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

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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