[Coco] Windows GUI For ToolShed

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Jorge,

Switching threads here, what is the status of your Windows GUI for  
ToolShed project?

Boisy

On Aug 30, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Jorge Renato Machin Ibarra wrote:

>
> ¡Gracias!
>
> The reason why I'm doing this game is because when I was a kid  
> always dreamed to connect two Cocos, but here in Mexico I couldn't  
> find  a moderm or a RS-232 Pak. I tryed with the Coco's serial  
> interface and with two cassette players cables with little success.  
> In 1989, my father bought a Tandy 1000 SL and I sold my Coco 3 to  
> buy more hardware ( maybe a hard disk, I can't remember now). The  
> Tandy 1000 SL was faster and GW Basic was OK for me, but I was  
> really shocked with the inability of MS-DOS to do multiprocessing  
> and I regretted to selling it for a while. Obviosly, the time passed  
> and I could connect two PCs with a null modem and played "Doom" with  
> my friends using ethernet cards in 1994. In 2001 I did a multiplayer  
> backgammon game in Java for a mexican portal.
>
> Finally, two years ago I bought severals Cocos in ebay and started  
> to have fun with the Tandy's little marvel again. I'm making my  
> dream comes true thanks to Roger Taylor's Deluxe Wireless RS-232  
> Pak. The real magic is in his hardware.
>
> More than making an elaborated multiplayer game, I want to do a  
> proof of concept.
>
> Jorge Machin
>
>> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:57:34 -0400
>> From: linville at tuxdriver.com
>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] multiplayer game using wireless pak
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:57:53AM -0400, Rogelio Perea wrote:
>>> Jorge is a software developer in México. Besides dedicating time  
>>> to the
>>> usual Windoze fare, he is also one of the very few active CoCo users
>>> there. He maintains a blog (in Spanish - run it through Google's  
>>> translation
>>> services). The first part of the wireless based CoCo game is here:
>>> http://www.machin.com.mx/archives/2227
>>>
>>> The second part, with a program listing now is at:
>>>
>>> http://www.machin.com.mx/archives/2404
>>
>> Hey, that's cool -- bienvenidos amigos!
>>
>> John
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