was cool to see unreleased
Coco’s mentioned.
https://youtu.be/LPRzlE17Xh4?si=WG7eQ00AUDKImlGz&t=530

14) Cedric Beaudoin posted that his second batch of ESP32-Coco’s is
about to enter manufacturing, and will cost $5 more than the previous
batch. But this is because there are new features on the new revision of
the board. Namely, an option port that can get an add on to use real Coco
joysticks, HDMI output (although he mentions it’s only be tested on one
TV so far, although a DVI adaptor should work fine), and a real cassette
port (an experimental feature):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4262638377332924/?multi_permalinks=4342870872643007&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen

15) Don Sorensen posted some photos of repainted floppy drive and MPI
enclosures, taking advantage of his job being a collision car painter –
he can perfectly match just about anything:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/?multi_permalinks=10164328418802641&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen

16) Paul Cunningham posted a 5 minute video on the Coco Facebook group
showing his Waveshare RP2350 PiZero running Coco 2 emulation. It’s still
a work in progress, but seems to be working well so far:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164328903047641/

17) TRS-80 Retro Programing released an episode showing how to use PDF
Draw to create Coco 3 Character sprites on virtual 320x192 graph paper,
and he also gives an update on a couple of other projects:
https://youtu.be/7WhqLkVp980?si=RnWZI2h1T8cQOkoR

18) Jim Mullis put up a video showing 256x225x16 2 pixel scrolling using
Sundog’s GrafExpress 16 and some ASM routines (go in two minutes to show
the actual scrolling):
https://youtu.be/Fs0CV9RhqyU?si=WlpPBLgReLFemg-m
And 4 pixel scrolling:
https://youtu.be/x4Y8tWsBur0?si=gY8DtPPoaFOoJhBK

19) Marco Spedaletti has announced that version 1.18.1 of ugBASIC has been
released. This includes support for SG4 graphics (including loading/saving
images) on the Coco, dynamic strings, and more:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164334423162641/

20) Jim Brain has posted some photos from VCF Southwest (going on now)
to his Retro Innovations page, including photos of Boisy Pitre’s &
Brendan Donahe’s booths:
https://www.facebook.com/go4retro/posts/pfbid02xSV3MWQsordWVca7Gb7S2f8H1sPwMEqcyhG6nRVQrC9aQre73Vk8fhdqav49iDGAl

21) Tyler Durden uploaded a video showing his progress in making a Coco
3 Burgertime game strictly in BASIC, like his PacMan game:
(Show local file “Tyler Durden-BTIME9.mp4”

22) Boisy Pitre posed on the Coco Discord about his vibe-coded Python
interpreter for BASIC09, and a link to his github:
https://github.com/DrPitre/basic09

MC-10
-----
1) Industrial Retro Gamer on YouTube posted a video (part 1 of 3) about
his Tandy computer collection. In this episode he covers his Model 100
and his MC-10:
https://youtu.be/8NQN4hekw7M?si=OyLfBQ0K1IVzBE2m

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Renga in Blue reviewed “Deed of York”, originally written by Chris
Harland based on ideas from Chris Harland. This was for the first Rainbow
Adventure writing contest:
https://bluerenga.blog/2026/05/18/deed-of-the-york-1983/

2) Jim Gerrie ported ArdiMaze, originally written as a BASIC 10 liner
game by Ardi Ardi on May 25th in the Facebook BASIC programming group. The
player has to navigate a changing maze from left to right, and runs in 4K:
https://youtu.be/YBr1ASOcvaY?si=_fp_O12y2MJkeNWh

3) Paul Cordingley posted about the Coco game Draconian, and how it actually
changed and improved play from the original arcade Bosconian that it was
loosely based on. I totally agree with that sentiment:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164316064232641/

4) As mentioned by Rick last week, Penguin Icarus by Paul Thayer has been
released. This is an ML arcade style game that was originally a Super
Extended BASIC game by Nick Bradbury and published in Rainbow back in the
April 1990 issue. The new version requires RGB, a disk drive and 512K of RAM
(show demo recording from VCC):
https://pthayer100.itch.io/penguin-icarus-2026

5) Vincent Tran posted his Git repo for the AI assisted ML Coco 3 game
he wrote with Chat-GPT Pro & Thinking, called Space Raid. He noted in
an earlier post that it took Claude 10-15 tries to get it to even run,
and about 50 to get it playing properly:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164311209347641/
Video gameplay (turn volume down a bit):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164309908572641/
Download of DSK image:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164309967972641/?__cft__[0]=AZZgKA8-EqJeIdIaV9jgNfimF-w3Vs-4qpUhVdDnb6Pa0Z7O-O0nj4ZMO86IVFIL15WZUJta1ImXtx4hPZP1Vr-1MsrRhyY_Z92KBYnvGnqBBEGyc-9szwej4CZCCc3AKtIeEqfzyH7j_xEmtNv5wFzT&__tn__=-UK-R
github:
https://github.com/tequestafarian/space-raid-coco3

6) Nostalgiavault on YouTube posted game play and high score attempt videos
of a multitude of Inufuto games, both the Coco 1&2 and Coco 3 versions:
https://www.youtube.com/@nostalgivault3439/videos

7) Ayeka 2 on YouTube posted a 3&1/2 minute video showing the risque text
adventure Wet T-Shirt contest:
https://youtu.be/phX6UibUY14?si=TZccgMi8MuDjz4yN

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2026-05-31T12:06:18Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 467, May 30, 2026 (May 16-29)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 466, May 23, 2026 (May 16-22)

2026-05-24T11:48:04Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 466, May 23, 2026 (May 16-22)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 466, May 23, 2026 (May 16-22)
=============================================================================

Collected and Presented by Rick Ulland

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================

1 ) Paul Thayer announces "Penguin Icarus" 2026 adaptation available
RSN. Really.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164297327027641/

2 ) Vincent Tran got Quark. Nice gamepad. Must be a trend.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164284628792641/

3 ) Ron the action hero! His undercoer street makeup is very good.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164295115767641/

4 ) Rich Stephens announces FujiNet Five Card Stud for CoCo 3. Autoswitches
to CoCo2, just bring luck.

Dragon 32/64
------------

1 ) Imma just leave this here. A channel I can't pronounce 'Lo que merece
ser escuchado' discusses the Dragon for a solid 15 minutes. What about? No
clue. Have to follow the link!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9snO3bP_cpQ

2 ) Julian Brown updates flex PCB, the only bit I understand is getting
the chips wrong way up the first time. And Dragon users here to explain?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4414079078851727/

2b) and then, early signs of impending doom. The upgrade CPLDs have
arrived.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4412639195662382/

2c) leading to this horror show, provided by Cheep Chinese Crapton
tape. Krapton tape: melts when solder don't.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4413754998884135/

2d) As a break, Julian next merged two working pieces of code together. It
of course exploded. The debugging begins...
https://www.facebook.com/jimbro1000/videos/1681635349706900/?idorvanity=1602723113320685

2e) and fixed. Watch the forums or fall behind! So, CPLD assimulated.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4413941812198787/

2f) he also updated his ram repair board. For some D32 with 4116
'timebomb' DRAMS, this uses single voltage DRAM with no detonator.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4411663869093248/

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

1 ) Don Sorensen broken his floppy. We advise. Note this is a moldy old
belt drive. Is David Ladd on the chat?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164289511157641/

2 ) Paul Cunningham - CoCo 2 emulator on a 1.8" OLED screen. Want a CoCo
smartwatch?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164295115352641/

3 ) Mathew Ward scores a CCR-81 and has CoCo2 and MC10 operational. You
can tell he is new, still _likes_ tape.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164288665297641/

3b) he'd also like to hear about modern docs. There are some good
suggestions in the comments.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164295672992641/

4 ) Happy Birthday, Hebert Vargas!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164301297247641/

5) Tonino Giagnacovo with more drive porn. A belt drive TEC with speed
issues. Seems oddly familiar.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164298729027641/

7 ) TRS-80 Retro Programing covers CoCo colors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040EFO9Ego4
03:04 - 64 color chart
06:05 - Olympus concept

MC-10
-----

1 ) This week on Jim Gerrie ports! Richarl Beal's Star Trek from NASCOM
basic programs bk 1 to MC-10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o08AfAIfThM

1b) also 'Vectors' by Geoff Wells. As you might fear, it's navigating
a river using 'Kentucky Windage' and math(s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB6jpYXoEPM

2 ) Jay Mundy volunteers Agent Deluxe for duty. Nice undercover ID -
a harmless old guy with bad knees. Ha!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtSanNnO0zM

3 ) John Papas has a CoCo laptop. Does it have a bettery? If not, is it
a laptop?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/26657176880649115/

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------

1) The next live TRS-80 Trash Talk podcast will be streamed live on YouTube
today, 7pm Eastern. It is expected to last around two hours.
https://www.youtube.com/@TRS80TrashTalk

2) VCF-SW (Southwest) is at a slightly different date this year (May
29-31) because of the Soccer championships, and is happening at the Westin
Dallas Forth Worth Airport. This is of course where Tandy/Radio Shack was
headquartered, so expect some alumni to be popping by!
https://www.vcfsw.org/

3) Retro Fest in the UK is running May 30-31st at the STEAM Museum of
Great Western Railway in Swindon, 10 am to 5 pm both days, and there is
confirmation that a Dragon Fujinet rig will be shown at the show:
https://www.retrofest.uk/

4) Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo is a single day event on June 20th,
2026, starting at noon. At The Anvil Center (777 Columbia Street) in New
Westminster, BC, Canada:
https://www.vancouvergamingexpo.com/

5) The International Retro Computer Expo 2026 now has tickets available
(this was formerly BoatFest, ran by the Amigos – John, Aaron and Brent)
for their retro show happening July 10-11 (Friday/Saturday) (July 9/Thursday
vendors can set up in the evening). This is a general retro show for old
home computers, consoles and more, with gaming highlighted:
https://www.ticketsource.com/ircexpo2025/international-retro-computer-expo-2026/2026-07-10/09:00/t-qmjplra

6) VCF West is August 1-2, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View California, and there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

7) VCF-SE (combined with the Southern Fried Gaming Expo) is July 31-August
2 at The Marriott Renaissance Waverly in Atlanta, Georgia:
https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/

8) VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

9) Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

10) The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved
a few months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier
this year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

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2026-05-24T11:46:01Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 466, May 23, 2026 (May 16-22)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 465, May 16, 2026 (May 9-15)

2026-05-17T15:47:05Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 465, May 16, 2026 (May 9-15)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 465, May 16, 2026 (May 9-15)
=================================================================================
Collected by L. Curtis Boyle and Presented by Rick Ulland

Special Guests today:
---------------------
Mark Castleijn joined us to provide some Austrialian Tandy dealer war stories.

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
The next live TRS-80 Trash Talk podcast (streamed live on YouTube) has
been announced: Episode 49 will be at 7 pm Eastern on May 23rd, and is
expected to last around two hours.
https://www.youtube.com/@TRS80TrashTalk

VCF-SW (Southwest) is at a slightly different date this year (May 29-31)
because of the Soccer championships, and is happening at the Westin
Dallas Forth Worth Airport. This is of course where Tandy/Radio Shack was
headquartered, so expect some alumni to be popping by!
https://www.vcfsw.org/

Retro Fest in the UK is running May 30-31st at the STEAM Museum of
Great Western Railway in Swindon, 10 am to 5 pm both days, and there is
confirmation that a Dragon Fujinet rig will be shown at the show:
https://www.retrofest.uk/

Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo is a single day event on June 20th, 2026,
starting at noon. At The Anvil Center (777 Columbia Street) in New
Westminster, BC, Canada:
https://www.vancouvergamingexpo.com/

The International Retro Computer Expo 2026 now has tickets available (this
was formerly BoatFest, ran by the Amigos – John, Aaron and Brent) for
their retro show happening July 10-11 (Friday/Saturday) (July 9/Thursday
vendors can set up in the evening). This is a general retro show for old
home computers, consoles and more, with gaming highlighted:
https://www.ticketsource.com/ircexpo2025/international-retro-computer-expo-2026/2026-07-10/09:00/t-qmjplra

VCF West is August 1-2, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View California, and there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF-SE (combined with the Southern Fried Gaming Expo) is July 31-August
2 at The Marriott Renaissance Waverly in Atlanta, Georgia:
https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/

VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Julian Brown gave a quick update on his CPLD VDG replacement, where he
has some timing problems that he is working on:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4406604409599194/

2) Phil Harvey-Smith posted on the Dragon Facebook group that the source
code for the Boot ROM for the Dragon Alpha has been uploaded:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4406476476278654/
Github llnk:
https://github.com/prime6809/DragonAlphaBoot
He also posted a 3D cad version of the Drive bay Mark 2 (I think for the
same machine?):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4405546809704954/

3) Pere Serrat is looking for some help in getting OS-9 Level 2 running
on updated Dragons, on the World of Dragon archive forums:
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11355

4) Ciaran Anscomb has released Roar 1.11 (see changelog notes for what
is updated):
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11354

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) Version 5.28 of Glen Hewlett’s BASIC to 6809 compiler has been
released, which fixes a bug with IF and 3 or more OR’s/AND’s, and
adds support for playing movie clips streaming from the CocoSDC using his
MakeNTM utility. He even shows how to call this from a BASIC program:
https://github.com/nowhereman999/BASIC-To-6809

