The CoCo Nation Show

CoCoTALK! episode 185 - You can count on us In this time of electoral uncertainty, there is one thing you can count on, and that's CoCoTALK! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com Cu...

General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:43 Panel Introductions 00:10:07 Holloween talk 00:39:04 CoCo Thoughts 00:42:03 GameON! challenge results 00:44:25 GameON! Discussion - Phantom Slayer 01:09:50 Next week's game announcement - Pipes 01:43:40 GameON! news 02:26:12 News from around the world 03:41:46 Project updates and acquisitions 04:01:17 CoCo Caboose - after show & wra...

We've heard a of stories from Rick Adams about the creation of Temple of ROM, Shanghai, and the loss of Bomb Threat, which lead to it's recreation. Rick has also mentioned there were things he wish he could find which documented some of these projects. Low and behold, he's found some archeological treasures from the past, and we'll hear all about them today!

Episode 182 - updates,  acquisitions , games, and news Episode 182 of CoCoTalk! brings us updates and acquisitions from the panel, game on results for the week playing Shock Trooper, Game On news, more regular news, and so much more!  

We're back with the world's leading live Color Computer talk show, and this week we'll talk about the C-64, just kidding! This... is... CoCoTALK!

We're at the end of #SepTandy but we've got a whole week of content to review this week as we wrap on an incredible month of Tandy Content on YouTube, we'll have special guest Pat, From Dinty's Hideaway on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJPsl76e7jAORLi3NZlkjLQ ) who scored an incredible interview with John Roach from Tandy. We'll hear from Pat, learn about his retro past and present, a...

This is the last week CoCoTALK! is in the middle of #SepTandy and we wrapped up the event with a great new music parody and video from D. Bruce Moore, sung to the tune of Bow, Wow Wo's "I Want Candy", Bruce gives us "I want Tandy!" We reviewed a lot of #SepTandy happenings this pas week and so much more!  

Welcome to official Glenside Color Computer Club virtual picnic, which usually happens in person, in the Chicago area, but, in these trying times, most things are virtual now. Join us for food, drinks and merriment, and talking about the CoCo! as we continue to celebrate #SepTandy all September, as well as celebrate Tandy the rest of the year! #SepTandy

This episode of CoCoTALK! features: Ken from Canadian Retro Things https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRkegwvhByytikbnnLMVMpA Footage from the Adalaide Retro Meetup in Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPvyyXXwgeM&ab_channel=DavesTimeMachine See a new pickup, the Motorla XOR develpment system Hear about Chet Simpson's new Digger III game for the CoCo 3 release https://www.facebook.com/groups...

We're back with episode 176 of CoCoTALK! where we talk CoCo every week.  Unbiased non deprecating discussions about the people, projects, and community.   General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:37 Panel Introductions 00:13:23 Who's new to Discord this week 00:14:39 New Fletcher commercial - courtesy of Alison DeNu 00:16:33 CoCo Thoughts 00:16:50 GameON! challenge results 00...

CoCoTALK! 175 is all about MIDI and MIDI on the CoCo.  What is MIDI, how do I do MIDI on my Coco, what does it look like, what does it sound like, how hard is it?  All these questions and more will be answered.  We'll have live demonstrations and information from Rob Innman, Brian "The Music Man" Schubring, L. Curtis Boyle, and Darren Ottery, and Jim Brain, so tune and get MIDIfied!   General segm...

This was a game heavy show this week with the GameON! Results and discussions around playing Sea Dragon this past week, and hearing about a new multi-player game being designed by Bret Gordon, which looks amazing and will be quite fun to have an online multi player CoCo game to enjoy with friends. 00:02:43 Panel Introductions 00:09:59 CoCo Thoughts 00:11:41 GameON! challenge results 00:13:32 GameO...

Crikey! Nick Marentes is at it again! Earlier this year he released Gun Stah, and followed that up with Rally-SG, you'd think he'd be busy counting all his money and watching his Swiss bank accounts, but no, he's at it again with yet another new game for the Coco and we'll see the world premier of his current project in progress! That along with all the other usual boring stuff, Games, News, old g...

