[Coco] Fwd: The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 412, May 10, 2025

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> From: plt1914--- via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 412, May 10, 2025
> Date: May 15, 2025 at 10:00:54 PM EDT
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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> The sysop of telnet ribbs.griswoldfx.com <http://ribbs.griswoldfx.com/> 6809 can you please send me a email to phil.taylor at professionalsoftwaredevelopment.com. I would like to know how. You got Ribbs bbs to work over the internet please?
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> Thanks
> Phil Taylor
> 
>> On May 11, 2025, at 8:44 AM, R. Allen Murphey via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 412, May 10, 2025
>> ===============================================================
>> Collected by L. Curtis Boyle
>> 
>> For those who want to try an online BBS running on a real 512K Coco 3,
>> you can reach Terry Trapp’s RiBBS system here:
>> telnet ribbs.griswoldfx.com 6809
>> 
>> 
>> Special Guests today:
>> ---------------------
>> Some CocoFest goes, perchance?
>> Bob Emery will be on to recap the Texas meetup he was at recently?
>> 
>> 
>> Interview schedule:
>> -------------------
>> Richard Lorbieski of BoysonTech will be on to talk about his returning
>> to the Coco hardware world & answering questions about his upcoming
>> products on May 17.
>> 
>> 
>> Upcoming conventions/trade shows of interest to Coco people:
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Retrofest 2025, organized by Tony Jewell, is a retro computer festival
>> happening in Swindon, England May 31-June 1, 2025. Some Dragon people
>> (like Richard Harding and Chris Poacher) have already committed to
>> attending the show, being held at STEAM (the Great Western Railway
>> museum):
>> Retrofest website:
>> https://retrofest.uk/
>> They even have a promo video:
>> https://youtu.be/UCZ-BtFW9Ok?si=B441wLvpDI2iekLN
>> 
>> VCF-SW in Texas has been booked with dates: June 20-22, 2025 at the
>> Davidson Gundy Alumni Center, University of Texas, Dallas, Texas.
>> Tables & Tickets will go on sale January 2025. $20/adult ($25 if bought
>> at the door), $10/student ($15 at the door). 17 and under are free
>> (with accompanying adult). Tables are $50.
>> https://www.vcfsw.org/
>> 
>> The Southeast Michigan Vintage Computer Club is having their 8th public
>> meeting/display June 28, 2025 from 11 AM to 5 PM Eastern at Grace
>> Chapel's Gymnasium, 2515 N. Williams Lake Road, Waterford Township,
>> Michigan (near Pontiac). This covers all retro gaming consoles and
>> home computers.
>> 
>> https://semichiganvcc.blogspot.com/2025/04/se-michigan-vintage-computer-club-ver.html
>> 
>> BoatFest (now International Retro Computer Expo) will be July 11-13
>> in Hurricane, WV. There is now a promo video for it:
>> https://www.ticketsource.us/ircexpo2025/t-eanjyje
>> 
>> VCF-Midwest (the largest retro show in North America, I believe) is
>> September 13-14 at the Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg,
>> Illinois. This year is the 20th anniversary of this show, and there is
>> a lot of collaboration between CocoFest and VCF-MW, so expect a large
>> number of Coco and Glenside people at the show! Still free admission,
>> and hotel booking is open already.
