[Coco] Color Flex

[Bob Devries]

I just tried that Color Flex disk image in the MESS emulator using coco2 
emulation, and it doesn't work there either.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Swygert" <farna at att.net>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 4:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Color Flex


> Yes, he did in a way, but was justified in another. On a 64K system, which 
> was the limit for the CoCo 1 and 2, Flex was indeed a "better" operating 
> system. It took fewer processor resources and left a lot more room for 
> programs to run in. When the 64K limit was breached, OS-9 came into its 
> own.
> There's an interview with Frank Hogg in my book ("Tandy's Little Wonder"). 
> Wish I still had the tape that I recorded the phone conversation on, that 
> would be neat to hear now! His position never changed, but many get the 
> idea that he had to "eat his words" over the issue. I remember him 
> mentioning that it "was unfortunate that the 64K barrier was overcome 
> (about the time or right after) Rainbow printed that article" (probably 
> not an exact quote, but as close as memory will allow!). It did leave some 
> egg on his face, but he stood by his words -- on a 64K system Flex was 
> "better".
> ---------------
> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:42:06 -0400
> From: Chuck Youse <cyouse at serialtechnologies.com>
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 17:57 -0400, Frank Swygert wrote:
>
>> > There are no patches to Color Flex that will allow it to be run on a 
>> > CC3. It was gone way before the CC3 came out! It was sort of a 
>> > competitor to OS-9 Level 1, and in some ways was better -- it made 
>> > better use of a 32-64K environment. Frank Hogg got in a bit of hot 
>> > water by saying Flex was better than OS-9! Then the CC3 and Level II 
>> > came out. OS-9 was better than Flex given the extra memory to work 
>> > with, and Flex fell to the wayside. There may have been later versions 
>> > of Flex that exploited more memory, but none were developed for or 
>> > ported to the CoCo3 that I know of.
>>
>
> I vaguely recall Frank Hogg eating his words after Level II came out.
> Somewhere in Rainbow.
>
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