The CoCo Nation Show

This week we'll look at the world premiere of the latest game from Nick Marentes, Rally SG, inspired by Rally-X from the arcade, it uses the 9-color semi-graphics mode, and will run on a CoCo 1,2,3 and Dragon with 64K. http://nickmarentes.com/ This along with CoCo and retro news, GameOn! results, the new game of the week, projects, updates, acquisitions, and all kinds of CoCo goodness! Time Stamps: 00:02:23 Panel Introductions 00:10:02 CoCo and Retro News 00:25:11 CoCo Thoughts 00:25:36 GameON! Results, discussion, and new game reveal 00:45:41 Gaming news 00:54:56 Rally SG premier with Nick Marentes 01:15:17 Project acquisitions, updates 02:04:42 additional updates and discussions 02:22:19 Closing credits 02:24:44 Final words News stories for Episode #166, June 27, 2020 show: ================================================= 1) CanadianRetroThings has a new video out showing him hooking up his giant Panasonic TV/Radio/Cassette deck to his MC-10 this time: https://youtu.be/3j-fA5kBUdo 2) Davy Mitchell posted a link to his blog, "Davy's Retro Corner", in the Dragon Facebook group. This entry talks about a 3D terrain generating program https://davysretrocorner.blogspot.com/2020/06/type-in-dragon-user-fault-line-graphics.html 3) The Trash Talk (TRS-80) podcast has game programming contest, that includes the Coco. http://www.trs-80.org.uk/2020competition.html 4) Tim Halloran has a video demonstrating him powering his Coco 2 - from USB: https://youtu.be/qfa4Db2OwE8 5) Keith (ChibiAkumas on YouTube) has his 2nd 6809 assembly language tutorial up - this episode covers the 6809 addressing modes: https://youtu.be/JpIi85GWDRo 6) Ed Snider has some photos of his 32K RAM MC-10 board in the making https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/2969740209819448/ Game On news: ============= 1) Paul Shoemaker is working on a Coco 3 only Dungeon Crawler, and shows a sample screen using a tileset he purchased: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158370706662641/ 2) Neil Blanchard has ROM cartridge versions of Rick Adam's "Bomb Threat" game available again, for $30. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1606095809633762/permalink/2636663219910344/?sale_post_id=2636663219910344 3) Neil also has the new cartridge game by Evan Wright called 3D Monster Maze, which is a Coco 1/2 version of the game https://www.facebook.com/groups/1606095809633762/permalink/2636658969910769/?sale_post_id=2636658969910769 Evan also upload a video of the final version in action: https://youtu.be/4uqWLrzsd2U 4) Cuthbert Dragon has a few new Dragon gameplay videos of note this week: https://www.youtube.com/user/MaryWinstead32/videos - Monsters 5) Ciaran has released an updated Coco version of the Dragon game ROTABB's - it now includes the original loaded an opening story: http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/da/coco_ports/ 6) Nick Marentes has a video out to promote his Rally-SG game for all Coco's and the Dragon's (with at least 64K), which is getting released in August: https://youtu.be/9lUiwo7Zly4 Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

We're back with everyone's favorite talk show about the CoCo and this week we'll talk about news, GameON! results for Galagon and so much more! Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

This week we'll focus on people who are new to being back to the CoCo hobby, a lot has changed in the past 40 years and the CoCo is alive and well, and there are a lot of things you can do in the CoCo hobby. So how does one start? What's the best way? What's the best CoCo setup? How do I get and run hardware and software, what's the minimum I'd need, how far can we go, what about emulators, and so much more. Gather your questions and we'll hear from a variety of people on how they CoCo and what suggestions we have for people just getting back to the CoCo. We'll review the GameON! results from Candy Company, learn what next week's game will be, cover CoCo news, and more! CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

This week we're going to focus on the latest and greatest update to the CoCo-Pi project which now has an official web site http://coco-pi.com We'll show you a 30 minute tutorial on how to download and set up your Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 to run the CoCo-Pi image. We show you how to add all the CoCo ROMS to MAME, how to download and run software, and how to add your own software to your system. This will be followed by a live Q&A session with Ron Klein who's managing this project. You can enjoy CoCoTALK! live and as audio and video podcasts, visit http://cocotalk.live to learn how and join us on Discord http://discord.cocotalk.live General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:51 Panel Introductions 00:05:51 Ron Klein - CoCoPi update 00:17:18 CoCo Thoughts 01:17:37 GameON! challenge results 01:20:50 GameON! Lunar Rover Patrol discussion 01:30:39 Next week's game announcment 01:39:09 GameON! news 02:07:13 News from around the retro world 02:41:56 CoCo Thoughts 02:44:29 Project updates and acquisitions 03:11:17 Nightmare Highway - The song 03:14:05 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussions New Links: 1) Tim Halloran put up a video on how to take a Coco 2 keyboard apart, and clean it: https://youtu.be/u1S9KExR9jU 2) Erico Monteiro https://youtu.be/OBXG1O_5fEY https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=70215.0 3) David K on YouTube https://youtu.be/nJgzYuMWNfg?t=471 4) Coco Crew episode 60 was released, and includes a review of Rampage. http://cococrew.org/cococrew-podcast-60.html 5) Ed Snider has announced 8 MB RAM upgrade https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158318768477641/ 6) Eric Canales shared a cool video clip https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158317268257641/ 7) Rubber feet for the Coco 1: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158315306512641/ 8) Terry Trapp CoCo capture issues https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158310032052641/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158310933662641/ 9) Guillaume Major has done some updates to the Color Computer Archive https://colorcomputerarchive.com/search 10) James Jones runs some BASIC09 performance tests with surprising results https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2597277030535225/ 11) James Hosts inquires about INKEY$ and alternatives to allow for key repeat detection https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/2914666795326790/ 12) Wayne Aaron obtains a CoCo 2 he plans to use as a CoCo-Pi case https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158321285392641/ 13) Alsion Denu posts some *interesting* photos with CoCos https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158316789277641/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158318792572641/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158303480947641/ 14) Tony Jewell from the Dragon group joins the CoCo owner's club https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158295267832641/ Game On news: 1) YouTuber "retro techtive" has started releasing Coco game videos Androne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrkXrJqkN-Q Air Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XroCF2adwNA 2) The Amigos released their final regular episode of The Coco Show https://youtu.be/aLFLQuCInQs 3) GigerPunk did a video of Cuthbert in the Mines on his Dragon 32: https://youtu.be/YnbHDTNtY1U 4) Pere Serrat released a new video of his updated AGD engine, using the Wordpak II+ https://youtu.be/dnuiz5J4bCs 5) Erik Gavriluk started an interesting discussion on what is the greatest ORIGINAL Coco 3 game https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158318127852641/ 6) Mark McDougall is starting to work on finishing some of his arcade transcodes again https://retroports.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR02Xk-ZcVMqFKq4uEy77tk2yWxItAJJN1A8UVJAXZmNEreApX3wzH9xKn8 7) Cuthbert Dragon released a lot of new Dragon gameplay videos this week Red Meanies (3D Pacman): https://youtu.be/UqbcAz-kieA Keys of Roth (kind of a graphics Choose Your Own Adventure style game(: https://youtu.be/MOb3c0RPaDs Starfighter: https://youtu.be/f-wGM5dtnn8 Mutant Wars (kind of a Shamus/Berzerk crossover?): https://youtu.be/wZkPoIZ0ZA4 Screaming Ab-Dabs (and he seems to know how to actually play it properly): https://youtu.be/nsrm1BMZcVA 8) Michael Pittsley inquires about a Soduko game for the CoCo, John Linville replies https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158322420287641/ 9) Carlos Camacho inquires about the Canyon Climber Cartridges for the NEC PC-600, created by James Garon, author of the CoCo version https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158308661562641/ Steve Bjork chimes in Allen Huffman posts a YouTube video of the game by HighRetroGameLord https://youtu.be/1Lt4Tts0CfI