>> https://www.vcfmw.org/
>> 
>> That same weekend, Retro World Expo will be held September 12-14 at
>> the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, Connecticut. Tickets
>> and vendor applications aren't quite ready yet but will be soon. This
>> is a gaming oriented retro show (including tournaments) but also
>> includes things like wrestling:
>> https://retroworldexpo.com/
>> 
>> Also that same weekend, for Canadians and anyone wanting to travel
>> up to Canada, the WoRC (World of Retro Computing) show is September
>> 13-14 at the old Goudies Department Store location at 8 Queen Street
>> North, Kitchener,ON, Canada (West of Toronto, and right beside The
>> Museum). This is a general retro show with a bunch of gaming and home
>> computer platforms, vendors, seminars, LAN parties, workshops, door
>> prizes & raffles and is sponsored by Retro Rewind. Admission is free,
>> and it runs noon to 5 pm Eastern on both Saturday and Sunday:
>> https://worldofretrocomputing.com/
>> 
>> Tandy Assembly for 2025 is Sept 26 to Sep 28 at the Courtyard by
>> Marriott Springfield Downtown in Springfield, Ohio:
>> https://www.tandyassembly.com/
>> And they have some exhibitors already (click Exhibitors link)
>> 
>> This year's Portland Retro Gaming Expo runs from October 17-19 in
>> 2025 (they just had this years Sept 27-29). Oregon Convention Center,
>> Portland, Oregon.
>> https://www.retrogamingexpo.com/
>> 
>> Canada is getting it's own official VCF - Montreal, January 25-26
>> of 2026. It will be held at the Royal Military College outside of
>> Montreal, but I don't have any more details (the venue, for example)
>> yet:
>> https://vcfed.org/vcf-montreal/
>> 
>> 
>> Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
>> -------------------------------
>> 1) An announcement from Richard Lorbieski about the return of
>> BoysonTech. Richard will be on the show next week to talk about his
>> hardware that is coming back, and the schedule it will be on:
>> "this is what I posted on #boomerang channel and a portion to
>> #CoCoSDC....
>> 
>> BoysonTech, a retro computer company based in San Antonio, Texas,
>> is pleased to announce the reintroduction of the Boomerang 512K
>> Classic and 2 Meg memory boards. We will also resume production and
>> distribution of our Paragon Joystick adapters, SDC cards, and other
>> products.
>> 
>> The target release dates are as follows: Boomerang boards by
>> Thanksgiving 2025, Paragon Joystick adapters by July 2025, and SDC
>> cards (limited edition kit form) by the end of June 2025. Additional
>> product announcements will follow.
>> 
>> The Boomerang boards serve as memory upgrades for the Tandy Color
>> Computer 3, available in 512K and 2 Meg memory options. Due to
>> volatility and uncertainty with tariffs and supply chains, pricing
>> for the Boomerang boards has yet to be determined.
>> 
>> The Paragon Joystick adapters are the smallest commercially available
>> adapters facilitating the use of Atari or Sega Genesis joysticks on
>> Tandy Color Computers, Dragon (with additional adapter) or Tandy 100
>> computers. Pricing for the Paragon has yet to be determined.
>> 
>> The CoCo SDC is a widely popular disk drive emulator designed for the
>> Tandy Color Computer. In response to popular demand, BoysonTech plans
>> to distribute a limited number of SDC cards in the form of kits. These
>> kits will include a pre-built and tested SDC reader board, along
>> with pre-programmed CPLD, Atmel, and flash chips, while the remaining
>> components will require through-hole soldering experience. Our target
>> price for the CoCo SDC kits will be under $50 (USD).
>> 
>> On May 12, 2025, Boysontech.com will launch, providing users with the
>> opportunity to sign up via email for updates on Boomerang, Paragon,
>> CoCo SDC, and other products. Updates will also be available through
>> The CoCo Nation podcast, CoCo Discord (BoysonTech), and other social
>> media channels (to be announced).
