The CoCo Nation Show

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...

We're back with another exciting episode of CoCoTALK! this week brings us episode 161. What can you expect this week? Hearing from CoCo enthusiasts from around the world, get updates on projects and any acquisitions, we'll cover CoCo and retro news from around the world, have our GameON! segment where we'll review the results of all who played Downland this week, we may have a sneak peek or announ...

This week's CoCoTALK! is being multi tasked via NitrOS9 Ease of Use beta 5 with special guest host and streamer Rob Inman. 00:02:39 Show Starts 00:04:17 GameON! results 00:05:49 Game discussion, tips, trick 00:16:03 Next week's game revealed 00:21:18 Panel Introductions 00:33:52 GameON! news 00:56:46 Simon Jonnasen shows us how he produces CoCo sound samples 01:03:14 GameON! news continues 01:13:3...

This week we'll be joined by special guest Brett Gordon and see and hear all about his latest release of YA-DOS. We'll also hear from Ron Klein who recently posted a video showing off a virtual hard drive image he's created for YA-DOS that has over 3,000 disks from the Color Computer Archive at your disposal. We'll also include our usual segments; project updates & acquisitions, GameON! results an...

The primary topic of this week's show is announcing and discussing the official release of NitrOS9 Ease of Use (EOU) Beta 5, now available for download at http://lcurtisboyle.com General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:39 Panel Introductions, project updates, acquisitions 00:53:40 GameON! challenge results and next week's game reveal 01:07:35 GameON! news 01:40:52 News from...

We're back with another great live and interactive episode of CoCoTALK! This week we unveiled a new segment "Q&A" where the audience and panel can ask questions, and hopefully, between us all, we'll have some answers, or get them for you. To learn all about the show visit http://cocotalk.live Join us on Discord http://discord.cocotalk.live Send feedback, suggestions, bumpers, segment and content t...

The real CoCoFEST! may be postponed, but we'll keep the Tandy flame alive and well! 1 D. Bruce Moore National Anthems 2 Darren "Daz" Ottery Blue Monday Cover (TRS-80 cocomix) 3 Nathan Byrd Daggorath Online 4 Norm Lamourex via Facebook CoCo Rainbow Fest 1989 video 5 Steve Strowbridge Ka*BOMB! world premiere 6 Brendan Donahe CoCoVGA Q&A 7 Ken Reighard Nightmare Highway - the music video / CoCoThough...

We had some special guests on this weeks' show. Erico Patricio Monteiro showed off his updates on his SG4 looking Outhouse game and his CoCo 2 high quality 2D/3D renderings. Rick Ulland joins us for the first time and promised to give a more in-depth interview in the near future. Darren Ottery gives us a little peek into his studio and CoCo Midi projects which we hope to hear in the near future! F...

Episode 154 of CoCoTALK! will feature news, news, and more news, along with our panel of quarantined seniors, and other retro goodies. 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: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com  

CoCoTALK! has been meeting virtual and being social distant (yet connected) before it became the in thing to do. We carry the tradition of keeping the Tandy, Dragon and MC-10 flame alive this week from our homes, at least 6.5 fee from each other, but still sharing our love for the Coco. We're going to try and keep the show a "tight" two hours today to give everyone a change to take part in the TRS...

March 19th 2017 we did our first ever impromptu CoCoTALK! counting down CoCoFEST! and 3 years later we've become a global phenomenon with weekly live talks dedicated to the CoCo, Dragon, MC-10 and clones. We want to take a look back, rejoice and celebrate. We'd love to get a lot of new people to join us on the panel today, so please join us on ZOOM Email any suggestions you have for the show to co...

Special Guest - Greg Zumwalt - and .... It's finally here! The world premier of Nick Marentes' Gun Star for the Color Computer 3! This exciting new space shooter will require a CoCo 3 with 512K RAM and a 6309 CPU! If you've missed the development blog check it out here: http://nickmarentes.com/Gunstar/index.html We'll see the world premier and have developer Q&A with nick himeslf. But wait, there'...

As we celebrate our 150th episode of CoCoTALK! live, we have a very special guest, Chris Hawks from Hawksoft, we'll hear a bit of history about his involvement with CoCo Software, OS9, Glenside Color Computer Club, and CoCoFEST! We have another special guest, Mr. Dave 6809 join us for the first time live, and we also have a special CoCoFEST! announcement from D. Bruce Moore.