2) Tim Lindner posted a link to some photos from VCF-PNW that took place
last weekend:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/HZZrQnD7rcbBKGTh9

3) R. Allen Murphy posted an article about the history of the computer
hobby movement in Canada:
https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/exhibits/show/hobby_canada/hobby_canada

4) Carlos Camacho posted some screenshots of the GUI design he is using
for a new Coco game project called Planet Miners on the Coco Facebook
group. He is writing it in CMOC:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164251167157641/
He is using the high res engine that CMOC uses, but it was pointed out by
Rich Stephens (who has been doing the Coco work for Fujinet), that there
is an updated new branch of that engine that he has added enhancements too,
with Pierre's permission (see readme notes for what has been added):
https://github.com/RichStephens/hirestxt-mod

5) Ray Bell's has posted a sim framework for a 6809 test suite, thanks to
a lot of help from Claude Code:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/6809assembly/posts/4008408309452521/

6) Ken of Canadian Retro Things has uploaded part 6 of his creating a game
that uses the Electronic Book for input:
https://youtu.be/Am48B1UPY2c?si=8E-QDZfUD6XTBiWo

7) Coco Town has a released a new Game Revolutions episode, this time
showing how to steal memory from BASIC for his in progress Moon Patrol
style game, by reclaiming direct page for game variables:
https://youtu.be/hGKcflhIHNM?si=fZfgPwDT3qBdhfcU

8) DMS Creates released a video on YouTube showing their OSCR (Open Source
Cart Reader) that allows on to backup any retro cartridge game, including
the Coco (see the full list in the video description), using adaptors:
https://youtu.be/OqR1Gd3KiXU?si=E6MSiT5BFsu-U8Va

MC-10
-----
1)

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Mike Tinnes has released a Pole Position type game for the MC-10 with at
least 16K RAM expansion (should work on an Alice matching this spec too). This
is written in machine language and has the 6803 source code available:
Website including a technical description of how the game plays:
https://mtinnes.github.io/mc10-pole/
Video demo:
https://youtu.be/EyaBjgOI9c4?si=YMs-s_86PT_CMJ09

2) After delays, The 8-bit Guy's very first Coco 3 cartridge game (Quarx,
ported by Paul Shoemaker) is now shipping:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164259475337641/

3) Jim Gerrie ported "Bee Trap" originally by Robert L. Lykins in
Compute! Magazine June 1983, to the MC-10. It runs in 4K:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzUl1t3aUZc
He also ported Word originally by Geoff Wells on April 26, 1981 and
published in Rainbow September 1982. This is a Scramble type game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ybwMmQuE_U

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ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 465, May 16, 2026 (May 9-15)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 464, May 9, 2026 (May 2-May 8)

2026-05-10T12:23:18Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 464, May 9, 2026 (May 2-May 8)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 464, May 9, 2026 (May 2-May 8)
=================================================================================
Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
The next live TRS-80 Trash Talk podcast (streamed live on YouTube) has
been announced: Episode 49 will be at 7 pm Eastern on May 23rd, and is
expected to last around two hours.
https://www.youtube.com/@TRS80TrashTalk

VCF-SW (Southwest) is at a slightly different date this year (May 29-31)
because of the Soccer championships, and is happening at the Westin
Dallas Forth Worth Airport. This is of course where Tandy/Radio Shack was
headquartered, so expect some alumni to be popping by!
https://www.vcfsw.org/

Retro Fest in the UK is running May 30-31st at the STEAM Museum of
Great Western Railway in Swindon, 10 am to 5 pm both days, and there is
confirmation that a Dragon Fujinet rig will be shown at the show:
https://www.retrofest.uk/

Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo is a single day event on June 20th, 2026,
starting at noon. At The Anvil Center (777 Columbia Street) in New
Westminster, BC, Canada:
https://www.vancouvergamingexpo.com/

The International Retro Computer Expo 2026 now has tickets available (this
was formerly BoatFest, ran by the Amigos – John, Aaron and Brent) for
their retro show happening July 10-11 (Friday/Saturday) (July 9/Thursday
vendors can set up in the evening). This is a general retro show for old
home computers, consoles and more, with gaming highlighted:
https://www.ticketsource.com/ircexpo2025/international-retro-computer-expo-2026/2026-07-10/09:00/t-qmjplra

VCF West is August 1-2, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View California, and there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF-SE (combined with the Southern Fried Gaming Expo) is July 31-August
2 at The Marriott Renaissance Waverly in Atlanta, Georgia:
https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/

VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Second Life Electronics posted a video about a boxed Dragon 32 that they
got, and to see if it still works. He also has some cassette software that
came with it, but he doesn’t have the cassette drive and cable yet:
https://youtu.be/HL9Ssu6jLk8?si=y1S5cdblZHqWFKzR

2) Julian Brown posted an update to his combined SAM/VDG enhancement board,
where it is working with 2 MB of RAM with 8K MMU blocks, and additional
text modes (32,40,64 and 80 column text modes, and a likely 320x200x16
graphics mode:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4394694340790201/

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) Retro Computing Roundtable from last Sunday showed an interesting book
about the Coco and MC-10, where it is organized alphabetically for every
topic pertaining to that letter (the company that made this made it for
other machines as well). Has anyone else seen this particular book before?):
https://www.youtube.com/live/xMml7kh9t_M?si=_xf52IINCb1xDWmF&t=7053

2) Allen Huffman did multiple Coco related posts on his Sub-Etha Software
blog this past week:
A) Copying screen memory to a string in Color BASIC (part 1):
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/05/03/copy-screen-memory-to-a-string-in-color-basic/
B) Talking about a bug (or at least unexpected behavior) in the INSTR
command:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/05/03/why-is-microsoft-basic-instr-like-this/
C) A followup on INSTR, and comparing it with strstr in C:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/05/04/basic-instr-revisited-with-special-guest-c-strstr/
D) He also posted a second article about capturing screen contents into
strings, and some of the issues that crop up (PRINT doesn’t always use
the same codes as the screen does directly):
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/05/05/poke-versus-print/
E) He also posted a question about the piracy groups that the Coco had,
and some of the hacker names they had, and was wondering if anyone knew
any of the original people. A few people answered that were involved with
some of those, and I remember a lot of people back then used Master Key (I
think that was the name) program and hardware to “crack” said programs:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164237367677641/

3) Stephen Walters posted a video (and github link) to the Coco Facebook
group where he had ChatGPT help write a keyboard synthesizer music playing
project for the Coco:
Facebook post/description:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1584107075216002/
Github:
https://github.com/voidstar78/CoCoSynth
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFH8dtNxrqM

4) Brian Blake posted a blog post about whether recapping old computers
is worth it or not, and when it is justifiable:
https://tandy-trs80.com/recap-this/

5)Cedric Beaudoin uploaded a quick demo video showing a new feature of
his ESP-32 Coco – the adding of load and save states.:
https://youtu.be/XUouTaKdhv0?si=bAsRXxEus5_6DNRE
The full update just came out, and here is a full list of the features:
Added feature: CoCo 3 Firmware
This is the firmware V 1.04
for Board Revision V1.2
-Added Hardware and Software revision in the Menu
-Added F9 to save a Screenshot. The Picture is saved on the ROOT folder
as PICTUREXXXX.BMP incremental.
-Added Save State and load State. You can now save and load game progress,
work progress, or simply use it to Fast load a game or an APP. F3 to Save,
F4 to Load, and you have a choice of 0-9 and A-Z so a choice of 36 Slots
available.
-Added in Disk menu an option to create a new formatted .DSK
-Added in disk menu FORMAT option to Format an actual .DSK File.
-Added DEL key to remove any disk in the drive (0-3).
Download link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hblj5aT13urP3Fc3VobGnCXsq-e59_41/view?usp=drive_link

6) A reddit user posted several photos of his Coco 3 collection, which
includes multiple floppy drives, modems, a full multi-pak, and more:
https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1suws9e/just_got_a_tandy_power_switching_station_for_my/?solution=b5b7f4f34fbec2ebb5b7f4f34fbec2eb&js_challenge=1&token=bbbe4bf1c9a2b5160829c4be34da5861212407f49b87b8b78ea48ecccc55a390&jsc_orig_r=

7) Glen Hewlett released a video showing how to install and use his BASIC
to 6809 compiler for the Coco 1,2,3 and Dragon’s. This is a cross platform
compiler that can be hosted on OSX, Windows an Linux:
https://youtu.be/NFae-Dy3J3o?si=RDb4X6PKQDYUU60_

8) Retro Islander on YouTube (Jason Ross) put up a video showing his using
Claude Code AI to generate C code to make a version of M.U.L.E. for the
Coco 3 with NitrOS9 Level II (1st actual DCC code shown running around
58:30 in). He is calling it Planet Pioneers:
https://youtu.be/ifwRzb897CQ?si=91yHOCwsU3AQvRUQ

9) Tyler Durden (Coco Synthesis, who did the BASIC PacMan for the Coco 3
we played on the Game On Challenge) is working on a Coco 3 BASIC version
of Burger Time, from the looks of some questions and video clips he posted
to the Coco Discord:
(Show local file “Recording BTIME2.mp4” in Coco Nations News folder)

10) YouTube channel frozenbeefpie (Luc Dion) put up a quick video showing
a joystick testing program he wrote, originally to test the joysticks on
the ESP-32 Coco:
https://youtu.be/2jBFQM8EuqM?si=ToYrsFgco1QadTZA
DSK image download & Facebook post:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4262638377332924/posts/4320520784878016/

11) BlackStone on YouTube released a 2 minute video showing a first test
run of a machine code scroller, with just one scroll working so far. Part
of an upcoming game?
https://youtu.be/kK9ByPHwb6U?si=UthLnfCJ3JrdPfed

12) Earie’s 8-Bit Workshop released a half hour video of unboxing and
restoring a PAL Coco 1 and repairing cartridges, amongst other things:
https://youtu.be/4311e9X-KSo?si=gPNmSWtnKgDMINir

13) Daniel Hidle posted in the Coco Facebook group and update about the
game engine that he is working on with the help of AI:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164239242867641/

14) Steven Ziemba made an interesting post in the Coco Facebook group
about using the Dow Jones online service and some of it’s features back
in the day. I never used Dow Jones, only Compuserve, back in this time period:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/?multi_permalinks=10164236347602641&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen

15) Keith Frechette posted an update to his structured assembly language
translator, including talking about typecasting syntax and add/subtract
with carry syntax:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164234640332641/

16) Paul Cunningham posted the results of his retrobriting his Coco 2
case… quite successfully, I think:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164225783332641/

17) Mathew Ward posted some photos of his custom Aurebesh font in honour
of Star Wars Day, based on some BASIC lessons that Steve Strowbridge posted
almost 10 years back:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164223847977641/

18) Rich Stephens announced that the Coco 3 version of the Fujinet Weather
app is now out, and he showed a screenshot of it in the Coco Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164222072387641/
He also posted that there is new 1.6.0 Fujinet firmware, with fixes/additions
(and official Dragon support):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164217245552641/

20) Brian White posted in the Coco Facebook group some assembly source
code he wrote for the Coco 3 and OS-9 Level II back in the day:
Post:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164219828387641/
github with source link (and the fact that SHOW version 2.01 is now public
domain) The program is not as complete as Brian originally planned, but
it does show the fairly rarely used technique of adding one’s own system
calls to make writing the main code shorter and easier (Home Publisher by
Spectral / Tandy also did this):
https://github.com/bcwhite-code/coco3-show

21) Vincent Tran posted some photos of his playing the new Usurper Reborn
door game going through a PC for the modern telnet connection, but rendered
on the Coco 3 via a serial cable to the PC and using Roger Taylor’s
Netmate terminal program (one of the two to fully support ANSI graphics,
along with Twilight Terminal):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164216572402641/

22) Luciano Scharfe (from Brazil) posted multiple programs that were from
the Micro Board company of Sao Paulo, written back in 1985:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ClubeColor/posts/26305652489135783/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ClubeColor/posts/26305671105800588/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ClubeColor/posts/26315562808144751/
He also posted some photos from the 10th meeting of the Color Rio Club
from May 2:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ClubeColor/posts/26249487658085600/

23) Ciaran Anscomb announced that he “finally got the Coco 2 running
the CYD”:
https://github.com/reyco2000/CoCo2-CYD

24) Our very own Exile In Paradise has made an updated wikipedia entry
for the ESP32 Coco:
https://exileinparadise.com/esp32coco:top

25) Brian Palmer released a graphics demo by Bill Baldacchino from 1993
CocoLink magazine:
Facebook download link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164244820677641/
Details and screenshots (Coco 1 and 2 graphic):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164244807607641/

26) Not directly Coco related, but the MSDOS version of Fujinet’s Fujitzee
cross platform & networked Yahtzee game, was released. This version joins
the Coco, Atari 8 bit and Apple II versions, allowing live gameplay between
all of those machines:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164242951417641/

MC-10
-----
1) Jim Gerrie posted in the MC-10 Facebook group a question about using AI
to generate or convert ML programs to the MC-10, starting an interesting
discussion:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/26480044201695718/

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Renga in Blue reviewed another adventure game for the Coco from the
first Rainbow Book of Adventures, this time covering Horror House by Robert
W. Magnum II:
https://bluerenga.blog/2026/05/03/horror-house-1983/