>> 
>> You can reach us via CoCo Discord channel (BoysonTech), or email
>> – info at boysontech.com"
>> 
>> 2) Coco Town returns for an episode showing using the Ghidra debugger
>> (created by the NSA, and an open source project on their github)
>> to reverse engineer Donkey King:
>> https://youtu.be/q7SpWuSU7u8?si=x26Hbd_KGVDw8yEq
>> 
>> 3) D. Bruce Moore posted a quick video of some of his highlights
>> of CocoFest:
>> https://youtu.be/-Dn3Elj9rl8
>> 
>> 4) Henry Reitveld posted a video showing how is using Fujinet a
>> SuperIDE on his Coco (the SuperIDE is a Cloud9 product that allowed
>> using IDE drives on the Coco, a sequel to the Glenside IDE board):
>> https://youtu.be/6f14Q6fZPVU?si=OVHROO8APHC_5Pjs
>> 
>> 5) D. Bruce Moore and David Kroeker posted a video update about their
>> MP3 player (that will have Bruce's new game Realm of Doom as it's
>> first killer app):
>> https://coco.gracenote.ca/cocomp3-final-settings-achieved/
>> 
>> 6) David Collins has new updates for his 3MHz 6309 Single Board
>> Computer, which includes "massive update to firmware and release
>> functional FLEX 9":
>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/403922002342070/posts/563017076432561/
>> He also showed screenshots of Flex running on it:
>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/6809assembly/posts/3664107730549249/
>> 
>> 7) Terry Trapp released a new video on the Coco Facebook group,
>> showing further progress with his Coco Blender board (note: he has
>> fixed some of the bugs mentioned already):
>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10162602416582641/
>> And he also posted that RiBBS was being served through his Coco
>> Blender board for 12 hours straight with no crashes:
>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10162604494127641/
>> And he posted a link to his Coco Blender source code:
>> https://griswoldfx.visualstudio.com/_git/CoCo%20Blender
>> 
>> 8) Thomas Cherryhomes, creator of Fujinet, posted some screenshots
>> of the Coco, Apple 2 and Coco playing the multi-platform FujitZee
>> (Yahtzee) together in the Coco group on Facebook:
>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10162594654682641/
>> 
>> 9) Roger Taylor is offering a 5 disc DVD set for $49.00 of a variety
>> of Coco magazine scans. 35GB of data:
>> https://www.cococommunity.net/product/coco-magazine-library-5-dvd-set/
>> 
>> 10) For those that missed the seminars at CocoFest (and the auction),
>> they are all up for viewing on the Glenside Color Computer Club YouTube
>> page (although Henry Strickland's seems to cut off before 11 minutes):
>> https://www.youtube.com/@glensideccc/streams
>> 
>> 11) L.P.INDUSTRIES on YouTube posted a 5+ minute video entitled: So,
>> Bought a trs-80 color computer. I have no regrets. He is another
>> example of a young person getting excited about retro hardware,
>> which gives me hope for the future:
>> https://youtu.be/1xmnuFjfk3c?si=N6EUj9brZZrVkBYK
>> 
>> 12) Dim Cave Software on YouTube psoted a video of "Clube Color Brasil"
>> - a demo program he wrote as his very first 6809 assembly program,
>> running Disk EDTASM++ on the Prologica CP-400 Coco 2 clone (at the end,
>> the demo is exited and shows the authors name as "NELITON"):
>> https://youtu.be/O-u-CMGv-rw?si=ydvFtuge1mXH_ZOG
>> 
>> 
>> MC-10
>> -----
>> 1)
>> 
>> 
>> Dragon 32/64
>> ------------
>> 1) User Serenarian on the World of Dragon forums posted some pictures
>> of his Maplin I/O card, which he used to control a model railway and
>> radio controlled tank back in the 1980's. He had to modify it to a
>> different address (the original board used the same I/O space as the
>> disk controller):
>> https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11286
>> 
>> 2) Julian Brown has some more updates on his ATX Dragon remake,
>> including:
>> 1st draft of the hardware serial port/Real Time Clock I/O board:
>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4024976824428623/
>> PIA / I/O board:
