Interview schedule:

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

Special NOTES:

NONE

Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:

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:
https://www.glensideccc.com/

NEWS:

Dragon 32/64

Pixel Cherry Ninja on YouTube released episode 351 of their retro
podcast, and one of it’s updates features the Dragon 32 openFPGA core
for the Analogue Pocket:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o99AVtiphw&t=1196s
w1nt3rmu73 on YouTube (Cyrille Fontaine) released a video showing early
work on a platformer game that they are working on for the Dragon 32:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7hc7Lw93j4
Also looking for testers to run on real hardware vs. emulators (it appears
to work):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4564117693847864/
Tom’s Toys (Tom Erik Gundersen, I think?) put up a video of an
unreleased port of the Apple version of Lode Runner to the Dragon 32:
I hope it gets released, it looks quite good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjOEAw56dFc
He also put a post on Facebook about the use of AI to speed up development,
and has screen shots of a variety of projects that he has underway for
the Dragon, including Lode Runner, Elite, River Raid and Bruce Lee:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4563543293905304/
For those in Germany this weekend, they may be able to pop by a German
retro show in Celle, where Jens Diemer will be showing off his Dragon 32:
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11377
https://www.classic-computing.de/cc2026/
Ian Wellock posted a cassette image of a program built mostly by AI. I
am not sure what it is (Ciaran?), but the cassette is called “trawscym”:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4566734500252850/
Simon Hardy uploaded a demo called Scanline Sorcery for the Dragon,
which changes screen modes and color sets multiple times on the same screen:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4563605723899061/

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

Tandy Assembly was held last week and had a couple of Tech seminars
involving the Coco:
Tim Halloran on getting started with assembly language on the Coco:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KURfZrzMYfA
Jim Brain on controlling the Coco through the cartridge port:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij9I6iMfKP0
The latest Floppy Days podcast has Peter Jennings as a guest, where he
goes through his computer career (including for the KIM-1), which includes
MicroChess and Micro Checkers, both of which were launch titles on the
Coco in 1980:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxvkDbMUadY
CocoTown has released his latest video, which is a follow up to all of
the disk loading autostart tricks he had in the last video, but this time
showing you how to accomplish these tricks in assembly language:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVzPAVkM2mk
Grant Bloedow put up a video showing his early video of the UK game
Elite, ported to the Coco 3. This is still a work in progress:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM7aNxqL3nA
He also released update videos for a few games that he has released the
past month, with fixes and performance improvements. He has been using
Claude Code to help speed up development
BattleZ (Battle Zone type game) – this runs quite fast, not sure if it
is 1.78 MHz Coco 3 or .895 MHz Coco 1&2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M11G6Gl9XcY
ABUSE – level 1 preview of a port to the Coco 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cBRnLVxSFg
Tequestafarian has released an updated ANSI/VT-100 terminal program
for the Coco 3 that can be used on a 512K Coco 3 and Fujinet (to log into
ANSI BBS’s). It now also adds getting a BBS directory through Fujinet,
with over 1000 BBS’s:
https://tequestafarian.com/gime-ansi/
He also released a video of his space shooter called Space Raid – this
time showing the Coco 3 game paired with the CocoSDC and it’s streaming
ability to have background music. It looks to be a Galaga style game with
weapons power ups and more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gENaIfrc-Y
(Note: The non music streaming version is available now):
https://tequestafarian.com/space-raid/
He is also working on a Coco 3 version of Spy Hunter called Deathlane
(we just got a really good Coco 1&2 version of Spy Hunter within the last
year or so), and he has released an early development video, also including
background music:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ufdp65lt0Ro
Robert Sitton has put up a webpage of Coco 3 projects, including
his Wolfenstein 3D port, fractals, shaded cubes (with multivoice music
soundtrack), and even a program that will try and recognize drawn numerals
(NOTE FOR RICK: MOST OF THESE HAVE SMALL “VIDEO” LINKS AT THE BOTTOM
OF EACH ENTRY TO PLAY VIDEO)
https://magneato.github.io/coco3/
Also a Facebook post about them:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164893998442641/
Jim Bob posted a quick video update showing his learning how to do
graphics and sound in assembly language on a Coco 1&2:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164905878162641/
John Laury posted a video and DSK image of a 3D cube program he did to
the Coco Facebook broup, I believe written in BASIC:
Video:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/#?kab
DSK:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164902266352641/
Simon Jonassen started a debate or two about AI coding on Facebook,
which caused huge feedback, both negative and positive. My personal opinion
(Curtis’) has changed over the last few months after seeing all the rapid
development of excellent games and game ports. Curtis will likely still
code the old fashioned way (when he has time) because he finds it “fun”,
but he can definitely see the advantages. There are still copyright issues
and other things to worry about possibly in the future.
Part 1:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164893347037641/
Part 2:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/?sorting_setting=CHRONOLOGICAL
Erik Gavriluk is doing comparisons of BASIC compilers and how much
they speed certain operations up:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164896228407641/
Marco Spedaletti of ugBASIC fame has announced that the latest Beta
version of ugBASIC now supports playing 16 KHz MP3 audio on the Coco 3
(I think it translates it down to 4 bit sound samples rather than playing
an MP3 in real time):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164890754322641/
Paul Shoemaker released a video update to his upcoming game Lads
vs. Sewer Slimes:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164889540487641/
Rich Stephens has announced that the Fujinet VT100 terminal now runs
on a Coco 1&2 (with a 42×24 screen):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164888221592641/
He also announced a major update to the Fujinet Config program, which has
versions for both the Coco 1&2 and Coco 3:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164880394837641/
Vincent Tran has released his first “playable preview” of his
Sinistar transcode:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164888221592641/
Download link:
https://tequestafarian.com/sinistar/
Carlos Camacho has released an early port of VCC to Android:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164886626597641/