Episode 162 of CoCoTALK! celebrates the NASA/Space-X live launch and incorporates that into the show. Unfortunately, airing the live footage became a copyright issue and so this replay will now feature some substitute footage, our apologies. Segment Timestamps: 00:05:36 Panel Introductions 00:09:36 Who's new to Discord this week 00:10:18 CoCo Thoughts 00:11:53 GameON! high score challenge results 00:13:49 GameON! Timberman discussions 00:23:10 Timber Bots 00:47:35 Next week's game announcement 00:53:45 GameON! news game news from around the world 00:57:39 The best 6 minutes of your life 01:20:58 NASA launch with commentary 01:44:32 CoCo Thoughts replay 01:48:46 CoCo News from around the world 02:53:17 CoCo community info 02:38:18 Project updates and Acquisitions 03:16:35 parting thoughts and outro/credits News Links: 1) James Diffendaffer pointed out the video of Gary Becker showing both Ed Snider's keyboard, and a prototype GIME-X (which Gary is doing the FPGA programming for, and Ed is building the hardware), form the Central Texas Retro Computer Club Online meeting from May 2: https://youtu.be/NdSU-Ot7Osw?t=1686 2) Erik Gavriluk has released his new version of the 3D DISPLAY program from Hot Coco magazine. It features the original version, the optimized version (which is at least twice as fast, supports rotation on multiple axis simultaneously, and a Coco 3 version. Details here: https://github.com/milliluk/display/blob/master/README.md 3) Our own Stevie Strowbridge put up a video showing him (finally!) hooking up his MC-10 to his MCX1-128, and showing how much memory it gives to it's enhanced BASIC, and also showing off it's Emcee server capabilities (similar to Drivewire): https://youtu.be/OOSR2nZgi_s 4) Carlos Camacho is compiling a list of every possible Model number for all Coco's. If anyone has any more to add, please use the Facebook link to send him the information to update his spreadsheet: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158287258932641/ 5) Allen Huffman has a post about finding a "COCOFEST" easter egg in BASIC using the RND function... or, *did* he? https://subethasoftware.com/2020/05/28/random-easter-egg/ 6) Canadian Retro Things did a video of hooking his Coco 2 to a 1979 Panasonic Mini TV/Radio/Cassette recorder. https://youtu.be/5ZH3fRyK9SA Game News: 1) Eric Monteiro posted a semigraphics demo, this time using real Coco BASIC, for animated characters for an upcoming game he is working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158293816847641/ 2) I will be slowing down game page updates on Monday as I get started into EOU Beta 6, but I will have managed to have added over 70 game entries this month (I should break 80 by the end of the weekend): http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/coco_game_list.html 3) Cuthbert Dragon posted a lot of Dragon gameplay videos on real hardware. Teee Off (Dragon color set), Arcadia, Leggit!, Monsters, Flight worth looking at. https://www.youtube.com/user/MaryWinstead32/videos 4) The Amigos have posted their next episode, featuring Mind-Roll from Tandy (programmed by Jesse Taylor @ Epyx): https://youtu.be/dyjNIdwps1g They have also recorded their last regular episode (for the forseeable future) featuring Battle Stations by Novasoft, as well as the winner of the Gunstar giveaway contest. This will be officially released on Wednesday. They have said they will still do some Coco live streams, and an occasional episode as John finds time, but I want to play this clip from the show, where they talk about their experience with the Coco: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/635796973?t=00h43m14s Play until 49:13 (Battle Station start)

We're back with another exciting episode of CoCoTALK! this week brings us episode 161. What can you expect this week? Hearing from CoCo enthusiasts from around the world, get updates on projects and any acquisitions, we'll cover CoCo and retro news from around the world, have our GameON! segment where we'll review the results of all who played Downland this week, we may have a sneak peek or announcement from Boyson technologies, and so much more! Take part in CoCo discussions 24/7 on our CoCo Discord server http://discord.cocotalk.live Learn more about CoCoTALK! at http://cocotalk.live Send feedback to [email protected] General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:57 Panel Introductions 00:07:32 News from around the retro world 00:57:42 Boyson Tech - Making the CoCoSDC 01:30:47 GameON! challenge results and next week's game reveal 01:55:46 GameON! news 02:17:12 Project updates and acquisitions 03:19:35 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussions News stories for Episode #161, May 23, 2020 show: ================================================= 1) Frank Hogg published on Facebook, his remembered history of creating the Tomcat computer (TC-9 & TC-70): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158274266977641/ 2) Stevie put up a couple of videos for the CocoPi3: How to set up the CocoPi3: https://youtu.be/nQlnXzExOqQ Setting up a CocoPi3 to become a full game console: https://youtu.be/sPvzXV0HqoQ 3) Carlos Camacho put up a scan of an article that Frank Hogg wrote back around 1983/1984, about the Deluxe Coco https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158274975512641/ 4) Eric Canales running MAME in it's debug mode for the Coco, that lets you merge in your own assembly source code into the debugger https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158270853957641/ 5) David O'Connor has started setting up a website of all of his 6809 related projects (Coco's, synthesizers, etc.): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158275986067641/ 6) Brian Wieseler posted some photos of Coco Kraft Joysticks https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158274553217641/ 7) Alison Denu posted an encrypted file done on the Coco, and invited other Coco users to try and crack it: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158263393342641/ By Wednesday, Paul Fiscarelli had done it, and made a video about it: https://youtu.be/90ly9oQ9Uvg ADDENDUM - Alison has changed her code a bit, and has issued the challenge anew. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158278601702641/ 8) David Brenneman shows a completed cartridge interface for the CocoPi3 https://www.facebook.com/groups/748644118674047/permalink/1292324787639308/ 9) Allen Huffman has posted another blog about BASIC, and ELSE/GOTO optimizations: https://subethasoftware.com/2020/05/21/basic-and-else-and-goto-and-work-part-2/ 10) A Youtube channel that I have not seen before called "Take it Apart" https://youtu.be/RGqTCrq6f-0 11) Canadian Retro things posted a video showing using a stereo to load programs on an MC-10: https://youtu.be/tcK5mJbfTL0 12) Curtis Posted updated the Ease of Use page http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/nitros9_docs.html VED 2.9 manual (From Bob van der Poel with permission): http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/EOUDOCS/VED2.9_manual.pdf WINDOWS part of the full NitrOS-9 Level II manual (we are formatting it fairly close to the original manuals): http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/EOUDOCS/NitrOS-9_EOU_Level_2_Windowing_System_Manual.pdf Game On News stories =========================================== 1) Marlin Lee has a video of Avenger (a somewhat Defender clone) https://youtu.be/_ej6IFysjps 2) Paul Thayer has Timber Man back on sale again through PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/instantcommerce/checkout/WS823RPSY22YW 3) Pere Serrat has a full gameplay video now of his Coco 1/2/Dragon port of the AGD game https://youtu.be/XITAVNvrf0Q 4) Jim Gerrie has his final version of Mahjong for the MC-10 https://youtu.be/-w9fUJkXNqQ 5) Noriko Miyagami has put up a video playthrough of the Adventure International Coco port of "Dog Star Adventure" https://youtu.be/Rocjx7kTt9w

This week's CoCoTALK! is being multi tasked via NitrOS9 Ease of Use beta 5 with special guest host and streamer Rob Inman. 00:02:39 Show Starts 00:04:17 GameON! results 00:05:49 Game discussion, tips, trick 00:16:03 Next week's game revealed 00:21:18 Panel Introductions 00:33:52 GameON! news 00:56:46 Simon Jonnasen shows us how he produces CoCo sound samples 01:03:14 GameON! news continues 01:13:32 NEWS! 01:48:21 Barrier to Entry - the CoCoTALK! Quiz! 02:10:22 Ron's Garage 02:21:44 Project Updates/Acqusitions 02:35:00 NitrOS9 Ease of Use quick demo 02:48:14 Outro/Closing credits

