The CoCo Nation Show

Original video episode YouTube link:   https://youtu.be/OtdgWeD7N4Q This week's CoCoTALK! was not live, it was recorded Friday night as our second ever CoCoTALK! after dark, no agenda, no live audience, just a couple of guys talking CoCo, and perhaps having some adult beverages. On the call: Bill Nobel, Boisy Pitre, Grant Leighty, CoCoMan Jason Reighard, Bruce Moore, David Ladd, John Linville, Joh...

It's New Year's Eve Eve, let's celebrate, reflect on the year, and look forward to 2018 On the show: Grant Leighty, Jason Reighard, Bruce Moore, John Linville, John Strong, Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, Paul Fiscarelli, Richard Lorbieski, Ron Delvaux, Simon Jonassen, Steve Bjork. Help support the show by becoming a patron https://www.patreon.com/ogsteviestrow Retro SWAG sales help support operati...

CoCoTALK! Episode 39 - Christmas Eve Eve edition   Original YouTube video: https://youtu.be/i3K0Nj4To78   It's the night before Christmas eve, what are we going to talk about? CoCo Stuff! On the call: Grant Leighty, Jason the Coco Man, Bruce Moore, David Ladd, Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, Paul Fiscarelli, Paul Thayer, Jim Brain, Richard Cavell, Richard Lorbieski, Simon Jonassen, Steve Bjork CoCo...

Today we will reveal the 2nd winner of the Forest of Doom contest, the "Chalice of Bravery", we'll also see some live stream game-play of the game. To get our copy of Forest of Doom, visit http://fod.gracenote.ca CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each and every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT! We are also available for replay and podcast listening! For all things CoCoTALK! visit http://cocotalk.l...

Episode 37 aka CoCoTALK! Express! was focused on holiday cheer, we took at look at a few CoCo Christmas demos, got to hear from Paul Thayer, author of the latest CoCo hit, Timber Man, and even took a sneak peek at Donkey Kong Remix Christmas Edition. On the show: CoCoMan Jason, Curtis Boyle, Paul Thayer, Ron Delvaux, Simon Jonassen and Steve Bjork. CoCoTALK! airs live, right here on YouTube each a...

It's December, winter and the holiday seasons are upon us, and the topic today is CoCo Christmas Wishlist... what item, real or imaginary would you like to have for the CoCo to make your life easier, or the CoCo better? On the show: Brian Joyce, Grant Leighty, CoCo Man, David Ladd, John Strong, Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, Nick Marentes, Richard Lorbieski, Rick Adams, Ron Delvaux, and Steve Bjor...

CoCoTALK! Episode 35 comes on the heels of Thanksgiving, so we'll hear from member of the show and the community on what they are thankful for this year. We also have a main topic, which is an update and preview of the upcoming NitrOS9 "Ease of Use" edition aimed for novice use and to be run on the CoCoSDC and emulators "out of the box" Grant Leighty's newbie question of the week was "what are pee...

Welcome to CoCoTALK! Episode 34, the first live CoCoTALK! we've had in about 3 weeks. Due to home internet issues, ogStevieStrow has been unable to live stream the show, the past few episodes have been pre-recorded. Today Grant Leighty takes over as both the live stream host and the show host for episode 34. The primary topics discussed were Discord, the new audio/video chat application most of th...

CoCoTALK! Episode 33 - Hardware Talk! Today we talk about the must have, rare, unique, hard to find, and otherwise sought after and coveted hardware devices to have for your CoCo collection. On the show: Bill Nobel, Bruce Moore, David Ladd, Grant Leighty, L. Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, Michael Brant, Nick Marentes, Paul Fiscarelli, Jim Brain from Retro Innovations, Steve Bjork, and Ron Delvaux....

Only the bravest souls enter, only the most cunning return!  Defeat innumerable monsters to ransom the king’s scepter, stolen by the evil wizard and kept deep in the Forest of Doom. Your sword, shield and wits are your only allies – pray you find a magical Inn as your only respite! Forest of Doom is a Role Playing Adventure Game for the Tandy Color Computer 1, 2, and 3. Created by D. Bruce More in...

In episode 31 of CoCoTALK! we'll discuss the buzz this week that's been going on in Facebook at the possibility of a modern version of the Rainbow Magazine, which was "the institution" of tech magazines for the Color Computer. Ron Delvaux has been busy creating not only mock covers, but will have a 20+ digital version of what the magazine could look like. We have set up a website for an on-line ve...

Episode 30 of CoCoTALK! finds us having to address some community drama that has popped up this week, which we attempt to do in a mature, and intelligent way, to shed light on some things, and hopefully find ourselves in a better place when it comes to competition, stepping on toes, etc. On the call: Barry Nelson, Boisey Pitre, Brendan Donahe, Ciaran Ancomb, David Ladd, Eddy Szczerbinski, Glen Hew...

Episode 29 - The Tandy Assembly Post Show! We'll talk about everything that was happening this past weekend! On the show: Brendan Donahe, Brett Gordon, Ciaran Anscomb, David Ladd, George Philips, Grant Leighty, Jay Searle, John Linville, John Strong, John T. Robbs, L. Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, Mike Rowen, Neil Blanchard, Nick Marentes, Paul Thayer, Retro Innovations (Jim Brain), Richard Lorbi...