MC-10

TJ Ferreira received another Secret agent confidential mailer from Ultrix
command (part of the marketing of a new upcoming MC-10 game from Sprite Worx):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB22pub5JGc
Boer Melk used Claude to port Rush Hour for the VZ200 to the MC-10 and
uploaded it to the MC-10 Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/28354780624222057/

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):

Jason Ross has released the first beta of his Coco 3 port of the LadyBug
arcade game. It should be noted that it is currently set up to be a ROM
cart, and specifically the GMC cartridge to get bank switching and sound
(I think). It needs to be tested on real hardware and other emulators
(it has been tested in XRoar):
https://github.com/Rastamafugg/ladybug/releases/tag/1.0.0-beta
Chronologically Gaming has released another “sometime in 1982”
video, which includes a double text adventure game entry for the Dragon
32 by Peaksoft (the package is called “Don’t Panic”):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLgW-U7fT8g&t=247s
ArcadeUSA put out a video review/gameplay of Doubleback:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx93GGHwITc
Jim Gerrie ported the text adventure game “Will o’ the Wisp”,
originally by Mark Capella in 1980 for the Apple II, from Nibble magazine,
to the MC-10:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pJlSJApcIc
Thomas Cherryhomes has been busy porting a multiplayer version of the
famous game M.U.L.E. to play on Fujinet – and a Coco version is available
as well:
(video in FUJINET channel on Discord)
Hackaday has an article showing a 2026 retro computing challenge:
Dungeons of Daggorath, with less typing and new monsters. Nick Bild did
the update, which includes joustick support and new monsters inspired by
monsters from DOOM:
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/07/2026-retrocomputing-challenge-dungeons-of-daggorath-but-without-quite-so-much-typing/
Mike Horgan has posted a modern sequel to the original Coco version of
Shooting Gallery:
https://gigajunky.github.io/ai/ShootingGallery2.html
Originally posted int the Brazil Coco group on Facebook, Elite for the
Coco 1 & 2 is now available, thanks to Ronivon Costa, Claude and Codex. He
still has bugs to fix, but you can try it now:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164899366577641/
github:
https://github.com/costarc/Elite-TRS-80-Color
Mike Horgan put up a Dungeons of Daggorath enhanced port by Claude up
to play in a web browser:
https://gigajunky.github.io/ai/DungeonsOfDaggorath3.html
Jace Fuse also announced that his Amiga port of Dungeons of Daggorath
is basically finished now as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGqwScY73fs
Carlos Camacho has released a 128K Coco 3 game called Balloon Fighter,
which is loosely based on Joust:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164891683062641/
Google drive DSK download:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CTraqdXYz9vFP1tI1SA4XZiX79juackN/view
Jamie Cho recommended a new Coco 3 game called Coco Letters, a Scrabble
like game for the Coco 3 written by Pere Serrazin, the author of the CMOC
C like compiler:
http://gvlsywt.cluster051.hosting.ovh.net/dev/coco-letters.html
Tom Erik Gundersen has released his first released candidate for his
Choplifter type game called Helilifter:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4566727650253535/
Direct Download here:
https://www.dirt-burners.com/helilifter/
Simon Hardy released a Dragon 32 Halloween themed game called Spook
Patrol:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4563605287232438/
(download is in the files section of the Dragon Facebook group)
Not sure if this was mentioned last week, but Ian Wellock has released
version 1.0 of the game Starship Command (contact him to get a copy):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4558602767732690/
Darren Ottery has released a version of Moon Patrol called Space
Patrol for the MC-10. It will run with joysticks from an Alice Multiport,
and has only been tested on an MCX-32 (32k RAM) system; he is not sure if
it will work on a 20K MC-10. It looks pretty amazing and can be found in
the files section of the MC-10 Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/28365978773102242/
There is an update on Mythfarer by Jeff Noyle… now has background music:
https://youtu.be/qxaKI9vlIrs

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