This week we'll be joined by special guest Brett Gordon and see and hear all about his latest release of YA-DOS. We'll also hear from Ron Klein who recently posted a video showing off a virtual hard drive image he's created for YA-DOS that has over 3,000 disks from the Color Computer Archive at your disposal. We'll also include our usual segments; project updates & acquisitions, GameON! results and the new game of the week reveal, NEWS from around the retroverse and so much more! General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:50 Panel Introductions 00:07:00 Ron Klein - CoCoPi 00:10:25 Brett Gordon - YA-DOS 01:02:37 GameON! challenge results and next week's game reveal 01:19:57 Project updates and acquisitions 01:49:08 News from around the retro world 02:23:08 GameON! news 02:56:29 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussions Send feedback to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join our CoCo community Discord server: http://discord.cocotalk.live News links: 1) Dennis Havlena https://youtu.be/LSjzj94YzEg 2) Stevie Strow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NegztbUWM8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Arxa7JbsI https://youtu.be/L6OEjuVIceQ 3) Allen Huffman: https://subethasoftware.com/2020/05/07/more-crazy-on-goto-gosub-and-if-thens/ 4) Ron Klein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riNy1nA0_GI https://github.com/mrgw454/CCHDD 5) Steven Wallis: http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/2020-May/174999.html 6) Carlos Camacho https://youtu.be/4ZWEk04V9qw?t=222 7) Paul Barton https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158222214282641/ 8) Ed Snider: https://youtu.be/Ba3fBYJXwVE https://youtu.be/Q8rA0fkvKeU 9) Terry Trapp: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158191599277641/ 10) Todd Wallace: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158227016527641/ 11) Bill Nobel: http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/nitros9.html 12) Rob Owen: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2607317549527898/ 13) Tony Jewell: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2606409212952065/ 14) John Whitworth: https://www.dragonplus-electronics.co.uk/?product=dragonplus-board-for-dragon-32-or-64-kit GameON! News stories 1) A reminder that time is running out for the Amigos Coco Show Gunstar giveaway! Simply leave a review of their show on iTunes to enter (look for "The Coco Show")! 2) Marlin Lee videos: https://youtu.be/71C280P8-uc https://youtu.be/WYlEiJmoCOU https://youtu.be/We4uSYEowm4 https://youtu.be/cDMU-H8H5Lg 3) Roger Taylor: https://youtu.be/7Oux2xTrEYU 4) Michael Pittsley: https://youtu.be/IMoP5kJ8OaM 5) Jim Gerrie: https://youtu.be/gITD3VWRliA https://youtu.be/BMB2nyWIZys https://youtu.be/-AZUA7LC0PE 6) Chinnyvision Episode 338: https://youtu.be/sZWBn1hVDLg 7) Sheldon MacDonald: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158215948927641/ 8) Steve Parham: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2606514002941586/ 9) Pere Serrat: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2605381713054815/ 10) Retrospectreviews: https://youtu.be/VaoFtTWkR6w 11) Cuthbert Dragon/Willy's Revenge: https://youtu.be/1DIGE15fLgU

The primary topic of this week's show is announcing and discussing the official release of NitrOS9 Ease of Use (EOU) Beta 5, now available for download at http://lcurtisboyle.com General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:39 Panel Introductions, project updates, acquisitions 00:53:40 GameON! challenge results and next week's game reveal 01:07:35 GameON! news 01:40:52 News from around the retro world 02:25:28 NitrOS9 EOU Beta user feedback and discussions 03:38:02 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussions Send feedback to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join our CoCo community Discord server: http://discord.cocotalk.live

We're back with another great live and interactive episode of CoCoTALK! This week we unveiled a new segment "Q&A" where the audience and panel can ask questions, and hopefully, between us all, we'll have some answers, or get them for you. To learn all about the show visit http://cocotalk.live Join us on Discord http://discord.cocotalk.live Send feedback, suggestions, bumpers, segment and content to [email protected]

The real CoCoFEST! may be postponed, but we'll keep the Tandy flame alive and well! 1 D. Bruce Moore National Anthems 2 Darren "Daz" Ottery Blue Monday Cover (TRS-80 cocomix) 3 Nathan Byrd Daggorath Online 4 Norm Lamourex via Facebook CoCo Rainbow Fest 1989 video 5 Steve Strowbridge Ka*BOMB! world premiere 6 Brendan Donahe CoCoVGA Q&A 7 Ken Reighard Nightmare Highway - the music video / CoCoThoughts 8 Rick Adams Temple of ROM II level design and code demo 9 Ben "Explore VR" Drakes Project "A" Teaser #2 10 Nick Marentes "What I've done with the CoCo this past year" 11 Henry Reitveld Arcade 1Up cabinet runing VCC 12 Jason Reighard "a few things" 13 Ron Delvaux CoCo Max 2 & 3 Demo 14 David Ladd/MarkO PS2 Mouse adapter update/annoucement 15 Erico SG4 Outhouse complete and ready for download 16 Eddy Szczerbinski Dragon Lightpen demo 17 D. Bruce Moore CoCoFEST! 20th Anniversary Book video and discussion Bonus Joey & CoCo video 18 Paul Fiscarelli CoCo Keybard/Joystick to USB adapters 19 Michael Furman DwTerm v0.2 and pyDriveWire v0.5c 20 David O'Connor CoCo 3 repack into Model 4 case 21 L. Curtis Boyle/Rob Inman Demo of NitrOS9 EOU Beta 5 test 2 22 Scott Wendt USB joystick to CoCo adapter 23 Jim Brain Inside Retro Innovations laboratories, projects, probes & scopes

We had some special guests on this weeks' show. Erico Patricio Monteiro showed off his updates on his SG4 looking Outhouse game and his CoCo 2 high quality 2D/3D renderings. Rick Ulland joins us for the first time and promised to give a more in-depth interview in the near future. Darren Ottery gives us a little peek into his studio and CoCo Midi projects which we hope to hear in the near future! Fred Rique talked about his high level BASIC project making it easier to code BASIC for the CoCo.. We got to see some real life demonstrations of NitOS9 Ease Of Use Beta 5 and what's been updated. We reviewed the results from the GameON! challenge playing QIX and announce next week's game challenge and so much more!

Episode 154 of CoCoTALK! will feature news, news, and more news, along with our panel of quarantined seniors, and other retro goodies. Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com

CoCoTALK! has been meeting virtual and being social distant (yet connected) before it became the in thing to do. We carry the tradition of keeping the Tandy, Dragon and MC-10 flame alive this week from our homes, at least 6.5 fee from each other, but still sharing our love for the Coco. We're going to try and keep the show a "tight" two hours today to give everyone a change to take part in the TRS-80 Trash Talk live show at 4PM EDT. Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com

March 19th 2017 we did our first ever impromptu CoCoTALK! counting down CoCoFEST! and 3 years later we've become a global phenomenon with weekly live talks dedicated to the CoCo, Dragon, MC-10 and clones. We want to take a look back, rejoice and celebrate. We'd love to get a lot of new people to join us on the panel today, so please join us on ZOOM Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

Special Guest - Greg Zumwalt - and .... It's finally here! The world premier of Nick Marentes' Gun Star for the Color Computer 3! This exciting new space shooter will require a CoCo 3 with 512K RAM and a 6309 CPU! If you've missed the development blog check it out here: http://nickmarentes.com/Gunstar/index.html We'll see the world premier and have developer Q&A with nick himeslf. But wait, there's more! We'll also announce this week's GameON! participants and winner, and cover retro and CoCo News! Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

As we celebrate our 150th episode of CoCoTALK! live, we have a very special guest, Chris Hawks from Hawksoft, we'll hear a bit of history about his involvement with CoCo Software, OS9, Glenside Color Computer Club, and CoCoFEST! We have another special guest, Mr. Dave 6809 join us for the first time live, and we also have a special CoCoFEST! announcement from D. Bruce Moore.