We've always got a lot to talk about and a great show to be shared by all on CoCoTALK! each week, and this week is no exception, we're going to hear from Peter Cullen about his retro background, and see his official Tandy SCART CoCo, which is something most of us has probably never seen before.   That along with news, GameON!, some possible tech segments, show  & tell and who knows what else, get...

Happy 40th birthday Colour Computer! We celebrate the 4 decades of fun and enjoyment you have brought us today on CoCoTALK! Special guest host and streamer Rob Innnnman, with Nick Marotta covering GameON! and L. Curtis Boyle bringing us this weeks' retro news and full panel of middle ages retro enthusiasts, join us for a very special episode of CoCoTALK! today!   00:02:57 Panel Introductions 00:25...

We had a long show today, so a few die hard members decided to soldier on and do an evening news cast, so part 2 of episode 170   Time stamps you can quick link to 00:04:51 News from around the retro world 01:38:14 GameON! news 02:36:12 CoCo Caboose   News 1 Boisy sold his "Marty Goodman edition" modified Coco 3 on ebay.   https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Tandy-Color-Computer-3-Marty-Goodman-As-seen-on...

Glen Dahlgren is the author of the upcoming young-adult fantasy novel, the Child of Chaos–a passion project that is the culmination of Glen’s lifelong love of fantasy and years of experience releasing compelling characters into fascinating worlds and describing what happens. His debut title is scheduled to be published in 2020.   Wearing slightly different hats, Glen has written, designed, directe...

Is your weasel greased and are you excited to talk about floppies? We know David Ladd is!  Today Simon Jonassen will share with us some cool coding tricks he's using to fast load data from floppy disks, and we'll hopefully hear from David Ladd and possibly even Paul Fiscarelli, so if you're as excited about floppies as we are, you're going to love today's show!   General segments with time stamps...

We're back with another episode of everyone's favorite talk show, CoCoTALK!   General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:47 Panel Introductions 00:07:31 AtomicPi - CoCo project with Aaron Doughty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQw1Qy1RyxA 00:36:56 News from around the retro world 01:03:37 CoCo Thoughts 01:04:18 GameON! challenge results 01:20:58 Next week's game announcment -...

Today we celebrate the greatest thing in American History, the birf of Tom C from Jersey! We may also pay homage to our treasonous Brexit of 1776, but that is not as important. This.... is..... CoCoTALK!   General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:50 "Happy Birthday Song" to Tom C 00:04:01 Panel Introductions 00:08:14 CoCo Discord #coco-art-gallery 00:10:51 CoCo Thoughts 00:13...

This week we'll look at the world premiere of the latest game from Nick Marentes, Rally SG, inspired by Rally-X from the arcade, it uses the 9-color semi-graphics mode, and will run on a CoCo 1,2,3 and Dragon with 64K.  http://nickmarentes.com/   This along with CoCo and retro news, GameOn! results, the new game of the week, projects, updates, acquisitions, and all kinds of CoCo goodness!   Time S...

We're back with everyone's favorite talk show about the CoCo and this week we'll talk about news, GameON! results for Galagon and so much more! Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on Discord: http://discord.cocotalk.live To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com...

This week we'll focus on people who are new to being back to the CoCo hobby, a lot has changed in the past 40 years and the CoCo is alive and well, and there are a lot of things you can do in the CoCo hobby. So how does one start? What's the best way? What's the best CoCo setup? How do I get and run hardware and software, what's the minimum I'd need, how far can we go, what about emulators, and so...

This week we're going to focus on the latest and greatest update to the CoCo-Pi project which now has an official web site http://coco-pi.com We'll show you a 30 minute tutorial on how to download and set up your Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 to run the CoCo-Pi image. We show you how to add all the CoCo ROMS to MAME, how to download and run software, and how to add your own software to your system. This wil...

Episode 162 of CoCoTALK! celebrates the NASA/Space-X live launch and incorporates that into the show.  Unfortunately, airing the live footage became a copyright issue and so this replay will now feature some substitute footage, our apologies.   Segment Timestamps: 00:05:36 Panel Introductions 00:09:36 Who's new to Discord this week 00:10:18 CoCo Thoughts 00:11:53 GameON! high score challenge resul...