Interview schedule:

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

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NEWS:

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

Dragon 32/64

Tom Erik Gundersen soft launches Mario and Luigi’s unknown half-brother
Salvatore.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4519630554963245/
and the game’s already got a name – ‘Mario’s bro’
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4519825238277110/
The only other Dragon story is obvious. Julian Brown is not going a
week without upgrading something, this time it’s RAM timings.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4506771179582516/

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

-2) New game. Dragon / CoCo asteroidsish
https://angua3.itch.io/space-rocks

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

Erico Montero reminds us of the Hackaday Retro Contest, running through
Oct 27.
https://hackaday.io/contest/206399-retrocomputing-contest
Michael Pittsley discovers unknown tokens and other mysteries
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164723570132641/
Norman Green recalls days of recent past, when only old people wrote Basic
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164725655772641/
Carlos Camacho discovers Nick Marentes and SG24.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164711103492641/
A normal Chris Burke quote: I built a Y Pb Pr interface for the CoCo
2 out of junk box parts…
and put the full schematics on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164715652222641/
Mark Casteleijn is porting Beatle Quest. He is expecting a long and
winding road.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164711277342641/ *b) he’s got a github for the underlying multi-platform engine. Find
the seven line long link
in this post.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164727101277641/
Alex Redman hits us with a bunch of posts, he’s wanting to map the
whole 512 into ECB and add
memory protection. pretty ambitious!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164717498602641/ 6b) one of his goals is to write a natural language parser in DECB. Here’s
the map
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164721702007641/ 6c) then he tried to start an editor flame war, but we don’t have emacs
so it fizzled out.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164707633347641/
What does the 8bit Guy do with computers after the video? Matthew
Schreiner Computing knows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7sxb8hfg-4
00:42 – 01:56 = behold the indestructable green bubblewrap
We’ve gopt a new victi… we mean fan! Barudaxx Rantau Z and his new CoCo3
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164702523397641/

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

MC-10

Inufuto releases UCHOTOS.
http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/uchotos/ RetroPC gives it a play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSZFU9cJYwc 1b) and Nostalgivault does it on many PCs to compare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0nws0oDFeQ
early – fancy versions
12:28 – 21:59 MC10
Agent Deluxe is AWOL? Shows how popular CCN is.
Spriteworx promotes Agent TJ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbPoRoOswZk
Scott Gilson of ‘Mister Robot Electronics’ reports the MCX32-SD for
the MC-10 computer is back!
A video short covering it’s history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iaTeuY61LQ
And here are the links on Facebook. He’s got free shipping to NA,
ebay intl everywhere else.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/27812998861733572/
Tom Erik Gundersen wants cursor standards for the MC10/Alice. I assume
Alice is AZERTY, do we
need two fixes?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/27810008452032613/

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

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):

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

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