2) Amigos Retro Gaming has released their next The Coco Show – covering
a game from the UK that was available on both the Coco and the Dragon,
called Wizard’s Quest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDzq2SrJRi0

3) Rob in the World of Dragon forums posted that he has converted the
“classic Spanish Adventure Archimedes XXI” to the Dragon (originally
for the ZX Spectrum, MSX and Amstrad CPC, the latter of which this this
conversion was made from). This appears to be a graphical adventure game
with very detailed pictures:
Post:
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11352
Download link and info about the game, including the disik image download:
https://robcfg.itch.io/arquimedes-xxi-dragon

4) Jim Gerrie posted an updated version of the game Pitman, originally
written by Youtaka Isokawa in 1985. The update has different movement
sound and colours from his original port from 14 years ago. He also shows
a quick demo of the level editor (2:45):
https://youtu.be/MkGKGJO2iuI?si=CyyhYcx0vYVpWLeV

5) ZXFrankie on YouTube posted a high score attempt of Meteoroids/Meteors
(by Spectral Associates) – this was originally sold by Spectral directly
in the US and then was rebranded Microbes (with a few minor modifications)
ans sold by Tandy:
https://youtu.be/n3NujbJDW64?si=ZEYNmszE8LWIVNiS

6) chinop on YouTube put up a 5+ minute gameplay video of Lucifer’s Kingdom
on the Dragon 32, a clone of the vertical scroller Star Force from the arcade:
https://youtu.be/2FZdZzQ-4YQ?si=Km6zxh1mMh3RIpfZ

7) Floyd Resler (author of Gem Quest and other games for the Coco 3/NitrOS9)
found a collection of 83 DSK images packed with games. He made a quick
database of all of the games, who published them, and what DSK image and
filename each has. There are 838 entries:
Post about it on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164236526252641/
Data base (including search engine):
https://maccrafters.com/cocogames/

8) R.J. Lukacs posted a few screenshots and asked how other people did on
the Tandy/Spectral game The Interbank Incident:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164226266092641/

9) Brian Palmer typed in another Australian Coco game called Goldsoft
Adventure (from May 1986 Australian Rainbow magazine – a graphical adventure
game), and has posted the DSK image for it in the Coco Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164218047922641/
Details on the game including screenshots:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164218039192641/

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CoCo Nation News Archive

2026-05-10T12:22:27Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 464, May 9, 2026 (May 2-May 8)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 463, May 2, 2026 (April 25-May 1)

2026-05-04T22:12:16Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 463, May 2, 2026 (April 25-May 1)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 463, May 2, 2026 (April 25-May 1)
=================================================================================
Collected by L. Curtis Boyle and Presented by Rick Ulland

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
The next online live International Computer Club show on the Twitch and
YouTube channels for the Amigos. There has been Coco content on there
before; will there be this year? 7 guests have already been booked as of
this week. It starts at 4:30 pm EST on May 2:
https://www.youtube.com/@AmigosRetroGaming

VCF-SW (Southwest) is at a slightly different date this year (May 29-31)
because of the Soccer championships, and is happening at the Westin
Dallas Forth Worth Airport. This is of course where Tandy/Radio Shack was
headquartered, so expect some alumni to be popping by!
https://www.vcfsw.org/

Retro Fest in the UK is running May 30-31st at the STEAM Museum of
Great Western Railway in Swindon, 10 am to 5 pm both days, and there is
confirmation that a Dragon Fujinet rig will be shown at the show:
https://www.retrofest.uk/

The International Retro Computer Expo 2026 now has tickets available (this
was formerly BoatFest, ran by the Amigos – John, Aaron and Brent) for
their retro show happening July 10-11 (Friday/Saturday) (July 9/Thursday
vendors can set up in the evening). This is a general retro show for old
home computers, consoles and more, with gaming highlighted:
https://www.ticketsource.com/ircexpo2025/international-retro-computer-expo-2026/2026-07-10/09:00/t-qmjplra

VCF West is August 1-2, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View California, and there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Julian Brown let me know that Curtis didn't have everything quite right
talking about some of his Dragon stories last week.
From Julian:
"Just watched yesterday's show, just wanted to say nice try on the slot
covering my core board for the rev 4 but not quite on target. The PLCC
(square) socket is for the character rom, not a CPU. The CPU in question
is held in the FPGA - allowing for either a very fast standalone master
CPU (disabling the main CPU), a symmetrical dual CPU setup using bus
mastering, or an asymmetric dual CPU using time slicing (the main CPU
remains responsible for handling IO and interrupts) - or you can just
switch the extra CPU off. The virtual CPU can run at about 40 times the
speed of an original. The SAM replacement would also allow a 63C09 to run
full speed not just "double" speed.
Technically the virtual CPU is a proven, cycle accurate reproduction of a
6809 but it doesn't have to be - you could implement most forms of 8-bit
CPU (or switch between them) but then you have all the fun and games of
incompatible byte code. You could also implement a more efficient 6809
compatible CPU or just extend it with custom instructions such as Hitachi
did. Dedicated compress/uncompress instructions spring to mind, likewise
for encryption which would potentially make native access to SSL protected
resources viable.
The other point is about the One ROM - these are simulated ROMs based on
the Raspberry Pi chip. They allow reprogramming over USB while in-system
on top of all the other simple tricks of paging that we normally do for
larger ROMs. One trick in particular is multiplexing the ROM so it can
effectively populate multiple ROM sockets - it just needs to see the chip
enable signal for each individual position. Look up Piers Rocks on You
Tube for demonstrations (https://www.youtube.com/@piers_rocks)"

He also posted an update to his multi-pack boards, including costs, and
how many he has left:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164188574647641/

And an update on his CPLD based SAM/VDG boards:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4390697187856583/

And an update on the MMU/2 MB of static RAM, integrated VDG board:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4387133211546314/

2) John Whitworth posted that the Dragon PSU has now fully been migrated
to KiCad, making it easier to "make progressive changes":
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4385968828329419/

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) CocoTown returns to his Moon Patrol style game in his latest episode,
with Game Revolutions covering “adding 80s video game special effects”,
going in detail about nested loops for an implosion effect, and a ray
explosion effect:
https://youtu.be/91E54DLC1gE?si=cU2rhMjXkc_rSuQD

2) Rich Stephens posted in the Coco Facebook group a video showing the new
"color shift" options added to the Coco Fujinet newsreader, now allowing
both inverse video and both colorsets:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164209060207641/

3) Boisy Pitre posted a quick video in the Coco Facebook group showing
his hydro-dipped "Rainbow" Coco 3:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/?multi_permalinks=10164208554237641&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen
And a Galaxy Coco 1 using the same process:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164208083717641/

3) Erico Monteiro posted in the Coco Facebook group that his procedural
semigraphics demo with animated aliens plotting schemes, called Open
Pilantra is now available for download from his fued.net site:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164207320302641/
Download link:
https://fued.net/open-pilantra/

4) Carlos Camacho is working on a Coco assembler application with a GUI,
called CocoForge, which supports 6809 and 6309 and even some 6800/6801
equivalent instructions, Flex support, profiles, and more:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164204238327641/

5) Mauricio Matte is working on something similar, called Coco Game Studio
project, which is a modern Assembly development IDE including the editor,
cross assembler, screen editor, XROAR emulator, etc. (Scroll down to
show screenshots):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164204424572641/

6) David Collins has been working on a Linux port of Micro-C, an embedded
K&R C compiler, and he showed a screenshot of a simple test program running
that calls BASIC ROM output routines:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164193626962641/

7) Vincent Tran has made a Windows app called RetroModem Bridge that he
uses for getting online with his Coco 3 and RS-232 pack. He made it with
help from AI, and uses it with Roger Taylor's NetMate to go online with
current Telnet BBS's:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164192503917641/

7) Brian Palmer posted another Coco 3 picture type in originally done by
Joy Wallace for a Coco magazine in 1987:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164189808217641/
He also posted another for the Coco 1/2 originally by Nick Kopstarelas
in 1985:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164189620217641/

8) Mike Horgan posted a video clip of his new ESP-32 Coco, including 3D
printed case and demoing it playing Poona:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164188625457641/

9) Chris Presley posted a quick video on Facebook showing him running a
Coco emulator on an Android phone:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164188574647641/

10) Luc Dion posted some screenshots and DSK image of a 3D sombrero graphic,
and showing it with both artifacting and non-artifacting modes, running
on the ESP-32 Coco project:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4262638377332924/posts/4314464062150355/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4262638377332924/posts/4314494482147313/

11) Cedric Beaudoin posted new firmware to enable the RS-232 pak emulation
on the ESP-32, and has now also posted a diagram of how to make a cable
for it, and a test program to make sure it works:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4262638377332924/posts/4313595302237231/
He also posted a Joystick testing program to help people tweaking joystick
settings on the ESP-32:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4262638377332924/posts/4309613279302100/

12) Timothy S. Brennan posted a blog about his using the ESP-32 Coco,
and even rescuing a program he wrote for playing D&D:
https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/05/flashback-friday-color-computer-fun.html

13) Dave Appleton posted photos of some old hand wired 6809 systems he
built back in the 1980's for commercial products:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/6809assembly/posts/3997904270502925/

14) David Collins posted some of Dave Dunfield's MicroCAD drawings:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/6809assembly/posts/3997479117212107/

15) Nonsonic on YouTube does an almost quarter hour review and show through
of the December 1985 issue of Rainbow magazine. He is from Canada, but
doesn't seem to familiar to the Coco:
https://youtu.be/rVkJE6YgXCA?si=h1rA9KjniFwVxkul

16) synexo on YouTube released a video showing his Coco 3 using his Modem
Pad with a modern synth modem (at 300 baud which is all the Modem Pad
supported without some hardware hacks):
https://youtu.be/KmrtVg1ozqg?si=sjnmmMlnC9cWuGm2

17) Glenside has the live stream presentations from CocoFest last weekend
up to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/@glensideccc/streams
These include Jim Brain's presentation for the CocoMem Jr., Rick Adams
Coco War stories, John Strong's Coco Game Development Q&A, and Henry
Strickland's updates on several of his projects.

MC-10
-----
1) Jim Gerrie ported "Bee Maze/Bee Amazed", a maze generating program from
Creative Computing magazine in June 1981. Ported from the TRS-80 Model
1/3 original, It includes both printer and screen output capabilities,
and I think it is running in SG6 (64x48):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPpLI80gcP8

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Allen Huffman posted on his Sub Etha blog the full story behind the
PONG programming contest from the May 1993 Chicago CocoFest. He shows the
demo he made in text mode (80 column), and mentions the winner was GNOP
by Chris Hawkes of Hawksoft, and MM/1 game where the ball stays centered
on the screen and the whole play area scrolls around it. He also reveals
the secret that he actually queried Atari about making his PONG version an
officially licensed one, and lastly a video demo of a dual simultaneous OS
(OS-9 and Linux) version of Pong he did in the early 2000’s, which had
each player with it’s own OS on a separate core in the Core Duo Intel CPU:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/04/28/we-wanted-to-licensed-pong-in-1993/

2) Chronologically Gaming covered both the Dragon and Coco on this weeks
episode; Sands of Egypt on the Coco, Greg Zumwalt’s version of Space
War for the Coco, and St. George and the Dragons on the Dragon 32:
https://youtu.be/bnP_tTJZYog?si=18e0szEatAd9S-Pd

3) Renga in Blue covers the text adventure game “Escape From Sparta”
written by Rick Townsend and Thomas Hollerback for the 1st Rainbow Book
of Adventures contest:
https://bluerenga.blog/2026/05/01/escape-from-sparta-1983/

4) Brian Palmer posted in the Coco Facebook group that he is typing in an
old Goldsoft Adventure game called "Search for Martha", but it is a long
listing to type in and he is asking if anyone already has it:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164203623947641/

5) Erico Monteiro is sharing his progress in trying to duplicate a feat
that he did when he was younger - winning all of the time gates in the
classic game Time Bandit:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164192269837641/

6) Inufuto has started releasing it's many cross platform versions of a
new game called "SwordWork":
http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/sword/
Coco 1/2 version:
https://youtu.be/ngHg8VnRyls?si=CJQszNcIN2cO9aha
Coco 3 version:
https://youtu.be/LNH6yItz9qI?si=jb186b5zUL3LXGvc
MC-10 version:
https://youtu.be/sjuuBPgoyB4?si=--QfqjYH5-t2JwOP

7) Chinop on YouTube posted a video playing Panzer by Patrick A. Ewing. I
think this was from T&D magazine. This is loosely based on the old Gunfight
arcade games from the 1970's, with 1 or 2 player options:
https://youtu.be/jLES8PfUyqY?si=LuhOKVnJ1FyJV__1

8) Attempts: A gaming channel (by LRU) covers the game Fingers for the
Dragon 32/64:
https://youtu.be/Ok5M8auv7d4?si=2VPw_8qSsHdxL0z3

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2026-05-04T22:11:26Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 463, May 2, 2026 (April 25-May 1)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 462, April 25, 2026 (April 18-April 24)

2026-04-26T11:24:06Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 462, April 25, 2026 (April 18-April 24)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 462, April 25, 2026 (April 18-April 24)
=================================================================================
Collected by L. Curtis Boyle

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
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/

The Brazil Color Computer Club has announced that their 10th meeting is
on May 2:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ClubeColor/posts/25741764422191262/

