The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 444, December 20,2025 (Dec 12-20)
The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 444, December 20,2025 (Dec 12-20)
Collected and Presented by:
L. Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, Rick Ulland, and Brian Wieseler
Special NOTES:
NOTE: We are planning to do a special “Coco 4” episode for January as
part of the virtual Tandy Retro Show (this hopefully gives enough time
for some of us to get our old machines up and running enough to fully
demo). These are the computers 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@sasktel.net if you are.
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:
The next Tandy Retro Show will be happening January 24 and 25th,
which will be a series of live YouTube streaming presentations. MarkO
is currently taking bookings of people & topics. Send an email to:
registration@tandyretroshow.com
https://tandyretroshow.com/
Canada’s official VCF – Montreal, January 25-26 of 2026. It will be held
at the Royal Military College outside of Montreal. At least 2 Coco speakers
have been confirmed so far:
https://vcfed.org/vcf-montreal/
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/
That same weekend is the first official Latin American VCF, which takes
place April 24-26 in Bahia Blanca, Argentina:
https://vcf-espaciotec-com-ar.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
VCF-PNW (Pacific North West) is returning after multiple years in hiatus,
and is happening May 2-3 2026 in the Tukwila Community Center in Tukwila,
Washington:
https://www.vcfpnw.net/
Tandy Assembly is moving! They won’t say exactly where or when yet, but
it’s left Springfield and gone off to Cincy
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1725227458828943&set=a.781914929826872
NEWS:
Dragon 32/64
Found one story while checking out their facebook group, but it’s good:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/?sorting_setting=CHRONOLOGICAL
1) Richard Harding met with John Linney, who worked on the Alpha and Beta
prototypes at Dragon Data.
http://dragondata.co.uk/history/People/John-Linney/John-Linney.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExSUFvS1NOSlRxYUFENkRjZ3NydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR7zHJnO_rkwUu5lsGAm03j3pUw_OQkuBu0-LkMgyuP6FsWjz5k8vfCjPGDBoA_aem_d1Cv7yudAy3XV8HDNcOYHQ
2) Julian Brown still building 6309 homebrew
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10161702799245806&set=gm.4255799611346342&idorvanity=1602723113320685
3) Julian Brown a second build of my ATX design
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4246367428956227/?rdid=WVH4g8kzlID2lEXp
Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
1) (a Radio Shack Christmas 1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwEOpLTqbOI
2) THSBIAJKK needs help with a periodic screen flicker. Video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkc8SUUsVuk
3) JCCyC reverse video added to the patched HDBDOS-16k rom at link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kk79lITq7E
with a slight patch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yykajLyYG7E
4) Jamie Cho – Christmas Tree program for OS9 CoCo with Multivue
https://www.facebook.com/1346499090/videos/pcb.10163615607192641/1905212880113992
5) Simon Jonassen – First, the original Rotozoom Santa with music.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1210687424272439
He’s got a link to the NEW Rotozoom Santa, find it in the TRS80 Color
Computer faccebook group.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/?sorting_setting=CHRONOLOGICAL
6) Robert Sieg’s been dithering with redheads again. He includes a link
to executable demo
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=25982788224646689&set=gm.10163610600332641&idorvanity=2359462640
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=25965999762992202&set=pcb.10163602815992641
7) D.Bruce Moore posts a scam alert. Don’t buy from Arcadition if they
reappear
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10163610584932641/
8) Vendors alert! Susan Riley appears with CoCo3, bare except for a SuperIDE
with software?Just look at that empty CoCo3
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=25324206290539350&set=gm.10163609251062641&idorvanity=2359462640
9) Walter Miraglia I’m currently building a Coco MPI 26-3024 Lite V1.0.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10163596856162641/?mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=ym8E9fPWV57DLGfW
10) David Kroeker Have you wanted to learn 6809 assembly language on the
CoCo?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10163597320452641/?mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=WlyZzjYxqC6xERQ0
11) Darren Ottery my Ensoniq SQ80 synth circa 1988, There is a 6809 onboard
and some other interesting Motorola chips.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10163603202077641/?mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=rr9BqXbDo90BFOMG
12) John Linville We have major news for Tandy Assembly in 2026.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1606095809633762/permalink/4206368546273129/?mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=P26o7RVLCG6EW4RW
13) Thomas Cherryhomes Version 1.5.2 of the #FujiNet firmware has been
released
https://www.facebook.com/groups/fujinetusers/permalink/4374469106168065/?mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=sqoSDECFb2DvGrym
MC-10
1) Jim Gerrie ported “One Armed Bandit” from the AMF Imagination machine
to MC-10 from the National Imagination Computer Club Newsletter, September
- Originally by Miles Gilrie, written in 1982):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu3frsNyD Jim also ported “Cascades” from the Commodore PET to MC-10. Found in
“Recreational Computing” Magazine, May-Jun 1979 issue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtFwuFGcoHo&list=RDCtFwuFGcoHo&start_radio=1 From that same issue of “Recreational Computing”, Jim ports “Warp”,
a Model 1/3 program to simulate going warp speed in a Trek game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH57yiyy2AU Jim Gerrie Here’s a silly little graphic for the 10 PRINT Maze
algorithm:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/25158291027204382/?mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=A9DMESfQiliQeAyJ
Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
1) All things Atari knows Where The Games Are:
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1713834640063342&set=gm.1534630590975683&idorvanity=563871328051619
Addendum
John Mark Mobley Disks Demos Christmas
https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Disks/Demos/Christmas/
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