We're at the end of #SepTandy but we've got a whole week of content to review this week as we wrap on an incredible month of Tandy Content on YouTube, we'll have special guest Pat, From Dinty's Hideaway on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJPsl76e7jAORLi3NZlkjLQ ) who scored an incredible interview with John Roach from Tandy. We'll hear from Pat, learn about his retro past and present, as well as his YouTube channel, and see that final offerings from #SepTandy that came in last week....
Oct 04, 2020•4 hr 5 min•Ep. 358
This is the last week CoCoTALK! is in the middle of #SepTandy and we wrapped up the event with a great new music parody and video from D. Bruce Moore, sung to the tune of Bow, Wow Wo's "I Want Candy", Bruce gives us "I want Tandy!" We reviewed a lot of #SepTandy happenings this pas week and so much more!
Sep 28, 2020•4 hr 27 min•Ep. 356
Welcome to official Glenside Color Computer Club virtual picnic, which usually happens in person, in the Chicago area, but, in these trying times, most things are virtual now. Join us for food, drinks and merriment, and talking about the CoCo! as we continue to celebrate #SepTandy all September, as well as celebrate Tandy the rest of the year! #SepTandy
Sep 20, 2020•3 hr 40 min•Ep. 354
This episode of CoCoTALK! features: Ken from Canadian Retro Things https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRkegwvhByytikbnnLMVMpA Footage from the Adalaide Retro Meetup in Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPvyyXXwgeM&ab_channel=DavesTimeMachine See a new pickup, the Motorla XOR develpment system Hear about Chet Simpson's new Digger III game for the CoCo 3 release https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158595404992641 Possible visits from Rick Adams and an update on his lat...
Sep 14, 2020•3 hr 31 min•Ep. 353
We're back with episode 176 of CoCoTALK! where we talk CoCo every week. Unbiased non deprecating discussions about the people, projects, and community. General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:37 Panel Introductions 00:13:23 Who's new to Discord this week 00:14:39 New Fletcher commercial - courtesy of Alison DeNu 00:16:33 CoCo Thoughts 00:16:50 GameON! challenge results 00:19:29 GameON! Discussion - Canyon Climber 00:39:12 Next week's game announcement - Rally-SG 00:46:46 G...
Sep 06, 2020•3 hr 32 min•Ep. 350
CoCoTALK! 175 is all about MIDI and MIDI on the CoCo. What is MIDI, how do I do MIDI on my Coco, what does it look like, what does it sound like, how hard is it? All these questions and more will be answered. We'll have live demonstrations and information from Rob Innman, Brian "The Music Man" Schubring, L. Curtis Boyle, and Darren Ottery, and Jim Brain, so tune and get MIDIfied! General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:35 Panel Introductions 00:08:29 CoCo Thoughts 00:10:15...
Aug 31, 2020•3 hr 57 min•Ep. 348
This was a game heavy show this week with the GameON! Results and discussions around playing Sea Dragon this past week, and hearing about a new multi-player game being designed by Bret Gordon, which looks amazing and will be quite fun to have an online multi player CoCo game to enjoy with friends. 00:02:43 Panel Introductions 00:09:59 CoCo Thoughts 00:11:41 GameON! challenge results 00:13:32 GameON! Discussion 00:33:44 Next week's game announcment - Arkanoid 00:35:46 Discussion with Brett Gordon...
Aug 24, 2020•3 hr 4 min•Ep. 346
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 guys, blah, blah, blah. General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:39 Panel Intro...
Aug 16, 2020•4 hr•Ep. 344
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 ready for an action packed episode! General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:01:...
Aug 10, 2020•3 hr 34 min•Ep. 342
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 00:25:23 CoCo Happy Birthday Talk - Sharing stories 00:49:37 From then to now - Happy Birthday CoCo3 video ...
Aug 02, 2020•4 hr 1 min•Ep. 340
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-the-CoCo-Collector-Episode-3/303620738239?hash=item46b134ccbf%3Ag%3ABSoAAOSwVghfCdJi 2 Brian Schubring NR...
Jul 26, 2020•2 hr 40 min•Ep. 337
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, directed, and produced award-winning, narrative-driven computer games for the last three decades. What’s more...
Jul 26, 2020•4 hr 12 min•Ep. 336
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 you can quick link to: 00:02:51 CoCo Closet 00:05:09 Panel Introductions 00:12:23 Simon Jonassen - codi...
Jul 20, 2020•3 hr 51 min•Ep. 334
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 - The Crystal City - https://gosub.com/Coco/ 01:25:00 Rally-SG go live announcement with Nick Marentes -...
Jul 13, 2020•3 hr 19 min•Ep. 333
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 00:13:43 GameON! challenge results 00:43:45 Next week's game announcement 00:54:48 Upcoming game of the wee...
Jul 06, 2020•3 hr 51 min•Ep. 331
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 Stamps: 00:02:23 Panel Introductions 00:10:02 CoCo and Retro News 00:25:11 CoCo Thoughts 00:25:36 GameON! ...
Jun 29, 2020•2 hr 25 min•Ep. 166
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 Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams: https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmada...
Jun 22, 2020•3 hr 44 min•Ep. 326
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 much more. Gather your questions and we'll hear from a variety of people on how they CoCo and what ...
Jun 15, 2020•4 hr 8 min•Ep. 324
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 will be followed by a live Q&A session with Ron Klein who's managing this project. You can enjoy Co...
Jun 07, 2020•3 hr 17 min•Ep. 322
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 results 00:13:49 GameON! Timberman discussions 00:23:10 Timber Bots 00:47:35 Next week's game announcement 0...
May 31, 2020•3 hr 20 min•Ep. 320
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 announcement from Boyson technologies, and so much more! Take part in CoCo discussions 24/7 on our CoCo Di...
May 25, 2020•3 hr 24 min•Ep. 161
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 01:13:32 NEWS! 01:48:21 Barrier to Entry - the CoCoTALK! Quiz! 02:10:22 Ron's Garage 02:21:44 Project Updat...
May 17, 2020•2 hr 51 min•Ep. 316
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 and the new game of the week reveal, NEWS from around the retroverse and so much more! General seg...
May 10, 2020•3 hr 1 min•Ep. 314
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 around the retro world 02:25:28 NitrOS9 EOU Beta user feedback and discussions 03:38:02 CoCo Caboose...
May 03, 2020•4 hr 1 min•Ep. 312
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 to cocotalk@cocotalk.live...
Apr 26, 2020•4 hr 31 min•Ep. 310
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 / CoCoThoughts 8 Rick Adams Temple of ROM II level design and code demo 9 Ben "Explore VR" Drakes Project "A...
Apr 20, 2020•6 hr 6 min•Ep. 308
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! Fred Rique talked about his high level BASIC project making it easier to code BASIC for the CoCo.. We...
Apr 12, 2020•3 hr 49 min•Ep. 306
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...
Apr 05, 2020•4 hr 48 min•Ep. 304
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-80 Trash Talk live show at 4PM EDT. Email any suggestions you have for the show to cocotalk@cocotal...
Mar 30, 2020•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 301
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 cocotalk@cocotalk.live Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.live Join us for daily conversations on ...
Mar 23, 2020•4 hr 29 min•Ep. 299
