[Coco] Why do a next Gen CoCo? was Any news on the so called CoCo4 or Next CoCo

[Frank Swygert]

I more or less agree with you Aaron. The problem gets to be too many 
cooks in the kitchen though. But a working group with all members having 
access to the code will pretty much solve the problem. The group (five 
or more) will have to pass along the code as members become inactive. 
But a nice tightly coded base would be better than having to strip down 
a larger coded emulator. The code could probably be made more accessible 
through something like Source Forge, but at least for initial 
development should be restricted to a few people for a faster and more 
stable initial release. I've done things by committee before. Takes 
longer the more people you have involved, and the end product is more 
watered down.

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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:31:12 -0500
From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Frank Swygert <farna at att.net> wrote:

> > Ideally the emulator would be set up so that it booted directly into CoCo
> > emulation mode. A stripped down OS with only the necessities (relatively
> > easy to do with FreeDOS and Jeff Vavasour's DOS based emulator). For 
> those
> > who want to run with another OS as the primary then Virtual Box 
> (which also
> > runs under Windows) would be a good solution. A fork of MESS might 
> actually
> > be a good starting point, unless Jeff is willing to give up the code to a
> > working group to modify (or do it himself).
> >
>
I strongly suggest you require the emulation software be open source. No 
matter how good the intentions of a single author, things happen. People 
don't see eye to eye, or get busy, or lose interest, or get frustrated, 
or a million other things. If this is to be a community project (and one 
that stands the test of time) the entire community must have the ability 
to maintain and improve the software.


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