The CoCo Nation Show

CoCoTALK! Episode 137 - hosted by Rob Inman

Today will be a special edition of CoCoTALK! live where we'll all be turkeys and talk about what we're thankful for, doesn't even have to be retro related, but just sharing positivity with one-another. We'll also look at some of the latest CoCo games optimized for the 6309 CPU and hear news from around the retroverse. Join us today at 2PM EDT   Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocota...

This week we had a very special guest host, none other than Nick Marotta, Nick Marotta, Nick Marotta! We heard from Brendan Donahe about the newest update to the CoCoVGA firmware and software utilities, as well as MC-10, Dragon, and CoCo news, and project updates from the panel.  

The theme this week was CoCo holiday memories along with news, and update on the CoCO port of Oregon Trail, and so much more! Some news stories for November 16, 2019 show: 1) Petsasjim1 Dragon game play video updates: Hungry Horace (a twist on PacMan with multi-screen, connected mazes). https://youtu.be/iK7WQHuv5Q4 The Immortal Strain (a text adventure game, but with text on a PMODE 4 screen for l...

Another week brings us another fun and informative episode of CoCoTALK! You're welcome ;)   Some news stories for November 9, 2019 show:   1) Sheldon MacDonald put up a video of using QMidi for Windows to create music to play on the Coco with a GMC cartridge https://youtu.be/IPAkBN9C2R4   2) Sheldon also has an update to his GMC cartridge design, which includes space for an audio out jack and a "r...

A lot of revelations on this week's show! A new product "The Joey" has been announced by Jason Reighard and will allow you to switch multiple joystick configurations around.  Visit http://cocoman.biz  to learn more/order. Stevie Strow has a new CoCoVGA game project Visit http://cocovga.com  to learn more about that product Ron Delvaux and Terry Steege host a TDP-100 segment Curtis Boyle reveals 63...

CoCoTALK! audio episode 131 - With Floyd Resler, Chet Simpson and Inside CoCoTALK! Some news stories for October 26, 2019 show: 1) Jim Gerrie release "Stronghold of the Dwarven Lords" for the MC-10. https://youtu.be/Ovdg0AiZwZQ 2) Brian Palmer has been experimenting with custom Coco 3 palettes for the Dragon game (that works on the Coco) called Back Track: https://www.facebook.com/groups/235946264...

Featuring game development updates from Chet Simpson, CoCo news from around the globe, and a little show and tell from the CoCoTALK! panel.   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  ...

The top story this week was the results of the Glenside Color Computer Club election results, we also heard project updates from the panel, and reviewed a lot of Coco, MC-10 and Dragon news from around the globe.   Some news stories for October 12, 2019 show:   0) Glenside election results   President - Eric Canales Secretary - Rich Bair Treasurer - Brian Goers VicePresident - John Mark Mobley   1...

The CoCoTALKers did a whole lot of CoCoTALKing this week :)  No major topic just a lot of panel discussions. We saw an update on some new 3D printed cased from John Strong for the Ian Mavrick FD-502 reproduction cartridge. We had a host discussion on favorite CoCo Arcade Game/Clone/Derivative that one might enjoy more than the arcade original. And CoCo/Dragon and MC-10 news from around the web.  ...

Live coverage from Tandy Assembly along with our usual CoCoTALKing, news, commentary and 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: https://discord.gg/4J5nHXm To find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com CoCoTALK! airs live, every Saturday at 2:00 PM EDT...

We’re doing our wrap-up show discussing all the fun we had last weekend at VCFMW, hear from those that were there, and rejoice in the awesomeness of the event.   We'll also have live coverage from the Glenside Color Computer Club's (hosts of the Chicago CoCoFEST!) Pick Nick, so more Chicago area retro goodness!  Join us live today, if you were at the event, we'd love to have you join us on the pan...

Streaming from the Vintage Computing Festival Midwest, in Elmhurst, IL. Visit http://vcfmw.org/ to learn more about VCFMW Segment timeline: Main Exhibitor walk-through: 0:13:00 Overflow area walk-through: 01:20:00 CoCo News: 02:22:00 John Strong: 03:15:45 Tandy Assembly Promo: 03:42:30 Brian (The Music Man) Schubring and Bonus news: 04:01:00 Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@...

