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/

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/

NEWS:

Dragon 32/64

1) Julian Brown has posted update 3 video blog about his Super SAM/VDG
board update, this time covering sprites:
https://youtu.be/IMoklF2iiq4?si=1U-ih6caFOy3eEj8

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

1) Grant Bloedow posted a YouTube short showing his beta of a server
based implementation of the XRoar emulator with a fujinet server (using
the Becker port). It also adapts to a web interface and can run on phones,etc.
https://youtube.com/shorts/nFmITESf9io?si=ksIXTl_n1T5S7v2n

2) Allen Huffman put up a blog post explaining some of the quirky behaviour
of the PPOINT command in Extended Color BASIC, depending on PMODE and
SCREEN settings:
https://subethasoftware.com/2026/06/23/what-you-pset-is-not-always-what-you-ppoint/

3) Keith Frechette has started a project called “Li’l Commander” based
on Robert Kilgus’ Color TRSDOS that came with EDTASM+. This is a set of
routines to make file handling much easier than doing straight Disk ROM
calls, and I think Brian Wieseler actually has a more modern version that
Robert did back in the day. The new program by Keith is callable by the
DOS command, and he mentions in his Facebook post that he has more planned:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164438485797641/

4) Robert Sitton has released video of his BOING.DSK challenge, which
shows ray tracing to do the “warp bubble” effect on a graphic image
on the Coco. In the comments he has video of an optimized, faster version
that does 3 such bubbles at once:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164438315277641/

5) Reinaldo Torres has announced his TTGO-VGA32-COCO, which is an emulator
that uses that quite cheap LilyGO TTGO VGA32 board. From his post on the
Coco Discord:
“After several months of hard work, I am happy to finally share my latest
project with you all! Say hello to TTGO-VGA32-COCO, an emulator built to
bring the legendary Tandy Color Computer experience to ultra-affordable
hardware. If you have a LilyGO TTGO VGA32 board lying around (or are
looking for a great reason to buy one for just a few bucks), this project
turns it into a self-contained CoCo powerhouse! Some of the key features:

Single Unified Firmware: No need to flash different files for different
setups. One firmware handles everything.
Online Switching: Seamlessly toggle dynamically between a CoCo 2 and
CoCo 3 environment right from the interface.
Fully Embedded & Standalone: Runs entirely on the cheap LilyGO board. All
you need to get started is a standard PS/2 keyboard, a PS/2 mouse, and
an SD card loaded with your favorite software.
I’ve put a lot of long nights into tweaking this to get it running
smoothly, and I would love for you guys to flash it, play around with it,
and let me know what you think!”
Github link:
https://github.com/reyco2000/TTGO-VGA32-COCO

6) Thomas Cherryhomes posted where to get the test builds of Fujinet &
emulator combo downloads for Android that can run Atari 8 bit, Apple II,
Adam, MSX, and of course the Coco:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164437237882641/

7) Dennis M. Weldy linked to a post about BASIC09 being front end developed
for LLVM compiler stack by Dr. Boisy Pitre:
Facebook link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164444089957641/
Main article:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/BASIC09-LLVM-Front-End
NOTE: there are some videos of programs written this way in the basic09
channel on Discord from Boisy himself that can be shown.

8) Rich Stephens posted that a new update to the Fujinet News app for the
Coco is out with more enhancements:

Highlighted text improved
consolidation of redundant code
Added ability to toggle through color sets in both high res and 40/80
column Coco 3 modes
Selected screen width/height & color set saved in an app keyboard
Disk image now auto-boots news
Facebook post and demo video:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164449633802641/

9) For those who have followed Don Sorensen repainting his Coco’s and
coming very close to the original colors, he has posted the exact car
equivalent paints he has used:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164446599402641/

10) 8bitsinthebasement (Peter from France) has released a 5 minute video on
how to get joysticks (and which ones will work) working with the ESP32-Coco:
https://youtu.be/liSenM-kC9k?si=9bh7THA1jDAFHQsa

11) The 8-Bit Guy released a new video showing how to hook up to 5 monitors
to a single Commodore-128.. but during the show he also officially announced
that the Quarx Coco 3 cartridge game is available:
https://youtu.be/ul5hC3PY1Yg?si=UK0lZ15zCp14cuhF&t=434

12) Ken of Canadian Retro Things released an episode about a Coco 1 that he
has had for a couple of years, packed away and forgotten about it. Until now:
https://youtu.be/ZFZyoln7bIE?si=2wr_Myx2-Pg3xv8c

13) Tech X Docs channel on YouTube released a video “Remember These
Embarrassing 1980s Tech Products?”. For some reason he lists the Coco
3 as one of them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwiinYBq6Ns&t=1209s

14) TRS-80 Retro Programing posted a video this week showing his start of
porting the Atari 2600 Haunted House game to the Coco:
https://youtu.be/3driO_PhTQQ?si=w1Jl_B3rMMygRZKH
He also added a second video showing updates:
https://youtu.be/dHoULbXNLno?si=4Ey9yLytV3iTcL0H

MC-10

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):

1) Aaron and Brent over at the Amigos Retro Gaming have released their
review of Intellectronics/Computerware’s Ice Hockey, a clone of the same
game on the Atari 2600 originally by Activision. They also mention that
the next game that they will be playing on The Coco Show is Touchstone,
a Tutankam clone by Tom Mix Software:
https://youtu.be/tJJKP-hssx0?si=DQSdGVwEPmMFiU9b

2) Jim Gerrie ported the game Alpha Blast, originally by Todd Koumrian in
the November 1983 issue of Compute! Magazine, to the MC-10. It runs in 4K
of RAM too:
https://youtu.be/V_df8U9QL0s?si=hDdM8pBtpChiQX2O

3) Robcfg on the World of Dragon forums posted that he has ported the
adventure game Euclides XXI to the Dragon from the Amstrad. This is a
graphical adventure game that appears to have several selections for
https://robcfg.itch.io/euclides-xxi-dragon

4) On the Coco Discord, in the mc-10-and-alice channel, has released an
updated version of the SUKS game for the MC-10 and Alice, that now supports
the TASM6801 joystick, as a WAV file.

5) Retro Rick posted a video in the Coco Discord (Programming and Development
section, Basic channel) showing his updated TransMaze game:
(download and show video from Discord)

6) Tim & AJ have released there next Sibling Rivalry Coco game entry
on their My Drunk Sibling channel on YouTube – this time covering the
classic Canyon Climber.
https://youtu.be/gJGlPk1twD8?si=CebwlgFFj3F_fLa6

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