The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 473, July 11, 2026 (July 5 – July 10)

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 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 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) This just in: Julian Brown explains a bit of VDG video tech while
descsibing the SuperSamX32 aka ‘Julian’s Folly’. Can’t stop now!
00:17 – where it started – Motorola reference
01:38 – the big 3 – CPU, SAM, VDG
03:42 – Goals and moving forward, with a look at the GIME
and SAMx8
06:27 – and off into the video weeds
watch this to learn way to much about Dragon and CoCo video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US5ipmtlgTo

2) Phill Harvey-Smith continues the tale of the six piece one piece Dragon
Pro case. We have both the original concept art
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4459174591008842
and the insides of the real deal, in a fashion normal printers can print.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4465802180346083

3) Chris Walsh bough a sleeping dragon and he’s starting to poke it. Any
advice?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4463580823901552

4) Like Nick, Tom Erik Gundersen seeks color in his color computer. He’s
not wrong, folks point out some games had both versions on one cassette
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4467696570156644

5) Ian Wellock found a new old tape. The record gets clearer.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4467528660173435

6) Leslie Anderson has 6309s to sell in merry olde Englandland. Want some?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4465332227059745

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

1) CoCoTECH #8 drops! Paul Cunningham has been using AI to speedwrite CoCo
programs. (get MarkO, Paul to review)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsDQdhb-oxo

2) Thomas Cherryhomes announces FujiNet’s android app FujiNet Go is
available for the Apple2 and CoCo
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164510521202641/

3) Lance Schafhausen’s CoCo is buried in emulation? Lance needs an
emulator? We advise.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164502376742641/

4) In case you’ve ever wondered is this might work, Michael Stephens
creates a phone flavored cassette cable an no, it needs MOAR POWAH.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164511016122641/

5) Scott Ellentuch (Tuc’s workbench) brings the early, hand solderable
SDC V1 back to market in versions from a blank board to fully assembled
with case. The manual is also online:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164494911567641

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X_Dqyunm0Ugls_ROB_H2f1-mRq-DGkWqOpsl4pIYSkM/edit?tab=t.0

6) Tristan went urban exploting. A sad tale.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164506820492641/

7) Don Sorensen’s full boat came in … a 2 meg 6309 upgrade from Cloud9
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164506301357641/

dont worry, he’s had hard times too:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164492847002641

and accidentally discovers his inner T1:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164502264282641

8) Bob Yates asks, has anyone ever ported MS BASIC to 68K? A good question,
while Atari and Commodore both expanded directly into 68K, neither was MS
BASIC… Comdr maybe a little?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164505072202641

9) Star Morin: in browser CoCo2 emulator (aad.png) including a link to
the runner
https://star-fs.github.io/varispeed-coco2/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExRk1kcmVVdFJpTTJReXhXYXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6JxRrAtBL5Pnv4JXXyf-WshBXjZo791qLKniQ5vFySq5Ocw66ccP4jcD0GQA_aem_BeQPEFx7F_SJvEQ5IHc1oQ

MC-10

1) Mathew Ward asks about assembly tools for CoCo’s little brother. Love
Simon’s reply… ‘Not really…’ (TASM/DASM)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/permalink/27281182234915240

2) Jay Mindy verifies the ‘Everstore’ works with MC10

3) Jim Gerrie convers ‘Checkmate’ to the MC10. There is even a gameplay
video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x31ODOyuCB8

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):

1) Ken R. releases ‘Meteor Mess’ which is sure to be an upcoming Game On
Challenge? We have some game play video, and of course, a link to the
https://youtu.be/_FNxjBi0D_M?is=v8nZpGQ5NGL_Kxi1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FNxjBi0D_M&t=72s
https://kenscococorner.itch.io/meteor-mess

2) As the prophecies fortold (or was that CoCoTECH?), Paul Cunningham
releases SpaceWarp v1.2, including a github link and documentation! Visit
his itch.io and help a brother out.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164510337002641

3) Jens Petersen reminds us of chopper assault, a game he’d published in
Rainbow of June 85. Seems there is a disk version on the archive. Has this
been a Game On Challenge yet?
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1232183389976147&set=pcb.10164511202452641

4) Lance Schafhausen teases ‘Gruntly’ which he’s planning to release in
the next Compute Gazette
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164507586162641

5) Jimmy Lockamy asks if the CoCo had a flight sim. A flight sim? The room
points out we had THE flight sim, from subLogic. Which Microsoft bought
and sells to this day
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164504214977641/

6) Modern Retro Gameplays: RetroBat samples a ton of CoCo games in one
video. Blipvert some nostalia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ThWa6EgKPo

7) A new poster, ‘Freerolls club’ plays bingo. And that’s all we know
about that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9t6zokIECw

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