>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4024951187764520/
>> I/O board (real life - earlier version):
>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4023793931213579/
>> 
>> 3) John Whitworth of DragonPlus Electronics has finally gotten his
>> CE certification for his Dragon power supply replacement board,
>> which means he can sell them legally again in the EU (regulations
>> changed recently):
>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/4023272987932340/
>> 
>> 4) Allen Mailer on YouTube put up a brief video of some retro stuff he
>> has for his TI-99/4A, but also some new hardware he got, which includes
>> a Dragon 64 (latter is 1:59 in) to add to his Dragon 32 & 64K Coco 1:
>> https://youtu.be/izkSLB_8wdM?si=6dTNfmkTWDJUQkNH
>> 
>> 
>> Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
>> ==========================================
>> 1) Jim Gerrie posted a video showing his MC-10 conversion of the TPUG
>> magazine game Sample Adventure, originally by Steven C. Darnold in
>> the June/July 1985 issue:
>> https://youtu.be/0x-3Qo-1U8c?si=5obloxpnk0Tcgs9H
>> He also released Dotty the Kangaroo, originally by 14 year old Ian
>> McTavish in 1984 for the book "Sinclair Programs". This is actually
>> his second version released this week; this revised one will run on
>> a 4K MC-10 or Alice:
>> https://youtu.be/Ytax66Gzo6g?si=VViT7h25PqUDU_nL
>> 
>> 2) Pere Serrat & Kees van Oss have released MPAGD games pack #72 for
>> both regular Dragons and Coco's. This pack includes:
>> Mandarin II
>> Project Vaelius
>> Rollerball
>> S.O.L.O.
>> http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11285
>> They also released pack NP18 (SuperSprite FM+ board enhanced games
>> with the new palette), which has these 4 games:
>> Ice Slider
>> Remote Operated Vehicle
>> Robot 1 in the Ship of Doom
>> Zbylut Owrzodzien w Kamiennym (nonsense name because the real title
>> has swearing)
>> https://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11287
>> 
>> 3) The website Nerdly Pleasures released a long review of the Coco
>> and it is as a game machine, for those who don't know the systems and
>> what they were capable of. There are a few minor errors in the review,
>> but it is suprisingly thorough and fair. The sample screenshots they
>> used are just Tandy sold titles, though - I think it would have helped
>> to show some of the vast 3rd party games we have:
>> 
>> http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2025/05/is-original-tandy-color-computer-worth.html
>> 
>> 4) Chronologically Gaming covered the Coco this past week in December
>> of 1982:
>> Cyborg Wars by Bumblebee Software:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TjCLQqOZ4E&t=589s
>> 
>> 5) Nostalgia Vault on YouTube put up two videos showing the official
>> Tetris, sold by Tandy on cartrige, showing:
>> Coco 1/2 version:
>> https://youtu.be/-PeI02QR0u8?si=nzAXns9-YRIyF8bx
>> Coco 3 version (although only black and white?)
>> https://youtu.be/naeDYyIOeNg?si=QZy9mdsfWh1QJXmt
>> 
>> 6) Z4RT4N on YouTube put up videos showing gameplay of the two
>> officially released Sierra graphic adventure games, running a real
>> Coco 3 with 512K with the CM-8 monitor and FD-502 disk drive.
>> Kings Quest III:
>> https://youtu.be/dUi_wu-x10Y?si=yxGZ5Avee4lpZJhg
>> Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards:
>> https://youtu.be/FEp8MCXqzm0?si=72MiptkYNMxDxdIS
>> 
>> 7) XperTek posted another amber screen gameplay video on his real
>> Coco 2 hardware, this time playing Doodle Bug by David Crandall for
>> Computerware (although he ran Disk Utility 2.1 by Jeff Francis by
>> accident first):
>> https://youtu.be/Tqu_h8h0aDY?si=rSSp04K5-AW2kt7r
>> 
>> 8) ZXFrankie on YouTube posted another game play score recording to
>> enter one of the high score lists, this time playing Leggit on his
>> Dragon 32 and getting 1,540 points:
>> https://youtu.be/kGhWVDE6KpU?si=8emVKGH4KzTROh4k
>> 
>> 
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