It's not all the time we get to have CoCoTALK! on a Leap Year, and this week we'll feature an update from Jim Brain of Retro Innovations, we'll update you on the latest CoCoFEST! news, share the results in this week's Draconian GameON! challenge, hear about retro news from around the world and so much more! CoCoTALK! Join the live panel on ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/109422739 Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

Today we'll reveal who participated in the Doodle Bug GameON! challenge, cover news, go over who acquired new Coco stuff this week, and more! Well talk about Countdown to CoCoFEST! discuss the finer points of being on the Discord server, wax nostalgic, and even talk about the CoCo. Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive

This week we announce the winner of the GameON! challenge to see who could get the highest score in Donkey King and so much more! Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

This week we featured an interview with NitrOS-9 developers L. Curtis Boyle and Bill Nobel. Jason the CoCo Man Reighard, his girlfriend Sarah, and ogStevieStrow called in from HamCation in the Orlando, FL area with live updates. Finally, Nick Marotta launched a new Game On Weekly high score contest originally conceived by @MrDave6809 on Discord. The CoCoTALK! Caboose recap show launched, taking the place of final thoughts and offline post-show chatter. Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

Special guest host and streamer Marc Bosley takes us through this week's CoCoTALK! as we countdown the days to CoCoFEST! Curtis Boyle gives us the news and some game reviews, host panel discussions take place and so much more!

Today we will have a very special guest on CoCoTALK! none other than Christopher Mayeux who is probably one of the first people to ever record a series on how to use and get enjoyment out of the Color Computer "back in the day" before YouTube was even conceived. His video series is now available on YouTube as a playlist on the TJSeagrove channel https://www.youtube.com/user/tjseagrove and we'll hear from Chris himself to see what he's been up to all these years! Tune in, you wont want to miss! Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

CoCoTALK! Episode 143 brings us news, panel discussions, reviews of Dragon games from around the web, and a live play of one, too. Edge of your seat broadcasting, fasten your seat belt!

CoCoTALK! Episode 142

It's our first show of 2020 and we want to celebrate by trying to recognize as many CoCo community members! Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

2019 is almost at an end, and what a great year it was! This will be the last CocoTALK! show of 2019, and we're putting out a call for all the community members to submit to us their name, a head shot, and short list of their projects, we're going to start of 2020 by celebrating all the contributors with a special presentation. If you've done a project this year, send us your info, if you haven't send us who we need to include in our presentation. Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

When the regular episode was said and done, the fun didn't stop, we get an extra hour of CoCo gaming including some holiday themed treats!

It's super close to Christmas hope your Christmas is a CoCo Christmas! And, with luck, we had a very special guest, Bill Pierce! Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/ Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at: http://8bit256.com Consider becoming a patron of the show: https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow

Towards the end of the show, when we got to project updates and acquisitions, David Ladd was really excited about his new floppy imaging device the "Grease Weasel" and since it merited a lot of discussion, we've named the episode after it. Thanks David!

CoCoTALK! Episode 137 - hosted by Rob Inman

Today will be a special edition of CoCoTALK! live where we'll all be turkeys and talk about what we're thankful for, doesn't even have to be retro related, but just sharing positivity with one-another. We'll also look at some of the latest CoCo games optimized for the 6309 CPU and hear news from around the retroverse. Join us today at 2PM EDT Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening!

This week we had a very special guest host, none other than Nick Marotta, Nick Marotta, Nick Marotta! We heard from Brendan Donahe about the newest update to the CoCoVGA firmware and software utilities, as well as MC-10, Dragon, and CoCo news, and project updates from the panel.

The theme this week was CoCo holiday memories along with news, and update on the CoCO port of Oregon Trail, and so much more! Some news stories for November 16, 2019 show: 1) Petsasjim1 Dragon game play video updates: Hungry Horace (a twist on PacMan with multi-screen, connected mazes). https://youtu.be/iK7WQHuv5Q4 The Immortal Strain (a text adventure game, but with text on a PMODE 4 screen for lowercase, 32x24 and bolder, easier to read text): https://youtu.be/H1uNk5Tdi-M Horace Goes Skiing (Frogger and Skiing mixed into one game): (Goto 1:28 to show successfully getting to the Skiing stage, after showing the title screen/music) https://youtu.be/nc4ex03C-mY Hornets (arcade game): https://youtu.be/-sXAojE1an0 Hi-Lo: https://youtu.be/n4yAwAO54_U Hareraiser: A BASIC mix of word puzzles with graphics that was divided into two parts (Prelude & Finale, on separate tapes). Once you solved both, you submitted registration cards for both programs to Haresoft, and could win up to 30,000 pounds cash, or a Golden Jeweled Hare. This was for both the Amstrad CPC and the Dragon, so I imagine that the one prize applied to both platforms combined: Prelude video: https://youtu.be/LC3RSYMhmjg Finale video: https://youtu.be/rYkuONibZQY Prelude cassette artwork and rules: http://archive.worldofdragon.org/index.php?title=Hareraiser_(Prelude) Hide and Seek (a memory game): https://youtu.be/DfoojEoY5OE 3D OXO (3D Tic Tac Toe), I think written in BASIC?: https://youtu.be/IMD7pJDwrbU Indoor Football (Soccer) - very well done: https://youtu.be/Tc5EVSCLLJk Interplanetary Trader (well laid out text space trading game): https://youtu.be/cnBFUzbV_fE Jet Boot Colin: https://youtu.be/xi4B-1ReynE 2) Henry Reitveld has a video up showing the Spectral Associates game "Module Man" running on the Coco, a Dragon (both with Speech / Sound Pac, and the Coleco Adam (with background music). Has anybody heard of Module Man on the Adam before? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ESX3EX2co 3) Rob Inman put up a video of him playing the new Xenion/6309 version, showing him getting to the 2nd & 3rd planets (no sound, unfortunately): https://youtu.be/AsvDuGLIkl8 4) Lee Perkins has been trying to basically make his own routine to give 80x25x16 color text mode working on the Coco 3, with an extended IBM character set, for a game he wants to port. Discussing with Sock Master (John Kowalski), and the techniques that John used in Twilight Terminal, Lee got something similar working using the same techniques (3 screens flipped through, and alternate dithering between each screen), and the results look pretty good (skip down in the comments for the fully working video). There is some "shimmer", but it looks pretty good: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157648209652641/?comment_id=10157648317327641&reply_comment_id=10157654778392641 5) Jim Gerrie is working on 3D maze routines for the MC-10 to help him port Maze of Argon from the VZ-200. His current work in progress: https://youtu.be/pNcqn0sR7w8 6) Henry Reitveld has posted 2 videos of Intellivision ported games to the Coco - are these real, and has anyone seen these before?: Night Stalker: https://youtu.be/w_yMzZeRQxk Astrosmash: https://youtu.be/mzRjSmepjJM 7) Rick Adams posted a video showing some upgrades come to Temple of ROM: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157656343317641/ 8) Our own Stevie Strow has a project update for today: https://youtu.be/L0AABqhKjrM And he also play tested the Coco 1/2 compatible 6309 enhanced games that I released over the last couple of weeks: https://youtu.be/OxOCBuyDHuM 9) Paul Fiscarelli has released the source code to the Coco 3 game that him and Simon Jonassen released about a month ago (Run Dino Run): https://github.com/pfiscarelli/Run-Dino-Run?fbclid=IwAR1i5jb-4HHvNOHsDiPCggerFPRclHBUdc__iSf4j8Q8Kyyk92jcjGbLqG4 10) The latest CocoShow from amigosretrogaming is up on Twitch (part of 3 hour stream of 3 of their shows in a row)... the Coco section (feature Time Bandit and Thexder) starts at 2:58:12. It will later be put on YouTube as it's own show. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/508827521 Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com