Episode 28 is the Tandy Assembly Pre-Game show, this is the last live show before we're at Tandy Assembly next weekend, so we'll go over everything there is to discuss, play plenty of promo clips, and with some luck, be visited by some of the founders of the event. Tandy Assembly will be live streamed, and a special live edition of CoCoTALK! called TandyTALK! will take place Saturday evening, make...

CoCoTALK! Episode 27 - the Ease of Use Episode! Original air date - 09-23-2017 On the show: John Strong, Richard Lorbieski, Barry Nelson, Bill Nobel, Curtis Boyle, David Ladd, Simon Jonassen, Rick Adams, Nicholas Marentes, Jim Brain from Retro Innovations, and D. Bruce More. John Strong filled us in on the status of his projects "Dr. CoCo" a Dr. Mario clone which will feature the Game Master Cartr...

CoCoTALK #26 09-16-2017   Episode 26 - New CoCo games, assembly optimization, Simon's latest demo and more!   CoCoTALK! is the nation's leading live talk show featuring the Tandy Color Computer.  For video and audio replays, visit http://imacoconut.com   On the show: Ciaran Anscomb, D. Bruce Moore, Jacob Moore, David Ladd, Glen Hewlett, Grant Leighty, Jay Searle Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, Paul...

CoCoTALK! #25 09-09-2017   CoCoTALK! Episode #25 - The Hurricane Irma edition!   People on the show and items discussed: John W. Linville - Host of the CoCoCREW! POD Cast. Glen Hewlett interview on CoCoCREW!, Hack-A-Day project mention Bill Nobel: Full Source Code for the Ribbs BBS for OS9, v2.03. The "original" Three Musketeers of NitrOS9, Curtis Boyle and Bill Nobel & Wes Gail. John W. Linville:...

CoCoTALK #24 09-02-2017   Episode 24 - Oz K-Fest - Forrest of Doom trailer 2 - new OS-9 commercial and more!  09-02-2017   Episode 24 treated us to a peek down under to an Apple II event in Australia called Oz K-Fest which was a weekend event dedicated to the early Apple line of computers.  Our foreign correspondent Nick Marentes gave us an inside view of what the Australian Apple community are up...

CoCoTALK #23 08-26-2017   Episode 23 - Floppy TALK! and other hardware goodies with a few special guests! Episode 23 features all kind of hardware discussions, too many to list, you'll just have to watch and listen. The show:   Special guest  Host, of the Retro VGM Revival Hour Podcast, Edgar Valasco.   https://www.youtube.com/c/NostalgiaRoadTripChannel Ron's Garage : The Printer Video and POD Cas...

CoCoTALK #22 08-19-2017   Episode 22 - Nick Marentes Pac-Man 1.1 - Basic09 and more!   Nick Marentes Pac-Man update 1.1 http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/nickma/ProjectArchive/pacman.html Bruce Moore will show as a peek at BASIC09 Rons Garage:  A look at the amazing retro computer collection from Ron Delvaux Newbie question of the week from Grant Leighty Tech discussions with David Ladd, Curtis B...

CoCoTALK #20 08-05-2017   Episode 20 - Community Chat - Ron's Garage - Forest of Doom teaser   CoCoTALK turns 20 episodes old today and we're celebrating!  The topic is CoCo Community Chat, and all members of the CoCo Community are encouraged and invited to join us in the Skype call and become part of the discussion, to do so, you need to add ogStevieStrow as a Skype contact, and then call him dir...

CoCoTALK #19 07-29-2017   Episode 19 - CoCo Hardware!  Retro Innovations and CoCo on a Chip!   CoCo TALK is the nation's leading live talk show about the Tandy Color Computer, never mind that it's the only one.  In Episode 19 we'll dive into CoCo Hardware.   We'll hear and see from Jim Brain from Retro Innovations on what it takes to develop and produce hardware projects for the Color Computer, an...

CoCoTALK #18 07-22-2017   Episode 18 - An introduction to OS-9 and NitrOS-9   We are about to make history, as the first official presentation of OS-9 will happen today on CoCo TALK #18.  We'll talk a look at Microware's OS-9 Level I and II and then jump into the current version known as Nitro OS-9 or just NitrOS-9 for short.   Download OS-9 Level 1 v2.01: http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/...

CoCoTALK #17 July 15, 2017   Episode 17 - The World Premiere of Rick Adams' Bomb Threat!   The game that almost wasn't now is, and Rick Adams will talk about the history of this game, and how it's finally seeing the light of day!  Behold, for the first time ever, Bomb Threat for the Tandy Color Computer, originally created in 1984, lost in the sands of time, and faithfully recreated by Rick Himsel...

CoCoTALK #16 07-08-2017   Episode 16 - MESSUI tweaks for CoCo emulation, MAME and MESS debugging tutorial   We are on week 16 of CoCo TALK, and this week, we have a new speaker to join us, Jay Searle will show us some cool tips, tricks and tweaks on using the MESSUI for CoCo specific emulation.  He'll also show us how to use the MAME and MESS debugger to aid in software development via emulators....