That same weekend is the next online live International Computer Club show
on the Twitch and YouTube channels for the Amigos. There has been Coco
content on there before; will there be this year? 7 guests have already
been booked as of this week. It starts at 4:30 pm EST on May 2:
https://www.youtube.com/@AmigosRetroGaming

VCF-SW (Southwest) is at a slightly different date this year (May 29-31)
because of the Soccer championships, and is happening at the Westin
Dallas Forth Worth Airport. This is of course where Tandy/Radio Shack was
headquartered, so expect some alumni to be popping by!
https://www.vcfsw.org/

Retro Fest in the UK is running May 30-31st at the STEAM Museum of
Great Western Railway in Swindon, 10 am to 5 pm both days, and there is
confirmation that a Dragon Fujinet rig will be shown at the show:
https://www.retrofest.uk/

The International Retro Computer Expo 2026 now has tickets available (this
was formerly BoatFest, ran by the Amigos – John, Aaron and Brent) for
their retro show happening July 10-11 (Friday/Saturday) (July 9/Thursday
vendors can set up in the evening). This is a general retro show for old
home computers, consoles and more, with gaming highlighted:
https://www.ticketsource.com/ircexpo2025/international-retro-computer-expo-2026/2026-07-10/09:00/t-qmjplra

VCF West is August 1-2, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View California, and there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Phil Harvey-Smith put some pictures up of his Dragon Beta prototype
that he has been working on making modern replacements for some of the
original parts, etc. that Dragon used in designing it back in 1984:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4384284578497844/
And the new iC16 board, where one can not get to the adjustment pots for
the floppy interface:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4380109035582065/

2) Julian Brown posted an update to his Dragon upgrade board (2 MB Static
RAM, integrated CPU & VDG, and SAMx32 which can handle full double speed
as well as 2 MB RAM) board – and unfortunately the 1MB Static RAM chips
he was going to use are now basically unobtanium thanks to the AI caused
RAM shortage:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4384126958513606/
Picture of his latest board design:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4383711305221838/
He also posted a photo of some ROM upgrades he has available – Unfortunately
I can’t remember what they are for (the 24 and 28 parts of the names I
am guessing is the number of pins for the ROM chip itself?)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4377730715819897/
He also did a late update where he now has a dedicated video DAC:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4385013428424959/

3) Tom Erik Gundersen posted a photo to the Dragon Facebook group showing
an old console and joystick made by Radofin, which he is pretty sure made
the 5th version of the official Dragon joystick (and is shown in the photo,
but with some different colors from the Dragon version). He is wondering
if anyone has any information on the “tele-sports IV” console:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4383009005292068/

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) Allen Huffman posted about a 3-D Maze demo written for the Coco 3 and OS-9
Level 2 and called “Toast”, that was written by Vaughn Cato back in the
1990’s. Unlike strict hallway only style 3D engines, this allowed larger
rooms and more angles of view (like a wireframe Doom style engine). It was
written in C; Allen isn’t sure if it has some assembly too. It seems to
run at a pretty decent clip given it is running under a full operating system:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/04/20/vaughn-catos-toast-3-d-maze-engine-for-coco-os-9-level-2/
UPDATE: He got permission to upload the sourcecode from Vaughn as well:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/04/23/vaughn-catos-3-d-vector-maze-demo-source-code/
He posted another demo by Vaughn (who has since gone on to working computer
effects in Hollywood, including blockbusters like Avatar)
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/04/22/vaughn-catos-bitmap-scaling-demo/
YouTube video:
https://youtu.be/kC52nWqZxzs?si=d-OaAKnkymgOryu6
He then posted some sourcecode for some other Sub-Etha OS-9 code from
the 1990’s:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/04/24/more-misc-sub-etha-os-9-stuff-on-github/

2) CocoTown did a follow up video on how the disk controller and the
Coco interact. He also talks about a bug he hit when doing the patches,
concerning the NMI flag in the Disk ROM:
https://youtu.be/_YxnA7QWyCA?si=ZKtjFUp0QOVqEbC2

3) Glenn Hewlett put up a video showing his video player for the Coco
3 with a CocoSDC. This is after he converts the video to a format to be
optimized for the Coco 3, and can do 11 fps with 11 KHz mono audio, and
supports both “256 color” composite and 16 color RGB modes:
https://youtu.be/bBJcGt6cbRc?si=IsdaD3nMqUDvwzhM

4) Brian Palmer uploaded some Coco 3 graphics disks, including SNOW.DSK
and SUMMER.DSK, to the Coco files area on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/files/files/
Sample from SUMMER.DSK:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164156429392641/

5) Paul Cunningham has posted to the Coco Facebook group that he has
added a Fujinet library to his Bare Naked Forth project, and has written
a graphic clock application for it that pulls the date & time over the
internet via Fujinet:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164182298787641/

6) Cedric Beaudoin has posted to the Coco Facebook group that has implemented
the RS-232 Pak into his ESP-32 Coco. He posted a video about it, showing it
in action on a full ANSI online BBS, using Sock Master’s Twilight Terminal:
https://youtu.be/TRWprAEIpag?si=tNpfl8BHGAGuaVYt

7) Geoffrey Knutzen posted photos and a description of his Coco 2 that
he had modified back in the day to have MIDI, using a small daughterboard
with a 6850 serial chip:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164166841617641/

MC-10
-----
1)

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Chronologically Gaming covered both the Coco and Dragon this week while
covering games released in December of 1982. On the Coco he covered the
BASIC PacMan style game Mr. Munch (from Chromasette), and the Dragon 32
version of Planet Invasion:
https://youtu.be/TAUd6q9Jt3Y?si=66BiM7i7hSvnfY2o

2) Brian Palmer uploaded a PMODE 4 BASIC Chess game to the Facebook
Coco group, originally written in 1984 by Nick Kostarelas for one of the
Australian Coco magazines, I believe:
Screenshot:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164161020837641/
Download link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164161099172641/
He also put in a Golf game by the same author (and same year):
Download link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164186324862641/
Info:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164186224352641/

3) In honour of CocoFest going on right now, Erico Monteiro has released
his SG4 game White Rock Ingotz (that we have talked about on the show before):
Announcement:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164186614037641/
Download:
https://fued.net/ingotz/

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CoCo Nation News Archive

2026-04-26T11:23:08Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 462, April 25, 2026 (April 18-April 24)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 461, April 18, 2026 (April 11-17)

2026-04-19T11:48:48Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 461, April 18, 2026 (April 11-17)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 461, April 18, 2026 (April 11-17)
=================================================================================
Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
CocoFest 2026 is April 24-25, as mentioned in the Glenside meeting this past
week. And hotel rates are locked in now (see post on Glenside website). Table
reservations are open now too. Holiday Inn & Suites Carol Stream, IL:
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/

The Brazil Color Computer Club has announced that their 10th meeting is
on May 2:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ClubeColor/posts/25741764422191262/

That same weekend is the next online live International Computer Club show
on the Twitch and YouTube channels for the Amigos. There has been Coco
content on there before; will there be this year? 7 guests have already
been booked as of this week. It starts at 4:30 pm EST on May 2:
https://www.youtube.com/@AmigosRetroGaming

VCF-SW (Southwest) is at a slightly different date this year (May 29-31)
because of the Soccer championships, and is happening at the Westin
Dallas Forth Worth Airport. This is of course where Tandy/Radio Shack was
headquartered, so expect some alumni to be popping by!
https://www.vcfsw.org/

Retro Fest in the UK is running May 30-31st at the STEAM Museum of
Great Western Railway in Swindon, 10 am to 5 pm both days, and there is
confirmation that a Dragon Fujinet rig will be shown at the show:
https://www.retrofest.uk/

The International Retro Computer Expo 2026 now has tickets available (this
was formerly BoatFest, ran by the Amigos – John, Aaron and Brent) for
their retro show happening July 10-11 (Friday/Saturday) (July 9/Thursday
vendors can set up in the evening). This is a general retro show for old
home computers, consoles and more, with gaming highlighted:
https://www.ticketsource.com/ircexpo2025/international-retro-computer-expo-2026/2026-07-10/09:00/t-qmjplra

VCF West is August 1-2, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View California, and there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Julian Brown posted an update to his Rev 3 design with incorporates a
SAMX8, up to 2 MB of RAM with 4 tasks, etc.:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4376875969238705/

2) Phil Harvey-Smith posted an update to some replacement boards he has
made for the very rare Dragon Professional:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4372885676304401/

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) Glen Hewlett posted a blog to compare speeds between Coco 3 BASIC and
his compiler:
https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/basic-compiler-quick-speed-comparison/

2) CocoTown returns with a different type of episode – going through
how Disk BASIC and the disk controller works, and then hacking around in
the Disk BASIC ROM’s to eliminate the HALT and NMI code. It works…
but there is a catch:
https://youtu.be/Lpn_-Y6nwDc?si=GZrvNS3lBbm1BPpy

3) Glen Hewlett has released version 5.27 of his BASIC-TO-68099 compiler,
with the following updates:
V 5.27
• Fixed the addition of 8 bit values now always results in a 16 bit
result, to avoid overflows
• Fixed the subtraction of 8 bit values always now results in a 16
bit signed result
• Changed Palette handling, Palette now updates the hardware palette
immediately
• Added PaletteW command that changes the Palette Mirror value
• Added PaletteV command that changes the palette Mirror value and
copies all 16 palette values from the mirror to hardware
https://github.com/nowhereman999/BASIC-To-6809

4) Keith Frechette released his "first deployment milestone" for his
SAL4LWTOOLS utility in the Microsoft store:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164153750267641/

5) David Collins released a version of David Dunfields 6809 toolkit,
compilable under Linux. Includes C compiler, assembler, macro processor
and linker:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164134866842641/

6) Michael Pittsley posted in the Coco Facebook group that he is looking
for some Coco databased software and/or documentation - namely, the manual
for VIP DataBase III, and Profile III/Profile+ for OS9 (both software and
documentation). Neither are on the archive; has anyone got these?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164139002407641/

7) In response to an earlier question in the Coco Facebook group, Dim
Cave Software released the assembly source for a Coco program to add two
numbers and print the result in text on the Coco screen, with comments,
for Disk EDTASM+:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164145255737641/

8) Brian Palmer posted a screenshot of some graphics he drew using the
Coco 3 BASIC and DATA statements:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164148807577641/

9) Paul Cunningham released an program that demonstrates animated flames
in SG4:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164150705087641/

10) Simon Jonassen released a .CAS version of his own flames demo, done
in assembly:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164153129622641/

11) Luc Dion put up a Facebook post in the Coco group showing Cedric
Beaudoin's ESP32 Coco machine in action, that we have been discussing for
some weeks now (can mute sound on this one):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164151120242641/

12) Electronics Abuse on YouTube put up a video showing the Color Doodle
program for the Coco 3, that was a type in from the Coco 3 BASIC manual:
https://youtu.be/8paJyOf9z4g?si=HsROlY0n2vI407z4

13) AllRobotics Channel on YouTube did a 5 part series "Radio Shack TRS-80
Color Computer Reborn" in Spanish about his old Coco 1 (the last 64K White
model with the melty keyboard), that he "upgrades" to a modern machine:
Part 1 (going through the hardware):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuWmsfq-DRs
Part 2 (where he starts using Coco parts with modern hardware, including
an ESP32, a modern laptop keyboards, etc):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmKmL_YQmws
Part 3 (where he gets the modern keyboard, deluxe joystick working and
spiffed up as well)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB6wX1c9BTo
Part 4 (Deluxe joystick with adapter):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfJVIraIeFw
Part 5 (OS install - Linux, Commodore OS Vision) (maybe went too far with
this one? Lol):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbqXmjuCHAQ

14) Luc Dion posted a survey in the Coco Facebook group - Would one do
retrobriting, etc. on an old Coco, or leave it as is?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/?sorting_setting=CHRONOLOGICAL

15) Don Sorensen showed some admins for his Coco system, including nice
small Atari joystick adapters:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164138394312641/

16) A Japanese YouTube channel has a brief history of OS-9: (the Coco is
mentioned briefly as well)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR5YENrpcvU

MC-10
-----
1)

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Chronologically Gaming continues with all video games from December 1982,
and he covered both Inspector Clueseau from Petrocci Freelance Associates &
Laser Tank Duel from Renaissance Game Designs for the Coco:
https://www.youtube.com/live/InGxkDAlNZY?si=4mdqVfJmg75bTJ2b

2) I missed several Coco gaming videos by Tim & AJ on their My Drunk
Sibling YouTube channel over the last month (thanks a lot, YouTube!):
Coco 3 BASIC Yahtzee (I think this was a freeware game early in the Coco
3’s life) – Nick Marentes, you should respond to them lol):
https://youtu.be/pljf-K6w6is?si=qnRo4CXVKw1dGt_j
Tetra by Brian O’Neill – another free download back in the day:
https://youtu.be/fUbZFRJdp8A?si=mnaxTxl3QVoCI7zO
Bonk by Joseph Cheek – a Coco 3 bustout game written in BASIC09 for the
Coco 3:
https://youtu.be/5ocmfrL9gRY?si=MXpUUhG5JpWyktOu

3) Paul Cunningham has released an AI version of Pong he wrote that
plays itself:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164135142097641/
XRoar online version:
https://pcunningham.works/coco/pong.html
He also released a live stream game demo and updated version 1.0 of his
Space Warp adaptation from the TRS-80 Model 1 to the Coco 1/2:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164146111382641/
Download page:
https://ugufru.itch.io/space-warp
Video preview stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYV7HdRvj8I

4) Nostalgic Gamer on YouTube did a video showing The Tom Mix Software/Chris
Latham game Sailor Man, a great Popeye clone, with lots of custom
configuration options:
https://youtu.be/wwEa4AF6_ng?si=oKEPVjGDob3MWIj6

5) Jim Gerrie ported “Yuureisen", a text adventure by Y. Kume in 1982:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADIAa7lXU2s

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The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 460, April 11, 2026 (April 4-10)
=============================================================================
Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle

Interview schedule:
-------------------
Not scheduled yet, but Logan Ward and Britt Monk have agreed to come on
the show.