Another week brings us another fun and informative episode of CoCoTALK! You're welcome ;) Some news stories for November 9, 2019 show: 1) Sheldon MacDonald put up a video of using QMidi for Windows to create music to play on the Coco with a GMC cartridge https://youtu.be/IPAkBN9C2R4 2) Sheldon also has an update to his GMC cartridge design, which includes space for an audio out jack and a "rebuilt, stronger insert": https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157638964177641/ 3) Bill Pierce has a new video showing vertical and horizontal scrolling: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157621859412641/ 4) Petsasjim1 on YouTube's new Dragon videos: The Fruity Machine (slot machine): https://youtu.be/QC0Ty1nM-Tk He also has something different this week - running the Dragon Professional Alpha under MAME. It shows its graphic selection boot/screen. (The Alpha was a Dragon 64 with built in modem, AY Sound chip, disk interface with two 3.5" drives, and optional boot straight into OS-9). https://youtu.be/71YFVLMb05k Galleons (Battleship type game): https://youtu.be/LEYu9PZBzBw Ghost Attack - which is a port of Computerware's Pac Attack, but with 1) a different name, and 2) different color scheme. https://youtu.be/BmE1bxSyF7o Golf (did the Coco or Dragon *ever* have a good golf game?) https://youtu.be/4k4DW2Olh1Y Grand Prix (Salamander Software) - BASIC game https://youtu.be/4k4DW2Olh1Y Grid Runner: https://youtu.be/LQpUyjwjGM4 5) Henry Rietveld put up a video showing making a Canyon Climber disk (on a real floppy disk) - the twist being it is an 8" floppy, not 5.25 or 3.5" https://youtu.be/Zn1ldeK6d94 6) 6309 optimized games: Xenion (original, 6809 optimized, 6309): https://youtu.be/wxdf17B5TfE Marble Maze (original, 6309): https://youtu.be/pXqNKKMRXeY F-16 Assault: https://youtu.be/g7z33ezwyYs 8) GigerPunk released a video of the game Pub Crawl on the Dragon 32 - which reminds me of the first level of Poltergeist: https://youtu.be/YFSvbwf90EY 9) Chet Simpson has been working on a VGM to SN chiptune convert, using his prototype CPF player for the Coco.: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157631912167641/ 10) On the software side of things, Simon uploaded a 4 voice software demo that plays a 3 minute, 55 second tune, with, in only 5404 bytes. It also only uses about 1/3 of the CPU cycles, leaving 2/3 for a main program, game, etc. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157632391457641/ To download: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157633124047641/ 11) Nick Marentes put up a short blog, and video, for the latest updates to Gunstar - including some sneak peaks at all 4 levels. http://www.nickmarentes.com/Gunstar/22.html 12) Jerry Young is porting the "Duke of Dragonfear" game from the book "Giant Book of Computer Games" to the MC-10 (Jim Gerrie has competition!", and has a video showing it's current state: https://youtu.be/p-c2YhkLz1M 13) Lucas Boy on YouTube did a video of Coco 1/2 games under XRoar - his first real experience with a Coco. He covers Arkanoid, Demon Attack, Pinball, and a bunch of others, rather quickly. https://youtu.be/rChgykJX-E4 14) Paul Fiscarelli has the first prototype run for his Coco keyboard to PC adaptor (good for emulators like MAME, I presume): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157639043142641/ CoCoTALK! Join the live panel on ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/109422739 Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com

A lot of revelations on this week's show! A new product "The Joey" has been announced by Jason Reighard and will allow you to switch multiple joystick configurations around. Visit http://cocoman.biz to learn more/order. Stevie Strow has a new CoCoVGA game project Visit http://cocovga.com to learn more about that product Ron Delvaux and Terry Steege host a TDP-100 segment Curtis Boyle reveals 6309 optimized games that run faster on the CoCo 1/2/Dragon and would run even faster on the CoCo 3 Nick Marentes shows a new way to palette patch PMODE 3 colored games to look better on a CoCo 3! Some news stories for November 2, 2019 show: 1) Jim Gerrie has ported his MC-10 Akalabeth to the Coco, using the same PMODE 2. https://youtu.be/4s9f8edNpXY https://youtu.be/WtSF4Al4hGA He also ported "Paint Duel" to the MC-10 https://youtu.be/3AZSy_YQk0Y 2) Paul Shoemaker has released a new video update to Oregon Trail: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157600108852641/ 3) Chet Simpson has a demo testing his VGM player that will support the original Speech Systems Symphony 12 card, or Jim Brains Philharmonic 12. He still has a way to go, but the Moon Patrol theme at the beginning sounds very much like the arcade: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157602710247641/ 4) Todd Wallace has a demo of simple OPL music player based on Ed Sniders CCT (Coco Chip Tunes) format that he plans on using as the base of an OS9 player. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157603182972641/ 5) Amigos Retro Gaming has a few new Coco videos: https://youtu.be/Kacg-R-b3cs https://youtu.be/_RDkZKJtkDk https://youtu.be/IYj2BlYvLYg 6) Petsasjim1 has some more Dragon videos: Dragrunner (Kind of Frogger with guns?): https://youtu.be/T0_dXReupXc Fireball (written in BASIC): https://youtu.be/71zRvBlNv3k Fireforce https://youtu.be/mscZ1gtgyUQ Fearless Freddy: https://youtu.be/jZqXHb_sV-g?t=46 Folly's Farm Chicken Run: https://youtu.be/jRFTUqM5ITs?t=11 Football Manager: Manage your Football (Soccer to us North Americans) team, and low res game play views as well. https://youtu.be/JZWVv4nreIg?t=18 7) Gigerpunk has a game video for the Dragon that was a game promo for Weetabix cereal https://youtu.be/tY1S4LF2dc0 8) CanadianRetroThings has part two of his MC-10 video up on YouTube. https://youtu.be/WJleDGNi5dY 9) David OConner put a video up showing some custom fonts/palettes using the CocoVGA running on his Coco 1. https://youtu.be/TvXa2UMvU3w 10) Simon Jonassen has an animated 10 color palette demo, based on his RGB/10 color demo he did previously, which will be the base background for a much fancier looking demo he is working on. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157617349797641/ 11) James Jones mentioned on Facebook that the Paul Schreiber interview (from Tandy Assembly) is up on YouTube: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157613982202641/ 12) Davy Mitchell has updates to SGEDIT online semigraphics screen editing tool, and Rob Inman also found out that it works fine from iOS (in addition to desktop browers): https://hardcore-jackson-6272e8.netlify.com/ 13) New cartoon from D. Bruce Moore: http://joey.gracenote.ca/004-syntax-errors/ VOLUME 1 OF COCO 1/2 6309 ENHANCED GAMES (will work on Coco 3 as well - and if you do POKE 65497,0, some of them *really* run fast) - Includes 6309 sped up versions of 3 old Coco 1/2 games. https://youtu.be/DdDHVTEjoS8 To download: http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/Coco12-6309games-volume1.zip Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/live https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com

