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 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/

The next Dragon Meetup will be March 20/21 of 2027 at the Centre for
Computing History… and it’s the 10th anniversary of these meetups,
so they are hoping to have something special:
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=11383

CocoFest for 2027 is May 14-15:
https://www.glensideccc.com/

NEWS:

Dragon 32/64

Apparently a Level 2 version of NitrOS9 has been ported to the Dragon
with a 2 MB RAM upgrade:
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=11379
A DriveWire DWLOAD server written in Python has been released (although
the github links appear broken when I tried):
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=4946
Julian Brown showed a picture of a custom keyset he had ordered along
time ago, and just got:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4586800658246234/
He also posted an update to the diagnostic cartridge that he is doing:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4588280754764891/
Bradley Goldsmith has announced that the Dragon 32/64 version of his
HDMI Cartridge is done and tested, which adds HDMI video out and line out
sound with no hardware modifications to a Dragon:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4592025767723723/
Tom Erik Gundersen has an update post to his upcoming “Borgarok –
The Fall of the Fortress” arcade game. It features 4 levels, and some
multi-voice music on the splash screen. Aided by AI:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4592472694345697/
atariteca demos Dragon 32 game Phantom Slayer on Dragon and Atart 130XE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdVDlu5kuls

Coco 1/2/3

Luc Dion has announced a new version of the firmware for the
ESP32-Coco3-PRO. It supports cycle accuracy for both the 6809 and 6309:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165020104297641/
Jim Bob did multiple posts this past week on the Coco Facebook group:
Getting his sprite to move across the screen with sin wave sound as part
of his learning assembly:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165019022232641/
A patched version of Dungeons of Daggorath that allows saving the game to
disk (I don’t think he was aware of Chris Burke’s commercial program
that did the same thing back in the day):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165031515692641/
He also patched it so that monsters don’t pause to pick up items. This
makes the game harder – and it was already quite hard!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165031503907641/
John Laury posted a video (and software upload) for a Marquee program
to the Coco Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165011926532641/
Download:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165011932267641/
Erico Patricio Monteiro posted an animated GIF showing haunted mansion
generation for a program his working on:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165006982637641/
Robert Sitton posted the DSK image for his Coco 3 Choplifter 3D project to
the Coco Facebook group – it’s more of a demo than a game at this point:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165006723922641/
He also posted about Coco 3 Vectrex emulator demo – although he does note
that “It is not anything I will finish”. This should be just emulating
the drawing hardware for the most part; The Vectrex and the Coco share
the 6809 CPU:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165027092857641/
Carlos Camacho posted screenshots of his Coco 3 update to Dale Lear’s
original Color Baseball game – adding things like team and player names,
uniforms, enhanced graphics and even updated manual cover art. This is
still a work in progress and not available for download yet:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165003557307641/
He also posted about a Vic-20 emulator his working on for the Coco 3:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165029729527641/
Larry Lim posted a video showing his WIP of his game Rescue Force
3199 for the Coco 3 – this will be a 6309/512K RAM required and runs at
320x192x16. This has been aided by ChatGPT:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165002186357641/
Lee Perkins posted on the Coco Facebook group updates about his current
3 Coco 3 game projects: Paganitzu (originally for MSDOS), Cloud Kingdoms
(originally MSDOS) and Mines of Titan (also MSDOS), including a screenshot
of each one (the Mines of Titan is still the original MSDOS screenshot I
believe; this one is much earlier in the development cycle):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165001150002641/
Thomas Cherryhomes posted an update about Fujinet Go, which now allows
you PC or Android device to run 14 different retro platforms in emulation
to help aid development and testing – or just to try out the platforms
that you don’t have the original hardware for:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10164998479202641/
Vincent Tran (Tequestafarian) has posted about his upcoming Halloween
themed project – a port of the 1985 arcade game classic Ghosts ‘n
Goblins to the Coco 3. Still a work in progress, it will require a 512K
Coco 3 and a CocoSDC with the latest firmware to allow audio streaming:
https://tequestafarian.com/games/ghost-n-goblins/
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RzMAtM15EPQ
John Linville posted about his taking the old language PLM for a spin
on his 6809 version of the language, on his Retro Tinker blog post:
https://retrotinker.blogspot.com/2026/10/giving-plm09-spin.html
Michael Pittsley posted an unofficial PDF about running Fujinet under
Dream VCC to the Coco Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165036967197641/
He also posted photos from a large overhaul of his BBS, which includes
custom menus to handle a variety of common Coco screen resolutions:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165036748732641/
Kyra Alvar posted a video showing an update to his AI assisted Double
Dragon port project (one of two!). I think his is the version that only
needs 512K:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165036184072641/
He also posted side by side videos of the C64 version of The Last Ninja
vs. his Coco 3 version (and not based on the Rick Adams/Steve Bjork aborted
version from back in the late 1980’s):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165032639782641/
Paul Shoemaker posted an updated gameplay video of his non-AI assisted
upcoming game Lad vs. Sewer Slimes:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165034452037641/