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
VCF-East is April 17-19 at the InfoAge Science and History Museums in Wall,
New Jersey. Peter Cetinski is going to be on the Podcaster’s RoundTable
panel (for the TRS-80 Trash Talk show, that does cover Coco’s in addition
to the other TRS-80 and Tandy machines):
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/

CocoFest 2026 is April 24-25, as mentioned in the Glenside meeting this past
week. And hotel rates are locked in now (see post on Glenside website). Table
reservations are open now too. Holiday Inn & Suites Carol Stream, IL:
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/

The Brazil Color Computer Club has announced that their 10th meeting is
on May 2:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ClubeColor/posts/25741764422191262/

That same weekend is the next online live International Computer Club show
on the Twitch and YouTube channels for the Amigos. There has been Coco
content on there before; will there be this year? 7 guests have already
been booked as of this week. It starts at 4:30 pm EST on May 2:
https://www.youtube.com/@AmigosRetroGaming

VCF-SW (Southwest) is at a slightly different date this year (May 29-31)
because of the Soccer championships, and is happening at the Westin
Dallas Forth Worth Airport. This is of course where Tandy/Radio Shack was
headquartered, so expect some alumni to be popping by!
https://www.vcfsw.org/

Retro Fest in the UK is running May 30-31st at the STEAM Museum of
Great Western Railway in Swindon, 10 am to 5 pm both days, and there is
confirmation that a Dragon Fujinet rig will be shown at the show:
https://www.retrofest.uk/

The International Retro Computer Expo 2026 now has tickets available (this
was formerly BoatFest, ran by the Amigos – John, Aaron and Brent) for
their retro show happening July 10-11 (Friday/Saturday) (July 9/Thursday
vendors can set up in the evening). This is a general retro show for old
home computers, consoles and more, with gaming highlighted:
https://www.ticketsource.com/ircexpo2025/international-retro-computer-expo-2026/2026-07-10/09:00/t-qmjplra

VDF West is August 1-2, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View California, and there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center
in Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct
2-Oct 4 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

The 2nd VCF Montreal dates have been announced, and they have moved a few
months ahead to avoid the dead of winter (it was in January earlier this
year; the next one is November 7-8 this year as well):
https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

NEWS:
=====

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Website Atari Legend published an interview with Wayne Smithson, mainly
going over his Atari ST game writing days (including things “Oh No
More Lemmings” and Lemmings 2: The Tribes, the ST port of Blood Money,
etc.). But he mentions at the beginning that first started writing games
for the Dragon 32/64. And one that has his name in the credits is Superkid
– a side scrolling arcade game with speech:
https://www.atarilegend.com/interviews/84

2) Julian Brown has received his Multipack boards, and has them for sale
for those who want to build one:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4367871726805796/

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) Henry Strickland uploaded a video showing his Copico-Centipede cartridge
in action, which spies on the Coco Bus and ogs everything it is doing. It
shows a real Coco 2 running, and the Centipede provides 64K RAM, Disk BASIC
ROM to the Coco that has neither. It uses some techniques that Tormod’s
earlier MOOH upgrade has, including a VDG corruption issue shared by both:
https://youtu.be/qhJz52A-AZA?si=N2qt1cD3Ngq4-BmJ

2) Allen Huffman’s new blog entry is about the last time that he saw
Steve Bjork, before Steve passed in 2023. This takes place back in 2018:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/04/10/the-last-time-i-saw-steve-bjork/
He also did an entry explaining the CLS 100 Easter Egg found in the ROM
of the Coco 3:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/04/07/cls-100-coco-3-easter-egg-explored/

3) Fabian Rodriguez's seminar from VCF-Montreal, titled "From Coco to
Community: The Color Computer Then and Now" is now up on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/lAwkCKuSn4o?si=ZslFwTPVccBEkPJn

4) AuroJackal on YouTube posted a video about loading programs on a Coco
using Bluetooth and the cassette cable:
https://youtu.be/f1R7UfQ9e9k?si=0u7OFlZRlRFMGPah

5) Ken (Canadian Retro Things) posted a video about an RF to HDMI converter
he got to try on his various retro systems, including the Coco. It works
better than he expected:
https://youtu.be/dewI2TFsnDE?si=qS4NC4JV8xXOB9VL

6) Don Sorenson showed his solution for adding an HDMI port to the Coco
for either the GIME-Z (Coco 3) or CocoDV (Coco 1/2):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164126051642641/

7) Rich Stephens posted a Julia fractal drawing program to the Coco group
on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164115812942641/

8) Thomas Cherryhomes posted in the Coco group on Facebook that Robert
Gault's DWPRINT patch (tying BASIC's printer output to DriveWire) does
work with Fujinet:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164113491332641/

9) If you are in the Coco groups files section, Brian Palmer has uploaded
multiple DSK images that draw Coco 3 graphics, originally written by David
Dyson for Australian Coco magazines:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/files/files

MC-10
-----
1) Jim Gerrie ported "Satellite" from the Atari to the MC-10:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/930345473184343
He also ported a Commodore graphic of the Mona Lisa:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/26197231619976979/

2) Walter Miraglia (I think he was on the Coco and/or Fidonet echoes back
in the day) posted photos of an internal 32K RAM upgrade - that works with
video as well:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/26174742945559180/

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Chronologically Gaming goes through the 1983 Electronic Games magazine
Buyers Guide (published at the end of 1982), which does mention the
Coco. At the end of the episode, he goes through the best games of 1982
(all platforms – home computer, arcade, console, electronic tabletops,
etc.), and Donkey King is one of the best, rated at 5 out of 5 stars:
https://youtu.be/dTEZDnGoY-A?si=2FqzxEeTWMQdYTI3&t=4061

2) Paul Cunningham has released the first public beta of his Coco version
of the classic Space Warp game for the original TRS-80, which is a clone of
classic Star Trek games. But Paul has enhanced his version with graphics &
animations, and some realtime shooting elements with different kinds of ships:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164122647587641/
Download link:
https://ugufru.itch.io/space-warp/devlog/1485389/space-warp-v094-preview-available-now
Video of game in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfSX1aR2k7I

3) Jim Gerrie ported "Tomb of Terror", originally by Bob Cockroft in
1984 for the Canadian Atari magazine called "ROM", Volume 1 issue 4 from
February 1984. He used an ML draw routine by Greg Dionne in SG6 graphics
mode (64x48) to speed up the low resolution 3D wireframe style graphics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4iZF7xogjM
He also updated his port of Manbiki Shounen (Shoplifting Boy) by Hiroshi
Suzuki, originally published in the February 1980 issue of RAM magazine
for the Commodore PET, and written in 1979. He added 3 kill levels and
fixed up some of the animations:
https://youtu.be/oNCyxUTAFIc?si=Yf9wkmP_-bO87T2K
Download link is in the YouTube video description

4) David Murray, The 8-Bit Guy, posted an update to the cartridge version
of Quarx (a conversion to the Coco's and Dragons of David's C64 based game,
similar to Gems on the Coco 3). The latest prototype boards worked. He
mentioned that they will be ordering 100 boards, and that 28 copies have
already been pre-ordered. He should be shipping by the end of April:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164122781572641/

5) Spriteworx posted a quick video titled "Alien Incursion in the
Grid!"... With some guest images that we are familiar with:
https://youtu.be/h_UdplpU24U?si=SMOBxBQBX7pboGVw

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=The CoCo Nation News Archive=

A mirror of the CoCo Nation News Archives https://thecoconation.com/the-coco-nation-news-stories-archives/

==2019==
* [[News stories for June 22 show]]
* [[News stories for July 6 show]]
* [[News stories for July 13 show]]
* [[News stories for July 20 show]]
* [[News stories for August show]]
* [[Some news stories for September 14, 2019 show]]
* [[Some news stories for September 28, 2019 show]]
* [[Some news stories for October 5, 2019 show]]
* [[Some news stories for October 12, 2019 show]]
* [[Some news stories for October 19, 2019 show]]
* [[Some news stories for October 26, 2019 show]]
* [[Some news stories for November 2, 2019 show]]
* [[Some news stories for November 9, 2019 show]]
* [[Some news stories for November 16, 2019 show]]
* [[Some news stories for November 23, 2019 show]]
* [[Some news stories for November 30, 2019 show]]
* [[News stories for December 14, 2019 show]]
* [[News stories for December 21, 2019 show]]
* [[News stories for December 28, 2019 show]]

==2020==
* [[News stories for December 28, 2019 show]]
* [[News stories for January 11, 2019 show]]
* [[News stories for January 25, 2019 show]]
* [[News stories for February 1, 2019 show]]
* [[News stories for February 22, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for February 29, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for March 14, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for March 28, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for April 4, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for April 11, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for April 18, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for May 2, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for May 9, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 160, May 16, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 161, May 23, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 162, May 30, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 162, June 6, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 165, June 13, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 165, June 20, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 166, June 27, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 167, July 4, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 168, July 11, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 169, July 18, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 170, July 25, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 171, August 1, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 172, August 8, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 173, August 15, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 173, August 15, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 174, August 22, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 175, August 29, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 176, September 5, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 177, September 12, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 178, September 19, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 179, September 26, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 180, October 3, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 181, October 10, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 182, October 17, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 183, October 24, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 184, October 31, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 185, November 7, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 186, November 14, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 187, November 21, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 188, November 28, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 189, December 5, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 190, December 12, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 191, December 19, 2020 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 192, December 26, 2020 show]]

==2021==
* [[News stories for Episode 193, January 2, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 194, January 9, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 195, January 16, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 196, January 23, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 197, January 30, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 198, February 6, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 199, February 13, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 201, February 28, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 202, March 6, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 203, March 13, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 204, March 20, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 205, March 27, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 206, April 3, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 207, April 10, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 208, April 17, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 209, April 24, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 210, May 1, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 211, May 8, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 212, May 15, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 213, May 22, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 214, May 29, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 215, June 5, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 216, June 12, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 217, June 19, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 218, June 26, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 219, July 3, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 220, July 10, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 221, July 17, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 222, July 24, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 223, July 31, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 224, August 7, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 226, August 21, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 227, August 28, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 228, September 4, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 229, September 11, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 230, September 18, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 231, September 25, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 232, October 2, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 233, October 9, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 234, October 16, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 236, October 30, 2021 show]]
* [[News stories for Episode 237, November 13, 2021]]
* [[News stories for Episode 238, November 20, 2021]]
* [[News stories for Episode 239, November 27, 2021]]
* [[News stories for Episode 240, December 4, 2021]]
* [[News stories for Episode 241, December 11, 2021]]
* [[News stories for Episode 242, December 18, 2021]]

==2022==
* [[News stories for Episode 243, January 1, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 244, January 8, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 245, January 15, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 246, January 22, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 247, January 29, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 248, February 4, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 249, February 11, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 250, February 19, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 251, February 26, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 252, March 5, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 253, March 12, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 254, March 19, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 255, March 26, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 256, April 2, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 257, April 9, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 258, April 16, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 259, April 23, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 260, April 30, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 261, May 7, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 263, May 28, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 264, June 4, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 265, June 11, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 266, June 18, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 267, June 25, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 268, July 2, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 269, July 9, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 270, July 16, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 271, July 23, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 272, July 30, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 273, August 6, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 274, August 13, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 275, August 20, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 276, August 27, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 277, September 3, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 278, September 10, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 279, September 17, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 280, September 24, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 281, October 1, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 282, October 8, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 283, October 15, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 284, October 22, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 285, October 29, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 287, November 5, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 288, November 12, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 289, November 19, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 290, November 26, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 291, December 3, 2022]]
* [[News stories for Episode 292, December 10, 2022]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 293, December 17, 2022]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 294, December 31, 2023]]

==2023==
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 295, January 7, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 296, January 14, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 297, January 21, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 298, January 28, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 299, February 4, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 300, February 11, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 301, February 18, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 302, February 25, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 303, March 4, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 304, March 11 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 305, March 18 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 306, March 25, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 307, April 1, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 308, April 8, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 309, April 15, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 311, May 6, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 312, May 13, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 313, May 20, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 314, May 27, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 315, June 3, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 316, June 10, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 317, June 17, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 318, June 24, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 319, July 1, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 320, July 8, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 321, July 15, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 322, July 22, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 323, July 29, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 324, August 5, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 325, August 12, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 326, August 19, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 327, August 26, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 328, September 2, 2023]]
* [[The CoCo Nation News stories for Episode 329, September 9, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 330, September 16, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 331, September 23, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 332, September 30, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 333, October 7, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 334, October 14, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 335, October 21, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 336, October 28, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 337, November 4, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 338, November 11, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 339, November 18, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 340, November 25, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 341, December 2, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 342, December 9, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 343, December 16, 2023]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 344, December 30, 2023]]