CoCoTALK! audio episode 131 - With Floyd Resler, Chet Simpson and Inside CoCoTALK! Some news stories for October 26, 2019 show: 1) Jim Gerrie release "Stronghold of the Dwarven Lords" for the MC-10. https://youtu.be/Ovdg0AiZwZQ 2) Brian Palmer has been experimenting with custom Coco 3 palettes for the Dragon game (that works on the Coco) called Back Track: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157585763007641/ 3) Paul Shoemaker has gotten a fair bit further on his port of the Apple II version of Oregon Trail to the Coco: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157585460487641/ 4) Related to this: Vintage is the New World has an article on (and mini interview with) Paul Shoemaker about his port of Oregon Trail: https://vintageisthenewold.com/after-35-years-the-trs-80-color-computer-will-get-a-faithful-port-of-the-classic-game-the-oregon-trail/ 5) Diego Barizo has released version 4.0 of his X-Filer virtual disk utility for the Coco 3: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157583688102641/ 6) petsasjim1 on YouTube has been adding more Dragon 32/64 game videos, of course - a neat one is a text adventure game that not only has an interesting user interface, but allows up to 4 players. Death Cruise 4 player: https://youtu.be/dq_gaKY6yjc The Dark Pit (which actually works with the Tandy Electronic Book, too!): https://youtu.be/NLxygDDNnIY?t=96 Cyclops (Semigraphics Pacman type game): https://youtu.be/-z_Wq6BoZ78 Cuthbert in the Cooler: https://youtu.be/wUgIKWGpmYM Dragon Golf: https://youtu.be/lSXGsk4ldSE Dragon Trek (a graphical Star Trek game): https://youtu.be/wsffitkCXP8?t=10 And another Dragon Trek (completely different), also graphical game https://youtu.be/5pg7qgEmWZ8 7) Amigos Retro Gaming did a play of Poltergeist on real hardware: https://youtu.be/CGh9jMui6dc 8) Dave Philipsen has a video showing some of the progress he has made on his CocoDEV board - which features an FPGA 6809 core running at 25 MHz and with BASIC. https://youtu.be/kztLj53tNfA 9) Stevie himself did a couple of special Coco YouTube videos this past Tuesday. One was a demo of some BASIC games using the extended features of the CocoVGA, which included Brendan Donahe & his daughter Morgan (Brendan is the man behind the CocoVGA, and his daughter wrote the games and designed the custom characters): https://youtu.be/s96dGe14Jw0 His second video had Sheldon MacDonald as his guest, and he was showing prototypes of Sheldon's new Coco controllers, demonstrating multiple games with it: https://youtu.be/iQ7e8udWi44 10) Bill Pierce uploaded a video (from VCC) of his horizontal scrolling demo again, this time written in assembly. One thing that happened during people testing it on real hardware, is that it was causing screen glitches on real 2 MB RAM systems (both Triad+ and Boomerang E2). It appears to be a timing problem if running the computer at .895 MHz. On both boards, it runs fine if running at 1.78 Mhz) (a huge discussion trying to track down what what happening is in the comments). https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157584143357641/ And, more discussion on the 2MB / video above 512k issue: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157594300962641/ 11) Steve Bamford has a new video displaying a Halloween themed level in his upcoming GMC cartridge game, 'kiruke-no-shima-circe' 12) CanadianRetroThings has put up a video about his MC-10 (including his 16K RAM pack & cassette), with general info, etc. A bonus - he has a modified MC-10 which has 8K on the main board, but still only goes to 20K with the 16K pack added in. This is also labelled as "Part 1", so he is planning on more MC-10 content in the future. (He also plays Minefield, written by our own Ken Reighard). Unfortunately, I think the 8K RAM upgrade is causing problems with the 16K upgrade pack (as seen on PacMan) https://youtu.be/cwCvuT2oRs8 13) Simon Jonassen has graphic/game demo that he has been working on for the Coco 3: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157598804057641/ 14) Ben Drakes has made a video playing Ken Kalish's Escape game (which was the first use of the engine he used for Phantom Slayer) using his VR rig: https://youtu.be/lKFdnLs0lGo

Featuring game development updates from Chet Simpson, CoCo news from around the globe, and a little show and tell from the CoCoTALK! panel. Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com Some news stories for October 19, 2019 show: 1) Petsasjim1 has put up more Dragon gameplay videos (Copta Snatch & Cosmic Crusader are quite good): Chuckie Egg+ https://youtu.be/M5tUCIujuM0 Chateau of Gold (interesting interface for a text adventure game): https://youtu.be/1ZPXujEkKuA Championship Darts: https://youtu.be/avMxWV-ctAA Clowns: https://youtu.be/y8LkGXLuByM And Clowns part 2? https://youtu.be/n5GBfL24EUU Tom Mix Colour Golf: https://youtu.be/lv77A9n1Lx4 Convoy: https://youtu.be/-OmZ--aWfZs Cuthbert in Space: https://youtu.be/2LWsEs8VrH0 Cuthbert Goes Digging: https://youtu.be/IZO9ccNYHhE Cuthbert and the Golden Chalice (jump to 2 minutes in to show multiple screens): https://youtu.be/8wJLMhkuAlU The Cricklewood Incident (another cool "GUI" for an adventure game): https://youtu.be/-uuHvdS2uDQ?t=45 Cruising (actual gameplay starts around 2:20) https://youtu.be/MPNM77DepAs Crusader: https://youtu.be/t0EfMpM9FGw Copta Snatch (A hi-res semi-graphics game similar to Chopper Strike/Scramble): https://youtu.be/EysJf_Xap74 Cosmic Crusader: https://youtu.be/CBCTVlo-PH8 2) Ed Snider (Zippsterzone.com) has his shrunken footprint Orchestra-90 cards for sale (called CocoDAC-16). https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157559098787641/ 3) Paul Shoemaker has an update on his porting Oregeon Trail from the Apple II to the Coco: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157560611492641/ 4) John Linville has made a video demonstrating his first version of replacing the standard Extended BASIC PLAY for the GMC https://youtu.be/uj-WKwgIGy8 5) ShareSquid put up another "Tips and Tricks" video, this time for Dungeons of Daggorath: https://youtu.be/WGofc41TV6k 6) Frédériic Griignon Posted a video on Facebook about a video game tournament from Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1983. The price as a 16K Coco 1, and the competition was playing Mega Bug. All in French. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157566416852641/ 7) Matchy released a video showing a Coco generating a QR code (and using the Axel F MOD file playing using Sock Master's MOD player as background music), and showing that is scannable. https://youtu.be/DyAYuW-hG9o 8) GigerPunk on YouTube started to do long play Dragon game reviews about a year ago - on the real hardware, but I just found out about his page with his latest video, released this week.. He also reads out the original instructions, too. When he got his Dragon: https://youtu.be/gUJ3u--7V-I Transylvanian Tower: https://youtu.be/BLi4B7_6r7I Phantom Slayer: https://youtu.be/KUenov72GQ0 Backtrack: https://youtu.be/Dqjb717REmw 9) Secretly helped by our own host Steve Strowbridge, Manny Wolfe II got an awesome anniversary present from his wife & Cloud 9 - a 2 MB RAM, 6309 Coco 3 (including 2048K replacement sticker): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157570045997641/ 10) Rick Adams put up some details and background story behind his first game cartridge, Temple of Rom, that he has discovered while going through the sourcecode, with an eye on making an updated version of the game: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157578172622641/ 11) Neil Blanchard put up a photo of some Game Master Cartridge boards being manufactered, as the unstoppable onslaught of winter starts approaching us that live in the Great White North: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157577927592641/ 12) Simon Jonassen put up some graphic images showing a technique that he is working on of (I think) just using the primary RGB (& black & white) colors with dithering, and alternating lines vertically with red, blue and green based palettes to make it appear as if more colors are being display (kind of like a zoomed up version of the RGB phospher dots that appear in a triangle on a TV): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157577945362641/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157578152282641/ 13) Glenside has released the latest Coco~123 newsletter, with some tweaks by brand new newsletter editor, Stevie Strowbridge: https://glensideccc.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ede30d58ff87ad93d480d6401&id=10507e4a80&e=d6af30851b 13) Stevie has gotten Steve Bjork's assembly series in a separate playlist on his Youtube account: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDfh7JjQaSYAs92js43dJ05ytKqswUV4 He also has a download page for the slides and sample files from the tutorial: http://cocotalk.live/6809asm/

