Interview schedule:

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

Special NOTES:

SepTandy starts soon on YouTube!

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:

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

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

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

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

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

NEWS:

Dragon 32/64

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MC-10

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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