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

Tom Erik Gundersen released a video of his unreleased game Hellilifter
Part II:
Byte Sized Retro episode 31 was released on YouTube, this time covering
the Dragon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEHi8zM5CzY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmdW6L8i2cs
Polish YouTube channel “Retro Borsuk I Montek!” On YouTube had a
live stream covering the Dragon, including a lot of games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_PhwzoxJkY
It appears that the World of Dragon website is up and down these days. It’s
gone past oveload to throwning SQL errors. They are doing every admin’s
favorite thing, scraping log files for domains to add to the blacklist.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4575167422742891/
Tony Jewell is instigating for another meetup. Maybe March 20/21? Tell
Tony!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4571163079809992/
And the AI debate continues. Tom Erik Gundersen wants to talk.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4563543293905304/
Ian Wellock has a download of rtawsbrd (Tranz Am) for Dragon 32
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4572721359654164/

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

BackhandSandwich (Vincent Trqn, I think?) posted an updated gameplay
video for Space Raid, including the CocoSDC streaming music feature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUGfkPiFIUI
Grant Bloedow posted an updated preview video of his Coco 3 port of
the classic Europena game Elite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvx3qMWb9Dw
He also posted a video preview of his upcoming FastCarz game – a Pole
Position style game, but with things like hills and user designed tracks
added:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b5F1Bprohg
ugufru on YouTube released a video showing algorithmic synthesis on a Coco
2 (Using a seed number it creates it’s own song with percussion, I believe):
https://youtu.be/3_mmvYaXyts?si=kwHpFA-5m8NjOzmP
He also released a video called Coco,FM using an SN76489 chip on a Coco:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUYZ-X63-aE
The 6502 Show released part 3 of it’s series on creating a simple
video card using the 6847 for small 6502 or 6800 computers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs1gHcCXiio
George B Janssen released Lesson 24 of his Coco 3 assembly language
tutorial series, this time showing falling sand simulation
Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCYJ9Pmz8uk
Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UheONbvVpg
TJBChris released a video showing acquisitions that he has made recently,
and cool stuff that he received from 780Tech, including some Coco related
things:
https://youtu.be/NfUQ-qO_nb0?si=2xw6YrP6yRzSQeGC
John Laury has a new and improved 3D cube with trig tables. It’s a
facebook download, of course
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164950138162641/
download
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164950131917641/
Bill Martens posts a trek demo and online emulator?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164949905437641/
live link
https://www.callapple.org/coco3/
Call for tapes: Michael Pittsley reports Rainbow on tape May-Sept,
Dec 1982 are missing from the archive. We think he is threatening to type
them in. Anybody have these?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164947530062641/
Vincent Tran has Space Raid downloads! And preorders for the physical
SDC edition
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164926375527641/
download:
https://tequestafarian.com/space-raid/
Carlos Camacho posted some screenshots of his Wolfenstein 3D port –
but using SG-24 on a Coco 1:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164954200637641/

MC-10

TJ Ferreira released a video showing preview of an upcoming game for
the MC-10 from SpriteWorx:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtvcfWlDcQw

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):

Coco-Synthesis released a video showing his BASIC version of Burger
Time for the Coco 3, which is now available for download (link in the
video description):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWJ7LoJv_IM
Mackano released a video showing a front end and emulator playing a
variety of Coco game cartridges (including coco 3):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLZhStAvnqk
TJ Ferreira posted a video covering the new MC-10 game Missile Defence,
and type of Missile Command:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpXrCWs5MIM
James Diffendaffer releases a beta of Golaxian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydwalhYfYvU
Download from FB
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164949805252641/
Lee Perkins has Paganitzu moving right along
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZUFFVGvrHE

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