The top story this week was the results of the Glenside Color Computer Club election results, we also heard project updates from the panel, and reviewed a lot of Coco, MC-10 and Dragon news from around the globe. Some news stories for October 12, 2019 show: 0) Glenside election results President - Eric Canales Secretary - Rich Bair Treasurer - Brian Goers VicePresident - John Mark Mobley 1) Jim Gerrie has been fixing more bugs, and slightly speeding up his Akalabeth port to the MC-10 (he even took a suggestion from Curtis Boyle!): http://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/2019/10/retrochallenge-201910-akalabeth-another.html https://youtu.be/n9lCJjo-MJc Unfortunately, his blog has a later update from Thursday, October 10th, that he is running out of BASIC memory, even on the MCX-128, to be able to fit the whole game on the MC-10 - and the Coco will have a lot of the same issues. So it may have to wait until we get time to work on the a (Nitr)OS9 Level 2 BASIC09 version, where we can get >32K for a BASIC program. http://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/2019/10/retrochallenge-201910-coco-version.html 2) Roger Taylor is sending out feelers on Facebook about a "computer on a channel" for Roku, where you will be able to use a Coco 3 emulator through the Roku: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157540291702641/ 3) Amigos Retro Gaming did a live stream of some classic computer game playing, including a sizable chunk on the Coco 1/2/3 (starting about 59 minutes in for the Coco). Paul Fiscarelli and myself helped supply tips & some game suggestions, and even Rick Adams popped by for a little bit. https://youtu.be/ofiWbjGcKPQ?t=3540 4) Amigos Retro Gaming have also released the video of episode 1 of their Coco game podcast (the Coco Show) which features Poltergeist and Sailor Man https://youtu.be/uxxvmehrA_o And the audio version is up as well: https://anchor.fm/thecocoshow 5) Aaron from Amigos Retro gaming also did a video of him playing Sailor Man live, showing a lot of the features, all 3 levels, the inviso screen, etc. https://youtu.be/mOBgt-GE9Z0 6) Ed Snider has some preliminary designs for his new Coco 3+ - but this time for the case. It will have an external keyboard, but a built in MPI, and be in a compact, cube shape. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157542665227641/ And an actual prototype, showing the 2 slots built in: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157552612097641/ 7) ShareSquid on YouTube did video play of Downland showing some tips and tricks - running on real hardware with a deluxe joystick. https://youtu.be/PyoVOjIP1ig He also did a companion piece - "Dumb Ways to Die" in Downland: https://youtu.be/DoY_FSrqPgw 8) Our own Brian Wieseler has pictures of (and demo video from) the Dazzle video capture device, capturing composite from a Coco 3. It seems to be an excellent job: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157550440267641/ 9) Petsasjim1 on YouTube did more Dragon game play videos, including (This is not all of them by far): Cave Fighter (a Scramble type game - but with some cool wall barriers added): https://youtu.be/cMT1pstBFcc?t=14 Caverns of Doom (BASIC adventure game with RPG elements): https://youtu.be/eGJX-xRlK1I Capture the Flag: https://youtu.be/9QfoDR87zbk Buzzin Bertie (never seen this one before, not sure what the goal is): https://youtu.be/LPf-KCdYKqQ?t=18 Bust-Out! (A higher semi-graphics version of Bustout with a fair number of game options - including some multi-voice music in the background at times & win you complete a screen): https://youtu.be/231Qys-6AUg?t=157 Bug Diver (reminds me of Shark Treasure): https://youtu.be/iahDeU1SODc?t=9 Bubble Buster (Popcorn style game): https://youtu.be/6XQcH1kVDIE?t=15 Brock's Kingdom: https://youtu.be/RpFeT4GtWoQ?t=25 Boulder Crash2 - which is a revised version of Boulder Dash that actually contains a level editor: https://youtu.be/85CLAWyYtns?t=5 Bonka (Space Panic type game): https://youtu.be/ZgV63G5CYNs

The CoCoTALKers did a whole lot of CoCoTALKing this week :) No major topic just a lot of panel discussions. We saw an update on some new 3D printed cased from John Strong for the Ian Mavrick FD-502 reproduction cartridge. We had a host discussion on favorite CoCo Arcade Game/Clone/Derivative that one might enjoy more than the arcade original. And CoCo/Dragon and MC-10 news from around the web. Some news stories for October 5, 2019 show: 1) Ed Snider announced that him and Gary Becker will continue to collaborate after the GIME-X project is done (which seems to be soon now), and will make a full blown Coco 4! https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157521502122641/ 2) Todd Wallace has started implementing copying files between DECB and OS9 in his disk utility: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157526522332641/ 3) Sheldon MacDonald showed off his prototype mini game controller for the Coco (smaller than a black beauty joystick): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157526519867641/ 4) Jim Gerrie has an update video to his MC-10/MCX-128 Akalabeth port (The predecessor to Ultima). https://youtu.be/2ZOsAsKzMqE He also has a blog entry for it now: http://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/2019/10/retrochallenge-201910-akalabeth-updates.html 5) Matchy has a new video (shown *greatly* sped up, not in real time) of 3D mapping (both outline and filled) using tessellation terrain maps. The first part is on the Coco 1/2 in semigraphics graphics; the later parts on the Coco 3 with 16 colors. https://youtu.be/WvWuVKGc6AI 6) Interesting discussion on Facebook started by our very own Nick Marotta - what game ports (official or clone) did one prefer to play on the Coco vs. the actual arcade (not including the influence who not having to pay quarters). https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157528830222641/ 7) "Petsasjlm1" on YouTube has been using XRoar to play a bunch of old Dragon games, which he seems to be playing in alphabetic order. I don't think he is too familar with the platform, as some of them he doesn't get very far at all. But there are some good videos of Dragon unique titles: Backtrax: https://youtu.be/sN-RxQ_iiJE Balldozer (Arkanoid style game): https://youtu.be/LevwtgRePfE Beanstalker (Lode Runner clone): https://youtu.be/OKBEYaDm9tI The Bells: https://youtu.be/MDiOrdniHc8?t=47 8) Richard Kelly put up a program to check for true lowercase T1 VDG by checking it one has Color Basic 1.3 installed. Now, the two are not tied together, hardware wise, but does anyone know if Tandy sold Color Basic 1.3 on anything but T1 equipped Coco 2's (and Coco 3's)? https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157526641202641/ 9) Daniel Campos & Luciano Scharf have some pictures from the RetroSC gathering in Brazil, showing various Coco's and some of the Brazilian clones: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157536046292641/ 10) Paul Shoemaker has some pics from a possible upcoming Coco project (one of several people to delve into porting Oregon Trail to the Coco). https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157534949302641/ 11) Amigos Retro Gaming (on YouTube) did a live stream of several of their shows in a row on Friday night. One of them is their new Coco gaming show (which featured Poltergeist and Sailor Man), but it hasn't been posted yet (Their Sinclair show, recorded just before the Coco show, just got posted this morning, so I assume that it is coming soon). 12) Retro Arcade gaming has done a Space Invaders clone, which includes several Coco/Dragon ports (including the transcode) (I would have picked Mark Data Products clone for the Coco 1/2 over the Spectral one, myself): https://youtu.be/7gl9AdOs5hY

