The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 427, August 23,2025 (Aug 16-Aug 22) ============================================================================= Collected by L. Curtis Boyle Special NOTES: -------------- For those who want to try an online BBS running on a real 512K Coco 3, you can reach Terry Trapp’s RiBBS system here (please note that this an active development machine so the BBS occasionally goes down when Terry is working on hardware, etc).: telnet ribbs.griswoldfx.com 6809 Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people: ------------------------------------------------------------ VCF-Midwest (the largest retro show in North America, I believe) is September 13-14 at the Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, Illinois. This year is the 20th anniversary of this show, and there is a lot of collaboration between CocoFest and VCF-MW, so expect a large number of Coco and Glenside people at the show! Still free admission, and hotel booking is open already. https://www.vcfmw.org/ That same weekend, Retro World Expo will be held September 12-14 at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, Connecticut. Tickets and vendor applications aren't quite ready yet but will be soon. This is a gaming oriented retro show (including tournaments) but also includes things like wrestling: https://retroworldexpo.com/ Tandy Assembly for 2025 is Sept 26 to Sep 28 at the Courtyard by Marriott Springfield Downtown in Springfield, Ohio. NOTE 1: If you attended CocoFest this year, bring your badge to Tandy Assembly, and you will get in for FREE! NOTE 2: Peter Cetinski issued an update on May 13 - all tables are officially sold out: https://www.tandyassembly.com/ And they have some exhibitors already (click Exhibitors link) This year's Portland Retro Gaming Expo runs from October 17-19 in 2025 (they just had this years Sept 27-29). Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon. https://www.retrogamingexpo.com/ This year’s RetroSC (a general retro show in Brazil, with a lot of Coco and Coco clones present) is November 15, 2025 in Florianopolis, SC, Brazil: https://retrosc.org/ Canada is getting it's own official VCF - Montreal, January 25-26 of 2026. It will be held at the Royal Military College outside of Montreal, but I don't have any more details (the venue, for example) yet: https://vcfed.org/vcf-montreal/ Tentative date for CocoFest 2026 - April 24-25, as mentioned in the Glenside meeting this past week. And hotel rates are locked in now (see post on Glenside website) https://www.glensideccc.com/ **** NEW NEWS ORDER TO HELP OUR LIVE EUROPEAN VIEWERS **** NOTE: We are planning to do a special “Coco 4” episode in the future, which will included all the computers that were announced in the 1991-1994 time frame that were supposed to be successors to the Coco 3. We have Joel Ewy who has volunteered to show off their MM/1, I am going to try and get my TC-9 up and running at least enough to show it working, and Rick Ulland will show off a Delmar System V… but we still need volunteers with TC-70’s, Kix-20 or Kix-30, Delmar System IV, AT-306 and MM/1 B’s. Anybody still have these machines that they would like to show off in an upcoming show? Email me at curtisboyle at sasktel.net if you are. Dragon 32/64 ------------ 1) Your next project here! Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform) ------------------------------- 1) Frederic (MicroHobbyist) has returned with a new video, which covers where he has been the past few months, and his reboot of his 6309 project: https://youtu.be/7wnh7BfJ_5Q?si=YFP0_EJ8q95htqKp 2) Stephen Walters posted a photo of a 6809 board that plugs into the Apple II – and allows OS9 to run: https://www.facebook.com/groups/6809assembly/posts/3761077977518890/ 3) Rich Stephens posted a DSK image on the Coco Facebook group of an updated set of utilities for Fujinet on the Coco: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10163094488632641/ 4) Compute!s Gazette magazines upcoming issue #3 celebrates SepTandy, and even features a Coco 1 on the cover: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10163086968837641/ 5) Sheldon MacDonald posted a couple of video updates to cg3 graphics functions in his library for the Coco, including scrolling: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10163085228597641/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10163094504512641/ 6) Bruce Maret posted pictures of a modern multi-pack that has it’s schematic available on github: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10163082176067641/ 7) Andrew Ayers posted a disk image of a Super Extended BASIC program he wrote for the Coco 3 that uses some tricks to play with pixel masks with the HPAINT command: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10163096235457641/ 8) ozwalker on Youtube posted a vlog of the Canberra Vintage Computer Exhibition from Australia: https://youtu.be/DNbhXXMOIX8?si=mADtIlq0UApFm9z- 9) RetroComputingRanch put up a video on YouTube where he uses the Diagnostic cartridge to test several Coco’s: https://youtu.be/3qqyU_T3Y4k?si=8Pey7hPQlses-RsX 10) Coco Town released another video about the RND function in the Coco BASIC ROM, and some more quirks he discovered: https://youtu.be/x7T3ghCYpdA?si=fST1eVUv-ajp_Uat 11) George Janssen released Part 3 of his Coco 3 assembly language lesson 18, about doing text on graphics screens: https://youtu.be/7KwNqKIkbI0?si=x1XvhM5PEhm02BfD MC-10 ----- 1) Spriteworx released another teaser video for his upcoming MC-10 game: https://youtu.be/5zXAUE722CI?si=nmcGvevAoggs-41u 2) Dave Bernazzani posted a couple of updates about his Nintendo DS MC-19 emulator: https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/24145647948468700/ And now adding MCX-128 (and it’s enhanced BASIC) support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/24111147355252093/ 3) Jim Gerrie posted a photo of the title screen of game for the Sanyo PHC-25, and he mentions that an MCXBASIC version is on the way: https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/24142233355476826/ Game On news (all Coco related platforms): ========================================== 1) The Amigos recorded their next episode of The Coco Show this past Sunday, and it’s already available on Twitch and YouTube. They cover a rarer Coco 1 and 2 game that is loosely based on the old arcade game Karate Champ: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2542892671 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhe5M4SsCsY 2) Inufuto has now released the Coco 1,2 and 3 and MC-10 versions of their newest game Svellas: http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/svellas/ Coco 1 & 2 gameplay video: https://youtu.be/SUy4R3D7jUo?si=PkuIcNEvWeo7FZz6 Coco 3 gameplay video: https://youtu.be/7-dENFLnEfg?si=SBf1ZNIxW0uKl58a MC-10 gameplay video: https://youtu.be/xFLIUvOxDb0?si=ZY0EHwsZVUmAkxsd 3) Attempts: A Gaming Channel (by LRU) on YouTube released a video of his high score submission for the official Coco Frogger game by Cornsoft: https://youtu.be/-lvfEx5ybY4?si=WObWygaFVWM4kerX 4) Marlin Lee put up a new video on his YouTube channel going over more Coco clone games: https://youtu.be/7KwNqKIkbI0?si=x1XvhM5PEhm02BfD 5) XperTek on YouTube is onto disk #8 from his old Coco 1&2 collection, this time playing Canyon Climber: https://youtu.be/KX-bKHFxtF4?si=1lFka1fnfgKf9c4s And the original Checkers by Tandy in 1980: https://youtu.be/za-IG97RH8Y?si=cehsmooiBFXl518T 6) TRS-80 Retro Programing released a video of Tales Suburbia version 1.0, which Curtis will be adding to his site within a few weeks: https://youtu.be/KkFFpZ9lw3U?si=PqWtPMArLcUabUD6 Speak your mind! 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