Streaming from the Vintage Computing Festival Midwest, in Elmhurst, IL. Visit http://vcfmw.org/ to learn more about VCFMW Segment timeline: Main Exhibitor walk-through: 0:13:00 Overflow area walk-through: 01:20:00 CoCo News: 02:22:00 John Strong: 03:15:45 Tandy Assembly Promo: 03:42:30 Brian (The Music Man) Schubring and Bonus news: 04:01:00 Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@...

Streaming from the Vintage Computing Festival Midwest, in Elmhurst, IL. Visit http://vcfmw.org/ to learn more about VCFMW Segment timeline: Main Exhibitor walk-through: 0:13:00 Overflow area walk-through: 01:20:00 CoCo News: 02:22:00 John Strong: 03:15:45 Tandy Assembly Promo: 03:42:30 Brian (The Music Man) Schubring and Bonus news: 04:01:00 Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@...

Streaming from the Vintage Computing Festival Midwest, in Elmhurst, IL. Visit http://vcfmw.org/ to learn more about VCFMW Segment timeline: Main Exhibitor walk-through: 0:13:00 Overflow area walk-through: 01:20:00 CoCo News: 02:22:00 John Strong: 03:15:45 Tandy Assembly Promo: 03:42:30 Brian (The Music Man) Schubring and Bonus news: 04:01:00 Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@...

Streaming from the Vintage Computing Festival Midwest, in Elmhurst, IL. Visit http://vcfmw.org/ to learn more about VCFMW Segment timeline: Main Exhibitor walk-through: 0:13:00 Overflow area walk-through: 01:20:00 CoCo News: 02:22:00 John Strong: 03:15:45 Tandy Assembly Promo: 03:42:30 Brian (The Music Man) Schubring and Bonus news: 04:01:00 Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@...

Today we'll see footage from an actual Radio Shack store in Fergus Falls, ND, and we'll cover CoCo and retro news from around the world, all this and more!   Dragon MMC https://www.facebook.com/486899808139431/photos/a.1140963062733099/1373107506185319/?type=3&theater&ifg=1 CoCo Dream Team https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3546521472040762&set=gm.911639275871352&type=3&theater&ifg=1 Singing...

So we're pleased to announce a very special guest, Erturk Kocalar, from www.8bitforce.com he's going to talk about his RetroShield for Arduino Mega project that was shown off at VCF West. Episode 123 of CoCoTALK! live will look at the evolution of the Color Computer Community, it's past, it's present, and speculate on it's future, we'll hear from old timers and new comers alike, so let's all chime...

We've had so many amazing things happen on this show, it's hard to imagine what's going to happen next, and, this week, we have a brand new CoCo game to unveil to the world, it's going to be a surprise to us all, even on the panel, but we're super excited to have our software library expand.   Turns out the game is called Run Dino Run, by Paul Fiscarelli, with the 3-voice music player by Simon Jon...

Keller, Texas marks the location of the first "new" official Radio Shack Store in 2019, and our live correspondent Joe Burnett will take us on a live video tour of this new store, and we'll hopefully hear from some employees, customers, and managers. Full article: http://www.fortworthbusiness.com/news/radioshack-reboot-retailer-powers-up-with-new-vision/article_2b0389aa-bac5-11e9-b62b-aff8b65d0aa1...

David O'Connor, Australian's own lord of the analog modular synths is going to give us some live demonstrations of using the Tandy Color Computer to output and control analog synths including Moogs. He'll also be showing the ACO160 evaluation kit that can turn any single voice sound into midi and pitch data to run synths, it's very cool. We'll also hear a wrap-up from last week's Vintage Computing...

Today we'll feature exclusive coverage from the Vintage Computing Festival West at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.  We'll have a strong CoCo presence with multiple tables and setups, Michael Furman, Tim Lindner, Mark Overholser and Rob Inman will be present to help represent and give us a tour of the event.   All this and more on today's CoCoTALK!   Live interactive video...

Today's show main topic will be "Fond Memories of our early CoCo Days" Or "Fond Memories" for short. Think about what it was like when you got your CoCo, what you did with it and how it effected your life going forward. CoCoTALK! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqj3IMT0-A8 https://www.facebook.com/cocotalklive https://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/ https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive Live interactive...

This week on CoCoTALK! we'll have a very special guest on the live panel that you wont want to miss! Along with that, we'll hear from a cross-section of the CoCo community, cover some news of what happened the past week in the MC-10, Dragon and CoCo communities, and possibly get into some hardware, and/or software discussions. Now that the show is over, we can reveal that our special guest was non...