[Coco] CoCo versus the rest of them

[Luis Fernández]

HiNick Marentes
I have a DTV64

and it's amazing what it does and you can add

I love to do the same with the coconut on a chip



I made ​​coconut alcuna games in bas and some utilities in assembler, 
I love games, especially them, do not believe this level to one complete, 
but maybe I try, I'm updating, and I do not remember I learned in my youth, 
I practiced cocodskutil pc utility



and I see that they lack even emulators.


I would ask him, who used to schedule their games?, OS9, C Compiler, Assembler,works in the coconut or PC OR MAC?


If you can give me any recommendations you would appreciate

You have a website with games, apart fromhttp://www.members.optusnet.com.au/nickma/GamesWorkshop/

Sells? or are free, excuse my ignorance, I have only been a few months on the list

Their games seem very good, go ahead

my language is Spanish, sorry if not understood

> Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 17:11:04 +1000
> From: nickma at optusnet.com.au
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: [Coco] CoCo versus the rest of them
> 
> (I just had to rename the subject line to bring it more in line what 
> this thread was becoming)
> 
> One thing we can all agree on is that Drivewire and Roger's drive pack 
> are landmark products for the CoCo that can make the outside observer to 
> our community take notice.
> 
> I use Drivewire exclusively for my development work, not having powered 
> up my floppy drives in months. I haven't used Roger's IDE but those that 
> prefer the conveniences of a PC development environment, is also a 
> developers dream.
> 
> I recall 15 years ago having a Drivewire like device for my Atari 800 
> called APE. It connected the Atari to the PC via it's SIO interface and 
> as far as the Atari was concerned, it was talking to another real Atari 
> disk drive, fully compatible too, no problems with tricky loaders. It's 
> progressed since those days with even more features. For those that are 
> interested:
> http://www.atarimax.com/
> 
> Of course, the Commodore 64 is well ahead of the CoCo in being 
> redesigned into a single chip. In essence, the Commodore 64 is still 
> being sold as a product built in to a joystick with pre-loaded games. 
> The hackers of that community have wasted no time to take one of these 
> apart and tap into it providing disk drives and peripheral access just 
> like a fully blown 64. For those that are interested:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV
> 
> And for anyone who wants to buy a "real" Commodore 64, there is this:
> http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx
> 
> Let's not even talk of where the Amiga is going! My 2nd favourite 
> computer! With the new AmigaOS 4.2 and a return to some innovation that 
> the retro enthusiast will love:
> http://a-eon.com/
> 
> But with all these things happening on the other side of the wall, I 
> still prefer my CoCo3 (Not CoCo1/2, crap graphics I'm afraid... no, really!)
> 
> Of course as everyone knows, my main interest is games. I don't play 
> them, I just like coding them...it's creative. Let's face it, if it 
> weren't for games, computers would not have evolved as they have or been 
> taken up by more than the tech gurus and spreadsheet junkies?     :)
> 
> As everyone here knows, I am trying to encourage the development of a 
> retro programming scene for games on the CoCo. No guarantees that I'll 
> succeed but as they say, actions are greater than just words.  :)
> 
> (Off my soapbox... again!)
> 
> Nick Marentes
> http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/nickma/GamesWorkshop/
> 
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