The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 476, Aug 1, 2026 (July 25-31)

The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 476, Aug 1, 2026 (July 25-31)
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Collected and Presented by L. Curtis Boyle, Mark Overholser, and Rick Ulland

Interview schedule:
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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:
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VCF West is NOW at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California, and
there are a few local Coco people that may attend:
  https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

VCF-SE (combined with the Southern Fried Gaming Expo) is July 31-August 2 at
The Marriott Renaissance Waverly in Atlanta, Georgia:
  https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/

VCF-MW (Midwest) is September 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center in
Schaumburg, Illinois (west of Chicago proper):
  https://vcfmw.org/

Tandy Assembly dates and new venue have been announced on Facebook. Oct 2-Oct 4
at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the Cincinnati Airport:
 
https://www.facebook.com/events/896272716427805/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

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):
  https://cvcfed.org/vcf-montreal-2-0/

That same weekend 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/

And last but not least, CocoFest for 2027 is May 14-15. Not on site yet, but
just wait...


NEWS:
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Dragon 32/64
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1) John Whitworth has another 8 Dragon PSUs online but hurry, he's shutting
down for a week starting Aug2 and afterwards new packaging rules come into
play. No soup for EU.
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4490400851219549/

2) Phill Harvey-Smith has the original Dragon Pro and it's clone side by side
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4486963611563273/

3) Tony Jewell with a proper, paper white office
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4486318128294488/

4) Tom Erik Gundersen (and vibe) are still tweaking Choplifter for dragon. Its
getting there!
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4489286484664319/

   4b) And he's patched Alligata for the dragon keyboard. Link here:
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4484158055177162/

5) Simon Jones has intense jailbars. Ever read about D32 video?
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/4484999155093052/



Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
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1) Tom Seagrove notes the CoCo3 was 41 yesterday
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164594456222641/

   1a) Ron made a badge. Well, prompted a badge
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164599118687641/

   1b) Earlier we saw a Happy Birthday post from Dr Pitre but can't find it
now..

2) Rich Stephens has news on the FujiNet VT100 terminal, and even better, a
download link!
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164339452577641/

   2b) And another game with online hi scores - Imagic's Demon Attack
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164601304727641/

3) Lance Schafhausen: 'Team Melty' presents COCODESK,  a GUI for the Tandy
RadioShack CoCo 1/2/3. 
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChpoZGl5uhM

4) Don Sorensen does all the wrong things. It started so promising
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164592526947641/

   4a) And then the crowd introduces him to bodge wires
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164597002097641/
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164600576287641/
   4b) but this is Don, and he's got backup:
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164584029327641/
   4c) and end the end I think Brian may want to give our man Don a call? Or
maybe he shouldn't. 
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164580403847641/
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164584029332641/

5) Tristan Robichaud made himself a Hayes modem out of a ESP32. Twiterm
approved.
   check out Mike Kadolphs auto annswer scheme, Rube Goldberg approved.
   and of course there is a subetha post or two. Reliable research is noice.
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164587791557641/

6) Steve Batson will be at VCF West. Where are you?
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164575291487641/

7) Frank Fuhter (OK) finds CoCo1, not one but FOUR full height floppies, and
some oddball gadget from TI
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164592573327641/

8) Eduardo Couto Chueri links some interesting CP400 commercials
 	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5CxPHol1m4
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArK7QDyvTCw

   and finally the whole Prologica CP series. They cloned EVERYTHING
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164594156442641/

9) Lee Bendall is hoping for a plug in 64K upgrade for his CoCo1. Anyone?
Beuller?
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164595280037641/

10) Steve Ungstad  wrote some pretty serious software in the day, and still has
the disks. But not the CoCo. He's looking to read those disks on a PC. Other
than a general 'check the archive' any tips?
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164596946967641/

11) Brian Maddox asks the eternal question - can we make a CoCo from all new
parts? 
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164594308762641/

12) Guillaume Major links a fix for Prisonr3, a magazine game typed in by Brian
Palmer. A couple typos is good typing, a couple eyeballs is better!
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164600528407641/

MC-10 
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Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
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1) Lee Perkins has been porting C64's Montezuma's Revenge since last winter and
it's done? And free to download. Ken, we need a GOC date. 
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164588214957641/

2) Rich Stephens posts a fresh link for the high score enabled 'Downland' with
known bugs unbugged
	https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10164590437122641/

3) JohnDo TV: Finds Cuthbert Anthology 'reimagined' for Game Boy Color
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qb30fKfWQg

4) RetroBat plays a bunch of Dragon 64. It's worth it for the nosalgia hit. 
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERpoEYNNbsA

3) Attempts: A gaming channel (by LRU) does aom Dragon high score runs. First
'Electron'
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjKHAhr_goM
   3b) and  then Android Attack in the Dragon's trademark soothing green
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMFiF1MspT4
   3c) and because space games sell, Astro Blast!
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDvtYlvrkoQ

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