MC-10

Scott Gilson has announced that a new batch of MCX32-SD modules are now
available (this is the 32K RAM / Extended BASIC / SD card reader card for
the MC-10):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/28651761021190681/
Darren Ottery released a utility to convert .c10 files (from emulators)
to actual WAV files on real cassettes, to load programs on the MC-10:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/28685273634506086/

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):

Escape from Castle Wulf is now downloadable from the World of Dragon
Archive. It is set up for PAL – but I don’t see why it couldn’t be
ported to the Coco 1/2/3 as well:
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=11380
The Tim Love’s Cricket game originally for the Dragon 32 has now had
a few patched versions made available – Dragon 64 compatible, a version
that runs from disk, and some bug fixes:
https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=4825
Darren Ottery has been busy releasing arcade ML games for the MC-10
with the help of AI, and has some of them reviewed by TJ Ferreira. Here
is his Google Drive link to download all of his recent games:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aXGowKGdlHs9cxj6JzRU977EdAH2nIHN
And details on each game and/or reviews by TJ:
Retroball Pinball (20K RAM expansion required):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/28619369381096512/
Defender (20K RAM expansion required) – the video shows gameplay and
great sound. NOTE: If you have an MCX32-SD, it will also save your high
scores. Also compatible with PiKey10 and Alice Multiport for joystick play:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/28658050953895021/
TJ reviews both Defender and Frogler (which even has some background music):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N99j1xMIk4w
TJ reviews Galagor (requires MCX32-SD) – and using an Atari 7800 wireless
joystick via the Alice Multiport joystick adapter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL5tzy9tc_Y
Darren also released a tease of an upcoming conversion of a Coco classic
to the MC-10…:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/28684007081299408/
James Diffendaffer ported (with the aid of AI) the Atari 8 bit game
“Eastern Front 1941” to the Coco 3:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165009517117641/
Link to download from the Coco group on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165009537862641/
He also uploaded the DSK image of his port of the arcade game Ripoff to
the Coco 3 (originally a vector based game, with gameplay to inspired the
Coco 1&2 game Gazon from back in the early 1980’s):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165009001672641/
Vincent Tran (Teqestafarian) has released a Coco 3 512K/CocoSDC with
latest firmware required version of Metal Slug (the first Mission) which
features streaming music and more from the CocoSDC:
Download link and system requirements:
https://tequestafarian.com/games/metal-slug/
Video of the game in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytR_jXPX9TE
Greg Ferguson has released an updated version of his Archon port for the
Coco 3 to the Coco 3 Facebook group, fixing the music/sound routines a bit:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165025750897641/
Carlo Rojo posted a screenshot from the modern game Gears 5 (from the
Xbox One) that shows a strangely familiar computer… :
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10165036394517641/
My Drunk Sibling: Tim and AJ up to their usual, this time playing
Demon Attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huiX96g8uaE

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