[Coco] Re: : Tandy's biggest mistakes thread

[Arthur Flexser]

The real problem is that there should have been much more technical information
relevant to ML programming available about the CoCo from RS.  Either as a
much-expanded appendix to the user's manual or as a separate programmer's manual
that you could buy from the Shack.  (I am not counting Barden's book, since it
came out years and years too late.)  Commodore was great with that stuff;  
loads of info on entry points to ROM routines and how to use them.  I learned a
ton from "The Facts" from Spectral Associates, a forerunner to their Unravelled
series.

Art

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Torsten Dittel wrote:

> > The BASIC and ECB manuals were one of the strongest points of the
> > color computer.
> 
> You're absolutely right. Great manuals. Compare that to the C=64 manual
> which had nothing but LOAD"*",8,1 and PEEK nad POKE.
> 
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