[Coco] PopStar Pilot - Another chapter added

[L. Curtis Boyle]

And, along the same line... Tim Jenison was just interviewed by Leo Laporte on his show "Triangulation" yesterday. He talks about how he got into electronics, then computers (including mentioning the Coco), then the Amiga, etc. It also talks about his new documentary film (getting released later this year) called "Tim's Vermeer", which is actually getting some Oscar buzz.
Link to the show:

http://twit.tv/show/triangulation/118

(Brief side note - I dropped a Coco 3 system off at TWiT in April, and Leo briefly mentioned having received it).

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



On Sep 5, 2013, at 8:26 PM, Al Hartman wrote:

> You might get a kick out of this...
> 
> Tim Jennison of Video Toaster fame used to work for Colorware in Queens. One day, John Monin who owned Colorware and Alpha Products asked me to stop across the street to see something Tim was working on.
> 
> I was working for Zebra Systems at the time.
> 
> Tim showed me the prototype for the Video Toaster, which he built as a Coco cartridge. It was HUGE!
> 
> But, it was neat!
> 
> He eventually moved it to the Amiga platform. Even the Mac was originally going to use the 6809 processor.
> 
> - Al -
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Richard Goedeken
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 7:59 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] PopStar Pilot - Another chapter added
> 
> I'm impressed that people are using Amigas for Coco development work.  I have
> a sweet A1200 setup but have never written any software for the Amiga and am
> not familiar with the tools.  So I'm using a modern linux PC with MESS as my
> main dev platform for DynoSprite, and only using the real Coco 3 for testing.
> Even doing the software development on the coco would be extremely painful.
> If my sprite compiler were ported from Python to BASIC it would probably
> take days for one run :)
> 
> Richard 
> 
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