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We’re doing our wrap-up show discussing all the fun we had last weekend at VCFMW, hear from those that were there, and rejoice in the awesomeness of the event. We'll also have live coverage from the Glenside Color Computer Club's (hosts of the Chicago CoCoFEST!) Pick Nick, so more Chicago area retro goodness! Join us live today, if you were at the event, we'd love to have you join us on the panel to share your experiences. Special Guest Matt from Drakware https://drakware.com/ News links: 1) Jim Gerrie shows off Alpha Force, a Targ like game for the MC-10: https://youtu.be/pKOue-KEbOE https://youtu.be/yzLS60J4SHY https://youtu.be/KOaYwn3TSkA 2) Retro Core did a Thexder port comparison https://youtu.be/H3V2VFze0Vs 3) John Day (ShareSquid on YouTube) is doing high score challenge videos of Coco games: https://youtu.be/ogROu5zUkhY https://youtu.be/OH6KL7Vzc9M 4) FitFo on YouTube is doing a "Sleeper build" based on a Coco 1 case https://youtu.be/vzpffYGSu_s 5) Amigo Aaron on YouTube does a play through of Kron on the Coco: https://youtu.be/NVhQdVl7LBc 6) Simonwgb does a 2 hour play of Jet Set Willy on a Dragon emulator (not sure which one). https://youtu.be/QM0yybcIb2A 7) Todd Wallace aka LordDragon demo's the current version of his OS9/RSDOS disk utility program https://youtu.be/xC4_xg7RcGU 8) For those going to Tandy Assembly, this is a slight change of venue for the show itself https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/301742781704175616/624707134159847424/Screenshot_20190920-163834_Facebook.jpg 9) Nick Marentes has chapter 21 of his Gunstar blog up - which includes some screenshots from levels 3 and 4 from his upcoming game. http://www.nickmarentes.com/Gunstar/21.html 10) Some nice pictures of the Coco related displays from the Living Computer Museum in Seattle https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157495570507641/ 11) Sheldon MacDonald received a Mini MPI this past week, and has it set up to use his SDC and GMC cartridges. He has some photos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157495318582641/ He also has 2 videos on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qrygOXxGF9g https://youtu.be/eSnCI5OlDk8 12) Mike Hawkey purchases a Coco 3 awhile ago, and upon opening it up recently, found some hardware mods directly connected to one of the PIA's: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157486584317641/ 13) D. Bruce Moore has submitted a possible graphic design for the upcoming CocoFest 2020, which is the 40th anniversary of the Coco 1 being released in 1980: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157492904112641/ 14) Erik Gavriluk has apparently tackled speeding up the 3D wireframe displaying program from Hot Coco https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157490650532641/ 15) Sheldon MacDonald has also been making custom game pad joysticks for his Coco as well: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157487841352641/ 16) Diego Barizo has an update on his "Docked Master" game that we previewed on one of our programming live streams, including new bonus screens: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157490627892641/ Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com

Streaming from the Vintage Computing Festival Midwest, in Elmhurst, IL. Visit http://vcfmw.org/ to learn more about VCFMW Segment timeline: Main Exhibitor walk-through: 0:13:00 Overflow area walk-through: 01:20:00 CoCo News: 02:22:00 John Strong: 03:15:45 Tandy Assembly Promo: 03:42:30 Brian (The Music Man) Schubring and Bonus news: 04:01:00 Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live

Streaming from the Vintage Computing Festival Midwest, in Elmhurst, IL. Visit http://vcfmw.org/ to learn more about VCFMW Segment timeline: Main Exhibitor walk-through: 0:13:00 Overflow area walk-through: 01:20:00 CoCo News: 02:22:00 John Strong: 03:15:45 Tandy Assembly Promo: 03:42:30 Brian (The Music Man) Schubring and Bonus news: 04:01:00 Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live

Streaming from the Vintage Computing Festival Midwest, in Elmhurst, IL. Visit http://vcfmw.org/ to learn more about VCFMW Segment timeline: Main Exhibitor walk-through: 0:13:00 Overflow area walk-through: 01:20:00 CoCo News: 02:22:00 John Strong: 03:15:45 Tandy Assembly Promo: 03:42:30 Brian (The Music Man) Schubring and Bonus news: 04:01:00 Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live

Streaming from the Vintage Computing Festival Midwest, in Elmhurst, IL. Visit http://vcfmw.org/ to learn more about VCFMW Segment timeline: Main Exhibitor walk-through: 0:13:00 Overflow area walk-through: 01:20:00 CoCo News: 02:22:00 John Strong: 03:15:45 Tandy Assembly Promo: 03:42:30 Brian (The Music Man) Schubring and Bonus news: 04:01:00 Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live

Streaming from the Vintage Computing Festival Midwest, in Elmhurst, IL. Visit http://vcfmw.org/ to learn more about VCFMW Segment timeline: Main Exhibitor walk-through: 0:13:00 Overflow area walk-through: 01:20:00 CoCo News: 02:22:00 John Strong: 03:15:45 Tandy Assembly Promo: 03:42:30 Brian (The Music Man) Schubring and Bonus news: 04:01:00 Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live

Today we'll see footage from an actual Radio Shack store in Fergus Falls, ND, and we'll cover CoCo and retro news from around the world, all this and more! Dragon MMC https://www.facebook.com/486899808139431/photos/a.1140963062733099/1373107506185319/?type=3&theater&ifg=1 CoCo Dream Team https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3546521472040762&set=gm.911639275871352&type=3&theater&ifg=1 Singing River Computer Club Colorama BBS https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3861047400610358&set=gm.10157432004972641&type=3&theater&ifg=1 Pulled the trigger on a CoCo 2 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157441852882641/ Cheap CoCo 2 on eBay https://www.ebay.com/itm/Tandy-Radio-Shack-TRS-80-64K-Color-Computer-2-Repaired-Cleaned-Tested-/113871228345?fbclid=IwAR0I0CaNxAbYyW2Jcb_mCmWbK4_9Ax8omDq-4pUqN5R98jK6MkrW2FddUaI Fixed Yellow Bar on CoCo 2 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10156838069387641/ Somebody got a CoCo 3! https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157441784502641/ Dragon Cassette collections https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2389185931341062/ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10211923271312096&set=pcb.2384130605179928&type=3&theater&ifg=1 Type-in Mania Haunted House Text Adventure https://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/2019/08/this-is-text-adventure-haunted-house.html?fbclid=IwAR3dQIBlgnufNa9C66OdQe_X6EGif0wJ4jeE1Qmr4OxkBR91agaiHPH-2H0 Starring the Computer - CoCo on screen! http://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=34&fbclid=IwAR1hcBpbxolHfwQNburFpt4rae9xCSsM6UeGjvHRJEWi0IiwGS59AAtjDeE Glenside Voting https://www.facebook.com/groups/290791956162/permalink/10157404684246163/ More AGD packs and games! http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7079 http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7078 Wireless controller on C-64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcItOtWsD94&feature=share. Wireless Sega-style controller on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/8Bitdo-Wireless-Gamepad-Original-Genesis-Drive/dp/B07HB1XFQW?th=1 Donations to the Cave #3 retro unboxing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPQ2bYBA7gA&feature=share Fuzix turnes 0.3! https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX/commit/cacbe5238588d352768ab95951c46d09879ba310 8-bit educational games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqdzesm5tyE&feature=youtu.be Inferno Dragon 32 Cassette 50 game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hqDCYpXhkE&feature=youtu.be CoCo 3 OS-9 serial to a TRS-80 model 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwKHXIHrF4g&feature=youtu.be Mini-Zork source code request https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157457656482641/ Rick Adams Delphi update https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10157450468347641/ http://delphi.rickadams.org/ Restoring a CoCo 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIaGozS6G8Q&feature=youtu.be Metro Area Color Computer Club BBS Overview 1986 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftp82s832xQ&feature=youtu.be CoCo 3 game development https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZl3T5VqfAU&feature=youtu.be Radio Shackck in North Dakota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD91PI3Y1qI&feature=youtu.be RARE TRS-80 interface box https://www.ebay.com/itm/254338246736?ul_noapp=true Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqj3IMT0-A8 https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live

So we're pleased to announce a very special guest, Erturk Kocalar, from www.8bitforce.com he's going to talk about his RetroShield for Arduino Mega project that was shown off at VCF West. Episode 123 of CoCoTALK! live will look at the evolution of the Color Computer Community, it's past, it's present, and speculate on it's future, we'll hear from old timers and new comers alike, so let's all chime in about our favorite computer and community Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqj3IMT0-A8 https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live

We've had so many amazing things happen on this show, it's hard to imagine what's going to happen next, and, this week, we have a brand new CoCo game to unveil to the world, it's going to be a surprise to us all, even on the panel, but we're super excited to have our software library expand. Turns out the game is called Run Dino Run, by Paul Fiscarelli, with the 3-voice music player by Simon Jonassen, and it’s a lot of fun. You can download it here http://imacoconut.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DINORUN.zip requires a CoCo 3 Live interactive video streams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqj3IMT0-A8 https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive Live interactive audio stream: https://www.spreaker.com/show/cocotalklive Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected] Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.live