Live panel talk for Color Computer diehards.
Hundreds of episodes deep, this unscripted live broadcast gathers a panel around the Tandy Color Computer and its hardware relatives. Expect emulator releases, archive updates, and a recurring game challenge, all delivered through jokes, tangents, and cheerful corrections.
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Four hundred-plus episodes in, this weekly live broadcast has settled into a shape that suits it. A panel gathers, the chat starts scrolling, and the Tandy Color Computer sits at the center of it all. The opening disclaimer sets expectations honestly: unscripted, live, interactive, and anything can happen. Open minds encouraged, sense of humor recommended. That is not a joke so much as a format description. Segments do exist. News rollups cover emulator releases, hardware support lists, GitHub drops, and Facebook posts from the wider community. One episode walks through an MC10 emulator for the DS and the color output it manages beyond the usual dark green and dark red. Another covers Guillaume Major's updated CoCo SDC image from the Color Computer Archive, reorganized so CoCo 3 programs sit in their own folder and nobody accidentally launches one on the wrong machine. Small fix, real problem, explained quickly. The Game On Challenge is the other anchor, a community play session held at 8 p.m. Eastern with a mystery game revealed on air. Guesses come in from the panel and the chat. Moon Patrol and Joust get floated, wrongly, with total confidence. Someone shares footage of a glitch that made a one-button game move in only one direction, which the room diagnoses as an uninitialized variable and then reframes as hard mode. That exchange is the show in miniature: a technical explanation wrapped in a compliment wrapped in a joke. Tangents are load-bearing. A discussion of Boxing Day's origins in England, where household owners served the servants, arrives via a debate about whether the holiday was actually invented by cats. Event plans get made, including a table placement next to the 68K Mac crowd and a promise to come harass them there. Panel regulars are referenced by handle as much as by name, which tells listeners something about how this community works. Segments run long. Episodes run longer. Nobody apologizes for it. What holds the whole thing together is that the technical content is genuine even when the delivery is loose. A disk image, an archive link, an upcoming event, a mystery game to guess at, all of it delivered by people who clearly still own the machines and still use them. Newcomers may need an episode or two to sort out the voices. After that, the appeal is obvious: this is what a hobby sounds like when the people in it have never stopped showing up.
Made for: Tandy Color Computer owners, MC10 tinkerers, and retro-computing hobbyists who want community news alongside the hardware talk. It also suits anyone who enjoys a loose, live panel where the digressions are half the point.
What sets it apart: It is a live and interactive broadcast rather than an edited retro-tech podcast, with a panel, a chat feed read on air, and a recurring community game challenge. Emulator releases and archive updates get covered as news.
The World’s First Live and Interactive Talk Show featuring the Tandy Color Computer and it’s Hardware Cousins.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The CoCo Nation Show turns retro-computing enthusiasm into practical knowledge about compatibility, software preservation, games, and the community still using these machines.
The CoCo Nation Show keeps the Tandy Color Computer alive as working technology rather than a museum piece. A live panel mixes community news with demonstrations, game challenges, troubleshooting, and the accumulated knowledge of people who still use the machines.
A broken one-button game becomes hard mode, and you get the whole clubhouse riff.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A year-end Tandy Color Computer hangout where a game glitch and a crowded challenge give the chatter a useful center.
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A live CoCo hangout turns a game guess into a small piece of software folklore.
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A conversational sweep through Color Computer updates, archive tweaks, and the weekend clash around VCF LATAM 2026.
Episode 428 keeps its attention on Color Computer news, moving from the latest MC10 emulator for the DS to Guillaume Major's updated Cocoa SDC image and then on to VCF LATAM 2026 and CocoaFest scheduling.
Retro-computing clubhouse talk that still delivers the useful bits.
The Cocoa Nation show keeps its live panel rhythm intact, with Color Computer community talk, a Cocoa SDC image update, a VCF LATAM 2026 announcement, and new Frackland graphics-demo material.
A loose year-end hangout where retro-computing banter, game-night chaos, and community chemistry do the heavy lifting.
Episode 445 reads like a year-end clubhouse check-in, with the panel glad to have made it through Christmas and still in a joking mood about everything from a neon green backdrop to Commodore Brown.
Up-to-date news for out-of-date tech.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
The CoCo Nation Show episode 428 leans on live banter, with Rick Uland's birthday, jokes about Canadian and Quebec content, and a panel that keeps interrupting itself.
The CoCo Nation Show episode 445 is a live, year-end panel discussion focused on the Tandy Color Computer community.
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Episode 473 of The CoCo Nation Show pairs Henry Strickland’s Color Computer debugging demo with news about Ken Rikard’s Meteor Mess.
Henry Strickland says Mini Golf has native and C99 front ends, with a Motorola 6809 backend in development.
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The Cocoa Nation Show episode 445 opens with the last show of the year, panel introductions, and a running joke about switching the background from neon green to Commodore brown.
The Cocoa Nation Show episode 440 opens with the panel joking that 440 is a Mopar number and a 70-centimeter ham-band reference, then moves into project updates from Rick, Bob, and others.
The Cocoa Nation Show episode 428 opens with a live panel, Rick Uland’s birthday, and a long run of jokes about Canada, Quebec content, and Toronto traffic.