==2024==
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 345, January 6, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 346, January 13, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 347, January 20, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 348, January 27, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 349, February 3, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 350, February 10, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 351, February 17, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 352, February 24, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 353, March 2, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 354, March 9, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 355, March 16, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 356, March 23, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 357, March 30, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 358, April 6, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 359, April 13, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 360, April 20, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 361, April 27, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 362, May 11, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 363, May 18, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 364, May 25, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 365, June 1, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 366, June 8, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 367, June 15, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 367, June 22, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 368, June 29, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 369, July 6, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 370, July 13, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 371, July 20, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 372, July 27, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 373, August 3, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 374, August 10, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 375, August 17, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 376, August 24, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 377, August 31, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 378, September 7, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 379, September 14, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 380, September 21, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 381, September 28, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 382, October 5, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 383, October 12, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 384, October 19, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 385, October 26, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 386, November 2, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 387, November 9, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 388, November 16, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 389, November 23, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 390, November 30, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 391, December 7, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 392, December 14, 2024]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 393, December 21, 2024]]

==2025==
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 394, January 4, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 395, January 11, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 396, January 18, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 397, January 25, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 398, February 1, 2025]]
* [[The CoCo Nation News Stories for Episode 399, February 8, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 400, February 15, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 401, February 22, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 402, March 1, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 403, March 8, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 404, March 15, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 405, March 22, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 406, March 29, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 407, April 5, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 408, April 12, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 409, April 19, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 410, April 26, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 411, May 3, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 412, May 10, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 413, May 17, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 414, May 24, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 415, May 31, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 416, June 7, 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 417, June 14 (7-13), 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 418, June 21 (14-20), 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 419, June 28 (21-27)), 2025]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 420, July 5,2025 (June 28-July 4)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 421, July 12,2025 (July 5-July 11)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 422, July 19,2025 (July 12-July 18)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 423, July 26,2025 (July 19-July 25)]]
* No news gathered or presented in Episode 424 - see Episode 425
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 425, August 9,2025 (Jul 26-Aug 8)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 426, August 16,2025 (Aug 9-Aug 15)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 427, August 23,2025 (Aug 16-Aug 22)]]
* [[The CoCo Nation News stories for Episode 428, August 30,2025 (Aug 23-Aug 29)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 429, September 6,2025 (Aug 30-Sep 5)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 430, September 13,2025 (Sep 6-Sep 12)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 431, September 20,2025 (Sep 13-Sep 19)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 432, September 27,2025 (Sep 20-Sep 26)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 433, October 4,2025 (Sep 27-Oct 4)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 434, October 11,2025 (Oct 4-Oct 9)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 435, October 18,2025 (Oct 10-Oct 17)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 436, October 25, 2025 (Oct 16-24)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 437, November 1,2025 (Oct 24-Oct 31)]]
* [[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)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 440, November 22, 2025 (Nov 16-22)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 441, November 29,2025 (Nov 21-28)]]
* No news gathered or presented in Episode 442 - see Episode 443
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 443, December 13,2025 (Nov 29-Dec 12)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 444, December 20,2025 (Dec 12-20)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 445, December 27,2025 (Dec 20-26)]]

==2026==
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 446, January 3, 2025 (Dec 27-Jan 2)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 447, January 10, 2025 (Jan 3-9)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 448, January 17,2025 (Jan 10-16)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 449, January 24, 2025 (Jan 17-23)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 450, January 31, 2026 (Jan 24-30)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 451, February 7, 2026 (Jan 31-Feb 6)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 452, February 14, 2026 (Feb 6-13)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 453, February 21,2026 (Feb 13-20)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 454, February 28, 2026 (Feb 21-27)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 455, March 7,2026 (Feb 28-March 6)]]
* [[The CoCo Nation News stories for Episode 456, March 14, 2026 (March 7-13)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 457, March 21, 2026 (March 13-20)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 458, March 28, 2026 (March 20-27)]]
* [[The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 459, April 4, 2026 (March 28-April 3)]]

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 393, December 21, 2024

2026-04-05T18:40:21Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 393, December 21, 2024

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 393, December 21, 2024
===================================================================
Collected by L. Curtis Boyle

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
The next episode of TRS-80 Trash Talk Live (#42) is tonight (Dec. 21)
at 9 pm Eastern:
https://www.youtube.com/@TRS80TrashTalk

For those in the Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada area, the winter meetup for
the Manitoba Retro Computer and Gaming Club is being held January 4 from
noon until 4 PM and features a variety of retro computers. They have
a theme this meetup about the TRS-80, and since David Kroeker, D. Bruce
Moore and myself are all planning on attending, there will definitely be
a Coco flavor as well:
https://www.facebook.com/events/870247295316209/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22group%22%7D]%7D

"Tandy Showcase" (Ed on the TRS-80 Discord, and the person who hosts
the history of Videotex on the web), posted that there is a Winter Retro
Computing Meetup on Saturday, January 18th from noon to 4 PM, sponsored by
DFW Retro Computing & the Vintage Computing Collective of North Texas. It
takes place at Bingo Bingo in Grand Prairie (and there will be a concession
stand open). Quote from Ed:
"**The Winter Event for the DFW Retro Computing Group has been announced
(Sat Jan 18); here's their event listing.
"Anyone in/near the Dallas-Fort Worth area is encouraged to attend the
free event.**
*The Winter Retro Computing Meetup of 2025 will be on Saturday, January
18th. Brought to you by the DFW Retro Computing Meetup group and the Vintage
Computing Collective of North Texas. Sponsored by Mouser Electronics who
has, for the second year, graciously donated to cover the cost for the
venue rental.
The meetup will begin at 12:00pm and end at 4:00pm and is taking place at
Bingo Bingo in Grand Prairie who will also have their concession stand open
so please bring cash and support them for allowing us to use their venue.
We encourage you to bring something for show and tell. It could be a
new addition to your collection or a favorite system you've showcased
before. Don't be shy we love seeing the unique treasures our community
has to offer. And if you're not quite ready to exhibit, no worries--just
bring yourself and your passion for retro computing.
As on prior meetups, you are welcome to bring your items for swap, sale, or
giveaway. However, you must ensure that all items are removed from the venue
at the end of the meetup. We cannot leave behind boxes of donation items.
You are welcome to bring your family. If you bring young children, please
keep an eye on them.
When parking, please be careful to observe the parking lot markings, and
only park in marked parking spaces. Last time, some people parked in areas
intended for parking lot navigation, which can cause issues with parking
lot traffic and fire/first responder access.
We look forward to seeing all of you there!*"
https://www.meetup.com/DFW-Retrocomputing/events/305135267/

Virtual Coco/Tandy Fest is January 25, 2025, and now has it's own website
site up: Mark Overholser is the driving force for it, and can give updates
on speakers, etc.
https://tandyretroshow.com/

VCF-SoCal - Feb 15-16 (Hotel Fera in Orange, California.
https://www.vcfsocal.com/

VCF East is April 4-6, 2025 - same facility as this year. Info Age Science
Museum, Wall, NJ.
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/

CocoFest is May 2-3, 2025 (with takedown on the morning of May 4/Sunday) at
the Holiday Inn & Suites in Carol Stream (Wheaton), Illinois. Hotel rooms
at the special Fest rate are available now ($122/night for two queens or
1 king bed), and apply for May 2-5. You will need to use the Group Rate
code of G30 to get this rate, and getting the special rate ends April
7. Bookings for tables will be going up in January.
https://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/
Tables go on sale January 1 at noon, Central standard time.

VCF-SW in Texas has been booked with dates: June 20-22, 2025 at the Davidson
Gundy Alumni Center, University of Texas, Dallas, Texas.
Tables & Tickets will go on sale January 2025. $20/adult ($25 if bought
at the door), $10/student ($15 at the door). 17 and under are free (with
accompanying adult). Tables are $50.
https://www.vcfsw.org/

Tim Lindner let me know that next year's Portland Retro Gaming Expo runs
from October 17-19 in 2025 (they just had this years Sept 27-29).
https://www.retrogamingexpo.com/

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) Coco Town has released a text/webpage version of his assembly language
optimizations video, including some new examples and more detailed
explanations. Great reference (it's divided into 3 parts):
https://cocotownretro.wordpress.com/2024/12/16/8-surprising-6809-assembly-optimizations-and-3-unsurprising-ones-part-1/

2) D. Bruce Moore and David Kroeker did a quick blog post and accompanying
video with further progress on their CocoMP3 project - Testing and Selecting
the best audio amplifier solution. There is also an appearance by an old
Coco serial to parallel converter running a line printer, and more:
https://coco.gracenote.ca/cocomp3-research-development-testing-and-selecting-the-best-audio-amplifier-solution/

3) ACKRobert has released his almost 1.5 hour walkthrough/mini-interviews
of this past VCF SoCal. This includes a brief talk with Henry Strickland,
who goes through the CoPiCo project (Wireless networking), Rick Ulland's
Ethernet board, etc.
https://youtu.be/vF2s2qcEsbQ?si=ZTQxdP7tuqbLjZla&t=3298

4) Mike ("seat safety switch" on the Coco Discord) posted a link to his
blog about Fujinet, and his experience building and using it on the Coco:
https://www.leadedsolder.com/2024/12/17/coco-fujinet.html

5) Thomas Cherryhomes showed a post by Andrew Diller that is a review
of Fujinet's accomplishments in 2024, including hardware and software
(including the Coco):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10162162731727641/
Show 'fujunet 2024.jpg' from my desktop, as Facebook won't let me scale
the very tall image enough to read properly

6) Terry Steege posted a teaser video on the Coco Facebook group under his
Retro Tech Time brand, that will lead into a full showcase video about
the AgVision - boxed and complete - which was the blue branded Videotex
terminal that came out before the Coco 1 but shares it's design and a lot
of it's hardware with the Coco:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10162159382347641/

7) Paul Sisco posted photos (some in the comments) of a small daughterboard
with wires going to multiple place on an F board Coco 1 that he has no
idea what it is for. Comments have speculated about multiple things it
could be - any ideas from the panel or chat?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10162156384747641/

8) I missed it when it was released (November 28), but Pierre Sarrazin
released 'hiresttxt' version 0.4.2 for the CMOC compile. This redirects
printf() to a hi res screen (black on green) allowing 42x24 or 42x24
text. It has an option to support some VT52 terminal sequences, includes
lowercase and Latin-1 characters, supports both inverse and bold on/off,
works on all Coco's and can even run under OS-9 Level 1 or 2.
http://perso.b2b2c.ca/~sarrazip/dev/cmoc.html
(search for 'hirestxt')

9) As per usual, both the main and beta branches of ugBASIC have had
updates throughout the past few weeks:
Main branch changelog (mostly bugfixes to the 1.16.5 release over the past
few weeks):
https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/changelog/main
Beta branch changelog (bug fixes plus things like support for SPRITE
PRIORITY, SPRITE SET, MOB SET, FADE, etc.:
https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/changelog/beta

10) Ben Cossette on YouTube posted a video of the educational Coco program
"Goofy Covers Government: Inside Congress", including the original multimedia
voice acting that came on the tape:
https://youtu.be/Zeslv_66hQY?si=9lHRvudaBoqe9Yui

11) Henry of The Break Key on YouTube (and our regular panel!) put up a
special Christmas themed video showing how to use the higher semigraphics
modes to create a nice Christmas scene. He uses modern tools to create
the the final image on the Coco:
https://youtu.be/02t30UANoy4?si=VmISPwoCXA_Dgg7W

12) EJ Jacquay has released version 2.1.9.1 of VCC this past week, which does
bugfixes, enhancements to the text paste, multiple debugger enhancements,
and more:
Full list of changes, and download:
https://github.com/VCCE/VCC/releases

MC-10
-----
1) The Clueless Engineer on YouTube released a part 1 video looking at
the Matra & Hachette Alice - a First look. It includes him going through
the hardware, and getting the video output working:
https://youtu.be/JoOMIVsprkE?si=2RQr5VJBjjomuROo

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Ciaran posted on the World of Dragon forums in response to a user request
that he has added a new ASSERT pseudo op to his ASM6809 assembler. Currently
it's on the github, but hasn't had an official release yet (and he may
not have time to do so before Christmas):
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11218

2) Dave's 8-bit basement released Dragon re-power part 1 - a video
followup to his previous one we covered recently, where he now has the
power supply replacement boards he was waiting for to get his Dragon 32 up
and running. This video shows soldering the parts and wires onto the board:
https://youtu.be/P5vSDNjBuJ8?si=GlgtagFiOCkYrKgP

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) As speculated last week, the MC-10 version of Paul Shoemaker's Christmas
Match game has been released for free on his itch.io page. Is is in the
.C10 cassette format):
https://pshoemaker70.itch.io/christmas-match
Video demo with sound (it's doing 4 part harmony with 1 bit sound for it's
little music intro):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/8720532308073514/

2) I am not sure when this article was published, but I just found out about
an interview with the creator of the first Chess game on any microcomputer
(Microchess), Peter Jennings. It's on a Norwegian site, but in english. It
goes through the original history of Peter himself, the Kim-1 release, and
mentions the other major ports (including a mention of the Coco version,
which along with Peter's Checkers were his contribution to the Coco's
launch titles in 1980):
https://spillhistorie.no/interview-with-microchess-creator-peter-jennings/

