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: Game On news:=============1) Jim Gerrie posted a video of his port of Steve Wozniak's original Apple classic "Little Brick Out"  https://youtu.be/8HMK1Si8ADY 2) Chet Simpson has released the first public Beta of Digger III.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158495328987641/ 3) Paul Thayer now has Timber Man available for paid download at itch.io:Announcement:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158493670122641/Download link ($5.00 USD) - includes the DSK image and full color PDF manual:  https://pthayer100.itch.io/timber-man 4) Paul Shoemaker put up a short video teaser of some graphics he is fiddling with for a possible upcoming game:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158492892777641/ 5) "The New Retro Show" has an episode about "new games" for the Coco and MC-10:  https://youtu.be/_QR2PZXaPRQ 6) Canadian Retro Things shows one of the Micro Adventure Books  https://youtu.be/ymLrh9NuTEQ News stories for Episode #172, August 8, 2020 show:1) Keith has lesson 4 of his 6809 series up now - covering the stacks:  https://youtu.be/mW57Gy436OE 2) Carlos Martins Nabeto posted a cool link to some 1983-1987 news about Brazilian Coco clones (in Portuguese):  https://computadoresbrasileiros.wordpress.com/category/noticias/English translation:  https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fcomputadoresbrasileiros.wordpress.com%2Fcategory%2Fnoticias%2F%3F 3) Jason Weber on Facebook is helping organize "SepTandy" for this year  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158503187087641/ 4) Frederiic Griignon posted a Radio Shack catalog page for the Coco from Quebec  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158496708377641/ 5) James Jones is still soliciting feedback on his Coco MS Basic to BASIC09  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158492811687641/Direct link to the Google Doc so far:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DFWC0XAv6NENnqXc3AZGy_Gl6TcZDfPcHGAB34woQwg/edit 6) Timothy Halloran update on getting his Coco 3 running from purely USB power  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158491484982641/ 7) Soren Roug has been typing in Dragon 128 drivers for OS-9  https://www.roug.org/retrocomputing/os/os9/dragon128 8) Carlos Camacho posted the covers from an OS-9 book called "The OS-9 Guru : 1  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1929079184021683/permalink/2646468465616081/ 9) Nigel Barnes posted in the Dragon Facebook group  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/permalink/2688555014737484/ 11) I have also put up two videos to show increased speeds of scrolling in the forthcoming EOU Beta 6, These videos are all 6809 - 6309 versions are faster still. Also, these have the overhead of printing characters, etc. so it doesn't fully show the speed increase (which is around 14-15%).80x25 hardware text:  https://youtu.be/SsHMkmKIFYo640x200x4 graphics:  https://youtu.be/vD_q7-z4Iqc Email any suggestions you have for the show to [email protected]Visit us on the web at http://cocotalk.liveJoin us for daily conversations on Discord:  http://discord.cocotalk.liveTo find out more about the Color Computer visit http://imacoconut.com Custom artwork designed by Instagram artist Joel M. Adams:https://www.instagram.com/artistjoelmadams/Custom CoCoTALK! and retro merchandise is available at:http://8bit256.comConsider becoming a patron of the show:https://patreon.com/ogsteviestrow Live interactive video streams:https://www.youtube.com/c/Ogsteviestrow/livehttps://www.facebook.com/cocotalklivehttps://www.periscope.tv/CoCoTALKlive/https://twitter.com/CoCoTALKlive