[Coco] [Color Computer] The evolution of the Coco..

[John R. Hogerhuis]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 22:45 +0000, James the Animal Tamer wrote:
> 
> > You're not seeing my point. The point is not an emulator. The point 
> is a
> > a new coco4 with an emulator subsystem for compatibility.
> 
> *chuckles*  Said it before.  The CoCo III was not the true sucessor to 
> the CoCo II.  The Amiga 1000 was the true successor.  Think about it -- 
> 68000 processor, nice bitmapped graphics, DMA-DAC sampled sound, all 
> logical extensions of what the CoCo II was.  Heck, the default desktop 
> colors were blue, orange, black, and white.  Sound familiar?
> 

No reason not to agree other than that the coco community didn't *as a
group* embrace the Amiga as the successor. There were a few choices I
think:

Amiga
Atari ST
Coco 3, and eventually the MM/1.

If the shack had made the Amiga and called it a Coco, it would have been
accepted as such, I think, perhaps even without an emulator, but better
with it.


-- John.





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