3) Jim Gerrie ported over "Rubiks", originally written by Roger Safford
and published as a type in listing for the CompuColor II computer from it's
magazine, Colorcue (June/July 1982 issue). This program lets one both play,
and have the computer solve, a Rubik's cube:
https://youtu.be/30h6354Iu9k?si=aPBiDSLHXS27GZTT
WAV file download from Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10HhvW22xPej6TpwhYgOp_LjF0RSofG4W/view

4) UK retro games podcast Retro Asylum released episode 343: 8 Bit Wars
Budget Edition. This reviews games on a variety of 8 bit systems, focusing
on the cheap, budget titles. The Dragon and Coco get mentioned a few times
(24:20 is where they ask their American co-host about the market in the US in
this time period, and he mentions the Coco specifically). The majority of the
show is comparing ports of the same game on the C64, Spectrum and BBC Micro:
https://youtu.be/FR63vL7iPkc?si=nWuaiZ4nkZJOhPdU

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The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 392, December 14, 2024

2026-04-05T18:39:42Z

ExileInParadise: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 392, December 14, 2024

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 392, December 14, 2024
===================================================================
Collected by L. Curtis Boyle

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
For those in the Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada area, the winter meetup for
the Manitoba Retro Computer and Gaming Club is being held January 4 from
noon until 4 PM and features a variety of retro computers. They have
a theme this meetup about the TRS-80, and since David Kroeker, D. Bruce
Moore and myself are all planning on attending, there will definitely be
a Coco flavor as well:
https://www.facebook.com/events/870247295316209/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22group%22%7D]%7D

Virtual Coco/Tandy Fest is January 25, 2025, and now has it's own website
site up: Mark Overholser is the driving force for it, and can give updates
on speakers, etc.
https://tandyretroshow.com/

VCF-SoCal - Feb 15-16 (Hotel Fera in Orange, California.
https://www.vcfsocal.com/

VCF East is April 4-6, 2025 - same facility as this year. Info Age Science
Museum, Wall, NJ.
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/

CocoFest is May 2-3, 2025 (with takedown on the morning of May 4/Sunday) at
the Holiday Inn & Suites in Carol Stream (Wheaton), Illinois. Hotel rooms
at the special Fest rate are available now ($122/night for two queens or
1 king bed), and apply for May 2-5. You will need to use the Group Rate
code of G30 to get this rate, and getting the special rate ends April
7. Bookings for tables will be going up in January.
https://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/
Tables go on sale January 1 at noon, Central standard time.

VCF-SW in Texas has been booked with dates: June 20-22, 2025 at the Davidson
Gundy Alumni Center, University of Texas, Dallas, Texas.
Tables & Tickets will go on sale January 2025. $20/adult ($25 if bought
at the door), $10/student ($15 at the door). 17 and under are free (with
accompanying adult). Tables are $50.
https://www.vcfsw.org/

Tim Lindner let me know that next year's Portland Retro Gaming Expo runs
from October 17-19 in 2025 (they just had this years Sept 27-29).
https://www.retrogamingexpo.com/

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) After a lengthy hiatus, TRS-80 Retro Programing returns with a different
type of project - Disappearing Ghosts (originally written in 1984 by Angela
Bradshaw from the book The Color Computer Playground). It's a subtraction
game for kids:
https://youtu.be/FdKSPLo5AaY?si=IqZc61GJFWK8NwKn

2) Grant Leighty passed on to me that CocoFest table registration won't be
until February 1st (rather than January). "Randy is doing a major update on
the registration system and needed more time to complete it." (Please note
that the Glenside CocoFest webpage has not been changed yet to reflect this):
https://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/

3) 8 Bit Doodads on YouTube are doing a Retro Computer Adventu
Calender... and an episode is about the Coco (it has some mistakes, but
the hosts admit that neither has owned one):
https://youtu.be/HGZ1m7HGVq4?si=qJtB6FcnYF1axNfv

4) Christmas themed posts on both Facebook and YouTube using Coco's have
started appearing. Some of these we have covered in previous years, but
since more and more people are joining (or re-joining) the Coco community,
I think it is worth covering:
- Michael Pittsley posted some screenshots from the Sierra Christmas
demo. I will mention that it is included with NitrOS-9/EOU, and can be
found in the DEMOS -> SIERRA_XMAS (and launched from MultiVue):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10162153232332641/
Michael Eric Sezter pointed out the Tandy in store Coco 3 graphics demo
from Christmas 1986 that Spectral Associates wrote:
https://youtu.be/PaoqNDcYmOI?si=0SqblGL-4Pf8-EJ-
bng0072 on YouTube released graphic/song videos of two Coco 1/2 Christmas
themes, which are called XMAS Fantasia & XMAS Fantasia II, and are about
17 minutes and 27 minutes long respectively. Maybe have them playing on a
TV in the background during the Christmas season (I think David Ladd has
presented these before in previous years):
XMAS Fantasia:
https://youtu.be/5cHbHGaNBGk?si=x9aEcaxg5e7r6UdR
XMAS Fantasia II:
https://youtu.be/Cbo5EoNzcR8?si=3lHCxxvfziaBr7XK

5) Another theme is people sharing photos of their Coco systems (back in
day, sometimes after receiving them at Christmas). These include:
- Rodger Williamson shows his setup from the mid-80's, and mentions using
it while he attended Clemson University):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10162152639702641/
- Rob Cookenour posted a 5 second video(!) of him and his brand new Coco
on Christmas morning, 1983 (just a few months after the Coco 2 was released)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10162145479247641/

6) Jack Chadwick posted a link on the Coco Facebook group to Coco 2 11
ounce coffee mugs that are for sale on etsy:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1429675299/tandy-64k-color-computer-2-computer

7) Anthonu Kulla pointed out that the pilot episode of Moonlighting
(starring Bruce Willis) has a Coco 1 in it:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10162142202352641/

8) Italian Youtube channel does a pretty thorough review of the 6809 (there
are a few mistakes) but mentions how it wasn't often used. They mention
the Fujistu FM-7, the Thomson machines - but don't mention the Dragons,
Coco's, Vectrex, etc.:
https://youtu.be/Do8lWLDRczc?si=-Wiex-nVXka5hE7J

MC-10
-----
1) Jim Gerrie converted a program called Sphere which first appeared in
Colorcue magazine's Dec/Jan 1982 issue (originally for the Compucolor
II computer):
https://youtu.be/szxcO8hIcck?si=CuQVm6zs6fyGlRk3

2) Jim also pointed out an article about Chess AI from the University of
Waterloo Computer Museum, written by Amy VanderLaan. They pitted a MASTER
2200X Chess Computer (which was sold by Radio Shack in 1996) vs. an MC-10
at the easiest level on each. Suprisingly, even with the computer & program
being 12-13 years older than the dedicated Chess machine... the MC-10 won:
https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-museum/chess-ai

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) Dave's 8-bit Basement put up a half hour video on the Dragon 32 - part
3 of a series he is working on. He shows some hardware replacement boards
that he is making (and uploading the files for):
https://youtu.be/grrBP0ieFRY?si=zUqsmc874HA3qlA4

2) German YouTube channel "Jungsis Corner" does a quick review about using
the CocoSDC on a Dragon 32:
https://youtu.be/sWfY9XhIkCk?si=EUitk5YZ0c9o-xs8

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Jim Gerrie ported the TRS-80 Model 1/3 game "All Together" to the MC-10,
originally by David Chance from his 1981 book "Computer Graphics With 29
ready-to-run Programs":
https://youtu.be/IsMlNjh9X_8?si=fosKuLEjFxWLQNfP
He also ported Flying Witches, originally written by Jenny Tyler and Chris
Oxlade in the 1984 book
"Weird Computer Games" by Usborne books. Done completely with text
characters, it is actually a side scroller where one has to fly their
witch to pick up objects as they scroll by:
https://youtu.be/bHQgaJdnyuo?si=_cap97r_7ruX1Mm2

2) Paul Shoemaker has made a Coco 1/2 version of his Christmas Match game:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10162143852062641/
It is on the same disk image as the Coco 3 version, which you can get from
his itch.io:
https://pshoemaker70.itch.io/christmas-match
And Ciaran Anscomb has made a hybrid disk that allows it to run on the
Dragon as well, and has made this available in the World of Dragon forums:
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11216

3) Pere Serrat has now uploaded the "Big Pack" version of his SuperSprite
FM+ updated AGD games, putting all 55 games into one zip for the Dragon
or Coco (as well as separate ZIP's with instructions, screen shots, etc.):
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11217

4) Non Maskable Interrupt on YouTube did some more gameplay videos on his
CM-8 equipped Coco 3 (so no artifact colors).
Bagitman:
https://youtube.com/shorts/jiX31s4-Apo?si=PVxLY0eqseDFXM6i

5) Jostive Fivezer did some gameplay videos as well:
Squeeze:
https://youtu.be/OcgqoNmYB1g?si=jWBK5uiu-3hckwvh
Android Attack (longplay):
https://youtu.be/70v3815nnMw?si=fp_2P0S7GO39I1u6

6) simonwgb played almost 3 hours of some of his favorite Dragon 32/64
games, including 45 minutes with Wizard's Quest:
https://youtu.be/wdVaBXZSR2U?si=6cKUQ69I9JUL8vzW

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The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 391, December 7, 2024
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Collected by L. Curtis Boyle

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
Virtual Coco/Tandy Fest is January 25, 2025, and now has it's own website
site up: Mark Overholser is the driving force for it, and can give updates
on speakers, etc.
https://tandyretroshow.com/

VCF-SoCal - Feb 15-16 (Hotel Fera in Orange, California.
https://www.vcfsocal.com/

VCF East is April 4-6, 2025 - same facility as this year. Info Age Science
Museum, Wall, NJ.
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/

CocoFest is May 2-3, 2025 (with takedown on the morning of May 4/Sunday) at
the Holiday Inn & Suites in Carol Stream (Wheaton), Illinois. Hotel rooms
at the special Fest rate are available now ($122/night for two queens or
1 king bed), and apply for May 2-5. You will need to use the Group Rate
code of G30 to get this rate, and getting the special rate ends April
7. Bookings for tables will be going up in January.
https://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/
Tables go on sale January 1 at noon, Central standard time.

VCF-SW in Texas has been booked with dates: June 20-22, 2025 at the Davidson
Gundy Alumni Center, University of Texas, Dallas, Texas.
Tables & Tickets will go on sale January 2025. $20/adult ($25 if bought
at the door), $10/student ($15 at the door). 17 and under are free (with
accompanying adult). Tables are $50.
https://www.vcfsw.org/

Tim Lindner let me know that next year's Portland Retro Gaming Expo runs
from October 17-19 in 2025 (they just had this years Sept 27-29).
https://www.retrogamingexpo.com/

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) D. Bruce Moore & David Kroeker put up another video of them working on
the CocoMP3 hardware card, this time on trying to get audio levels correct
from the Coco cassette port into a TV:
Quick blog post:
https://coco.gracenote.ca/trying-to-get-proper-audio-levels-through-the-coco-cassette-port-and-into-a-tv/
YouTube Video:
https://youtu.be/oq1LsY6gTPI?si=KPuli_rkP5G6dfHf

2) ugBASIC 1.16.5 RELEASED. Release notes:
"In addition to containing strong optimizations on the generated code,
and numerous fixes and corrections for all targets (especially for the
TRS-80 Color Computer 1/2/3), 32-bit division has finally been implemented
for the 6809 processor and the code generation has been improved. The MIDI
to IMF converter has been improved, with support for volume changing and
specific percussion handling and automatic instrument calculation that
composition software takes for granted, and improvements have also been
made to multitasking interleaving capabilities.
From this release the additional data type IMAGEREF is now available, which
allows you to modify the graphic resources at run time, thus allowing you to
create games with great aesthetic variability. A whole set of instructions
has been added, to manage (automatically) the animations and movements
of graphic elements, taking advantage of the improved multitasking. In
particular, the ANIMATE command allows you to activate and drive animations
while the program is running, and so does the MOVE command, which allows
you to move objects in parallel, even synchronized with the animation.
The new PATH data type, together with the TRAVEL instruction, allows you
to calculate all the intermediate points of a path between two points, thus
allowing you to easily create "programmed paths", such as those associated
with graphic adventure animations. The PRINT RAW is now available, to print
characters without escape sequence parsing. The "retro compatible hacks" have
been updated which ensure that previously written games can run without any
issues, although there have been some small changes in the specifications."
There have been multiple hot and cold fixes to the main branch since the
1.16.5 version release this past week as well"
Main website:
https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/
Fixes since the main version release:
https://ugbasic.iwashere.eu/changelog/main

3) Fedor Steedman posted a link to a hackaday article titled "The 6809
8-bit Microcomputer: A father-son odyssey" on the Coco Facebook group. The
article is written by Heidi Ulrich.
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/06/the-6809-8-bit-microcomputer-a-father-son-odyssey/
The project page by Eric Lind and his son (they posted about the upcoming
"Stage 3" on December 2):
https://hackaday.io/project/199060-lind-micro-lind

4) Logiker's Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge has been announced
(for all retro computers). This is their contest (running from Dec. 12
until Dec. 25) where you try and re-create their Christmas related shape
in as small of code as possible, in any language. They released a video
showing the shapes from previous Christmas challenges, and explains the
rules. There are prizes:
https://youtu.be/3q5ZWJmMhgQ?si=aR6tFMNDQAKlWEKq

5) Spanish YouTube channel RetroComputo did a video about how to create
real disks from DSK files using a Multipack and the CocoSDC:
https://youtu.be/hKrcteMcs6w?si=N92ICL5cc7uZ-Hfl

6) The Boston Diaries (Sean) did a 3 part blog post about how to call
assembly routines from BASIC.
Part 1 is about how his own 6809 assembler makes BASIC code (data statements,
POKE loop, etc. to make it easier to write the code in assembly and then
not have to manually translate it to BASIC yourself:
https://boston.conman.org/2024/11/26.1
Part 2 covers how to call these routines from regular Color BASIC using
the single USR command, and some steps needed to pass strings using it:
https://boston.conman.org/2024/11/26.2
Part 3 covers how to do it from Extended BASIC, which adds up to 10
USR's and the DEFUSER command used to set them up, which makes sending
and retrieving values & strings easier and takes less steps than regular
Color BASIC required.
https://boston.conman.org/2024/11/26.3

MC-10
-----
1) Jim Gerrie ported (and translated) and educational program for the
Metra Alice called The Combustion Engine, originally by Infogrames in 1984:
https://youtu.be/oKxwjlFrDQs?si=AzYXFXxXJvZ_yGUP
He also posted a link to a french site with screenshots and photos of the
original packaging:
http://alice32.free.fr/programmes/le-moteur-a-explosion/index.html

2) Simon Jonassen is working on a Christmas demo for the MC-10, and put up
a video in the MC-10 Facebook group showing the 2 voice/square wave music,
and will be adding graphics shortly:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/8652829471510465/

Dragon 32/64
------------
1)

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Pere Serrat has released 2 more game packs with the updated palettes
for the Supersprite FM+ board (for the Dragon 32/64 and Coco 1/2):
Game pack #8 has 6 games:
Diamond Geezer
Magic Able
Meteormania
The Hair-raising adventures of Mr. Hair
Nixy the Glad Sprite
Papyrus
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11214
Game pack #9 has 6 games:
Page's Castle Quest
Robot, the Impossible Mission
Springbot - Mars Attack
Sprouty
Stars 2
UFO
Yokai Monk
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11215
This puts the number of games that support the Supersprite FM+ board to
over 50 games now.

2) The Wargaming Scribe has released his review of Battle for Tunis for
the Coco in 1984 from Ark Royal games. As usual, he does his very detailed,
full review of the game:
https://zeitgame.net/archives/16184

3) Gregg Steffensen has officially released "The Caverns of Narzod" on the
Color Computer Archive, a game that is now fully working and patched for
disk. This was originally published in Australian Coco magazine, October
1985, and is a BASIC/ML hybrid (the original listing needed some patching
for disk). He also posted a link to Jim Gerrie's original video we showed
a few weeks ago of the cassette version, although I think that still had
a few bugs from typing it in that are now fixed:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10162139419842641/

4) Paul Shoemaker released a new Coco 3 Christmas themed game called
Christmas Match. It was a memory match game where one flips over two tiles
at a time, and tries to find the matching tiles (which removes them from
the playfield) in as few moves as possible. It can is a free download from
his itch.io page, and requires a Coco 3 with 128K and a disk drive:
https://pshoemaker70.itch.io/christmas-match
Some gameplay footage
https://youtu.be/-MOODqqRaWM?si=9VpFJ2uc0mV_9BCB

5) Richard Kelly uploaded a DSK image to the Coco Facebook group that has
the Kenneth Del Signore collection, including DataFall (ironically the only
game that does not run if you use the DOS command based menu system that
Richard included). These are games that were published by T&D magnazine,
written by Ken.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10162137350892641/

6) Chronologically Gaming covered another Coco game release from November
of 1982 - a movie adaptation that was unique to the Coco - Poltergeist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P609_OETpH8&t=1438s

7) YouTube channel WhiteHat94 did a 20 minute play video of Super Pitfall
on the Coco 3, using a MiSTer FPGA. This is a actually a speed run, and
he is very familiar with the Nintendo original one (see around 17:40 for
a sub-level most people have not seen). He wins the game in 19 minutes,
47 seconds:
https://youtu.be/x8MwTjjPa6c?si=RxNbInp_4PGEbYhb.

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The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 390, November 30, 2024

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The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 390, November 30, 2024
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Collected by L. Curtis Boyle

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
------------------------------------------------------------
Virtual Coco/Tandy Fest is January 25, 2025, and now has it's own website
site up: Mark Overholser is the driving force for it, and can give updates
on speakers, etc.
https://tandyretroshow.com/

VCF-SoCal - Feb 15-16 (Hotel Fera in Orange, California.
https://www.vcfsocal.com/

VCF East is April 4-6, 2025 - same facility as this year. Info Age Science
Museum, Wall, NJ.
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/

CocoFest is May 2-3, 2025 (with takedown on the morning of May 4/Sunday) at
the Holiday Inn & Suites in Carol Stream (Wheaton), Illinois. Hotel rooms
at the special Fest rate are available now ($122/night for two queens or
1 king bed), and apply for May 2-5. You will need to use the Group Rate
code of G30 to get this rate, and getting the special rate ends April
7. Bookings for tables will be going up in January.
https://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest/
Tables go on sale January 1 at noon, Central standard time.

VCF-SW in Texas has been booked with dates: June 20-22, 2025 at the Davidson
Gundy Alumni Center, University of Texas, Dallas, Texas.
Tables & Tickets will go on sale January 2025. $20/adult ($25 if bought
at the door), $10/student ($15 at the door). 17 and under are free (with
accompanying adult). Tables are $50.
https://www.vcfsw.org/

Tim Lindner let me know that next year's Portland Retro Gaming Expo runs
from October 17-19 in 2025 (they just had this years Sept 27-29).
https://www.retrogamingexpo.com/

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
-------------------------------
1) Ron Klein posted a blog update for the Coco Pi Project, including the
latest on how it is being built and different ways you can install it:
https://coco-pi.com/coco-pi-project-update-2024-11-27/

2) Wi-Fi Sheep on YouTube put up a more full length video of the Cambridge
Retro Computer Festival 2024 (he showed us some Coco / Dragon stuff
specifically after the show). One area of interest is the special 6847
display, showing a variety of computers that used the same VDG as the Coco
1/2, MC-10/Alice, and Dragon 32/64 used:
https://youtu.be/9y8GMrjAPyo?si=4ifWr5MxIwIwz8S0&t=599

3) Ciaran Anscomb has announced that XRoar 1.7.3 has been released. This
fixed some bugs that crept into 1.7.2:
http://www.6809.org.uk/xroar/

4) Daniel Wilson of the Think Tank Podcast, interviewed Wes Kussmaul, the
creator of the online system Delphi. Like the older Compuserve, Delphi
was filled with forums, downloads, etc. and they had an agreement with
Rainbow magazine to run Coco forums, which Rainbow had a monthly column
mentioning which new downloads, etc. were newly added. It goes through how
Delphi started as an online encyclopedia to what he is doing now. It also
covers Daniel's history with the Coco 2:
https://aithinktankpodcast.com/articles/f/the-early-days-of-the-internet---show-9
YouTube video version of the interview:
https://youtu.be/J5EREYob3N4?si=fb40RTann_RZZBmC

5) David Collins posted a video on Facebook in the Motorola 6809/6309/6800
Assembly Language programming group showing his HB63C089M single board 6309
based computer, and showing a text based Mandelbrot set being generated
using a 6309 assembly program. It completes it in about .3 seconds... an
that's writing it to a virtual terminal.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/6809assembly/posts/3528218010804889/

MC-10
-----
1) Jim Gerrie released an MC-10 port of "A Spacecraft Simulator" originally
written by Gary Sivak for BYTE magazine, November 1979.:
https://youtu.be/kPrI6feDyKA?si=7nvafJSi9EEpjY3U

Dragon 32/64
------------
1) robcfg on the World of Dragon Forums has announced a new utility,
DragonCas2 (sequel to DragonCas_GUI). He has also released a test version
for Windows:
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11212
Direct link:
https://bitbucket.org/robcfg/dragoncas2/src/master/

2) Julian Brown posted an update for his RAM replacement board for his
Dragon 32 repro board. This is a simpler design that he hopes fixes a
bug. From some testing yesterday, it is working better than his earlier
version, but still isn't fully working... yet:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3878989832360657/

3) Richard Harding has posted some high resolution original artwork for
Dragon software titles, this time in poster format (23" x 15.5") at 300 DPI:
http://dragondata.co.uk/Publications/posters-8/POSTERS-8.html

4) YouTube channel Retro4u received a fair number of UK computers that he
goes through, including a Dragon 32:
https://youtu.be/nw_U6KVrcUQ?si=B-OWOL4ZQXdqj8PZ&t=279

5) German YouTube channel MIGs Yesterchips (ran by the Yesterchips Museum)
received a Dragon 32 as a hardware donation, and need a little repair
to get the color working. Rather than doing a video showing he complete
testing, etc. he goes into figuring out was wrong with some photos, making
a shorter video:
https://youtu.be/O46BTTJSN_I?si=GxhPeVTia1uuGeif

6) Henry Gernhardt III put up part 2 of his video series on creating both the
hardware and software for a USB keyboard interface for the Coco (and Dragon):
https://youtu.be/MjQjr-vsv1U?si=x_uDEwFEVlWPaIB3

7) A follow up to last week's episode where a person in the live chat
revealed that he was the author of Hidden BASIC that was sold by Spectrum
Projects in 1983, and he was trying to find a copy. Well, Paul Fiscarelli
found a copy, and it is now on the archive!
https://colorcomputerarchive.com/

8) RetroTechTime put up a YouTube short with some photos of an "extensive
Coco collection" that he saved from getting thrown out (I think there are
other Tandy, non-Coco items included as well):
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6bVAYD8Xtjo
He did a same style video showing a few photos of Tandy/TRS80 collection:
https://youtube.com/shorts/nxxXPBciDQ8?si=b5ttuG6UtfWjGhgs

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
==========================================
1) Lee Perkins put up a video update for his port of the Cloud Kingdoms game
to the Coco 3 - showing level selection and game play of a few different
levels, completing them. Note: At this stage, you can't get damaged,
so it's a bit easier to play than the final version will be (it's also
better for testing):
https://youtu.be/WxmSOFYJwSA?si=Vin-AHgGGQ2UgyTu

2) Pere Serrat has released the 6th & 7th Supersprite FM+ upgraded games
packs, with the new colour palette. The 6th pack includes:
Flype 2.0
Foggy's Quest
Funky Fungus Level 1
Funky Fungus Level 2
Funky Fungus Level 3
Funky Fungus Level 4
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11211
And the 7th has:
Forward to the Past
Bubble Frenzy 1.1
Gherbert Groundhog In Save the Date
The Goblin
Mr. Hair and the Kitty Katakombs
Janky Joe
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11213

3) Emerson Costa posted in the Motorola 6847 group on Facebook about a Mine
Sweeper port (called Campo Minado) written in BASIC for the CCE MC-1000
computer... a Z80 based machine that used the same video chip as the Coco
1/2, Dragon 32/64 and MC-10/Alice. It is done in 256x192x2 PMODE 4:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/173737063356725/posts/1659108941486189/
Github link (note that the info.txt is in Portuguese, since this was
written by Emerson in Brazil):
https://github.com/ensjo/mc1000-software/blob/master/emerson/Campo%20minado/info.txt

4) The NMI channel on YouTube release a YouTube short showing Clowns and
Balloons running on his Coco 3 with a CM-8 (Which unfortunately just shows
black and white graphics with no artifacting
https://youtube.com/shorts/Rm3Q7MIlKc8?si=3yUJJxA1jZq5vgLT

5) Jostive Fiverzer did a longplay game video of Dave Edson's Catch 'Em
from Aardvark Software:
https://youtu.be/WsE5m5o3UYA?si=R_lgkQhcWlYybJiC
He also did one of Computerware's Shark Treasure by Greg Anderson:
https://youtu.be/38CUyQu6el4?si=W6oOPTYTpqo2QHbR

6) Tim and AJ do their first Coco game in awhile that *isn't* Dungeons of
Daggorath - Paul Shoemaker's new release, Lava Hero. AJ loves the game:
https://youtu.be/62kx9ZsdyBo?si=bWcj4xHktY1tWEbA

7) Guillaume Major announced that he has made a Coco port of Kings Quest VI:
Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (which was backported to the AGI engine to run on
older PC's by Brandon Kouri... and that's the same engine that the Coco 3
versions of Sierra games use) available on the Color Computer Archive. He
posted some screenshots on the Coco Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10162095029932641/
The webpage for the original PC backport:
https://kq6agi.com/

8) The Amigos did their annual Thanks-For-Giving Marathon (8 hours of
game playing on a variety of platforms), and a "Super Cut" version (thanks
Aaron!) sans game loading times and general banter (although the latter *is*
one of the reasons to watch and listen to the Amigos!) cut down to just over
5 hours is now up on their YouTube channel. The Coco is represented early on
with One on One, Dino Wars and Demon Attack (although their Dino Wars seems
corrupt - there is no way normally to kill your opponent with just one bite):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoY7cU3LCCE&t=2320s
(If you want to see the full 8 hour version with banter and loading/switching
systems - check out their Twitch page)

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